skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart.com has the same problems as Amazon's Marketplace because they simply copied a lot of Amazon's worst practices.

But Amazon's Marketplace is 100x the size of Walmart.com. Generally, with antitrust you start with the biggest fish and work your way down as needed.

(Walmart Retail, as discussed elsewhere, isn't comparable to Amazon.com for many reasons.)
Piping in with a very tangential thought:

Privacy is in the process of becoming antiquated. It is sad, but I think it is inevitable. Surveillance technology advances with technology in general, and counter-surveillance becomes more and more cumbersome. Eventually, we will reach a point where anyone can afford tiny stealth drones to watch what is happening in their neighbors' houses. The counter-measures necessary - hermetically sealed living space, faraday cage enclosure - are so burdensome that only people who currently live in bunkers will implement them for their living spaces.

If we accept that premise, let's think about what we are losing. In my understanding, there are two main reasons why privacy is so important:

1) Allowing individuals to avoid becoming targets of persecution for having some attribute. Targeting by oppressive governments for holding idea X, targeting by an evil megacorp for threatening to disrupt industry Y, etc.

2) Allowing individuals to avoid social stigmatization and shame for having some attribute. Getting caught eating one's boogers, viewing porn of people dressed up as pieces of furniture, etc.

For point 1, I think the real issue is imbalance of information. Schemes to abuse access to someones previously private information mostly wouldn't stand up to public scrutiny themselves. Unless, of course, you have some ultra-powerful organization like a well run totalitarian regime, in which case individuals by definition have no privacy rights anyways.

For point 2, I think shrinking privacy will seriously reduce the social response to this kind of information. "So what if I watch porn of people dressed up as furniture; you masturbate while dipping your toes in peanut butter! That's way weirder!" Sure, there are plenty of painfully normal people out there, but I think most shameful weirdness would become commonplace when the full extent of weirdness is out in the open.

All that being said, I do think anonymity is important, and can probably be preserved, as it is distinct from privately acting in physical space, or online while tied to some form of identity. Also, I don't want to argue against efforts to preserve and advance privacy for individuals for as long as possible. I just think that per point 1, we might want to devote effort to reducing the privacy of organizations to try to maintain parity of information access as our individual privacy slips away.
What's supposed to be the big win mixing webpack and Rails over, say, creating a separate React/Vue app and a Rails API? Webpack seems to slow-down the whole edit/view cycle which is pretty snappy in vanilla Rails.
Your first example is about something that’s very nuanced.

I have that complaint right now. I was asked to build something using technology I don’t understand well. I made that clear. I wasn’t given time to learn it, so I feel like I’m doing a very poor job at it. And it’s all because it’s being rushed.
Why wasn't this your requirement in 2016?
That's how I understood their comment, and in general, no, concordance of time frame and proof of intent are not proven. I think you underestimate the "proof" part of proof of intent. You not only have to prove conclusively that they did it, but back it up by proving that they intended to do so.
How about giving every American free college, healthcare and retirement, so they don’t have to be millionaires?

The lifetime value of a Nordic-style social security net is equivalent to retiring as a millionaire in America, IMO. And you get to enjoy life in a stable society.
I've always wondered. Games usually have pretty low kernel access. What doesn anti-cheat do to detect its not running in native Windows, assuming we ignore the outright obvious signs that may be able to be obfuscated

Ditto for UWP. Seems destined to stay Win10 Only
I too will be using! Didn't really expect to see much when I searched for "Sri Lankan". Boy was I pleasantly surprised!
Vendoring is a last resort, that sounds like going back to the stone ages of package management. Why would I want that?
Did you miss the parent comment?
I am sure there are places like that, but I don't think you'd be charged with "exceeding the speed limit" in those places, correct? You would be charged with unsafe driving or something similar, in which case you could make the argument that driving slower would not necessarily have been safer. I believe that is splitting hairs and I am sure you understand the basis of my argument when it comes to election workers following the laws set in place by the legislature.

> Sorry, TIL

Apology accepted and apologies for assuming you were being pedantic about it.
Getting back is the harder part.
Emulating film ought to be on the way out by now. Nobody still uses photographic film end to end. Somebody in Hollywood tried to edit physical film last year, and she had to call in favors just to get blank leader and film cement. Trying to emulate film is like making sepia-toned pictures.

The industry has been through this before. With the end of silent films. With the end of showing an orchestra if the film had music. (That's credited to Irving Thalberg). With the end of editorial geography. (That ended with Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" in 1960). The industry got over those, and they'll get over 24FPS and film grain.
It's working for me now. I think my company's internet vpn was blocking it, bad on me.
Thanks for the info and site. It's super cool!
Not discrediting your point, it's just that I'm not sure HK is a great point of comparison. How many people live in a room the size of a narrow walk-in closet? They have a massive, massive real estate problem in Hong Kong -- there is none left where people want to live.
> Its also deeply hypocritical to claim that this is "in line with [Google's] approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.

