skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If VC's wanna subsidize my dinner, I'm gonna go for it. Theoretically, this would incentivize them to make the service not suck, since they have to refund/comp so many orders.
From your own numbers, Texas has <5% more non-Hispanic white people than California (36.6% vs 41.4%). It's a weak argument when Oregon exists.

>California has: Better schools across all grades

No, it doesn't. For example, USNWR ranks TX public schools #33 and CA #37:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

More generally, public schools in many affordable parts of California are severely underfunded due to Proposition 13, while the statewide average is boosted by high-ranking schools in ultra-expensive cities like Palo Alto. Texas has less inequality between public schools and has earned international recognition for its Ten Percent Law:

https://news.utexas.edu/key-issues/top-10-percent-law/
That's cool, but he started the campaign on November 6 and they kicked him out the next day. He didn't say anywhere that the fraud happened or not. He was just raising money for the research.
I grew up in Tyler but have lived in Austin for 15 years. I don't mean to be argumentative but you seem to be comparing Small town Texas with "Big City" California. I've vacationed in smaller towns in California and the conservative nature of those areas remind me a lot of Tyler,Texas.
How did allowing mail-in voting favour Biden over Trump?

Do you mean because Trump demonised mail-in voting for months before the election, and many of his followers believe COVID is a hoax?
It's worth noting that the Chinese state is able to pool resources and direct a national effort in a way countries like Japan and the U.S. are not. It may take longer than 10 years but they'll get there.
My cynical take is that its an effort to re-branding effort in preparation for the launch of the Cybertruck and larger SUVs.

What self-respecting F-150 owner is going to buy a Tesla pick-up "Design in California".

And since he's a renter, rarely sleeps and has minimal possessions, how hard is it to "move"?
I am speaking for myself here, but the way I see it, the issue is more the way in which taxation is exercised than the taxation itself.

If I was in Elon's seat, I personally wouldn't mind paying 20 or 30% of my income in taxes. But vesting shares should not qualify as income. What should qualify as income is me selling those shares.
In other words, If I am awarded 1B$ in shares that I have no plan on selling short term, I still have to liquidate 20-30% of those shares just to pay taxes, which may have a pretty high negative impact in term of voting rights.

Why could the taxation not occur when I am selling instead?
This is completely within Google's deeply held belief that they are smarter than everyone else.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25361291.
More importantly, CA still has more subsidies, tax breaks, and other funding for everyone's favourite truffle hound to dig up.
This might be acceptable if there was even one single thing about YouTube that was itself democratic in any way.

Since there isn’t, this is inherently an inherently anti-democratic maneuver. The corporate oligarchy is shedding yet a bit mote hesitation to fully realize itself. This is not a good thing.
Duck is not an ingredient. Such travesty!
Is that true? Doesn't he have the right to ask the governors to do this, or to ask them to buy him an ice cream, or to sing him a love song? They have the right to decline - he can't compel them to do anything.

Whether he should do it is a different question.
If you look at the formula for determining vaccine efficacy, you'll see it's determined by comparing the risk of being infected while unvaccinated vs the risk of being infected while vaccinated. If the risk of being infected while vaccinated is higher than the risk while unvaccinated then you will get a negative efficacy.

I believe you are right in saying we simply don't know what the efficacy is for those over 75 as a result of this study. Given that the range extends to 100% that tells us that no one over 75 who received the vaccine also tested positive for the virus. However the lower bound tells us that even if the vaccine had increased the chance of being infected by 13% we still would have expected 0 over 75 to be infected by the time they were tested simply because the probability of being infected is already so low.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_efficacy
>Vote NOW for your favorite illusions until 10am EST on December 10th

Thanks for reminding me OP. Also here's the page that lists the candidates and videos (The title of the page still shows 2019 though): http://illusionoftheyear.com/vote/
What if CCP believes that opposing views are false and harmful?

Especially the "harmful" part is bendable beyond belief.
Because piping curl into the bash is just an unnecessary risk that gives you very little benefits (you speed up a setup a bit), while package managers actually help keeping a project update-able and deployable in long terms. In the end we all end up with some sort of compromise between security and usability/maintainability - 100% secure doesn't exist. Trimming as many risks that you can do with out, while keeping the most of the useful functionality is a reasonable strategy for most projects.
Sorry to break this to you, but if the possibility of a problem is a no go for your servers, you will unfortunately have to pull the plug on them. All software has bugs, so does hardware.
I invite you to read up on the psychological effect known as "priming."

