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>lots of distros to test

Nobody forces developers to test under anything but Ubuntu. The community will work around any remaining problems on other distributions if necessary.
Kids are “failing” online learning
I'm having trouble parsing your reply. Google/Alphabet employees overwhelmingly support left-of-center politicians and causes. Management is aligned with the establishment New Left Democrats and the workers are split between populist New Leftists (e.g. Warren) and the socialists (e.g. Bernie).
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I think it’s very hard to argue against trap-neuter-return programs or even trap-foster-adopt programs without coming off as a pretty extreme radical. I’m genuinely curious in what sort of arguments one could come up with other than consent and autonomy absolutism. To my untrained eye, that level of support for animal autonomy seems like it could only be informed by an almost Disney-esque anthropomorphism.

The world out there is a cruel, terrifying place. I’ve heard plenty of wild birds and rabbits scream in agony when killed by feral cats, right outside my window.
Affidavits are not evidence if you never submit them. Rudy Giuliani has been going around having people signing affidavits that he never subits to court as evidence (they would then be subject to perjury laws). I can't believe this tactic is fooling some literate people.
It's unclear if you realise, but this isn't the same thing at all.

SCOTUS settles interstate disputes all the time. But one of the things they look at before they hear a dispute is if the dispute can be settled in a lower court.

In this case, Texas is complaining about the way otehr states conduct their affairs. The normal course to do this would be via the states courts (that is literally what they exist for).

It's very unclear why SCOTUS would hear this instead of directing Texas to file in the state courts.

(There's also the question of standing, but that's another hurdle Texas would have to overcome)
No it crashes constantly for me. Created my character and now the game won’t load. Resinstalled and it still doesn’t work.
Google Cloud Infrastructure Components Incident #20011
No, if you can't afford $3k, you can't afford to day-trade. Other people have other risk tolerances.
Nothing in the parent post claims it was "engineered in a lab". Being accidentally released from a lab is not inconsistent with being "natural born".

I think this is still highly unlikely, but it is annoying seeing people talking past each other on this point.
"All Cloud Platform resources in europe-west2-a may be unreachable as of 2020-12-09 18:32 US/Pacific."
In this case, they are following the judgment of lots and lots of experts, just like with COVID.
If I'm reading correctly, the bet covered events in a period of 4 years. Given this, I think Pinker had the better side of the wager. Of course, with hindsight he was wrong, but with hindsight I'm a lottery winner.

With any starting year between 2000 and 2016, Pinker would have won. I'd guess that's the case for the next decade, too.
2 is possible with CloudFlare workers. I think 1 is as well.
Despite the down votes, your point is salient, and a great one. It's similar to how medical officials and the media lied about masks are ineffective because they wanted to save them for medical professionals. Or how they claimed that vaccines are 100% safe, when there are in fact rare but existent severe side effects.

They think the people are too stupid to understand, so they lie to them "for their own good", which ends up backfiring and causing people to believe the opposite, because people have good bullshit detectors even when they aren't very well educated.
Depends where in Texas and where in California no? If you grew up outside Bakersfield and then moved to Austin for college would the reverse not also be true?
Love the idea here. Would love to see how perishable items like current affairs do when posted anachronistically.
It's not censorship because Facebook is a private business, they can delete what they want, and if a post, meme, etc are full of dis/misinformation (from either party!) then it's perfectly within their rights to remove it as it damages their reputation and the enjoyment of the platform by customers. I for one am all for it. If I don't like what's going on I will simply stop using facebook. I stopped using it once for 6 months and they never sent booted thugs to my home, so they're doing just fine by me.
Similarly, he doesn’t want his space ships to be in transit or grounded for repairs for a long time because that represents inventory.

There were some old ideas about how an interplanetary civilization would work, and in particular shipping, and now I understand better why we are still stuck on the ground. We are a long way from having ships so cheap that we can have them just floating around on ballistic orbits.
Ok, the Docker client stuff is not always exciting but once you want to deploy something small, say, an app server, a DB and something like nginx or Traefik you need some orchestrator, eg k8s and then you need again images. If you prefer containerd over Docker also good.

What I am saying is which orchestration and deployment system does favor single executables atm and has a huge ecosystem? You still need to create images and do double the work. I like real binaries like Go creates but repackaging the run-time doesn't sound like a sophisticated idea but rather making the black box even bigger.

As a sibling said, for client side/3rd party apps, yeah this might be a nice-to-have but this space has rather other challenges.
Exactly. And apparently their order flow compensation differs in a key way — they make more money not just based on how often you trade, but on the size of the bid-ask spread.

