skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, why should news organizations give credit to a story whose primary source is a very out of scope Rudy and even the editor who wrote the initial story wouldn't pen their name to it because when they even tried doing basic preliminary journalism to confirm any part of the story that they were left with zippo and the only reason it had to be written is that their bosses wanted it?

The only serious question about it would be that who in their right mind would believe a story that Hunter flew across the US from CA to NY to use some shifty $35 hole in the wall laptop repair place, drop off a pile of laptops, fly home, completely forget about them, the owner then decided to dive through personal data and found "bad things", instead of taking them to the FBI or police, decided that Rudy Giuliani needed them, which then Rudy sat on them for a few months before letting anyone know. Oh, and the mere possession and non-reporting of the "bad things" on the laptop are a felony in and of itself. Wow... interesting that actual journalists wouldn't even give the story the time of day.

Do you expect CNN to do daily breaking news segments on how Sandy Hook wasn't fiction because some right wing radio opinionist is still spouting off daily that the dead kids were actors?

The Steele dossier came from an information agent with a background of competent and viable information and journalists worked on vetting the information before sending any out.
Conceptually, no big deal. Most registries already deliver blob contents from a CDN or object store (via HTTP redirect). However, the registry protocol (i.e. the Open Containers Distribution API) only knows HTTP, so you'd have to use a HTTP-to-IPFS proxy to use the IPFS backing store with existing clients.
Proves only gullibility has no racial boundaries.
It was a perfectly fine comment. Just taking the opportunity to add some info.

Take care.
On the NYT website it says 74.5 million votes for Biden vs 70.3 million for Trump. It makes about 51% vs 48% (without counting the other candidates).
It would unquestionably help republicans. The problem is that the collective models highly favors small states. So even if large states agree to split their votes, small rural states will still drive the count.
Thank You for your feedback. I will look into this.
Russia hacked Democratic email accounts and trickled them out to WikiLeaks. They set up troll farms to promote pro-Trump narratives.

The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee characterized this as "The Russian government directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level."

That was unusual. "Every country interferes with the elections of every other country" is disingenuous. And thinking maybe that there's more that might have happened there that went undiscovered is not even close to the same level as thinking that Wayfair is facilitating child trafficking.
> it provides music I want to listen to at a price that is completely reasonable.

Until it doesn't

I use Spotify a lot. Maybe too much. And disappearing music is a real plague. Now it's there, now it's not. Why? Licensing perhaps, who knows.
Yes I'm in the UK too. I have family members who believe the whole Bill Gates mircochip injections, 5G causing COVID, anti-vax nonsence. My experience is people who loose control of their own lives (job lose, health, etc) seem to grip onto all these conspiracies, as if to try and explain their bad luck.
How about you link to the actual transcript https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres... Which clearly has nothing to do with the actual issue being discussed.

Trump just suddenly throws this in that line at a totally unrelated contractor permitting press conference for one sentence. It's really crazy, if Trump says one thing to the people of Charlottesville and a totally contradictory thing later in the most obscure circumstance, are we to give him the benefit of the doubt? I don't, there is no doubt.
“ If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

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Don't spread this nonsense. Spotify is an excellent way for independent artists to get free promotion and make money in 2020. Spotify pays about 3$ per 1000 plays, which is quite a bit more than YT will for music.

We're long past the 1990s, where only a very select number of major label artists made it big and sold millions of copies. We need to stop using these numbers as a benchmark for todays music landscape -- so much has changed and most of it for the better.

Music creation and distribution has been heavily democratized. Where you needed connections and thousands of dollars to even get something released (outside of niche DIY tape style releases) you can now basically do it for free from your room or band practice space. The amount of money per working musician has gone down significantly but there are more of them in 2020 than has ever before.

We can certainly argue about what kind of value art should have in society. Should there be more money going around? What industries should this money be taken out of? Suffice to say independent artists are better off than they have been, creating music and making money has never been easier and Spotify/digital music distribution in general have been great enablers.
I can see a problem with older ships not being well maintained, and with companies cutting corners on the converters.

Fuel leaks would be a disaster.
Physicians are just people like everyone else. In fact, many of them are far more concentrated in terms of education, social circle, and free time.
Smart people are very good at coming up with rationalizations and justifications for the things they believe or fear. We think we're better than generations past, but human nature is human nature.
> votes were (edit: almost entirely) along partisan lines

As I said (I thought clearly), I'm not talking about the final vote. I'm talking about the trial stuff that happens before it.

For example, whether any witnesses are called. In Trump's impeachment trial they decided witnesses weren't necessary (https://www.npr.org/2020/01/31/801589634/sen-alexander-expla...).

