skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every credible journalist

My parents are both retired journalists in DC, one a former editor-in-chief of a publication with millions of paid subscriptions. Both voted for Biden.

They have also expressed their concern with the response to the Hunter Biden story, but I won't name them for obvious reasons.

I understand that you have a vested interest in presenting this as open-and-shut, but in no way are you speaking for "every credible journalist" unless you mean in a tautological no-true-scotsman way.
And 1984 is not just about totalitarianism.

"I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means. Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible.
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Secondly there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people. On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side."

(https://libguides.timberlane.net/c.php?g=801142&p=5725782)
His article hasn't been published. Unless they've somehow got access to it, there's no way to verify it.
If you knew their life would be misery and toil, would you have kids? I'm terrified for mine.
I don't agree that they encourage lying. "October Surprises" have been a thing for a very long time. It's just politics; the whole point of politics is to try to get your person to win and the other person to lose.

I think the NYT with the tax returns and the NY Post with the emails both acted properly, personally. (Though I strongly distrust both of them in general. NY Post much more so, but NYT gets worse and worse by the month, in my eyes.)

It's also unclear if either of them hoarded anything; they both may have published their pieces as quickly as they could, given the circumstances and when they received the information. I might be missing some evidence of hoarding; apologies if so.
I do have logs on the server (although the data in the logs is reduced when a "DNT:1" header is present). I do not use any client side analytics at all, and do not want to.

Often I just have plain text files, and direct downloads for other stuff anyways; however, comments can be useful, and if someone has comments, I do have a NNTP server which can be used for discussions about these things.
Here's an audio source[1] for the people downvoting this.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxE2nlDjYt8
I'm wondering if just setting up a webcam in a public spot for a few years is enough these days to make a million bucks. I mean, don't you think that someone would buy a billion images of people walking about. It would be excellent for ML teams. LOL
Right - there is no evidence yet showing that Joe Biden had direct awareness of his son's corrupt dealings.

That's leagues away from saying that Hunter's involvement in these things has been "debunked."
I remember seeing casino or slot machine games being released in the era of the PS2 on consoles. You could play all you wanted until you got bored, with no limits. This kind of game would never be released again today. I'm convinced that the only reason there was no monetization in those games was because it was technically infeasible with no persistent online presence tied to a store account, and no way to get the user's attention outside of the confines of their house, connected to a television.

I believe that if there had been some way of extracting more money from users even sooner than the smartphone had been invented, it would have been done. The smartphone was so revolutionary it opened up all of those new avenues, and the monetization models have even reached consoles now that it's been well established that the people that use smartphones will buy into them.
Those people still had free access to water, oxygen, sunlight that would warm and illuminate but not incinerate, Earth-strength gravity, shielding from astral radiation, a self-sustaining ecology of animals and microbes, self-circulating air replenished and cross-pollenated from other parts of the globe. I would even argue that psychological foundations like a horizon, and a sky above, and space that one can roam with one's own two feet, are essential to human thriving.

There are so many things we take for granted that probably don't exist, exactly this way, anywhere else in the universe.

We could probably satisfy our basic survival needs on a planet like Mars. We could make water, and nutrients, and oxygen, and shield ourselves from radiation. But it would mean living inside a box, possibly underground, forever, in constant precarity because if our artificial biomes ever have problems, we're out of luck. We can't fall back to nature; there is no nature. The world outside doesn't have a life of its own, it's fully dead. Even the very most optimistic version of this scenario is a bleak shadow of the life that can be lived on Earth.
That depends. Migrations and wars are the responses we can expect if its not handled in an organized way.
First, because TSMC was aiming for 1.8x and Apple only saw 1.49, and I expect that not to improve going forward.

Second, one of us is reading that number wrong. They said 1.49x, not 49%.

In any other conversation, 2x is reducing feature size by 50%. 3x is 1/3 of the original, or reduced by 2/3. That means 1.8 is 45% smaller, and 1.49 is 32.9%.

Similarly, if you cut the pitch of a circuit in half you should see 4x as many transistors. If you could keep shrinking the space between transistors while shrinking the transistor, then going from "7" to "5" node should have been a 1.96x factor for areal density, not the 1.8x they claim, or the 1.49x Apple achieved.

