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> What's different is that all of center-left/left news establishment decided that they are going to get Biden elected and protect him from any negative news.

That’s what we all wanted right? That’s the point of all the tech folks talking about no bystanders and corporations being forced to take a political stance was about wasn’t it?

It worked. They’re taking a stance.
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This helped me pick up the basics. Vim isn’t that scary, really. It’s very possible to learn 90% of the editor in a few months.

Fwiw, what really made me learn Vim properly was doing a project (not a work project) solely in Vim, from start to finish (with multiple languages involved).

If you’re editing text regularly, Vim (or indeed Emacs) will be much nicer use than nano.
Are you of the opinion that all story publication should stop in the days before the election? If not, how do you reconcile that with this?

Your argument seems to be based on an assumption that the story was garbage, with the evidence being that the editor pulled it, which begs the question.
How could it be made to work better?
Keep in mind we're just seeing Greenwald's side of this. It sure sounds like he's trying to paint it a way that makes him look good and the Intercept look bad. Lots of claims of "censorship" etc.

I want to hear their side of it as well. My guess is that there's a lot more to this story. My guess is if all his peers thought the claims were not solid enough to publish, there is probably a reason for that -- not simply a desire to "censor" someone they've worked with for years.

Remember also that the NY Post writer behind the original "Hunter Biden laptop" story refused to put their name behind the article, probably due to the flaws in the claims and evidence presented.
This was a pretty eye-opening interview for me. Certainly gives a lot of food for thought. About kleptocracy and how that particular (parasitic) economy survives and even thrives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlZdx9eDetw
I recently switched from Lemonade to Goodcover and the process couldn't have been easier (and saved money too!). Huge fan, congrats to the team.
AMD Radeon up to RX580 is known to be supported.
If only if they had support on the open FPGA stack (yosys+nextpnr), it'd get one in an eyeblink.

Alas, I'll have to settle for softcores on ECP5.
I don't mean for this to come off rude, but at some point you have to learn that spending time in life on things you don't control can have extremely negative costs.

How can you be angry? MDN isn't yours. Do they owe you something? It's volunteer work. You're not owed anything. You should consider attribution a privilege.
> foreigners are detached from what is good for the people in the areas they're buying property in

As opposed to the domestic billionaires who have deep compassion for the interests of the working class?
Google isn't exactly known for their privacy. Why would he not have used his Burisma email account?
> interview a lot until you find something.

How do you find the time to 'interview a lot' though? I get about 10 days off in a year, and rarely get interviews with enough frequency to schedule two on one day. In an ideal world, I'd let my current employer know I'm planning to leave, take that as an opportunity to let them wind down my responsibilities and prepare for a handover, and have a good reference for a full-time job search after leaving, but I'll never be able to do that due to employer-tied insurance
The GNOME project was started because KDE required the non-free (at the time) Qt library. Probably you forgot this little detail because Qt has been free software for such a long time now.
"Journalists have essentially become socialites. They don't want to publish articles that will rock the boat,"

There have been a virtually uncountable number of high-profile investigative pieces that criticise people in power published in the last 6 months! This argument is nonsense.
It isn't news that the son of a presidential candidate is and has been using his name to enrich himself, raising AT BEST questions about conflict of interest?

Are you for real?
"Misinformation" now seems to mean anything that threatens partisan objectives. Given Greewald's track record, I would give him a long leash.
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There are two errors with this.

First of all, was it "censorship" when Fox News had not a single article on Trump's taxes for many days after the NY Times pice? No, tat's not censorship, it's an editorial decision.

Second, you're missing the "garbage" part of "garbage story" in the line you quoted. A news organization has a responsibility to vet stories, and avoid publishing stories that can't be vetted.
Restrictions are most certainly not being reduced now, look to Ireland, Czechia and Poland to name but a few examples.

Any kind of normality will only return when a vaccine is here, and it’s still 6-8 months away.
FAANGs hire generalists. Speaking as someone with experience at 2 FAANGs, the entry bar to some of them is not as high as people make it to be.

The whole point of a generalist is to be that jack of all trades that management can just throw into any "high priority" project to get it shipped. These corporations are so big now that they've mostly wrapped all the existing tools or have developed their own, so the only skill you need is to learn a bunch of custom tools (with little documentation) sufficiently fast to be productive. So just learn the basic algorithms to pass the interview and then proceed to (probably) never use that knowledge at your FAANG job.

