skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these networks and forums would be >99.9999% spam if they couldn't do editorial discretion. And they have almost all long taken down anti-Semitic posts, etc. so they don't turn into a cesspool of hate.
The idea that you can only really see them through the display of a scanning electron microscope is interesting; it's there, but is it? The image seen by the viewer has to be constructed by the microscope; is the artwork truly the sculpture?

Also, maybe someone can tell me: does the electron microscope bombarding its subject degrade its materials or deform them in any way? Does looking at these sculptures contribute to unmaking them?
This reminds me of a story about when Kurt Gödel, who had fled Nazi persecution of Jews in Austria, went to apply for US Citizenship.

In the taxi, on the way to the citizenship hearing, Gödel excitedly told his friend Albert Einstein that he intended to talk at the hearing of a flaw he had discovered in the US Constitution that could allow a dictatorship to take over.

Einstein managed to convince Gödel not to talk about that at the citizenship hearing, and just answer to questions.

But perhaps Gödel wasn't so wrong.
Let see how taxing wealthy out of existence to pave the road to prosperity will work out for Bi... I mean Harris.
I'd like to open a slightly different topic here which stems though from the elections of the past 20 years. Wouldn't be a big take away now the reform of the Elector College and the shift to a direct vote from the people ?

As a nonUS citizen from a country in which the head of state is being elected directly from the people, I find it very unsettling that there have been cases in which the president in US elections was running behind in popular votes and by a big amount of votes, which almost happened here. I've tried to research it a bit but I couldn't still understand why especially since the House and Senate members are elected by popular vote already

I'd appreciate any insights here
Purely medial movement of the fingers (which is more ergonomic) as opposed to the lateral motions that fingers have to make for a staggered-row keyboard.
This is completely true. We will have more regulation. This list is not exhaustive and is my personal opinion on the way I see things changing. I'll attempt to modify
Bigots turned out. And lean Collins.
> We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.

I feel like we're likely already in the middle of a divide and conquer situation.
As POTUS his tweets are still matters of public record. More likely it will be locked in January.
Well, nuance is not an exclusively centrist quality. There’s nuance in radical thinking as well
That's just your viewpoint. Many on the right saw the Obama years as chaotic and flawed, acquiescing to foreign powers, allowing immigration that lead to terror attacks, etc.

One thing we can "post mortem" about this election is that people on the left such as yourself are not able to conceptualize other viewpoints. Other political viewpoints you describe as chaos and flawed and you want to "engineer" the goverment to prevent other viewpoints, and thus other political parties.

Another thing on the left is that censorship has been fully embraced by the left in a dishonest way. While its true people are banned for violating communtiy guidelines, there is also weasel censorship such as hiding comments under the guise they might offend so that if users want to see alternative viewpoints they have to click 'show more comments'. Deplatforming and shadow banning non-leftist ideas has also taken root.

Both of these things eagerly adopted and used in this campaign cycle are Unamerican and dangerous. Your road to good intentions clearly leads to hell, and you are unable to recognize it.
> Just freaking get out of the Middle East already.

I think this is the biggest place where he said one thing, then immediately did another. We are involved in the Middle East as we ever were, and much much more so with more disastrous effects in places like Yemen. The US' involvement in Yemen should be enough to laugh Trump offstage any time he talks about "getting out of the middle east".

Please please please don't let him off the hook for this by saying he had "good ideas" here when he was talking out of one side of his mouth while civilian families are being slaughtered.
removing is not editorializing.

Editorializing is twitter reading the tweet, deciding whether it is true or false, and then showing their decision to the end user together with the tweet.

It is somewhat similar to choosing a title for a article, even if you leave the content unchanged you can significantly change the message or the effect by choosing an appropriate title.

In this context twitter is not simply recommending accounts you might like, or refusing to deliver tweets, they are actually engaging with the speech of the user.

As an analogy consider someone that retweets and article discussing some crimes. this person post a link and says: "I can't believe Person A is actually a murderer", in this case regardless of the article content the poster is exposed to a potential lawsuit in case Person A can prove its innocence.

Twitter is closer to this example that to simply choosing to remove content.

(specifically this does not apply to the removed trump tweets)
So tired of calls to action from everyone related to pulling sentence fragments out of speeches from group figureheads and building a whole narrative around what it could have meant since what was said isn't "shocking" enough in context. Always 3rd (or worse) level references because the source material wasn't clickbaity enough. Often shared with comments like "not sure if this is true but it really makes you think" or other ways of feigning ignorance about what was just said while still saying it.

