skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Why does no longer publishing flat earth videos not kill the idea for the most part?

How do you think these critical masses around _specific ideas_ are formed? Qanon isn't a whisper campaign.

A thought experiment: we burn all books about Area 51 alien stuff. The whole myth would probably die along with our generation. There's no more stuff reinforcing it, no large traces. No more grainy photos.

That original quote might work for a general ideology but I don't think it works nearly as well when applied to specific narratives.

(Of course this works in all directions, see the obliteration of socialist movements in the 50s and 60s)
> Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers?

Yes, recently in fact: Rasmussen polled Biden voters about the Hunter Biden laptop story that was suppressed on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (and legacy media), and 9.4% said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known prior to voting (IIRC ~50% of them had not heard about it). That's enough votes to get Trump elected in spite of the changes to how elections were conducted in the four swing states Texas sued earlier this week.

Suppression works really, really well. Expect to see more of it in the future.
We're special because we're us and not them.
You remember correctly - it's from the second book, "The restaurant at the end of the universe", and the animal in question had been genetically altered to strive for its own consumption, and enjoy the whole process of it.

It's quite a terrifying thought, to be honest - maybe because the animal in question is very much conscious and intelligent.

I'm never quite sure whether or not Douglas Adams wrote it for comedic effect or to provoke some deeper discussion.

Might as well be both.
This isn't a moral assumption this is just simplistic and stupid. Moral assumptions are pretty close to irrelevant in all practical issues, because they're not the simple little checkboxes people put them into for examples.

But then they wouldn't fit in 2 and half sentences and we might actually have an attempt at a reasonable conversation rather then suspiciously starting from the conclusion one side wanted to start with.
Great summary, but there’s also this fundamental misunderstanding of what this test was about:

> This isn't anywhere close to the finished vehicle and several key technological problems remain. Yet, they've explicitly shaped it like the final version...

One of the primary objectives of this test was to verify the aerodynamics of the vehicle. How could they test the aerodynamics if it was a different shape from the final version? Someone’s not paying attention, like at all.

Almost none of that screed was actually criticising specific aspects of the vehicle itself, it’s mostly discussion of irrelevant aspects of past vehicles as a smoke screen for actually not having much pertinent to say, and what is relevant is just plain wrong.
No, an explosion and destruction of equipment is a failure. Why do you keep dancing around this truth? It is a failure everywhere else in the world! You should've listened to the commentary of foreign anchors! They don't look at it as a success!
Look at external data. We now have diseases reappearing that were eradicated decades ago. Inside anti-vaxx communities.

Nobody is “forced” to watch a YT video. But if these show up in searches, along with pseudo-scientific articles, pseudo-documentaries on all platforms and actively work on becoming viral, then there is a problem.

Maybe creating a lot of content does not imply that people will watch it, but the reality is that a lot of people do.
I am partially from the UK but I imagine you need citizenship to work for a rocket company like SpaceX.
This is a key point of Peter Thiel's in his talk at YC from some years ago. He expands on it to great effect in a few other videos too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ0C0UHFfE.
RE: the above: I see that HR has weighed in.
Hey, I'm a JS dev who's been splashing around in rails for the past year or so. I'm happy to help! I just had a similar issue this morning, and I asked in the Ruby on Rails Link slack [1]. They're pretty helpful in there.

For what it's worth, my issue was that Heroku was running `rake assets:precompile` without node_modules being installed. This was because `yarn install` failed. I looked closely at the logs and saw an error about the yarn file needing to be updated (the lockfile pins exact versions). So I ran `yarn install` locally to update it, redeployed, and it worked. So far I've been able to use node modules with sprockets this way just fine (in JS and Sass). Webpack-generated JS bundles work well too. Anyway, happy to help in there, just tag me :)

[1] https://www.rubyonrails.link/
I do sports pistol shooting as a hobby. Recommendations have improved recently, but before you never were never further than two clicks away from ISSF championship chronicles to videos by disturbed people with firearms.
A happy and competent friend of mine went to work for them in the HR department at SpaceX, and left a month later, things were that brutal. Later I took a short contact at TBM in curiosity, it was rather hardcore as well. Long story short, I tend to believe it.
Right: Electric indent. Tab at beginning of line automatically indents line to desired depth. Editor's guess at indentation level is almost never wrong, and the exact level is configurable.

Wrong: Hit return and the next line is automatically indented; other than that you're on your own.

Right: Flash the opening bracket or quote when you type the closing bracket or quote.

