skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah; we have/had this-- it is called HTML and none of us got the idea behind it (I certainly didn't); so, instead we re-created the prisons we were, and are, trying to escape.

It also is really hard to profit from ONLY meaningful data thus the death of things like RSS feeds. Can't shovel advertisements, trackers, and spyware down someone's throat just sending a nicely formatted HTML table that the client decides how to display and use.

Truly, good, semantically meaningful and correct HTML tags used without tons of obfuscating markup to appease some maniac's absurd sense of aesthetic (my own included) would be a pretty sweet API to consume. There's also the subtle reality that nearly every single worth a shit UI designer app, is under the hood, using XML-esque format to describe what you've done... which is mostly akin to "put a table here, with a given convoluted datasource."

Things like yahoo pipes come to mind as something that was frankly awesome, and totally failed to find a viable market. Likely because you can't shovel ads down someone's throat and forcefully track their every move sending them only things they want to consume.

The continued gating of data is only going to exacerbate the problem; I fear that companies like Facebook (though it's far from the only guilty party) advocate for privacy solely to protect their data monopolies. It will soon become impossible for other players to enter the market because it'll be rightfully illegal to collect or mine that data. Yet, companies like Facebook will still have access to it. I have zero reason to believe their intelligence systems are going to "unlearn" from illegally sourced data or that they can even meaningfully remove it (you really gonna go remove data from those tape backups?).

I was reading the other day about folks who want to do link previews but its essentially impossible if you're not facebook because your bot is instantly blocked. So while organizations like Facebook and Google are allowed to freely pilfer the internet of resources for their own bottom lines... and applauded for it. Anyone else is looked at like scammers and frauds. But.. I'm starting to digress and ramble; so, I'll end it here :)

Edit: Slight updates for grammar/readability.
Not necessarily. Errors, like outcomes, are not independently distributed in US elections. Politics are intertwined and expecting errors and votes to be independent on a state (or even county) basis is overly simplistic. This is also what makes modelling US elections so difficult.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017543. There's nothing wrong with it - the thread is just too top heavy)
No, I'm saying that the two camps use radically different criteria for selecting a president, and this is why they don't understand each others argument or motivations.

The educated "elites" use competency as a criteria, and the last four years clear show of incompetency and inability to govern seals the deal for them, and they don't understand how anyone could come to any other conclusion.

Meanwhile, the other camp is using relatability. They see all his flaws, and think that it makes Trump more human, and therefore a better president. They think Biden lacks "energy", and don't understand how anyone could want to vote for him.

Both sides are voting "correctly" according to their own criteria, which is why they're both so incredibly bewildered by how the other side votes. The disconnect isn't because one side is "better" at picking than the other using shared criteria, it's because both sides are using different criteria completely.
Not sure they are bad people per se... but where do you draw the line?

Sure Hitler improved the German economy, does that make it defensible to support him?

This is the fundamental question in nationalist movements that are driven by ideologies, tribalism, and cult of personalities... instead of real facts backed up by science and data.

Given that provably almost nothing Trump ever says is even true, how can these people know he is the best person to govern? If there are no facts, it is just beliefs... and that is incredibly dangerous.
If women are statistically likely to need to take more time off work than men due to being a parent, then I would argue this is effectively a systemic pay gap. Whether or not that needs fixing is another question but it's totally bizarre to say "if you ignore all the reasons why women are often in positions where they receive less pay that men don't have to deal with, there isn't a gap".

(To be clear: whether or not this pay gap needs addressing is its own question entirely. It makes total sense to me that a woman needs time off to recover from giving birth or from health complications during pregnancy.)
The biggest conspiracy of all is “white supremacy” boogeyman.
> the owner then decided to dive through personal data and found "bad things"

There are certainly some issues with the story. But later on there were photos of Hunter Biden released that certainly depicted what I would describe as "bad things" (those things being drugs).

So pictures do exist that you can lookup yourself. Unless you are going to go conspiracy theory about it, and say that the photos, that you can see yourself, are faked.

So... In retrospect, even if not everything related to the story is accurate, or there were some problems with it, we can now all but confirm that at least something was released that is not "fake news", and that came from this story.
Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues
It really depends where you fall between John Doe and Richard Stallman. In no particular order:

- Disable GApps. Note that this can absolutely be done without root [1], as I've done so on my BlackBerry KeyOne and a previous LG G6. This has the additional benefit of a dramatically faster UI on nearly any device.

