skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that we can’t talk about how we have an untrustable, unverifiable election system, because that would lead people to not trust the results. As long they don’t think about it, they can trust it.

I press a button on a screen when I vote. I don’t know what the hell it is actually doing and it’s shocking to me the mainstream consensus is we can’t even talk about now horrifically broken American voting is compared to sane countries like France.
I don't think this distinction actually justifies treating Amazon in a dramatically different way than Walmart. I agree that Amazon and Walmart have different strategies for managing inventory, in house branding and product placement. Walmart also operates an in house clone of Amazon in the form of their online store.

Why exactly is Amazon so much worse?
I've been using my own domain email now for 17 years.
Quote: "With a net worth of $134.7B, Musk recently surpassed Bill Gates as the second-richest person in the world, and he's on track to earn more than $50 billion in stock options. If he remained in California, he’d be facing income taxes on the profits when he exercises them. In Texas, there is no income tax. "

Rest is blah blah, this right there is the real reason for such a move. Can't blame the man either, I'll do the same in his shoes.
There's nothing preventing you from still using a central repository (or its mirrors). I highly recommend "Deno is a Browser for Code" by Kitson [1] which discusses this subject in more depth.

[1] https://kitsonkelly.com/posts/deno-is-a-browser-for-code/
specifically it's copper being vaporized i believe
The lazy answer is ofcourse that they made something useful and then shared it with others. Have you heard of http? Maybe you've heard of x-rays or electrons being used for imaging?
If they interfere with the competition, that is.
I think the idea is that developers will forgo tradition desktop development when then can just create an ipad app that works incidentally on the desktop and iOS. Personally not convinced when Windows still owns the desktop.
Fast iteration. Not aware of anyone else doing that with 50m tall 9m wide rockets.
How can there be any sensible way other than having a complete copy of the data separate from the original copy?

It can be expensive, so perhaps just prioritise what you actually need instead of backing up LATEST.MOVIE.2020.Remux.r250
Where do you live? Here in Scottsdale, Doordash delights me with their great service. Things are tougher for their drivers in San Francisco and other dense cities where they can't easily park, then have to deal with a confusing array of call boxes to enter the buildings.
I'm really excited about the Error Objects. I guess error handling probably isn't the most glamorous thing, but lulalala's hard work will make that part of our lives so much easier. I really appreciate the work they did on this feature
> My concern is only will users accept a local server running on their desktop.

This sounds pretty cool -- is there a way for the deno runtime to restrict the server process to only be able to
generate the legal types of http traffic that a browser could generate if allowed to open a connection to a specific url (or set of urls)?

If so i'd feel more comfortable about running the embedded server -- ideally the security risk of running the server would be closer to the risk when running an embedded set of daemon browser tabs -- rather than the risk when exposing all the unfettered power of a unix process ...
"Not charegably criminal." So then what are we even talking about?
Hmm, I'd think so too. Looks like the source dataset [1] has it wrong :(

This is how it shows up (CSV format):

2230984,Buffalo Chicken Pizza!,"[""1 (9 3/4 ounce) canswanson premium white chunk chicken breast in water, drained"", ""2 tablespoons butter, melted"", ""1 (10 ounce) packageprepared thin pizza crust (12-inch)"", ""12 of a green pepper, thinly sliced"", ""14 cup crumbled blue cheese""]","[""Heat the oven to 425F Stir the chicken, hot sauce and butter in a medium bowl."", ""Spread the chicken mixture on the pizza crust to within 1/2-inch of the edge."", ""Top with the pepper and cheese."", ""Bake for 10 minutes or until the chicken mixture is hot and bubbling.""]",www.food.com/recipe/buffalo-chicken-pizza-394731,Recipes1M,"[""chicken"", ""butter"", ""crust"", ""green pepper"", ""blue cheese""]"

I'll see if I can open a PR with the fix.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
Which one?

Seems everyone mentioned it. The 2020 BD spot mentioned it https://youtu.be/s6_azdBnAlU

And guess is explained here : https://youtu.be/iX0wuY0rOvs
Yes - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/24/doordash-...
I overcooked the samples a bit just to make the effect more noticeable. I usually edit my photos much less strongly than that.

Also, the appropriate size halos vary depending on the display size. If you're viewing on a phone, the radius needs to be larger to not be noticeable. If I print them out A3+, though, the halos fade away and my brain interprets them as contrast in the original scene.

Should I adjust my samples?
It isn't just Georgia. The other states reporting have a order of magnitude drop in absentee ballot rejections. Seems like a problem?
The argument is that purchasing WhatsApp was anticompetitive and allowed Faceboook to cement their dominant market position. WhatsApp the app might be fine, but the competitive landscape is much weaker than it would have been if the FTC had blocked the acquisition.

