skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber or DoorDash are just extreme examples of the same line of reasoning. You're just moving cash flows not only across time but based on probability. You start by trying to create a business that moves the most cash possible to generate float. Now you might say, that this doesn't work because if you sell $1 for $.80 you'll run out of money. But that's not true, you just have a drag on your timeline that pulls you to zero without further capital inflows, or until you sort out your margins. In a world with very low interest rates (now, and past few years), capital doesn't have many useful places to go. And as we've seen, it has flown a lot into equities and a lot into private funding. That is the inflow of capital that keeps extending Uber and DoorDash's timeline, such that even with a 20% drag, you still have another fool to pull in and keep the party going. If the music stops everyone cries, but if it keeps going long enough, you actually increase your chances of remaining alive. For one you might outlive your competition, but there's many more things that can happen. You can improve your margins (Uber's pipe dream with self driving), you can can have a shift in consumer demands in your favor, or a pandemic that shifts consumer spend super fast, etc. You basically keep growing and extending the timeline and you may get a big pay out.

Or as some would call it, growth investing.
"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."

It's kind of ironic that an API designed to bypass shortcomings in browser implementations is itself not implemented in non-Blink browsers (yet). Of course that's the route any spec takes, I just find it a bit funny.

Support status can be found here.
https://houdini.how/about

Spec drafts if anyone is interested.
https://drafts.css-houdini.org/
> drawing with joysticks!

I mean, it's a rare artist who was sketching on their computer in the early 80s (the "keyboard and joystick" era of micros.)

The usual workflow was to draw your art on some grid-paper and then plot it onto the screen — either in a paintbrush program, or even more simply, by typing the numbers into a text file to produce a PBM/PGM/PPM image, and then running a tool to convert that to whatever format you need. (In some workflows, the artist themselves could be working entirely on paper, leaving the plotting to a data-entry intern.)

With such a workflow, clumsiness of input method doesn't really matter — it's not impinging on your creative process, since the creative process is already over by the time you sit down at the computer screen.

Why, then, did paintbrush software even exist? Well, it could be helpful for finishing touch-ups to plotted input (especially hand-dithering to suit a given system's palette — effectively the "color grading" of the early digital era.) And, of course, paintbrush software was helpful for quickly banging out "programmer art" mock-ups to use in your game/app, before an artist comes in to replace it with something better.

By the late 80s, 'serious' digital painting software for professional artists to create in came about. But said software either shipped only for systems that had a mouse (e.g. the Mac); or the software package itself shipped with a mouse (as in the case of PC Paint.) So "doing digital painting with a joystick" was never really a thing.
Ask the CAD industry how they handle design files. VCS isn't really designed for this. The closest thing is to make sure diagrams are generated from code.
>we aren't having a healthy

So ultimately you prioritize what might be described as "collective health" over generalized notions of freedom. Is that "pretty anti censorship", as this question of negative externalities is always the point of contention for censoring anything is it not?

I'd agree with this framing, though if one goes down this route, all sorts of instances of "freedom" and individual choice would be called into question on grounds of it's effect on overall societal health. I think it means simple frameworks of censorship, free speech, and facts cannot be generalized or universalized, as ultimately many of these will run into value judgments that aren't easily answered by questions of objective truth.

>I'm not remotely convinced that there's any kind of evidence

And this calls into question the efficacy of "truth" and objective facts. At some point people simply have different value judgments about what is true, or for which other things to carve out exceptions which take precedence. Or which debates or opinions are healthy or which are off limits. We see this with COVID where it's hard enough to assess the specific health risks while balancing the trade-offs of other health risks and economic impacts of lock-downs etc. "true" is too broad to encompass all the variables.
What if the cool new thing to do is to set up charitable organizations to voluntarily solve social problems? Example: https://massliberation.net/

The old model of ever-increasing taxes and regulations only furthers the interests of large businesses. They have the scale and reach to use those things as tools to prevent fair competition at the expense of everyone else.
Robinhood is a gambling platform. The SEC should regulate it as such.
Funny coincidence how the 1980 game Moonwalker is mentioned soon after a picture of Michael Jackson visiting Sega in 1990.
UberEats has a "guaranteed delivery time" feature that they pretty much never go past in my experience. The delivery usually arrives sooner, but at least you know what the worst case scenario is. They also recently added "priority delivery" which lets you ensure the driver won't make any other stops between the restaurant and your house for a few extra bucks--this seems to drastically improve predictability and is well worth it imo.