Isn't there anything good being done by any leaders worth sharing instead of how one found a year old article or tweet that they managed to turn into a "hot take" comment? Or progress on actual efforts instead? Is this thought the real silent majority or is all anyone's ever interesting in shitting on whatever <other guy> says?
Communism?
Yes, and that's why they're not ergonomic.
Nihilism is the truth of the world. Everyone is deluding themselves otherwise. Nearly everyone with significant power is nihilistic. Without god (and even if there was a god) there are no morals. All we have is genetics. Morals are just bias.

Using nihilism as a negative descriptor is funny when nihilism as a philosophy isn't against or for anything.

Reality is of course uncomfortable for most people which is why I'm getting downvoted :)
I’m confused. People who count ballots only count ballots they issue. Sending in 50k ballots they didn’t issue would result in 50k ballots they didn’t issue getting thrown out. Where is there room for concern for fraud?
this is what i m talking about

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
The reasoning on the demand to stop vote counts was to delay until they could get legal observers in to validate the process, not a bid to stop the entire process altogether.
Of course it matters: If there is an income tax increase, if COVID lockdowns are renewed or imposed on a more federal level, if the US ceases to be a net exporter of oil, if the tariffs with China are suspended, they will go down.
I hope this somehow results in my company abandoning jira.
There's no way to have a safe voting system without trust in the government and how states operate. There's just no way that, as a citizen, you can verify your vote. It's all in sybil attacks: how do you identify one person in the first place? You need strong cryptography tied to each citizen, and you need to trust the government that they are not creating fictive citizens.
Any nuance is met with vitriol.

Explaining why taxes, redistribution of wealth, and allowing government to oversee certain services is actually beneficial to a market is a sure fire way to get called out as a communist and radical leftist.

Pointing out why historically, conservatives were deadset against abortion —in order to have a more productive discussion using pure history, not Bannon-style nonsense—is met with a absolute refusal to acknowledge the evidence.

Having a nuanced view makes no friends and just generates suspicion by all sides.

Secretly, I like it.
Party realignments do happen. Trump did that to a certain extent, but what happens next will be up to others.
I mean, sure, I imagine no one disputes that in whatever self-selected bubble you get your news from, but that isn't the debate here. Yes, as stated above, I totally agree that if you filter down your news into whatever makes you feel safe, comfortable, and doesn't challenge any of your beliefs, it is easy to come to the conclusion that "Trump is a fascist". That isn't useful for anyone trying to become an informed voter though.
WunderGraph can inject variables or claims into a query. If you want to implement ownership based authorization e.g. with Hasura, Postgraphile, fauna or Dgraph, etc. the value to determine ownership needs to be part of the schema. E.g. a owner field on a type or a permission table/type. Then you supply a owner ID from the claim and that's it. This works because you don't allow this value to be submitted by the client. It always gets injected from a claim in the JWT. This leads to a big advantage over using one of the Auth implementations from said vendors like e.g. Row level security. You decouple Auth from the storage. You can always move to another database and are not stuck with a specific Auth implementation. You could also delegate Auth to a completely different service like open policy agent. If you don't want to use WunderGraph anymore you can re-implement the logic in a Backend for frontend. This way you evade vendor lock in for both database and middleware layer.

Mutations are fully supported. When generating clients all we do is treat mutations like POST requests and queries and subscriptions like GET http2 streams falling back to http1 chunked encoding.

WunderGraph doesn't want to contain business logic. We are the front door, making everything secure and establishing a stable contract between client and server. We mediate between protocols and we map responses so that every party gets data in the format and shape they expect. Other than that, if you want to add custom logic just run a lambda with any of the supported protocols, e.g. GraphQL, REST and in the future gRPC, SOAP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc. and we do the mediation. But as were the middleware layer I'd try to not put business logic into this.

That said I'd love to get in touch and discuss how WG can add value for you.
You're right that it doesn't present an immediate danger on the order of seconds or minutes in the same way as my analogy.

However, I personally believe that his false speech does present an immediate danger to the public on the order of days or weeks.
Italian here.

Could you explain what you actually mean?

Our justice system is a sovereign power and doesn't depend on executive power, but is completely independent from it.
In a city where a major drawback is overcrowding, and as a person who might just be another average one in the crowd, statistically the city might be better off if you left town.

OTOH, if you have above average ambition or ability for improvement and are willing to take that kind of action, the city can become a better place to live just from sticking around and doing more of what you are strongest at in that direction.

Especially if you can motivationally leverage that ambition to grow within the crowd.

Otherwise you can't tackle the problems where one person is simply not enough.

Might be the only way improvements have ever been made in an environment which attracts a crowd to begin with.