Wrong: "Helpfully" close opening brackets or quotes, but do not provide Paredit-like structured editing features, leaving the user to accidentally type spurious extra brackets/quotes. (Some IDEs skip over the preinserted closing mark when you type the same mark with point on the closing mark. But they're woefully inconsistent about this and Visual Studio Code does not do this.)

Right: Visiting a file does not otherwise affect editor state.

Wrong: All state for the editing session in the current window is clobbered when you do File / Open from the menu. User must spawn a new window in order to preserve editing state in this window.
Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe
This doesn't seem to be true, biggest companies today weren't biggest companies 50 years ago. Even in IT, IBM is not giant that it was and was succeeded by newer companies.
There are food courts in Australia. MLC Centre, Australia Square, Eating World, Central, the Galeries and more. None of them have any security guards or have any issues with drinks, thieves, or generic shit heads.

Not sure why you think they don't exist in Australia.
That's not a bar that's reached in the vast majority of criminal cases tried in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter, so it seems odd (approaching disingenuous) to try and establish that level of certainty here.
This is a power conflict between the capitalists and the social justice warriors.

The last several years, the SJWs have progressively increased their power. The capitalists have adopted the clothing so that their power isn’t undermined.

The SJWs are seeing how much further they can push. The capitalists are deciding what trinkets they can give away without relinquishing real power.

Eventually, the SJWs will be paid off, destroyed, win completely, or gain seats on the table and then it will be in their interests to preserve the power structure and oppress another group of people.

Look at the Biden cabinet as seats on the table for groups that play nice with the Democratic Party or those that they want to court.
Is there enough of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's voice available for this to send the resulting file to Amazon for Alexa v2.0?
It is illegal to fire someone based on race-based considerations.
> a growing proportion of that traffic is delivery vehicles.

If instead of ordering online the people went out to get the stuff themselves it would be way way worse, since each delivery vehicle carries many parcels.

Discouraging online commerce by taxing it more than physical commerce seems completely counter productive if the goal is reducing traffic.
Show HN: A Rust-Based Fast Static Site Builder
After the initial outbreak we never got low enough in LA for tracing to actually be useful.
When was the last REAL update that added anything of value? Many years ago?
I would expect that if a researcher at your company came up with a paper that concluded "Our work at this company is sexist, racist, and bad for the environment and we should abandon it" that your company would prefer it not be published, especially not published with the name of the company or the company's researchers attached. I think that's basically Google's stand.
In this case it will be mostly the fact that Ubisoft Connect does not have a Linux client, so it would be hard to get the game to users and keep it updated. Obviously not insurmountable but you're again running into the issue of it just not being worth the cost - the PC sales are tiny compared to consoles, Linux would be just a small percentage of that again.
I think it’s more like 30
Sister reply only seems to address the Yan report & malicious/military engineering - nothing about more generic lab escape.

In particular, your NatGeo link's description of constant natural discoveries, and continuing searches for natural origins, is totally consistent with the most trivial & non-malicious lab escape scenario:

(1) lab interested in this topic collects hundreds of novel natural strains that wouldn't normally cross from bats to human;

(2) lab accident infects researcher;

(3) researcher infects community.

Isn't Peter Daszak, author of the tweet I quoted, a domain expert?

We now know, from the pandemic, that a bat-related SARS-CoV2 virus that's highly transmissible in humans
actually exists, somehow.

There are human-staffed error-prone labs that specifically search for those kinds of viruses in bulk – for example, sending people deep into rarely-visited bat caves, collecting strains, then replicating (& remixing!) those strains to test them against human (and 'humanized') tissue for pathogenecity & treatment-resistance.

Given those plain facts, what makes you think some other bat-human (pangolin-human?, something-else-human?) contact should be presumed a more likely route into humans than something involving a lab researcher? Until there's more evidence, why aren't they all live hypotheses?
So 17 state AGs filing a dispute in the Supreme Court doesn't constitute a dispute to you? Neither does any of the other ongoing legal action? Even if you think those cases have no merit, to deny that these facts are disputed is simply to deny reality.

Also, criticizing somebody for something that you think other people are also guilty of isn't Irony. Even if both parties in this matter were equally despicable, that doesn't make either of them right. Your comments highlight a lot of issues we currently have with political tribalism. You're just proving that facts and misdeeds don't matter as long as they have the correct political context.
Things are changing but I,d argue not as much as you might think. Also Apple has little or no presence in many countries.
when was this bet made?
The solution to dealing with such a person is a transfer, TDY for successive three month periods around the country (including Alaska in the winter), requiring reimbursement of hotel bills (i.e., no cash advance). You'll find the disgruntled employee resigns quickly, usually after the first safari.
It looks to be partly her decision, if I'm reading The Verge correctly:

"After the email went out, Gebru told managers that certain conditions had to be met in order for her to stay at the company. Otherwise, she would have to work on a transition plan."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/3/22150355/google-fires-tim...
I was tired of building bespoke static HTML sites and having to decide if I wanted to use GatsbyJS or just hand code all of the HTML. I decided to build a tool to solve my problem!
Separation of DDL and DML in databases is pretty universal. The appropriate RBAC will stop schema modifications.

