skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wall Street Journal investigated corporate filings and paperwork that indicated the opposite of the alleged connection. So at least in terms of above-board money flowing around, they investigated and saw nothing untoward.

So, is it a he-said, she-said? No. The texts can't be verified as they came from a laptop that no one can prove actually belonged to Hunter Biden.

From an outside infosec perspective, without the whole picture, it looks like the laptops are a mix of what happened with Podesta's emails (hacked by a foreign intelligence agency in a disinformation campaign and laundered through WikiLeaks to make the lot seem credible) placed on a physical device and dropped off in a place with a tip-off to a susceptible target (Rudy Giuliani).

There's no evidence Hunter Biden (a Delaware resident) traveled traveled to a no-name retailer in a city he doesn't live in (!) to get laptops that were in-warranty (!) repaired there instead of the Apple Store (!), where they offered to do many, many hours of labor backing up those laptops for only $85 (in New York City?!), and then Hunter forgot the laptops and left them there (!) even though they contained allegedly damning images, allegedly child pornography, and allegedly damning business records detailing financial ties between his father and a foreign power, and that it just so happened that the retailer was active on social media as a Trump supporter (!) and somehow knew how to get in touch with Rudy Giuliani (!) to convey these laptops to Rudy, where they then sat for nearly 10 months unpublished (!). Even by the loosest standards for an evidentiary chain of custody, that's pretty bad.

Rudy Giuliani also tweeted out alleged "text messages" from this laptop that were pictures taken of a blackberry showing a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation, and in the top left corner of the screenshot showed a Russian telecom network.

Example: https://twitter.com/mikeemanuelfox/status/131928209151992218...

So, no, I don't think these claims are in any way credible. I think it's very unlikely that Hunter Biden would do those things, and I think the entire story beggars belief. That's why the story was shopped around to multiple outlets, that's why the New York Post was the only to go forward with it, and it's why the Wall Street Journal's coverage of it was incredulous because the only records they could verify contradicted these wild accusations.
> For example, take the idea of inheritance. Low level thinking might sound like, “All the other classes are adding < ApplicationController if they want to use this method, so I need to do that too. Otherwise it throws an error.’’

> But high level thinking might be more like, “I need to access the ApplicationController class’ methods. Ruby supports inheritance, so I’ll add < ApplicationController to the class definition to let the compiler know that I’m inheriting it.”

I don't think this is "high level" vs "low level" thinking. Both are just different approaches to discovering the same thing. It's akin to learning guitar through tabulature vs standard notation.
> The moral issue isn't particularly grey. The legal one...

Also not grey—same as before.

> Can you answer all that with enough certainty as to assert that you "have any idea what you're talking about"?

Hey there. I'm a former Mozillian. I was a heavy contributor to Devmo in its early days (2006–2008). A bunch of that content is mine. It's not Mozilla's, and I know on what terms I made it available. So to answer your question quoted above (a) yes, in fact, I do know what I'm talking about, and (b) I don't have to be able to give an answer for every slot in your contrived matrix; it suffices if I'm able to say, "hey, you can't do that with the pieces that belong to me". And that's something that I can say—with certainty.
Rather than deal with hypotheticals, why don't we talk about the actual e-mails in question?
That's a reference to National Bolsheviks, which haven't existed since the night of long knives.

"There should be a communist utopia...for aryans as they crush all other races under their boot" is not a movement with really any members anymore.
I'm pretty sure it's modded version of the official youtube app so no guarantees (Just use a dummy account?).

I'm actually very interested in how the vanced developer has made this. This app is pretty much identical to the youtube app with premium features enabled and ad/sponsor bocking/skipping.
What distros can I install on such a device? Are there Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, ScummVM and Python 3 ports available?
Does hypergamy?
Technically it's hard to say that AAPL "beat," because they didn't guide for Q4 2020. They beat consensus analyst estimates, but that's not quite the same thing IMO.
No idea why you think there is a constraint or distribution problem.

The reality is both iPhone 12 and Pro are doing exceptionally well in most if not all market. ( May be not Europe )
If I was part of the intelligence community, I would be supporting this "balkanization" of the US.

I find that many in the US are quick to blame and suspect foreign adversaries behind everything where the intelligence community makes just as much sense (to me).

Reminds me of Scott Adams recent Robot Reads News cartoon (couldn't find a link) where the gist of the joke was: "There is no evidence yet that Russia is behind the leaks. That is so Putin!"
The tricky part is that, if Apple supports the OS on the old architecture as long as they did during the last transition, the Intel macs of today will only get support for two major OS versions after Big Sur.
If Cloudflare can be pressured to withdraw hosting for Daily Stormer, it's not hard to imagine AWS withdrawing hosting for Daily Stormer as well.
Honestly though, why not pay for premium? It’s a little expensive, but it’s a more sustainable ad free streaming. Seems like a win in my book.