The micro thing is to not lose the ambition and ability you have now, firm up the foundation as much as needed so you can build stronger actions than could be taken from that point otherwise.
They should be able to pause throughout and offer analysis or not run it altogether, if they are a news organization and not a propaganda organ.
There definitely seems to have been systemic error. Note though that many of these states are likely to rise by 0.5-1.0% as they finish counting ballots.
Wars are no longer called wars. The US is much more involved in the civilian slaughter happening in Yemen, we just don't call it a "war" to save face. Don't call this a victory for him, he'll rest in hell for the damage he's done here alone.
One administration prosecuting another would be unprecedented and probably embittering, regardless of its value to truth and justice.
You’re questioning if it’s better to kill other families at scale than kill our own family members (thus far) in edge cases?

Nietzsche said, “in times of peace a warlike nation turns on itself”.
Nah. A popular vote is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner.

System's working as intended.
Cnn is liable for their content though. Twitter isn't
You must not live in Yemen.
The media doesn't have a role in declaring victory in elections.
Looks like Biden would be able to fulfill his promise of not changing anything:
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-no...

If the same situation persists in 2016 like the deep economical divide, we may even see another Trump like figure rising
Whenever you see the phrase "War on ...", remember that there is often an entire industry built upon it which is only interested in self-preservation. The industry doesn't want X to go away, but rather perceive it as being a large looming threat worth all the spending.
"Jack didn’t decide what’s true"

It's a little bit naive to think that the truth is easily discerned by any individual, it's always a matter of shades.

'Stole the Election' can mean many different things in many different contexts, not literally election fraud.

I detest Donald Trump and don't much like Jack Dorsey, but he should not be in a position to arbiter the truth.

I'm very thankful he censored Trump on the eve of the election, not thankful he banned the Post, and very worried about the future.

We probably need regulations over this.

The free speech people have to come to terms with the fact that the big mediums have always been filtered, and it only takes one insane president to start a civil war, that the truth among the plebes is 'Whatever their Ideologue Says' and so there needs to be credibility in the system.

The anti-Trump crowd who are happy with the censoring need to realize how dangerous of a game this is.

Twitter and FB need to set up a completely independent public board, with established guidelines and public oversight to manage these things..
Most people I know are happy and celebrating, but I can't seem to get that worked up. Certainly I'm glad Trump lost, but the 70M votes he got, and the fact that this was a close election... man, this country is screwed long term if we can't figure out a way to find some common ground and listen to each other. Being at each other's throats all the time will only destroy us all in the long run.
> acquiescing to foreign powers, allowing immigration that lead to terror attacks

Things not based in reality. And there in lies the difference.

> Another thing on the left is that censorship has been fully embraced by the left

If the government isn't doing it, it isn't censorship
Embrace Uncertainty and Risk Something (How to Bet)
Warren Buffett’s 2 Questions to Determine Whether You Have Integrity
I don't really understand why people think twitter posts would contain "facts" or "truth" at all...

Imho they are all just opinions(edit: , and/or statements used to influence).
People describe the judges that way, but in reality at least ones at the Supreme Court level tend to be apolitical.

They may have very strong views on what framework a judge should use to interpret the law, but they usually will not push their own political agenda.
I absolutely agree with you and I think we've gotten ourselves into a state where the "fix" (whatever it may be) will be so unpalatable to either party or to anybody who wants to survive in a political environment that it'll be impossible to implement.

For example, want to bring manufacturing jobs back?

1. Implement trade-protectionist tariffs and import restrictions.

2. Unionize rural workforces to make the pay and work conditions attractive.

3. Offer massive tax incentives to build manufacturing centers in rural states.

4. Reinstitute a manufacturing oriented education system that outputs ready-to-work trained trade employees.

The parties are too far apart now to be able to put in place something like this.
If I remember correctly, V had a lot of controversy because the author failed to clearly communicate between what was planned, and what was already done, and wrote as if it were feature-complete with blisteringly fast compile times when it was in fact fairly simple in its general capabilities.

So.. perhaps be interested in it with a grain of salt.
What is the (or your) intellectual analysis?
We see this time and time again in the US. Another example just off the top of my head: College tuition goes up the maximum amount the feds will pay in student aid (loans, pell grants, etc).

It's perfectly rational, but it's not necessarily the best.
The clusterfuck that is Le Creusot (and in parallel Kobe Steel !) begs to differ…
Are the lives saved before or after including the hundreds of thousands of covid related deaths?
After the l4ptop from hell was exposed, we can see he does not care for much other than continuing to enrich his family. There certainly will be new directions towards China, Middle east
I've been listening primarily to the liberal mainstream news propaganda. Their lies are obvious if you dig a bit deeper, look at the facts and think for yourself.