Top-down disinformation primes the minds of the less-scrupulous, who then seek to rationalize and harden their half-baked beliefs through their everyday experiences.
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I'm not ignoring it. Why would a Jabra representative lie to me and say that it only supports 2 active connections instead of lying to me to say that it supports as many as I want? It's far more likely that they were telling me the truth about their product and that you're misrepresenting your experience than it is that they were lying to make their product seem worse while you're telling the truth.
I don't think the liabilities are going to shrink on their own, I'm just trying to put the total cost in perspective.

You see a lot of people talk about the unfunded pension liabilities in apocalyptic terms. And when you hear figures in the hundreds of billions, or trillions of dollars, it sounds insurmountable. It sounds like a bomb waiting to go off that no one is dealing with.

But it isn't. The State is currently over-paying its required contributions. The State is not ignoring the problem. This thread spawned out of the assertion that California's budget is a mess. It started with a discussion of the 2020 budget deficit, and then spiraled into whether the pre-pandemic budget was a fiction which ignores public pensions. My assertion is that the budget was not ignoring the problem, the 2019 budget was funding pension liabilities at a level sufficient to dig out from the hole we are in over the next three decades.

It's also important to point out that the State of California is not the only entity required to fund the shortfall in CalPERS and CalSTRS. The State's liability in CalPERS is about $60 billion. The remaining $70 billion is owed by localities and other special districts.

None of this is meant to claim that the problem is not real. California is going to have to pay an awful lot of money for the next several decades. But that is an awfully long time horizon, with room for an awful lot of economic growth, and if we continue to prudently make payments towards the liabilities each year, it's not apocalyptic at all.

Importantly, the liabilities are owed over a long time horizon, and they don't scale with economic growth, or population growth. They are static. Meanwhile, in the past 30 years, California's real GDP has increased by a bit over 100%. Thirty years from now, it's entirely possible we'll have 2x the 2020 dollars available to pay the liability.
Memory is trainable, 30 passwords is nothing. Before mobile phones, most people probably knew by heart about 30 phone numbers.

But I'll admit it's not practical.

You could also just remember one password and have an online password manager (I don't know if it exists though).
It’s interesting that the biggest _diss_ here seems to be that they are “not that bright”, not the implication that they are doing something blameworthy.
This, but unironically.

It is unsettling, but look at where we are in 2020, when deepfakes are not yet zero-effort. Imagine a world where every mobile device can deepfake any activity with any person's face. Now think of how places like Newsmax, Fox and Infowars have no scruples spreading lies or dancing around the truth.

We need institutions to trust. Trust in authoritative journalism is all we will have in the future.
You do not see brown people ? Have you, I don't know, been to any tech company ? where vast majorities of engineering groups are brown people ?
> "But I have noticed that some authors have an idea and without fleshing it out and properly researching it they decide to write a book about it."

My rub isn't the lack of research, it's the lack of a balanced argument. For instance, Gladwell. Study after referenced study to support his theory, but rarely if ever a counter point.

Confirmation bias gone wild. Which in this day and age is understandable. It's the norm. What's disheartening is how this approach gets passed off - and generally accepted - as expertise.
I also think some of the arguments against Google's actions here don't take into account the engagement algorithms. If this content is left up and people watch it, the algos will feed them more of it. I think if we're going to have the discussion about Google "censoring" content, we have to include in the discussion engagement algos.
if you travel a lot it's common to carry a vaccination card (I have one for all those tropical disease vaccinations I've had) - I expect many countries will require you to carry such covid status documentation before they let you in (or board the plane to their country
1. not a factor for most. they're paying for web hosting already, and that's what is covering the network and computers. I'm talking about content.

2. don't use them. ads are not a requirement. they really aren't.

3. don't use them either.

People used to make simple web pages because they had information to share. They did it because they enjoyed it. Now everything feels like "how can I monetize this?" We need to change our mindset. Does the internet exist to share information or is it just here now to make money from ads?

I'm quite happy self-hosting. It may cost me $5/mo. I can afford that. I can also use a raspberry pi at home and simply proxy through Cloudflare. There. Not costing me much money at all, and I still don't need advertisements.
Point is that we've let marketers take over and then tell us that the internet won't survive without them. It can, and it will. It needs to.
There's also the new "special" vdev feature (which allow you to segregate metadata onto separate ssd mirrors) which should further speed up the remaining unavoidable random reads during scrub/resilver (for metadata traversal).
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I use 10x8TB in RaidZ 2 in my home server. TimeMachine Backup for 6 people, docker volumes and an excessively huge media collection.

The TimeMachine datasets are backed up offsite.

Losing this pool would be a PITA, but not critical.

My primary goal with ZFS is some data redundancy. At a good cost. And quick remote backup for a fraction of the pool. Not performance.

At one point, 2 disks died within 2 days. While there was some panic involved, the data on the server could be reproduced with some time.

