skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure lawyers at Google have studied the Microsoft antitrust case, where one of the big lessons was that anything you write in an email will be used against you by the Justice Department [1] -- so this is not at all surprising. In fact, I'm a bit shocked there's no mention of the Microsoft case in the article.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/02/business/antitrust-case-i...
>hire people that went to public schools.

You say this like it's an insult.
Search terms "BeyondCorp" and "Zero trust" will get you started.
Also in this category of "did you actually think this through":

Andy Stone, of the Facebook communications department, calling for fact checks while gloating about reducing its circulation.

https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000

(n.b. "gloating" is interpretation — if it is not the case that this is gloating then a key problem is that this tweet leaves itself very open to this interpretation.)
I'm referring to Giuliani, who is the New York Post's source for these alleged emails and photos, acting as a supposed intermediary for a repair shop employee. Giuliani has been tasked for two years with digging up dirt on Biden, and every single story he has pushed has in my view, been outright fabricated agenda pushing based on narratives spun by dubious third parties.
Yeah, remember when they didn’t let anything about Wikileaks get shared on their platforms?
The iPhone 12 (and Mini) also both have OLED displays rather than the iPhone 11's LCD, so it's at least plausible that there's a bit of increased BOM there as well?

> That said, the AT&T/Verizon giveaway/deception is absolute garbage.

Absolutely. :)
Im genuinely curious what journalistic standards you think these mainstream outlets possess after all the Russia nonsense. Can you point to an example of any recent story where these outlets have displayed "actual journalistic standards"?
A green afterglow helped a storm chaser discover a new lightning phenomenon
A virus-like Covid-19 vaccine is being grown in tobacco plants
Nothing like that I'm afraid. Though I've added m3u links to radio stations and use that for some discovery, alongside bandcamp, reddit, youtube. Personally I find independent radio is underrated, they often save their streams in archives online. Wefunkradio is a good example.

EDIT: incidentally there was a recent Spotify integration component: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_spotify , not sure if that still works. It also looks like there was an older one for creating playlists using last.fm.
But what should be done about tech enabling the spread of false information?
You already mentioned shipping cost, which is improved by better shipping density with the smaller boxes. Shipping is a huge carbon producer, so it makes sense to me that increasing density both makes it more cost effective for Apple and reduces the amount of impact on the environment. It's not only about e-waste.
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I keep hearing all these platforms know so much about me. I’ve been waiting for them to recommend something awesome that I can’t live without. I’ve been waiting 20 plus years.
On the plus side, pirating music has never been easier. Just rip the audio tracks from youtube with youtube-dl. Coverage is pretty good and so is the audio quality (I am not an audiophile.) No need to sleaze a private tracker invite off IRC or anything like that.
Thanks a lot for sharing! If you don't mind me asking, how did you came up with Atlassian Marketplace?

I find that the hardest part for me is to figure out what to build and for whom
No, the original point of 230 was to allow platforms to republish user content without bearing civil liability for such content.
I agree that it was ridiculous and to be on guard for these shenanigans. 100%.

Today though, BMW is not charging a “subscription” fee and much more importantly, all of their iDrive data is provided for free with free software updates. And yes, competitive pressure probably forced them to, but it is much better than just 5 or 6 years ago where you were charged for yearly map updates by buying a DVD. They are also the first car manufacturer to support the CarKey feature so they have changed (for now anyways).
First let me state that I do not hate Python, but I would suppose 2 items are on the top of the list for people that do. The first and the one that makes me dislike Python (not hate) is that Python enshrined into the language syntax that whitespace and structure count towards correctness. If it is not properly spaced according to the spec it does not work. Some people see this as an arbitrary constraint put on a developer and do not like it. Now I will give you others see it as a way to keep code readable, both arguments have their merits. Pretty much anything beyond noting how the two camps see it devolves into a holy war. Personally being a person that sees the beauty of LISP derived languages lack of syntax, I fall into the first camp and don't see the value of it for me.

I think the second issue, is it is fairly safe to say that the path from Python 2 to 3 was not well thought out and has been a disaster. A lot of people where burned by it, and it left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths.

