skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the amount of wealth companies and a few individuals have is absolutely concerning and something we’d be crazy to ignore, it boggles my mind that you don’t see any differences between governments and companies when it comes to speech....

For one thing, governments can kidnap you, your family and anyone you’ve spoken and lock you in a cage. That’s one of many huge differences between the two.

We live in a time when the ability to find a platform for your ideas is significantly bigger than it’s ever been in history, even without the couple of tech giants.

And just to reiterate, we should be terrified of the power of some of these tech giants, but I’m skeptical of anyone who fails to see a difference between a company saying, “not on my servers” in a world where governments literally kill people who say things they don’t like.
I really don't know enough about this, but this might be "engine-rich combustion". Which would also explain why the landing part didn't work.
It's kinda funny to me how many people who claim to value "true free speech" are in favour of the government being able to enforce speech.

Fundamentally, what people are saying here is that the current US administration should be able to force YouTube to distribute material containing lies that benefit them. This is obviously just as harmful as someone being stopped from publishing something by the government.

I agree there are cases where private entities can become so important to speech that they need to be regulated, but the kneejerk response to this kind of thing just seems so ill thought out. The right to freedom of expression clearly has to include the freedom to not express something.

The obvious example is, should Google be able to go to Fox News and force them to publish pieces that Google write? Is the line editorial control? That path leads to YouTube ceasing to exist as a platform anyone can upload to, which seems like a large cost as well.

I don't think there are easy answers, and "free speech" tends to end up as a thought-terminating cliche in these discussions, ignoring the fact that there are multiple parties with the right to freedom of speech that can conflict. The question really becomes about the right to platform, and if everyone has a legal right to any platform, everything will be drowned out in noise.
We are all eagerly awaiting your evidence. You may want to call up some news outlets as well, you are about to be famous.
If you look at their S-1 there isn't a chance of this looking like what happened in year 2000. Way too much capital, way too low interest rates, and a real path to profitability
Microsoft Misfit Helped Lead Company into Game Market
I'm a bit skeptical. I've never ordered takeout from a restaurant I haven't been to first.
SpaceX launches and nearly lands starship on its first suborbital flight
Delayed gratification by a few minutes, but we got the pretty fireball in the end...
I think we need to both break up and regulate them.

We had a few decades of true antitrust, but the efforts to undermine it were successful. Check out Goliath by Matt Stoller for a decent history.
The test flight of Falcon Heavy (when they sent the Tesla Roadster to space) is still the most memorable launch for me. Watching those 2 boosters land side-by-side simultaneously looked like magic.
I think that was caused by the out engine trying to re-start itself using TEA-TEB.

EDIT: Correction: Raptor doesn't use TEA-TEB.
The CFAA is a terrible law that has been used to prosecute people over very questionable cases. Let's not bring (any more of) that level of subjectivity to finance.
You're reading Substack's "Medium moment"; i.e. the moment when seeing that in the URL goes from 'hey, this link must be pretty good' to 'this link is probably garbage'.
Economists Urge Congress Send More Stimulus Check to Keep Americans Out Poverty
Nice piece. If you have the basis of a business that can prove strong cash flow then you should definatley look at financing with debt over equity. In startup land its not really the done thing but in this long term low rate environment I suspect thst might change.
You are conflating discretion and censorship.

If you send me a DM asking me to repeat your claims in a public-facing comment, and I refuse, that is not censorship. Ditto for any and every private entity which exists.
Just to be even more explicit-this isn’t “popularity” in the sense of a fashion trend. A communication app’s usefulness depends on the number of people with whom you can communicate.
I guess I was wrong in structuring the sentence like that. Rhetorically it made sense to me, mostly to preemptively ward off the notion that a thread should not turn political.
When someone writes "X is the new IE," they don't mean it's the new browser from Microsoft, they mean one of two things:

1) "X" dominates browser market share to such a degree that many developers won't bother testing in any others, as IE once did. That could describe Chrome, especially if you include other Chromium-based browsers, like Edge.

