skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even though they are, of course, perfectly able to post elsewhere on the internet

My biggest concern is that the "they're private companies, they can do whatever they want" argument applies to ISP's, too - they're private companies as well. We've already seen Epik being "deplatformed" by PayPal (also a private company) for allowing controversial content to pass through their infrastructure. I'm not sure I agree that Twitter should be forced to reinstate the New York Post, but I'm having trouble disagreeing that they should carry more liability for what they do allow if they refuse to.
There is a FDM 3D printer on the ISS & there have been many material science experiments done. A centrifuge module was planned for the ISS but later cut on cost reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Modu...

Humble beginnings.
Because HN commenters always feel like they know better and like to talk down on any changes even when they have no context for why the decision was made.
Thanks, once you are familiar with it you can start extending it right away, a couple of motherboards running custom short scripts could implement all those things you mentioned and then you could make that machine (for example the motor/generator) available for others to use on their own machines!
Take control of your Kubernetes Costs
Multi-cloud Kubernetes Cost Visibility.
More importantly, they need to understand legacy support and deprecation. AWS and MS have seller track records on backwards compatibility and EOL policies, while Google's feels worse than a garage startup at times.
Apple's $200B vault of cash might disagree for conventional assumptions around the word "eventually". A corporate tax rate also encourages investment (use it or lose it), and will trend towards a greater share going to employees than shareholders all things being equal.
Great suggestion! Will do some research, thanks :)
What would the beat if not consensus estimates?
The USB acts as a serial interface that spits out a lot of text for you to consume. They probably have a dedicated core for debugging on the silicon.
> the correspondence is essentially the editor giving a bunch of suggestions of how to improve the article

From the beginning of the first letter: "Overall I think this piece can work best if it is significantly narrowed down to what you first discussed with Betsy — media criticism about liberal journalists not asking Biden the questions he should be asked more forcefully, and why they are failing to do that."

In other words, the editor is asking Greenwald to keep only the part about criticism of liberal journalists, and not publish the allegations against the Bidens. That's not just a suggestion on how to improve the article - it's asking him to remove a substantial part of the article.

> Glenn at no point even brings up what his supposed contractual rights are

As for his contractual rights, he spells those out in his original article: "to publish articles without editorial interference except in very narrow circumstances that plainly do not apply here". And: "my separate contractual right with FLM regarding articles I have written but which FLM does not want to publish itself". Presumably, the editors would already be well aware that his contract allows him to be free of editorial interference - he's one of the founders of The Intercept, not some obscure random journalist that the editors don't know.
> Dershowitz disagrees with Trump on policy matters on just about everything. What he doesn’t do is let his political disagreements pervert his legal opinions on constitutional matters.

Like when Dershowitz defended Trump during the impeachment hearings, on grounds that he hadn't been shown to commit a crime, that were very tendentious and rejected by constitutional scholars? Give me a break, the man's judgement is completely compromised.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/1/30/legal-experts-r...
We do have different criteria for sufficient evidence for different consequences.

It makes sense to require something like 'beyond all doubt' to put someone behind bars for a few years.

It may make sense to have even stricter criteria (e.g. unanimous votes) to execute someone.

It makes sense to have lower criteria (e.g. 'preponderance of evidence') to impose a civil liability that takes all their money but does not put them in jail - there are cases of crime accusations where the level of evidence is so that were acquitted in the criminal court as the evidence was not sufficient for that, but the same evidence resulted in them being found responsible in civil court.

So it does also make sense to have a different (lower) standard of evidence and process to resolve CoC disputes, without bringing in all the heavyweight legal machinery designed for the high-stakes evaluation of whether someone's guilty of a felony. If the worst penalty that can be imposed is "our organization will consider you a baddy and won't deal with you ever again", then the accused does not need as much protection as if their life or liberty was at stake.

However, there still has to be some standard of evidence and at least some reasonable due process - in this particular case it seems that the bar has been set too low and this might need to be changed.
I'd like to take a moment to remember my favorite Greenwald story, where he was skeptical of Russian interference in the 2016 election. A whistleblower then provided The Intercept with a document from the NSA proving otherwise.

The Intercept then turned around sent the NSA the letter, asking them to verify it and clumsily burning their source in the dumbest possible way.