Ads are going to be the end of us all if you ask me. Completely perverse incentives. Make people feel bad so they CONSOOM? Dark stuff.
> It’s very scary that disinformation conspiracy theories affected them like that.

The existence of the emails is not disinformation, nor has it been discredited. You're attaching all of these claims to what "the story" is and using it to make extremely condescending remarks about reputable journalists (and my parents).

Good day, can't wait for after Nov. 3rd for people to return to normal.
@epage -- Unfortunately I can't speak to the branch flow or bots question. Perhaps someone else here can? Other answers are below.

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Re: CI --
We dogfood GitLab CI via gitlab.com -- so no need for integrations.

GitLab non-engineering teams use CI all the time because we constantly update the handbook to document all of our work.

I would love to see this practice more often in OSS orgs, and other companies for that matter. Having a handbook-first approach (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/handbook...) really helps enable remote team collaboration and makes it easier for newcomers to jump in. I think OSS orgs have done a good job of recognizing the importance of documentation for development projects, but there's an opportunity to increase documentation around workflows and community operations.

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Re: tracking conversations on Diffs --
Admittedly, I don't have a lot of experience with this outside of GitLab. But maybe that's the point. It's easy to chime in on diffs on merge requests on GitLab, and one of my favorite features is "suggesting changes" where you can add in a suggested update to a diff and the author can choose whether or not to apply it.

Here's a link with info about suggested changes: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/#suggest-changes

It's within the larger doc addressing discussions in GitLab in general: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/discussions/

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Btw, for anyone interested, here's more info on using GitLab for project management:

- https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/project-management/
- https://www.buggycoder.com/project-management-with-gitlab/
- https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-issue-board-project-management...

I gave a presentation about cross-functional team collaboration using GitLab at GNOME's GUADEC this year. Here are the slides: https://events.gnome.org/event/1/contributions/70/ .. As a program manager, I'm generally really excited about this topic!

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Some of the features I talk about are not available as part of the Community Edition, but there's the GitLab for Open Source program which gives OSS projects access to our top tiers, plus 50K CI mins per month, for free.

I'm hoping to make the program's page more discoverable, but in the meantime, here's the link: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/
Very true. The engineers in California (most of us) pay 40%.
The Intercept article by Glenn Greenwald linked a few posts up the chain.
I'm surprised they're selling any; I don't regret buying my Air in March, but I'd still be holding off if I had known ARM models were coming soon.
I can believe it. There's been a heck of a lot of change, newsrooms have been decimated.

To me, like I said, mostly what I remember taking from it is how it got me thinking about how a journalists dependence on sources, and resource-constraints to be able to get out stories without exceeding available time to report em... leads to over-reliance on reporting what the powerful say as "the news" and by implication "what happened".

I'd suspect that is still relevant to the landscape of today, probably even MORE so because reporting resources have been so devastated, but do you think not?
I’ll probably grab a pro machine if they announce one since I’m sitting on a 2013 macbook pro, it still goes great but I’m starting to feel compile times eat up a bit of my day. Most of what I need to work, XCode, Docker and a web browser will be available.
There are lots of claims that Tesla self-driving features are dangerous, is there any data to support this?

The fact that their detection of driver attention is worse is only one factor, the cars should be evaluated on overall accident rates relative to human drivers or other self-driving systems.
Strange comment if you've ever worked in either role. I need a much more powerful computer to render a video or voxel than I do to build an entire SaaS application.
That's a pretty insightful question. If people use the outbound addresses of these VPNs for disproportionately abusive activities then the reputation of those IPs and netblocks will eventually decline. It could come to pass that you wouldn't be able to establish a accounts from these IPs or, if you did, it would be in some kind of penalty box initially. That would go for all major providers, not just Google accounts.
Under the heading Security you can trust, they list:

> Google will never use the VPN connection to track, log, or sell your browsing activity¹

I can't wait for that term of contract to slyly disappear and be replaced by more confusing and obfuscated terminology in, what, maybe 36-ish months?
Same is it ever was; IF Stone was one of the greats of his era, and he basically fed himself with a private newsletter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._F._Stone
You know, we might not agree on this but I like you and think you’re very cool. :)

I’ll write you the reply you deserve but have to step out. Again though friend, you’re a good person and I respect your mind.