> Also, Robinhood’s compensation model differs from E-Trade and other firms. As an analysis by the investment bank Piper Sandler put it this summer, “Robinhood receives a fixed rate per spread (vs. a fixed rate per share by the other eBrokers).”
She also claimed she was previously going to sue Google. She claimed it loudly and publicly. As long as we’re accounting...
I couldn't find the quote in your citation 1 so I looked it up.x

"...we're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charolottesville, Virginia. We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, on many sides."

https://youtu.be/CMQWJDVg8PA?t=48

It seems like that is condemning the white supremacist doing the murdering, among others.
Sometime it's not that easy, if it depends on third-party closed source code they can't do it unless all parties agree to it.
Not sure why ppl are downvoting you. Its as if they don't experience with on the job bullying.
This is all false. The S and P 500 was breaking records before Covid.

The s and p 500 is actually breaking records now WITH Covid.

Pretty much everything you just said seems to be inaccurate and no citations are provided.

The corporations are doing great.

The small businesses and individuals are being crushed.
No, he didn't apologize for the dismissal. Parse the sentence. The "this" in "I'm sorry for this" is not for the dismissal, but for the reaction to it:

"I’ve heard the reaction to Dr. Gebru’s departure loud and clear: it seeded doubts and led some in our community to question their place at Google. I want to say how sorry I am for that, and I accept the responsibility of working to restore your trust."

That is the only use of "sorry" or "apology" in the entire memo.
with all due respect sir (or madam) we live in a capitalist society
I did that! Feel free to take a look at https://garlictoum.com - it crawls recipe sites and indexes them while providing some nice filtering!
Newspapers are static publications, and are not primarily engaged in the business of distributing third party content, so the comparison doesn't work. But if the newspaper had interactive functions, and had billed itself as an open platform where opinions of any kind could be published (as is the case with YouTube), then yes, censorship would become a thorny legal issue for them.

Further, one of the big problems here is that YouTube didn't do this of its own accord. Agents of the government - Democratic Senators in this case, who signed the letter in their official capacity - pressured the company into suppressing free speech that they simply didn’t like. That is a clear violation of the Constitution.
You are attacking me personally and contributing nothing rational about the issues. So, you look like a troll.

There was E. Bernays and his idea of a narrative as the basis of a propaganda campaign. Well, the mainstream media (MSM), e.g., ABC, AP, Boston Globe, CBS, CNN, LAT, MSNBC, NBC, NYT, Reuters, The Atlantic, WaPo, WSJ, seem to have signed up to push the Bernays narrative. In a few words, the narrative is "Orange Man Bad". No meaningful data, no reasonable rationality, just an attack. Next there is the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Dr. Josef Goebbels with his

"If you tell a lie often enough, then people will believe it. Eventually even you will come to believe it."

So, the second part of the propaganda effort is to repeat the narrative lies over and over. Eventually a lot of people come to believe, or come to believe that others believe so that there must be something to it or that they must at least fit in. Here is an example of the media pushing the narrative with repeating lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ab6uxg908&feature=youtu.be

I hope that right away you saw that you were watching propaganda and refused to watch again. The MSM is desperate and about to go out of business. Apparently they sold out cheap.

Some people stand to get big money and power if Biden will actually do all he has proposed, e.g., sending US companies and jobs out of the country and bringing cheap products and labor into the country.

Really the people to get the benefits from Biden are under 1% of the population -- essentially everyone else in the US will be worse off, much worse off than with Trump. Still the MSM keep pushing the Bernays narrative with the Goebbels repetition.

Now a lot of people have bought into the propaganda or are just being paid off to be trolls for the propaganda.

Apparently there is a lot of money involved, enough to buy off the MSM and a lot of people.

If you are being paid to help destroy the US, it's not enough. If you are not being paid, it's time you woke up.

A lot of social media, sadly including HN, is fertile ground for trolls. It is important for the rest of us to down vote the trolls.
That's just my opinion, but here is what I think:

I already believe that at least 90-95% of those claims are BS, and no one had to convince me to believe anything. However, considering the fact how many people seriously consider Trump to be the next Hitler, there is no doubt in my mind that someone for sure did try to cheat is some way. Another question is whether there was enough of it to change the outcome and to that - I have no idea.

The most damning thing for me is preventing poll observers from challenging the ballots. This fact alone makes the election illegitimate, as far as I am considered. Poll observers should be there to ensure that there is no fraud in the first place, and without that it's really hard to figure out what happened. If the poll observers were allowed to do their job, I don't think I could complain about anything.

Regarding the judges throwing them out, this is my understanding of the situation: First, people are claiming that Trump lost 60 or however many lawsuits. That's just not true, his team haven't filed anywhere close that number.of lawsuits. Second, the evidence wasn't yet presented, allegedly because the courts didn't gave them the chance to do so yet. But I guess it's possible that it's just propaganda from the Trump side, so I have no idea on this one either.