2) "X" is lagging in support of web standards and holding back use of those standards by developers. That second claim doesn't fit Chrome well, it's more typically used against mobile Safari. The combination of mobile Safari's share of mobile traffic, relatively slow feature release pace particularly for features in certain segments (PWA), its exclusivity on Apple mobile devices, and the longevity of said devices makes the claim somewhat accurate though still far from the miserable standard set by IE.
"False balance, also bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may omit information that would establish one side's claims as baseless. False balance has been cited as a major cause of spreading misinformation.[1]"

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
Facebook is one of the best companies in the tech world. They open source so much tech and pre-trained ml models. Even being smaller than MS and Amazon their contributions are huge. (i don't know what AWS contributes)
Honestly, I'd have been a little disappointed if it hadn't ended the way it did. SpaceX seems to be all about an iterative process of showing us cool new capabilities ending in awesome explosions.
What hardware do you regret buying?
Most likely the chemical used to (re)start the engine, triethylborane (TEB)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylborane.
I clicked on this link just out of curiosity but was delighted to see that it has support for PX4 ulog right out of the box! Pretty good chance this is going to become part of my daily workflow while working with autonomous drones!
Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0FZIwabctw
Did you actually read the Mueller Report? The only claims that I've heard about this nonsense story are that some people were guilty of lying to the government (which shouldn't even be a crime lmfao. they're allowed to lie to us), and avoiding taxes by putting money overseas and getting the money back via loans, which all of these oligarchs do, and is definitely not treason lol.
So let me get this straight. Government is restricted from preventing the free exchange of ideas, but private industry is not. However, government is free to mandate us to stay in our homes and not see anybody, thus leaving us with privately owned telecommunications companies as the only way to communicate with others, and they are free to prevent speech.

Wow... funny how this all works out so convienently.

But really this is dystopia level rhetoric. "Your freedom to speech is not really being restricted. It's just that because you're locked in your house (since being outside talking to your friend is apparently not a fundamental freedom), you can't actually talk to anyone because your private sector companies say so."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336808486022258688

Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!

Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!

It seems that the Raptor engines didn't failed due to defects at the end of the landing. The fuel pressure from the header tank wasn't high enough and the engines became fuel starved. It is obvious in the video as the engine exhaust became bright green at the end, a sign that the engine was restarting by TEB.

Edit:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336810077555019779

Mars, here we come!!

Indeed
> Never commented on the internet before

Really surprised nobody commented on this. Specifically, the magnitude of what he/she is saying - not just first comment on HN (43 month old account), but first on the internet.

It was a 'Holy cow' moment for me.

Hope you found it fruitful, pdevalla!
What do you think all these lawsuits have been doing?

They have literally been going to court and not won a single time. These are not partisan judges. These are not Democrat secretary of states. These are Republicans.

They are throwing out every lawsuit so far. None have been substantiated, zero.

Stop repeating lies.
It's not a false statement. Just look at the Carter Page liable lawsuit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODProeRQ4c
I wonder if they would remove content from 2003 claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Or - the endless repetition in some media channels in recent years that Trump was colluding with Russia.

This kind of censorship is bad. Yes, YouTube is privately owned, but that in itself is problematic, seeing how it effectively has a public function. More and more, we live by the rules and internal judicial systems of the large corporations, especially tech companies.
How do you get access out of interest? I’ve been on the waitlist for a long time now
The moment when business beats ethics...

The mentioned article has some more details:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
Choosing not to compete can also be a sign of a monopoly. Why invest in a line of business that you know you’re going up against a behemoth?
I thought you had to be "grandfathered" (poor word choice, I know) into that.
> Why does this matter so much when there is affordable healthcare, lots of social programs to save you in case things don't go so well?

World class healthcare is included on top of the compensation at FAANG. Also, what are these social programs you refer to?
Net neutrality has little to do with censorship, and more to do with extortion. While it is true that extortionary tactics can be used to effectively censor particular sentiments, that is not what is being referred to in discussions surrounding net neutrality.
I got about as far before realizing why terrorists keep on wanting to murder them
Just throwing it out there for visibility, ncc will compile a TS entrypoint down to a single file as well, without having to use Deno https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/ncc

Edit: I completely missed that this Deno release packaged the runtime as well, disregard this as an alternative! Guess I’ll eat the downvotes I deserve :P
That’s because, outside certain fields where research can be verified objectively, it very often is a liberal take on whatever is being researched. A vanishingly small number of academics have conservative, or even moderate views. In fields where you can’t objectively analyze the arguments that are being made, liberal assumptions and viewpoints get baked into the research. Even when there is a numeric component, the numbers are viewed from the perspective of liberal assumptions about causation and significance.