- Use F-Droid instead of the Google Play Store when possible. If you've disabled GApps like I have, the Aurora Store can be used to fill in the few apps your employer may require.

- Use web versions of apps when possible. mbasic.facebook.com or simply facebook.com is a reasonable alternative to the app, and won't steal you contacts. The former even allows messages to be sent without the app :)

- Use a custom ROM. Note that this will require an unlocked bootloader and either a maintainer for your phone, or to build LineageOS for yourself.

- Minimize permissions you give apps. Don't get thrown when some apps request Location when you don't think they need though: Google has tied Location to Network Access, meaning you must grant Location Access for most apps to see Bluetooth & WiFi networks (which could reasonably be used as a proxy for your location).

- Unless you need it, don't leave Bluetooth on all the time. Retail locations use Bluetooth beacons to ping devices and follow consumers through the store. Bluetooth is reasonably localized, and gives the retailer fascinating data relating to where you went, how long (or if) you lingered in front of junk food, if you had to search for something, where you went first, and possibly payment card information (waiting in line vs walking away after a payment is made at a certain terminal).

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-...
What you really want for this is SQLite4--which added an abstraction layer below the database and above the VFS which could use a key-value store--but sadly I think it ended up being scrapped :(.

https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki
Actually if you look at the counties and Representative races there’s much to cheer about on the side I believe you are implying — it’s just a few locations they are calling into question that swing states, not rep races.
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[0] https://www.270towin.com/2020-election-results-live/house/dq...
People with kids.

I have $200 OfficeJet that has a free fax service that I need once in awhile and I use the instant ink thing.

Laser MFPs are expensive and the toner is super expensive. Brother lasers are great as long as you’re ok with 600dpi.
I'll up that to 50:1.
It would be ludicrous to think that, all other things being equal, they, or any other group of people, would switch their pick due to being victims of hyperbolic propaganda such as the one described.

Pretty sure Hispanics can think for themselves, with factual references at hand. I believe the linked article paints them in an unfairly gullible light, while it does nothing to discredit what it claims as being conspiracy theories. They point to current developments happening in their home countries, only becoming discreditable 'theories' because of the absurdity in which they are framed (in the article).

To name an example, The Open Foundation (associated with philanthropist Soros) has been funding parties and congresspeople all over S.A. who are looking to advance certain social causes. This is part of funding declarations by the recipients, and since it's not unlawful, and not a secret, it's not a conspiracy; and since it's not fiction, it's not a theory (in the sense of supposition). One of such causes is the decriminalization of abortion, an issue that's been traditionally (fiercely) opposed.

Considering Trump's aim to defund Planned Parenthood, and the appointment of a fitting (Catholic) judge to the Supreme Court, couldn't they not lean towards him in this aspect on the grounds of a proven track record, rather than just propaganda?
Well let's think this out for a minute, a extremely well connected liberal billionaire with a island was found out to be a pedofile and peddeling underage women to politicians. So much so that while it has not been proven their is a mountain of evidence that the British Crown was a solicitor. This has been extracted to a global cabal of pedofiles.

Conversely, we know that the russians ran bot farms and did various other unscrupulous activities during the election. Yet nobody involved with Trump was implicated in what the Russians did. The evidence was well vetted and there was a through investigation on the subject matter, further, the Steele Dossier was proven to be a hit piece. This has been extracted to Trump is a KGB agent or under the influence and direct control of the Kremlin. Yet both are not on the equivalent on the conspiracy theory scale?
As terms, 'conspiracy theory' and 'fact' both feel loaded today.

I wonder whether reverting to more neutral labelling would held create a less heated dialogue? Founded and unfounded, for example.
> She supports this project: https://www.trumpaccountability.net

Can you back this up with a source?
Thank you! This was a delightful read.
You’re not alone.

His statements don’t line up with the ruckus after the Tom Cotton op-Ed or Bari Weiss’s departure.
So if this person didn't bother to update their voter registration, then maybe they didn't bother to vote either. In which case the person who gets their ballot can vote for them (illegally) and it will match their registration.
If you look at how the elections were conducted with county level governments effectively counting vote tallies without any serious claims of errors, that may offer a hint as to what might work: stronger local sources of news and journalism.

Social media ravaged the local news industry and exposed every hick town to the insanity of conspiracy theories. Better regulation of social media, investing in local news and journalism may be one way to allow towns to get back sources of information that they trust and believe.