I'm not saying they screwed up. As soon as nodes stopped measuring literal transistor size, it wouldn't take long for the names to be aspirational instead of descriptive. It's something they can name the project early on when the set of potential tech has been selected and some estimates have been made. For building a team it's fine. But I'm not on that team, I'm a customer (and current or former shareholder).

I think the consumer cares about the transistors per mm^2 (after the voltage and the instructions per second), not the node number. Especially when each foundry uses the same number to describe different densities. I shouldn't have to keep remembering that TSMC-7 = INTC-10. Numbers that are actual numbers, please.
It's Great Filters, with an "s". You have to dig through the EULA but Asteroid, Thermonuclear War and Famine are all covered under the Cataclysm (General) indemnity.
> Solutions that require the cooperation of the entire human race will never work, yet that is what keeps being pushed upon us.

USA and Australia are the only two developed nations that continue to deny climate change. The entire world signed the Paris Agreement.

While the USA slowly is slowly led into international irrelevance by the Republican Party, China just joined South Korea, and Japan in pledging to be carbon neutral by 2050.
No, I said more likely to share, not will share. You can still disagree with your countrymen.

Nationality is correlated with the values you hold in the broadest sense. Easy example: a natural born citizen in the US is far less likely to believe in the validity of Sharia law than someone born in an Arab state.

In even more abstract terms, what is good for you is likely to be location dependent. People in Germany have different problems from people in the US or France, and those are different from African, Asian, and South American countries. There are of course common trends, but to pretend all of politics is some shared set of problems is ridiculous.

People discriminate based on traits all the time. Liberals in tech do discriminate against conservatives (or perceived conservatives) all the time. They are free to do so, most people don't see many things as something you can protect as a class.
Ask HN: How to best find a product person/mgr?
We're about to go into beta and start onboarding talent in the coming weeks. Things are looking good with the reception from agencies we've reached out to. But it's clear we'll need to hire an awesome product person as soon as funds allow. So curious on advice as to how one even starts this process much less finding the right fit? Any help here is appreciated!
Thanks for the reference! Here's the video version of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6AYX42gkU
> shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals

Indeed there's a huge glaring problem here: many of these malls have branded entrances (Shoppers Drug Mart, Best Buy, etc) through which a large portion of consumers walk into the mall, and these alleged decals are not present in those entrances. Here's an example [1]. Frankly I don't see said decals even in the non-branded entrances[2]

They're going to have a very hard time convincing the commissioner that people were in fact aware of these decals AND any "privay policy" therein. A simple survey would easily show that people are completely clueless about it (anecdote: I used to frequent CF malls quite a bit when I was in Toronto and never saw anything of the sort, even despite being the type of person that might actually read random stuff posted at entrances).

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7788812,-79.3447734,3a,75y,1...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7789409,-79.3444783,3a,75y,1...
This is definitely true, but why is this post removed from the front page? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934192

Edit: I'm a moron and it just dropped a bunch suddenly. Was not removed.
It's not based on nothing. It's based on a pattern of the current administration and the media that supports it propping up nonsense and blowing stories that are critical of their opposition out of proportion specifically in order to rile people up and influence elections. Pizzagate, Hillary's emails, Q-Anon, these things all take a toll on people who actually care about what is true and real.

Is it really surprising that after all the overblown conspiracy nonsense we've been battered with from the White House and Trump that people have grown suspicious and weary of new stories that smell even remotely similar? It's gotten to the point where if Trump supports a story I assume it's probably untrue by default just because of the sheer volume of lies and nonsense he retweets on a daily basis. I don't know anything about the Hunter Biden story. Maybe it's loaded with true, damning information against Biden. If so, it's too bad, because we are neck deep in a boy-who-cried-wolf situation here and I'm not going to learn about it until it's been verified and reported by media outlets that I can actually trust.
the point i was trying to make is that it for any reason, the case can be delayed in getting to court. i've personally seen cases take 10 years to finally get to court only to have the case dismissed.
By far the biggest problem is that we do not agree with a common reality. If the conversation stops at "I don't believe this thing is real" then naive ignorance is the lesser problem. Climate denial is a bigger threat, it relies on moving the goal posts of what constitutes proof it's real, and in the decades it takes to "convince" these people it's real it will be too late to do much about it.

