skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't need any traffic snooping to notice millions of Instagram and WhatsApp users. Acquisitions were no brainer for Facebook.
On many platforms, OpenSSL is the standard TLS library.
If you're further left then democrats you're a troll, if you're further right you're a nazi.

It's a magical place where only those who agree with the person speaking are allowed to have an opinion and shouldn't be censored by big tech co.
> What is going on in the US just now is unprecedented in modern Western democracies - we've reached "peak fake news" in the USA. Mainstream news networks like Fox have talking heads spouting venomous lies that are demonstrably and trivially proven as such.

Agreed about Fox, but conversely - the three liberal networks supported the Russiagate conspiracy theory that alleged Trump had colluded which the Russia to win the 2016 election. Let's not pretend brazen lying is somehow a new thing created by Donald Trump.
Do you trust your doctor? Do you consider the court as a misplaced authority? They make judgements, often nuances of interpretation based on their moral compass - they arbitrage truth from application of laws against evidence. In many cases, there is subjective interpretation and the "spirit of the law".
I fully agree. What YouTube is doing right now is perhaps the "least worst" to deal with radicalisation in the very short term - but if this increasing lie-based polarisation continues unchecked, I genuinely fear for the future of the US.

But what can realistically be done while maintaining freedom of speech, and especially when the "leader of the free world" is arguably the main culprit?
This comment is really weird. There is a good reason why the media publishes more negative articles about some presidents and fewer on others; some presidents are legitimately better or worse than others.
Rural California has plenty of interesting views. State of Jefferson, etc.
Crime and gang activity is increasing, especially in prisons where every yard is now active. Local street gangs sets have multiplied with the influx of people (many homeless), drugs, welfare and larger organized crime operations. Also recent policies decriminalized many acts and have led to rampant street crime in areas like SF and LA.

CA provides sanctuary status for illegal immigrants, along with driver licenses, free healthcare and other benefits paid for by tax-paying citizens. Traffic is terrible because of a lack of any other alternatives that are routinely defunded, destroyed and dismissed from high-speed rail to bus lines to ridesharing.

CA is now worse than before. It's also worse than many other places. Just because 1 facet is better than somewhere else doesn't impact the objective collective decline. Again, please name 10 things that have gotten better in CA over the last decade if you can.
So, since we do not have laws over atoms, neither should we over molecules, etc until we reach humans -- clearly I'm taking your argument to absurd levels, but it does illustrate my point. Something something seeing the forest for the trees.
I fully support breaking up big tech, but there are geopolitical dimensions I'm surprised many pushing breaking up big tech don't seem to consider. It's much easier for non-US entities to selectively block and pressure smaller services.
Gotta love low effort posts.
> so your arbitrary distinction between video and text is a distinction without meaning.

I did not make a distinction between video and text, I made a distinction based on audiences and availability of counterpoints. I used those examples because they were the ones that the parent comment used. I do not know why you're talking about video and text.

> What matters is what the minimum-wage, 20-something intern that is making an editorial decision feels about your post.

And at what point did I say I was in favor of social media curation? I said people should try to avoid saying wrong things in their own content when that content has a large audience with counterpoints not readily visible.
> that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia

the mueller report stated "while the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges."

That and they also found many cases of obstruction of justice that could be charged and would have said that he was cleared if they could clear him. so obstruct justice numerous times and then the outcome of that obstruction makes it so that they can't find sufficient evidence of a crime. Reporting on that is not "fake news."
If you read the rest of my comments, perhaps you would understand. Google is a plague upon the Internet.
'Clearly' here meaning 'in my opinion'.

Or do you have any real data on that?
It's a really nice time to be a Ruby / Rails developer. Rails itself has made some really nice improvements with this release and there is also the "NEW MAGIC" should be following in the next couple of days which is currently being sold as what Rails was to the back end, this will be to the front end.

Ruby 3 is also just a few days away which brings optional type checking to helps add some additional structure to larger code bases.

Then in the wider community you have projects like Hanami 2.0 looking to launch next year which aims to bring all of the structure of "clean architecture" approaches and best practices with the simplicity and expressiveness of Ruby.
I can only imagine how many battery cycles I've lost to the BigQuery web console, especially the jobs detail views. Safari tends to be pretty great with battery life, but it's no match for that thing.
This is hilarious, her gofundme is mostly funded by Tesla Shortsellers and they're not even hiding it... I haven't read her claims but this is amusing.