I posted this elsewhere but I think Ben Thompson gives a very deep analysis of the issues in the competitive landscape here:

https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/

The summary would be something like "any acquisition of a social network by another social network is necessarily anticompetitive and should be banned, or at least have the presumption of being illegal".

The only way that there can be a true competitor to Facebook is for a smaller social network like Instagram, or WhatsApp, or TikTok, to not get acquired and to grow until their userbase is bigger.

Zuckerberg understands this well; you can read his emails where he openly admits that buying Instagram is about preempting a competitor:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21345723/facebook-instagr...

The money quote from Zuckerberg:

"There are network effects around social products and a finite number of different social mechanics to invent. Once someone wins at a specific mechanic, it’s difficult for others to supplant them without doing something different.”

“One way of looking at this is that what we’re really buying is time. Even if some new competitors springs up, buying Instagram, Path, Foursquare, etc now will give us a year or more to integrate their dynamics before anyone can get close to their scale again. Within that time, if we incorporate the social mechanics they were using, those new products won’t get much traction since we’ll already have their mechanics deployed at scale.”

I think you can apply the same argument to WhatsApp; by purchasing a rival social network, they prevent it from being a competitive threat.
For as smart as many of the people on this site are, I'm shocked how many don't understand the fundamental principal that YouTube is a private company and can do whatever they please with speech. This isn't the government, this isn't first amendment.
Every retail chain has data on what gets sold inside and where it was kept, how it was promoted etc. They can very well use this data and most probably are using it.

Yes, they are. They use this data to determine what products (specifically, what SKUs) to re-order from their suppliers.

Only till the time when their store brand starts selling much better and consumers develop a relationship with that.

I don't know why techies keep pushing this like it means something. The store brand product IS MADE BY THE NAME BRAND SUPPLIER.

I repeat, the store brand is just a different SKU offered under the name brand's white label product line. For example, Home Depot's RIGID tool like is made by the same company that makes Milwaukee and Ryobi. Those store brand cereals are made by General Mills. The store brand milk comes from the same regional dairies as the local regional name brand. Every single one of Costco's Kirkland signature products is made for them by a supplier that makes their own name brand products.

Isn't this very similar to the third party sellers having their own Shopify store and someone discovering it through Google Search/FB Shop instead of Amazon Search. The only argument that makes sense here is the usage of data.

No, because Shopify doesn't compete against its own sellers. The antitrust concern arises solely because Amazon is both the platform and a competitor and it uses its access as the platform provider to acquire data to compete.
It's not exactly the same, but it is very similar.
> I am doing both.

In doing so, you have failed to answer the load-bearing question.

We're talking about whether the people running a site, who own the servers on which the data lives, can choose what they host, or whether they're forced to host things against their will. Do you believe that the government should be able to force people to host content against their will?
Xcode: Fixing the “unrecognized selector sent to instance” exception
That 1 is triggering my OCD.
I was opposed to removing Confederate statues. I felt they should be left in place but the plaques should be replaced to merely mention their birth and death dates and that they had committed treason against the United States but were forgiven after the Civil War.

I would suggest the same for these videos. Place an non-editable and non-removable preface that states none of the assertions in this video are verifiably factual and the video should be considered as a work of fiction...
If you look at the timer, it's almost certainly planned

Engine 1 cuts off 1m45s after launch

Engine 2 cuts off 1m28s after engine 1

Engine 3 cuts off 1m28s after engine 2 and then SN8 goes into glide testing.

The extra time on all 3 engines is probably to gain sufficient height?
What is the correct spelling of "millennial".
How do I tell it I really want to search for just "harissa" and not "Harrison", "Harriet", "Harris", "harrissee", etc.? I tried putting it in quotes, but no such luck.
As a person that spent time in the Industry as well as did/does logistics and supply chain management I agree with your assessment. After the short-lived breather the PPP program allowed the Industry to have, few restaurants really saw the writing on the wall: after the summer season the shutdowns were inevitable either way due to the lack of dine in option or a forced 50% capacity. This was not sustainable in a business with razor thing margins and large overhead.

The only ones that are going to survive are the ones with large outside investment, where they're attached to a Corp with other forms of revenue--this is exactly the model of where I last worked, and only the flagship(s) and 2 other bistros remain after most had to shutdown. Everything else got the axe.

On the other side of the spectrum, cheap(er) eats, its a race to the bottom and a re-structuring of how to deliver. I have friends with restaurants and they offer curbside pick up, but are now also thinking about how to deploy a meal-prep type solution. A sort of interactive blue apron model with videos online to walk them through the process. Perhaps creating a community facebook page/social media presence to spread the word, I proposed it as a 'chowhound meets flickr' idea.