I got into an argument the other day with a political science professor about colonization. It was completely unrecognizable to me as someone who is from a former British colony and whose father spent a lifetime working on bread and butter issues affecting the developing world, such as maternal health. (I explained the academic concept of “decolonization” to my father. He thought it was the political process of devolving governance from colonial powers to native governments. I said, no, what they mean by that now is removing colonial influences and culture from the country. My dad’s response was “why the hell would you want to do that?”)
In 2000, I had HP-UX Virtual Vault (aka containers) and CGIs (aka lambda functions).

Everything old is new again.
Bees use animal feces to ward off attacks by giant hornets
Does this offer a speed increase vs running the the code directly using
$ deno test.js ( not sure what the exact command is )
>First, they trot out the Holmes quote for the proposition that not all speech is protected by the First Amendment. But this is not in dispute.

The post doesn't appear to be disputing that the fire in a theater example is a legitimate illustration of the limits of speech under the first amendment. They just proceed from there to make a more general principle that this example can be invoked by people who intend to suppress speech. Which I also don't think is in dispute.

So I don't think that post has anything to do with anything, insofar as this comment thread is concerned.
I originally didn't like AWS's console because it wasn't "consistent", but when I opened up GCP's console the first time, I immediately preferred AWS. Fast and usable is better than inconsistent.
Oh just like private companies who don't pay their employees a living wage can't take away freedom, because their employees are free to just work somewhere else, like Uber drivers right? Oh yeah, forgot about that.
What's the reason that the flame produced by the ignition system is green?

Edit: ah, it's answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25366736
> now the question is to what extend and would it have changed the outcome

That actually isn't the question in my mind. If there is fraud it should be investigated and prosecuted regardless of whether it would change the result or not.

I'm more interested in improving things for future elections, and for that reason I don't think it makes sense to dismiss accusations of fraud, widespread or not.

It seems pretty clear that there are lots of things we can do to improve the way in which we carry out elections. Devising systems that are resilient to fraud and are transparent such that accusations of fraud are easily resolved is important for injecting confidence back into the process.
Copper and boron, according to Wikipedia, will give green flame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire

But given the extreme conditions, a number of other factors could be at work.
Yeah.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336809767574982658

The fuel flow must have dropped, leading to oxygen-rich, and then engine-rich combustion.
NASA picks astronauts for new Moon missions
> Sports plowed on, new shows, movies, and games were released.

No - sports and movie releases were suspended for multiple months, and games and shows that released into that window of lowered competition did crazy good business.
they've already stated they'll be supporting V3.
The link was posted in response to:

"This dogmatic/fundamentalist interpretation of freedom doesn’t make you objective, it makes you an ideologue. There are well-known and widely accepted exceptions to freedom such as curbs on freedom of speech e.g. not yelling “fire” in a crowded space and inciting violence. There are trade-offs between freedom and curbs on freedoms (policies) that benefit the greater good of society. "

To use the "fire" example to make the point that there must be a line somewhere sounds fine to me.

> "Fire in a crowded theater, and therefore you cannot claim that the election is disputed".

Who said that? Obviously you can't use the "fire" example to prove anything you want.
Forgive my cynicism...

I'm not sure I'm seeing any content that's worth upvoting. This is link to a GitHub Repo containing... A readme claiming to replace centos?

So I followed the link from the issue that was asking donations, and it takes me to a GitHub account that outlines some goals, and a couple more repos for 2 versions of a Rocky Linux website.

Am I missing something?
China’s Spoiled Rich Kids Learn to Avoid the Wrath of Xi Jinping
Elon Tweets since the RUD

1: Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!

2: Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!

3: Mars, here we come!!

1 - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336808486022258688

2 - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336809767574982658

3- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336810077555019779
I recommend Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi.

It's a fantastic book that brilliantly illuminates the false dichotomy of red team vs blue team politics and news media.

We should all be careful of the corporate press. Their purpose is to profit, not inform. This applies both to red team and blue team news media. Comfortable lies are profitable while difficult truths are not.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Silencing voices we don't like only give them credence and power, especially in the age of the internet and new media.
> When it starts to get dangerous, yes. People are inspired toward violence when they believe...

I see this argument a lot, but it fails to address the clear distinction between beliefs and actions. If people are actually violent, we have clear laws to deal with those actions.

If the argument is that certain beliefs shouldn't be allowed because they could be construed as "inspiring violence", then I'd love to hear about how tolerant you are towards Islam's idea of jihad or countless others who believe violence is justified in circumstances that you disagree with.
> And how was that service made available before YouTube existed?

