skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a husky a few years ago that managed to find a dead animal and roll in the rotting guts every time we went to the beach. The worst was when she B-lined for a rancid dead seal and rolled in it. She loved it, but the smell was almost as hard as skunk spray to get out of her fur.
The revenues will go down after covid. Unless they lobby no-vaccine.
I feel like this approach addresses a symptom but not the root problem. How can people regain a shared truth and stop becoming so polarized while still prioritizing freedom of expression?
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This +1000

My food is regularly delivered incorrectly or missing and they refuse to refund the fees. What is beyond fucked up to me; is that they increase the fees based on what I buy. So they charge me for something and then refuse to refund it. I just don't know how it's even legal to bill me for something and then not provide it. I need to write my congressman again and state senators about this shit again.

Oh the the higher prices? Those are probably going directly to doordash to... I mean DoorDash and its ilk are quickly becoming the cable companies of modern SAAS businesses.
Come on. Possibility of a problem is say Arch, rock stable is Debian / CentOS. There are certainly bugs in the later too, but I never experienced any in 15 years since I run a dozen Linux servers in production.
At least for paint, there are equivalents in other browsers. -webkit-canvas serves the same purpose in Safari as paint worklets do in Chromium.

Standardizing these APIs is a good thing, because it empowers people to make use of them.

Looks like there's a polyfill that lets you use the same paint worklet across the major engines: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-paint-polyfill
> believe that risk is reduced because we're application software instead of infrastructure software.

Why do you believe this? My project uses self-hosted gitlab (ancient version) and I frankly have a very hard time seeing it as anything other than infrastructure. Maybe we just don't push our use of gitlab a lot (to be fair, we don't push it at all).
Remind me of the abortion restrictions in Texas again ?
You really need to read a political science report.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-repu...
>you make it sound like you're raising cattle for yourself or something

To me, it sounds more like they identified common trends and desires within young people in Europe, determined those desires to be beneficial/making sense, and are trying to give their kid the prep needed to execute on those desires in the future, in case the kid decides that this is what they want to do.

Sounds pretty normal to me, I would only raise an alarm if the parent commenter was just pushing this against the child's wishes. But just giving the prep needed is not in itself wrong. Especially when it comes to something as useful as english language, which will serve the kid very well even if they decide to spend the rest of their life in EU.

P.S. Yes, I wish I got more english prep when I was a kid, because doing it all in my late teens was not the most pleasant experience on earth, because at that point in life you got tons of other worries that every other teenager has, on top of worrying about english (college entrance exams/standardized testing, schoolwork, etc.).
8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest
Pre YC-Application they went through Stanford's Startup Garage. Worked out a bunch of challenges selling Macaroons to students. "Delightful Delivery" was their early tagline. The Macaroons were a delight.
Look at film reels or images from, say, the 1950s. Better yet find one of relatively rural parts of the US. You'll be hard pressed to find an obese person, yet if you took the same picture today in many of those places you'd see a majority of obese people, many grotesquely so.

So what, did people magically lose all willpower and discipline in the past 60 years? Of course not, but we have instead build up a society, both around industrialized food and sedentary lifestyles, that is basically geared to make people fat.

Similarly, while "discipline and willpower" may work for any one individual, it is completely useless as societal-wide advice, mainly because it's been proven over decades that this advice (again, societal-wide) doesn't work: we've been saying this same thing for years and yet Americans are as fat as ever. What's that definition of insanity again?
Is youtube a platform or a publisher?
I've noticed that they have been trying to get away with partial refunds and are now making you complain longer / threaten a charge back to get the full refund.
I agree that their tactics were terrible. Their concerns are mainly about optics and they get caught up in their own coattails.

But you can't claim that they weren't trying to use legitimate means to remove him from office. That is just absurd.
> All I come in contact with, living in middle income suburbs, is panhandlers at intersections.

Not sure what you mean by "panhandlers" - please clarify?
Generalize BDDs to multiway decision diagrams: instead of binary trees on 0 and 1, make n-ary trees on a bigger alphabet. (You probably want to represent the nodes sparsely, not |alphabet| pointers in every node.)

This can directly represent a regex with | operators but not Kleene star. The DD canonicalization automatically makes this structure share suffixes, but not prefixes.
Everyone makes mistakes, and having real testing infrastructure is the best way to catch it.

Many mistakes are made against databases; maybe you can roll back, maybe you can't -- either way, it's cheaper in testing than production.
I personally don't like `curl | bash` because I don't know _how_ something will install:
1) What are all of the directories that something will insert itself into?
2) What of my files (.bashrc, etc.) will it modify?
3) If it modifies those things, will it tell me?