That being said, Python enjoys a huge userbase so I would not worry about the hate, it's just not the language of choice for some people and that is fine.
Trying it and having it be successful in obtaining the desired access are very different things, though.
Its not even enough. Big tech is too dangerous to not regulate. When they literally decide if politicians get elected or not by controlling what the voters see, weve crossed the line.
yesss please tell me what to believe twitter
I'd agree you could interpret it multiple ways, but the poster said 'literally.'
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I've seen such of the worst throwaway academic garbage code in ML. Maybe the problem is that they completely ignore and look down on software engineering to begin with.
Right. The next emergency is clearly earth's magnetic field.
LOL I read Sohrab pretty regularly but have not seen him advocate for a Christian Monarchy in the US (though would love to read that piece). He had a pretty big dust-up with David French over, among other things, whether conservatives should continue being nice to the left as a sort of game theoretical experiment. Other than that, he's kind of boring.
Well yea, the left wants misinformation to be labeled/censored because they're no willing to lie like the right does. Once the left catches on to the need o create their own fake news you'll see this from both sides.
Google is a city, not a village.
Ya, they have. Every major social network censors constantly and they get called out all the time but because the censoring favors a liberal agenda the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about it because they're also hugely biased (as are tech companies). Read Left Turn by Tim Groseclose or watch one of many people who talk about. I always like Larry Elder's perspective [1][2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAQ2QB6WVQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-CugJieq2I
I think I read that Norway is delivery-constrained for both cars - meaning the sales numbers can’t be used as a proxy for demand.
I recommended Star Wars before the other 8 came out, and have continued this pattern since.
Regarding using

USER somenonrootuser

... how do people deal with the need to write things out on container start? Some of my services require config files, and I need to interpolate the values of environment variables into those config files, write them out, and then start the application. (Also assume the application itself doesn't have options for dropping privileges.) I'd rather not make the filesystem locations in question writable by `somenonrootuser`.

My current strategy is to let the container entrypoint start as root, but then I have a wrapper program installed that drops privileges before it exec()s the actual service. It works, but is there a better / more accepted way of doing this?
I experience these kinds of “hallucinations” all the time by practicing mantra meditation (similar to Transcendental Meditation). I see those jellyfish swirls and Winamp visualization type effects within minutes of beginning to chant the mantra.

I have no particular knowledge of the effects of these visuals but I find that they make meditation more enjoyable. It gives me something engaging to hold on to while sitting in silence.

If you want to try it, download the One Giant Mind app. It’s free and I’m curious if it happens for anyone else.
I was just looking it up to correct myself, looks like Cohen is back in prison so.. probably not him :) yea Giuliani, makes sense, I’d be amazed if it’s not just an outright fabrication.
We live in a country where we have elected officials and laws to deal with individuals and organizations that undermine our democracy. I don't need some random collective of people headquarted in a random state to decide those things for me.
Did you ever try writing it all out? Can help quell the mood.
You aren't allowed to go against the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party here.
> I think they should be erring toward better control of disinformation,

Maybe Twitter should just shut down for a month. That's my point, there's so much untruth on Twitter, even specifically related to politics and the election, that it's just impossible to intelligently "curate" the platform. There's no apparent principle in what they allow and what they don't.

> certainly not being more laissez-faire about a problem that is destroying the world.

It wasn't a story about climate change, or nuclear proliferation.
>So is Hungary (most restrictive country in EU for immigrants)

Hungary incentivizes its native population to have larger families, a policy of Victor Orban's, and has seen consistent growth in its fertility rate since ~2010. This is, as far as I'm concerned, the way it should be tackled.

> The more developed a country becomes, the less babies it makes.

America and the UK's birth rates nose-dived in the mid-60's and hasn't recovered since. I'm failing to draw a connection to these countries being drastically more developed by the end of the 60s than they were at the start of them.
This is normal and expected. Where I work we have rules about what we can say in written communication. Hyperbole and jokes will not be interpreted that way if an audit or subpoena finds it. A court might decide that we didn't mean exactly what we said, but we don't even want to deal with a court case in the first place. Not only because it directly consumes money to put up a defense but also because it can restrict our ability to make money and could tarnish our name.

We also have rules against talking to press. We can send them to a department that will handle that communication, but in general they won't get anything from us because it's easy to put a negative spin on anything we say.
We absolutely can blame them. Twitter and Facebook have repeatedly taken the position that there's no need to reform section 230 or otherwise strongly regulate their moderation, because they're very dedicated to the idea of free discourse and would never abuse their power. If they now feel that free discourse is dangerous and shouldn't be allowed, they should let the country know that so that we can make regulatory decisions accordingly.
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It is quite weird how specific they are about not figuring out market share. That definitely does not seem like common sense.
This post has a very odd tone, as if a private company enforcing their policy to remove unverified & leaked personal correspondence of a private citizen is some unquestionable moral wrongdoing that's apparently going to blow up. Surprised to see this as at the top, on HN.

National Review is a conservative wing-nut website trying to turn this non-story into fuel for their censorship culture war.
I’ve never had an iPhone shipped uncharged.
Sexual harassment law does not prohibit the criticism of sexual harassment law. Any district judge who tried to enforce it that way would almost certainly find himself overturned on appeal. You are simply wrong about that.