Gregory Reyes $5,000 (shortseller)
Donna Walker $1,212 (shortseller)
NetflixAndLamp $1,000 (shortseller)
DIP Harambe $500 (shortseller)
Machine Planet $500 (shortseller)
Paul Shust $250 (shortseller)
Naked Shortseller $100 (shortseller)
Oslo Skeptic $100 (shortseller)
Bones ThreeZero $50 (shortseller)

Since someone downvoted me, above are known TESLAQ folks and some are confirmed shortsellers while others tweet incessantly anything negative on this company but I cannot confirm 100% that they have short positions in this stock right now.
Hyundai has a robotics subsidiary, which they plan to expand: https://www.hyundai-robotics.com
This is going to be a really shallow answer but all the existing solutions are horribly engineered. Even relative newcomers like SaltStack and Ansible are a horrible mess of inconsistent behavior and spaghetti code.

There's nothing special indicating that mgmt will be any different, and it seems to me like the project isn't very active, and I would say the era of complex configuration management is over (moving more towards immutable infra, containers and k8s) so it's not worth the effort.

If I were to try and give an answer to your question though: mgmt has a dedicated DSL (like Puppet, but unlike Salt and Ansible which is a mess of YAML + Jinja) but without the legacy code and the ability to parallelize execution of states.
A few thoughts on Data Mesh
I heard many versions of Data Mesh and decided to write my thoughts on the same. How Data Lake is writing for NYT vs. Data Mesh is writing for O'Reilly? When to adopt Data Mesh?
> Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

This thinking will never take humans on Mars! Someone must work on hard, expensive problems.

Human race does won't move forward with a chat but with the hard work of scientist, engineers etc ...
> monopolize everything further.

Were it for profit, yes.

> Essential services should be provided by multiple providers.

I don't think this is demonstratively true anywhere.
A while back, when outbreaks of measles were occurring in the US (IIRC), they were sometimes blamed on immigrants. I wasn't surprised that vaccination was required for immigration, but it took a surprising amount of searching to find it.
Couldn't get this one to work. I'm curious if anyone else is able to get that to work.
You still own the computer, you just download Chrome (rather than any of the alts) and give them power.

It's Google that are breaking the internet for people, and getting away with it because of their market share. I've not used Chrome for ages and use Edge only where things don't work (like Google Photos).
The same thing pushing 1B people into poverty. Not the pandemic; the lockdowns.
Facebook feels like a punching bag to me but not the company I am most concerned about from an anti-trust perspective. I am more concerned about the amount of market influence and power wrapped up in Google (Search and Ads), Microsoft (able to freely steal ideas like Slack and turn it into Teams by leveraging O365), Amazon (amassed capital letting them compete in any segment), Apple (acquiring companies and then over-verticalizing) etc. We need a revision of anti-trust law for the modern era, to encourage competition against these giant conglomerates.

I think there will be a lot of ancillary benefits from breaking up these organizations that should be welcome to all parts of the political spectrum. Distribution of market power means distribution of financial outcomes as well. It lowers barriers for others to challenge incumbents. It allows companies to decentralize from a few overly-powerful city-states. And so on.
> you still pay CA taxes on any income earned due to work in CA

I do exactly this. I earn income from a CA company, but live elsewhere. But I wouldn't characterize it as "paying".

Paychex withholds my CA taxes, which then get (nearly) fully refunded a week after filing. It's not exactly "paying" - rather, you're giving a zero-interest loan to the State of California with an average maturity of 6-7 months.
My wife has been in recipe development for a couple of years to start something very similar. We are just in the cottage license approval phase. I can only hope we will have a fraction of your success.

Would you be willing to answer a couple of questions?
Certainly there are videos made by Democrats which include wild inaccuracies.

You have to draw the line somewhere. Imagine someone buying all the toilet paper in a town and then running targeted adds on-line to start panic buying. So they can sell theirs. At some point Google becomes an accessory to price gouging law.

What if Trump ends up in prison for violating the oath of the office? Does Google have no liability in helping him commit his crimes?
Office cafeteria safety in the Covid-19 workspace
What claims did the senate corroborate?
NLP – Zero to Hero with Python and More
Re-read for close comprehension: the subject of the sentence is "Wikileaks."
Yes, but it's also clear that there's something very funny going on here, rules be damned
A trick Apple currently plays with Siri and Maps is to keep personalized data on the local device, and factor it into results client-side. So my iPhone knows where I've been and what I've searched for, and can use that information, but it never ends up on a server. This is part of why they put such a big emphasis on their device-side neural chips.
> Even Bill Gates has cleaned up his reputation

It's amazing what a few billion dollars of charitable donations can buy you. This is called "fumigating your fortune".
Should child pornography be legal? Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater? Doxing of private information? Those are all "positions", in your view.
Found the article kinda wandering and hard to follow, but I'm totally here for this:

"Henry VIII’s toilet block at his Hampton Court Palace was known as the Great House of Easement"
Why stop at businesses? Nancy Pelosi's yearly salary is at $223,500. Maybe she should start paying 0.6 percent of her salary to the city of San Francisco?
Agreed about echo chambers, I posted a similar comment along what you're saying here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25364097

Curious of your thoughts there.
> Acquisitions were no brainer for Facebook.