I'd love to see DoorDash copy both of those (assuming they haven't already--it's been awhile since I've used it). I've had many similar frustrations with them. Being hungry and waiting on food that is already 45 minutes late, with no indication of whether it will arrive sooner, later, or ever as the driver zig zags all over creation on the map is a special version of first world hell.
I'm curious, from which state to which state did you move? How much did you save?
Based on HN's cheerleading when some projects abandon open source (for example the top comment of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488642 ), the overall trend may be the user base not caring about open source in the same way people cared 5-10 years ago
Americans largely have trouble distinguishing facts from opinions, sadly.

https://www.journalism.org/2018/06/18/distinguishing-between...

>The main portion of the study, which measured the public’s ability to distinguish between five factual statements and five opinion statements, found that a majority of Americans correctly identified at least three of the five statements in each set. But this result is only a little better than random guesses. Far fewer Americans got all five correct, and roughly a quarter got most or all wrong.
Obama did not obstruct or delay transition of power. It was quite peaceful.

Trump clearly has not facilitated a good faith, peaceful transition of power.

And this matters - the 9/11 commission noted that the rushed transition due to Bush v Gore contributed to the intelligence lapses that lead to the attack. And that wasn't even a bad actor harming the transition like we have today.
I see it the other way around. Musk's success and impact are of of truly historic proportions, and his being in California helped lift its credibility and reputation. It's sad for California to lose him (and the loss of his businesses to the extent that will happen).

It's odd to me to be so aligned with the State to claim it is responsible for one's success, without accounting for the jobs he created, and the related industries he energized. California benefits from people like Musk. As more companies and thought leaders leave (as they should given the direction of CA's policies), the state will suffer.
Considering as a company, they created the first very fast JavaScript engine, massively usable browser implementation and UX features along with other applications that are pretty complex with UIs that aren't excessively slow to load, evidence is contrary.

I think it comes down to their best and most experienced developers and designers are focused on other areas with higher visibility, engagement or critical function.
I'll take the potentially greater risks over the immediate risks in this context.
If the device is left unattended at a border crossing and it is taken away to a back room, you should just assume its been hacked or modified and shouldn't trust it again.
I suspect that will be the next problem. By basically disenfranchising conspiracists they will (and in some cases have) formed their own platforms.

Maybe it will be a net good to separate out the hardcore conspiracy types, but given how relatively widespread sympathy to this idea is, I wonder if it won't just create more and more polarized platforms, which I personally think will only worsen things.

I don't really have any alternative suggestions, and I do think the way ideas spread on the internet is pretty frightening, but I'm not how good the long term results of this are gonna be.
Tesla called her a criminal. Her fight could be a milestone for employees
I would footnote truth to show it means whatever that publisher believes. There are plenty of older published texts that contain incorrect information, and sometimes outright lies (propaganda).
People are upset when something that was free becomes paid, or something good gets worse. People aren't upset "about things they were handed for free", but the removal of things they were handed for free.
All of these alternatives are just a search and a click away. If people want to find them, they can.
Except it didn't find any evidence of collusion:

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/24/706318191/trump-white-house-h...

"Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election, according to a summary of findings submitted to Congress"
The problem is not the 100,000 people who have constructed their whole lives around Alex Jones, that's what Alex Jones had for 20 years of being a mostly harmless crank who makes a good living at it.

The problem was giving him access to a much broader public, to sow paranoia and FUD among tens or hundreds of millions of people who actually play important roles in society and don't have time to spend debunking everything they hear.
Also, Mary Barnard’s translation of Sappho is very good. I prefer it to Anne Carson’s.
Not yet, in my opinion. Things will really change once some group achieves 'scientific breakeven' (gain > 1) or better yet 'engineering breakeven' (gain > 10). ITER targets gain ~5-20 sometime after 2035, and SPARC targets gain ~ 2-10 sometime after 2025. So there's a possible inflection point on the horizon, which explains all the press.
I agree with this. The fact is that nobody could've foreseen that a private entity could have so much power over public discourse. Nobody could've predicted the impenetrable network effects of social media a century ago. The laws need to be updated to reflect this new reality and to protect open discourse.
I think bothering to make it clear that they are not performing that well is the cheaper and faster thing to do if it works although, right?

You don't have to go through an indirect process like this guy did, you can just tell people outright, especially engineering types who tend to appreciate more direct feedback. Because if your going to fire them either way, that is in many ways less confrontational.

