skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it particularly has anything to do with his color. He isn't a member of the banking class in Europe and he humiliated them by bringing press to the loopholes they've created (deliberately or otherwise) so they're going to make an example out of him.
Doesnt it say that it needs to surpass 1m deaths within a 6 month period? Covid didnt hit that mark until 10 months after it appeared in wuhan
What makes you think we'll ever know?
Then the media are speaking inaccurately. I have never heard them mention that these are amicus briefs. All they say is "joining".

I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm saying that the media do a deplorable job of reporting accurately.
Ask HN: Cheapest host single node K8s dev env
I want to play / dev and need a cloud instance vm or similar to host a single node non HA k8s. My local machine hdd died and not looking to replace that. Where can I host minikube or micro or something and have it relatively useful for non prod toying around?

$10 or less, services deployed are public internet accessible, good disk space, image repo included if possible

Ta!
How they better? I never heard who uses iCloud Mail for privacy rather than ProtonMail. It's just a company that makes the best major smartphone OS for privacy (there are only 2 major OS in western world).
There’s no reason you couldn’t keep track of that information in encrypted form and sync it across devices. Apple already syncs bookmarks, email, browser tabs (albeit broken of late), photos, contacts, calendars, and probably many more things I haven’t thought of, across all of my devices.
No one is seriously claiming that none of the elections have any errors. That would be insane; all human activity is full of errors.

What we are saying is that literally all experts and the people who run the elections themselves — from both political parties — have stated that they don’t believe that there is any organized fraud, and that any error they have isn’t significant.

The fact that several recounts didn’t change the results shows exactly that: the detected errors did not make a significant impact on the results. The election was safe to call because Biden was ahead by more than the margin of error.

There is one man who has objectively lied constantly for his entire life in the public record, who had lied about his results in polls (both political and entertainment related) his entire life, and who has repeatedly stated that he will not admit defeat. (In the past, he even called magazines under a fake name to try to convince them that he should be higher in their “richest people” rankings!) On the other side, we have literally every election official in the country across party lines.
It's not the GOP or DNC issue.

Here is hillary clinton saying that biden should not concede if he lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc0cJ409VQ

Neither side was going to concede this election. If Trump had won, Biden and the DNC would have taken it to the supreme court.

The truth of the matter is neither side trusts the election. The democrats accused Trump of cheating in 2016. Now the republicans accuse Biden. Frankly I don't see the solution to this. But censorship certainly is not the answer.
> Does FB unreasonably restrain competition? (My answer is no)

The lawsuit specifically cites Zuckerberg talking about acquisitions (in this case, the failed Twitter acquisition) as giving "extra time... to get our product in order without having to worry about a competitor growing".
Corona, False Alarm? Facts and Figures by Karina Reiss PhD, Sucharit Bhakdi MD
Currently #1 bestseller in biostatistics(books) at amazon.com:

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Free download available at:

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Or a more direct comparison is that they are bringing legalized going to the masses.
I think another ripe target would be separating Google from content hosting, especially YouTube.
If you aren't registered with a GP and have no records at the hospital there are other ways to check, for instance your National Insurance records. It's not easy to get away without paying if you are an ineligible person.
What I didn't learn until recently was the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" was the analogy applied to pacifists opposing the draft in WWI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...). It was a bad ruling but the analogy itself stands.

So in that vein, should incitements for violence against the opposing party be unfettered free speech? At what point does it go too far?
1) You should cite where the federal government has authority over state-run elections.

2) You should also explain more clearly why you think it could be rational to discount the decisions of state courts which rule on the laws passed by the state legislature on the basis that they aren't the state legislature... That is like saying the Supreme Court shouldn't have a say over how Federal laws are applied. It's their entire job.

And all this is ignoring the idea that the legal system ought to represent the democratic will of the people and the institutional processes they put in place, whether it's via upholding the laws of the legislature or the vote.
>There were several rounds of trials for each vaccine involving tens of thousands of people over many months.

>over many months

Long-term effects have not been investigated. In fact, Pfizer has requested immunity from governments (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-pfizer...).

>Asked about when the full data on the vaccine’s clinical trial would be published, the company said this was still being worked on.

Not being able to review this yourself also removes some credibility from that vaccine.

I'm not against fast-forwarding the vaccine to protect the vulnerable, but it's irresponsible to claim this vaccine has insane amounts of data showing its lack of side effects. A better argument would be "it probably is better than getting Covid."
It's interesting to think about, that the two ways to prevent the misuse of your data would either be total privacy or total transparency.

I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt to avoid Google. But, for the sake of argument, I do think it's genuinely straightforward.

