skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8M Americans slipped into poverty amid coronavirus pandemic, study says
More people leave California than any other state.

Also, more people move to California than any other state.

California is just huge

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Its about the margin though isn't it? They cost a lot to buy but they also cost a lot to make. How much value can Apple and Microsoft extract from you over the lifetime of a single car.
> "Private" communication exists using the Internet.

Sure, but virtually nobody depends on it to protect the sort of data that you are worried about if you're worried about an oppressive regime deciding to persecute you for what you say. For example, if you're afraid something you post on HN might cause an oppressive regime to come after you, securing your phone, or for that matter your laptop or desktop, isn't going to help you at all. Same goes for pretty much any place people say things on the Internet. Unless you never say anything except in a private, locked chat room secured by unbreakable encryption, and never send any email to anyone without using PGP and without being certain that they are also taking the same precautions you are, anything you say on the Internet is out there for the finding if anyone gets interested enough in you to look.
Growing Business After 2020?
They are in an abstract sense, publishers. Whether they're legally or not, doesn't take away from the fact that they take information from an individual and broadcast it (print it on computer monitors) for public to consume. Just that the editorialization piece is missing.
The president and most of his party is spouting off complete lies. They claim massive fraud and say they have evidence, but every time they get an opportunity to prove it, they are unable to. Its not a half lie, its a full one.
As a thought experiment, imagine what the actual remedy is. An interesting concept would be to break up Facebook using AT&T as a metaphor. Make Facebook open up it's API to allow other applications to connect much like the baby bells could connect to the central network and eventually there were separate interconnected networks.

So the FB feed exists, but multiple apps can post. Each app consumes the feed and sells advertising to their own platform with FB charging a reasonable fixed interconnect fee.
WhatsApp is basically the norm outside of the US from what I can tell?

So yeah, there's really no "competition". Either you have whatsapp or you don't talk to people.

And it's highly used for cross-business communication in Europe, I can tell you that.
Nobody says they are the same. However false or even only what one might consider false or misleading is a very low bar for censorship.
> "The" facts? Is there a master list of facts that I'm not aware of out there somewhere? Is it composed of an aggregation of all(!) the "facts" asserted by all respectable, trustworthy journalists and politicians in the last few years?

The DoJ literally published a report outlining the Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The Republican control Senate Intel Committee also published a report outlining the Russian meddling the 2016 election. If you don't believe either of these organizations, then there is nothing left to talk about.
Agreed. This is everything wrong with the tech industry. This company isn't profitable, so this IPO is effectively a way for the shareholders to offload their bad stock to the public [0]. And if that's not bad enough, the company itself is using dubious tactics [1] which in the short run appeal to customers but in the long run may drive many restaurants out of business [2].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/12/08/do...

[1] https://www.saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-co...

[2] https://laist.com/2020/08/10/why_so_many_restaurants_hate_fo...
I'm not sure big money is what is needed to create a flourishing VR sector. The appeal of VR has always been creating virtual experiences that are different and unique. honestly I think it makes much more sense for that scene to be decentralised and independent. Kind of like Minecraft came about, I have trouble imagining it as some sort big money project.

I don't think the issue with VR at this point is so much technical than it is that nobody's yet been creative enough to make something truly unique with it.
Unpopular opinion:

Electric cars & clean tech generally have made leaps and bounds because consumers want it. Climate agreements help somewhat, but they're a lagging indicator of the trend.
?? show actual factual sources if you're going to make a claim like that on a platform like HN
U Mad? alt-right trolls have hijacked the Cynical tradition
This should be very interesting, I'm not clear on the relationships after their split but Hyundai has a huge reach across every sort of heavy industry you can think of. I found another article that says it is the motor division that is acquiring Boston Dynamics. I'm surprised the US allowed this, Boston Dynamics seems like the sort of company they would keep close to home.

https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202012080011
> Do you have any references of English actually being phased-out in EU?

It's not clear yet if it will be used in official documents after Brexit agreements will be signed, but UK was the only country who chose English as an official language.

There's an hard requirement in EU to translate every official document in every language spoken in the EU, if English is not an official language, that requirement will cease to exist and slowly there will be no official document in English anymore because it's also a very costly operation.

Unless Ireland or Malta apply for English as primary language.

It's also a political stand, Macron is pushing to use French more and more in the EU institutions.

It doesn't mean that it won't be taught in schools or that it will fade as the most spoken language in EU, it still is by a large margin, but that it will move away from UK English and will become more similar to the English 75% of the > 1 billion English speakers in the World speak as a second language.

