skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular yoga mat is neither an Apple exclusive, nor is it Apple branded. Apple has carried complementary products in their store for a long time. Someone may, for instance, want a yoga mat to use with Apple's fitness tracking hardware/software products. Their store also has bike helmets, water bottles, a jump rope, etc.

But why should technology be an industry strictly independent from culture or lifestyle? Technology isn't a thing banished to the cubicle anymore, it's a part of culture and lifestyle.
> Apple isn't really a technology company anymore. They're a designer brand, so this makes sense.

Those M1 chips certainly seem to be impressively well designed.
NSA Reports Russian Actors Using VMware Flaw to Infiltrate Networks
What hardware does it run on? Is it a single server or a cluster?
> the history of the space is consistent with delivery drivers being consistently underpaid

If that's the case, how can one say that, for all of history, they have been underpaid? What is the standard that defines underpaid? If we agree that this is an issue that DoorDash has done better on than historical alternatives, should they receive as much flak as they do?

> With Doordash alone multiple lawsuits against it for payments alone

I would never argue that DoorDash isn't acting in its own self-interest and has been quite misleading when it comes to tips, to the point where they should be losing lawsuits. When we talk about delivery people being underpaid, though, that seems directly against the initial pitch of DoorDash, and it seems to have instead fulfilled its pitch to help drivers make more money than they did previously.
Congress is finally backing a national AI strategy
If you assume I'm talking about "VR" it shows you don't really have the same mental model of what they're trying to do at Oculus. They're creating a hardware/software proxy over your senses. This is the logical endpoint of computing. VR is just another transitional bridge.
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Here's the secret, thoughtful discourse is hard work and will never be "automatic" :)
This is absolutely brilliant. Great work!!!
I think you are conflating what I am talking about being the general scientific consensus that says that masks, social distance and vaccines work compared to specific local rules on shutdowns.

You are using one locations shutdown rules to make a broad unfounded statement against the broader scientifically proven base of research.
> If we don't have a meaningful signature match, than we don't have a meaningful way to prevent fraud with mail in ballots. Period.

We can check for duplicate votes. Submitting fraudulent ballots in quantities necessary to change the results while avoiding submitting duplicate ballots (which would be caught, as we saw with the Jill Stokke) would require either:

1. Extremely good data about who had voted and who had not.

OR

2. Some faction in the ballot-processing chain with the ability to secretly discard the legitimate ballots.

Is there evidence that either of these things happened?
> BUT, I don't know that any system that does not treat them as such is any better.

In all of the civilized world, people are assumed to not be knowledgable about a myriad of problem domains such that only licensed professional can exercises certain classes of judgement.

You are not considered to be rational enough to determine what kind of chemotherapy you get, just to name an example of all sorts of prescription medicines.

You are not assumed knowledgeable about architecting a building, a car, investing, or all licensed occupations where it turns out that bad opinions can kill people by the millions.

So no, effectively we assume by default that people are mostly dumb and dangerous and we raise high bars of qualification for anything in society where there is a potential for huge damage from bad decisions.
> The democrats were claiming fraud 4 years go

This is incorrect. The Democrats alleged a Russian disinformation campaign to interfere in the 2016 election. The truth of this claim is beyond debate, and is different from alleging widespread voter fraud. Whether Trump was directly involved is the only part up for dispute, because he and so many witnesses refused to answer questions or lied to protect themselves and/or the president.

On the other hand, Trump has been complaining of election fraud since before he even became a politician. He claimed election fraud in the republican primary [1]. He complained of election fraud when he won the 2016 election. And finally, he complained of election fraud when he lost in 2020. He even alleged election fraud in 2012 [2]. A key difference here is he has absolutely no evidence to back up his claims.

The claims and their respective credibility are not equatable in good faith.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/69487990025635430...
[2] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/26603550916230349...
most yoga mats go for 25-30 dollars...
It's not clear exactly what point you're trying to make here.
I live in Switzerland and the legal status of (tech) employee is roughly the same to what you describe. I wonder if the difference isn't that firing people "at-will" just is less culturally accepted here. I feel we're in kind of a weird spot between Japan and the US in terms of how the general public conceives the relationship between an employee and an employer.
Reddit is here. It has been a swift decline notable in the last year or so. Sadly. Even fairly uncontroversial assertions of fact are downvoted frequently
'Amnesia:33' TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Devices to Attacks
allegations !== evidence
17 States are now supporting it.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163215/2020...
Good to see some progress in this area.