If you're on the older side, don't think about it. I personally know someone who's 65 working at a FAANG (anecdata but still). If you interview with a kid, they might ding you for "culture fit" because they're kids, but hopefully the hiring manager and the bar raisers are mature enough to see past that.

Your biggest hurdle will be the internal interviewer discussion that based on your experience you should be at level X, and, if in your interview you didn't show that level, that you might be unhappy at X - 1 or X - 2.
If they continue to live, work, and do business in China, then it doesn't count as fleeing.
Why do you insist on defining community along citizenship lines?
> DETROIT (Reuters) - ...
OK so if journalists have to get 100% of what they say accurate then 99% of what we see reported today are "factually incorrect" and there won't be anyone left in the profession. Same goes with your point saying more opinion leads to more misinformation.
A bit reminiscent of when Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias was pressured to avoid expressing certain contentious positions by other Voxxers:

https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1280937324340281346
It isn’t reasonable to expect independent journalists to take over the work that news media currently engages in. While there are legitimate criticisms of media companies becoming too large and being driven by outrage based engagements, they also provide the resources for some of the best journalists to spend a large part of their lives dedicated to digging into a story rather than worrying about how to make ends meet.

The press is a pillar of American democracy. Independent journalists are great but they just won’t have the same power or credibility as they do when they’re organized.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring has a monthly thread for freelancers. The next will be created Monday (first working day of the month) around 9am California time.
Thank you for clarifying. Always nice to get first-hand information.
This argument can be made for nearly every piece of political journalism... you're only supporting this suppression because it helps your preferred candidate.
The word "screen" here is a poor choice. You could just as easily be "multi-screening" by watching a picture in picture video while reading a web-site. Or the reverse, in their frame of reference, web development where you have one display/ output screen and one code screen is not multi-screening.

Poor word choice because it's not as catchy as saying "Trying to consume two types of media at once" which is what they seem to be pointing to.
> That’s what we all wanted right

What are you talking about? I'm unsure if you're describing the tenor of comments here, but there was a clear amount of uneasiness with how these platforms are using their reach, whether with the Biden story or Uber on Prop 22.
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>That’s what we all wanted right?

I never wanted that. But yes, this sentiment is out there. And yes, this is the logical end result.
> The media has fallen into the well-known trap of optimizing the wrong KPI. You want to maximize trust with the public, not engagement

KPI for whose benefit? Shareholders or the 'public good'? Why would a for-profit entity optimize for the public good over profits?

Fox news is crushing all their competitors optimizing for engagement.

Who is winning optimizing for trust?
"Our treatment of your private data is so bad, it's literally illegal in large swathes of the world" is what I read when I see one of those messages.
It's such a no-brainer since the national security apparatus (the FBI, NSA, etc) were used against Trump and his campaign very transparently. So you'd think he would want to strike a blow against them by pardoning Snowden.

In reality, he doesn't seem to have a deep, principled understanding of the issues of the "national security" apparatus (commonly known as the "deep state"). So I'm not optimistic, although maybe he's just waiting until after the election.

What Trump's administration is doing to Julian Assange is also quite evil (see Cassandra Fairbanks' reporting here - she's a very clear Trump supporter and yet is highly critical of his admin with respect to their treatment of Assange). It's not any more evil than what Biden or others would do, to be clear, so this isn't something unique to Trump, but we can certainly say that Trump has not shown any desire to try to do the right thing here.
It's not my job to solve the problems of people who don't have networks. I have 40 years professional experience in the software dev business, as I wrote, and during that time I've met and worked with a lot of people. Networks grow organically but you have to cultivate them (another person commented in this thread with the garden analogy).

If you feel lonely or struggle to connect with people, or maintain relationships, don't expect to get help for that in HN comment threads. Don't feel sorry for yourself, get help.
Unverifiable? Plenty of documentary evidence has been produced that could easily be verified. Simply ask the Bidens if it's true.
I would hope for these to be sold at cost, and doubt they cost that much. Profits shouldn't come from scalping risc-v developers.

I am hopeful some Chinese company will release something that will force some humility into the risc-v market. At least one candidate has been seen in the thread[0].

[0]: http://www.semimedia.cc/?p=7803
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Do you personally believe people should be able to decide for themselves things in their life, make opinions based on different information provided?
Agreed. But even RL is often difficult to transfer to other domains of knowledge.