It's unfortunate that Glenn's tactic of screaming "DEBATE ME!" at his editors didn't work, and wish Glenn well as he joins the ranks of the other accursed shills, banished from their homelands and forced haunt Twitter whining about cancel culture or whatever.
I'm inclined to agree that this story probably leads to nothing, either because it is absolutely nothing or because the corruption here is too vague to nail down (that's the smart kind to do).

But after living through the media's credulity toward the war on terror, credulity toward the war on drugs, credulity toward the satanic panic of the 90s, credulity toward the broken forensics that have gotten innocent people executed, dismissal of Juanita Broaddrick and vilification of Edward Snowden, I'm inclined to believe they are totally capable of a kind of mass group think without any need for a belief in a kind of conspiracy.
Being a paid Google consumer product means absolutely fucking nothing. See also: Revolv, Nest Security, Google Fi customer support.
OMG. Apple as well as other large companies are sitting on billions of dollars. In other words they are not paying reasonable taxes, nor are they spending the money so that it can or would be taxed.
There is an obvious shift away from labor to capital. Central banks shift the balance way too far toward capital as it is right now. Lack of labor stimulus leads to inefficient allocation of labor.
Rather than focusing too much on the he-said she-said of this post and the response from the Intercept, I think it's more interesting to read Glenn's article for yourself, along with the email exchange that precipitated the resignation.

Article: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

Emails: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

To me, the article seemed rather light on evidence and heavy on speculation. The first email from the editorial staff seemed reasonable, if perhaps a little heavy-handed. It certainly did not seem to warrant Glenn's immediate escalation - his reply reads like an ultimatum:

> But if the Intercept's position is that it won't publish any article by me that suggests that there are valid questions about whether Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing, then I think we should agree that the Intercept's position is that it is unwilling to publish the article I want to publish about the Democratic front-runner. Under my contract, if TI decides it does not want to publish something I want to publish, then I have the right to publish it elsewhere, which is a right I would exercise with this article.

Another excerpt that stood out, this one from Glenn's follow-up email (the 3rd in the chain):

> ...this is the first time in fifteen years of my writing about politics that I've been censored... and it's happening less than a week before a presidential election.

So, he first equates the editorial request to censorship, then emphasizes the closeness of the election in order to justify why that editorial concern should be bypassed.

His entire attitude seems to be that since he doesn't write anything factually incorrect, any attempt to influence or challenge the things his writing tries to imply is equivalent to censorship. A misguided attitude, if not downright disingenuous, IMO. But you can read and decide for yourself.
Yes, I recently discontinued my Comcast Xfinity Internet access and they were like, "Sad to see you go, but you can keep your Comcast email address forever pretty much."

Not surprised about Google's implicit complicity. They don't really think about this stuff at a corporate level.
In this example, the 93,000 entities are people who are already filing tax returns every year.
That's why they're selling now. Get one that can still run the existing installed base of applications without translation and natively virtualize x64 Windows and Linux. Let the other guy suffer Rosetta and transition bugs. Then the kinks will have been worked out by the time you want to replace the one you just bought.
A good point. I have no contest, except for that I would have described the idea of operating on myself with the same sort of feeling as the other situations.

After having read the OP and the other cases people have linked, I no longer feel that way.

Thanks for the great conversation, it's caused me to think quite a bit!
Your extended analogy likewise doesn’t fit either. It would be more like if John Bolton sent an email that said, “we should get the big guy to wear a Hunter Biden costume ha ha” and then everyone starts demanding, based on nothing but extrapolating from this email, that Trump in fact has to deny it all and some investigation should be launched.

I think you’re wrong in your last sentence because there is nothing for Biden to deny or refute. The emails are real, probably sourced in a scammy way by Giuliani, but still real. They just do not contain any content that suggests or corroborates any wrongdoing or questionable behavior in any sense other than Hunter Biden has a big mouth and is a bit immature, that’s it.

What aspect of it would you expect needs to be denied or investigated? No part proves or suggests Joe Biden had anything to do with it or had any meetings or any business dealings related to it. No part suggests or proves Hunter Biden leveraged any political promises or power of his father for any profit.

I cannot see what aspect of it you believe is open to investigation. One person ran their mouth about their political figure father and .... nothing. That's all.

We cannot pretend like that requires journalists to devote attention to it - in any other situation they utterly would not. That’s a nothing story 8 days a week. It’s only being inflamed this time because it is politicized to subvert an election.
> When I want to reply to someone, do I email the list or the person?

Reply to person, CC the list.

> How do I make sure the emails are threaded properly?

