skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll flip the question around. Had Trump won, would the Democratic party be publishing content like this with the same lack of evidence? I think you know the answer to that.

After his win in 2016 we had Russia collusion claims about election collusion that is still ongoing, it even led to the Mueller investigation that extended beyond the 2018 election, so yes absolutely the Democrats would do this.
A billion dollars is not bad for a site that started as a fake-it-til-you-make-it piracy site. I only know the story 4th-hand. But, my understanding is that it started as a user-upload site (I.e. piracy with disclaimers). And, of course, the seed users were actually employees with puppet accounts pirating media to their own site.

That kicked off real users who competed on getting the highest quality subtitle jobs uploaded quickest after the first broadcast of a given show in Japan.

Once viewers outside of Japan learned that they could get episodes same-day as Japan, they flocked to CR. Of course, this was only possible because CR did not attempt the impossible task of convincing the producers to allow this to be possible.

Once the CR audience was high enough, there were two obvious consequences: 1) They were too big to fly under the radar and were likely to be sued soon. 2) Their audience was large enough to be offered in negotiation with the publishers for a legit contract. So, that's what they did. They offered a fair revenue split with the publishers in exchange for being a legitimized distributor.

There are lots of ways that this could have gone badly. Most piracy sites do as much as possible to exploit the material and the viewers for short-term gain. Most publishers reasonably lawyer-stomp such sites as fast as is feasible.

But, in this case it worked out. There's no way CR could have negotiated with the publishers up-front. They were starting with nothing at all to offer. No audience. No reputation. No capital. Nothing.

Their approach was not legal. But, it was small and respectful-ish enough to not be worth suing until it was large and respectful-ish enough to be worth negotiating with.

Do not recommend this business plan. Glad it worked out for them.
So it offends your sensibilities, but GP is correct, it doesn't physically harm anyone. It probably will help reduce conscious suffering in the long run.
MIRV warheads are smaller than regular nuclear warheads. The launch platforms for MIRVed nuclear warheads are the same as those for regular nuclear warheads. But on a MIRV, instead of one regular nuclear warhead there are multiple small nuclear warheads.

So, no, launchers for MIRVs are NOT huge.
and why would picking and choosing which political content to censor be good for business?
Thank you for the feedback. You are right, checking the whole chain is important.

I'm already partially supporting this but need to do few changes.

The intermediate certificates returned when making the request are checked. The system will use the earliest expiration time.

However, the root certificate (which is stored locally) is not checked.

I'll add the feature and update the documentation.

Thanks.
Headlines are usually written by an editor, not the writer, and chosen to generate clicks. That’s why there’s often such a contrast between the headline and the article.
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Many of the comments on both sides - although hopefully not most of the worst ones - are from long term contributors.

Many of us try to be reasonable even when we go against the grain here:

Personally I never liked or voted Trump and I trust the American public and American judges more than HN or YouTube.

As an outside observer with contacts on both sides I can see how maddening this must be, so here I am on HN, trying to explain how this feels like for Trump supporters.

Meanwhile I see messages waiting for me on Telegram and I think Instagram from some of those people and I will again tryvto explain them that even if they haven't seen a single Biden supporter for miles it just means they haven't looked in the right places.

But, historically I think being a reasonable person when American elections are discussed on HN is a losing proposition :-)
That would be lovely indeed!
Not vegan but trying vegetarian, and all I can say is, you do you buddy. Just yuck from me.
Thanks for the honest and thoughtful response. I have not heard that explanation, and believe it does give a wider margin for possible rejection rates.

I will have to chew on that new point a bit longer — it feels plausible, and I’d like to find more publicly available data that indicates how much weight should be given to that explanation.

So, now I guess I’ll ask a true “follow up” (thanks for that too ha!)...

From my experience in local and state elections, I know of scenarios where 1-3 people are in charge of “getting out the vote” (read as: not election fraud, but people would look side eyed at it). It is not hard for me to see how those same 1-3 people get out 100 votes when not in a pandemic, because they have to get the actual person voter to the polls. However, in this pandemic mail in voting environment, those same 1-3 people can get 500-1,000 voters information to fill out a ballot request - then have those ballots sent to the small team HQ. once there, the “get out the votes” become certain for the sides you want and you can cover tracks with the ways one fills in the ballot. Also, the team can just copy the signature from the gathering ballot request step. There are approximately a team like this for every 50,000 voters, in off presidential races.

So long story (or background) short, if such a scenario did occur, do you feel that is representative of the people and a valid election?

Then please poke holes in my scenario above if you see something else I missed.
> AFAIK The courts cannot collect evidence of election performance. It’s not their jurisdiction or mandate. People seem to believe that the state courts can accept testimony or evidence. They cannot accept evidence or suggest prosecution, no court can.

