skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ignorant question for American readers. This article quotes a tweet from somebody who presumably has something to do with promoting Texas. He writes:

> Texas is the best state for business. Texas has no state income tax, while California’s is the highest in the country. It just got better because Texas made an income tax unconstitutional.

Can you explain what he means by that last sentence?

I'm not asking for a political exegesis, unless there's no way to explain it without. I'm just curious for a technical explanation of what he's referring to. I suppose part of what I don't understand (as a non-American who knows little) is how a state can rule anything unconstitutional in the first place - isn't the constitution a federal affair?
History is more full of examples where censorship has lead to tyranny and the downfall of civilizations.
> Five hours a week is way more than most people who work and have a family can do.

This is why you have to be smart about how you do it. Ride your bike to work or run/ hike/ play with your kids. There are a million ways to double up and get fit while doing something else.

How much time do you spend playing video games or watching TV? That is time you can convert into being fit.

Dying of heart failure at 50 clears up all those "Not enough time" issues.

> Even if you find the time, you might be quite tired and that also eats into your time budget.

Exercising when you are not fit wipes you out. Regularly exercising gives you more energy in the long run as normal activities become easier and less stressful.
Yes, it both drives home prices up and robs the state of taxes. It would also devastate many people already invested if it went away overnight; there's not really an easy solution to fixing it.
Weird that they say adrenaline and not epinephrine
actually... sorry to gently disagree: the crazies are unfortunately amplifying each other and unchecked, the result will be people taking guns off the rack and people actually dying. Moving to wingnut-only platforms isn't a great solution, but at least it de-legitimizes the crazy and stops it from being "recommended" content on random peoples' screens.

example of crazy plot? hereya go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...
So would a coordinated effort to convince the populace that an honestly-elected president is illegitimate.
I remember there was pretty similar post from ex-Wave engineer about exactly that -- they put "best" engineers (if such thing exists) on backend, and neglected frontend. It might not be the main reason for its utter failure, but it did contrubute.
This analogy is so dishonest. These people are free to talk about all the conspiracies they want on their own websites, blogs and so on. They are not entitled to having their content hosted on other people's websites though. It's like if I complained that the NYT isn't talking about my coolest new invention and called that censorship.

That's very different than the government (not a private company) trying to shut you down from speaking anywhere.
No there is no easy solution generally.

You tube has no obligation to carry anything. It has nothing to do with "Free Speech", that would be a very lazy characterisation.

Companies like Google can control what is easily available and discoverable next to the cat videos etc but they do not "...dictate what information is widely accessible"

Any website or even more so IP address is widely accessible. Why should Google sit around and let experienced psy ops operators have free reign on their platform?

So there is a easy solution for Google - remove it.
I know that some of the details above are worth calling out. In terms of usability, it's important and that is as much an implementation detail as it is a design guideline detail.

Regarding the buttons, I agree they should elevate on hover and press down... with the animation for the click radial effect. Touch interfaces with just the radial click indication.

For the survey/study, I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. Actually interviewing with people to determine what works best should be actively encouraged.

This also isn't to say that I think google proper really cares all that much. I'm pretty sure their UX designers are treated like second class citizens in their engineer focused culture, let alone those that cross between UI/UX and engineering.

I also want to differentiate between "Material Design" the guidelines and "Material UI" the react component library. It's probably the single best component library I've ever worked with, which isn't saying too much as it's not perfect, just better than anything else I've seen.

edit: the main point was that Google's blessed implementation for their UI design framework is less used than a third party implementation for another framework.
Congratulations to DoorDash! Their IPO is quite an achievement.

I'm curious to see what the state of aggregated food delivery will be in, say, 2024. Not too far in the future, but long enough for losers to start giving up.

My current understanding is that DoorDash-like start-ups are consistently in the red. The upfront expenditure on engineering and marketing for a 3-sided marketplace is huge. The business model would be to take a bit from each transaction and achieve profitability on volume. Thus, a winner-takes-all (or few-takes-all) situation seems inevitable.