Also, when Clinton was impeached, it was a Republican-majority Senate impeaching a Democratic president. So not really comparable to when it's the same party for both as with Trump. Of course they went through all the steps in the trial for Clinton because that Senate wanted to impeach (and probably wanted as much damaging evidence to come to light as possible).
No? Nobody was saying Hunter Biden ran a pedo ring with abductions and body doubles replacing key national figures.

It's real-world verifiable that Hunter Biden made 600k/yr for several years for a foreign gas company while his dad was VP and involved in pressuring domestic politics in that country.

And so we come back to GP's point: If mainstream media is calling everything that's not politically advantageous for the dems a "conspiracy theory", then they lose credibility. If everything's a conspiracy theory, nothing is.
Why is your post not hidden? Are you going to jail?
I am not lumping them together at all. The statistic is more specifically interesting about white men than about other demographics. That the other groups moved in unison speaks to a deeper, more fundamental and more universally-applicable quality of life analysis for all Americans under Trump. The situation shows that things like low unemployment have broad appeal, and can overcome identity politics. Strangely, however, that overcoming is more true for the minorities themselves than for the supposed systemic promulgators of oppression!

The whites are having identity shouting matches with each other while the minorities they supposedly are trying to be considerate of, move in the opposite direction.
I’d argue that they’re not entirely wrong. The lives and problems of rural Americans are dramatically different than urban Americans, and given the all-or-nothing nature of the system, neither side is well represented when the other has power.

QAnon is obviously garbage, but it’s a symptom of a broken system that can’t effectively represent the entire population, and not just one half.
Section 5.1.2(iii) of the App Store Review Guidelines has a special exception for Apps with a 1 billion install base from a country where the government doesn't give two hoots about your App Store Review Guidelines.
I don’t think that’s at all obvious. An ineffectual chaos monkey for 4 more years is arguably better than an effective leader implementing Very Bad policies that we will be stuck with for generations. I didn’t vote for Trump, but I can sympathize with that position.
You've assumed that everyone agreed at some point on majoritarianism, which never happened.
I mean "already decrypted" to say that the work of decrypting has already been done for you, sorry if that wasn't clear.
>> That leaves a challenge: how do you decide what’s a fact? For example on the vote count. Most outlets say the reported figures are fact, but it implies trusting the process of counting and reporting. Removing that implied trust means others can take ‘there is fraud!’ as fact just as well.

>> Twitter seems to use the mainstream media (eg AP predicting the election outcome) as a base of trust (and so do I). But I’ve come to realize that once you don’t trust the media, it is easy to believe in another set of facts (that are true for you), and suddenly (to you) it seems Twitter is censoring.

I'm glad you brought up the case of the election. It is a harder question for social media to arbitrate centrally. For example, "There is Fraud" could be true or false, and certainly somewhere you'll find fraud making the statement both true in fact and false in spirit. Then, there is the dark matter of everything the newspaper doesnt even cover -- US newspapers only regularly cover US news, allies, key areas of the world, and major events. Imagine a dairy-farmer trade war between two asian nations -- unlikely to be covered, so what is the truth? For that matter, imagine the civil rights of small minorities in the US -- depending on the minority group, unlikely to be covered even by major us newspapers.

Let me give you a harder example now. Anything to do spanning two sovereign nations, especially one involving war, civilian casualties, or war crimes. Pick your example: Russia/Ukraine, China/Taiwan, India/Pakistan, Yemen/Saudi Arabia. Both sides will have their national own newspapers which will support their own country. Which side does Twitter take?
Interesting question, this seems to cover both parts https://qz.com/1929017/what-happens-if-biden-dies-before-ina...
Guessing you’re referring to:

> Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future

> Lol at the “party of personal responsibility” being upset at the idea of being responsible for their behavior over last four years

Which I’m sure all will agree is not how you have characterized it.

If I’m incorrect pls provide sources.
The only thing you can do to retain some level of privacy is find a phone with great lineageOS support, install with no gapps, install fdroid as a system app so it can manage updates.

You still won't get kernel updates when security issues come around because not even the OEM can update that without convincing all the vendors to update their blobs.
Lasiness and carelessness?
If people click the spam button, you are sending them content they find annoying, end of story.
No need to bring personal defaults into that, your service is not entitled to their attention.
I'm not who you replied to but using privacy focused apps from the F-droid store when you can rather than the play store is a good start.
Class A architecture's main advantage is it is very easy to achieve high objective performance, while trading away heat and power (and consequently size and mass). You can easily get 3rd harmonic below -80dB and you can eliminate even harmonics entirely. All you have to do it spend a lot on heat sinks and commit to a large power bill.

