skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't possess the right to steal or murder, regardless of the existence or lack of a government.

You absolutely do, because nothing is preventing you from doing so. Maybe you are referring to a moral right? We are discussing legal rights. These don't exist without a system of governance.

> I didn't "sacrifice" my "right" to murder someone because I never had such a right.

Absent of any political order, who is to say what rights you have or don't have? This is the entire point of government and the social contract. It is a universal and mutually agreed on pact, which takes the form of an exchange of certain individual rights for protection of other rights, that critically, everyone must abide by and that maximize the well-being and security of everyone. It formalizes which universal rights exist and also what limitations exist. This system is what dictates your rights.

> You are forced to abide by these restrictions because of the social contract between yourself and the government which creates and enforces these laws.

I'm not really sure how to respond to this. No, governments do not literally / physically force you to stop speaking in the case of your freedom of speech. Being "forced to" in this context would mean being compelled to abide by the laws of society. This relationship defines the social contract that you, and everyone else in society, has entered into with the ruling authority/government.
So, if China censors something that's censorship and if Youtube and Twitter does it (with the blessing of the Govt) , it's to protect the people from conspiracies..Got it..
>Why even bother?

Because many people have been fooled by misinformation on large social websites, and it gives them a bad name, which is not in the companies' best interest. I don't really see this as a nanny state action, either. YouTube is not part of the state. From a libertarian point of view, shouldn't they have the right to censor what they want on their own platform? Yes, politicians are urging YouTube to take down the videos, but the key word there is "urging". They have no way to force them to take them down.
(For the record I'm Australian and I don't have much riding on your election result.)

> Why was the Russia election collusion story in the spotlight for years despite flimsy evidence?

Perhaps the most genius thing Trump ever did was re-frame the Russian interference story as "no collusion". Unfortunately many on the left are morons and got led away from the real story (Russian interference) over to the fake story (Russia-Trump collusion) which left the real story forgotten and ignored.

> Why are Trump supporters on the other hand not allowed even a few weeks to investigate their doubts

Because the "investigation" isn't being done in good faith. The complaint has its basis in the Trump playbook and not on serious evidence of organised electoral fraud. The "investigation" is clearly designed to sow permanent doubt where none is warranted.

The medium-term effect will be to make Biden/Harris considered illegitimate in the eyes of some Americans.

The long-term effect will be to lessen American confidence in elections and democracy. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but this is exactly what Russia has been trying to achieve around the world for decades.
Reality is that adding armor is trivial, but hitting critical components (small parts) is not. EMP protection is standard for military systems. The military already deals with the logistics problems related to batteries and fuel. The preferred energy choice might not be a battery.

Consistent usage of dumb tactics is unlikely. The robots aren't going to just run across a huge open field, straight toward the enemy, with plenty of warning to set up a defensive 50-cal gun. They could leap through a window or low-quality wall, in complete darkness, while the target is sleeping.

Enjoy your nightmare. :-)
Yo what's going on here? Is this some sort of misinformation campaign? To what end?? There's been a number of comments making this claim even though there's no reason to suggest this was the case.
One way I've found fiction books that I wouldn't have otherwise read is to find High School curricula and go through the required/authorised/recommended books. Neighbouring school districts, other states, and even other Anglophone countries will give you a broad list.
I do the following for non-fiction titles:

Make a list of book titles from the footnotes of books I am currently reading. Then just check the average review on Goodreads, if it is over 3.5, I give it a go. This allows me to read about different subjects from respected subject matter experts (since they have been cited in a book I enjoy) while also making sure that they are well written and accessible to a noob (3.5+ rating).

For fiction, I just pick a random book from my local library. Surprisingly, this has served me well so far.
Yes, absolute success. All primary mission objectives achieved successfully AND all but one secondary objective achieved. Launch, ascent, MECO, controlled descent, turn and re-orient with nose thrusters, fire engines, decelerate, position over landing pad, in correct orientation, AND, most importantly, capture all mission telemetry and data until after ground contact.

As a mere spectator, I'll add they achieved ALL my additional personal objectives, including: end-to-end live video/audio transmission from multiple onboard and ground tracking cameras, conveniently streamed in the late afternoon for free, near-instant pre and post-test insights direct from Elon via Twitter, AND a perfectly-framed SPECTACULAR live explosion in HD to cap it all off. From my (somewhat self-centered) perspective, how could it have been any more successful?

As for your "losing money" question, I'm not sure that's much of a factor with SN8 because it was a test article not expected to probably survive. It didn't even have final or complete flight systems. If it had remained more intact after landing, perhaps they could have reused some raw materials eventually for future test articles but that also requires extensive inspection to re-validate, disassemble and integrate - all of which would consume scarce schedule time, assembly space and the limited time of skilled personnel able to build final Starships. IHMO, SpaceX wisely prioritizes speed and learning over testing costs or PR optics.