And could you please look again at that Nahshon Garrett affidavit, exhibit 2? Doesn't that mean that "he" in fact did voted in AZ?
This is the same platform that runs obviously scammy ads of Vitalik Butherin Ethereum giveaways for months at the time.
Ads, not even content.
I wonder how they plan to monitor elections claims.
What Did the Past Smell Like?
Thanks!

Hope your life is better now!
> WhatsApp makes voice and video calls. How does it affect me that it's part of FB? How is my life improved if its not? Another voice/video app will somehow thrive?

WhatsApp used to have strong guarantees against tracking (and ads) as long as they were independent.

They were wildly profitable and was my favorite messaging service until Facebook bought them.

Now I reluctantly use Telegram, but I'd much rather have something like WhatsApp back were I can pay real money for the service instead of paying with my metadata.
In your opinion, where is the most room for improvement in post trade ops, including clearing and settlement? How do you disrupt those entrenched parties that aren’t too enthusiastic about system efficiency improvements?
I was actually really impressed with the Stadia lag when playing Destiny using a Chromecast and the Stadia controller. I saw image compression but the lag and framerate were very good. Not just playable but good.
Nope, as soon as Zoom acquired it I left. Security and privacy without transparency isn't a good match.
Both what are true? Have you ever lived in Texas?

Yes the like most urban areas they trend left and more ethnically diverse. Thus Texas is also trending left. I'm not sure what your point is.

Is your point that change is coming for Texas? I totally agree with that, but I think it's going to be a longer and harder fight than most think. From my experience a lot of the white population there are some of the worse bigots I've ever met.

My point was it's not a very free state, lol there are just certain specific things allowed. And it has low taxes so it's great if you're already rich and successful.
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I don’t really understand the argument that taking away free speech will somehow prevent acts of violence. Violence is illegal regardless of if you saw it in a YouTube video or not.

As a matter of great irony to folks in the tech industry, this same argument was being used in the 1990s to ban violent video games. Of course it failed, because it was a terrible idea and was based on debunked science.
In AGL, or above ground level, it's still 0.
I don't think YouTube has to be the arbiter of truth. Or of what people are allowed to talk about. But I think they definitely should be the arbiter of what they're comfortable supporting on their platform. As you're proving right now, they are far from the only platform.
America is really big on freedom of speech. That's why the Senators can't order YouTube to do this, they can only request.

They could also request (but not order) Russia Today, Fox News, One America News Network, and Stormfront to do some basic fact-checking on the videos they host; but that would be a complete waste of the Senators' time, so they don't bother with the request.
I'm open to people making their own minds instead of the government banning things in general!

We don't need daddy government'to keep us safe' or do things 'in our best interest'.

Every restriction of freedom is always couched as improving safety.
"released from a lab" and "engineered in a lab" are two different things. Leaking a sample you took from some cave full of bats is one but not the other.
I did not downvote you but I was tempted to for the ridiculous Bush v. Gore remark. Bush v. Gore was a 0.009% difference in a state where both sides agreed that there were problems with a large number of ballots. The poorly designed ballots made it impossible to ever determine who a large number of voters intended to vote for. The dispute was over how to handle that. This is not even remotely like any other major disputed election.
I think any ethical discussion on this also needs to consider the similar practice of eating human placenta, though note that there is not very solid evidence of any mainstream widespread practice.

Note that some animals regularly eat their own placenta.
I mean, it's a founding document? It wouldn't be in there unless there was general agreement it is important?

That's a bit of a silly question.
Please send me use-cases as well
it is unfortunate, but NYT is starting to read like a tabloid newspaper...
So what do we do? From where can we possibly derive knowledge?

I would assert that, collectively, we have a vested interest in determining what's knowable about the material world. We have a tradition of allowing particularly well suited people to spend the majority of their waking lives in the detailed study of difficult to understand phenomena.

We have experts, in other words.

We have a political process that encourages the cultivation of experts and even has rules allowing for personal consequences for when experts and politicians breach ethical standards.

Is it here where we disagree? Should there, indeed, be no ethical standards to which we hold out experts?

Asking honestly, bc I don't follow your argument. Maybe I'm completely off base.
Mod: In trying to be a good contributor to this HN thread, I've been attacked by the trolls and lost 8 points of karma.

I will give the thread to the trolls.

Please delete all my posts to this thread.
I can only conclude from reading him that his job is to tell me that my eyes are playing tricks on me and everything is going well.
My mix is 60% pre1950, 30% 1950-2010, 10% new. Nonfiction and poetry, English language.

Archive.org or any other public domain pdf source is great for pre1930 texts and I often end up buying them used in paper form. (They are very cheap in Fair/Acceptable condition...university paper libraries are shrinking...now is the time to buy them)

For PD texts, the author will often cite one or two other works in the body of the text. If you liked the original work, you will probably like the in-body cited texts. And you can quickly download a copy for free and see. Spider along the recommendations. This is great for “many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”.