Exact details depend on the state (because states are vested with the power to run elections, not the federal government, as anyone with even a cursory understanding of the Constitution ought to understand), but generally speaking, if you believe there is evidence of voter fraud, the court you submit to is the appropriate electoral board or commission for the district in question. That electoral board will decide on the verdict and issue a ruling, which may include annulling and rerunning the election--as happened two years ago for a House race in North Carolina, which is the only race in my lifetime that I'm aware of where election fraud may have affected the results of the race.

You seem to believe that such an entity cannot exist, yet the entity of which you speculate exists in (I believe) every single state, and, yes, there are definitely occasional partisan fights over the powers, makeup, and conduct of these boards.
> Isn't that the whole CDA Section 230 debate? Either be an impartial host (other than legal requirements) or be a publisher with all the trappings that come with that.

No. That is not how 230 works at all. 230 does not add any requirements for web hosts. They don't have to conform to some "impartial host" or "publisher" distinction. It just means that websites cannot be sued for illegal content on their platforms, regardless of whether they attempt to remove other similar illegal content.
Apple and Google to Stop X-Mode from Collecting Location Data from Users’ Phones
Which, among other projects, created / operates GALILEO, the European GPS :)
The "Big History" one should blow your mind. The one on the Black Plague is great too. All are high quality.
Yeah if any company uses medium with FBS and marks it as ethical that's a load of bollocks.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a single-player game.
Yeah, who doesn't love a tent city.

Austin is trying to turn in a smaller scale version of San Francisco, complete with needles and shit on the streets.

Nothing about that is "great". I'll take Fort Worth over that any day.
it seems if we can make the cells differentiate and multiply as needed say for steak as Meatable does for example, and if we apply that to human cells it gets us closer to making organs for transplantation.
Didn't we see the shoe on the other foot, roughly, in 2016 with the Russia collusion thing?
I thought gender wasn’t supposed to matter. She’s the best for the job; sexist to dwell on “she’s a she”.
As I recall, after his election, Twitter explicitly updated its TOS to basically say that they don't apply to certain public figures, in effect admitting that he does violate the TOS but they are unwilling to do anything about it.
heh describing the ramp up of a turbo pump on a rocket engine as "gentle" seems funny. zero to 100k HP in about 500ms or so right?

also, from the pictures I've seen, the turbopumps are about the size of a propane tank, even smaller than a truck engine.
Are you talking about the same EU regulators that barely gave volkswagen a slap in the wrist for dieselgate?

EU regulations had approximately zero impact on Tesla's formative years -- and Tesla was the first auto manufacturer to meaningfully commit long-term (and not lip service) to EVs. VW and others are still today talking about how they're playing catch-up.
> As for senators sending "a strongly worded request" that this material be removed, I'm also puzzled by why people would conflate that with actual governmental censorship.

Because Google is under heavy scrutiny and many Republicans want to push for anti-trust and monopoly investigations: a group of Dem politicians saying that they should strongly consider doing what the Dems want sounds similar to when the mob says a business should strongly consider buying their fire-insurance.
Allow me to be at your service: you are a grammar nazi
I am old-fashioned and like places that support police departments. I own property and have children and stuff
> At what point can we stop?

What gave you the idea that there is an end-game? The social dialogue is never ending.
Yeah whack a mole is the way to go. The alternative is total surveillance which is completely unacceptable no matter how bad the crime.
Bingo! What on earth is that
how would you prefer that sentence be written?
Until you are the one sidelined.
Google has claimed they will bump it to 300K for Chrome 89: https://9to5google.com/2020/12/09/chrome-88-beta-extension-m...
A mobile app written in portable code that runs without emulation on a desktop.

The desktop OS would expose the same platform SDK as the mobile OS. (Needless to say, apps depending on the accelerometer, selfie cam, etc. for major functionality would not work.)

This is already the case with the latest generation of Macs. No speculation necessary. It's possible and has been done. Also Chromebooks can run Android apps.

What remains to be seen is when (not if) Windows would mimic what Apple did, as they have been doing for the past decades. I suppose the easiest way would be to run Android (and Google Play) on WSL. Android and Google Play can run on x86–no need for emulation. How clunky this turns out is how willing MS and Google are to work together.

In the end there will just be two platforms you would have to support as a GUI applications developer: iOS and Android.
There's absolutely nothing linking neurotoxicity to the negative "comedown" feelings that many people experience, so I'm not sure why you think these studies are relevant to your initial claim.
Contact information on the bottom of the page.

Usually they don't delete content, but if there's personally identifiable information in your username or any of your post I think it might be possible to have them rewrite it.
Yes, certainly. Although I was doing fine by Finnish standards working remotely for a foreign startup and doing a bunch of other stuff, with a great degree of freedom. It wasn’t a bad life.