Indeed.

I was told by all the right people that Russia hacked the 2016 election for 4 years.

To this day, Stacy Abrams acts like she's governor of Georgia and claims the election was stolen.

All of that content will not be taken down.

But yes, given the fact that 1) "safe harbor" means nothing historically, 2) there have been electoral contests in the U.S. decided within days of inauguration, and 3) there is active litigation being pursued, this chilling of speech can't be seen as anything other that Google pushing their hands on the scale here.
So weird to me that nobody has managed to package social support as a matter of defense.
I wouldn't.

Being worth $120B Vs $150B isn't a material difference. At that level, I would say "California was good to me, I leveraged the ecosystem there and the state's generous tax subsidies for my product. I'm ok paying them what I owe."
Actually under your experiment both could be still be causative factors. Determining Tar correlates with cancer does not eliminate the genetic factor.

The only assumption for direct control of the hypothesized causative factor that needs to be made is that your influence on the causative factor is 100% side effect free. This is not fully possible in reality but still assuming this in your experiments allows you to arrive at a conclusion without assuming other correlations.
Viagra/Cialis don't work ?
> Edit: The fact that this question is continuing to be asked, in spite of all of this mountain of easily available affirmative proof, is a shocking indictment of the general public. I wish people took the responsibility which comes with the right to free speech a little more seriously.

And yet cites no sources to this "easily available affirmative proof". Thanks for setting the example.
I wrote my own paint package, using ZX*? keys to move the pen and space/enter to lift/drop. I recreated the cover art of games cassettes in 8 hand-dithered colours. Not even a joystick in sight. Happy days :)
The judicial slap downs have come from many Trump appointed judges. There is no evidence that they are corrupt, but if they are corrupt, Trump has no one to blame but himself.
The bureaucracy in China is insanely crazy. I doubt that they have passion to wait longer than 3 years. Not to mention 10 years.
No, it doesn't. However, the shader makes heavy advantage of the fact that Minecraft is made out of cubes, of which you may simplify a hundred into a single cuboid, and that checking ray-cuboid intersection is cheap, to do real path traced GI without needing ray tracing acceleration.
> I'm surprised the US allowed this, Boston Dynamics seems like the sort of company they would keep close to home.

South Korea is a treaty ally with the US. The US has thousands of soldiers at bases in S. Korea. S. Korea is not a country the US has to worry about afaik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Defense_Treaty_(United_...
Using URLs is like having an iframe to somebody else's website on your website.
You could reply to my post with “OK Boomer”, and it’d fit. :)

(Except I’m not really that old yet).

P.S. I specifically said rich white guy.
Unmanned SpaceX Starship test flight explodes during landing
You can safely leave off the leading paragraph about how other people in the thread are not smart and you're in the right—that's the default motivational assumption that surrounds making comments online
Is it illegal, or contract-breaking etc., to run the "trial" forever?
DoorDash new grad offer quadruples in stock value today
"Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they're on their way to low-level addiction."

This happens with any substance if a person isn't actually working through the issues that lead to them wanting to "escape" temporarily. However MDMA does have the function of actually giving people access to suppressed-repressed trauma/stress, and once having access makes it easier to process/heal - this is why it's powerful to eliminate PTSD.
Indeed it does, but why is that a problem?
That is a good point, I guess any output has some transformation applied, just a question of what you are aiming for.

Maybe the best way to put it could be, "if someone tried to get it to look as much as film as they could, what would they lack that your tool provides"?
Nope, not how it works.

Free speech is not applicable to private companies.
I'd guess in the restaurant game, net-120 also has the risk of the restaurant going out of business, so any "predetermined order sizes" are less than guaranteed (a very long way from the guarantee the pre paying gives).

By the restauranteur having reservation deposits which allow them to offer to pay upfront (moving that cash flow 120 days earlier) - the wholesaler reduces both uncertainty (I wonder how much beef I need to order and how much extra I should add that I'll later sell for a loss to make sure I don't run out if sales increase?) as well as risk (What if this restaurant shuts down owing me for 4 months worth of beef?)
The legislature can clearly be bypassed by the courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_v._Virginia_State_Board...

So, it’s a much more specific question you’re asking. It also had zero impact on this election, but that’s largely irrelevant to the question.
Facebook Hit with Antitrust Lawsuits by FTC, State Attorneys General
We're comparing two competing hypotheses to explain the correlation between smoking and cancer. Like I said, we can always introduce new ad-hoc hypotheses, but good science isn't done willy nilly, it's done with background knowledge of how the systems might plausibly work. The two hypotheses are:

(1) smoking → tar → cancer

(2) smoking ← genes → cancer

Note that (1) contains the sub-hypothesis (A) smoking → tar, which is also compatible with (2).