The internal details are slightly complicated, but from a user's perspective, all you have to do is press one button from inside settings, open a terminal, and type "sudo apt install firefox".

That's not as easy as downloading a setup.exe file, but I think it's pretty straightforward. ChromeOS will even associate URLs with Firefox, if you choose. Then, even if you open Chrome, it will redirect all links back into Firefox.

Just a small technical tangent of my own. :D
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Austin used to be great, but is the music scene actually going to rebound?
There is no evidence that Russian influence changed the outcome of the election. A few thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads, mostly written in broken English, is unlikely to have caused a massive swing in voter turnout or opinions. It seems clear from the Mueller report that Russians attempted to engage in election interference. There is zero evidence that it had any effect on even a single vote.

If you turn on CNN for a second or two today, you'll hear them use the phrase "no widespread voter fraud occurred". In other words, there is evidence that some fraud occurred, as it does in every election. Just not enough to have swayed the results. The same can be said about any Russian interference.

So the two things are equivalent, because both happened to some degree, and it is extremely unlikely that either had any effect on the outcome.
https://get.rushable.io is helping change this for Houston, TX at least - 0% commissions and just $80/month.

I'm not affiliated but I do think their software works quite well from the eaters' perspective. Would love if they got a bit more traction, I think it would be great for both restauranteurs and customers alike.
Sadly some websites forbids to post URL. IMO this is breaking the web.
Meanwhile I've tried every streaming service outside of Amazon's Luna and by far Stadia has been the best experience.

You can buy games and just play them, 1080p60 on hardware you never have to pay for.

Or pay Pro and get 4K, HDR, 5.1 surround sound. Which actually works great.

Stadia has a ton of hate from the gaming community it seems though, articles came out the first few months bashing it but I've had at worst visual hiccups on a wireless mesh network...
The Texas case isn't sound at all.

UTexas Law Professor says about it: "It looks like we have a new leader in the “craziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election” category" and "o chalk this up as mostly a stunt — a dangerous, offensive, and wasteful one, but a stunt nonetheless."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1336312379408322560
> (the last being the crash that destroyed F9R-dev-1 after an engine failure)

From memory I think it blew itself up in the air when something went wrong, rather than crashing.
Helpful info: https://theoutline.com/post/8610/united-states-russia-whatab...
> The simple fact of the matter is that people are entitled to their opinions, and in the United States, they have a constitutional right to express those opinions in the same way and on the same platforms as those that disagree with them.

You've never had a constitutional right to a particular platform for your opinions. E.g., if a magazine or newspaper published an opinion that disagreed with yours, you do not have a constitutional right to have your opinion published in that same magazine or newspaper.
OK? Yang is hardly a democrat and he is not in any position of power. Nothing you are saying is actually backing up what you are claiming. Quite the contrary, these are examples of democrats who have been pushed away from power because of their ideas. How many delegates did Yang get again?

Ocasio-Cortez is one congress woman who has been in office for less than two years. She is not in a position of power within the democratic party, in fact they actively oppose her.

So what is your point? AOC does not reflect where the democrats are as a party, and it's dishonest to pretend so.

And student loan relief is not socialism. Free college could arguably be, but what is being discussed is far from free college.
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Those are my words. You do not need evidence to form a belief.

But you need one to change hearts and minds.
This is awesome. If nothing else, the ability to view a recipe without having to scroll through a 10 page story about the first time the author saw an avocado makes it worth it.
So you are admitting that what Musk meant was they had a 2/3s chance of an explosion.
Even Fox News says it accurately. Headline: "Missouri, 16 other states file brief supporting Texas suit to delay presidential elector appointment"

(emphasis added) An amicus brief is also known as a 'brief.'

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missouri-16-other-states-fi...
The point of having a critical media is that the electorate can actually punish their leaders for bad things. Leaving those leaders in place because criticism is actually good defeats the point.
> Pichai said, “We need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily.”

The best way to accept responsibility would be to start with accepting that she didn't leave, but was pushed out.

No matter how many times people say "you can't expect to act like she did and keep her job", it doesn't change the fact that a lot of company rules have selective enforcement, and HR will always find a way to be in the right when they push you out for being a nuissance to the company.
Me too. I wish I had more time to waste their time. Often I will just answer and set the phone down. When I have time to play, I have a fake name, real VIN of some car, a home for sale in Phoenix, a credit card that passes a luhn test, etc. And if they need to call me back, I have a Twilio honeypot number that fowards to http://www.jollyrogertelephone.com.

I am not Kitboga, but I enjoy wasting their time.