As usual, it's important to emphasize that this research is about therapy, with MDMA as an additional modulator on top of the therapy. In this case, 15 therapy sessions over a period of 7 weeks. MDMA was only involved in 2 of the 15 sessions. If I'm reading the paper correctly, patients received 3 therapy sessions before MDMA was introduced and the bulk of reported improvements happened prior to MDMA being added. Looking at the graphs, there aren't any obvious score increases around the MDMA sessions. In fact, I couldn't tell when the MDMA was introduced without reading the methodology section.

The study was also limited to 6 couples, with no control group. Note that the control group in this case doesn't have to be a placebo group, because it's too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug. Instead, the control group would simply receive therapy without MDMA and results would be compared. The difference would begin to show the benefit of therapy+MDMA over therapy alone, which is critically important in these trials. You can't just give people 15 therapy sessions and then attribute the benefits to 2 doses of MDMA.

People tend to see these headlines and assume that the drug is doing all the work, or that they can simply replicate the results by taking the drug and seeing what happens. This is usually backed up by a couple of random positive anecdotes in the comment section while anyone with negative experiences is downvoted or dismissed.

Please don't assume you can replicate these results with ad-hoc experimentation with street drugs. If you browse Reddit, it's not hard to find anecdotes from people who have mistaken the short-term effects of these drugs for long-term healing, which usually results in them reaching out for more drugs the next time they have problems. Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they're on their way to low-level addiction.
That is literally how the world neoliberalism got created. It has some very limited academic use before then but basically exploded in usage.

When center leftists started to embrace free trade and things like that.

So basically anybody not on the left fringe was label a neoliberalist, all the way from Clinton to Milton Friedman.

You can make it really easy if you just throw everybody in the same bucket and label it evil. Its a classic move in politics.
I wonder how this will factor into the military contracts that Boston Dynamics has/will have.
Fetal bovine serum is so expense anyway, even if you wanted to use it it's not practical, it seems...

This article addressees this with Eat Just in Singapore (They are looking at plant based in the future) -

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-...

I'd read it as this is just to get another round of funding. At best a very expensive restaurant might sell slithers for the experience.

But I think it is a industry that's moving forward, so it's all a good thing. Many other industries are just stuck in scam stage.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You take a hard stance but it seems factual.
Are you nice because it is required to be nice? "Requirement" is a loaded term, but I would hope Google employees show some decency and hold up their liberal values and bolster free expression that they claim to value so much.
> However, having existing companies be forced to be spun out in their entirely... I have a hard time imagining that being the outcome, given the chilling effect it could have on the rest of the industry.

What's hilarious is that breakups and divestiture were considered a completely commonplace occurrence up until a generation ago. It was just a matter of course for the FTC and DOJ to deal with companies that had gotten too big or were engaging in questionable behavior and forcing them to break up into pieces.

This, of course, was generally a good thing. Then we just sort of stopped. Now we're at a point where your point of view, which is that this is "hard to imagine" is a completely reasonable one.

It shouldn't be though. The current situation of consolidation at the top of our economy is wildly unstable and harmful to workers, consumers, and fledgeling entrepreneurs alike, and we should never have let it get this out of control.
A very related book on the topic: Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships by Brian D. Earp And Julian Savulescu

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27130
If puppy is really small (under 18 weeks) and didn't have all the vaccines yet, you should avoid putting them directly on the ground if don't know the environment. If they come into contact with leftover feces of other dog that cary disease, they can some deadly ones, like Lepto.

Which is also tricky, as at the same time it's when you have to socialize the puppy. Things they haven't been exposed to under 18 weeks, they're more likely to be scared of/aggressive towards.
Oculus too please!

