skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pair of binoculars will give a pretty good view and is much cheaper/easier/more versatile to use than a telescope. Any 7x50 is good for astronomy, and for this Jupiter/Saturn conjunction higher magnification would be better - saw these 15x70 Celestron binocs on sale at REI if you have a local store - mail order will be too slow: https://www.rei.com/product/147553/celestron-skymaster-15x70...
That's correct, many of the complaints have been dismissed for non-evidentiary reasons. The talking point that 50 cases have been dismissed is at best misleading. There have been a wide variety of complaints, in multiple jurisdictions, from multiple plantiffs, alleging a variety of facts. Drawing any single conclusion about the entirety of evidence based on this aggregation of dissimilars is tenuous at best. As they said, perhaps an example of dunning kruger in action.
"On the joyous and satisfying occasion of this, our first successful journey to Mars, we think back not only on all those who died along the way, but also on the Slack clone that allowed us avert disaster on this mission..."
bbbbut theres more Unicorn Startups!!
If you are just as poor as an illegal immigrant, you too can have free health care in california.
Prefacing your attempted justification of censorship with "I don't like what YouTube is doing." doesn't add an ounce of validity to your statement.

I am absolutely no fan of Fox News, but for you to not mention other propaganda-producing, Fake News outlets like CNN and Bloomberg is a huge hit to your credibility.

I'll openly admit I am on the conservative side of politics, but my identity isn't wrapped up in politics; that's not how I identify myself or other people. I'm surrounded by conservatives; that's my world, and guess what? There's a lot of discontent with the way election fraud claims are being handled, and despite almost every single one of them having enough firearms to supply a small militia, nobody is even remotely close to even thinking about some sort of armed resistance.

You say it's dangerous? You need to stop letting mainstream media form your perception of the world. What's dangerous is constantly race-baiting people of color like myself and white people against each other.

To people who truly love and believe in freedom, your comment is disgusting.

Wrong information must be countered and corrected by right information -- not censorship, buddy!
Fair point, I should have provided some sort of link. See the graph showing Top Messaging Apps by Country. South America, Africa, Asia is mostly Whatsapp. If you combine FB Messenger and Whatsapp, then FB controls most of the messaging market share in most regions, with a few notable exceptions like WeChat in China.

https://www.similarweb.com/corp/blog/mobile-messaging-app-ma...

And as an alternative source:

https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...
Yeah, I admit completely that I thought they were massively overpaying for Instagram at the time. I also shared the highest OP's sentiment that I didn't think FB was a good investment for the same reason (that people would migrate from FB to the next thing as fast as folks moved off of MySpace).

I was absolutely and utterly wrong on both accounts. Part of it was definitely wishful thinking, though, as I dislike FB by one or two orders of magnitude more than any other software company.

But yes, I'd say their acquisitions were not completely obvious slam dunks.

They also tried to be Snap, ofc, but my recollection is that Snap refused. Interestingly, folks have probably flip-flopped over the last few years in wondering whether that would've been good or bad for FB.
The POTUS has been telegraphing this litigation for months or even years before the election. Let's not pretend that his campaign is actually reacting to sincere revelations of fraud. They were always going to dispute the election if they lost it. So many people claim evidence of massive fraud and yet every case I can find gets laughed out of court, often by Trump appointed judges, despite massive incentives to show that evidence in court. It has gotten to the point where conspiracy theorists are literally referring to nonexistent state counties in their court filings. Frankly, it is a conspiracy theory.
Sure.

"The US Marshals killed him and I will tell you something, that's the way it has to be," Trump said, referring to Reinoehl. "There has to be retribution when you have crime like this."
Apologies for the typo, and thank you for the correction!
As far as I understand, doing that (recording meetings without notifying other participants) is a crime in California (https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632.html) and that justification does not make it permissible.

So if she admits that she did record these meetings without informing the other participants, then in this defamation case - a key part of which is about the claim in HuffingPost "She also illegally recorded internal conversations within Tesla without anyone’s permission, which is clearly criminal conduct" - she has a good chance to lose, as it's not defamation if it's true.
Fully autonomous rides operated by Waymo available to everyone in Metro Phoenix
I'm in Chicago as well. Yesterday I had to go downtown during rush hour and Lyft wanted $15. I'm not sure if this is normal (although I believe we have a hefty tax on rideshare to downtown, at least during rush hour), but at that point it's significantly cheaper to pay the $10/day or whatever that the parking garages charge (of course this isn't factoring in the cost of ownership nor is it considering other transit options).
Are you sure? Anyone remember this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/10/elon-musk...
Yeah, and that might be because Valve is too expensive for them to buy.
The pro-China party lost resoundingly in the last election. The Taiwanese are not keen on being reintegrated.
MDMA induces tolerance and requires dose escalation for redosing after the acute effects wear off. It’s like benzos, heroin, or speed in that respect. At least it will stop working eventually so few people would compulsively redose every day, but I’ve seen people who did it every weekend and eventually had a very bad time. Antidepressants, on the other hand, are designed for daily use (and generally require sustained use to be effective). The dynamic where you want more so you keep increasing your dose to fight tolerance until you end up worse than you started is less of a risk.