For favorite authors, there are usually interviews, or even whole books, available where the author describes works they like. You would probably like the same works too. Nowadays, you may be able to contact the (living) author directly for suggestions. Works about literature, writers, genres are another source. And bibliographies for more academic writing. Sometimes someone has written an annotated bibliography on a subject if you want to be thorough.

Please don’t “optimize” reading for pleasure. The heart chills at the word.

I have never, in my 60 years of reading, ever bought a book because it was on a bestseller list. When I see that monicker on a book, I instinctively avoid it unless I have already discovered it in some other way. It reminds me of junk food advertisements and they can be gamed. I have never regretted following that policy. Nor have I ever been interested in, nor would follow, the book recommendations of celebrities outside of their expertise.
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If you go to the Hacker News story about the FL researcher who was just arrested at gunpoint, there was a thread about Aaron Swartz and plea deals.

>Our plea bargain system is so lopsided that 97% of criminal charges end with a guilty plea without a trial. Even if she is 90% sure of winning at trial, unless she has a million dollars lying around and a deathwish, it STILL isn't worth it to fight the system. - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=btilly

I have heard a large number of people express the same opinion and statistics but have noticed the they are quiet when it comes to Flynn.

I think if people have committed crimes, then they need to be prosecuted but also that it is better for 10 guilty to go free than 1 innocent to be sentenced.

I think what has happened to Carter Page and the sentencing guidelines for Kevin Clinesmith are a joke. As the sibling comment said

>Let's make distrusting the intelligence agencies cool again.
Unless he buys a really big house he will enjoy the regressive nature of property and sales taxes.
Also, it is probably possible to narrow down pin codes by looking at the surface of the phone for finger prints/screen damage. At least on Android, the unlock will appear in the same location every time and unless your pin uses every digit, there will be heavier use in some areas. It is unfortunate that stock android does not rotate the input keypad, I believe some ROMS (AICP?) would do this and thus eliminate this attack surface.
It's a predatory tactic, and it works. Like in nature, being ruthless and cynical in software development pays off. The rest is ornamental bloviation.
They weren't indicted for russian collusion. Your comment should be deleted for misinformation.
We just had a massive natural experiment in loosening voting laws that showed that “voter suppression” is less extensive than many people assume. Take Georgia for example. Turnout was up 20% compared to 2016. But the Black share of the electorate went down again, to the lowest levels since 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/17/upshot/georgi.... What flipped Georgia was white voters in the Atlanta collar suburbs—and 100,000 people who voted for Biden but a Republican (or not at all).

And that’s exactly what you would expect from the data. Georgia is one of the few states in the country where Black voter registration rates are equal to registration rates for whites: https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/voting-and-voter-r.... (California, by contrast, has a 12 point difference in Black-white registration rates.) In 2018, the Black voter turnout rate was actually 2 points higher than the white voter turnout rate in Georgia. It makes total sense that as you increase turnout, you’re going to see roughly the same demographics.

Same thing in Texas. 87% of votes were cast by mail in ballot. Turn out was up almost 7 points compared to 2016. But Trump earned basically the same percentage of the vote as in 2016, with Biden gaining a few points from winning people who voted third party last time: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/04/texas-voter-turnout-...

Democrats have this idea that voter suppression is preventing more minorities from coming out (and voting Democrat). But what the data seems to suggest in Georgia and Texas is that people who want to vote are already voting. Making it easier to vote or having a high states election will increase turnout, but by dipping into a pool of lower propensity voters who don’t look all that different demographically than the people who were already voting.
Anecdote but I get asked yearly and I've been running steam on Linux and windows for the past 11 years (Linux much later after this).
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If Trump wills it to be "truth" that he won the election then that will indeed cause a lot of damage. This effort is extremely damaging.
Because then the likelihood of the event occurring increases so significantly that it becomes uninteresting to wager about.
What is the actual point of telling people to not be excited about watching technological progress happening in front of their very eyes..? It's certainly not to temper expectations that things may take longer than people expect (because it certainly shouldn't take _that_ many words to say something so simple).. does it just make you feel smart or something?

> This perception is mixed with a more dangerous one that the Starship is in a league of its own. It's not. Blue Origin's work and approach may be superior in the long run, as they're designing mission specific vehicles that are optimised to their context.

Has Blue Origin even gotten a rocket into orbit yet?
I do not think Doordash is useful, I'm fine with picking up my own food. I also think that Doordash is an example of a business that is lowering the bar for what's considered entry-level employment and will result in erosion of the consumer base and eventual economic or social crisis. Only time will tell.
integration of silicon valley values with mid western values.