skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree that the media in general is shamelessly pushing a particular candidate (even though I also voted for that candidate), and that that has contributed significantly to the degradation of trust. I believe the media harmed its own cause (and also my cause) which is getting Trump out of office (which is to say I think--though I can't prove--Biden could have won more easily if the media simply let Trump discredit himself), but it also harmed our collective political health, and I hope Karma lays low those responsible.

However, that doesn't excuse conspiratorialism. We still have a responsibility to find reliable trust channels and to sift through evidence, and when it becomes apparent that we're incorrect (e.g., when evidence is presented that weakens or invalidates our claims), we ought to admit our error and critically evaluate our sources who led us astray.

To put a fine point on it, the media should have to answer for its sins, but those sins don't license the rest of us to behave badly.
> Dems didn't delay transition of power, but they did spend a huge amount of political capital trying to convince the country that Trump's victory was invalid or fraudulent.

No, they spent a lot of political capital on the idea that Trump was corrupt and aided by foreign powers, basically no Democrats (in national office, at least) seriously
advanced the case that Trump's election was either invalid or fraudulent (that his conduct, including conduct after the election, warranted impeachment and removal, yes, but that's a very different case than the election being fraudulent or invalid.)

As a parallel with subordinate offices, Democrats generally think Barr is a bad attorney-general, and his appointment was a result of improper motives, and some have made calls that he should be impeached, but none have claimed his appointment is invalid.

On the other hand, Chad Wolf’s appointment as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has been described and challenged as invalid (and, in fact, found to be so by courts, invalidating official acts dependent on his appointment to that position.)

There is a difference between acheiving an office by unethical means, or having bad conduct warranting removal from office, on one hand and illegitimately claiming office on the other hand. You are improperly conflating accusations of the former with accusations of the latter.
Thanks Rocky! Yeah for sure! :)
Is there some information that people can see that a company chooses not to publish?
I think they mean 'going to' as in working for them. You can work for a US or Canadian company remotely. I've done it my whole career. I've never seen anything even remotely approaching a competitive offer from a European company. They can't compete. What incentive is there to work for a European company?
Apple isn't really a technology company anymore. They're a designer brand, so this makes sense.

Soon you can sit on your $100 Apple-exclusive yoga mat, listening to Billy Eilish or The Beatles with your $550 external-over-the-ear-banded ear buds called AirPod Max while drinking "raw water".

I wouldn't doubt that if the yoga mat and foam roller sell well, you'll see some Apple logos on them in the future.
> but this is a huge red flag that something might be going on

On the contrary. This is an indicator of the Republican claims being based on no evidence. The fact that these lies happen to be incredibly damaging to the perception of US democracy is a good enough reason for a private company to decide not to host it.

It's not part of an even larger coverup, as you seem to believe. Do you know how many people would need to be involved on a coverup of this scale? How is that even remotely close to being the right explanation.
Since when is youtube the gatekeeper of truth? Why is it upon Youtube to intentionally choose to do this? Moral obligation? Road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Many countries already mandate some vaccinations before permitting entry (yellow fever comes to mind). Which requires a certificate as proof. I don't know how those countries handle people who can't get vaccinated, but I suspect that there are lessons to be learnt there.
Surely though, by the time Bloomberg writes an article, the proverbial jig is well and truly up?
Sure, but the OP was talking about their difficulty during interviews; I'm just saying, they're almost assuredly better than the majority of the rest of the hiring pool. The company has an opening they need filled; they can only fill it with people from the hiring pool, not those who aren't in the hiring pool.
Public opinion in the US _is_ center-right.
No it is flexible and Vue 3 let's you do it more react-hooks style.
Part of the democratic process is to defend itself against such attacks. If the defence is suppressing speech, then that might signal that democracy is not strong enough to deal with these issues. An easy win for the attacker.

It's a pity that we aren't capable of sustaining a situation like that without dismantling the very core of the democratic system: freedom of speech.
Okay, but the survey only surveyed Americans, I can't use it to make conclusions about Europeans.
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Please do not quote a spree killer as an authoritative source.
Only 1/4 of Republicans surveyed believe the election wasn't fraudulent according to a poll today. Clearly, not objective reality. Do you think that this is

a) the result of Google or

b) the result of FoxNews, and other Mercer/Koch/Murdoch owned media/radio continuously amplifying and echoing these claims?

If Google has so much power, why can't they convince 3/4s of Republicans that water is wet? Like literally, 42 lost court cases, court dockets where the Republican governors and secretaries of states conducted investigations and debunked all of the specious "evidence" (e.g. the "suitcases from under the table" video), and yet this gaslighting continues.