There are many things to admire about American capitalism. When I was growing up in the ‘80s, it held an almost mythical appeal. But reinvention is also part of the American myth, and it might be time for another round of that.
> America's respect for freedom of speech is codified in the constitution

Is it? Where is this implication that the constitution is simultaneously both a legal document and also a list of broad values held by the nation's people?
Look, I hate to tell you, but still, 17 AGs running this is news. Forget what ever you think about the case, its blatant censorship not to report this information. I'll tell you what, I'm not right leaning, but if push comes to shove, which I think it will eventually, I will join the right and fight for political freedom. Go back to your big house and your consulting blog, this isnt for you
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I can’t help it that the attack vectors used by the media to push agendas are themselves vague and non-specific. It’s not like any given piece of news that gets published is outright false.

On the small scale, the bias is in the framing of stories. Flaky evidence in stories that serve the agenda are glossed over. In stories that go against the agenda, nits get picked and then used to attack the main idea even if the nits are really inconsequential.

On the large scale there is editorializing. Spotlighting certain types of stories. And forgetting and quickly moving past others.

I have some specific examples in mind, but it would be completely pointless for me to list them or argue about them like you seem to want to. I’ve already argued each one to death as it came to light and have heard all sides of the arguments. That is a complete misdirection from my point of view.

This is “systematic bias” in the media in much the same way that there is “systematic racism” in the world. It’s hard to pinpoint specific instances of it, but we know that it’s there because you see it in the aggregate statistics. And in fact, a common tactic used by people who deny systemic racism is to try to move the discussion away from the big picture and nitpick localized specifics to death.
If you’re not planning for failure modes you’re not engineering correctly.
> would the Democratic party be publishing content like this with the same lack of evidence?

0) Biden totally won and the Trump cases are ill-founded and wrong, but

1) One can make the case that the Democratic establishment has been pushing disinformation since the first time Trump was elected, insinuating that the election was invalidated by Russian interference. The Washington Post, as late as September 21, 2020, ran the following article: "The unanswered question of our time: Is Trump an agent of Russia?"

In what manner is this new material qualitatively different? If it is a simple question of fact, to what extent is YouTube really qualified to determine facts?

2) It is eminently within reason for a human to believe that if Biden had lost, we'd be hearing cries of "voter suppression!" Hillary Clinton herself advised Biden not to concede if it came down to it, and we have other historical cases to look at, like Bush v Gore, and Stacey Abrams (D-GA) still hasn't conceded the 2018 election for governor of Georgia.

I do not ask you to litigate the matter itself, as HN is ill suited for such a dispute. I ask you instead: Is there some clear and indisputable factual evidence that would demonstrate to all comers the indicators above are not meaningful, such that it is unreasonable for your fellow man to rely on them? If not, why is the cynical position such a wrong one to take here?

Postscript:
I see the score comment wobbling! Lots of fun! The -1 Insufficiently Supportive of Groupthink vote is coming through loud and clear <3
I tried mailing out letters to small businesses in my area, I would research 10 at a time who needed a new website or didn't have a website.

I printed The front of the envelope in color and the back in color with a pitch for web development/hosting services.

Each time I sent out a batch of 10, 1 or 2 would call or email and usually 1 would sign a contract for me to do their website.

On the flip side my best projects and clients have always been through relationships/recommendations. Way better projects, way better fees and longer term ongoing clients are almost always from your personal network.

This means working with local small businesses vs working with Fortune 500 companies and NFL teams in my case.

So feel free to reach out, I think physical mailings would work better for local businesses.

I see cold pitch emails come in to contact forms all the time, they aren't very polished though so if you craft them just right you might have success. Especially if you're a customer or met the owner at some point, include that in the email. Or send them a link to a mock up of their website and list off issues/improvements you would do for their site.

If you are at a visit in person and notice they need a new website that's a great time to ask who you could talk to about a new website or get their email/phone number to contact them when they aren't busy (you can't talk business during the busiest part of their day).

Cold email, it's possible, but difficult.
No. That was not allegations that the votes themselves were tampered with.
That's interesting, thanks for answer.

> This is a BS excuse. He hasn't lodged it in any court cases, his page says he will post it but he hasn't.

Well, I saw with my own eyes that people were banned for posting the information like that, so that's why I believe it.

I'm not familiar with US law, so tell me, if you'd have some kind of sensitive data, can you decide that you will only present the data straight to the judge or should every relevant piece of information be included right away? Just to entertain the idea.

Looking on the bright side, I guess that we hopefully won't have to wait too long to find out what's bullshit and what's not.
Yet we still deal with Holocaust deniers.
> Politics requesting censorship is always partisan.