You are required to follow your legal obligations in America but you are not required to like them or to not complain about them.
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He said he didn't do it? Case closed!
Just so people know what's going on:

When Sen. Joe Biden was conducting official business in China on behalf of the US government, his son, Hunter, followed him like a dog to China and was involved in business deals worth billions of dollars with the CCP. Also, Kamala Harris' husband is a lobbyist for the CCP.

Foreign governments, whether it's the CCP and Hunter Biden, or Saudi Arabia and Hilary Clinton, know exactly what they're paying for and what corrupt officials and family members are selling, since that's their own MO.

Given the above, you have to be nuts to vote Democrat at the national level - they're literally traitors.

(What people missed with the Trump/Russia probe was that Trump was influenced by buyers of his condos who bought as part of US visa schemes. Not sure why that wasn't highlighted, instead of the nebulous "Russia helped win the election.", which doesn't seem likely to be material.)
I guess the car charging will make up a lot less than 35 GW constant demand though heating will probably make up a lot more than that over time. This will probably more than offset the general energy savings in electromobiles. Progressively you want to transition most of heating to heat pumps (COP of 3.0 should be quite possible) rather than direct heating, such as oil ovens and such (COP of basically < 1). Practical heat pump motors usually run on electricity and maybe natural gas but probably not heavy oil, coal or even wood. Also insulation of private homes will probably improve a lot in the coming years. It is a very complicated matter that is frequently occluded by politics in some form. It is nice to have interesting facts being mentioned, e.g. I didn't know the 8x blade diameter distance figure.
Pitchforks are out, once current election circus is over, they will come for FB, Twitter and YouTube. Politicians on either side are scared and don’t want such strong entities have control over information.
Great idea! I will work on a new post with more research companies that should have gone bankrupt and opened up space for new and better companies.
As of yesterday if you had told me that Twitter would start banning NY Post stories from its platform I would have told you that it strains credulity.
Previous big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798
What's amusing about this whole thing to me is that Facebook and Twitter dropping the ban hammer on this piece will Streisand the hell out of it. If they'd left it alone, it would've been lost in the news cycle with everything else going on and no one would remember it in a week. Now the story is, once again, "Big Tech censors conservatives".
I don't know what's going on with the article in question, but I read this:

> Facebook announced it would limit the sharing of the story while fact-checkers reviewed the piece.

And immediately realize, this is it. Facebook is a publisher, not a platform.
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Streisand effect in 3, 2, 1...
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Tech censorship is extremely relevant to many people here, both professionally and personally.
At 1:10 you can see someone attaching the backing to the earring
Googler here. This is pure and simple click-bait. We are asked not to speculate on legal matters precisely so that it doesn't get misrepresented in the media or in lawsuits. I've worked at other companies with the same policy because why would you shoot yourself in the foot?

Since the NYT is denied the option of misrepresenting employee comments, it has settled for an alternate spin. What a great deal they have. Its a win-win.
> Because the factuality of the story seems like a pretty big deal here.

WMD were non-factual, but even so nobody got censored back then (worse, nobody went to prison for going to war on non-factual information).
Elizabeth Holmes Loses Request to Throw Out Criminal Charges
Biden is ignoring them because he has no idea what's going on, not because of some grand strategies.
sadly, it looks this still won't get us multi-line lambdas, because macro-expressions can only take other expressions as arguments :(

(though the PEP wasn't really clear on this. the grammar rule they give is:

macro_expr = MACRO_NAME "(" testlist ")"

but i wasn't able to find a definition for `testlist`.)

---

EDIT:

but taking inspiration from the PEP's reimplementations of python keywords, we could (maybe? kinda?) add macros for expression-oriented versions of statements, and just use those instead! really hope this gets accepted, can't wait to write some truly appalling macros >:D

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EDIT 2:

also hey, at least it looks like it can handle do-notation!

x = do!(
a := foo(),
b := bar(),
pure(a + b)
)

i guess you could even use

a <= foo()

for binding. i'm sure everyone would love that ;)
Hahaha. You're not wrong.
I agree; having lived in all three places, I discovered that the German reputation for efficiency is much better applied to the Swiss. Germany is heavily bureaucratic and things work as slowly and badly as in the UK - yet with even more paperwork.
Regulation of online media is all but inevitable.

Historically all media sources were directly compared by individuals and groups. You used to get the paper from a news stand/paper boy and could glance at all the headlines in comparison to each other, your colleagues knew what the tabloids were running and what the different takes on the headlines were. In the radio and TV age, a small number of commentators were directly compared by channel surfers on the nightly news.