Using In-Reply-To header that references parent Message-ID. Git asks for it when sending a patch.
You actually don't need eigenvectors for this proof. Sketch: Write x = lim a_n/a_{n-1} where a_n is the nth term of Fibonacci. Replace a_n with a_{n-1} + a_{n-2}, which will give you a quadratic equation in x. Solving this quadratic equation gives you the golden ratio.
Yeah pointing to what is essentially an issue only in a mostly unmaintained version of Firefox is really disingenuous and sounds like someone complaining about something not working on IE6.
I didn't say anything about Trump's statements. Are you confusing me with someone else?
Nobody does. It's ridiculous that it takes 21 clicks to create a sprint. We've literally timed ourselves in every Jira instance (cloud and next-gen), and every point of configuration, setup or action just takes hours.

A platform for productivity, should have zero to minimal setup, built-in views and it should work hard to get out of your way.

If it helps, creating a sprint is 1-click on Tara. And I'm hoping it stays that way!
Highly recommend watching the Italian show Gomorra
You know who actually has an endless amount of evidence of corruption, fraud, and general awfulness, and has had it for years, not a mere convenient pre-election period?

Your current administration.

If your country burns, it takes a lot of other countries with it. You'll understand that we actually want what's good for you.
Any word on what per cent of ad revenue is on FB properties and what per cent is off?
Even after a vaccine comes out that makes COVID an annual thing to deal with like the flu, I'm still going to wear a mask in public. Not that I'm concerned about catching anything, but just because of the public facial recog bullshit that is much too prevalent. Plus, there's just something satisfying about walking into my bank wearing a bandana when accessing my account. They make it so damn difficult to use my money they make me feel like I'm trying to rob them. So now I'm just dressing the part.
Yes, and the deadweight loss of taxation. Taxing income is economically inefficient (because huge resource investments are needed for compliance).

It's more efficient to tax land, gas, and soda. See Pigovian taxation for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Facebook is losing users in the US and Canada
How much does a single vote matter?
It's only a problem in the sense that these investors will at one point realize that their investment is not as valuable as they think.
though oftentimes better than master of one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_...
Modern automated production techniques and additive manufacturing can help reduce this dependency a lot. You can also do some compromises - the stuff might be less elegant than cutting-edge Earth product, but it will work.

Also people now have much better mental picture of the manufacturing tech tree than ever before thanks to Factorio. ;-)
I'm enjoying the fox newsies clutching their pearls. As if refusing to publish gossip is the end of the world
Carbon taxes and more nuclear power are also political solutions. So are controlling emissions from meat producers, stricter emission standards on airplanes, and investments in infrastructure for renewable energy.

Preventing climate change from getting worse requires coordinated action at the national and international levels. There are many proposed solutions, but so far none of them have been implemented and it's unclear our government systems are sophisticated enough to do so, to the detriment of us all.

Incidentally, I think the primary driver of state-level bans on single use plastic straws was to reduce plastic waste, especially in the oceans.
Honestly, it wasn’t much of a disguise. Not subtle.
Are they under-priced though? How much does the average subscriber watch?

For the price of Netflix for a month I can rent two/three movies and choose whichever I want. Netflix doesn't provide much value on top of that. Paying in advance for a quite limited movie selection.

It would only be their series that provide value for the money, if you like them ...
Eh 21% corporate tax vs 35% vs more doesn’t really make a difference when still tapping into the credit markets and spending bond holder money, the expenses will still outpace the net income - and nothing about that should change it doesnt make sense to

The things you said also happen

Governments also need a new revenue source.

100 years of passive income taxation while they too borrow against future revenue growth and we are to act like it’s their only option?
I love rails, but despite its presense for over a decade, it doesn't feel mature.

Something as basic as a native left join in ActiveRecord wasn't added until Rails 5.0, on June 30, 2016.

Something as basic as native multiple database support wasn't released until Rails 6.0, on August 16, 2019, 15 years after its initial release...

