skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not taking a stance on the main topic, but this isn’t entirely accurate. I worked at gas stations and managed a grocery store during my early days. It depended on the product. With Frito Lay and Pepsi products, they’d often times put stuff on shelves and we’d only pay for what we sold. Similarly, for certain breads and packaged pastries and other items, anything that didn’t sell by the date on the package would get credited to the store. If the item didn’t sell, it’s not that we always just absorbed the cost.
I have absolutely no idea what I'm reading here.
work life? doubtful. every manager praising the success of "work from home" will make an abrupt about face a month after vaccinations begin.

welcome back to the office. now get back in your cube.
Andrew Doyle Predicts the End of Social Justice Activism
Looks like they bought it for around $100m, and then pumped additional $37m into it, which would be 7x increase. Not terrible, but probably nothing to write home about, considering Softbanks "world-changing bets" scope.

This does sound like shedding off bets that didn't quite live up to the expectation, and making a small[0] profit off of it.

[0] Small in the eye of Softbank. If you have a $100B fund and got 0.7B profit, those 0.7% are going to move your needle very much.
Yep, just look at the recent series "Ourcry" about a kid who served 6 years and was then exonerated for wrongful conviction.

Or look at the Buck decision, a SCOTUS case that lead to forced sterilization.

Or look at the SCOTUS decision that led to Japanese internment camps.

Oh and both of those decisions .. based on Jacobson. Contrary to what the media tells you, in Jacobson, they never forced him to take the vaccination, only pay the $5 fine. But that decision led to Buck and Manzanar.
I think it's a lot more likely that Trump pushing outlandish/false/inflammatory claims starts the civil war, not the fact that some YouTube videos suddenly vanish.

If you can prevent the former by removing viral reach of the latter, isn't that a net win? It's sad that a private company has to do it, but one could argue that it's the morally correct thing to do, in this case.

These people are free to host their videos on Parler / Gab / etc, and broadcast this nonsense without the free mainstream reach.
I'm still confused about this? Why everyone is calling it death of CentOS?
I think this is the problem. Operating at a loss while wiping out players without deep pockets to run at a loss.

This should be illegal. Amazon and Uber have wiped out small players.
The US has tons of affordable housing throughout the nation. It's not like London is super cheap.
They have your search history. Or they could make it if inclined. So for a lot of people, yes. They could easily put people in Jail.

More likely scenario would be exposing anyone That wants to be anonymous. Actually I think that happens in other countries all the time.
Lol, good place to retreat to buddy
Whichever way you slice it, and by whatever technicalities were employed, Bush v. Gore resulted in the Supreme Court deciding how a state could conduct their vote.

What you are saying is plausible, but I think it’s so silly to argue this when we will find out in a few short days whether the SCOTUS will hear it.

I for one will be surprised if they don’t.
That's just software versus hardware.

If you have a solid software platform you can scale it up to millions of users at very little operation cost per user.

But a robot? You have a very significant cost per unit. Not to mention lots of risk if you have any warranties and for your brand.

Like if you ship 100k units and they have a critical component that gives out after 2 months due to a bad manufacturing run that's a huge cost.

You don't have that type of risk with software. Software is just way less risky and way more profitable.
In Nevada the Judge decided the signatures didn't match, but then shifted the goalpost, saying the attorneys now had to prove forgery. The judges are being weaponized and Politics Ruins Everything!
YouTube is not the US government. It is free to restrict speech as it pleases. If you think otherwise then you are limiting YouTube freedom as a private enterprise.
Cutting steel magnified and slowed down [video]
Supermarkets do not pay for product as you describe. Manufacturers and/or distributors pay the supermarkets slotting fees to get their products on the shelves. Additionally, slotting fees are higher for ideal shelf location, and in some cases proximity to competitor products. For example, the bottom shelves are undesirable. And then you have end caps which are highly desirable.
Thank you for the explanation, so ok inequality of outcomes, but not inequality of opportunity.

2 more questions:

1. How is this a "problem"?
2. How would you go about solving it?
I very much prefer to use RDBMS first and the rest as the last resort. Still I do not believe that quality of data design could be enforced just by the fact of using RDBMS. I sometimes encountered RDBMS schemas that look like they were designed by lunatics.
Sorry for the lazy question, but how does anything from CERN lead to new products or services?
You don’t lose everything, only the files that were on that vdev. I’ve been through this. It’s not fun, though, and your pool is irreversibly damaged but your data is not all lost
1) I know COVID hit in 2020. I'm alive. I am living in it. I was pointing out that if you're looking at year over year rates, this year will be particularly bad, but that doesn't tell you anything about long term trends. You should presume someone you're engaging with is at least as smart as you if you hope to have a fruitful conversation.