The biggest unexpected cost may just be the "cleanup on aisle SN8" but they probably didn't expect SN8 would reach the landing pad as on-target as it did and may have budgeted even more time/money for clean-up than they'll need since it was pretty dang tidy for a RUD. I guess an over-water loss might be a bit faster/cheaper to reset but then they would have lost higher priority objectives and we wouldn't have had such a SWEET front-row ticket to the finale :-).
In case you were unaware, there were two proposed constitutional amendments that would reduce Proposition 13 benefits this past November:

Proposition 15 (which would have eliminated commercial property tax breaks) failed 48%-52%. I think its biggest political flaw is probably the fact that it would apply July 1, 2022, with no phase-in for small businesses whose lease passes through the property tax. So hopefully in November 2022 another attempt can be made that addresses the political shortcomings.

Proposition 19 (which eliminated tax breaks for inherited investment property in exchange for increased tax portability for the elderly) only barely passed 51%-49%, and that was after it received overwhelming support from the legislature, and a $45 million advertising campaign from the California Association of Realtors that some people criticized for only highlighting the goodies for old people and not the costs for inheritors.

No one is attempting a full repeal of Proposition 13 including residential property.

It could also be attacked judicially; see this episode of the Henry George Program for a discussion of Nordlinger v Hahn and whether different legal arguments could be tried (e.g. does Proposition 13 impinge on the American freedom to migrate under the US Constitution?) http://seethecat.org/ep/2017-07-11.html
Try wearing a Dodger hat then.
TL/DR: Capitalism BAD, Gvt = the beneficent savior (because, of course, you are helpless to direct your own life despite obstacles).

Meta: The article is a load of presumptions bedded in horse manure prepared for consumption by anyone looking for an excuse to turn their present condition into a permanent one.
i'n not an expert and only started reading papers this year but this is where i got a few papers that I read from:
- 2minutepapers on youtube - mostly ML and CG
- Google scholar for finding specific things.
- The shadertoy discord channel. People reference to CG papers a lot there.

The last thing is that I save every paper that i see mentioned as a pdf file in a seperate folder on my PC. I use a combination of rip grep all + recoll to search them.
> I prefer people NOT proliferating this madness freely.

Just the madness you happen to agree with, right?
Censorship measures often have bipartisan support.
Easy to claim. So far China human space program has been very slow. And they have not gone full power into even a Falcon 9 clone. China is in the same space as everybody else outside of the US, with a slow moving bureaucracy leading it, wanting to switch into more commercial companies.

China has not yet itself produced an engine anywhere close to a Raptor and they have been trying for quite a while.

China can not spend gigantic amounts of money on everything at once, and even if they do, it by far doesn't work all of the time.

When you are copying SpaceX you are always cooping something that is already outdated and SpaceX will not stop innovating.
My Goodreads is intimidating because of the same instinct to add everything that seems even remotely interesting. I hadn’t thought of choosing from that list more systematically though so I might have to do that. Maybe a random number generator with a subset of the books could work.
Do you have any trouble with the users being prompted by the Windows firewall to allow the server to listen on localhost? I like this way of doing things but I've had propmts like that for my own dev tools and I think that would put off my users.
Two instances could at least detect they are using the same conflicted file, and refrain from corrupting it. Likely the second one should terminate with an error.
TBF, on the browser side, they have been slowly fixing some of the worst "oops" stuff. First they added "strict mode" and now they have type="module", both of which turn off a lot of bad behaviors. Deno is kind of like that for the backend.
Universal has multiple meanings. I think freedoms are universal in that they apply to all people. I don't think they are universal in that they would apply in every situation. I have given you plenty of examples of situations in which people can be reasonably deprived of freedom of speech.

Governments get their power from the people. That is the foundation of the US political thinking. The larger the percentage of the population that supports overturning this election, the more pressure elected officials will feel to comply. Therefore allowing this misinformation to spread increases the odds that my right to vote will be infringed. Is it an immediate and direct relationship like in some of the other examples we have discussed? Obviously not. However there is a clear causal line from someone advocating that my rights be taken away to the potential of my rights actually be taken away.
Most of the mobile encryption schemes are using file system encryption, not block encryption, i.e. the metadata is not encrypted other than directory and filenames. There's a range of opinions to what degree the unencrypted file metadata: file sizes, dates & time, relative locations in the directory tree, can be used to infer... what? some kind of pattern that suggests the owner is using or once used an app banned in the country they're entering?