It's a sad situation, and the Industry needed a much needed overhaul given the amount of waste and abuse within it. But even I agree this was too high of a cost to pay. I'm just glad that I hit a high water mark that I can leave with my head held up high and can be satisfied with what I did as a chef in several countries on two continents.

DD is not a sustainable without tons of VC money to burn, their app is utter garbage, their fee policy on merchants exploitative, and the drivers are treated and paid well below even Industry standards who had their tips stolen while assuming no liability--VERY limited protection if an accident occurs while on delivery. Softbank created a poorly structured logistics solution that took a lot of marketshare without caring it was a money-pit with little to no potential ROI unless its IPO is a homerun, which Softbank will probably use to exit from its investment.

We are living through yet another absurd financial era, like 2008, where the Market is so filled with cheap money that it is flooding into any ponzi scheme that shows even a glimmer of short-lived profitability gets flooded with funding and investment, all while 1/4 of the US population is out of work and unemployment continues to rise everyday.
Thanks Obama.

But seriously, by what rationale would you block the purchase in 2012? Instagram only had 25 million users at the time.
Well, nothing is a complete failure ever from your point then - you always learn from mistakes.
It literally begins “Congress shall make no law...”
The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science (2006)
Know the language and use automatic linting to exclude the bad parts without effort. Here you go, Javascript/Typescript is suddenly a decent language too.
> Making a profit requires cash flow management, but managing cash flow does not require making a profit. This article does talk about managing cash flows in a way that involves never making a profit.

Isn't the exact opposite true?

I work with businesses which import goods and sell them.
The vast majority of these make a steady profit without any thought to cash flow management.
Accounts receivable are a mess, payment terms are long and they have a lot of cash tied up in working capital - but they are making enough of a profit to make up for this.

In contrast, you can stay in business making a loss with clever cash-flow management, but not forever. Equity will decrease year over year, and new sources of cash (lending, selling shares) need to be found to finance the continued operation of the business.
The way I see it, youtube is the facebook/twitter of generalized video sharing. There isn't any other site that people use to the same degree.

Sure, one -could- host their own peertube instance for a community. However the discovery probability drops immensely. One of the main benefits of youtube (at least for me) is easily discovering new content/creators. Also, having high-quality videos in one central location versus multiple different sites for cooking videos, woodworking videos, etc. Having something like a global search across federated peertube instances could work though.

At that point you also run into the issue of who has the hardware to power these new communities? Few people have that sort of data storage available, and fewer still have enough powerful servers + cdns across the world. The new owners of an instance could easily just as well decide to censor whatever they want, and if I had to trust a random person over youtube I'd most likely choose youtube. At least it faces public scrutiny, etc.
Surveying people was just one thing that he did. He also matched the voters with NCOA database, that could indicate that people from other states voted and things like that.

One of the people they've surveyed was Nahshon Garrett:

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

As much as I'd love to have the actual data myself, I don't think he's going to just post it publicly. He started the project to verify whether the lists of supposedly dead voters that were floating around the web were real. The thing is that people who were posting them were all almost immediately banned for doxxing. So unfortunately, he will only give you the actual data if you're someone trustworthy, so a lawyer, politician, journalist or something like that. His research is included as evidence in some of the ongoing court cases.

From what I've seen a lot of people have said that he might just be a grifter. I personally don't care, since I never donate to anything like that, but if you're considered about this, he posted the expenses on twitter. I believe a lot of money went to the call centers.

And look, it very well might be, that it's literally nothing. But this type of research is realistically as best as you can possibly get. What would confirm whether it's true or not is the state or the feds doing an investigation, but they don't seem to be interested in doing anything. But one way or another, removing his fundraiser was a complete bullshit.
Point 1 sounds a bit like the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Mao invited critics to openly express opinions on how to improve the communist party, then one year later, rounded up those who did under the Anti-Rightist Campaign for persecution and executions.
Prop 13 was more than 10 years ago. California problems aren't the fault of newcomers
> As to your first point: you’re begging the question by presupposing that there is a “right” to kill and extract a fetus under various circumstances.

And you're presupposing that a nonviable fetus is alive.

As I understand it, the conservative view is that rights are not granted by the government, they are only restricted, hence the 10th amendment. The right to freedom of movement is not granted to me by anyone, yet I have it because it is not explicitly restricted. The constitution puts guardrails on when, and how, the government is allowed to restrict my rights.

> Liberals tend to believe that the constitution is a living document and can protect rights even when those rights didn’t exist at the time of the founding.

