skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s be real for a moment; why didn’t YouTube do the same for the russian collusion charade? How about the many video clips used out of context to manipulate the public? YouTube, google, facistbook etc are all surrogates for the DNC.

the idea of a safe harbor date is also one which we will see shorty, has little relevance.

https://hereistheevidence.com/
I thought this was going to teach me how Houdini did some of his magic tricks :(
This just adds to 2020 being a depressing year. If we are going to go down the path of political censorship, we may as well have effective government too. But we have the worst of all worlds. We have the combination of political censorship and ineffective government.
No, because that actually happened.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512487-senate-p...
Majority? Not as I recall it. Some, yeah - famously winamp, which made it compulsory for music players (hence generating a river of tacky UIs). But in my world the majority of apps had the good old “top-bar-menu-icons, File menu, Edit menu, etc” format.
There is almost nothing ‘provable’ or ‘disprovable’ about what is claimed to be ‘accurate’ or ‘misleading’. Therefore, everything comes down to an appeal to authority. I thought surely that we had, with all of our mathematical and technological sophistication, progressed beyond this point in our civilization.
Sunshine only works as a disinfectant when there isn't a massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation.

It assumes that people are rational actors, and have good critical thinking skills, and care to apply those skills. None of those is true of Americans en masse.
How neurons form long-term memories
I think that attitude is why it isn't.

By the time Tesla was in the news, it wasn't worth investing in any more, right?
How do we present evidence for the side that's banned, again?
Yes, election fraud would be a plot to overthrow democracy wouldn't it.
For one thing, Texas has no personal income tax.
Just tossing in a different perspective....

Everyone has their own style and this is not mine - nor do I believe it is the duty of the manager to do everything they can to rehabilitate someone. Depending on the context, I would go as far as to say that doing so could potentially border on being an immoral disservice to your company, clients, shareholders and team.

Time is the most valuable and scarce of resources. Managers are responsible for executing on their mission (within the legal boundaries of the law and value system of the organization they serve). I have a lot of things on my plate and am responsible for the livelihoods of over 100 people. I want everyone to be successful and we certainly wouldn’t knowingly hire someone we didn’t think would be. If the day comes where it’s clear a person doesn’t get the job, want the job or have the capacity for the job (to borrow from Traction), it’s time to go and go quickly preferably. I would include in this people that would take an inordinate amount of my and the teams time or resources to get there.

There are presumably others who get/want/have those things and it’s my duty to serve THEM in an effort to further the mission I was hired to do.

Neither of us are right / wrong of course. We just have different styles.
Truth is they do...

I've met a lot of European founders in the valley.
That “95%” number sure could use a citation. I’d put it optimistically at 50%.
Thanks, those are great examples. I've considered writing about Mattermost before, as I think it's a fascinating pattern that I haven't seen much elsewhere. Attack an existing, high-profile app by cloning it in the open but then additionally build a for-profit company around the clone. Truly a galaxy brain strategy.
Likes and disklikes are way too easy to game imo
> "Naive, idealistic me has often wondered how possible an abstract law of last resort for prosecuting people who exploit loopholes in what a jury of their peers would consider to be an unethical way"

Heaven help those who are unpopular or of a class that is widely discriminated against under such a system.
This looks cool! As a developer who hasn't spent a lot of time on these kinds of custom decision models, how would you recommend I get started understanding how I could best use nextmv to solve these problems?
See wikipedia's list of common misconceptions for a demonstration of the explanatory power of things that are widely believed. Nuclear peace is a theory that find limited support for it's more conservative claims: as the single basis for the "long peace"* it is plainly lacking.

*So called because intra-state conflict outside of NATO doesn't count.
See here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

FB is a American owned an operated, but clearly if state actors have access (as they did at Twitter [0]) it hardly matters.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...
Falsely calling fire in a crowded theatre is inciting panic and a crime.

Falsely calling someone a rapist is libelous and slanderous -- both crimes.

Not all types of lies need to fall under free speech.
The Texas Attorney General is also a partisan clown and is under investigation/indictment for corruption and bribery(his aides quit and and said that he was guilty). That lawsuit is anti-democratic nonsense and is getting tossed
They just IPOed to the tune of $70B market cap...

This comment really comes across as out of touch... The company just went public and based on their S-1 has been massively growing even pre-pandemic! (both huge measures of success)
It's not pre-judging when case after case has been dismissed and/or laughed out of the courtroom.
Of course not. Don't be silly. That doesn't go against their narrative.
How did we get to the point where what we say needs to be factual?