The problem is going to be reaching really stellar objective performance with the Class A design, because all those space age (not in a good way) power transistors are very slow and hard to drive, and that limits your error correction techniques. That's where these fancy designs are better. Basically they're using lightning-fast transistors and a DSP to bridge a power supply directly into a speaker. Objectively these designs have 3 orders of magnitude less total distortion, unmeasurable 2nd and 3rd harmonics, inaudible (-120dB or better) intermodulation products. The space age designs have simply no chance.
I back this. React state management was always a struggle for me, but I struggled to make basic interactivity work with vanilla JS.

Next was the framework that made everything fit together for me. No more routing libraries!
Its sad that people don't understand economics. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for example has created tremendous value for Microsoft over the last 6 years and deserves every penny he is paid.

Whereas on the other end its kinda a no-brainer that the McDonalds CEO is paid significantly more than the average fry cook... like come-on. Again a reason I am never going back. This city is a piece of shit. Good luck with the exodus.
So the core problem with most of the complaints about it is that nothing substantial ever came out implicating Joe Biden in any way. Some people claimed there was evidence but none was presented.

The news as a whole shrugging off a story about Hunter Biden makes perfect sense, it wasn't about Joe except in so far and Hunter might have name dropped him.
Maybe. But perhaps young people (<25-30) don't know it well?
My observation from having worked for one startup is that there are tons of terms that have the form and appearance of laws and rules that indicate a law-abiding situation. (I mean according to what the public would regard as law-abiding, in hiring, firing, pay, bonuses, profit sharing, etc.)

But in fact it is not. They look like rules and laws, but are really just legalese cover for "CEO-does-whatever-he-wants". Such as dilute your value however he pleases when a deal comes around. I suppose in this case it's the VC's cover too.

Interesting to see the CEO complaining that he's the one on the wrong end of the stick.
if you prefer mx switches and dont mind soldering you might like this:

https://keeb.io/products/sinc-split-staggered-75-keyboard
It does not include those platforms and Steam is mentioned explicitly in the article. Additionally, this article is from August so I don't see why it's being posted as if this is new information. Apple has already clarified their position multiple times since this article was published.
"One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens."

Someone who was e.g. raised as a Christian, and then concluded that some of the stories they were told in Sunday School were lies, is likely to treat an appeal to religious authority as evidence against a claim. Even in domains where Christian groups have been effective in practice.

The same can be said about mainstream media or science.

In the short term, it's practically impossible to reach such people without identifying somewhere they're actually right in their rejection of the mainstream narrative, and gaining their trust by recognizing that. Only with that trust do you have a shot of being listened to when you point out where they overcorrected against the mainstream narrative.

In the longer term, it would really help if some key mainstream narratives became more accurate. Without that, "getting out of the country" may actually become the best option for an increasing number of people.
Netflix and Amazon definitely has exclusivity on their IP which means that there is far more exclusive content on video streaming services than on game streaming services which outside of Microsoft currently which has a few first party exclusives all license content from other publishers - and that content that is available on multiple platforms.
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24942797, one week ago?
During his 2016 campaign, Trump asked Russia to release Hillary Clinton's emails. As president, he met with Putin in secrecy with no other officials present and went as far as destroying the interpreter's notes. These are a few prominent examples of his utterly bizarre behavior towards Russia.

I'm inclined to believe Trump is simply stupid and admires Putin as the kind of strongman he desperately wanted to be, but he certainly stoked the theories with his own behavior.
In many cases they were active duty military officers who broke their oaths of service (e.g. Robert E. Lee), which tends to be mentioned a lot in the rationale for using that term.
> Whats next iphones only opening approved websites?

Unironically, I think that this could happen soon.

That sounds crazy, but here me out. Pretty recently there was an announcement regarding a streamer service, that would allow people to play Fortnite, from their phone, through a mobile safari

So, in order to block fortnite form being played on an iPhone, Apple would literally have to do what you are suggesting.
Nothing, but the US media is deeply divided and partisan like everything else - while it’s the biggest it’s watched almost exclusively by right wing republicans, democrats mostly see it as propaganda and lies and don’t watch it at all; and Republicans regard MSNBC in the same light.
surprised you never gave an example of a frigid ice cold polar bear kind of cold email.

could you drop one in the comments here?
>We willingly give Apple money under this premise.

There are not enough competitors for this to actually be something you can choose. I use and will continue to use iphones because I care about privacy and updates. That doesn't mean I like what is happening with this case.
Because it only seemed to effect the person incapable of handling a loss. Why arent losing congress people claiming their races were defrauded aswell?
For me it’s the anti-gaming sentiment that Apple promotes which is at fault.