"Decent but whaffs around a lot" and "started performing once they were shown that, actually, you don't get stuff done" seems a lot easier than: Fire, reduce morale greatly if everyone likes that person, and then go through a long and expensive process to get a back fill who may or may not be any good either.

Also as a manager of 100 people, you shouldn't be actually dealing with IC cases like this, your managers should be.
If this were the early 1900s, I wonder if people would be cheering YouTube for blocking kooks who claimed cigarettes weren't good for your health.
Agree - and a related is that because you don’t have 100% ownership, you have less skin in the game. The reason to tkae money is that you believe that the 80% of the company you still own will be worth more than 100% of the company without funding. So you end up with more value at stake, not less. And more incentive not to make bad decisions (and of course more people around the table with skin in the game that are motivated to help you avoid bad decisions).
So perhaps the problem actually lies with the recommendation algorithm, and youtube should do something about that.
Did Bob Dylan Sell His Copyrights to Avoid Higher Taxes from Biden?
Definitely thought of Joe Rogan the second I saw the headline.
Why stop there? Screwdriver removes crusty eye goo. Tablesaw trims fingernails in an instant.
> If you don't like it, use another private company.

Who are YouTube's comparable competitors?
Yes, pretty frequently, actually. Despite the best efforts of a few folks, for instance, holocaust denial 'scholarship' has been suppressed incredibly effectively, and is not part of the common zeitgeist.
The comment I was replying to had no mention whatsoever of storage space requirements.
Correct, the exact same way "some people" think indenting with tab is 100% BS. Yet, at the same time, there are "other people" that will indent TAB + 2 spaces every new line.
I used to draw with paddles; it was much like etch-a-sketch.
If that video debunks his claims it means something has been done against him.
I fully agree - travelling and doing something in foreign countries together with people that come from different backgrounds & religions & nations completely demolishes prejudices, helps to learn to adapt and to respect other people and to develop the mindset needed to try to understand how other people think and behave, etc... . 25 years later I'm still using stuff that I learned during that period.

I'm rarely totally in favour or against something but in this case I can see only positive things.
Texas is a no income tax, but moderately high property tax state. That's good when you are making money, but can be hard when you retire: low income, high tax on your house.
Trump's second sentence clarifies and elaborates that the first sentence is referring to voting machines.
New York City has significant problems with traffic and parking; a growing proportion of that traffic is delivery vehicles. These deliveries can be hugely disruptive to both vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

Here's an NYT article from last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-deliv...

It's not uncommon to see delivery drivers disgorge their trucks' contents on the street to sort for last hundred feet delivery. It's not even uncommon to see them swapping package between companies so that each deliverer don't have to go into each building.

Of course the answer is "make that illegal" and of course it already is. But the police aren't everywhere, the fines aren't steep enough, and the police tend to look the other way because any particular infraction is a minor nuisance at worst, and the blockages won't be gone any faster if you tell them to clean it up. Fining people for a behavior doesn't work if the police refuse to levy the fines.

Taxing this is a way to put the burden of the costs onto the people that are causing (at least indirectly) the problem, the same way that (at least in theory) gas taxes funding roads puts the burden on the people who drive the most.

And it doesn't matter if you tax the consumer or the delivery company. Either way you're taxing the consumer, the former just makes that cost visible to the consumer, and may change their habits enough to reduce the congestion.
How many people were vaccinated, and how many would have this kind of reaction to any other vaccine (like flu)?
If you read my link it was not referring to the Mueller investigation.

In August, of this year, the US Senate Special Committee on Intelligence concluded its investigation and found that collusion occurred with Russian nationals, and possibly Russian intelligence. _Separately_ from Mueller.
> Do we knock instagram for mental health issues for youth? Yes.

Honestly, I don't think we should knock Instagram for mental health issues, that's really up to the user. Instagram's responsibility should be in providing tools to block users/content you don't want to see. If your child is suffering from Instagram, that's on you as a parent (why the fuck are they on Instagram). You don't need Instagram to be bullied, though social media in general, does increase its reach. But what do you expect when you put your life on display for the internet?

> Do we knock tobacco companies for making cheap/addictive products that are detrimental to health? Yes.

Tobacco only has one use. There is no benefit to it. Robinhood is an investment tool that has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for all investors (isn't that what everyone has wanted all along?). I would not consider what they are doing gamification, they've just unlocked investment options to the average Joe that make it very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

> Do we knock MLM companies for predatory behaviors? Yes.

MLM companies are created for one purpose, scamming people out of money.