It seems there's many players right now in the space, and the only differentiator I see thus far is restaurant selection and price.

I may be in my own bubble, but I have no loyalty to DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub, etc. I usually flip through each app to compare prices and pick the lowest one.

As an investor, how would you differentiate these food delivery start-ups?
Yeah, a bit of a free rider problem where California has now paid to bootstrap the US electric car industry, to the whole country's benefit, and won't get quite the tax payment rewards for their investment that they are due. Just lots of smug scorn from Elon and the commenters here.
I think the side which is getting all their lawsuits dismissed (and with prejudice) is probably the one with the baseless claims.

I also think that the side on which the biggest (public) provable liar/narcissist of all time is on has a chance of having the most baseless claims.

Occam's Razor also applies. What is more likely: a massive conspiracy to rig the election, only in specific swing states, only for the presidency and nothing else on the ballot, requiring massive coordination and having no proof. Or... The president is a huge liar and the people in the GOP are afraid to go against him lest he turn his cult against them too.

> Because I’ve been paying attention and I’m genuinely unsure what is happening

I'm genuinely unsure how you're genuinely unsure, except if you attribute the same weight to Fox News / OANN and other propaganda networks as you do sources of information with actual credibility.

There is zero doubt to be had.
Let this be a lesson that a lot of people are susceptible to all sorts of "remarkable" ideas, including objectively dangerous ones like believing that Covid is a hoax.
Which chips?
No, there are completely mechanical contracts being executed every day.
Mueller report and various indictments with pretty documented evidence.
AWS has significant first-mover advantage, but in chasing that advantage, Google sees providing a UI as a distinguishing feature to the AWS exeprience.

But their focus is on spanning the feature-set, not making the resulting UI fast. And the feature set is incredibly broad.
We humans may know that, but do the algorithms know the difference between a video describing one voting error and a video describing multiple cases of errors?

It's not a rhetorical point because if you upload a YouTube video with controversial keywords, a banner appears below the video with clarification which may or may not be relevant. I once watched a Rammstein music video and was scratching my head as to why a banner appeared about the Apollo Space Program, as if Rammstein was a conspiracy theory and not a fictional music video. If this same algorithm is being used to censor, a lot of innocent videos will be deleted.
No kidding. There's a Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and the SpaceX Starship construction site in Boca Chica; he's demonstrated that he likes to be at the bleeding edge of development on-site. This move isn't surprising.
I have a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 3 (the cans not the buds) and every fucking time I use them, the audio gets stolen by some device making a notification sound, and then does not go back to the call/video/whatever I'm actually trying to listen to. I'd not call that just fine.
I’m convinced most people are still not aware of the mechanism. They equate eating healthy and exercising with being the “cause” for losing weight. I avoid avocados and nuts on a diet because it’s so caloric dense. Yet how many people order some stupid avocado, nut “healthy” salad drizzled in olive oil because they’re on a diet.
This thread is fascinating. Same type of troll/sarcasm/meme comments (e.g. "orange man bad") as you find on Reddit, which are normally absent from HN. This topic clearly brings out the worst no matter where it's discussed.
Of course they matter. We're discussing arguments that apply in the real world, not in math theory.

In math, if you have this axiom:

f(x) > 5 for all x >= 20

you are not then allowed to change it with a later axiom

except when x is divisible by 240

However, in real life this happens a lot. I have a company that is taxed a fixed amount per year... except for the years where I make over 100k euros, in which case things become quite complicated. If I omit the second part (which is not impossible, given that I never made over 100k euros a year with that company), and suddenly get a big payout from someone, the result will be very different from my initial estimation - as sound as it was WITHOUT that additional axiom / assumption / rule.
Is this unironic support of “wrongthink”? Why do you need Bug Brother telling you what you’re allowed to watch?
Interesting. The AX is out but the AX1 ($15) is in stock.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-ax-bx

I suppose the price is a bit misleading because the AX also requires the $12 programmer so with shipping+tax to CA it's closer to $30 total out of pocket.