Edit - Seriously friend, I’m having a rough day in my personal life. I feel really lucky that I found you to engage with and get my mind off of things. You’re cool. Thanks for being cool. I’ll pay you back one day for this.
It doesn't have to be additional spent. If coke can get you to buy their drink instead of pepsi, that's a dollar well spent, from their POV.
org.clojure/clojure obviously, org.clojars.nakkaya/vecmath, org.clojars.nakkaya/jbullet, batik and lwjgl. All the other stuff, the opengl shapes and whatnot I wrote myself over the years, mostly to learn how to do it. In fact I probably can speed up this program a lot by not using my own code for those parts where libraries are available.
One of the biggest advantages to firebase is its Blaze Plan, in which you pay for how much you use each service. This project seems to only have the standard 3 tier plan...

Personally I prefer the pay as you go, as it's fair for both parties. Whereas with tiered payments, someone is always paying more than they need...
How would Tony Soprano cope with a pandemic?
VEXAS – newly characterized life-threatening genetic disease found only in men
Asking someone to learn a brand new framework/language in a week as part of a job interview is pretty harsh.
Well given they laid off a Huge number of people while containing to pay their Executive HUGE salaries it seems their priorities is not on product development at all

Sadly I think we are seeing Mozilla go the way of Netscape, and I would not be surprised if they sell off all the IP to someone soon

or just make FireFox yet another Chromium Skin
Google Search Operators: The Complete List
This looks amazing. Several times in the last couple of decades, as graphics and physics engines have evolved, I've built little prototypes whose main goal was "this should work using real physics and mechanics", and then built things like marble machines. Games like Crayon Physics always felt so limiting; they were only about things bouncing off each other. I'd like gears that turn and mesh, light that diffracts, motors that naturally work in reverse as generators, and the ability to build machines that use more than one of those effects without any special-casing.

I look forward to playing with this, and extending it!
I missed this. Do you have a link?
If. But if the article contains some outright falsehoods about serious misconduct, and it still influences the election, is that a good thing?

Mind you, I'm not clearly on the "don't publish" side. But that position is not clearly wrong.
Why are you assuming the editors think it's garbage and aren't acting politically. The fact that greenwald just resigned from the org he founded, and the scathing reasons he gave, makes it pretty plausble it's about politics not journalistic standards.
For anyone who actually understands the principles explained in the book, it's clearly still applicable today.
> My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet.

I guess you can thank Intel for a decade of stagnation.
> So sooner or later the economics will work out for a "RISC-V Pi"

This is cooler than Raspberry Pi because it has PCIe x8 (which I couldn't find on the picture but the specs say its there) and M.2 slots.
A computer is for computing. If you don't have demanding computations to run, you are most likely waisting the potential of your machine(s), and not pushing your art to the limit. If you don't do that, you are obsolete. Who said anything about MACHINE LEARNING?
Fortunately Intelligence services won't provide their snooping services for law enforcement. You can use torrent, and stay anonymous from everyone else.

Btw. other VPN services are not secure from intelligence services either. If anything NordVPN and others get extra scrutiny and monitoring allocated for them.
Do note that the testing wasn't done on the cities. If anything I could see cities in those regions getting bombed.
And if you look at configurations from API perspective, you understand that JIRA is full of fuck (and their api is a veeeery leaky abstraction)
College rankings like USN&WR are a great example.
Well, now balance that against the rest of the upsides they present, like the new UX not being to merely revert the changes that you spent the weekend writing.

Let's stop acting like just because we can think of one downside that we can ignore the rest of the trade-offs. Btw this is a trade-off they already mentioned in TFA rehashed by an HN comment for some reason.
Seems like a great use case for web components, which would just work in any framework.
Dude, it’s just a screen, you don’t have to channel your inner edgy teenager to look like an anime character. Chill.
You outsource things that aren't your core competency. It's cheaper and more reliable that way.
I looked at what you're doing. I don't want to learn to write GraphQL markup in a new DSL. Honestly, what you've created is a solution looking for a problem.
The GRU likes to mix genuine documents with fake documents[1]. The e-mails that the NY Post initially released are probably real. If the Bidens confirm they are real, then the NY Post starts dumping everything else that they have, real or not, and points back to his initial confirmation. If Biden denies, then they get someone on record confirming they are real (Tucker sort of did this on his show already) and claim he is lying. It is pretty telling that the NY Post refuses to give the raw material to anyone credible to try and independently authenticate the documents. They are just trying to trap him into making a false denial.