I don’t mean to attack MDMA. I think it’s great, and a lot of people could benefit from it. But I think this is a real issue if it’s easily available outside of a therapeutic context.
We implemented something like this on our own. We have child classes that inherit from an AR-backed parent, and on the parent we implement an instance method that transforms it (via #becomes) to the appropriate child based on the value of an attribute. The final piece is another attribute that stores a serialized object of child-specific attributes, and other methods that dynamically define attribute readers at boot time. It'll be nice to migrate to this new feature to free ourselves from the burden of that last piece in particular.
> This is a total failure of building trust in elections

Rather it's a success in tearing down that trust. And the tools used in that effort were lies like this one:

> We only know that currently 0.02% of ballots were rejected vs 6% previous elections.

See: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...

It's lies. It's all lies. You're reading lies and choosing to believe them[1]. So is it any wonder that Youtube is thinking that maybe they shouldn't have a hand in spreading those lies?

[1] As proven by your reply that the link does not "prove a lie"! That's not the way the burden of proof works. You are choosing to believe this categorical statement given to you without support. That is a "lie" in the vernacular.
Understanding other’s feelings seems to be only part you’re focusing on, but it’s not enough to have empathy. The dictionaries you’ve linked to have each a list of skills and I don’t think each stands on its own. It’s a combinations of those.
I’m sure AI already have, and cenrtainly will have it perfected in the future, an ability to “understand” feelings and emotions if I use the term “understanding” the way you do with sociopaths - the ability to analyze and act on. Certainly it can not be called empathetic.
HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chu
“Nobody suggested that Webkit isn't open.”

Yes, they did:

“WebKit is sometimes a bit closed until it reaches embargo that Apple sets.”
Why should a private company be forced to host conspiracy theories for free?
In my (somewhat limited) experience, I'd be surprised is Boston Dynamics robots are, wholesale, on the list of export control. ITAR classification isn't usually an arbitrary designation, there's typically some aspect in particular that falls under the designation. For example, non-binary source code in the robots could have the potential for export control, but almost certainly not the physical robot itself.

As an example of this, many autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are subject to export control laws. This isn't just because they can be used in an explicitly military manner (one of the most common uses is minesweeping), but because the Inertial Navigation System they use while submerged has enough sensitivity to be export controlled, since that tech can be adapted to be used in missiles. So it's not the robot that's export controlled, but the INS system inside the robot. If you took that out, most of them could be sold wherever. I believe the same thing goes for a lot of satellite technology that's export controlled.

The robots Boston Dynamics build seem to be solving a different problem, the (very hard) one of physical adaptive control in real-world environments, but imho what I've seen doesn't line up with what often seems to the reasoning for assigning an export control label, whether ITAR, EAR, or even CUI, to most of the technology.
Flash Player EOL, Adobe Announces 12-Day Grace Period
Either one is right or the market is irrational? Seems like by that logic one can never really be proven wrong.
> The cuts MUST be massive.

This is California - there will be no cuts, just massive tax increases.
Consider the case of a trader (trading firm) with a custodian bank. What's the best way to reconcile the custodian's view with one's own trading system and its backend? Recall this is important because, as the custodian does settlement, the trader doesn't want to purchase instruments with cash the custodian doesn't think it has nor purchase shares the custodian bank thinks it already has. Keeping these two matched is a real, pressing, daily problem.

Blockchain I think is an impractical, over-hyped solution that has no purchase in Fintech or even classical finance.
I'm not sure if this is what you're alluding to, but that's literally the plot to an episode of Black Mirror. The robots are even clearly inspired by Boston Dyanmics
But it's also unfair to fraudulently receive money from someone. If you accidentally gain because someone gives you money (say they sent it to the wrong bank account) it isn't fair to keep it.
You can’t separate the two easily because the DNC email hack and “DCLeaks” front group was attributed to Russia by the U.S. intelligence community, as extensively covered in the Mueller report, and a large amount of social media activity around both email stories and other topics was conducted by the Russian Internet Research Agency. Comey had more significance but the flurry of allegations had more than minor involvement of Russian assets and people weren’t reacting to just one detail but the whole barrage. Pizzagate is still around now and that started with the Russian spearphisher who got Podesta’s emails.
> It is much easier to stop harmful ideas from spreading rather than trying to argue down these harmful ideas once they have already taken a foothold in someone's mind.