In fact instead of the stupid “everyone learn to code” pipe dreams, more investments in local journalism may help revitalize smaller towns to a certain extent. Local journalists focus and investigate local issues; they improve the quality of state services.
Parent post was talking about the Democratic primary, not the presidential election. Hatred for Trump doesn't explain why Biden would do well among black voters in a race that's not against Trump.
> children in cages and family separation are not a trump policy but an american policy and obama and previous president did it too.

This is completely false. Family separation was never a policy of any administration until Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_se...
PostgreSQL has a feature called Foreign Data Wrappers. It's certainly not what th OP imagins, but still pretty cool to query and join external data sources.
Well, again - videos of poll watchers being denied access to polling places; videos of political material posted at the entrance to multiple polling places; videos of official party observers being denied access to the ballot counting process; ballots with no postmarks being accepted after Election Day; software glitches in MI that alter the vote count; States abandoning witness requirements for absentee ballots - these are all real events and people don’t know whether or how these samples should be extrapolated.

Further, when the body of material lacks metadata to support chain of custody investigations, or observers can’t witness counting processes, it’s pretty disingenuous to say no evidence can be found. The control failures are the evidence.

There are very real bad examples, and we don’t know how representative they are. There are critical control failures (missing information) that make investigation difficult.

If you want to convince people everything is fine, take away these distractions by shoring up the process - transparency and authentication controls would go a long way towards fending off the accusations of fraud.
It's more complicated than just "Does Quibi own the content"- Quibi struck deals with content creators for the creators to create the content and own it, but to give Quibi an exclusive license to the content for 2 years. So whilst it's technically true that the content creators still own the content, the vast majority of the value is in the rights to that content. They justified this as some creator friendly move, but frankly I think they knew that by 2 years time Quibi was either huge or dead.
That's simply not true.

To the people saying it's obviously a joke: The App Store Review Guidelines have become huge and I wouldn't have been surprised to find something like this in there, although not in these exact words. Actually, I wish the App Store Review Guidelines WOULD state exceptions like the one mentioned. At least that would be transparent.
>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.

Nope, that is simply not what editorializing means, in any sense of the word.

Twitter stating a categorically true fact or linking to a resource that debunks factually incorrect statements is not editorializing because they are not giving an opinion. They are adding context with verifiable truths. Which, again, not editorializing because stating a truth is not an opinion.

I'm sure you can dream up all sorts of hypotheticals that makes this sound problematic, such as implying twitter are the ones deciding something is true or false. They don't need to decide that, they just need to recognise a statement as false and then add clarification. If Trump's tweets had any kind of ambiguity then maybe what you say has credence, but that isn't the reality of the situation.
Its interesting to me that for most of modern history, the value of performing arts like music was in the performance. Then recorded media were invented and there was a fleeting moment in the 20th century when distribution was controlled, and the value of that invention was captured by a small group. And now it seems things have equilibrated so that the value of recording is distributed more broadly again. I don't know if there are other examples like this in different parts of the economy (obviously it's the same in video), but it feels like a good study in how technology disrupts an industry and then disrupts is again.
Usually posts with many comments get demoted fast... Not this one I guess
I tried bunsenlabs and antix now and can't see this working out :/

- without load the computer gets quite hot. I can smell hot (not burning) plastic; ACPI(?) claims 70c and the fan exit is slightly hot to the touch. Just doesn't feel good.

And fixable problems:

- On both I had to fix wifi first (EU bands where not included)

- on antix firefox crashes

- couldn't make wifi connect on bunsenlabs
Communication has become weaponised. It either helps the cause, or hinders it. The content is irrelevant.
There were comments on this thread that have since been stealth edited/deleted explicitly claiming that this podcast was somehow an attack on free speech, as opposed to just not agreeing with it - I was referring to those.
As a direct neighbor from the opposite side (Czech republic), I think they handled it well so far. They don't have a high rate of death per capita, maintained a level of alertness during this summer, and went to a partial lock down only this Monday. Of course I think that Denmark, Norway and Finland handled it better, but those are tiny countries, which makes it hard to compare with US.
They can also give those in the Llc worse benefits as it’s a separate entity.

FYI, this is already a common practice.
Obviously I don't think it's likely, but that's not really the point. I literally laughed out loud when I read in the local news earlier today that the president of my country "congratulated Biden with his victory". (AFAIK, he is not some outlier, many of them did, but unfortunately I couldn't find a full list). I mean, we all know that's not how it's formally done, and we all know how important formality always used to be to these folks. With such vigor they should've just appointed Biden the new PotUSA months ago based on some CNN polls and be done with it. Trump would obviously protest, but he is protesting now, so what's the difference?
Indeed I feel the same.
My 90 year old man had a burglary here in the U.K. while she was at home. They didn’t get anything, a neighbour scared them off.