The Trump administration has undermined the credibility of all of our institutions, the latest being the scientific / medical community and democratic institutions. He does this by spreading baseless lies on social media with made up facts, some of them so preposterous that they've essentially 8chan/8kun posts. This then gets spread far and wide on social media and conservative TV and Radio as a mind virus.

And yet, the problem is Google has too much power to fact check this motherlode of bullshit.

Well clearly, this power sucks, because for all of its scary capability, it clearly can't burst the bubble of people who have been gaslit into a shitgibbon's cult.
The invention of the press certainly made broad publishing much more viable than it was previously, but the capital requirements to distribute a broadsheet to the entire world, even in 1990 were beyond the reach of pretty much everyone except a few very large corporations and governments. Hence the aphorism "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one."

The capital requirements today are an internet connection, a phone, and about ten minutes of typing. For the vast majority of people today, the ability to publish to the world is beyond the wildest dreams of William Randolf Hearst.
If I created a massively popular social media platform, and a large volume of posts found there were outright lies about you, would that be okay?
California has been running budget surpluses for many years. And will run a surplus again this year, despite the pandemic
Biden's Top Tech Advisor Trots Out Dangerous Ideas for 'Reforming' Section 230
> people really do want to base their opinions on facts

Not really, confirmation bias is a real thing for all human beings. The issue here is that there's a fundamental disagreement about what constitutes a fact. Objectivity in reporting is also subjective, funnily enough. If I consider NPR to be very objective because the dead-pan monotonic voice of the announcer simply says a direct quote from a member of congress, I can talk to a relative who will tell me that same NPR story is biased because they reported on something they don't agree with.

> It was because the media respected its role in society and at least tried to be objective.

There are _plenty_ of news outlets that still respect their role in society. The difference is that 20-30 years ago, there wasn't a deluge of information or misinformation readily available to get those dopamine hits from confirming biases.
Anyone making this point needs to explain why I'm supposed to accept their de jure interpretation of the situation, when de facto, large platforms monopolize distribution. Simply saying "private company" is so lazy, it's not even wrestling with the issue.
Can't measure viral titer with an electron microscope. All the papers are measuring viral titer in the upper airway with PCR.

They may be confirming virus is present with other technologies, but the only way they're measuring viral titer is with PCR.

I don't claim that nobody but me gets it. The head of BioNTech seems to be saying exactly what I'm saying. I don't claim to say anything different from him.

Let's both come together to draft a public health statement that we both would feel comfortable releasing to the public. I'll go first:

Although new vaccine technologies will (1) aid in preventing members of the public from becoming severely ill with COVID-19, (2) will help significantly reduce the number of people contracting the virus in a clinically meaningful sense, and (3) will help to significantly reduce transmission in a community setting, it will be important for members of the public to continue wearing masks and maintaining social distancing until such a significant portion of the population is vaccinated that infection rates as-measured by nasal-swab PCR begin to show significant decreases, and ICU capacity is restored. Based on this, we will incrementally re-open and relax restrictions as deemed appropriate.

Sound ok to you?
As someone who followed things fairly closely at the time, that's not true. There was talk of meddling with voter rolls, but changing of votes was basically not discussed and was quickly dismissed.
For sure. For worldwide literature translated to English you could do a lot worse that the Complete review[1] its father site the Literary Saloon is quite good too[2]

If you know French La Republique des Livres is a good choice[3]

In Spanish there are lots of sites, but this book recommendation section from Clarin has a good selection from all over the world [4]

I really liked this site[5] in English about "post-modern" writers (Kafka, Borges,Joyce,Beckett etc), too bad it was shut down, but you can still read it on Internet archive.

Surprisingly 4chan /lit has very good taste in literature.They have several guides,for example one by origin of the work[6]

To finish I will give 7 books, very well known, but they wont always appear in, say a reddit top 100 books or whatever:

1. The tartar steppe. Dino Buzzati

2. Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo.

3. Life and fate.Vasily Grossman

4.Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar

5. The book of disquiet. Fernando Pessoa

6. The House of the Sleeping Beauties. Yasunari Kawabata.

7. Midaq Alley. Naguib Mahfouz

[1]http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html
[2]http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html
[3]https://larepubliquedeslivres.com/
[4]https://www.clarin.com/tema/libros-recomendados.html
[5]https://web.archive.org/web/20130401045155/http://www.themod...
[6]https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literat...
>You keep quoting the bits that are talking about the Mueller investigation and not the Senate Committee.

Wrong, I am quoting the bits that are taking about the US Senate Special Committee on Intelligence report.