The super-graph containing both graphs is:

————genes————
↓ ↓

smoking → tar → cancer

In that super-graph, there is only one possible explanation for a correlation between smoking and tar: smoking causing tar. So if we see that correlation, then barring alternative hypotheses, we know the causation smoking → tar is true. (Again, we could always hypothesize other causal explanations, but we're presuming no one has yet submitted a plausible alternative explanation.)

Now once smoking → tar is established, we are still left with two possible explanations for the observed correlation between smoking and cancer:

(1) smoking → tar → cancer

(2+A) tar ← smoking ← genes → cancer

This is where controlling for smoking behavior comes in. Once we do that, we've severed the indirect statistical link between tar and cancer in graph (2+A). Thus if a correlation still persists between tar and cancer after this statistical control, we've ruled out (2+A), leaving only (1).
"Fake truth" - that hurts my head almost as much as "alternative facts". Maybe this is a term we can keep out of circulation.
They had to get a lot of things right on the first try for a successful landing. They got a lot of them right, but had trouble with fuel pressure at the end and landed too hard because there wasn't enough thrust.

As problems go, that's a relatively simple one that they ought to be able to address. The ascent appears to have been successful (though for a few moments it looked like something caught on fire and I'm not sure if that was planned or expected). The glide worked. The rocket was able to navigate to the landing pad.

Next time they'll be working with a lot more information. This seems like overall it was a success, even though they're down one rocket and three engines. A failure would have been the rocket blowing up on the pad during launch or other similar mishap from which they wouldn't have learned much aside from "make sure that doesn't happen again".
Whoops, totally fair! Sorry about that! I can't read!

I don't want my Show HN bungle to give the impression that Filmbox is vaporware! We think it's ready to go, we're just trying to roll it out to certain types of productions first to manage feedback, hence the sign up process.

Filmbox's sister product, Scatter, was fully released today and can be purchased and tested. Filmbox works just like Scatter and demonstrates our technology for the diffusion filter use case. https://videovillage.co/scatter/
So true - a lot of people (me included) thought a billion dollars for Instagram seemed insane at the time. But it was possibly the deal of the century.
Ackman’s solution is more libertarian and market-friendly.

Business leaders hate govt incompetence and waste much more than redistribution per se, as demonstrated by their relatively generous contributions to charity.

A welfare-state necessarily involves govt running a major part of it, horribly inefficiently.
This is when I wish we could demand that Adobe release the source code to Flash, at least the player part.
The Apollo lunar lander objectively did not belly flop through atmosphere at 1G while having to deal with aerodynamic control surfaces.
We love the Mac, so that's where we're starting and where our other products are. We'll target Linux or Windows based on demand.
No, it's not click bait if it's what happened. And what happened is that it crashed. :P
It's not something most people want to admit given the US worship of our veterans but the military in the past 40 years has largely been a successful jobs program.
Banks not accepting monopoly money also disenfranchises poor people. If banks did start accepting monopoly money, real money would become worth less. Having even a basic standard of verifiability and security is where the worth of money comes from.

Also rights come with responsibilities. If you can't sing your signature in a consistent way, than maybe you should not vote by mail in ballot. Vote in person.

Most up to date stats on the rejection rates that I found. 0.6% vs 6.4% in Georgia.

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_...
This kind if rebadging has been happening in many industries for a very long time. I bumped into this first, way back in the heyday of CD burners, deep diving on all the info and comparisons I could find. The high end Sony and some bargain brand were identical units apart from the case and badge. A real aha moment in my life.

With cars, there are often just superficial differences to create a much larger perceived value difference between an Audi or VW or a Lexus or Toyota (on some models).

I find this topic quite fascinating, as it relates to human psychology.
The nice thing about splitting a software company (unlike a company with physical assets) is that you can fork the assets.

Give both companies the ad platform source code.
>Net neutrality has little to do with censorship, and more to do with extortion.

"From the consumers’ point of view, net neutrality is a guarantee that all connections are treated equally and ISPs won’t censor the internet."

https://nordvpn.com/blog/net-neutrality-pros-and-cons/

" Some notable incidents otherwise have included Bell Canada's throttling of certain protocols and Telus's censorship of a specific website critical of the company."

" Deep packet inspection helped make real-time discrimination between different kinds of data possible,[49] and is often used for Internet censorship."

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

>While it is true that extortionary tactics can be used to effectively censor particular sentiments, that is not what is being referred to in discussions surrounding net neutrality.

Maybe it wasn't being discussed around you. I certainly remember discussions on HN about comcast blocking torrents or whatnot and 'censoring' the internet. But I guess you have a different definition of censorship, so we never did achieve common ground on that.
This is unfortunately an issue with the source dataset that I got from here[1].