Sometimes they start the stream of profanity as soon as I answer, I guess we have met on a prior call.
There is essentially zero evidence that SARS-CoV2 was engineered in a lab. In any case, the evidence that it's natural born doesn't have to be believed by everyone, only by Rees and Pinker. Then again, 2020 still has 21 days left to fuck us one more time.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientis...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/coronavir...
It seems funny to me that when people say things about the "media" they by implication omit such members as Fox News, the many, many right leaning web-only news sites and "conservative" talk radio (terrestrial and sat). In addition, much of "local" tv news stations are owned by conservative leaning Sinclair Broadcasting, an ownership which has pressed its own views on the reporting of news by its properties.
You should see the internal crap...
America is also big on democracy.
and some fava beans.
Can you elaborate on modern best practices?
I'm not a fan of the article's title.
It feels too sensationalized and clickbaity.
Maybe you know something Buffet doesn't. I believe he fully divested from the airlines recently.
Do you have a link? This is the filing but doesn't seem to have the appendix: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
Chinas launchers improvements have been moving at a slow pace. Lots of obsolete solid rockets and dangerous propellant.
She is not the chief executive; she reports to musk who is the CEO.
https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-employees-donate-overwhelm...
It's QAnon all the way down.
Their future two year roadmap includes a multiplayer version. I suspect it will take them that long to fix all their bugs.
Provo is full of overly polite Mormon families and BYU. They chose cartoonish examples of polite conservative locales to make their point.

There are plenty of conservative places that would be upset to see Harris / Biden attire. Look no further than the classic Top Gear episode with the Gay Pride car and the Clinton car driving through the south.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358753
> Exactly. Applauding them for lowering trading fees to $0 is like applauding a pharmaceutical company for bringing down the cost of opiates. Or applauding a cigarette maker for making cigarettes cheaper.

Trading stocks doesn't lead people to physical dependence, nor does it typically ruin their lives. Buy-and-hold will almost always lead to returns, provided that a portfolio is diversified enough. Smoking, taking opiates recreationally, etc. almost always lead to premature death.

Robinhood (and Wall Street overall) isn't beyond criticism, but this seems like a particularly bonkers analogy.
> Ballots are numbered, so if a bunch of sequential ones all are the same you can see it.

Who could see it, specifically?

> The process for this was all decided before the election.

The Texas lawsuit is about exactly this; they allege that the process (including things like signature verification) was not in fact followed.

(Or at least that's my understanding. I claim no expertise!)
That's sometimes called "Just Asking Questions", and is sometimes a passive-aggressive way of arguing with someone. You don't state a position, you just ask (leading) questions, without ever stating a position that can be refuted. When someone calls you on it, you say that you're "just asking questions".

It can be a real dishonest, manipulative technique. You're running close enough to that to set off peoples' defense mechanisms. So, even if you're doing it in complete innocence, if you want to not have people upset with the way you're carrying out the conversation, change your style.
> By defaulting to its search engine instead of Google on its devices, Apple will open itself to monopoly criticism from competition commissions in a variety of markets.

So if they use their non-monopoly share of the phone market to form a real competition against Google’s actual monopoly on search, that will be frowned upon?
Interesting. If this isn't an interaction between a high-divinity moral foundation individual and a low-divinity individual.
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Yes and no.

For a contract to be binding, there has to be consideration [1] from both parties.

[1]: https://www.australiancontractlaw.com/contractlaw/formation-...

>Consideration is the price that is asked by the promisor in exchange for their promise – the price for a promise.

>In many jurisdictions consideration is not an essential element of a contract – it is sufficient that parties have reached a binding agreement. However, the common law requires that (subject to limited exceptioins), for an agreement to be binding, the promisee (or promisees) must provide consideration (payment of some kind) for the promise they have received.

>As a result, gratuitous promises are generally not enforceable.
The causation has deniability built into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_(terrorism)#Stochast...
google doesnt have a search monopoly because bing is the default on internet explorer
There is no equivalence between Gore in 2000 and Trump in 2020. Gore demanded a recount of the exceedingly close outcome in Florda, one which hinged in large part on the accurate counting of the dreadful butterfly ballot. Gore at no time said, nor pressured anyone else to say, 'Its all fraud! Throw out all the votes and have the legislature put my elector slate in'
Ask HN: I want to teach myself Machine Learning. Where should I start?
I just graduated from high school this past June, and due to a number of factors, I have elected to take a gap year and not attend college yet. I'm technologically fluent, but I don't have a lot of programming experience (I plan on learning more as I go, though.)