Not going back to Apple until they change their ways.

So hello Sony Xperia 5 II and goodbye IPhone 11.
Remember: the thing about neoliberalism is that it ain't new, and it ain't liberal.

NYT follows the narrative supportive of the corporate agenda writ large, not because of an active choice about what it does write about, but because of the glaringly newsworthy things it ignores: like ongoing imperialism and terrorism committed by the US all over the world. This is true for most all major news orgs in the US.
Bernie was still behind in delegates at that point, though he might have been picking up steam. He wasn't really ever a majority choice though: With the exception of Vermont and North Dakota, when he placed first in a primary it was with a plurality but not a majority of the vote. Collectively a majority seemed to be voting for a moderates, but the moderate vote was split among multiple people. When those other moderates dropped, that entire moderate majority coalesced around a single person. At least that's my interpretation when adding up % of voted by candidate.

However, I think a majority might not have wanted a moderate. They might have wanted a progressive, but voted moderate because their priority was to get Trump out, and they believed (maybe falsely, we'll probably never know for sure) that a more progressive candidate could beat Trump. The party establishment was certainly pushing that narrative.
no, I don't. But I'm so glad that you'll suddenly being paying attention to nepotism appointments, like Lisa and Mike Madigan in Illinois.

I'm just saying that you won't complain about them, and you didn't. Just those mean old republicans matter.

I can't imagine what ridiculous credit democrats would take if the middle east countries kept normalizing relations with israel like they did in the past 6 months.
> Obama did not separate asylum seeking families as policy. Child migrants who came here alone were processed like other migrants.

No, that isn't how it works. The policy is that children gets torn away from their family if the family gets prosecuted for a crime. That policy existed long before Trump. The only thing that changed under Trump was removal of lenience against parents, meaning parents now got prosecuted at same rate as other border crossers.
>There’s as many exceptions to that rule as there are examples: Twitch, video conferencing (Zoom, Teams, etc), text chat (Slack, IRC, Telegram, WhatsApp), social media (Twitter, Facebook), web pages themselves.

How are these exceptions to the rule? None of those platforms are the source of the content being provided. That's the primary reason why this distinction exists.
I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about. It's now well established that Russia did interfere in the elections with the goal to promote a Trump victory. The only thing not conclusive was active and intentful collaboration with Russia from Trump. But it's very normal to want to open an investigation into Russia's meddling.

> Mueller concluded that Russian interference was "sweeping and systematic" and "violated U.S. criminal law", and he indicted twenty-six Russian citizens and three Russian organizations. The investigation also led to indictments and convictions of Trump campaign officials and associated Americans

> The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee submitted the first in their five-volume 1,313-page report in July 2019 in which they concluded that the January 2017 intelligence community assessment alleging Russian interference was "coherent and well-constructed".

> The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. According to U.S. intelligence agencies, the operation was ordered directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin

> Several individuals connected to Russia contacted various Trump campaign associates, offering business opportunities to the Trump Organization and proferring damaging information on Clinton.

Here's the thing, I don't even know what to make of it. Sure, Trump didn't seek.out Russian help actively or ask them to do any of this, but Russia still interfered in a way to promote his election. Now hard to say how much that helped him win, but it's hard to standby and think... Ya I guess this is fine? Shouldn't we do something to stop this from happening again? And why didn't Trump do anything about it? Shouldn't he say something like ... Well I believe I would have won even without their help, but this is unacceptable and we need to put in place measures to make sure Russia and other foreign powers can no longer meddle in US elections?
Of course. These conspiracies depend on how schizotypical people are. People who are more “fantasy prone” are more likely to believe in magic, the supernatural, aliens and various other kinds of woo. It’s hardly surprising that hippie types should be included - what is the fundamental difference between believing in crystal healing and laylines and believing qanon? There’s no rational basis for either.
Eugenics is a broad term. There are many aspects of eugenics that make horrific government policy, but are still pretty sensible ideas. Being a "eugenicist" isn't a black spot on her record.

Looking at her wiki page [0] she supported people thinking about how large a family they could support and then making decisions to stay within that. That is a commendable philosophy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Eugenics
I think the size of these groups are greatly exaggerated by social media.

Conspiracy theorists have always existed and are practically harmless.

Sure there are incidents that occur, but likewise, 1000 people a month die from falling down the stairs. It's just not a problem in the grand scheme of things.
I made a girl play “Rondo Alla Turca” (Turkish March) by Mozart on flute