>"the findings run parallel to the conclusions of Mueller's probe"

"the findings [of the US Senate Special Committee on Intelligence] run parallel to the conclusions of Mueller's probe"

It's reconfirming that the Senate committee findings run parallel, or in other words, come to the same conclusion, as the Mueller report.
What? Why? You are say "those who want others to become healthy won't want to ensure they stay healthy". That sounds illogical.
About Polylabel, I found this blog post more informative than the readme in the repo.
This goes so well that Mélenchon (far left) and Le Pen (far right) command about 50 per cent of the total vote together.

Or they did in the last presidential election.
>it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here.

Lol. A couple weeks ago, there was footage of a bunch of Trump supporters in trucks boxing in a Biden campaign box on I-35 and trying to run it off the road.

This isn't a state where people with differing political opinions can coexist harmoniously.
>When you make a video or a podcast, you might have a pretty large audience and no immediate counterpoints. You should do your best to avoid spreading factually wrong statements.

Here's a comment snippet you wrote 3 days ago: "Facebook basically wanted to take monetary sovereignty away from states and give control to private companies.

Are you really doing your 'best to avoid spreading factually wrong statements'? Because I'm sure you have no evidential basis for that statement and therefore promulgating misinformation. Alternatively, we can have YouTube Interns decide what you can and cannot say online.

Regardless, perhaps you should take your own advice?
Clearly the "solution" is for backdoors to be administered by a centralized, "trusted", private, for-profit monopoly! I'm sure VeriSign would be happy to bid on it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003, which was several hours earlier and is also on the front page).

I think we'll copy this title to the other thread, though, because it's more accurate than the bland title of the corporate press release.
What i meant by small fish is, they depend on Blink engine. They have to follow whatever Chrome does.
He was impeached, was he not?
If Dems were making claims in courts and getting shot down at a rate close to 99%, a lot of people would feel exactly the same way they feel now.

Stop with your straw-mans.
> Are you implying that older people don't have value?

No I was explaining the contradiction that you're saying there's some large future benefits from locking everyone inside and essentially halting public life to protect people who are defined by their very much bounded future.

And we've essentially failed to protect the elderly even with lockdowns.
A psychiatrist once told me that the mental paths to become a criminal were exactly the same than to become a cop and the end result was mostly because of their previous life experience.
I had a dog that did that after having a bath.

I'm sure it was trying to cover up the bad smell of the shampoo with the natural odour of real poo (if you pardon my pun).
"I love the poorly educated."

- Donald J. Trump[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0
Or, the Democratic party is a center-right party only if you are far-left
Please explain? Or is this just a random useless ignorant comment?
That was an example in https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/the-language-of-ch... (with BDD code in Python). Search for "tic-tac-toe".
Having done this at a much smaller scale (having a "labs" department doing things unrelated to the core business) I can say that it is a bad idea. Usually a result of fouders getting bored. There is so much that can be done to improve search that Google does not need to explore tidal wave energy.
Not my experience. Away from some parts of Eastern and Southern Europe for lack of opportunities, but generally out of EU, no.

And anyway, if your kid goes to college, he or she is very likely to be of legal age and have, like, opinions of their own. Yet you make it sound like you're raising cattle for yourself or something.
This is completely fair to the subject: He got a tax refund for taxes paid for dividends, that he never paid in the first place. This is not a loophole, open to interpretation or in any way anything except plain old fraud.

Now you can fault the authorities for not having better checks in place (I personally blame, in the Danish case, a previous government for firing ~2000 “IRS” employees due to them being unneeded when a new IT system was put in place. Funny thing is the IT system had just been funded, when they were fired), but it is still outright fraud.

In the end I hope this will be a PR win for EU, as we can hopefully agree to heavy sanctions if he is not extradited.
Pension liabilities are just a right wing talking point, which shifted from "budget deficits" when California started running huge surpluses and rainy day budgets
>>If you were not religious and conservative (I have my own anecdotes), you did not fit in. Only when I went to college in a college town did people largely seem to want to live and let live.

Any society will try to grind your unique edges off to more smoothly fit into their culture. Perhaps you were more inclined to explore liberalism or intellectualism (more prone to be the culture around colleges) or had had enough of conservative religiousness. I had that same kind of inclination from ~18-30 years old.

I have seen plenty of discrimination and judgment coming from 'the right' in my upbringing (usually directed toward others). But now that I'm much more center road and no longer extremist leftist, I am experiencing increasing hostility from my still left leaning friends/groups.

I hope that the internet can somehow transform into a vehicle of understanding rather than a vehicle of argument. Maybe video comments would be more helpful in this regard.
> I'm not a fan of this sentiment. Sometimes things are just really f'ing hard

You're putting the wrong construction on "too f'in' slow!!"