I want to learn to create, experiment with, modify, design, train, etc-- neural networks and machine learning models, but I don't know where to start. Rather than just blindly trusting Google search, I thought I'd ask HN since many of you do this stuff for a living!

Machine learning is so, so exciting to me, and and the possibilities with it seem endless. What resources would you recommend I dive into to teach myself about it?

I'm being vague here because I know there's a lot of different branches in the field and I'm still not sure which ones I'm most interested in.

That said, image/audio/text manipulation or synthesis and simulation are of particular interest to me (I'm a big fan of Two Minute Papers)

If you took the time to read this, thank you! HN has changed my life and introduced me to so many new ideas and resources already :)

Looking forward to any and all responses.

EDIT: Realized it might be worth it to mention that the current extent of my knowledge on the topics is limited to "grab a big dataset, create a model, refine the model through some kind of regression, then test with unfamiliar data." I also understand that there's a tooonnn more than just that available (i.e. GANs/synthesis etc).
I can also claim in court that I have been wronged by an ethnic group, and that the proper remedy for that is genocide. Again - "there's a pending court case alleging this" is not a reason not to take down that kind of content. The decision needs to be on the merits of the actual content.
Of course hysteria is not a new phenomenon, but hysteria perpetuated by instant-gratification digital social networks absolutely is a new phenomenon.

Recognizing the dubious assumptions upon which the Iraq war started should provide perspective to people debating the merits of modern wars and their motivations.

This project is not meant to encourage people to ignore the present...it's meant to provide additional perspective for understanding the present from the past.
nothing there.
If you know what you want to learn it's easy to choose books, like you did with Cold War/Atomic Bomb. Healthy curiosity and research skills (to find the books worth reading for a topic) are all that's needed.
It's at https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163048/2020...

Look for "Declaration of Charles J. Cicchetti"
Indie email providers in the privacy age
You have a UI bug: dismissing the modal recipe popup isn’t entirely reliable, and the site can get stuck in a state that doesn’t allow user interaction. This even survives the back button.
That wasn't the point the person you are responding to was trying to get across... unless you somehow think everything you believe is 100% true.
China launches a bunch of obsolete rockets with relatively small capacities. Long march 3 has half the capacity of a Falcon 9, Long March 2 is about one seventh the payload capacity.

They should be justly proud of their robotic lunar missions though.
I have a feeling those Steam hardware surveys are total bullshit. I've been using Steam on two Linux systems for the past several years and never got a single request to fill a survey, not once. This experience mirrors what I read from other Linux users.

But when I reboot into Windows to spend a couple of hours in that one game which refuses to work under Proton, I immediately receive a request to fill a survey. I've seen at least a half dozen of them in that very same time frame.
Really love this, but I do see that there are some formatting issues on some recipes. I found that when I was looking into recipe-scraping solutions there were only certain compatible sites since they were formatted so differently, and often they would have to make updates for sites that their their formatting.

Impressive all the same! Keen to dive into the source and learning a bit.
No, I'm commenting on Elon Musk's comment. I would have taken a humble: "Sorry, we blew up this (literally), but we're gonna get better after learning from our mistake." You blow things up, you fail. No excuses, sorry! Don't start a test knowing it most certainly will fail! Start a test when you're a lot more confident!
> I don't see the equivalence. One of those has the potential of causing very immediate panic and potential injury

Wide scale misinformation about election fraud could result in a mini civil war. I don't see how you could be so sanguine about that.
Honda has robots, maybe they're monetized in other countries
That's funny in a way because it's literally Pinker's first argument against: "Cognitive biases inflate the subjective odds of disaster: If a scenario is imaginable, it seems probable."
i don't think free speech applies on managed internet apps. If people are promoting fake news, it should be deleted, if they don't like it they can create their own YouTube that doesn't censor fake news.
Except that X and Y can't be exactly the same thing when X is content-based censorship of political speech, because then a law requiring X would be unconstitutional. So they threaten a Y which is not quite the same but still nothing they want, in order to make them do X anyway.
Maybe the scene was switched because two of the three cameras in that view had...just blown up?
Any Comcast subscriber could park in front of her house and use her wifi to log in, using those published credentials. Nothing ties the broadcast to her.

She had no reason to do it. But people she embarrassed did.
Mueller expressly said that Justice Dept doesn't go after a sitting President. Hopefully, he will get his day in court after Jan 20, 2021 (no resign + pardon shenanigans). That should set the record straight whether 2016 and 2020 are the same allegations (they are not!).
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He and his companies are all over.
BO has never launched anything into orbit.

It has plans to someday build a competitor to the 13 year old Falcon 9.

Oh and Bezos started BO before SpaceX, and has given it substantially more funding.