We know metadata between e.g. browser and server, two callers, message sender and recipient, can reveal quite a lot. But it's quite a bit more limited with file metadata, but to what degree is this a problem?
> "Is there any evidence that me abiding by the speed limit would have been any safer?" is not a good defence [sic] to accusations of "you broke the speed limit".

Yet another comfortable sounding yet simplistically false untruth. Depending on the jurisdiction, of course.
> Do you really blame Linux over Apple for that?

I don't blame anyone, and I understand the reasons, but at the end of the day I still can't use devices I can use everywhere else, and I'm reminded of that daily when I need to plug wired headphones in instead.

Power-management issues I've learned to work around - but again is something that requires regular actions/changes in behaviour that serve as a continual reminder that there are issues.

Chinese font issues I've given up on entirely and I just have the UI in English.

Don't get me wrong, macOS has plenty of issues too, and it feels like the overall software quality has been in a gradual state of decline for at least a decade, but it doesn't have the same continual reminders of issues that I get when using Linux, and the fonts always look nice regardless of language.
Thank you, this does well to answer the "compared to what" question--compared to a former world where these things did not exist.
How do you explain away (4) when a dominion machine in Ware County GA was fed equal number of Trump/Biden votes and produced a 26% lead for Biden?

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/07/what-to-make-o...

References investigation mentioned by this congressman,

https://twitter.com/CongressmanHice/status/13349196303396413...
Agreed. This shit is going to radicalize people, and all these big tech companies better be ready. There will be a backlash.
No, Walmart pays for nearly all the products on their shelves, except for new products which might be sold on a consignment basis.

Companies paying for product placement does not change the simple truth that Walmart has paid for the product (in the legal and financial sense, even if they haven't actually forked over the cash in the actual/economic sense), and the supplier is paying for product placement through discounts or other non-cash consideration.

If wal-mart is anything like the pharmacy I worked at, magazines and greeting cards are similar (only pay for what is sold, credited for the rest, and a rep probably takes care of stocking things).

No, Walmart and Target are not like the pharmacy you worked for. Target and RiteAid were former clients, I know exactly how they paid for their inventory.

Moreover, the market for books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed material is different from other products. With print material, publishers provide discounts or credits for unsold copies against newer books/issues because the value of the unsold periodicals rapidly drops to zero after the period passes, and book stores that get burned with unsaleable books generally refuse to stock new books from that publisher if they are not provided incentives (by the publisher) to do so. Note that publishers will usually not credit book stores for best sellers like Harry Potter, etc., because the threat to not carry future best sellers is more likely to backfire on the bookstore than it is on the publisher.
Hmmm, I do see a valid cert on my end: https://imgur.com/a/xgYwGFc

Could you show me a screenshot of what cert gets loaded for you? I did switch between infra providers in the last few hours. So I wonder if you're hitting the older infra due to stale DNS.

I got the dataset from this other Show HN post from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
While the GOP candidate is straight up a stubborn babbling moron, the media doesn't help the situation at all.

The GOP candidate refuses to concede in face of the recount results not supporting his case. But the media is adding flame to this by giving people half-truths and not being honest in their position either.

Is it the case that Trump still lost, even after the recounts? Yep, it is the case. Is it true that there were no missing votes? Media claims so, but the GA recount seems to prove them wrong. The media publications don't want to retract their earlier statements about there being no missing votes, despite the fact that recounts proved them wrong. Just because there weren't enough of missing votes to change the outcome doesn't mean that they didn't exist.

P.S. Biden won, recounts affirmed that he won legitimately, I am happy. The process of the recount seems to have worked as it was supposed to. But the loud media statements about "no missing votes" aren't helping their case, and it doesn't seem truthful to say there were "no missing votes" just because there weren't enough of them to change the election outcome.
When I was in elementary school, CA had 20 million people. Now we've got 40 million people. I wouldn't mind it if 20 million people left.
RIP to the brave Galactic Federation officers on-board.
They have tanks for nitrogen thrusters there and maybe some other things. These will eventually be removed and replaced with hot methane gas thrusters that are feed directly from the main fuel tank.
Well, that's an easy question. The answer is No. This isn't government censorship since the government isn't doing it. Same as if a politician asks you not to park on their lawn it's not "Government issues diktat against man for parking car".
why not use artrifactory or similar proxy so you always have a local mirror?
You misunderstood then. The very first sentence in my first post: CA has gotten worse in every metric.

Of course positives exist, but they are few and decreasing. Unsurprisingly, nobody has yet to answer my repeated question to name 10 things that have gotten better over the last 10 years.
The fact check shows that Trump is conflating two different numbers: the number of ballots that arrive late and the number that are rejected due to signature mismatch. If Trump has any idea what he's talking about, I'm comfortable calling that level of dishonesty a "lie." My view is that he just doesn't care what's true or not, and he probably knows that much of what he's saying is false.