We're now in an unfortunate scenario where individuals only see algorithmically curated bubbles of news and facts that reinforce their world views regardless of those facts correspondence to reality. They've elected politicians that parrot those facts and world views back to them.

Breaking down these bubbles or removing the peddlers of alternate facts is required for a functional society (as well as a healthy platform). Neither of these actions is likely to be well received by all parties.

History does not look kindly on governments that denied reality.
FYI Another Earth is directed by Tim Cahill not Zal. From what I can tell Brit Marling is the main common thread between that movie, The OA, The Sound of Her Voice.

These three I've seen personally are all good and have a lot of overlapping themes and premises, like mysterious charismatic figures in a slightly off kilter, ambiguously fantastical world convincing people to believe and follow them and their reality.

It's almost comforting to know that The OA is a third or fourth shot at that kind of premise by Brit and her collaborators. Maybe that's why it felt so beautiful and out of nowhere and perfectly formed.
I have a feeling that Facebook wants Trump to be elected. I think Mark Zuckerberg may have discovered how to play "Good cop, bad cop" this year.

First, he played good cop trying to protect free speech while his employees played bad cop trying to censor. That was just a test to see how people reacted. To see if people perceived Mark Zuckerberg better after this.

Now Facebook is playing bad cop so that Trump can be the good cop and win the election.

Facebook is benefiting from inflationary monetary policy and Trump being eyeballs deep in debt will ensure that inflationary policy continues. Trump is not going to let the economy tank on his watch.

If Biden wins, he will let the economy tank early in his term and blame it on Trump.

BTW, Spotify also played "Good cop, bad cop" with its employees this year related to Joe Rogan. Again, Spotify management playing good cop letting Joe Rogan express himself and Spotify employees playing bad cop wanting him censored.
1. The sensationalism of the original title. The accusation here is that the candidate’s son introduced a Ukrainian businessman to him. This is hardly a smoking gun evidence against the father doing anything wrong.

2. There is no evidence that the emails are in fact real, and nothing is even offered to that extent.

3. The article does not come from a reputable news source. In fact it comes from a news source with serious damage to it’s reputation.

4. No other major news outlet is picking this story up, further undermining the credibility of the article.

If I was a social media company I wouldn’t want to touch this with a 10 meter pole.
Any attempt to bring information to light that is harmful to the Cathedral is considered smearing.
That’s something I heard from someone restocking fish. So, it might be an artifact of US dams being over 50 years old on average, but I assume that generally holds true globally.

As to peak methane production, yea that seems reasonable. Though a great many dams didn’t cover forests, so the extremes aren’t representative of the average.
Let's terraform Terra.
That's true, but these kid's parents aren't doing so hot. I'm a little incredulous that this stress isn't being transmitted.
Wells Fargo fires more than 100 workers over relief fund abuse
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Apple’s is $19.
I use mpv. It's primarily meant as a video player but it works well for music too and even as an image viewer (alternative to 'feh') There is a pretty active community of people writing scripts for mpv (Lua or JS) and it's generally really nice for users with a hacker ethos. I consider it the Emacs of multimedia.

(I wouldn't recommend it for casual users, I tell family members to use VLC.)
I wonder if there is a way to incentivize the behavior of "I work at a big company and have the ability to help out a stranger with a problem"?

When the coin in the coffer rings / An account from bannination springs!
Obviously I can't say for sure without trying it first hand, but what they're describing does not sound like the kinds of hallucinations you experience while on psychedelics at all. Based on the headline, I would have assumed they were talking about inducing a trip, but the article makes it sound much simpler and more transient.
Afaik the returns have not been verified.
45 made me smile. I remember being in Tel Aviv and running out of Melatonin. I went to a pharmacy and asked for it. The guy, having quite an attitude replied to me, "This is not the US, you need a prescription for Melatonin". By the way, at that point I hadn't even visited the US yet and my english accent makes it clear that I'm not from the US. Anyway, I really enjoyed the post. I'm lucky to not have to struggle with insomnia anymore, it can be very painful.
I wasn't aware of that, but I don't think the exception of their cheapest phone is particularly interesting or relevant.
Courts often need to employ _chains_ of interpreters: for example, one to translate from English to Spanish, one to translate from Spanish to one Mayan language, and one to translate from that Mayan language to a different, more obscure Mayan language spoken by a monolingual defendant.[1]

Chinese and Swahili would give them no trouble at all.

1: Real example from my friend who represented such a person in an immigration hearing.
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> Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.

I want to see the raw emails.