Factually correct speech has its place. But when you're making Youtube videos, podcasts, writing comments, talking with friends, you don't need to be factual. That's not a necessary ingredient to a good conversation.

I have a Youtube channel where I sometimes talk about Space and Biology. I'm not educated in these subjects. No doubt a lot of what I say is factually incorrect. That doesn't mean my speech is misinformation, deceitful, or dangerous.
Remember the time kids, when you had to pay Etrade or Vanguard or one of these leeches a fee of $20 to execute each trade, even when you wanted to sell your position that was losing money? That meant locking out an entire population of people from financial prosperity because they couldn't afford $40 worth of commissions each time they bought and sold a stock. I'm sorry but Robinhood has been fulfilling it's name. It's not perfect, but without it, you'd all still be getting squeezed by these brokerages.
Everything starts out as un-proven. If you use that measure to remove content you can justify any censorship.
Whether or not you think it's true that Joe Biden won (which I'm pretty sure he did) This sets a bad precedent about wrongthing on the platform. There is literally no way to prove whether or not the election was fraudulent. The only thing you can do is look at the available evidence and draw conclusins.

To make it against the rules to look at the evidence and have a wrong opinion on what conclusions can be drawn from it is very dangerous. Think about how a policy like this would have been used in the past or how it can be used now and in the future.

"We will remove anything alleging that The President Donald Trump colluded with russia"

"We will remove anything alleging that the Chinese government is interning Uyghurs."

"We will remove anything alleging that the CIA has conducted experiments on American Citizens"

"We will remove anything alleging that President Bill Clinton had sex with anyone other than his wife"

"We will remove anything alleging that Jeffery Epstein did not commit suicide"
And even then in the Google Cloud console I still feel that parts such as Stackdriver are, in fact, completely separate parts of the UI and not integrated into the bigger whole. Same for many other products.

Which begs the question, what problem are they solving with this “unification but actually not” approach? Couldn’t they just bite the bullet and give up on the unification and be done with it?

Phrased differently, what are the advantages of this unification and reuse of components, exactly?
BitcoinTalk Users
I'd like to know if some people here have a BitcoinTalk account. Give me your username inthe comments and we can talk.
If you want to go down that route I would say the opposite [0] plays a much bigger role why some Americans can't accept that their country ain't "The best thing ever since sliced bread, #1!" [1].

In reality different people have different priorities, so no single country ever can be "the best", as that solely depends on the individual priorities.

It's also not like RT and Xinhua are making up the stuff they use to agitate against the US, like most propaganda it's usually based on at least a kernel of truth.

For example the US incarceration rate is a pretty blatant outlier, particularly among developed countries, a factual reality that clashes very harshly with the self-propagandized idea of "Country of the free". The regular "race riots" in the US, and their scale, are a clear indicator to still unresolved issues on that end.

Disregarding these as "It's only Russian/Chinese propaganda!" is exactly the kind of mindset that leaves these issues unresolved and tolerated as "normal".

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
I'm baffled how people support this behavior from big tech.
It almost seems like they think of themselves as immune to this somehow, like little sheep unable to comprehend that they themselves once will deviate will get the same treatment (assuming they have spine to stand for what they believe).
Why do you put "the truth" in quotes? Are you honestly questioning the validity of this election?
I can't necessarily argue the exact wording that you used "prominent", because the folks you listed are certainly no longer visible in the most mainstream venues, but do you really think Alex Jones has lost a lot of the audience that was deep into his content. If anything this just makes him into a martyr and gives his arguments additional fuel because "they don't want you to know the truth".
CA Tax Board is pretty aggressive: if you work for a business located in CA, they want your income.
Youtube's recommendation algorithm means that the people who see these videos are already predisposed to believe what is in them. That overrides the usefulness of the Like and Dislike buttons.
For the existing folks, almost certainly, but it prevents the spread of misinformation; and more importantly, it prevents the _repetitive reinforcement_ of misinformation.
Sure, but even for the average law abiding Californian it would be nice having one less government requirement to worry about.

The part of me that likes freedom over safety likes this idea because it gives the government less ability to enforce its own bullshit.
> None of those is true of Americans en masse.

None of those is true for people en masse.
Congrats to Doordash! The pandemic certainly helped accelerate this process, but I will add that within the bay-area, anecdotally, my first circle were all Dashpass subscribers for a while before 2020 too. Their partnerships with Chase, amongst others were smart, big moves.

I do want to link here a super insightful/funny article that calls out how Doordash acquires new restaurants( amongst other ways of course) , and the resulting loopholes.