> Trump lawyers did try to prevent these election changes, by taking them to court.

Which changes?

State election laws are set by the state legislature. In Georgia, the Republicans control both houses, plus the governorship. It's hard to believe that the Republican party would have set the rules to disadvantage their own Presidential candidate.
> I also see it pointed out that DoH could have been specified in a way that facilitated filtering for the local network. Given that it's so obviously possible

No, it couldn't have been, and this is exactly what I was referring to in my comment. Any mechanism that allows the local network to intercept the traffic of a device that doesn't trust the network can and will be abused. The entire point of DoH was to make DNS clients secure, by preventing ISPs and other network providers from monitoring, intercepting, or tampering with DNS results.

You're asking for DNS to be left insecure, so that you can tamper with it. You're asking for the security of clients that actually give users control (laptops, phones, etc) to be sacrificed so that you can continue to tamper with DNS results for clients that don't give users control.

> On top of all that, DNSSEC already exists which allows you to verify the authenticity of the query result.

DNSSEC isn't nearly widespread enough to expect to find it everywhere. Only very specialized clients could make it a requirement; most clients cannot. DNSSEC requires upgrading most of the world before people can rely on it; DoH is an incremental solution.

> As such, the argument in favor of DoH would seem to be limited to preventing your DNS resolver (but not your ISP or VPN!) from tracking which sites you visit.

SNI is being fixed. Once SNI is fixed, DNS is one of the last holes that allows your ISP or other network provider to track you.

And as mentioned above, since DNSSEC is not a viable solution anytime soon, DoH is also critically important to prevent ISPs and other network providers to tamper with your DNS results.
> It is more flexible than say Electron because GUI can be anything I want it to be.

Feels like one of us is misunderstanding something. Electron lets you run any web technology - so when users open your app, they are greeted with whatever you can show on a webpage.

You can also have Electron run in the background as a server if that's something you're into ;)
I use the app and "flawlessly" is a joke. The app doesn't even connect to the headphones reliably, even if they're paired and I'm listening to audio through them. Maybe 10% of the time I have to force-close the app and power cycle the headphones for the app to connect.
Engel did absolutely strike down forcing children to pray in public schools.

> This is one of those funny areas where liberals

Can we please not do this "liberals" / "conservatives" read-team/blue-team stuff? Because then I'll just turn around and say "conservatives love to point out that phrase 'separation of church and state'" doesn't appear in the constitution and I'll just point you to Everson[1] that absolutely interpreted the First Amendment this way, and even quoted TJ himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_v._Board_of_Education
You're looking at arrest data, not incident data. Very likely arrests are down because police deprioritized non-felony crimes post prop 47.
OK, but so what? Bangladesh is not the ne plus ultra of formerly colonialized places. People in other places have developed different ideas from those you adhere to, rooted in their own experiences of colonization, prior views, and outlooks on international affairs. I get it, you prefer the culture you were most recently colonized by to your perception of what existed prior to that, and that's a position I can relate to even if I don't fully share it.

But you're in no position to make that judgement for all other people, and dismissal of their sincerely held and closely argued points of view as 'bananas' is trite and beneath your level of education and accomplishment. And while you may not have met any Bangledeshis who have explored such views, a simple search for 'decolonization Bangladesh' turned up several thought-provoking reads, such as https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/programs/international/haque.... (on conceptions of beauty in art) and https://www.e-ir.info/2019/08/16/decolonising-queer-banglade... (on conceptions of propriety in sexual relations). Perhaps you would find it illuminating to assign yourself the exercise of writing a brief on the topic for an imaginary client whose views differed from your own.
When I saw the flaps bent at the seam, not twisting, I knew immediately that I've played too much KSP. It reminded me of a parachutist using their arms and legs to manage their decent.
> restaurant chain offers a better product

so the end consumer benefits. I think that's an acceptable outcome tbh.

> unless [the small restaurant] starts making new recipes it keeps for itself.

which is why it doesn't make sense to give away the recipes in the first place. If restaurant's value proposition is _merely_ the recipe, and you give it away, but expect customers to be charitable and still give you money, then the business is a failing one (even if temporarily solvent).

But if your small restaurant has qualities that can't be replicated in a chain, then you have a business model (even if temporarily insolvent - you just have to hang on and not bankrupt...), and you can "afford" to give away the recipe and chalk it up to marketing expense.

This is why there's barely any real businesses selling open source games - there's hardly any differentiator there. But for enterprise/productivity applications, i think there may be - for example, professional services associated with the product, or customizations etc.
Lots of variations of cheap drones are orders of magnitude more deadly per $$ than robodog.