I've now added a prominent warning to the UI, to check with the original site if the ingredient measurements seem off. Don't want any ruined dinners on my hands!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
In Georgia the machine prints out a paper ballot that you hand in. Yet somehow that is one of the states being accused of widespread fraud...?

Only the swing states that Trump lost are being accused of fraud, but only in the presidential election. This is extremely disingenuous and lacks all credibility.

Now the GOP seems to be arguing in court that there wasn't even fraud, but they just don't like the outcome and want to reverse the will of the voters in swing states based on weird technicalities.

This entire thing is nonsense, and youtube should censor it because it is entirely just a scheme to subvert our democracy. That is extremely dangerous, more dangerous than yelling fire in a crowded theater.
In MWI, there isn't the same moon there or even any moon in many "worlds"; its existence depends on your point of view's world. Realism in this context is about the idea that probabilistic events and measurements end up having a single objective result. In MWI, different points of view can see the same event have different results (because they're branching apart). MWI can be described as realist if you're considering all the branches real, but then you're not using the same definition of realism as the specific thing that the Bell Paradox is said to rule out.
I'm confused, the article seems to jump to the conclusion that the entire metaphor is invalid because of the ruling in Brandenburg v. Ohio. That doesn't make any sense to me. The metaphor still holds.

To put it another way, regardless of the ruling I still doubt a person who walks into a the same theater every day repeatedly screaming "fire" and pulling the fire alarm with malicious intent to hurt the profits of the theater would have a 1st amendment case get very far against the theater when the theater decides to throw that person out.
Wow, thank you for the hearty laugh!
> I'm saying they can choose to spread baseless conspiracy theories when it benefits them with no legal consequence

This is akin to you saying "they choose to spread cat pictures when it benefits them with no legal consequences". Conspiracy theories, like cat pictures, are perfectly legal, there's no reason why there should be legal consequences for allowing them on the site.

> they can remove anything they like because they don't want to promote it while calling it a baseless conspiracy theory, also with no consequence

Yes, when you own a website you can pick and choose what appears on the site, that's just how property rights work. If I decide I want to create a social network that adheres to a policy of explicit partisan bias I should have that right, the users will decide if that is something they want to use.

> This is an extremely influential position that is created by law and gives them extraordinary latitude at shaping perceptions.

You can't legislate influence, it's not something that anybody owns, it's freely given by individual users and can be trivially revoked at any time. This dynamic is exactly the reason why YouTube is so sensitive to social issues, their influence among target demographics will suffer if they fail to appease certain values. Consider the recent collapse of Fox News' influence as another example of this effect on the opposite side of the spectrum.

> Well those are political issues. I agree that "literally anything" can be framed as political, I don't agree that my criticism lacks practical meaning as a result*

Yet they're not inherently political, the efficacy of masks and vaccines are well established from a medical perspective. The reason why it lacks practical meaning is because there is no agreed upon definition for what meets the standard of political.

> race, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion.

The protected classes are discrete personal qualities of the individual, "political leaning" is an abstract idea without clear boundaries. You might as well say "I'm against discrimination of people based on their ideas", the concept is just too nebulous to be meaningful.
Super = Superannuation. Basically a portion of your pay (9.5% currently) MUST be paid into a superfund to hold the money until you can access it upon retirement.

Car dealers are through the roof because the government allowed early access to a portion of it if "in distress" due to Covid-19 and lockdowns. However, many people who weren't in distress took the money (their own retirement money, remember) and bought a new car.
> At historical rates of equity returns of 8% annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account would provide retirement assets of more than $1 million at age 65, or $2 million at age 74, Ackman wrote.

The whole premise is deeply wrong. 20 years ago the S&P500 index was $1380.2 and it closed yesterday at $3702.25. That's a growth of 168%, or compounded annual 5% (more precisely 5.06%, but Ackman likes round numbers). Very, very far from 8%. So far that the investment outcome at the age of 65 will be $160k instead of $1MM.

But wait, this return is not deterministic. The annual volatility was 20% (the precise value being 19.8%). Even if the annualized return were 8% as Ackman postulates, your median investment outcome at 65 will be less than $275k. In other words in 50% of the cases you'll get less than that.

If you use the realistic growth rate of 5% and volatility of 20%, then you have a 50% chance to get less than $43k at 65 (starting with the $6750 at birth). If we see an inflation rate of 2% (this is much less volatile, it's quite deterministic actually, being the Fed long term inflation target), that's about $12k in 2020 dollars. Which is slightly below the official poverty level. For an annual income, that is. If you want to make that work for the rest of your life (today's life expectancy at 65 is about 18 years, in 65 years from now it's going to be higher), then you end up with less than $1k per year. That's in 50% of the cases.
Let them eat Texan cake.
Behind the scenes photos of YC S20