Simply put, if climate denial leads to inaction, then that's the bigger problem. Also, climate change is an existential threat, the degree and vigor we use to respond to it should definitely be strong. Debating over which models are more accurate or not is mostly a waste of time.

"What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13
22B / 4,800B in spend = about 0.5%. math checks out. Hard to argue we are prioritizing space that much.
And Biden could/should have addressed this issue. Before he got the nomination, a number of outfits - Politico, Bloomberg - were running stories about his deals. Back when they wanted someone different nominated. You thnk the democrats would have learned not to nominate another clinton.
With my FreeBSD ports maintainer hat on, I don't see a 2.0 tag in github, was this blog premature?
This could be cool for doing similarity searches as well as generating Markov probability trees in how apis or language features are used.

I was thinking of doing something similar for a RISC-V cpu, where the CPU would generate compressed histograms of common multiple instruction sequences (across loop boundaries) so that one would know what super instructions to synthesize.
Great question! At this moment, Drift is convenient for us because I can reply directly from Slack. We have an internal demo where we can do this with our widget, too, it was a bit too early for this release though. Soon!
“ The companies have invoked the federal law -- Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- in one court case after another to dismiss potentially costly lawsuits over messages, videos and other content created by users”

That was literally the point of section 230.

Section 230 was created explicitly for the purpose of allowing moderation without becoming liable for the content posted by others. In the absence of 230 platforms would be required to have no moderation of content - getting anything pulled, incl the grotesque, would require a court order. Not because they don’t want to remove the content, but because the moment they did of their own volition they become liable.

230 allowed moderation without becoming responsible for all content.

The framing of them somehow exploiting 230 is absurd and frustrating.
> Do they owe you something

Mozilla is allegedly an open source project, so yes they owe you things based on free software principles, such as attribution and right to fork.
Oooh! What kind of sex? Which drugs? ...yes, that would be the salacious hearsay I was referring to. If there's evidence that Joe Biden did something corrupt, I'd like to see it, but without the rest of the chaff.
Polar bears are fucked, this makes me sad.
Does this explain why the tried to stop him from publishing elsewhere? Relevant section:

>Worse, The Intercept editors in New York, not content to censor publication of my article at the Intercept, are also demanding that I not exercise my separate contractual right with FLM regarding articles I have written but which FLM does not want to publish itself. Under my contract, I have the right to publish any articles FLM rejects with another publication. But Intercept editors in New York are demanding I not only accept their censorship of my article at The Intercept, but also refrain from publishing it with any other journalistic outlet, and are using thinly disguised lawyer-crafted threats to coerce me not to do so (proclaiming it would be “detrimental” to The Intercept if I published it elsewhere).
Why would they pay someone $1 million for images that they can capture in a few weeks by parking a van with cameras in a crowded place?
Doesn't misogyny create hardship for half the human race?
Hubble telescope gives closer look at rare asteroid worth $10000000000000000000
okay, now what if the $100 widget is purposely set up to obfuscate the transaction/trail and the actors involve help you (like say a new developer that is wink wink) and the $200 increases your chances of getting caught?

i think nobody is arguing that you want the best bang for your buck, but there's a reason why someone will just flat out offer 20% over asking or letting these properties sit unrented. that's a terrible return on investment...

i duno, makes sense to me. when laundering the priority is always don't get caught > profits. housing seems to be at the moment the most unregulated and harder for authorities to pin and hold those accountable.
The emails have literally been verified by people on the emails and further their authenticity has never been denied by the Biden campaign. To claim that they are fake or disinformation at this point is either an act of extreme ignorance or duplicitous intent.
Thats ridiculous. Says who? Do you have any sources that say you don’t own dvd content indefinitely?
Really, most of the top comments are those defending censorship and those sneakily trying to undermine free speech and support the censorship of a journalist.

> Its not particularly interesting, or relevant, especially after being repeated ad nauseum.