The `curl | bash` install pattern means that it can do _anything_.

Using a package manager I know that the install will be "typical", and easy to uninstall (that's the case with most of the package managers that I use anyways). Each package manager has a different pattern, sure, but at least it will be predictable.
Disgusting. YouTube has profiteered via ad revenue on these videos for over a month and now that it's dying down they want to be the last ones through the door and say "hey we're against this stuff we're the good guys."

They stand for free speech as long as it suits them and they stand against misinformation when it doesn't, the fucking sociopaths.
I don't have time to delve into this (delving would be required as I don't have the knowledge on tap) and respond to it, but have upvoted anyway; whether I agree or disagree with this or some of your other comments, your eloquence is appreciated!
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This is interesting, considering California is the biggest market for electric car in the US. Half of all electric cars sold in the US were sold in California.
Everyone who tries to predict alternative universes will get it wrong.

You say that because there was BSD, apple could have OSX and not license Solaris or what not.

I say that without BSD licenses, Apple would have OSX with proper open source and up to date releases. Heck they did that with the kernel and most of the distro for a while.
wow, even stooping as low as to quoting eyeo (the people behind AdBlock Plus), whose business model is to extort money out of you if you don't want to be blocked (their "approved ads" list)

the annoucement of manifest v3 moved me to firefox, glad to see I didn't waste my effort
>> has suppression or censorship ever worked to quench dissonance.

Yes. Absolutely it has. It's naive to think that censorship, propaganda and such never work. They're not absolutes, certainly. But thinking of these as impotent and doomed is a dangerous naivety.

Chris Hitchens had a great piece about banned literature like Orwell in Czechoslovakia: More people seemed to have read it than in the west. There are plenty of examples where censorship fails.

That said, thinking that it always fails is dangerous. There's a reason censorship exists by default unless it's explicitly banned. There's a reason why strong censorship (heresy bans) exists in all monotheistic religions. Not only have they had an effect, but it's a defining feature of the religion and (IMO) the reason why these have taken over the whole world.

It matters what the top papers print, top channels run, and what appears (or does not) on social media. It may not be a predictable and mechanical effect, but censorship is not inert.

That said, we tend to overuse the word "censorship." The difference between an editor and a censor is reach. If the editor of newspaper X edits all newspapers, they are a censor. Youtube is wading into the murky gray area of this dichotomy.
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English isn't an official EU language anymore, the only country that chose it was UK.

https://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-offic...
What process exists for fact-checking independent analysts? Most have zero accountability and have even less incentive to verify claims because 1) It takes time and money 2) Often does not serve their own political agendas and subscriber bases/income streams

Yes, placing our complete trust in a few major media outlets to accurately report the facts is naive. But believing that individuals with no independent fact checking department or an editor to enforce journalistic standards will somehow be less biased is even more naive.
The market doesn’t contemplate your reality and it doesn’t reflect you.

Which is to say, pointing out that it’s expensive and you’d never use it without a coupon and for that reason find the business model not sustainable does not reflect how millions of other people think about and use the service, and how the market responds.
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> that is just managerial incompetence

Isn't this making a bit of a leap? Management could be correctly measuring that keeping load times below 1s will cost them $10m/year and yield them $1m/year in increased revenue (made up numbers for the sake of example, of course), i.e. making improvements would have negative ROI.

I'd love for the console to be faster, but it's already way better than AWS (I haven't tried Azure so can't comment there) so I'm not sure I'd want to increase my cloud spend just to get better load times.

There's a general cognitive bias on HN where performance is assumed to be a feature that your product _must_ have, because we bias heavily towards individuals that appreciate good craftsmanship in our tools. I like well-crafted tools too, but it's important to keep in mind that the ROI on polishing a tool isn't always there, and that's one of the realities of life in a world of scarcity with limited resources to be allocated.

This is just speculation of course, it could well be that GCP's management is incompetent, and they haven't measured the dollar-per-unit-performance tradeoff; my point is that I don't think you've substantiated the claims of incompetence, rather you've assumed that the ROI on performance improvements must be positive. I know Google has done such experiments on the loading time for search results, I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows the details about whether this has been done in GCP.
Reminds me of Game Dev Tycoon's clever anti-piracy trick, where they released a "cracked" version of the game on file sharing sites shortly after launch. The "crack" disabled the copy protection but also changed the gameplay so that NPCs would pirate your products in-game and drive you out of (virtual) business.
I don't know how this is related to Elon Musk's decision, but:

Most of those have the exception clauses like "repeat offenses" or "imminent danger" (except prostitution) which sounds much more reasonable than how it's been described.