Personally I use the BX because having the flash, and a bit more logic, is convenient.
Perhaps GP meant to account for it by 'of their peers', as in equals.

For example, in the UK peers (of the realm) used to have the right to trial by jury of fellow peers (of the realm).

They are now the victims of inequality - while commoners have the right to a trial by their commoner peers, peers (of the realm) have only the right to a trial by commoners!
Youtube is the problem. Anyone can put whatever shit they want online, which is fine in itself, but put your snake oil on Youtube and Google's Skynet will expertly find rubes to sell for you and show it to them.

But on a few occasions, like this one, advertisers get nervous.
And this is why the American media are failing the American people.

This is happening in Portland THIS WEEK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPs2PyLKZE

I have friend in Oregon and they've told be the police in most areas will no longer come hen you call.

Before the election, there were hard-left leaders talking about plans for shutting down DC:

https://streamable.com/6gyav3

There were Seattle protestors yelling at people to give up their homes:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-...

I have a ton of videos saved off in case they disappear. I don't feel like digging up every link, but the fact is, there have been MASSIVE amounts of violence from the hard left.

I have been to BLM rallies and I've been to Trump/BackTheBlue rallies to report on them. I'm also a minority. I feel 100x safer at a Trump/BlueLives rally than at a BLM protest. I saw the race riots back in May in my own city of Chicago, and watched police cruisers set on fire, stores looted, and national guard deployed to the streets

If you serious do not think the left have not been committing the vast majority of the violence over the past several months, and honestly believe the narrative of the "mostly peaceful protestor," then it shows the failure of our news media and it also shows just why this YouTube CCP level censorship of independence voices is so dangerous.
According to David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old, Brigadier-General Leslie Groves had previously overseen the construction of several munitions plants costing much more than the entire cost of the Manhattan Engineering District project.

1. Chapter 8, "Invention", p198 in my paperback edition.
All the states also have their own constitutions.

This is the Texas one: https://tlc.texas.gov/docs/legref/TxConst.pdf
The average income in California 25% higher than Texas (60k vs 48k), but taxes and costs are more than 25% higher in California.

The typical home value of homes in California is $599,159. [1]
The typical home value of homes in Texas is $224,065

California sales tax rate of 7.25% is higher than that of any other state, and its top marginal income tax rate of 13.3% is the highest state income tax rate in the country.

Texas has an 6.25% sales tax and no state income tax. [2]

California's per capita combined state and local taxes is ~$6,000 per person.

Texas's per capita combined state and local taxes is ~$4,000 per person

https://www.zillow.com/ca/home-values/

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/texas-residents-pay-8-...
I worked in Dem political tech. The Russian Troll Farm/Cambridge Analytica/social ads scandal is mostly noise and no signal. But you’re missing something important: Russian state sponsored hackers spearfished and stole data from the RNC, DNC, and the Clinton circle. They deliberately released the latter two and withheld the first. Those releases don’t define the entire election, but they had a demonstrable and empirically validated impact on voters. Those deliberate and asymmetric releases probably changed the outcome of the election.

Russia really did interfere in that election and you’ve ignored this crucial fact.
May I ask what's the workflow like with this?
> Not only is what the subject of the article did probably not illegal

Why do you say that?

The method they used consists of simply filing forms to get withheld taxes paid out that were never withheld. The amounts paid out corresponds to owning all stocks in the actual companies many times over.

Sanjay himself went drinking with the employee of the Danish tax authority in Copenhagen who was in charge of approving the applications while the (I'll go ahead and use the word) fraud was going on, presumably to ensure things would continue to go on[0]. The employee has since been jailed for approving fraudulent applications in another case[1]

American pension funds who similarly exploited this have settled with the danish authorities and returned all the money they received[2]

Sanjay says he suggested a settlement, offering to return 1.9B DKK (~311m USD) in 2018[3]

Yes, the danish authorities were sleeping at the wheel, but that does not make it legal.

[0] https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/webfeature/milliardkuppet

[1] https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/seks-aars-faengsel-til-sven-...

[2] https://www.skm.dk/aktuelt/presse-nyheder/pressemeddelelser/...