Fighting for free speech is that offense to you huh? You wouldn't happen to be a journalist?
I'd be willing to take a bet with you that they're not a fabrication, if you want.

If they were a fabrication, the smartest thing to do would be a vehement pronouncement that it's all doctored, fake bullshit. It'd make sense to do that once and then never talk about it again and refuse questions, but the fact that there's not a single denial is telling. It's definitely not proof, but it's a sign.

Also, at least one email thread was corroborated by someone else on the thread as being real. That doesn't prove the rest of the emails are real, but it increases the likelihood.

Again, I don't even think there's anything damaging in there. But the absolute kneejerk insistence that they're fabricated, and that even trying to be impartial about it is giving into propaganda, by so many people, is pretty bizarre to me. There's a reasonable, rational, balanced middle ground here that very few people (besides some actual journalists like Matt Taibbi, Ross Douthat, and perhaps Glenn Greenwald - pending exactly what he says in this forthcoming article) seem to be taking.
Never send a human to do a robot's job. If you want more space exploration (and I do) then pour more work into robots.

Humans carry an ocean around with them everywhere (in their veins) in order to function, and in space need to drag a bunch of atmosphere and gravity with them (well, muscle machines). That should be the special case, not the general one.
> I don't think the emails contain anything very damaging to Biden, as far as I can tell.

This is the weirdest part about Republican attacks on Biden's ethics or integrity. All that I have seen have been accusing Biden or his family of things that Trump and his family do much more often than the Biden's are alleged to have done them.

In a rational world, that kind of attack would totally backfire.

But it's pretty clear people aren't rational. I've had people tell me that Trump must be trustworthy because he's a billionaire, and had the same people tell me that Gates, Soros, Buffett, and Bezos cannot be trusted because they are billionaires. Huh!?
If this is all privately held data that can't be accessed without a warrant... why not?

Just so I'm clear, the argument against this is:

- Merchants should be able to hire humans that sit around looking at camera screens all day trying to find shopping patterns, shoplifters, etc.

- Any attempt to automate this tedious task is dystopian and evil

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If things are truly that bad in 30 years when temperature is only a fraction of a degree warmer and sea level has barely moved - imagine how fucked we are in 200 years when polar melting is advanced, sea levels are many meters higher and temperatures are 4 degrees or more warmer than today.

I don't buy that claim though, it's hard to believe you could have a billion refugees with such tiny changes. We've already changed more than that since 1900 and there aren't a billion climate refugees. Why is the next half a degree of warming so much worse? I'd need to see what they base that estimate on.
The streetview images are dated may 2019, but the article says

>CF suspended its use of cameras back in 2018 [...]
No. There are many public webcams up already you can google and see right now, that content is free and not going away. What's missing is high def up-close cameras, which gets dicey w.r.t. privacy if you're making a profit off the content.
I give him a lot of credit for endorsing his opponent. I've seen a lot of opposition that came without the hard step: acknowledging that the only alternative is his opponent.

The problem, I believe, is not the individual at the top, but the fact that he has an enormous base of support. And a lot of that support comes from his willingness to exploit the divisiveness between the parties. His opponents have been portrayed as not merely wrong about policy, but as evil people who must be stopped at all costs. And I believe that has become the core of the party, which one person has merely exploited better.

That leads to a number of prominent figures prominently opposing him but not endorsing his opponent. And that continues the divisiveness that put him there in the first place. Until people are willing to admit that his opponent is as he says, "decent", we're going to continue arguing not about policy but about personal attacks.
I did a calculation where the taxpayer earns $40k/year, single, 2 kids.

You see Biden vs. baseline in the tables.

Individual income taxes fall from -$3,370 to -$6,570.
In some countries you can't even sign away the right to attribution (ianal), so depending on where the contributor resides they might legally owe them that.
A12 – Advancing Network Transparency on the Desktop
I teach my children to point in the direction of where cars can come from before crossing the road. He used to just swing his head around before, now he has to search directions and point there to direct his attention and it works excellently.

As others have pointed out, this is for repetitive tasks that your brain wants to automate away, but you really want to keep in attention.
You’ve gotten some downvotes so figure I’d paste the actual text of the first amendment here so people know exactly what you’re referring to:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.