There isn’t a best solution, that fits all needs. If there was, ZFS wouldn‘t offer all the options it does.
The liberal inner cores of Texas cities primarily grew up in these burbs and small towns, and know that despite being a MAGA bro, their uncle isn't satan incarnate.

Compare that to the dirty looks I got walking around SF in a Buck-ees hat that happened to be red. It bordered upon comedy.
Interesting to see they are not using the x.google domain
Thanks! Still not sure what you mean about https://github.com/samuelmeuli/action-electron-builder

I see the workflows at:
https://github.com/samuelmeuli/action-electron-builder/blob/...

and

https://github.com/samuelmeuli/action-electron-builder/blob/...

What about them is using other scripts? Oh, do you jsut mean things like `uses: actions/setup-node@v1` is using that standard actions/setup-node "step"? Yeah, you can refrence steps defined elsewhere, ok, I get it!

For some reason I was thinking you meant something else. OK, thanks!
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Macaulay Culkin. Sure he knows about some skeletons.
I'm going to gently push harder, because I don't think you can reasonably compare what angry Democrats said and did in 2016 to what's happening in 2020. Nobody attempted to overturn any state's electors. The sitting Democratic president didn't directly lobby state governors and state house speakers to decertify results. For that matter: Democrats didn't deliberately fuck up tabulation processes to sow chaos to exploit later in the month.
"massive coordinated artificial amplification of disinformation."

Propaganda wasn't born yesterday, neither were people in the past more rational than today.
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It's even trickier than that. The company I work for is HQ in California, but we have employees based in another state. They pay taxes to that state, not California and there are no reciprocal agreements with that state.
This comment is ignorance at it's finest.
Why are you talking about iOS?

Also who said anything about Tor? What relevance does it have?

Of course any open source project can have features added in private. Those are not part of the platform.

It’s certainly not true to say those features already exist in the platform, as you falsely tried to claim upthread.

It also doesn’t mean you can add them to the platform if the maintainers don’t accept them.

As I say, you are confusing what is possible in some other reality with what is actually true.
You make a fine point about partisan hostility leaking into every crack and crevice these days. It really does get tiring. Its as if we in the US are all Sports Fans rooting for The Home Team without regard to inconvenient facts or anything that challenges the outcome desired. America is in a sad state for sure.

"What if the tables were turned?" - Is it really a "What If" kind of question? Maybe the tables have in fact turned?

YouTube certainly has no problem hosting videos that purport the idea of a rigged 2016 election.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Russian+collusi...

For a solid 4 years one party accused the other of rigging an election and it was considered news and reported on nearly non-stop. Now the tables are turned and the formerly accused party is claiming the other one rigged the election.

4 years ago one party went with a Boogey Man kind of narrative where a nebulous and hostile foreign power used untold influences and means to change the course of the election.

Today one party is going with the narrative that laws were broken regarding the conduct of elections.

These 2 things are similar but I put forth the idea they are not exactly the same. The TX vs. PA suit presents evidence and makes specific claims. Maybe I missed something along the way but I never saw anything but innuendo regarding what specific crimes were committed in the "Russian Rigging" of the 2016 election. Im open to reading up if anyone cares to drop a relevant link or two.
It's important to note that the 95% refers to the reduction of mild COVID-19. There is very little data on how well the vaccines actually prevent the spread of illness - often called sterilizing immunity(1) - most of the trials simply weren't doing the extensive PCR testing required to measure that.

There's a good chance they do in fact reduce the spread of COVID-19 too in a significant way, as many vaccines achieve that. But some don't.

The second issue, is that we don't have enough data yet to know if the vaccines prevent severe COVID-19, let alone deaths, in the people most at risk. That at least we'll probably find out soon from the UK.

1) https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
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The interesting thing about the methodology page is that it consistently uses strongly-worded and reassuring terms, but at no point do they mention any numbers or statistics whatsoever. It's made to appear as if they're transparent, but it doesn't actually offer you anything of the sort. Additionally, we can read it and find lines like the following:

>if and when they are included, are at the discretion of The New York Times Best-Seller List Desk editors based on standards for inclusion that encompass proprietary vetting and audit protocols, corroborative reporting

This seems to fit with another quote that a commenter here found for us:

>In 1983 (as part of a legal argument) the Times stated that the list is not mathematically objective but rather editorial content.

On top of this, there's likely to be biases in the information they receive: It's obvious that every large book store in the country (including all digital platforms) doesn't report directly to the NYT, and it would be very unlikely for there to be no bias in which stores decide to work with the NYT or not.
amazon.com/primevideo and amazon.com/video both go there.

The situation with primevideo.com is strange, but it seems to have something to do with non-US territories?
> Do we reserve judgment on these topics just because someone sued someone else over them?