This depends on right in question. For example the right to donate to political candidates is not explicitly enumerated in the constitution (and is heavily restricted in many other nations), but is seen as protected via a combination of rights enumerated in the 1st amendment.

> If you can’t find it in the text of the Constitution, and you can’t find it in the history books of what rights the framers thoughts were fundamental, it has to derive from broad public recognition, correct?

No, I refer you again to Brown v. BoE. There was at the time no broad public recognition that Separate but Equal wasn't constitutional, and the people who wrote the amendment certainly felt segregation was A-OK.

> Where does the right to an abortion, as defined by Roe

As I understand, in this case the Justices found that an individual's right to privacy prevented the government from meddling with the medical procedures that person chose to get, without. But then you knew that already. It appears that you disagree with this, even though 15 (and a half) Supreme court justices have found that the text of the constitution supports this protection. (notably compared to 8, likely soon 9, who did not)
(not a rocket scientist) They didn't need the thrust once they lightened the rocket by burning most of the fuel.
The established solution is you don't tell them right out, you just make it worse for most while ensuring there are a few success stories to distract with. See for instance: war on drugs, war on terror et. al.
Any web equivalent of this? Wish it was a JS library so I could use it in my stuff!
Bill Ackman is Jewish.
I think my brain was screaming that it was fake because rockets simply don’t do this. Absolutely mindbending to watch, I can totally understand if anyone’s gut reaction that if it looks unreal, it might just be unreal.

(To be explicit; I don't believe it was faked. There was far too many people watching. But I can understand why the gut reaction may not agree.)

But in all seriousness, I suspect they were prepared for it to hit the ground. Once it left the ground, that part was guaranteed.
If you give that a little thought you'll realize that their first hand experience in the above matter would probably better qualify them on the topic of freedom and slavery than anything you can personally speak to.

And regardless, the point stands. The people who are cheering the silencing of the "other" are morally aligned with those championing the "re-education" of the other over in China. In fact, the former even broached the topic of how to "re-educate" their opponents on social media recently.
MP3 by Fraunhofer IIS?
I can't imagine it would go down well at all with Debian users if random packages (in the free or the nonfree repo) came with clauses saying you now owe royalties to random parties. If you installed 10 packages on your company's server that each ask for 20% royalty, your company now would owe 200% royalties. It would just make the distro unusable by companies.
> Thus, it is irrelevant to the manufacturer whether the supermarket promotes their store-brand product or the name brand product; they've already been paid by their primary customer.

Supermarket economics are more complex. Brands have to pay to go on promotion, and they have to pay to appear in the catalogue. I've heard placement fees for mailbox catalogue placements can be a significant bulk of revenue for some companies.

My wife recently started in a new company with retail products and was appalled at what goes on, but it's normal. The supermarket wants to promote your product? Pay up. Per product. They choose which, not you. If you don't, there's a good chance your shelf space gets replaced by a competitor next time it's under review. If you do, you'll often lose money while it's on sale. It's a very predatory arrangement enabled by the duopoly here in AU.
Idoneo – Online platform for leasing cars
Well, the suppression of HCQ is absolutely an abuse of platform power.

Regarding "false narrative" of election fraud: the U.S. has had election fraud and general irregularities and inaccuracies almost from the beginning. It's only when the electorate is split this evenly and the stakes are this high that people begin to pay attention.

The voices that are being suppressed for example on Youtube are not fringe radical conspiracists; they're more mainstream conservatives (who are nonetheless tarred unfairly as "fringe"), people like Mark Dice, Anthony Brian Logan, Candace Owens, Tim Pool, and many others.

I suppose when a platform gets a billion views a day, it can afford to piss off some elements and the bottom line will not be affected. But it is creating ill will, calls for boycott, and eventually an echo chamber effect that does not bode well for dialogue and tolerance.

Look what Reddit did, for example: they shut down TheDonald which was the largest, or one of the largest, subreds with 800,000 participants. The participants dumped Reddit and forked their own reddit-like site, TheDonald.win which began small but has grown enormously.
> When journalists do it (especially poorly) it becomes just another facet of a the publication's/writer's bias.

But that's also why the condemnation of balance is misdirected. Facebook is not a journalist, it's a communications platform. It isn't choosing how to spend its own words in a newspaper with a finite number of pages or a news channel with a finite amount of airtime, it's choosing what other people can say in a medium with effectively unlimited carrying capacity.

It also has a big problem because the platform is simultaneously a medium for the dissemination of information to the public and a medium for the debate of nascent ideas.

Suppose that tomorrow we got a claim of widespread election fraud that could actually be substantiated, given a sufficient amount of crowdsourcing or collaboration between experts in different fields. Now they can't even discuss it because the effort to substantiate it involves putting forth a theory that hasn't been substantiated yet?