Robinhood serves a purpose. Instagram serves a purpose. Both services provide a ton of value for millions of people. You can't compare them to entities that only exist to cause harm.
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> Paying for it now with future growth, health and improved revenues coming our way.

If the majority of the people dying are at the end of their lives (or at least at the end of their working lives), doesn't that mean we're shutting down society with no return in the future?

Healthy immune systems seem to be able to handle the coronavirus fine. That's the science.

You can't get revenues (or future health/growth) from the dead.

I don't mean this in a heartless way, but if we're going to say we all believe in science, you can't claim future benefits where there are none.
Far from SF?
WI here, I can relate. No idea what people flying to SF are wearing.
Redis is given as one of the examples of "open core" failing. But even if you treat the new Redis source available license as completely proprietary, Redis is still open core, since the core is still licensed with BSD 3-clause. It is just that some of the extensions that used to be open source are now proprietary.
>are you trying to make the point that YouTube should have its cake and eat it too by being protected as a platform, and at the same time play the role of a curator and publisher?

I could waste everyone's time and explain why that's flat wrong. Instead, I'll refer you here[0] which will explain, in detail, why you're wrong about Section 230.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
fact or opinion:

there are two biological sexes?

do you want a corporation determining that for you and banning you from seeing anything otherwise? what if their view of the facts is different?
Users get something, restaurants lose, delivery people are abused and underpaid, but the founders will be very rich.

Looking at the entire system there was very little added, there's just a lot of money being shifted to a small group of people.
G Suite is the worst piece of shit I have to use in my work and I curse the developers every time I'm forced to use it. It's like they went out of their way to make the worst design choices at every point. It would be impressive if it wasn't so depressing.
We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.
But think about what that will do to the zero-day market! It will surely crash from such an action!
This comment makes little sense. AWS is even less uniform when it comes to tools, exactly because of its organic growth. This clearly has no impact on its success nor its features.

Google does have a problem with management and the org-chart, but not the way you think.
how are you doing "text-to-speech" conversion?
I don't need perfect evidence to form beliefs. It seems unlikely that Jones' reach increased on Twitter enough to offset his bans on other platforms. If it did, that doesn't seem consistent with the loss of traffic to his website. After he was banned on Twitter, it seems very unlikely that there was any other platform where his reach grew enough to offset that loss. Anything's possible, but it doesn't seem likely.
The median voter also supports single payer healthcare and [insert lots of extreme opinions supported by the median voter here]. Centrist designates something approximating "elite public opinion," not any actual idealized voter who falls in the middle in all his attitudes.

And once you accept that centrist is simply the designator for elite public opinion, most corporate media is clearly centrist, because they're basically clearinghouses for elite public opinion.
isn't congress literally talking about such a law now? something about holding tech companies accountable for their users content? so congress is breathing down the necks of tech companies which now "choose" to refuse publishing certain content. what interest would youtube have to censor otherwise? no censoring = more views less work.
your entire thesis is more or less: "it happened, get over it?" night doesn't become day in a single instant.

your long list mapping products you use to the horrors of their creation shows that you obviously grok the gravity of the situation.

choosing to be flippant about it just damns you even more.

you could definitely stop buying nazi cars, conflict diamonds, child labor iPhones... pay reparations or return stolen land. you're choosing not to and shouting your choice into the internet expecting everyone to give you kudos for it.
They started getting targeted with stuff aimed at their existing biases.

(Along with an endless stream of Minions memes, it would seem.)
You're right, but this one was worse than usual because of Covid. Far more mail-in ballots, more spacing between observers and workers, fewer observers, and some of it having to be figured out on the fly. That makes this one messier than normal. Don't judge their ability to run elections by this election - it's not a fair test of normal circumstances.
I know at lest 2 flat earthers who were given anti-psychotic medication and stopped being flat earthers.
You are making the gp point. Democratic party is a centrist-liberal party. Not a leftist party. They are a publicly trades corporation owned by wealthy individuals.

They are not a worker co-op, they are not a mutual aid-organization, they are not seeking to overthrow the capital class, they are not socialist, maoist, communist, anarchist, etc. therefore they are not left.
Newspapers typically did not enjoy monopoly positions in the markets they served, and even for those that did, rarely did those translate into worldwide monopolies.

Also, because newspapers have an editor, they are liable for what they print. Google enjoys protections from these liabilities, even though they're clearly willing and capable of editing their users content.

The two situations are entirely different.
The issue is that people see it as a failure of YouTube, when it is in fact, a failure of our education system.