I mean, we used to have this thing called visiting friends or gathering in a public space, which the governments of most states have currently prevented us from doing, leaving the internet to be the only option to reach any audience.

So yes, insofar as the public square is an essential function and since it's been banned from physically being a reality, then the government must assure that there are alternatives, or undo the physical bans on gathering. There is no pandemic exception to basic civil rights.

Unfortunately, what we have here is a major double standard where leftists can freely gather in the streets to protest police brutality, but right wingers cannot without severe media criticism, and police action by governments.
Pre-Seed VC firms their Investment markets and Offices
As opposed to the department of linguistics in English? Or to avoid the implication that they study the literature of and by English people?

If it had been named the "department of literature in English" to begin with, would you support a name change to "The English Department"?
Seems problematic. You've excluded subsidiaries, but what about companies which aren't controlled by the larger corp? They can buy hosting from whomever from companies they don't control in the slightest, and if there's a market for your software it seems likely those would spring up on their own. What do you do?

(1) Ignore the problem -- your license has no teeth.

(2) Hold the larger corp responsible for payment anyway -- pretty sure this can't be accomplished purely within copyright law, and if it can then it's still not great because implementation details of the hosting company now matter in terms of the larger company's liabilities.

(3) Hold the hosting company responsible -- fine enough, that can probably be a valid term in your license. Suppose another company inserts themselves in the middle though; does your license exclude them because they're transitively connected to megacorp, or do we again find that your license has no teeth? The first case is an issue because now you're exposed to risk from your customers' customers, over whom you have no control.

Not every piece of software can be meaningfully hosted and resold by a chain of corporate entities, but it's not exactly an uncommon behavior in the wild either.
They realized they were wrong and there’s a growing antitrust movement in the US.
That doesn’t really refute the claim that this can be used as a backdoor, however. Since the backdoor is only usable by Whatsapp (or whoever controls them and their servers), a random researcher can’t really release a POC.

Disclaimer: I personally know nothing about beyond the posts in this thread.
Pickling, Uneval, Unapply
On the whole GitHub's UI is good, though I still find it unreasonably difficult/slow to do a review commit by commit compared to kiln.

I'd really like it if they added a way to thumb between commits in one click without page loads, kinda like flipping through pages of a book
When we talk about a "free" society, we are talking about government intervention. We don't mean that every radio station has to play my song, every tv station has to play my show, and every billboard has to show my message.

You would think that with such a right-wing userbase, the aspect of Youtube's private property would emerge in the conversation. But that's not the issue, instead, the "CeNsOrShIp" crowd is more concerned about having white supremacist ideas widely marginalized in polite society.
Short answer: yes, there is plenty of innovation taking place in diverse domains ranging from elevators to energy grids to robotics to pharmacology/biotech to medtech to defence to telecommunications to green tech and so forth and so on.

If the criteria of tech innovation is a cloud-based xAAS then the list will be unfortunately short.

The semiconductor push was really expected for a longer time already and is (I think) obviously part of the aspirations in the strategic autonomy continuum. If the roles were reversed, that is, EU with some Asian countries owned and controlled the majority of all chip fabrication, it would make perfect sense for USA to start chip production of its own on its own soil.
I rewatch that launch every time I am low and always makes me happy. But this feels different. It feels like it is the beginning of the space age.
Mozart was not rolling the dice. Mozart created the melodic fragments; people who bought the sheet music got instructions to roll their dice to combine the fragments into new melodies.
> some impartial account of what really happened

This can be very hard to acquire, especially for events that we are far removed from. Then again, maybe it isn't necessary. Simply reading about a story twice with a deliberate bias on each side can be extremely revealing.

Would more people be inclined to do this if we taught it in schools? I hope so. These days it feels like the reporting of the news is more real to the general population than the news itself ..
What does it matter that suits are tossed out? Do you realize how silly it seems to ban critizing the election process unless you also aknowledge Biden as winner?

There are like, what, a dozen states' Attorney Generals that you can't tape a press release off and put on Youtube according to those rules.
7 months ago 80% of democrats weren't confident that the election would be free and fair. Most of them seem happy to accept the result now.

I think this is human nature rather than a flaw with members of a particular party but I think it is worthwhile for people to compare their own views before and after the election.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-exclusi...