[3] https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/sanjay-shah-jeg-tilboed-danm...
Working at GitLab, but I want to focus on this part of your comment in general:

> Do the couple dozen devs at my company really need an internally-hosted version?

From personal experience and knowledge through friends: Everyone writes code. Universities, Governments, Governmental agencies, political parties, etc.

A lot of them do not want to host in the cloud, especially in Germany, considering that the cloud (depending on the provider you are looking at) means hosting outside of Germany with all that entails privacy and regulation wise.
Your gambit is a bit tough to swallow. Saving the lives of people currently and reducing the spread of a virus quickly vs a speculative view that in the long term the pandemic will have a worse out-come factoring in all the costs. Thats a very tough operational decision to make. Though, to be fair, I think we will have a good sense of how that factored out in comparing Texas to California over the next medium to longer term. I don't feel sure footed in the pandemic. I do feel absolutely certain in the science that masks work, vaccines work as do social distancing measures for reducing the spread.

If you are implying that the surgeon general said don't wear masks then yes I would say it was an uneducated statement or alternatively that he was under political duress to appease the president's administration. After all the Surgeon General is a political appointee serving at the whim of the president.

Are there better ways to implement shutdowns? Probably yes. Are those difficult decisions to make? Absolutely. Are they made with imperfect information? Yes.

I'm not politically devoted to my position - what part of my comments have been political?
Until the alternatives are de-listed from search because "they contain disinformation" and the alternative search engines are de-listed and black-holed at the DNS resolver level for the same reasons.
For sure, but I think it's important not to lose sight of the fact that YouTube is merely dealing with the symptoms of a much broader societal problem. We can't truly fix the issue until we address the root cause. Everything else is whack-a-mole.
What if his claims were true and this happened? Wouldn't that be a tricky situation too? I mean, really tricky?

At the same time I think Youtube has the right to do this (and whatever they want, basically). Currently there are no real alternatives to Youtube, that is the problem.
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Sex and gender aren't the same thing.
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The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than free society can remain solvent.
Actually, shareholders do get a say in what a publicly traded company hosts!
> These same claims are being made in ongoing court cases.

Anyone can make any crazy claim they want in a lawsuit. I could probably sue someone today claiming the earth was flat or Elvis is still alive if I wanted to. Do we reserve judgment on these topics just because someone sued someone else over them?
Holy shit, this thread is scary. Sure, there are some implications worth discussing based on this news. However, the number of people directly posting doubts on the election results is way more concerning and shows that Youtube might be doing a good thing in this case.
They do, they’re afraid of life without a digital babysitter
Trump didn't create the uncertainty. Statistically improbably events did that.

There is overwhelming evidence of fraud and breaking of rules. The media, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are censoring the evidence.

https://hereistheevidence.com/
I have very different perspective, Tesla is predominantly an EV manufacturer, which seems to be what Progressive states like California love and Red states hate. I think from last few months, his statements were always made in a way to please right wing crowd, for instance downplaying Covid and getting into fight with California over lockdown, he wants to appeal to right wing and increase the user base, am I very crazy to think like this?
>Which large companies aren't bad at web frontend?

I know it's popular to shit on them, but Facebook (and to an extent Instagram). Despite all the expansion, and third part integrations, at least for me (13" MBP 2017, i7/16GB):

1. Everything "feels" like Facebook.
2. It's relatively quick. I can hop from posts, to events, no notifications.

I hardly use Facebook, except for marketplace, so I can't say for sure if users find the interface confusing, but the UI at the very least is well done.
Though the Little Tasks Model is very good for beginners joining the software development industry (as they can quickly come up to speed under this model), this is an absolutely terrible model for senior developers, as this model by itself limits freedom, growth and career progression as it is difficult for senior developers to prove their worth when they are only given Little tasks perpetually.
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> These days it's more "possibility of a problem" vs "absolutely rock solid".

CentOS is mostly a server distro, I bet 99% of installs are without GUI. So "possibility of a problem" is a no go for a server.