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...

HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852
Why should they (rhetorical)? Many people vote based on political identity rather than actual positions or accomplishments anyways. (I hate those blanket options on the first page of the ballot to vote the entire ballot for one party or the other. People should at least go through and make sure the names are the ones they researched.)
Also--thanks for going on the record. You are right that you might be criticized in the future by nit-pickers, but it's much more satisfying to take public stances and find out what you're made of (in my opinion).
The dislike button might inform The Algorithm, and it might inform users who are using the YouTube web UI (if they care to look); but it remains silent on video embeds on Facebook/Twitter/etc, and on "less-interactive" watching interfaces like the YouTube Apple/Android TV apps.
Right, if you looked at likes/dislikes you'd think Trump won re-election by a landslide and Bernie won the primary easily.

Joe Biden, who won the most votes of any candidate in American history with 66% turnout and 51.3% of the vote, still had his announcement video [0] at 50/50 like/dislike.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOU2fTg6cI&feature=youtu.be
I wouldn't necessarily say it works well though..

The FN (yeah yeah they changed names, who cares) still spews its hatred behind closed doors, our police forces are amongst the worst offenders of any developed countries when it comes to racism and systemic issues (and consistently proving that even the police unions are a bunch of thugs), we have people like Zemmour on TV spewing hateful nonsense that even Fox News would probably frown at by now, and our own current government has been trying to get a law in place to prevent freedom of press so significantly that the UN and most of the world looking at those pieces of news have actually been ringing the alarms in every possible way.

While on a personal and biased level I certainly don't mind that daddy Le Pen was fined multiple times throughout the years for calling the Holocaust "a detail of history", we don't really have any proof that it does anything more than make people who dislike him (like me) happy to see him fined, and unfortunately give reasons for supporters of his bullshit to feel vindicated (i.e. rise of the extreme right everywhere with a very salient point regarding being "silenced", which crystallizes to the extreme in stuff coming from the US like Qanon).

Youtube is having a tough time because they're almost always pointed at first and foremost for being THE rabbit hole of misinformation/radicalization and other things, but they're stepping into a minefield by touching on one such hot subject without having a broader policy (extending beyond whatever the current US issue is at any moment), backed by an army of lawyers.

(I've stopped following the battles of up and downvotes on this message instead of any actual reply.. I'm only left to wonder how many of either are emotional responses over valuing the argument itself, and on this subject even HN isn't proving to be very different from reddit today)
That might have something to do with London being the biggest financial center in the world after NYC and less with immigration. It's much simpler to reach some easy money when there so much cash slushing around looking for the next hot thing.

Plus the CoL in London also matches the high compensation and sometimes exceeds to the point where despite the high salary it's difficult to feel well paid when you find yourself competing against people with Mc.Mansions.
This is actually quite bad.

It creates bubbles and divide between people if there are no common ground on de facto monopolies like Reddit, Facebook or Youtube.

Reddit banned Trumps fanclub on Reddit and they reopened on a their own server with far more relaxed rules concerning incitement to violence. Pushing people out of common ground is not a very good longterm solution ...
Like normal, and that's a disingenuous rebuttal. The evidence is not being suppressed, the misinformation is.
This is what someone who believe the election was stolen would say in response to what you've said:

(1) It's not 8mm votes (popular vote disparity) that needed to be flipped, it's only the disparity in swing states that needs to be flipped.

(2) If election voting systems were hacked, that could explain a large number of votes specifically in swing states. You can check the time series data from Edison Research which is publicly available on the NYT static data page to see the irregularities for yourself. For example you can see the Trump N votes decrement by X000s in MI and PA when it should be monotonically increasing. This might be an API glitch, it might be fraud, or it might have an innocuous explanation. Mainstream news doesn't report on these irregularities.

(3) Widespread fraud isn't alleged. Targeted fraud at swing states is the claim.

(4) Fraudulent ballots or vote switching by voting machines might have only flipped the POTUS choice. Dr Shiva had allegations on this which he's detailed in a YT video alongside data that he believes supports this hypothesis. Again, the mainstream media has not reported on this.

I've personally looked into (2) and (4) in some detail. I find (4) to be meritless and an artefact of the way they've presented the data. I find (2) to be totally real, but an innocuous explanation such as an API error to be much more likely than fraud.
Conspiracy peddlers and those that follow them have been around long before YouTube and social media. Some extraordinarily bizarre ideas have been published on Xeroxed/mimeographed 'zines sent out via snail mail. While social media definitely makes it easier, it's not the only way for information to disseminate.
Yeah with Xevious it was clear that 1) there was now an art department and 2) they were high.