It’s fucking terrifying that anyone holds this view, considering the implications. That’s CCP logic. Pro-censorship, “for their own good”?

Have we lost our fucking minds?
Could this be a scaling problem?

Governments continue to get bigger, with more power concentrated at the top. The president being the prime example, an office that was originally intended to be the top cop become an office invested with the hopes and desires of everyone in the country/world, looked towards to single-handedly address any problem.

Then there is the internet, where everyone has the opportunity to go viral, and we can all argue about everything.

Throw in huge multi-national corporations bigger than many nations, treated as people by law, and legally able to buy off politicians in the U.S...

So now in the U.S. we have two parties optimizing to stay in power moreso than act from principal, more manipulative media than ever, and implementing huge national programs based on the slim majority that voted for president that year.

I don't think censorship tweaks are going to fix this. A lot of people don't feel represented, and they are right.
Purely tax driven move. You’d do the same in his place.
1-> is a limitation on the freedom of speech. Speech is not absolute, and the US has limits set by the courts. This is a reasonable one and it's very narrowly limited. The United States and Japan are probably the two best countries when it comes to defending freedom of speech. Keep in mind, China has freedom of speech in their constitution, so the law doesn't have much by itself.

2-> This is a civil violation. The FBI poster before movies says it's criminal, but it's very rarely persued as such (unless you're Kim Dotcom).

3-> Civil, not criminal

4-> Reasonable limit to speech and it's specific. You have to threaten specific harm to a specific person (or group in a specific time frame). There's a lot of very complex case law here, test for 'call to action' ... a lot of it going back to the Red Scare

5-> Like publishing Trump's tax returns? That's a federal crime by the way.

6-> Obscenity has some very specific and narrow definitions (see #1). Although people like to throw around the "I'll know it when I see it," there are certain tests to determine obscenity in the US.
Meteo Stat
AB-2088
You are correct and I was wrong. At the moment it applies to private repositories only.
IANAL, but my understanding is legally, they can decide not to sue/block it. This is not the same thing as affirmatively approving it.
https://howmuch.net/articles/federal-budget-receipts-and-exp...
Lots of denial in this thread.

CA is the most negative State in net domestic migration and TX is second to FL only at the other end of the scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

CA is just terrible value for most people currently. I'm not American and neither is Musk, it's not like he's going to make such decision for ideological allegiances. He just gets better value for his money elsewhere. Currently CA seems pretty broken between rural, poor and underinvested areas; and super-expensive, badly mismanaged urban areas. I don't think he's going to move to the desert, he'll probably move to urban TX and it's rather liberal there.
Tech FTC and states sue Facebook, could force to divest Instagram and WhatsApp
> I am not 100% committed to that being an impossibility, but I have yet to see any evidence to make me question the final outcome of the 2020 US election.

It's impossible to be 100% certain about anything. Scientists often quote a 95% confidence interval. Why not the a 100% confidence interval? Because that would be the real number line.

> But far be it from me to determine what constitutes "quality public discourse".

Fortunately, you don't need to determine the cutoff. Fact-free conspiracies are so far removed from "quality public discourse" as to render the issue irrelevant.

> Maybe I'd be less critical of Google if they actually had some sort of guidelines for objectively determining what content should be allowed on their platforms.

I absolutely agree that transparency is the best practice here; but until there's evidence of abuse, I'm not going to assume the process is abusive. And even then, I'll weigh the harm done by YouTube vs the harm done by the conspiracy theorists.
Most people know their weaknesses but refuse to admit them. The question though is whether the “deficiency” passes the threshold needed to become an actual problem. It’s trivial to find a fault in someone (anyone), blow it out of proportion, and tell a story about how it’s losing the company money — we are all human and imperfect. It is a dubious question then whether the boss has “at least something of a point,” it needs to be enough of an issue to actually matter, which most of the time it isn’t.
I'm guessing it's a good option if you already have a good amount of home equity from a higher paying area though.
The challenge is if you need to work in tech and eventually need to commute daily/weekly to headquarters. You'll need to be within 30 minutes of Austin if you want to be in new tech (Apple, Google) or 30 minutes of Dallas/Houston if you are okay with legacy tech (HP, IBM). And you'll want to be in a good school district with like minded high income folks with restaurants options.

You'll likely be paying close at best the equivalent of Silicon Valley housing.
The author isn't actually familiar with how GPS works. First, there's no timestamp transmitted by the satellite (aside from the nav message, which isn't used for this). The satellite time is estimated as an offset from receiver time. Secondly, relativity is compensated for by fixing the satellite clocks so you don't get that location drift. Thirdly, if you had a perfect clock and used a naive algorithm, yes you'd have problems with changing elevation or gravity. Fortunately, GPS accounts for both receiver clock offsets (whatever their cause), and drift in offsets over time. The receiver is also constantly adjusting its clock based on the satellite signal so that error never accumulates beyond acceptable limits.
> I would say that people like you who say that there was 0 electoral fraud are just as ignorant as the people conclusively saying that there was 1000% coordinated systemic electoral fraud.