I'm holding off on merging my Oculus and Facebook accounts as long as possible in hopes that someone tells them to get the hell out of here with that nonsense.
"Dangerous for democracy" sounds like one of those contentless phrases that can be used to justify anything. The late 2010s/2020s version of all the patriotic jingoism thrown around post 9/11.
>> I agree. I have a second, crummy old laptop for just this reason.

Learned this the hard way. Made an editor, everyone loved it. Added features, people loved it. Kept adding features...then it was called slow, bloated etc.

Everything seemed fine on my new-at-the-time iMac.

Went into a conference room where we had one of the first Intel MacBook Pros...there were portions of the editor where you could literally see things being redrawn. A night of optimizations later, performance was restored.
> The tech industry is a major factor in this, where senior-level positions in non-FAANG companies can make upwards of $150k/yr in the US, and the PPP equivalent European salary is around half of 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?

I am honestly asking. I am in Europe and my salary is half of what I could make in the US, but it never bothered me. I have a very chill life and more money wouldn't make me significantly happier.
Safari and Spotlight seem like more logical choices to hit the most people. Voice assistants are still super awkward and low bandwidth. They’ll hit all of the above though, I’m sure.
Thanks for the answer. Still sounds like a lot of fun raising a puppy! Please give him some pets from me :-)
This just demonstrates the "price gap" between virtual and "real world" companies. An app with a few thousand uses with worth more than one of the world's best engineering companies.

Even if either has a path to profitability.
I think it catches me off guard because its not technology related. I suppose I understand its relation to Fitness+ but I guess I assumed if they were launching a yoga mat it would be a smart yoga mat or something like that.

I feel dumb and chuckled writing that last sentence but I guess its just an odd product move and nothing more.
Not an article, but a large amount of well-organised evidence (not great on mobile):

https://hereistheevidence.com

CodeMonkeyZ on Twitter is biased, but links to interesting material nonetheless, such as excerpts from Dominion software manuals describing such oddities as vote tallies stored as floating point rather than integer values (seriously?).
Public schools in every US state already require vaccination, by law [0]. The regulations are without exception written in such a way that anyone who wants to make a fuss about it will find it easier to claim a religious exemption than to test it in court, but there's a lot of legal precedent for mandating vaccines.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553651/
Who trusted book publishers? What American can even name 3 of them, or could in the 1970s? This doesn't seem like a serious argument, and it gets less serious the further back in time you go and the more all of publishing resembled the Weekly World News.
> I don't like private companies getting to decide what's truthful and what's not, but it's not like the US government is doing a better job

If the responsibility has to lie with either one (to police other people's truth, I mean - both have a responsibility not to spew the garbage themselves) then we're screwed. If a majority of the population simply doesn't have the critical thinking and background knowledge necessary to weed out fake news, democracy simply can't work. I would argue we're there in the United States. Too much bias for us to recover from our current politics without very significant changes to our system and / or the population.
> The Texas Attorney General likely has short circuited this process by filing a claim that can only be resolved by a federal court.

Having read the claim, there is no chance that SCOTUS will do anything other than deny it per curiam.

> And now 11 other states (at my last count) have joined on as plaintiffs

They have not joined as plaintiffs. They filed an amici brief. And it's actually 17. And reading the amici brief, they don't even attempt to justify why Texas has standing in the case, which is the biggest reason to dismiss the case.

> and the U.S. Supreme Court has placed it on the docket.

You're aware that means absolutely nothing? To be refused to be docketed is an exceptionally high bar that requires the court to think you a vexatious litigant. Several thousand cases are docketed a year, and yet there's only around 200-ish that are even considered petitions worthy of commentary, and only 70-ish are actually heard.

The actual bar you're looking for is if SCOTUS accepts the petition which, (for a leave to file motion in original jurisdiction) requires 5 justices to agree to hear the case, and will not be decided before the reply brief is filed tomorrow. I suspect it will be discussed at the regular Friday conference, and likely disposed of in the Monday orders list, although the justices may decide it's important enough to release in a Friday orders list.

I've said elsewhere why the case is likely to be go absolutely nowhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25353139.
It currently looks like CA will face a 54B budget deficit for 2020 [0], and "could see" a "one-time surplus" of $26B for 2021 [1,2], followed by projected deficits in 2022-25 [2].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/03/895377375/california-has-lost...