That game caused me a double-take. It seemed like a very alien world we were on.
Liberals? Conservatives complained too!
We call the bathroom "The National Library" because it had bookshelves and we all spent quite some time reading there.
Perhaps? But those people probably already think Youtube's part of any number of conspiracies already.
Great idea!! It seems you can't paste an image inside the text though, which you can do on the regular Twitter webpage?
There's nothing "random" about how people encounter this stuff. Most engagement-driven recommendation engines seem to love suggesting inflammatory clickbait. Banning one specific subset of this kind of content will not solve the problem, the same people will just be radicalized by some new nonsense. This is pure CYA by Youtube.
> for people working on a SV salary

Most Californians don't get to keep their SV salary when they move to Texas.
Imagine the house you live in is worth $250,000.

And imagine paying "asset" taxes on that $250,000 home even though you still live there.
Sure, but that's not what they're talking about.

This ban the State of Texas, itself from using YouTube to discuss their own belief in election fraud. It bans the sitting president from discussing his own belief in election fraud. It bans the current Senate leadership from discussing their belief in election fraud.

Some people criticize YouTube there because they are a private company refusing to carry the messages of publicly elected officials.

Now, I personally feel no need to defend any of these entities. They're all powerful figures capable of their own fighting.

If I had to decide on the topic, I'd probably support YouTube as they're the piddling multi-billion dollar company that employs my friends, where as their opponents are the leaders of a trillion-dollar nation with military might exceeding any other country in the world. YouTube is most definitely the underdog in this fight.
Yep, needs a title

"Houdini is a set of low-level APIs that exposes parts of the CSS engine, giving developers the power to extend CSS by hooking into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine. Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers."
The Fremont factory and Palo Alto headquarters will still be in California... for now. I imagine they will open up some Texas sites, which everyone is doing, but I think Tesla will have a CA presence for some time. It's difficult to move these things. On the other hand, Elon has a "damned the torpedoes" attitude, so who knows.
They stopped messing with driver tips. As for questionable business practices in general, I don't see that as any different than a hundred other questionable-but-still-legal practices, many of which cause vastly greater social and environmental harm that Doordash could ever hope to achieve.
Sure, but it's entirely irrelevant to a private company. The quote was in reference to government tyranny, not some rule imposed by a private company. The spirit of the Second Amendment isn't to encourage a well-armed militia to overthrow a private company.

If you don't like the rules of YouTube, go elsewhere. The true spirit of the First Amendment is that you have the right and freedom to do so.
Bombardier!

When slapped with tariffs later judged to be illegal the Trudeau government didn't do anything, allowing Airbus to get ownership of their flagship plane.
The far-left managed to create an "amazing" (and terrifying) perspective.

If you're a leftist but not as leftist as them, you're a centrist, maybe even center-right which makes everybody on the right to be automatically far-right.
The users apparently feel they are getting something in return. Otherwise why download and use the app (and pay extra for the food)?
Coincidentally, “the state has decided to ease up on its brutal repression of poor black people” is also why the Musk family left South Africa
> Is it a well educated bet based on science? Yes.

Was it well educated when the surgeon general said don't wear masks?

The takeaway is that practically no one should be feeling sure-footed right now about their understanding of something as complex as the net-effect of a pandemic and counter-measures.

The hubris I see in practically everyone nowadays suggests to me people are more politically devoted to their opinions and defending them.

It is totally possible that lockdown measures will be shown to be marginally effective or net-negative in terms of life-years lost in several years time, factoring in the disruption to everyone's lives, children in particular.
> It's unfortunate that Elon is leaving California given that the state has really lifted him to the pedestal he is on ... That was paid for on the backs of the people. Funny how short his memory is.

It would be great if he recognized this when deciding where to establish future production/design centers. But as an individual, I don't think he owes any state or government an allegiance. If you had found career success in New York State, would you feel any obligation to NYS if you had family or a new opportunity in California? I should think not. Nor should Musk.

It is interesting that Tesla is expanding with a new factory in Texas and that could be a big factor in his move. Regardless, it's up to him where he wants to live.

> he doesn't want to pay a large tax bill for the success that he has had (hence selling all property in CA).

I like to think I'm pretty progressive and the wealthy should definitely have a significant tax obligation. But if he has been taxed on his wealth up until now, why would he continue to owe California? If he wanted to leave California on terms that you would find more legitimate, how long would he have to stay or how much would he owe to leave?