And from Bidens' perspective, the e-mails are mostly a "nothing burger" even if real. At worst, some influence peddling by people close to the VP. So what is the point in giving this any more attention? It looks like the mid-west is going to swing this election, and right now they are getting slammed with COVID. The only folks who remotely care about the NY Post story are already solidly in Trumps camp. The voters that he is trying to reach have no idea what the "laptop from hell" is. So from the Biden perspective, ignoring the story is probably the best move. A confirmation/denial would likely get picked up by mainstream press, who so far have been staying away from it because of the issues with sourcing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Macron_e-mail_leaks
Except the tax code isn’t written for Fb, it’s written for everyone. And R&D generally speaking has been underinvested for a long time in the US (for short term financial reasons), ultimately making it less competitive in the long term. If there are ways to incentivize companies for doing more R&D it seems like tax code is one of many levers to use.
It's a great operating system, lacking only a decent project management tool.
Imagine the sales that would generate
I've wondered how long it will be before input events are traceable to specific devices (e.g., you type 'A' on your keyboard, registered to you, and get a scancode . . . plus a few hundred bits timestamped and signed by the device before anyone can actually treat it as an 'A' keystroke). "Secure Unicode," anyone?

I figure this kind of dystopian mechanism for input provenance is at least 100 years out. Please don't anyone prove me wrong.
You seem to think that Facebook managed to get 2.74 billion monthly active users by providing a product that people don’t significantly value. 3.21 billion if you also count Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
If you've chosen to use a web browser that's forked from an old version of Firefox and isn't aiming for compatibility with modern Web Platform Tests, you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles. The fact that you can't see the server-side code generating the failing client-side code, which you can see, seems like the least of them.
> They had a user-friendly system previously

TFA goes into why this wasn't user friendly. You haven't responded to their own justifications. You've just reposted a trade-off that the TFA acknowledges and justifies.
we aim to please, so please aim to wee.

that void area is a high probability of dribble zone, so its a little more sanitary to get it out of there.
I would go as far as say its a blatant lie. Nothing he wrote puts him in the victim position at all. He is very aware that he doesn't need them to publish his stuff.
Security Now is pretty good. It's computers and networks from the perspective of security. Basically covers news events and how hackers find exploits, a lot of software engineering is covered.
I really, really don't want another Jira.
Well, barbed wire on borders and militarised border guards who are authorised to shoot tresspassers outside of the official crossing points are a thing on quite a few borders, and used to be even more common just a few decades ago, e.g. the Warsaw pact and USSR borders.

It's not a pleasant option, but it is an option that countries can choose to take if the circumstances suggest that it's in their best interest. The last 25 years have seen a trend of more open borders in and around Europe, but if the circumstances change, that trend can reverse itself.

And while such closed borders are more common in various dictatorships, given the political trends we're seeing in many elections worldwide, it's not particularly implausible that such policies could get majority support also in democratic countries if the economic conditions deteriorate, for example, because of climate change.
note that the economist, ft and wsj are neither impartial nor a well-rounded balance of daily record. but yes, wapo and nyt--and i'll add npr--have largely turned into partisan opinionating (which i'd coin covidizing, if i had any such clout), save a few longer-form investigative pieces (which have a leaning via editorial discretion, but aren't typically editorialized).
We live in dark times..

We rapidly racing to become Chine 2.0
You have no way of knowing that they had violence in mind. A "purge" of the media could just as easily mean millions of subscribers cancelling their subscriptions, causing the media companies to collapse.

From the HN Guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
here's the article:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
~4bb per quarter (16bb annual) in r&d costs for a pure play software company seems high no?
What on earth do they spend on? I know they pay high engineering salaries but even factoring that it doesn’t seem to make sense to my simple mind.
Twitter comes in 1/16th which i still think is crazy high!
Now that his actual article has been published it is super clear Greenwald’s story is pretty garbage. He has no evidence of anything and even states so plainly. It is purely conjecture that Hunter Biden’s big mouth statements might be connected to impropriety, with utterly no proof.

Then it turns into a comically bad diatribe about bias in the press.

Greenwald over the past 4 years has become an insufferable troll. This article adds nothing new in any way, and given the wildly unjustified harm it could do to an impending election, it is beyond doubt that the Intercept editorial decision not to run this was the right decision.
Pretty sure it's just an attempt to stir the pot. The user made a similar comment on the submission for Apple's earnings.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24936191
Pi uses a standard power supply.

You can put a Pi in a case. In fact, it's hard to find one on Amazon without a case.

Of course you can develop on it. That's the whole point.

Pi 4 has pci-express, no?
It frustrates me that they still haven’t figured out that perhaps a users language is not tied to their IP address and that perhaps other indicators should be considered.

Whilst I hate adverts - it seems like a waste of both advertiser spend and my time, to show me adverts that I do not understand....
Here's the Merriam-Webster definition of censored: "suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable : subjected to censorship".

Government censorship is a subset of censorship. Private citizens of a private company are perfectly capable of suppressing, altering, or deleting material they consider objectionable, which seems to have been what happened in this case.