The message this sends to "those committing criminal behavior" hasn't really changed. If they have been committing criminal behavior, they will be charged, because repeat offenses are an exception.

More likely, this sends the message "doing a mistake once won't ruin your life forever" and "sex work isn't a crime".
What's weird with all the vaguely partisan/culture-war outrage going on here about California is that from the perspective of partisan divide a transfer of tech industry employment from CA to TX (which is absolutely happening, and has been for some time) is objectively a good thing for the "left". TX is likely to follow VA and CO into blue state status sometime in the next decade because of it.
Maybe I chose a poor example - I didn't mean that "potentially saving lives" is the only important metric.

What I meant was that giving a platform to Trump's deranged claims is harming the fabric of society, eroding trust in each other and in the society itself, sowing discord, and widens the opportunity for an aspiring tyrant to seize the public's interest, declare a bunch of "undesirables" as enemy of the state, and infringe upon individual rights while his supporters cheer him on. (And also kill some lives along the way.)

Just like censorship could potentially lead to a similar kind of outcome.

So, the danger of "censorship", in our current context, should be gauged against the danger of "non-censorship" in the same context.
>> If you are in an environment in which someone else can physically access your device (like an airport), don't bring it with you.

Agreed.

After going to a few infosec conferences and getting flagged on way home, I started doing this now whenever I travel, no exceptions. Full disclosure: I'm a web developer. I have little if any connections to known hackers or highly public Blue Team members; so I'm still not sure why I got flagged, detained and all my electronic devices (smartphone, laptops, storage devices) seized and searched.

I now use an old windows Lumia 950. No fingerprint sensor, fake email accounts set up for the outlook app and I use a vpn with the mobile IE version on the phone to access web mail accounts. Still get texts ok, but if I need to save something, I just log into my email, copy/paste then delete the texts before I get to the airport.

If I'm stopped now, I can be totally compliant and still have somewhat peace of mind they won't have anything worthwhile.

Since Windows has long since killed off its smartphones, they are easy to get a hold of on ebay and elsewhere. The other nice thing is I'm not sure Microsoft is even tracking users data on these phones anymore so you might have a nice advantage that way too.

Not 100% the best solution, but better than most.
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> What's tricky about it? ... The public has to search through garbage to find the truth.

"The public" is not some perfectly rational collection of human beings. Rather, it's droves of people susceptible to propaganda and misinformation campaigns.

Let's be clear: there was no widespread election fraud, certainly not by large enough margins to overturn the election. Videos that purport otherwise are not improving public discourse; in fact, they're causing it to disintegrate.

I agree that Youtube should not have carte blanche to remove content that it finds objectionable
per its own capricious standards. But that doesn't mean it should have no discretion at all. Truth seeking must be grounded in reality; these spurious claims of fraud are not.
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He is an unreliable narrator, for sure. But more than his claim about whether he was brainwashed, does he sound like the kind of person who just mindlessly clicked from Youtube to Youtube, accepting every claim uncritically? Does he sound like the kind of person who can't be trusted to think for themselves? Engineer is a common profession for terrorists. Regular, thoughtful people can radicalize themselves, and censoring the masses to stop that is a power grab in search of a problem.
Is that really any different from any other state, including California? Rural vs urban culture are completely different in every state in America. As Californians we still insulate ourselves from rural culture. The only difference in California those counties don't form the bulk of the electorate while in Texas they do. We still have the same problem: a cultural divide between rural and urban.
Saying that legalese is not intentionally obtuse is the real flex :)
It's pretty accurate. I would never want a jury trial because of how easily the common American can be manipulated. Reports now indicate that 3/4 of GOP members won't accept the outcome even though the closest state is nowhere near the 500 vote margin Gore lost by in 2000. That's how the modern propaganda machine leads the gullible.
And as someone who uses both DoorDash and Skip the Dishes, those weirdly only ever happen to me on DoorDash.
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Big Blue Button is outstanding for any educators looking for tools. Full disclosure that it was built at the school I attended, we had a lot of profs use it and it was by far my favourite way to do distance learning.
Who in their right mind wants to be surrounded by blacks?
This looks like you are making stuff up.