You seem to have misread my comment. I'm not arguing that there is zero fraud. I didn't even say in my post that there was no conspiracy (though I'll say here that there wasn't). I only said the conspiratorialists aren't arguing constructively. I'm probably pretty aligned with you--I wouldn't be surprised if there were a handful of fraudulent ballots on either side, but there's certainly no evidence for a conspiracy.
I made a tinder-style clone a couple of years ago where you would swipe a headline left or right depending on the political direction you thought it leaned.

When you got one wrong, it was a signal that you should read the story (i.e., that the story was not run-of-the-mill left/right propaganda).

I thought it was a fun idea with real benefits, but it never really caught on.
The anti-maskers are claiming the govt is taking away our freedoms
You do realize all the Russian 2016 influence turned out to be completely and totally false right? The CIA leaked information to Yahoo News and then used that news story based off their misinformation to get a FISA warrant.
> WhatsApp today is a great messaging app

But it was pretty good before they bought it, too. And widely used, IIRC was clearly the biggest in some parts of the world.
Perhaps our legal system found that there is no evidence of libel and you are picking and choosing which legal decisions you agree with despite all being as part of the same system.
Elon's was quoted saying "you have a forest of redwoods and the little trees cant grow." While pointing his finger at California, I can't help but think this really reflects back on him.

Elon Musk's success and several others began as the result of PayPal.

To my knowledge none of Elon's companies since have produced a group like the PayPal mafia. The PayPal folks are smart people, but the bay area is full to the gills of smart visionaries lacking capital to take on ambitious visions. Many have worked at Elon's companies. To really see little trees grow people like Elon would need to change their equity structures to let the next group of innovators thrive.
The first MDMA experience is usually very surprising, yes, but not for everyone. Depending on how you usually regulate your serotonin release, getting a very similar feeling to that of a run of the mill "roll" may happen if you are just very happy or melancholic or introspective. A very deep conversation about something that you have been wanting to let go for a while or a therapy breakthrough can elicit that feeling.

I don't know about this couples therapy thing, but remember that in most of this trials researchers are dealing with somehow of an "unstable" brain chemistry. Individuals with PTSD or ASD tend to dissociate even when sober and to be very sensitive to mindset and setting and believing they took a pill that is going to make their struggles go away while talking with a therapist can be a very warm and welcoming setting.

That being said, I also would like to point out that how people act on cocaine is usually heavily misunderstood and most of the stereotype of someone under the influence of cocaine is usually how people act on cocaine+some other strong stimulant like pseudo-efedrine. Cocaine was used medically for a long while and it's effects are very well understood and not similar to the usual "that person is on coke" stereotype.
Unless your sister is in one of the groups currently being vaccinated (health care workers and over-80), the question is moot. By the time it's available to her, they'll hopefully have more information and can give more concrete guidance.

If the vaccine is available to her, then the guidance is reasonably clear that no, she should not take it yet.
Ultimately, if people didn't accept these draconian measures, advertisers would complain because there would be notable data showing a decline in consumer engagement.

I actually like that YouTube is announcing all of this stuff up-front, because it makes it far more clear and crystal that if you have an alternative viewpoint from the mainstream, you will have to build your own infrastructure to support your message. It's best that people learn this sooner, than later. Enough people have suffered by being too trusting of brands like YouTube.
The World Wide Web coming from CERN is not getting stuff done. It is getting lost in side-projects and doing the non-obvious, non-cheapest, non-fastest thing because it is interesting and there is a tiny chance it might be worth it in the long run. Very much not plain getting-stuff-done.
> What would be the precedent if regulatory approvals could be challenged with a change in administration?

That's like someone is approved for a license to own a gun, then that person uses the gun to commit a crime, and then their license is revoked. Then someone points the finger at whoever it was that approved that person for a gun license.

What would be the precedent if a merger approval gave you a free pass to be anti-competitive?
Claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election made by our own intelligence community and parroted by Democrats don't even remotely compare to the outright lies Trump and his lackeys are peddling about the 2020 election. You didn't see Hilary Clinton refusing to concede. Her only post-election legal action was asking for recounts in the rust belt. California's AG didn't sue Pennsylvania and Wisconsin asking SCOTUS to throw out ballots they disagreed with.

This is just bad whataboutism.
Yea. It makes me really sad that such a great stack of tech risks disappearing because of the SaaS potential _(or w/e)_
Thank you for the wiki link! What's crazy is the migrants per capita numbers. Idaho is 3x Texas!
The greater the love the greater the pain.
Agreed. MongoDB makes it far too easy to make terrible decisions in regard to data design.