And hindsight is 20/20.
Why would the mods on reddit be any different that the moderators on hystoria? The owner of the sub gets to pick the moderators, so moksha256 would get to pick moderators on either platform.

Maybe you mean reddit admins, who are employed by reddit to oversea the site? What issue would they be causing?
Why is this news?

Who cares if Musk leaves. Business people hate paying taxes, and they will always where go taxes are lower. They've done this for the last century, and will continue playing the victim despite getting massive bailouts.

Things like this shouldn't new news and/or posted here. It has no relevance.
> There is no "buts" regarding freedom

Explain the existence of a heavily militarized police force, then. And the war on drugs. And blue laws. And the existence of borders, and the notion of citizenship.

No, freedom has many limitations. Some of those limitations are justified by reducing or punishing harm to others. Some are justified by reducing or punishing harm to self. Some are naked authoritarianism.

We have a president who's a proud authoritarian who literally celebrates violence against the press and summary executions by the police. He's spreading virulent disinformation with the express intent to overrule the will of the people, and he's consistently signalling that insurrection is the remedy to his failure to do so. Does your "no 'buts' regarding freedom" go so far as to tear down democracy in favor of a would-be dictator's "freedom" to commit treason?
I've been giving the wrong answer to "Should I buy Bitcoin" since 2011 or so. I was bearish on Amazon when its stock was at 60 because its P/E ratio was ridiculous. I've learned to just be comfortable with the fact that I'm wrong a lot.
Can you provide the most prominent names?

Being funded by short sellers does not imply her case is false: they can be independent, albeit the same goal ("your enemy is my friend").

PS: Tesla fans or stock holders could be the reason why this story was initially flagged
Delayed Gratification is this, but quarterly. https://www.slow-journalism.com/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200573

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I'm still not certain what she contributed to the field.

Most folks in the AI community learned of her existence when she rallied an angry mob at Yann LeCun, after he calmly tried to explain why certain results are biased [0].

Is this current thing with Google another personal branding/publicity stunt?

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
> You give near negative returns to companies

Does California invest money/resources to companies? Or is it more of an indirect thing, such as maintaining roads and bridges?

Why are businesses choosing to hop off the California gravy train? Is the gravy not worth the taxes? Is the gravy just hyperbole?
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is the person above spreading misinformation? They stated that no evidence of fraud has been found. No evidence of fraud has been found. The fact that the AG will pursue any evidence of it if it is found is doesn’t contradict that in any way?
Yeah, getting rid of the jack was a brilliant way of selling AirPods.
What is your argument for Facebook being forced to sever Oculus?
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine docs hacked from European Medicines Agency
Who do you think is the true arbiter of real truth?
iSH's Built in APK
FireEye literally did the incident response for the Equifax hack, so I do not see how you can claim: "FireEye does accurate and honest attribution." but then also claim "Equifax likely made stuff up." unless you are claiming that FireEye was involved in incident response, but was somehow not involved in attribution, or that they made a true discovery-able report, but knowingly lied.

It is hardly a false equivalence. If everybody constantly fails with little to no evidence of any success by anyone ever despite continuous assurances of success by everyone, there is exactly zero evidence that a layperson should trust any statement on that topic without good, solid, objective evidence to the contrary. Given the track record in the industry, there is no reason to give the benefit of the doubt to any company. The burden of proof is on them to demonstrate their claims in a relatively objective, quantitative manner. If they have no means of proving a quantitative claim in a relatively objective manner, there is no reason to believe their claims given their track record. To provide an analogy, if somebody you trust to not be malicious asks you to follow them, but they can not justify why, then the smart thing to do is judge them based on their track record as that provides some part of an objective statistical basis for evaluating their prevailing success rate.

If you really must have evidence of a trend of insecurity amongst security companies. Then we can look no further than McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro all being breached between 2017-2019 that was attributed to "fxmsp" [1][2], a private Russian hacking group that was selling the contents of the breaches for a few $100k which demonstrates how easy it must have been for it to be profitable at that price point (to be fair they could sell it multiple times, but I doubt they sold it hundreds of times). So, what justification do you have for why FireEye's security should be any different than other companies or even other security companies?