Extremely general statements are always applicable.
Funny. I'm not on Twitter and only discover Twitter content through Facebook.
I'd probably think just as poorly of Boeing if they killed people with a more innovative/aggressive idea.
I didn't compare Electron to Falcon 9 or Starship.
He essentially penetration tested tax law in a multinational economic organization. He did not follow prior disclosure guidelines that you'd expect in a penetration testing scenario.

In all honesty, disclosing these loopholes would've been unfruitful. Unless exploited, lawmakers would not have put much effort into closing these loopholes, and many would've been very likely to take advantage of them themselves. And big complex entities like the EU would be very slow to fix anything anyway, and it is likely that any fix would've left other openings to exploit.

From an engineering perspective, a system like the finance and tax legislation of the EU and it's member states is a massive, monolithic, legacy fraught and overhead encumbered system where the engineers of it cannot foresee exploits in their system, have no tools to test the system before launch, and are often incentivised to deliberately leave openings to be exploited.
Goodreads API is shutting down
Righteous. It'd probably help if I was using the 455 driver too heh.
> turning open source into a source of consistent and growing free cash flow

No doubt about that. If you give away the source for free that doesn't produce any cash-flow. If you sell services you sell services.

The value-add proposition of "open source companies" I think is they know the software so you can hire them to do things with it, and they can adapt their open source software if needed as they go along. So that is a service-model. Open Source licenses can help companies that do this.

Open Source is its own worst enemy. At some point an OS project becomes so GOOD that you don't need to be its developer to use it and adapt it or build Cloud-services around it. Further if they need the expertise of the original developers they can simply hire them. The ethos of open source doesn't forbid you from having an employer. An ethical OS-hacker should be happy getting a salary from whichever company lets him or her write Open Source software. That includes companies like Amazon and Microsoft and IBM who then sell the right to use that software on their Cloud.

If this is the correct ethical model then we should not blame Amazon or Google, they do contribute to copyleft Open Source projects. We should blame smaller companies like MongoDB etc. who do not offer "pure" Open Source licenses.

So I'm thinking it's not so much the Open Source Business Model that is in crisis. It is the Open Source Ethical Model, which needs to reflect upon itself in the time of Cloud.

Is it really more ethical to work for Amazon writing Open Source, than writing Non-Open-Source for a small company which wants to make sure it is not crushed by Amazon?
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Yeah, definitely some PTSD
That said I just read through your comments and I'd prefer if you stuck around :-)
What a stupid article headline.
The courts keep rejecting it because they dont want to take responsibility and see the country in riots. As simple as that.
Exactly. The fewer moving parts, the better.

Even if you still use Docker, a container wrapping a single binary is simpler than a container with dependencies and source files.

It’s also good for closed source use cases (blasphemy, I know).
I've heard similar sentiments from Brazilians haha!
I'm not sure how you can read the Mueller report and come away with the conclusion that there's a lack of evidence.
You can try inspecting dropdown or button that shows modal on Github.com, they are using it all over the places.
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When TF says something positive about DRM, it’s a good time to double-check what is going on ;)
Not possible! Regular expressions aren't context-sensitive.
You cant be a good privacy/adblocker extension using V3. Want to strip umt tracking parameters from loaded URLs? cant do it under V3. Want to disable JS on a page? cant do under V3. Want to spoof your own User Agent? you know the drill.
I like reading Musk's tweets when he talks about something he knows (e.g. engineering). I don't much like them when they're ignorant and irresponsible commentary on Covid-19 (something he knows less about than even most ordinary but interested people, seeing as he wouldn't have the time to follow much expert commentary), or when he's sharing his puerile taste in humour or music or literature etc (although, to be fair, it's his personal account so he can share what he likes).
Ah! Why didn't I think of that? Added. Thanks!
I think the next step is VR, ready player one style where everyone is going to school, working and playing in the same virtual space. I expect this pandemic will speed us in that direction. No commute, no office space, want to see Paris let's go.

I think we'll all be fit though because I think it will get more interactive and action oriented along the way.

I expect most of us will die in our VR rooms of a heart attack at a ripe old age.

That's right we'll all have a VR setup and room for each family member.

I just hope facebook doesn't build the Oasis.
If you can't afford $3K to open an account, you can't afford to day-trade.

Fentanyl is a great drug in the hands of trained professionals who know what they're doing. But it shouldn't be sold on the street to just anybody because it's exceptionally dangerous if you're not trained. Robinhood is giving away the digital equivalent of Fentanyl to everybody. This can only end in disaster.
Facebook goes beyond the US jurisdiction. Only 10% of their users are in the US. How do you split up a company beyond your borders?

Really sounds to me lawyers will be at it for very long with no sure outcome.
This does seem to be the problem. Stadia is basically the worst game streaming service, but they make up for it in marketing budget and googles existing name recognition. Unless I'm missing something - which is why I was asking the question.