She was obviously shocked about it.

Rumours spread on the local Facebook group and was picked up by the local paper who ran a story two week later.

My Nan then read about how lots of things had been stolen from her house and now believes the paper, not the reality she had lived.

If people are willing to believe what they are told third hand rather than what they know themselves, what hope is there?
To be as clear as I can, it's specifically:

> will become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government,

that confuses me. Is she to be the first female VP? Or does 'highest ranking woman' refer to her present position in the senate?

I think I understand now that it's the former. It just seems strange to me to lead with the more specific 'firsts'. I would have written something more like:

> Kamala Harris also makes history as the first female Vice President, and, notably at a time when the US faces a reckoning in racial justice, a black woman, and the first of South Asian descent.

(Borrowing phrasing and emphasis from the original nevertheless, since I understand they may be more relevant in the US than they perhaps are to me.)

I just honestly didn't realise from that paragraph originally that she was the first woman entirely. It was sort of there, but so hidden that I thought I was wrong.
I translated [4], hope it helps: https://jtvjan.nl/documents/mierenzuur.md
Simple solution is to not try to "solve" anything. Just be accepting of people who hold different opinions. I'm sure you would be tolerant of someone who believes Mohammed was the messenger of God. Nutty beliefs don't get much more serious than that when you consider the content of those messages.
Who said anything about Republicans? I specifically mention the Iraq war.

No, that's not what media has been doing. And these are the results we get.

This isn't a partisan statement but a simple statement of cause and effect.
That's an absurd statement. There are degrees of everything, and I have seen no research suggesting that staggering is as important as wrist angle/position - or even statistically relevant for that matter.

Perfection is the enemy of good. A $40 staggered split layout like the Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 that's affordable to most users will do far more benefit than a $300 mechanical ortholinear device that most people will never have.
and how did it turn out?
> Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilizing anti-Jewish sentiment is, of course, irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech and Nazi propaganda had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch, and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech. Streicher served two prison sentences. Rather than deterring the Nazis and countering anti-Semitism, the many court cases served as effective public-relations machinery, affording Streicher the kind of attention he would never have found in a climate of a free and open debate. In the years from 1923 to 1933, Der Stürmer [Streicher's newspaper] was either confiscated or editors taken to court on no fewer than thirty-six occasions. The more charges Streicher faced, the greater became the admiration of his supporters. The courts became an important platform for Streicher's campaign against the Jews. In the words of a present-day civil-rights campaigner, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the anti-hate laws of today, and they were enforced with some vigor. As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...
It actually is an interesting topic to look at the history of Blood Libel and see the Satanic Panic and QAnon as the evolved/remixed version with different actors.

I think with the advent of the internet, things are shifting away from ritual murder to sexual exploitation of minors as the big fear, but “that group of people you don’t like is out to get your children” is quite the enduring narrative.
Switched to YouTrack from Jira and loved it...until there was a reorg and they forced on Github Issues which are just...primitive and nobody but me knows how to use it. FML
I just presented the queries for first amounts of evidence — you have to let the search occur.

If none turn up — whole heartily agree, all clean, send it up to the losers to shut the hell up.
Uhhh has no one in Singapore played MGSV?
I'm surprised to see that there are so may cables just going along the coast. I guess it makes sense, because if you want to connect coastal destinations, by going through the ocean, you don't have to dig or install telephone poles, you just lay the cables down there.
Is there really any common ground?

My experience talking to the other side during this administration is that they are completely unable and often unwilling to consider any argument or information that conflicts with their views. How do you debate with people who don't care about facts or reason?

In addition their leadership appears to be completely unwilling to act and good faith and the rank in file appear unwilling to hold them accountable for that fact.

I would love to be able to see some way to find common ground, but It seems to me that doing so would just be playing the sucker.
To say the Nazis simply "used violence to seize power" is extremely reductive.

It's also well known that the Nazis were (at least monetarily) backed by Big Business & the wealthy capitalists at the time who were afraid of the rising popularity of Communism, as well as the threat of Soviet Russia. This included but was not limited to even American companies that happened to have offices in Germany (e.g. IBM). You can bet that money was used for anti-Semitic propaganda (which could deflect unhappiness towards the corporations to be aimed with the Jewish), and bringing this back to Free Speech, you can bet that this was allowed because of unmitigated free speech at the time.