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...

[2] https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2020/4297/fiscal-outlook-111820.p...
> I don't think most here want to spend $1000/year on backing up their entire NAS.

These 2 solutions cost less than 10 USD/month: Jottacloud [1] and zfs.rent [2]. The former is even hosted in privacy-friendly Norway, and its 5 TB unlimited with going over that you get upload-capped. So I pay 90 EUR/year for Jottacloud. Which is approx 10% of your projected 1000 USD.

[1] https://www.jottacloud.com/en/

[2] https://zfs.rent/
Ransomware gangs are getting faster at encrypting networks
The election is over. Right wing media is claiming that it's not. That's a lie. End of story.
No, there isn't. Stop it. Over 40 lawsuits were thrown out on the basis of absolute lack of merit.

There has literally not been a single case of "evidence" that hasn't been debunked and considered to be a laughable and ill-intended piece of lies.
From the FTC.gov[1]:

"The antitrust laws prohibit conduct by a single firm that unreasonably restrains competition by creating or maintaining monopoly power. Most Section 2 claims involve the conduct of a firm with a leading market position, although Section 2 of the Sherman Act also bans attempts to monopolize and conspiracies to monopolize. As a first step, courts ask if the firm has "monopoly power" in any market. This requires in-depth study of the products sold by the leading firm, and any alternative products consumers may turn to if the firm attempted to raise prices. Then courts ask if that leading position was gained or maintained through improper conduct—that is, something other than merely having a better product, superior management or historic accident. Here courts evaluate the anticompetitive effects of the conduct and its procompetitive justifications."

Does FB unreasonably restrain competition? (My answer is no)

Does FB have an alternative? (Mewe/Parler/Gab etc. - Mewe being the most direct alternative)

Then courts ask if that leading position was gained or maintained through improper conduct—that is, something other than merely having a better product, superior management or historic accident. - I'd say no.

I don't see anything this lawsuit stands on.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Not sure why I got downvoted. I’m trying to offer the poster a viable alternative to CentOS 8 with a minimum of changes needed. I get that a lot of people don’t like Oracle (and for good reasons) but really they are the best alternative (and free) EL8 disto now.
> "Mostly because it got more crowded."

So what? That means more people and tax revenue to solve problems. There are plenty of very dense areas around the world run just fine. This is a failure of policy not population. If people are such a problem then maybe tax-paying law-abiding citizens should be prioritized over illegal immigration.

> "If ALL you care about is a big house and taxes, then CA is probably not for you... you may realize why CA is so crowded."

Who said that? Your dismissive and defensive attitude along with blaming completely irrelevant details like population is the reason why CA and its voting populace is in the state that it's in.

Please list what has gotten better in CA over the last 10 years or I'll assume you have no argument.
Open source doesn't work and I'm glad the world is starting to understand.
It promotes unfair compensation (or lack thereof).

If you have the skills to advance technology and no capital to invest to acquire other technical solutions you may need, you can get a job and use that money to pay what

Expecting free work from people rarely work, there are just not enough motivated individuals willing to work and maintain something for free.

Most open source I rely on is either backed by a giant company which uses it as a way to attract talents (and retain talents, by letting their employee work on their favourite project on company time) or it's unmaintained.
If it's unmaintained I either need to do the work myself or hire someone, which introduces a myriad of variables.
I'd rather hire the author but often he's busy with his real job and doesn't think he can live off its project.

If it wasn't for the OSS movement and the sheer amount of free work we would have a network of company buying OSS solutions and, most likely, more distributed, smaller companies that produce and resell proprietary software.
Well, sure, but it seems like extensions that download remote code are being explicitly banned by Google per TFA. I can't imagine that they intend that to extend to even non-executable tabular data.
Whatever you think of Trump's politics, I think it's safe to say that his time in office has set a series of very bad precedents for the US political process. This is just the latest in that series. I agree that this is the "least worst" choice in the short term, but it fails to address what I think are the core problems with Youtube w.r.t. radicalization and fake news while setting a precedent for blocking political content in the future.