Technical difficulty is irrelevant to "too f'in' slow". If a technology is to make a difference now, when we need it to make a difference, it must already be deployed commercially at global scale.

Our menu of choices is: nuclear (fission), wind, and solar PV.
What even is this question?

I mean, absent further context, the answer is "obviously, yes."
"potentially inflammatory"

So, banning Salman Rushdie and any cartoon of Muhammad?
Hackers access BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine data in cyberattack
Yes, but long keys are unwieldy. There's a comment I made in this thread[1] that calculates how long of a password you need for 128 bits of entropy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358206
This has nothing to do with "Free Speech", that would be a very lazy characterisation. Thi sis no threat to democracy.

Youtube is not the Internet, not even the Web. Any nutter is still free to put up a website - or some other new machine behind a IP address and carry on exercising their free speech.

Google has no obligation to let its platform be used by any idiot who wants to, and in hopefully less frequent cases, by experienced psy ops crews waging low level information warfare.
The Democratic Party is a centrist party whose dominant faction is center-right but which has a substantial center-left and smaller further-left factions.

You can be right of the Democratic Party and be anywhere from merely slightly-less-center center-right to, well, anywhere to the right of that.

But the US polítical spectrum is basically bimodal, and the peak to the right of the dominant faction of the Democratic Party is far-right.
Except they also design them, so that would be like if the iPhone was also designed in China.
1 is a very big reason.

2 Could you clarify a little what you mean with lifestyle?

3 Not so important in a big city IME.
I feel that since Citizens United case was upheld, all companies can be politically motivated, and YouTube is no exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
You are absolutely, factually incorrect. Your opinion is also unfortunate, to equate adversarial nation-state "meddling" with domestic corporate campaigns, though the latter is also woeful.

That Trump was elected is a harbinger of American decline, that so many people think his persona, "intellect" and view on leadership are worthy of consideration as leader of this country. It's an indictment of our electoral and voting systems, that any good faith Republicans felt they "had" to vote for such an awful leader in order to avoid the centrism of a Democratic administration.

But I don't think every Trump voter is a racist nazi. I think they were just okay with Trump being an awful human being and a terrible leader, so long as they could prevent poor people from getting health care or acknowledging climate change.
Grab makes major e-grocery move with first ‘dark store’ as merger talks continue
Take it up with GP then, they're the one complaining about "private company".
I’ve been interested in this pattern as well. I’d contend that GitLab is another good example, and even argue that Automattic is too (IIRC Movable Type was already a successful proprietary blogging platform when WordPress came along)

Which is all to say, if you write that post, I for one will read it :)
I don't disagree about Republicans. I am just stating a fact. Google has too much power.

But you have to realize something about how conservatives get their news. They are extremely loyal to a small number of sources and rely heavily on peer-to-peer amplification of right-wing memes. Google has nothing on the Facebook and good-ole-boy networks. They inherently distrust Google and the internet and any "mainstream" media. All Trump has to do is say "The left-wing Google" and it sticks in their heads like a thorn. They trust people they know in real life, and as soon as their friends are repeating they catchphrases, they believe it.
> This is totally expected from Elon, who likes to oversee new operations personally and whip everyone into shape.

So why is he not moving from Shanghai to Austin? And from Austin to Berlin?

I think people should really look into where Elon actually spends his time. Tesla is his clearly on the back burner as far as his personal attention is concerned. He checks in, but he's very successfully sold the "I sleep under my desk" narrative, while only dropping by every few weeks. It was like when Fremont ignored the lockdown orders and said "I'll be there, if anyone is arrested let it be me" and he was actually in a completely other state when they re-opened.

His primary concern based on physical presence is Space-X at this time.
I'm not sure the authors of that article would still support it on new information.

The argument they're making is "assume a vaccine is 50% effective at an immunity response, and that before an immunity response kicks in there is still a brief period of time where you are contagious with a small viral load. (50% * infectiousness of immune person) + (50% * infectiousness of an unprotected person) = a lot of infectiousness"

sub out that 50% for 95% (information that has come out more recently than the published date for that article) and the math looks very different. Still not "CORONA EXTINCT BY APRIL"... but much better than what you're implying
Trump is absolutely hoovering up money from his followers since he started on his election fraud rant - he's up to something like $250M, and he personally gets to keep something like 70% of it.

Most of the lawsuits are so ridiculously bad, it makes me wonder if it's just part of keeping up the act in order to keep his followers riled up and throwing cash at him. Inciting such intense hatred with so very many lies all for personal money and power - it's devisive, dangerous, and absolutely terrifying that this is happening in the USA, a country that spent decades forcing democracy on other countries.