Also, you only provided an answer to the low end of "easy" rather than the high end at 30 engineers for a year or 10 engineers for 3 years which would be needed to pull them out of the "easy" category by my standards. If you do claim they can survive that, can you provide either some reasonably quantitative evidence or public statements to that effect or the same for literally any other company in the world you think can do so as I have not once ever heard of a single company ever justifying such a claim in any verifiable manner. Thank you.

[1] https://gdpr.report/news/2019/05/15/mcafeesymantec-trend-mic...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/fxmsp-hacker-indicted-by-feds-...
Fundamentally I am much more concerned about blocking tracking that actual advertising. So I have my blocker set based on that. I'm pretty sure GA gets swept up as part of that.
Unless you have quite a nice car or otherwise live in some logistical niche, rideshare is going to be quite a lot more expensive than car ownership. Some people will be able to replace some of their driving with public transit, walking, or cycling, but most people can't because public transit isn't feasible and commuting distances are too great for walking or cycling (this is especially true for people who aren't in peak health or who have families or pets or anything else that they need to regularly transport). Until "robotaxis" actually refers to fully-autonomous taxi services, I don't think we're going to see wide-scale movement away from car ownership.
Suppose my data is a single letter, the letter 'x'. I might represent this data as (for example):

1. The integer 24, as x is the 24th letter of the alphabet.
2. A picture of a handwritten x.
3. The symbol x, as I did above.
4. The integer 120, as in ASCII.

All of these represent the same data, despite being different.

Data representation often has multiple layers. For example
that integer 120 from ASCII is then often represented as a single byte containing bits 01111000. The 'symbol x' has some unspecified representation. The picture might be represented using vector art, or an array of pixels, each with a color (which then requires[1] a representation for the colors).

Now suppose I'd want to write a function that gives the next letter after the symbol I'd give in. Choosing the right representation for your data can make this easy or hard.

For the example above, representations 1, 4 are very easy (simply increment the number of the representation by 1), 3 is somewhat easy, and 2 is highly impractical.

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[1] I said something requires a representation. But this is only true when creating a concrete implementation. But while designing algorithms or systems it can often simplify things to simply think of the data, and not its representation.
Hyundai is more like a GE than a GM. Nobody would really wonder why a conglomerate like GE bought yet another company. People just don't realize that Hyundai is a conglomerate because they sell cars too.
That's interesting, because Youtube was never "free", in more ways than one. The content that reaches users is curated. It's no coincidence that conspiracy videos spread and show up on everyone's feed: Youtube propagates it.
> does Hyundai make more than automobiles?

Much more. "It is the second largest South Korean chaebol or conglomerate, after Samsung Group, related to other Hyundai-name industries following a specialized development split and restructuring which resulted in Hyundai Motor group, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, Hyundai Development Company Group, Hyundai Department Store Group, and Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance."[0]

They even build ships and oil rigs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Group
That's not their job. Government departments with Public Health functions do that (e.g. https://vaers.hhs.gov/)
YouTube has the freedom not to host your videos for free.
The page not being an article, its title is particularly uninformative as to the contents. This would be a terrible title for the submission.
Tell me more about the checks and balances that exist in book publishing. Publishers --- often mainstream publishers --- published the first editions of Mein Kampf, Camp of the Saints, Architects of Conspiracy, Did Six Million Really Die, and all manner of medical pseudoscience.
Sorry, it's back up now. I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were hard to determine/uncover/configure.
> There is no "buts" regarding freedom.

I'm curious what you think about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance.
Here are 6 solid examples of "buts" we have on freedom of speech in the US.

1. You can't publish child porn.

2. You can't publish copyrighted work. [EDIT: For which you don't have the rights. I thought that was sufficiently implied.]

3. You can't defame another person.

4. You can't threaten someone.

5. You can't use your speech to invade someone's privacy.

6. You can't use obscenity freely.

And this is just freedoms of speech and isn't even including the whole controversial money is equal to speech opinion.

Freedoms and rights are rarely binary. There is often a spectrum and there are often complexities regarding where your rights end and mine begin. All of the above (with maybe the exception of number 6) involve one person using a right to take away someone else's rights. As a society, we have decided to side with that other person in these cases.
Facts are disgusting. That's what makes them facts.
Maybe if you're in the c-suite or work in a CSR role. Nobody does this when they hire software developers.