Have the information schema available allows automated deployments to introspect the database and generate the appropriate deltas between schemas and the migration of data.

SQL is a clumsy language, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Valhalla & Immortal are not on steam. They were made Epic exclusives (with an exception for uPlay of course due to being the developer's platform). So that example doesn't really count. I'd imagine they will come to Steam eventually.
dang, could you add "in mice" to the title? It's a little click-baity / disingenuous as-is.
I've seen that a few times today on Windows, along with a TON of UI glitches. I don't even bother with the hacking UI -- it doesn't register button presses, especially in that weird hacking attack where you need to select a hex code from a character matrix in a limited amount of time. It's easier to just shoot the enemies anyway.
> Here is Jeff Dean's letter sent to the Google Research team with the details of what actually happened: :https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...

You choose to trust the words of the man that did the firing vs. the corroborated stories of dozens of Google Brain researchers that contradict his corporate messaging. Don't take corporate's word as "what happened:" that's about as naive as taking a police's side as the "truth."
I'd recommend these for a tactile psychedelic. I wouldn't say the experience is overtly sexual at all, but it doesn't get in the way and like many other activities the experience is enhanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-MiPT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Methoxy-N,N-diisopropyltrypt...
Ok, so what?

The premise was that there are lots of other places that have what SV has. And, by implication, that SV's high prices are unjustified.

I was merely pointing out that SV has an array of amenities that are found together in very few other places. And if you want what SV has, there are very few other places you can get it. Supply and demand. It's that simple.

Maybe you don't care about fancy restaurants or art galleries or spending time outdoors. That's totally cool. Maybe all you care about is finding the absolute cheapest apartment on planet earth. Again, knock your socks off.

SV doesn't have cheap housing. If that's all you care about, look someplace else.
package.json supports urls, git urls (and branch + commit ids), even local file paths. If you wanted that, what's stopping you?
Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack
Im a huge fan of GeForce now, the quality is fantastic and obviously you just play the games you already own. I don't understand how Stadia can even compete with it, it's just a much worse proposition every which way. But also I'm disappointed GeForce now tops out at 1080p, it's great on my laptop but I'd love to play it on my desktop 2k monitor.
Nothing you said contradicts anything I said. FWIW we're in full agreement if taking personal positions.
Bright green flames at the end is a giveaway of engine-rich combustion.
Type sense is looking great! I was going to use it on a side project. Not sure why I didn’t but it must have been missing something I needed. Been using meilisearch but I’ll definitely be checking out typesense again.

Huge fan of instant search results, well done!
I imagine dynamic linking solved a problem for a long time that no longer is: binary size.

With internet speeds of today and immense storage sizes, the main attractiveness of dynamic linking vanished.
The Texas Supreme Court lawsuit has a concise summary of the actual problems with the 2020 presidential election alleged by Republicans:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163215/2020...

To the best of my knowledge, the facts discussed in the lawsuit are not in dispute by Democrats. Instead, Republicans are alleging that the way the election itself was conducted in four swing states violated the Constitution.

The election changes were made due to the COVID pandemic, and the number of votes affected by the changes were obtained by the certified election results in each state, those vote totals are not in dispute, and those vote totals are large enough to put the results in each state in doubt.

So what the Supreme Court is being asked to do is declare those votes invalid. Whether they will take the case or rule in favor of Republicans is extremely unlikely according to virtually all legal and media experts…but the same was true for Bush v. Gore and we all know how that turned out.
I don't think they work well.

But the existing box drawing characters might work better, possibly combined with the upcoming symbols for legacy computing being introduced in Unicode 13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
Earth's Next Frontier
TurboTax is a marvel of user experience. Taxes are dreaded, and their app literally psychologically calms you down, deliberately tries to ease you.

Those are people that get what problem they are solving.
So you cannot say what would satisfy you. Good to know.
This thread is an interesting read. A lot of nitpicking about the data to support various restrictions, complaints about freedom, and arguments about costs to business.