Though I agree that this is an important next challenge (and causality has been the "next challenge" for at least the last 5 years), it's often more easily solved these days with mixing in human expert knowledge to the equation (that is, using ML alongside of human expertise).
Um. World War 1, 2, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnamese conflict all had a LOT of censorship, not to mention a lot of stuff that got hushed up with buddy buddy relationships.

Also, we're all talking about it, so it's not very censored, now is it?
why is global warming so catastrophic? the globe has been much warmer in the past and we are all here today
> It's just that it's a very long-term and theoretical value, and at this particular moment in history there are much more pressing concerns.

Like blowing up people living in mud huts in deserts going by US economic priorities. A regime largely in place to protect biased trade relations for cheap materials and goods from around the world and more importantly (to those orchestrating the regime) to the line the pockets of select defense contractors.

Investments in space represent, what, .1% of the US GDP? Astoundingly the single mother raising her kid in food scarcity in <insert dystopic cityscape here> actually probably really doesn't give a hoot about terraforming in 2500, but would really give a damn about having healthcare and avoiding societal collapse from climate catastrophe in her lifetime.

A lot of unreasonably rich people are unreasonably obsessed with space, but thats largely because they are sociopaths. Thats how they got rich in the first place, or were born to such extreme luxury they are psychologically impaired to be unable to relate to anyone outside their class meaningfully. So they go full scifi because they don't think the world we have with all its problems not so easily solved by throwing money at them (that isn't for their own immediate personal gain) is worth it.
What's the half life of dust in the Lagrange Point?

As to where to set the thermostat: probably as a default keep things constant as they are today. If Russia would prefer a warmer setpoint, it can offer money to countries that don't want one to compensate them for their troubles.
Are they locked into github (using their proprietary APIs) or just using it as a git backend (using standard git tooling)? It's not clear from the article.
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I can't reply directly to macspoofing above, so to explain it clearly: the story wasn't Biden's son enriching himself with his name -- that story has been covered by every news organization for over a year, and didn't need a new article on the eve of the election. The new story specifically relates to Joe Biden being a part of it, and enriching himself, and that's the part that no news organization has been able to verify.
...I would argue that this has already happened.

Consider the Green New Deal - absolutely a leftist document. Half the Democratic party immediately jumped down AOC's throat and jumped on the "come on, be reasonable" bandwagon. Not so many years ago, our candidate was Gore. Gore could have written the GND himself.

There is no party for the left. There is center and right and (currently in the white house) extreme right. Which we're now calling alt-right, while there's absolutely nothing 'alt' about it.
then why is that not the case for countries with a significantly higher proportion of soy in their diets such as countries in Asia? if what you said is true then once would expect to notice it
If journalists didn’t rock the boat, the current POTUS would be very happy. But they do, and he’s not, so this theory seems to have no merit.
Yes, works with SQLAlchemy. (Like many ORMs there are a couple things to be aware of, but plenty StackOverflow questions about these already :)

And yes, people use it for event sourcing. Often see this in various product analytics use cases.
Absolutely. In lock-step with Bari Weiss
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> If the editor concludes that it's a garbage story dropped a few days before the election in an attempt to influence the election, you don't run it and then "let the readers decide who is right".

On the other hand, if Greenwald actually does have, or believe he has, a contract which guarantees him immunity to outside editing as he seems to claim ("The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week") -- which seems somewhat implausible as presented, but that's the story presented -- then the offer he presents also makes sense as what amounts to an attempt to essential settle the dispute over rights and obligations out of court with a compromise which arguably could be better for both his journalistic interests and the Intercept's financial interests than a public, after-the-fact breach of contract dispute in the courts.
I read that "garbage story" was meant as the decision of the editors who would have just finished reading the story to decide if the story was worthy to run and not the poster's personal labeling of the story.
It is about emails which have no headers, that are impossible to verify, that were “known to fbi” for a long time but didn’t produce any action (because likely fake), and that are specifically being pushed to change outcome of election despite, again, no real evidence of their veracity.
Without a CoC, it's hard to know who to talk to. Conference organizers are swamped.

In another comment I elaborate on what the point of a CoC is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930887
The CLI does have an --autofix flag, but the replacement it uses has to be specified through a local config file rather than as a command line arg. There is a ticket that though!
https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep/issues/840

Here are docs for what exists currently https://semgrep.dev/docs/experiments/#autofix
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How many failed businesses did you try before coming to that conclusion?
> If Grubhub actually took a stand and showed they not only did not do this sort of behavior, I would actually use it, and I would pay the premium for delivery (to make sure the restaurant makes money and the driver makes money).