I don't think it's a small motivation of Musk to escape the tax rate when he starts to sell his shares. Just because he vested them while in CA - if he's a resident of Texas when he sells I don't think he owes CA a dime.
It's caused by cheap money. Google's recent $10B bond offering sold at rates as low as 0.45%. When capital is this cheap, the math to make acquisitions work is easy. If rates rise to say 5%, the discounted cash flow models all fall apart. It's one more example of printing money and keeping rates near 0 increasing inequality.
Tesla's a bit unusual though - it was in the news a lot, but a lot of that news provided a short thesis.
California funds schools mostly at the state level. Other states fund schools mostly at the local level. For wealthy people living in wealthy neighborhoods, local schools are therefore richer in states where they don’t also have to contribute to funding poor people’s kids’ educations. Here’s a clear summary I found describing education funding in CA https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays

The local -> state change to the funding structure in CA a few decades ago has benefitted previously grossly underfunded schools in poorer cities, but it is a trade-off for sure. Arguably almost all of the schools statewide are now underfunded.

One problem with funding schools at the state level is that it has made it very difficult to increase school funding, because it requires support from across the state to raise taxes for it, and (a) most people in the USA are generally opposed to any taxes that they can’t see immediate direct benefit from, and (b) Prop 13 makes the bar for tax increases very high.
"We recognize there's always more to do. For example, while problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what's watched on YouTube in the U.S., we know we can bring that number down even more."

Is this really the best phrasing Youtube could come up with?

I'm betting this will not work out well long-term.
This seems to me more like another case of "death of a business model caused by revenue maximization strategy". "Open-core" does not have "non-viable" or even "must-be-bait-and-switch" stamped all over it. But if the organization using it decides that its primary goal is revenue maximization (and/or significant growth), then it becomes much more questionable how it will fare.

But isn't that the goal of any business, I hear you cry? No, it certainly is not. There are thousands of small businesses even just in the USA that are happy to work within the limitations of their situation and initial desires.
"most of the time dang unflags them" is that mechanism.

If I found a reliable way to automate the recognition of bad-faith user interactions I would sell it to google and retire before bringing it to HN.

edit: Also, apparently, users can "vouch" for posts which presumably is just the inverse of flagging a post.
Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist
Most CEOs and senior managers say this. This isn't carte blanche to undermine your superiors or break protocol.

I'm sure there's more to the story.
Yes, I see, that's fair enough.

I still don't think the policy itself is actually discriminatory: at this particular point in time that executive level has a disparity, and that's the issue, not the policy. But as that's harder to solve, should either apply the policy to all levels or not at all. I feel like it's a cheap sticky plaster, but I guess it would do. And yes, I shouldn't dismiss the criticism of it per se, though my being unsympathetic has less to do with the disparity aspect
While Irish/Gaelic language is a thing it's mostly ceremonial and people on the street know it poorly, with no knowledge to even superficial conversation. Irish language has no use in Ireland. Even tho it is "official", it's useless
Not either of the posters, but in many demographic calculations, those of Indian descent are often referred to as "Asian" or "Indian" with "Brown" often referring to African-descendant or Hispanic.
Ugh it was just working, looking into it.
Well, they are both banned in, say, Iran or Saudi Arabia... but I see your side there, for example, if they were banned in France, that would have likely saved lives, but it would also have meant a long slide down the slippery slope. For my flat-earth example, it would require the backers of the discredited argument to be taking to the streets armed, which luckily they at least haven't shown much inclination to do (and presumably why no one has really called for them to removed from public platforms).
No more so that any other big country. At least they don't bomb thousands of people a month.
That's because they're working in that state.

They're not paying California income tax because they're not working in California.
It's the same concern that Google is addressing.

Anyone can make claims. No one is required to give them a platform if there's no reason to take anything they say seriously. Until they present well-reasoned and informed arguments, they should be and are ignored by rational people.
Public, supporting evidence. The kind you would put in a court filing, for example. A non-zero amount.

Edit: I neither live in a groupthink bubble nor care about internet points. Downvote or flag away!
I'm an old fuddy-duddy. I prefer a small number of links written in text on the left, a nav sidebar. Frames or not, doesn't make a big difference to me. I am generally on a laptop with high DPI and have limited vertical resolution. The OS, window manager, browser, etc, already have a bunch of stacked bars and even in fullscreen mode there is a huge base overhead. Most sites seem to be optimized for tablets only, with massive SVG icons that are supposed to look so pretty, 20 point font, completely sparse layout for fat fingers. It's like people forgot about desktops. That is pretty annoying to me.
> they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can.

Not in the EU I was born and raised.
How is the PRC's economy going to double in the next 20 years when their working class is the largest it will _ever_ be right now? Their demographics are extremely poor, and their population pyramid is about to violently invert.
Nice to see those numbers, but in addition to that, Why not show us the page load time. Come-on Cloudflare!! This is definitely being collected from our browsers!

You always get what you pay for!