2) France has a higher homeless rate than the US, as does much of Europe. As does much of the world. Much of the world also has a lower rate. Again, so what? If the US were on the bad end of the spectrum, this whole line of conversation might make sense in context, but we aren't, so it doesn't. As far as the migration issue: Every country has special circumstances, that's my point. Saying "do what they do" is obviously a bad faith view because of that.

3) I'm not saying the US can't improve. Even if the homeless rate were 1/10th what it is now we could still do better. I'm just saying the problem in San Francisco (look at the post you're in) isn't because the US is doing a particularly poor job, it's because San Francisco is doing a particularly poor job.

Look up, my original comment above was essentially: San Francisco is doing a bad job with the homeless issue.
The (more recent) Republican Led Senate Intelligence Committee did find significant co-ordination - at best unwitting

To quote The Intercept:

In fact, the Senate report dismisses many of the most outrageous accusations involving Trump and Russia even as it provides overwhelming and damning evidence of Russia’s efforts to intervene in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win and the Trump campaign’s eagerness to embrace the Russian intervention.

But the Senate report goes much further than election interference and provides the first detailed examination of the broader and complex network of relationships between Trump, his ever-shifting circle of personal and business associates, and a series of Russian oligarchs and other Russian and Ukrainian figures with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/03/trump-russia-senate-repo...

Read the report yourself: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
> I'm not the one suggesting there are universal truths here.

I never talked about truth, I talked about freedoms. I think you should revise your definition of "universal" it seems you dont understand it. The whole idea of my original point is that you cannot say OK this is an universal(for everybody) agreed upon freedom but.... No but here, restricting freedom to an specific subset of the population who has not commited a crime is a big no-no. I mean, did you actually read the post, it's bone chilling:

> Limiting the reach of borderline content and prominently surfacing authoritative information are important ways we protect people from problematic content that doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines.

They acknowledge the content doesnt violate any community guideline(even less any law) and yet they want to "protect" us from it. Sorry, I will be on the other side every single time. If that means to be next to Alex Jones, so be it.

Youtube says: " For example, while problematic misinformation represents a fraction of 1% of what's watched on YouTube in the U.S., we know we can bring that number down even more. " This is what I oppose to, to selectively curtailing universal rights. I dont care about any pedantic discussion on semantics, I will gift you them all.

> Laws against upskirt photos are one example.

Same case with fictional animated child pornography, this is not a settled issue(https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/top-us-court-rules-upsk.... Let me repeat that the point is not that. You could still argue for years what it is the best course of action. What you cannot do is selectively enforce those rights or prohibitions against certain sets of the population.That is the problem, that is the violation of the universality of a right, Not the complexity of a legislation.

> So do you know agree that there are "buts" on freedom?

If you call freedom do whatever the hell you want , yes there are buts. If you say freedom as universally granted rights, "But" let's stop this group of having them. There is no valid buts, sorry. I wont never ever be on favor of censoring people who has not commited any violation by expressing their points.

> I have the right to vote and have my vote counted. These Youtube videos are trying to invalidate my vote from being counted.

This a pretty weird, and frankly out of character for you, argument. Some loonies doubting the election, asking for recall or even a repeat are not violating your right at all. I am dumbfounded for such a jump of logic here anyway. Any decision about the election will be taken by the authorities not random youtubers. Go search in youtube "Trump should be impeached, jailed,judged" you will find thousands of videos, are those videos invalidating the votes of the people who vote for Trump. Because from my POV either your vote is safe and you have nothing to worry about or your vote is discarded and you will have to take that with the authorities, not Johnie P Schmuck in youtube, who ironically has many more things in common with you and me than with Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg.
That's a terrible clause. Half the point of free exchange of information is so we can find which deeply-held beliefs (which are maleable, unlike color) are incorrect, detrimental, or even dangerous when acted on.

Black people and pedophiles don't deserve the same legal protections to have access to a playground or a private school.
> This is not true, property rights are the human incarnation of territoriality which is exhibited by many species.

And those species lose their territory as soon as a bigger, meaner creature wants it. Their "right" to their territory is only as strong as their personal ability to protect it. No one else will help them.

Unless that's what your advocating for when you talk about property rights, then rights absolutely do come from the state. Most of us think property rights mean what's mine is mine no matter who wants it, not that I lose it as soon as someone takes it from me or hires someone to do so.
The reason migrant workers pick ("pick") farms is because they legally can't work anywhere else.

Uber/DD/Postmates/... all do citizen verification checks.
No, but they should have some evidence, especially being the sitting president, don't you think? This is a coup attempt.. and they have nothing to justify it.

So are YOU arguing in bad faith to ignore this very obvious problem?

No one is saying accusations with evidence and merit cannot be made. They are saying that after losing over 50 lawsuits and having substantiated exactly zero claims, then we are losing patience with offering good faith.
Yeah, for sure. Call it freedom of information, add a little bit of common sense to it, and your argument renders itself completely invalid.

Google demonstrates that it doesn't follow a revenue driven agenda with these actions. It involves itself in selecting political views that it deems acceptable to influence the opinions of a world wide audience. It is large enough to take on a quasi governmental role. If it was just acting as a neutral platform, I would buy your argument, but it obviously doesn't.

The internet has driven the pareto distribution of attention to such extremes that we now are in this mess. There is no getting out of this by engaging in the hairsplitting of an old legal text.
The criticism from (https://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/2016/05/20/astronomers-do...) is mostly correct, so that paper is mostly bogus. Only the season of the year can be deduced from the poem and that was established by a much older paper.

There is only one point in this criticism that is not valid, there is no doubt that the Pleiades referred to the same group of stars as now.

Nevertheless, when dealing with Ancient Greek or Latin texts it is necessary to be aware that a very large number of names used for animals, plants, minerals, places and so on, were used with a very different meaning than today, so Darin Hayton had good reasons to be cautious in his criticism.

Unless one is careful to make extensive searches through the literature, it is very easy to reach wrong conclusions based on misunderstood names.

For example the poems of Hesiod have several references to "adamant", i.e. "diamond" in English, which are hard to understand by those who think that he referred to what is now called diamond.

In fact, Hesiod used the name "adamant" for nuggets of osmium-iridium alloy (collected from alluvial deposits of gold), so he appropriately mentioned it as grey material suitable for making a hard blade for a sickle that will cut anything.

Later Greek authors, like Plato used it with the same meaning as Hesiod. Pliny the Elder was the first author that mentioned the modern diamond, under the name "Indian adamant", together with the previously known osmium-iridium "adamant".
But then look at FB Ads Manager - it's hard to imagine that such a horrible UX drives billions in revenue and yet no one seems to care.
HN is one breach away from lost anonymity.
Android has a 16 character limit for your password. Or at least it did as of Android 10, not sure if that's changed.
That is a difficult issue. One potential resolution I see is to say that if you see someone making his own nuclear weapons without telling anyone about it, this is strong enough evidence that he's going to try to do something terrible (i.e. it looks like a crime in progress) that you would be justified in using force to stop him.

How does this generalize and fit into the framework of property rights in general? What makes, say, manufacturing guns not strong enough evidence of trying to do something terrible? Is it mere history, or is it the defensive uses of guns, or does the magnitude of the terribleness matter, or something else? (In practice, I think purifying U-235 takes huge facilities and no one can do it in their backyard—it's probably a few orders of magnitude more expensive and complex.) Also, if it's 100% established that this one guy making the nukes is a trustworthy pacifist who won't use them, but the problem is he won't keep them in a particularly secure location, can one defensibly call his actions illegal? ("Planning to be neglectful"? How about someone who will guard them as heavily as he can, but that's just not heavily enough?) There would be a lot to explore there, but I think it may be possible to resolve the issue of nuclear weapons while keeping a pure system of property rights.
Is that how restaurants work in reality? Restaurants are very different to newspapers.

Suppose there is a "best" Chinese restaurant in a city. Is its food still good if it has all the way across the city to reach you? How long does it take to arrive to your house? Can it produce a volume of food to feed an entire city?

OK, maybe this restaurant has many locations. You're now proposing that the best Chinese restaurant in a given city is a chain. Chain restaurants are not historically known for offering the best food available. And now you also have variation across restaurants, unless your restaurant is literally just Panda Express, where standard food comes frozen in a giant plastic sack.

Many colleges have started canceling formal courses in linear algebra because we have a video recording of Gilbert Strang, but few cities are in danger of losing their Chinese restaurants because a single one is so obviously the best.
Thus, it is irrelevant to the manufacturer whether the supermarket promotes their store-brand product or the name brand product; they've already been paid by their primary customer.

That might be true if Safeway is going to buy the same number of cereal boxes from you every quarter, but that's not what happens. Stores adjust their purchases based on what sells, so if Safeway starts promoting their own cereal then they will start buying less of yours.

Notably, and very importantly: Amazon does not pay for the third-party sellers products available on its website, the third-party sellers have to pay that.

Supermarkets frequently charge slotting fees to appear on their shelves.

The manufacturers get paid either way (by the retailer, third-party seller, or Amazon if Amazon.com is the seller). But in the case of Amazon, the third-party sellers on Amazon's website get screwed, and that is where the antitrust concern lies.

Supermarkets often have contracts where they can return stock to suppliers if it is defective or not selling well and do not always own their stock.
I don’t think Facebook is at fault for being smart and buying promising fledgling companies. What is needed is to make the big networks interoperable, probably by offering an API like Telegram does. The API could be priced according to usage, starting for free for small companies.
So there aren't things known between my friends and I that we wouldn't want divulged to a third-party?
Why can’t universities fund creating teaching material of this caliber?
This is not completely true, as the cost to build high rise condos is extremely high and the land is very expensive. Every place in the USA that has kept housing affordable has done so with sprawl, which California's government doesn't allow.

You can see a detailed study of it here: https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/cities-expansion-slowing
New certs have to be sent to Certificate Transparency logs, any company mis-issuing them would be taking a colossal risk.
As mentioned in the article, she is from Romania and representing herself, so there is no legal team assisting her. I think non-idiomatic English does not make it "written so poorly" if that's what you are referring to.
You're reading a rather unorthodox but still interesting perspective on French society and its most recent soubresauts
I hope this does not sound cynical. When we release a new open source project, we are not sure what the project will turn into. We put it out, hoping to get some reaction from the world. If there is no reaction, we will only invest a bare minimum for our own use. When there is some reaction, the community might find its sweet spot. When there is huge enthusiasm, which is the least likely, we might decide to seek ways to invest more and get our returns.

Keep in mind that for projects like that, even if they are open source, the vast majority of contributions come from the primary investor. And other contributors can always fork.

It is not anything special about open source. For any product, early adopters are almost expected to get hurt or lose interest as the product matures. It's a part of the product's life cycle that's in any startup book. Crossing the chasm is hard not only for the business but also for the original user base. Yet, successful businesses are destined to do it. I am sorry for the ones that become dissappointed, but they too get something out of it along the ride.
In my 'education', I can't think of a single element of the historical record that was presented through conflicting accounts of contemporary sources. One side is simply labeled as evil and ignored, but, as far as I know, nobody has ever agreed with this characterization of themselves. Evidence too, if at all, was always used to support a narrative account of events, rather than to eliminate possibilities until a particular version of history is proven.

You could never teach a class like this. It would unleash epistemological chaos throughout the school.
Google Cloud wanted to "eat its own dogfood", so they originally built the console with Angular v1 and App Engine instead of using more scalable and mature frameworks that would typically be used for those kinds of products within Google.

App Engine didn't support chunked transfer encoding so progressive data loading becomes impossible, and Angular v1 is a pathological performance and maintenance nightmare to the point where AngularJS / Angular v2 ended up being an incompatible rewrite.

The problem is, if you have hundreds of people contributing to a tool with deadlines to meet and lots of UI components you need an incremental approach if there's going to be any hope of replacing the whole architecture. Without an incremental path forward, rearchitecting is dead in the water. Management isn't going to want hundreds of people stop working on new features for months while the whole UI gets written from scratch.
You stated it far better than I could.
As they say, "sarcasm is the wit of the fools." Your comment brings nothing to the discussion.
Please see my response above. It is based on, YES, experience from communities but also backing from scientific studies.

There are NO large population scientific studies on MDMA usage. The scientific data that does exist absolutely supports supplementation. I am not a current user of MDMA, but I attribute an enormous amount of my personal growth to its occasional use in conjunction with therapy in my 20s.
There is no alternative way. You need to manipulate headers to modify CSP. No control over CSP means no way to block js from running altogether (Content-Security-Policy: script-src http: https:), to block web fonts (Content-Security-Policy: font-src *), to block twitch ads (overriding origin and referrer).
It's amusing to me to see the parallels between the analyses of Sappho's poems and the analyses of Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day"[1]

Both start out with the assumption that the events actually happened literally and exactly as they were narrated, and that the narrator isn't taking any poetic license with the chronology.

Then the authors bend or ignore certain facts to build their narrative (whether it's "we're gonna skip the details about the moon" or "we're gonna ignore the details about what was on TV because maybe Mr. Cube was watching reruns or an old VHS tape")

Then you have the counter-analysis where people vehemently decry the flaws of the initial analysis and assume that the original work was done by idiots who are overanalyzing the artistry, then a classic internet flame war develops and nothing is accomplished.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Good_Day#Date_of_th...
So your good with active calls for mass murder?

Because denying something happened doesn’t physically hurt anyone. Mostly just dumb.

Asking for it to happen again means one is an evil monster that needs to be stopped.
And Twitter is free to block him as it pleases
It must be the outside agitators?
+1

The market for cheap delivered food is much larger than sit down restaurants.

Covid just make more of the population comfortable with apps.
Long-term capital gains and qualified dividends (most of them) are taxed the same. The closest alternative to share buybacks is declaring dividends IMO, so share buybacks are not a loophole otherwise.
I find that it usually helps, but it is also not instant. So now the post is being shown as flagged now. I do it a lot with spam/click bait posts.