These arguments happen everywhere of course but ITT they significantly outnumber any arguments in favour of restrictions. I wonder if that’s representative of the US as a whole and explains why COVID has been particularly bad there?
More like New Reich Times.
MDMA is quite tough on the heart and especially dangerous if you have arrhythmia like afibs. Viagra is taxing too so I'd ask a doctor first before combining them.
I'm in the Bay Area and I have never been asked for contact info for outdoor dining. Apparently restaurants are supposed to ask people who dine indoors.
Here's a thought for UI change for HN, at the top of any page such as this one with a great many posts, that has multiple pages, how about a text-based chooser menu with clickable numbers that looks like:

Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 > End

or similar...

Located directly below the add comment button.
This is an outrageous racist statement in itself. The idea that she reached her position because of AA is unbelievable. Getting into Google isn't easy, and the company doesn't give a rat's ass about diversity, HR statements and pablum notwithstanding.

If any company has a reputation for hiring only talented people, it's Google. She got her position based on merit, like the overwhelming majority of Google employees.
It's very strange that Sundar refers to "Dr. Gebru" throughout his email. Google is generally a first-name company.
I don't use chrome, and things like this are a big reason why. But, otoh, it is getting harder and harder not to use chrome. I'm seeing more sites that have functionality that only works in chrome. Firefox is falling behind chrome in several areas, and a lot of firefox development seems to just be mimicking chrome.

It's a catch-22. Chrome's marketshare and the power that gives Google is just further entrenching chrome's hold on the market.
Turbotax created the problem they are solving. Filing taxes in other countries is much less stressful and a lot simpler.
Interesting enough I'm listening to a podcast right now that might be right up your alley.

http://www.survivalpodcast.net/audio/2020/12-20/epi-2789-man...

I am by no means an expert, my experience comes from more of a distibutor/commission based drop shipping position, where I managed to do well. I am now developing a farm with a direct marketing model.
All of these points are well known and understood. Frankly, so what? Musk has been effusive in his praise of NASA’s help at SpaceX and many times has said he couldn’t have done any of it without their help. We know that. What actual point are you trying to make, other than list mainly irrelevant facts.

Yes some Musk fans ridicule NASA for past failures or lost opportunities and that’s a shame. It’s also widely understood in the community that this is mainly due to political interference and constraints forced on the organisation. But none of that has anything to do with your ‘criticisms’.

Take the points about steel. That matters on a non reusable system because you’re wasting weight for no mission relevant purpose, but if it allows you to reuse the vehicle rather than not, is it really still an inefficient choice? What point are you even trying to make? If that even is a criticism, it’s just not relevant. If you genuinely think it’s a bad choice, just say so and say why. But you don’t actually give any explanation of why any of these points matter.
I’m talking way beyond that. Please don’t politicize my comment.
> *Given her background/race, we can't actually rule out the possibility that she got carried through the ranks by AA.

The reality is that she hard to work three times as hard as a white man to make it: effort to learn the knowledge, and double effort to overcome the effects of sexism and racism, of which you've perfectly demonstrated.
https://nextdns.io/
I fail to see how even if they sent that email how it would justify the warrant and police response. I don't see too many other instances of this happening, probably because the general sane thing to do would be to remove that person from having access to that account. I'm not seeing anything that seizure of electronic equipment would further remedy that issue.
No room for gentlemen scientists when there are plethoras of people out there who will happily crucify you and negate everything you've achieved if you happen to have the slightest social dent in your image.

To be untouchable be openly degenerate & filthy rich.
you could say the same about antidepressants. of course we need to deal with the underlying problems but why not use the tools if they help?
I feel you are conflating hypothesis with logic and science your previous statement of saying: "we can always introduce new ad-hoc hypotheses, but good science isn't done willy nilly,"

Good science isn't restricting the entire universe to two possible hypothesis. Think about it logically. What scientist can publish a paper that says that genes don't predispose anyone to cancer or smoking because he just observed smoking correlates with tar?

You literally say smoking must cause tar because it's the only possibility in your two hypothesis... one must occur. Sure if this was math and you defined your universe to be one of two possibilities... but no person in the real world will take that seriously.

In math you don't introduce ad-hoc axioms and rules to your formal analysis, but the scientific method exists because all observation in the real universe is ad-hoc. Anything goes and that's why the best way to make sense of it is through correlation.

Which brings me full circle back to my original method. Can you introduce any "adhoc hypothesis" to render a causation established by directly controlling the causative event invalid? You can't. Therefore the actual formal scientific way to determining causation is by placing yourself in the system.

The only way the graph method can be applied to the real world is if you map out every possible scenario and assumption into that graph. Then you can say based off of what we know and assume A must cause B. But more often then not a scientist is likely just establishing some correlations and coming to a qualitative conclusion that takes into account all the assumptions and hypothesis that we're aware about in the real world.