Apparently critical thinking is what college-educated people lack this days after years of indoctrination into groupthink and compliance. Deresiewicz called them 'excellent sheep' for a good reason.
Individual polls were sometimes outside the margin, but collectively the polls were not far off the mark and collectively they were within the margin of error. This is why sites like 538 were able to model the various outcomes with some degree of certainty and ONCE AGAIN manage to get results within the range of expected probabilities. You really seem to have a hard time understanding both polling and probability and in particular the relationship between sample size and error. I suggest a bit more research.
What you're describing is the story the media told. The numbers don't support the kind of coverage it got at the time.

When you add the race issues, which drove the narrative, policies and policing, there's really no comparison between the crack and opioid crises.
I think it's sad you've been downvoted. Trump is deeply flawed, but I think people are being ignorant of themselves if they haven't looked around at popular culture and realized that it has been 4 years of "ORANGE MAN BAD"

nepotism with his children is bad, but nepotism with the democrats children is fine.

joke downvotes by people smart enough to know that defending trump is bad, but not smart enough to come up with a comment
He constantly flouted the reigning oligopoly in the media-industry-military complex.
Not only those excellent points, but also why not just install Linux on the best hardware you have?

A bunch of people's experience of GNU/Linux is going to be based on running it on old hardware.

Select new hardware with freedom in mind:
* no dodgy nVidia videocards
* research the wireless chipset
* research GPU passthrough capabilities of the CPU
* install Windows (if you really need it) in a VM
* profit

This is old but still good as an overview:

https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
It's not within the normal margin of how off polling averages tend to be. (Though every once in a while you'll get an abnormal miss)

But it is definitely within the margin of error for many individual polls, which often have a MoE > 2.5%.
The only reason is because we are politically smart enough not to call them "wars" any more. He's personally responsible for the wholesale slaughter of people in Yemen - something Biden said he'd put an end to.
No concavity? Staggered rows? No thumb clusters? Calling this "ultimate" and "ergonomic" is a joke.
“Stand back and stand by” is hardly a condemnation
I work in performance marketing, and I think the way to think about this is not “there’s fraud! We can’t trust anything!”

Rather, it’s how much is fraudulent.

For example, if I spend $1m and $10k was fraud clicks, I might be ok with that. Sure not ideal, but if I still got great results with $990k, the overall campaign still did good.

How do you know how much is fraudulent? Just look at your internal data. If Facebook says it delivered 100 clicks, but you only see 10 show up that is something to investigate. But if you see 90ish, move on with your life.

Part of being in tech is not worrying about edge cases too much. (Unless you are in security or reliability or something where that’s crucial). Otherwise you’d never get anything done.
Yep, and there are a couple others as well including Sign-in With Apple.

So far none of the services I tried supported outbound mail / replies. Replying would reveal your real email address.

My service supports outbound mail and will properly rewrite the From address, etc.
And the "right" calls everyone a socialist. In particular, the Trump campaign on Latinos in Florida almost universally echoed the message of "Biden == Socialism" for the past few weeks.

* Individual mandate? Socialism

* Tax increases? Socialism

* Environmental policies? Socialism
How high is the death toll, how many cities where obliterated?
As someone who has worked on both front-end and back-end performance problems, moving a performance problem from the front-end to the back-end is a big win.

You have much more flexibility to solve problems on the back-end. On the front-end, you are fundamentally limited by the fact that you have to transfer all of the data and code to the client-side while the user is waiting.
Without the electoral college we become a nation ruled by the cities. I prefer to maintain the republic so all states have a voice and not go full democracy.
I think we should stop licensing for recreational excess. If people are free to do what they like for recreation (without breaking non-drug laws), the research can proceed separately without the moralizing.
This is one of the worst reductio-ad-Hitlers I’ve ever seen. The Nazi party was a minority party throughout, they used violence to seize power, and they certainly did not allow free speech at any time during their rule.
Dominion Voting Systems Patent
Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it has no value. Polls communicate experts best guess at how the vote is going to turn out based on the data they have collected. It's likely to be a lot more accurate than a non-experts guess, or even the guess of an expert without any data. It's also not even possible to share the raw data because of privacy concerns.

The forecasts you see on sites like 538 and the economist are even better, because it doesn't just communicate experts best guess (democrats win by +7), but experts best guess at how accurate that guess is too (something like democrats win by +7 +- 6, except in a lot more detail and nuance).

On HN the catchphrase for this is basically "don't let perfect be the enemy of good".

Note: I made up the numbers in this post.
Well it is relevant because US egemony is dead.

And it was about time.

Also:
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil...