skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's considered "per se" defamation, meaning that the plaintiff only has to prove that the defamatory act occurred, not that any reputational harm actually resulted (the harm is presumed from the heinous nature of the defamatory statements).
I think you greatly underestimate the global demand.
> My understanding of GP point is that majority of social media companies is negative to Trump and positive to Biden

I don't think this is accurate, unless you mean that most employees of big tech vote/contribute Democrat. However, it doesn't necessarily follow that bias exists on the platform.
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Another good analogy is fraudulent advertising. Freedom of speech does not mean that people can say any old thing without consequence. If people were selling fake Covid-19 cures, Google would be well within their rights to take down ads and videos. And elected officials would certainly be allowed to ask about it if they weren't.
Because most companies give near zero match.
Generally speaking it's not possible to get the data needed from the custody during the day. In the evenings/nights when they have done all settlements, cleaned up the data and executed their batch jobs they can send you their view of things in the form of positions and transactions.

From there it's easiest to start comparing positions and if they deviate then have the system match everything that has happened in both systems since they last matched in order to find the faulty transaction(s). After that you should be ready for the next business day, where you have to keep track of how the state is affected by your trades and other events during the day.

Then the cycle repeats.
Statutory Maternity/Paternal/Parental leave. No 'fire for no reason' laws (i.e. laws against the Orwellian double speak "at will" employment). Anti-no-compete laws (this exists in California).
As others have noted, the statistics you listed are recklessly inaccurate.

That said: even if they were accurate, we'd still need to examine how may signature match failures result in detecting actual fraudulent voting, and how many signature match failures don't (ie they are false positives that serve to disenfranchise voters).

It turns out that the vast majority (97%) of ballots rejected due to signature match issues are likely valid. IOW: we'd disenfranchise 32 people for every case of fraud occurring. I have personal doubts that the rate for fraud was even that high (3% of the % of ballots rejected for sig mismatch), as you'd expect some type of criminal charges resulting from it.

Even assuming the 3% of sig rejects number, because that's already a % of sig rejects, it comes out to 3% of 0.2% (the actual number of sig mismatch rejections). This is 0.006% of the total vote.

Additionally, signature match checking disproportionately rejects votes from specific groups, while accepting votes from other groups. In other words, having a signature check (or making it "stricter") allows tuning which demographics you accept votes from. Allowing this type of targeted disenfranchisement is not good
I think go is the perfect example of how not to do module source distribution. Because of their URL dependency system Golang projects work great as static binaries, but they're almost impossible to distribute as source builds via system package managers. A lot of my arguments for why this is a bad thing are already laid out here: https://docs.monadical.com/s/against-curl-sh (I don't know how many more replies we have left before we hit the HN nesting limit, but this is a thing I care deeply about and I'm down to keep chatting on Twitter or other forums if anyone here prefers)
I would probably just vendor them into my own directory structure and import them as a local module.

You lose automatic updating, but I'm not sure I want that anyhow. A script that goes looking for new versions of 3rd party modules would be fairly trivial I think.
Draft Kings doesn’t have a two way market. If people think that buying options is a rigged game then they can take the other side. You can’t do that on Draft Kings. I think that makes a huge difference.
This type of comparison is a pretty natural one to want. We are still thinking about ways to best demonstrate Filmbox. The best way is to use it, but we will try to come up with a way to show this.

This particular comparison raises some interesting philosophical questions, which is why we haven't gotten to it yet. The comparison could be pretty misleading if done wrong.

Filmbox is designed to produce an accurate film look from scene-referred footage. But digital image data really has no look in any meaningful way.

We could, for example, show the video in a log color space as it’s encoded, but that's an arbitrary encoding that is not even intended for display. We could apply some "video" LUT or simulate how someone might "typically" color grade the footage, but that's a creative choice - and one that can still be performed in addition to the Filmbox emulation pipeline.

The right way to think about it is perhaps that video can be prepared to look like anything, But modern motion picture film has a fairly defined look. Filmbox is designed to provide ways of processing video that are closest to processed film. So we feel the meatiest comparison is Filmbox to actual film.
Taibbi made the same point in the article:

> These firms pay more significantly more for Robinhood’s order flow than they do for the order flow of other firms: an average of 17% more, according to a Bloomberg analysis.
Cashing out for massive windfall profits isn’t exactly “devastating”
Anyone got a GOOD link to running AI bots on FB?
thanks in advance
That is probably next step, but not for the concern of China. It may come from the pressure of government, if EU pushes a little bit. It is extremely hard for China to sneak the TSMC. It is a big ecosystem. The only way to take control is invasion, but that would lead to WWIII and is almost impossible to get the original TSMC. It would be destroyed during war. And, the market would be shared by other companies.
The presence of any major platform acting as the unilateral arbiter of what is and isn't misinformation for many people in society erodes faith in democracy as well.
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You may be interested in Nix. It can track all the dependencies of your project. So you d an copy them to a server, or Tarball them, or just run them with Nix on the server. It also has a nice property that you only ship what is necessary, since it keeps track of all dependencies.
In part that's an issue with their permission model and how they communicate it, and it's not done well now either. I'm pretty sure that people care at least a little in most cases, but the tradeoffs are far more complex than you can grasp easily so I'm not sure "privacy" is fundamentally a thing that can be provided while allowing anything except almost uselessly restricted extensions.

So: mostly no, nor do I expect it to improve with manifest v3. Tracking/malicious extensions will just continue to request access to `*` and send their info via some other means, and users will continue to install them. This doesn't stop that or really change it at all.
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> a social wealth fund

What is that?
Arguably, the media's role is to manufacture consent among the general public for whatever the government wants to do.
And you frankly have no clue.

Let me clue you in on a few facts.

Retail stores are not paying upfront. Name a single major retailer that does this. I've yet to hear of a single one doing this.

Amazon is a bookstore. Go to any other bookstore or even distributor, and ask how quickly folks get paid who sell into their market. These folks drag the absolute HELL out of payment.

And yes, the local bookstore can return the books. They are generally not taking inventory risk.

Same thing with a grocery store. Want to get on shelf? Pay a fee? Want to sell in store? Until you prove sales volume so risk is gone, you will need to be willing to accept product returns and pay fee to cover whatever you replaced.

Want data on how your product sold at store level / by day / time etc? Be prepared to PAY for that. BTW - amazon merchants get most of this for free.

The time to pay for a product that sells in a retail store and amazon is different, and much WORSE for the retail store. You can get next day payout availability for FBA from amazon. If you sell a product through a distributor into retail - if you think you are going to get next day payment - dream on.
this sort of thing existed before spacex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2sHf-udJI8
> Yet every time I've seen stuff fly by I didn't recognize, I only had my phone with me. Doh!

That’s my point. Timing, preparation, and some good luck (eg with weather) are all more important than gear, which I think answers OP’s statement
As far as I know you get all updates (and definitely all security ones). The "trial" never expires. If you're okay with the watermark and not being able to customise your desktop, you can use the trial forever.
A 150+ mph electric zeppelin seems like a viable technology. You get vertical takeoff and landing and low noise, which should let you do have many of the advantages of high speed rail at much lower capital costs. Battery weight isn’t such a big deal as long as your limited to say a 2 hour flight.

Most inner cities are right next to water so you do the bus approach of inner city to inner city while swapping batteries.
Sure:

>Despite a $2.7 billion transfer to the state treasury, the Alaska Permanent Fund earned enough from its investments to grow by $1.4 billion, or 2%, during the just-ended state fiscal year. As of June 30, the fund stood at $66.3 billion, up from $64.9 billion on the same date in 2018.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019/09/08/permanent-fund-gr...

If you'd like to know more look here: https://apfc.org/our-performance/

You know how rich people only have to exercise very mild discretion with their spending because of how much money their money makes? A social wealth fund is sort of like that but for everyone. I think those dividends will be lasting quite a long time.
Yeah, we just take it early in the day so we can get a good nights sleep and everything is fine the next day.
They could promote their own service, charge Google more and seem anti trust because they made the competitor the default!

It would be a bit dumb for Apple to not have anything at least almost ready, just in case Google does something they can’t accept.
> they get assigned there, steal a lot, get arrested, and new people get assigned, ...

This is just an illustration of what the state of things currently is around Russian space efforts. To change that requires changes above that in government operations.

There are still a lot of capable engineers and even managers in space industry. But being capital and material heavy, space industry can't hide from corruption, which isn't going anywhere while Kremlin is as it is today.

Soyuz spacecraft is a wonderful machine, but lately it more and more served as largely a cash cow and political facade. With Crew Dragon flying, that role diminishes. Given that Proton doesn't provide either, Russian space is left with just a few venues for development. It's hard to see bright sides there until incentives would change.
the apollo lunar lander did pretty much the same thing.
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It is. It's possible to have two completely valid, objective, and opposed positions in an argument where multiple different groups have a vested interest in one position being more popular than the other.

Which one is propaganda?
The one you disagree with?
The one that doesn't fit with your preconceived notions?
The one that doesn't fit with your personality profile?
Both positions? Neither position?
Do we just shut down all thinking on the internet?
Who watches the watchers?
Could you please translate all this? What is super and why would a car dealer be through the roof?
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To be fair, SoftBank is a Japanese bank with lots of Saudi money...
I too have noticed this when I tried an edible. An almost imperceptible high that occurred for a few minutes just after ingestion. However this should be impossible as the time taken to metabolize THC is typically an hour or two.

My only guess is that some of the THC is absorbed orally, but in a small quantity. That might explain the high feeling. Can't say I would know what the mechanism for this is, just a guess.
WhatsApp criticizes Apple’s new app privacy labels over iMessage inconsistency
Indeed you must.

Petra is an incredible place that seems to inspire poetic thoughts in every visitor, including your humble correspondent:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikhailfranco/8579438475

It is a sculpture not a building.
A fanciful classical facade
carved around a small beshadowed room.
It is hard evidence of insanity.
Proof that sculptors can only take away
but add so much with their subtractions.
It is a glorious folly
in a hidden valley
beyond a lost city.
The grandeur and futility
of the human spirit
has been revealed within the stone.
And down the endless millennia
each wondrous visitor
will cast a dismayed gaze
at the madness and beauty
of ancient days.
It was glorious. Everyday astronaut has a 120fps video closeup of the landing. Watch for it to be posted on youtube.
Lovely idea, lovely site.
I'd really like that but I'm no web dev and it's probably challenging to do with the static site generator I'm using (Zola).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

> As of the 2010 census, the ethnic makeup and population of San Francisco included: 390,387 whites (48%), 267,915 Asians (33%), 48,870 African Americans (6%), and others. There were 121,744 Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15%).

> In 2010, residents of Chinese ethnicity constituted the largest single ethnic minority group in San Francisco at 21% of the population; the other Asian groups are Filipinos (5%) and Vietnamese (2%).

So less than 5% Indian.
Most of the pizza joints by me in LA are on Slice or Chownow. I'm surprised more restaurants aren't on Chownow, really, with the flat monthly fee structure and no commissions. Is it hard to get enough order volume to make that worth it?
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Thanks Captain Obvious...
> 20 years ago reputed organizations such as newspapers, radio stations and television informed people the truth. Conspiracy theories were fringe and didn't have a way to spread.

Are you genuinely arguing that conspiracy theories are a phenomenon that is unique to the 21st century?
Yeah, this.

Keep personal media metadata and download it again, maybe, but back it up?

Better still, only store what you’ll watch and delete it.

I only backup scans of truly useful legal documents, photos go to the cloud.

Everything contemporary, disposable pop culture is “backed up” online from my perspective.
Users don't even understand the difference between extensions and add-ons.
9/10 people on Earth reading this are cringing because of how privileged it sounds. The complaints you’re describing are for babies.
Right. So the value add here is not actually about moving cash flow forward in time through reservation deposits, but rather just having a predetermined order size. Am I misunderstanding, or is this a complete non-example for the point of the article?
I don't really get this. People regularly quoted Osama bin Laden's statements about how he did 9/11 to force the US into overreacting. It may have "normalised" him to see that he had rational reasons for what he did, rather than being a religious maniac. But it didn't make it right, and it didn't lead to people flocking to his cause. If it had been censored, we might have had more people believing the harmful "religious war" frame, just from not knowing any better.

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations" -- Osama bin Laden
> What is ultimately wrong with having real world limitations to a licence?

Nothing? Again, Mongo is doing it, and seems to be fine.

Conversely, why do you need to call those licenses with "real world limitations" open source?
There's federal income tax everywhere. He's saving quite a bit in state tax, not avoiding all income tax.
Yes a lot of people are “supporters”, but how many have actually taken actual steps to achieve what they support.

Too damn many of them are all talk and no action (or their actions contradict their past words when it means it affect them negatively).
Yet here we are. Microsoft is surprising everybody lately.
Metalhead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
DHH mentioned on twitter that it is html over websockets so I fully expect it to be similar to LiveView.
This really just feels like a smear. Robinhood has been instrumental in crushing fees for trading individual stocks (a year ago Vanguard charged $7 per trade if your account didn't have enough money, and now it's $0), and is an incredibly user friendly way to get involved in investing. Seriously, compare Robinhood's UI to anybody else (Schwab, IB, Vanguard), and they absolutely crush it. If you're starting off and don't have enough money to open an account with a legacy broker (I believe Vanguard requires $3k to open a Roth, not sure about their regular accounts), Robinhood makes it incredibly easy to start building a portfolio with a small pool of money (say $1k).

I feel like Taibbi had an axe to grind against Robinhood or else he would have tried to separate the "bad" (puts, options, a sense of gambling) vs the good (low barrier to entry, easy to buy what you want, etc).
Wow that’s really cool. I have a lot of hope for Deno, seems very promising.
> RUD

“Rapid Unplanned Disassembly”?

I love reading Musk’s tweets :)
This is great! I thought that I could filter on ingredients with an intersection of those ingredients and instead got the union. I would love if this could toggle between those and possibly the exclusion as well.
Fine, but that in no way prevents them from releasing them simultaneously.
> depends on keeping a cadre of people on the financial hairy edge so that they can be coerced into doing the actual work.

Which is maybe why Bill Ackman's proposal here doesn't really make money accessible to working-age people, when they most need it to set up a less hairy lifestyle.
Now that I consider this, you're right. Semantic HTML was designed exactly for this.
It certainly would make a difference to battery life. Bluetooth connections as well as decoding are done in hardware using commodity chips that can't do much else. Adding additional audio processing hardware will increase the complexity of these chips which translates to higher prices and lower battery efficiency.

Remember, some of those devices have 20mA of battery. The codecs already have to be made easy to decode.

There is also absolutely no need to limiting processing to a static convolution with an impulse response. That's just the only device-specific processing you have to do. Headphones are minimum phase devices, so except for things like distortion, they can basically be described by their single impulse response.

For the rest, like spatial audio, or EQ, or anything of the sort, there is no need to do it per headphone, it's the same for all of them.
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Those of us who care about silly, antiquated things like P/E ratios, or even having earnings at all, have definitely consistently underperformed the market.

Value investing is a widowmaker in the ZIRP era.
If I draw a stick-figure and label it The Prophet Muhammad should that be banned? After all my drawing skills are terrible and it is likely to provoke people. But that doesn't seem very free to me.
China also has concentration camps.
Military spending is around 15 percent of total federal spending. Definitely not the "lion's share of the money".

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/is-us-defens...
Interesting that you chose those specific things, and not mobs rioting and looting, attempting to burn down public buildings, and taking over whole city blocks. All far more widespread and damaging.
TLA+ Formal Modeling and Programmers: Avoiding the Imperative “Brainwash”
I use the term brainwash as satire. Of course, the programmer imperative sensibility is quite important if you want to ship product, which is the bottom line.

But I've found the imperative mentality in my own work on TLA+ modeling initially confusing. I offer the following write-up to help clarify several important points (focusing on TLA+ Pluscal) in a technical note with example models, Python code. It's the first in a series on modeling a distributed key-value store I'm working on:

https://github.com/rodgarrison/tla_note1

Beyond basics I also give a recipe to use TLA+ at the command line for those of us who prefer it over IDEs. TLA's toolbox IDE is nice; still I prefer command line development when possible.

In the paper:

- program behavior versus model states

- deadlock

- termination

- coverage (label) checks

- setting up TLA+ on the command line

Hope it helps. As I note in the abstract I got some help of my own from the TLA Google Group.
I am sure many will applaud this but it encourage developers to not bother with an actual native build as it tells them that Linux users will be happy with "proton compatible". Games don't run as well IME (even ones where they claim it runs as well or better). I've given up with Games on Linux.
The parent is a response to the GP calling out Ackman as a “white guy”.

This white-bashing has become so pervasive and accepted that people don’t even notice it anymore. I’m a brown, recent immigrant so probably more likely to notice.

Substitute any other group in place of “white guy” and it’s a major faux pas. The double standard is mind-boggling.
If they all heard dog whistles in nickelback then yes
Is there anyone that doesn't see what's going on at this point?
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He wrote that nearly 100 years ago. With an additional century's experience, I think it's clearer that teaching media literacy just isn't enough.

One reason is the bullshit asymmetry principal: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." Another is that liars get a lot more practice in selling their lie than people do in analyzing and refuting a particular lie. A third is that people who live on their lies usually have a much stronger incentive; if I blow $10 on a stupid purchase due to lying ads, I'm out $10, but the liar is making a living. And that's before we even get to the asymmetry in mass communication, where a liar can reach millions. Or the modern micro-targeting era, where lies can be tuned to the audience and hidden from debunkers. Or the way the whole idea of truth can be weakened by authoritarian behavior and mass disinformation.

So we really can't expect individuals to keep up on their own. As much as I love cynical skepticism, it's not enough these days.
Very nice.

One issue I noticed: I looked up Chana Masala and the first recipe (Vegan Chana Masala) calls for “12 tsp salt” but the source calls for “1/2 tsp salt” :)