You may well faithfully adhere to this promise, but the reality is, most people simply don't know (and it would be generous for me to assume they would care even if they DID know).

So much of the GH/DD/UE model is reducing friction to drive transactions. Click button, throw some amount of money at the company, receive product. Just like Amazon.

Having to stay abreast of the news, the competitive landscape, the various companies' business practices, and then factor that all in when making an online transaction, is probably too much to ask of a consumer when the entire point of the service is not having to know or care too much about the details.

You could even argue one of the features of these services is abstracting away things that people don't WANT to know about- Tipping policies, labor practices, what the parking is like at the restaurant, how pleasant the staff is to deal with, how the owner's doing today, etc.

I'm with you- I almost never order anything delivery, I pick up my own orders on the rare occasion I takeout, etc. This whole delivery gig economy thing makes me pretty uncomfortable. But we're a rare breed. (and I'm not claiming to be better than most people; I order far too much from Amazon than I'd like to admit).
Wow: what a standard hace you just raised dor just ine of the sides of the equation!
Fasting can be a valuable practice, but I think it should be applied intentionally, based on your goals for your health and body, not haphazardly when you find yourself in a context where good food is inconvenient.

It can also be a good idea to not look at screens sometimes, but it's disruptive if that time away from screens is at a time not of your choosing but forced on you by external conditions.
we weren't here the last time globe has been much warmer
You can't do that if its censored.
"We're all in some form of climate denial right now"

It should also be acknowledged - perhaps first and foremost - that we are also all in a very real form of climate ignorance. Being "realistic" about the impact of climate change requires believing our best science as it stands today, but also understanding that the science is incomplete and certainly wrong in various large and small ways.
We will never know how much of his "prolific" career was actively stunted by him being censored by both editors and an overall "feel-good"/left-wing bias in society and the news-industry.

With enough people being brave enough to stand up like this, we will finally start noticing truly how many people and their opinions have been silenced. Every additional brave person lets others see that they are not alone, that their opinions are reasonable and not hateful or fringe or unaccepted, and that they can once again speak freely in an open society.
There’s two social groups, they don’t want to critique their social group.
If the entire editorial team and his peers rejected it, it seems pretty clear.
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I think that this is a red herring unless they are doing so in a way that may make people think that they are the restaurant instead of an independent delivery agent, although the restaurant do allege that Grubhub is misrepresenting themselves.

But yes, in principle they can get into trouble for using trademarks and logos without authorization (menus are fair game), although I suppose it is fair use to mention the names of the restaurants they can pick up food from. Going after them for that shows that they are not doing anything unlawful by running their intermediary service if this is the only thing the restaurants hope might stick.
Greenwald's description wasn't 99% accurate. It was barely 5% accurate. The only thing accurate in it was that some program called PRISM exists. Every statement he made about what it does was wrong, which he could have avoided if he merely talked to someone computer literate or used his status as a journalist to call the people involved. The NY Times, CNET, and pretty much the rest of mainstream media got it correct and correctly identified PRISM as a non-story while focusing on phone metadata, which was questionably legal post-Carpenter.

> Same goes with your point saying more opinion leads to more misinformation.

I didn't say that more opinion leads to misinformation. I said nothing about opinion at all.
> These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom.

Whew, the Fox News editorial board can breathe a sigh of relief.
I've been following Zaid Jilani.

https://theintercept.com/staff/zaidjilani/
>when Fox News had not a single article on Trump's taxes for many days after the NY Times pice

Are you saying that all the news outlets that refuse to mention this story are acting like partisan hacks??!? I AGREE!

>Second, you're missing the "garbage" part of "garbage story" in the line you quoted.

What's the 'garbage' part of this 'garbage story'?

>and avoid publishing stories that can't be vetted.

Who vetted the NY Times story? Did NY Times release the documents or their sources? Or did everyone just report it? How about the Kavanaugh allegations? Did anyone have issues putting out prosperous, unverified, and clearly false accusations just to get him and by extension Trump? How about the Steele dossier, initially an unverified, and later found to be a fabricated document, put out by the Russians and paid for by the Hillary campaign ... it served as a basis for YEARS of reporting. The last 4 years, we've seen the mainstream media throw out all semblance of journalistic integrity just to get Trump.
> Exactly. This looks much more like Greenwald trying to capitalize on hype. The entire spectrum of details around the Biden emails has been roundly debunked

Oh please. Let's try to keep the "post-truth" ethos on the Right, rather than adopting it ourselves, mmkay?