These are just two examples.
The tech giants have definitely benefited from US politics devolving completely into Culture War. With the politicians completely uninterested in genuinely learning, deliberating, and acting in the shared interest of the country, the corporatists can simply give the politicians the red meat they want (essentially, sitting timidly in a chair while some football coach who had enough name recognition to win his primary yells at him with the Terrifying Power of the State) and then continue business as usual.
Your response seems to show the problem. Trying to add little quick fixes might sound reasonable from a business perspective, but it's not going to help on the tech side. If anything it's going to make matters worse.
Are you happy to be alive, knowing that untold ancestors lived comparatively short and brutish lives
It's becoming harder to trust information at face value. Everyone has an angle and everyone is using their platform to push their angle. But personally I don't feel I have a hard time determining truth to a high degree of accuracy. A well-honed power of Inference to the Best Explanation is a superpower in today's disinformation economy. Truth has a way of fitting together cleanly without loose ends and without unexplainable coincidences. Fabricated stories have rough edges and requires leaps of faith. These leaps are easy for true believers to make, which is why the media environment seems so splintered.

Train your ability to model the world and judge whether new information fits with the current model or requires substantial revision. This is a powerful guide to whether the new information is true. Of course, this requires you have the ability to dispassionately analyze information and judge how well events fit together. If you're a partisan or an emotional thinker, IBE won't do you any good. The truth is available for those who are capable of dispassionate analysis. If you're not, then you're doomed to a steady diet of falsehoods and a worldview that diverges from the truth.
Yet they're always sold out, and FB gets a cut from online game sales, it wouldn't surprise me if they're profitable already.
What about the content creators dedicating intro/mid/outro to sponsors?
Good. Fuck 'em. I tried find "better" language, but it's just such a perfect way to express it. No level of "nice words" will convey the mood/tone/loathing I feel towards facial recognition as succinctly.
I read the article and in and of itself it's adequate. However, as an editor here are some of changed I'd implement esp. in context:

- no more headlines like "what nobody (read power structure) will tell you .. the real story behind..." which sours information by building mistrust. People are wrong, don't know, sometimes right but the entire msm is not people lying to you and you (readers) are not chumps. Let's do better.

- the constant bitching, whining, sniveling by media group 1 about media groups 2, 3, 4... Look you gotta something to say, say it. You can argue the other side got it wrong. Say it. And leave it there. What I don't want to read is third grader stuff: Biden wears a hair piece and. NPR and CNN know it but but wont say anything. Whining about claimed tribes and tribe favoritism isn't a journalist's task. It has the side effect seen in article of making the writer small, powerless, and unequal to the task.

The last issue I believe has its roots (maybe not chronological firs but in impact) to rush Limbaugh who successfully got am into politics by claiming mainstream media plays favorites. Fox later did the same on TV.
I think you have link to the wrong video. Though i enjoyed this video too.

Here is the correct one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY7DtKMBxBw
We were talking about brainy people here, not lawyers, which are the complete opposite.
I believe YT makes a cut of this ad rev. It's also much harder for ad blockers to block these kinds of ads.

So why would YT block it?
Well it was only in 2016 we saw the biggest freeze we've ever recorded..
Gitlab Is Down – DB Failover
I guess it just comes down to a matter of degree. An ISP is way harder to move away from than Twitter. Switching away from Twitter was both free and an enormous benefit to my mental health; switching from Comcast to Verizon was less so. It's a harder argument to make when it comes to the paypal case, but I think that again we see that Twitter and Facebook aren't really utilities at all. If Twitter bans you, there are plenty of places to go even as a business or public figure.
I've worked with Rails for since 2005, I've never needed those features yet.
sitting on money for companies of that size is not a bad idea, most would have gone bankrupt during this crisis if they had not done this.
So you demand that scientists produce predictions that are bang on not only in 'what' will happen, but also 'why' and 'when'? A single early incorrect time estimate in an ever-changing world with accelerating access to more and better data is somehow entirely disqualifying?

Maybe if we lived in mile-high ecumenopolis mega cities instead of 8-lane-gridlock-highway-connected-cookie-cutter-5-bedroom-McMansion-suburbs we wouldn't have to live in "yurts" and eat "gruel".
That would be people you'd need though, not people that get "produced" in larger numbers than desirable. A million more engineers will be great. A million more art history majors not so much.
Edge does display punycode, but not sure if it's an Edge thing or a Chromium (and therefore Chrome) thing.
We are taught in Western and most other societies of today to numb pain. The problem is that we have knowledge of the problems of this world. I think if we allow ourselves to feel the pain of our knowledge and understand our existence through it, we can return to a childlike state and realize the pain is not something wrong with us, but our natural inclination and love for the world telling us that we are doing something wrong.

We may not be able to solve the problems created by our species, but if we learn to live with respect for the planet then we can at least know we are doing as much as we can with our own existence.
Most taxis I see in London are empty - at least cars are transporting someone usefully around.