No, but we also shouldn’t censor people for making those claims. It seems to be the attitude of many big tech companies that their users are too dumb to look at information and decide for themselves what is and isn’t true.
"Open source" was created as a marketing term and companies using it as such shouldn't come as a surprise.
The Democratic party is a center-right party. If you are further to the right of them, you are far-right.
I did flag, but it usually doesn't do anything. At least on here I might be able to get a response from dang or something about why it happens so often.
Hi wasmitnetzen. I don't want to discourage you from self-hosting OwnTracks, but I would like to clarify one thing about Zood Location. The server doesn't store any location data in plaintext. Your location is encrypted before it leaves your phone in such a wat that only the intended recipient can decrypt it (Zood can't view it). That encrypted payload is placed in a drop box on the server for the recipient to pick up later. Newer payloads of encrypted location info will then overwrite the old data in the same drop box.

A case could be made that hosting an instance of OwnTrack with your location data in the clear on a VPS somebody else controls is less safe than storing it encrypted on someone else's server.
There's already a process and standard, internationally-recognized certificate for Yellow Fever vaccination, overseen by the WHO. Some countries check this book at the border.

The certificate booklet has space for other vaccinations.

Booklet: https://tourseastafrica.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/yellowca...
Adrenaline is the commonly used term in the UK
That’s the point. This might be acceptable if there was even one single thing about YouTube that was itself democratic in any way.
Since there isn’t, this is an inherently anti-democratic maneuver.

The corporate oligarchy is shedding yet a bit mote hesitation to fully realize itself. This is not a good thing.
The trick for this case is a very long key, 1mb of more, try to recover all of them, you can lose about 60 bits, but not much more. What is the speed of extraction? You only need to delay it for a couple of decades.
Wondering if divers can determine up from down in the absence of surface light?

I’m guessing they could use the direction bubbles from their air supply are travelling...
There is indeed no easy solution on what is “good for democracy”, but that ideal can be damned to me because the idea of voters making ”informed choices” is laughable and they will always primarily vote based on simple tribalist allegiance, not to mention that the concept is silly in a two-party state.

It has nothing to do with what is and isn't “good for democracy” and indeed simply that I find it scary that powerful companies play arbitrary referee on fact policing.

YouTube is of course constantly filled with videos that contain falsehoods and it's arbitrary to only police it here.
You are rewriting history. Western media was not 'fooled'. It's ironic that you are doing so in a thread about spreading misinformation on the internet.

January 8th - China identifies new virus causing phenomnia-like illness [1]

January 10th - China reports first death from new virus [2]

January 21st - The outbreak, which began in December in a seafood and poultry market in Wuhan, a city of 11 million, is spreading: Patients have been identified in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, as well as Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and South Korea. [3]

Don't blame our inability to react to the virus on China. The pandemic was raging for months, with news coverage of people being locked in their own apartments, doctors dying, makeshift hospitals getting set up in stadiums, before it exceeded more than a handful of cases in the West.

Hell, even after hundreds of thousands dead, we still don't have the political will to do what would have been necessary to stamp it out back in March - massive testing, massive contact tracing, enforced quarantine. If we were to go back in time, and do it again, I think we would arrive at pretty much the same outcome.

The 'China hid the facts' [4] narrative has little explanatory power, and its primary purpose is to shift the blame from our own failings.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/china-pneumonia-ou...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/asia/china-virus-wu...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/health/cdc-coronavirus.ht...

[4] It[5] did hide the facts, but it hid them so poorly that everyone who was paying any attention, both inside, and outside China was aware of how serious this pandemic is at the start of the year. It's hard to hide the facts about something when you put an entire city under lockdown (But don't cut the telephone and internet lines into it.)

[5] China isn't a monolith. To be exact, local government did its best to downplay the pandemic. National government was not very happy with how that went down, and purged their local and regional party branches for their mishandling of the outbreak.
Actually, there are some rather successful EU wide projects, CERN, ESA, Galileo etc. so I wouldn't make plans per se but not doom it from the start either.
This is a subject I've been following for a while.

Basically any content that is controversial for any reason, be it porn, government criticism in china or unpopular opinions, makes VISA and Mastercard wary that it will be bad PR for them, so there is some evidence that the pair is basically threaning to cut service to any of their downstream partners, for example if you google a bit there is some (sadly murky) evidence that they been threatening Patreon if they allow certain kinds of content (for example incest porn).

So people noticed many particularly sensitive political videos, can only be hosted safely on outright porn hosting sites, even self-hosting is not safe unless you also own everything else needed, because the CC providers have firepower to threaten almost any company they wish to, including ISP, DNS providers, etc...
That's risky. Better to add the new drive and re-silver before removing the old drive.
Blocking your own proxy?

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