Native English speakers not understanding or not being understood by non-native speakers it's already a thing, the gap could widen in the future.
No thanks, I don’t want to spend all day receiving spam via WhatsApp like in the days of irc.
There are at least two things that make this project not for me:

I don't need more etcd in my life: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/0.0.21/docs/faq.md#w... (and then, as if to drive home my point, they even have a separate FAQ entry for "etcd shit itself, what do" https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/0.0.21/docs/faq.md#o... )

There is lot of noise about tracking upstream tip branches for dependencies as justification for not using go.mod (https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/0.0.21/docs/faq.md#w...) but then vendoring a docker fork from 2018 (https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/0.0.21/.gitmodules#L...). As best I can tell the submodules commits haven't moved since April. So, rather than use go.mod like a modern golang project, it forces one to use the old GOPATH setup just cause
The flip side of it is that VR isn't mature enough for a company like Oculus to succeed independently. Having the resources of Facebook behind it will help the VR market as a whole (for now).
I don't have real numbers for this but I feel like post-burn-in retention is very high - like 99%.

We do not have preferred manufacturers. Data suggests that Hitachis are better than Seagates but I reject this kind of Ford vs. Chevy preference in hard drives - the "good drives" can flip immediately - with new model or even new revision of existing model. I don't think it makes sense to try to pursue a particular manufacturer.

FWIW, we have bought a ton of seagates over the last four years and they have been fine.
Set lookup is O(1), and with this data structure is synonymous with get and exists. Insert is O(1). Remove is irrelevant.
Comp Eng PhD here. I even see bias in comp sci publications. No field is bias free.
I have edited my original comment with a few which did not mark their donation as "private". P.S. I didn't say her case is not valid, simply that it's curious and amusing.
"False information is much more powerful than true information"

So apparently you believe individuals aren't capable of responsibly enjoying freedom, and thus should concede automomy of thought to the elite for what information they can consume or spread?

Some people can't handle their alchohol, but prohibiting the sale of alcohol didn't solve the probelm. Some individuals have problems, so the way to deal with that is at the individual level. Sorry the solution doesn't scale well. Freedom is great, but it's kind of expensive.
Embed the initiator that could be as complex as you like to make senses on-the-fly to the JSON. Very cool!
New York city has its own income tax rate of 3.9% for high earners. This can be quite a bit of money for hedge fund managers/owners. I've read that some of them live outside NYC to avoid the tax but need to hire a full time person to document and make sure they are not counted as a NYC resident by the city. You can only spend so many nights in NYC and not be counted as a resident, show proof of you being somewhere else, etc.

Income taxes has so many bad consequences. It would be great to ban it and replace it with land value taxes.
Morality has improved over time though and is still improving. I mean, if you look at how gay people were still treated in the 90s, it was terrible. Most gay people were afraid to be publicly "out" and forget about any sort of trans rights, if you were trans in the 90s you just never transitioned or basically told nobody.

Do you think going back to a world where gay people were often attacked and beaten in public is a good idea? Where women were regularly subjected to sexual assault at work? My mum who worked as a teacher in the 80s and 90s told me she was regularly slapped on the ass by male teachers at work. Is this ok? Would you be ok with your daughters getting this treatment?
This means every uBO user would have to install as "managed extensions" whatever this means. This pretty much kills uBO.
> The monetisation of your data in exchange for adverts can be seen as the cost of the platforms.

It will be interesting to see the government prove this for Facebook while ignoring the 800lb gorillas of Google/Doubleclick or Amazon’s ad network.
Weird.... I love the door dash experience... my best delivery experience by far.

I order like 2-3 times a week right now. Sure, the prices might be a little higher, but the ease of use is worth it for me. I love being able to know when the delivery person is getting near. I love being able to do one button re-ordering.
Ray Dalio: debt and money-printing formed a 'toxic mix' that lead to crisis
Not if you live in a blue state. Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico are the only sometimes blue states where abortion would become illegal if Roe were overturned.
This. I grew up in Seattle, and people "fleeing California" has been a meme since at least the early 80s, but no doubt, for many decades before that.

Notice he's "fleeing" after he made his billions.
It definitely mirrors my experience.

I gained a lot of strength and some muscle mass in the gym. But as for losing extra fat, exercise could not move the needle more than 2-3 pounds. What worked, and was surprisingly easy, was intermittent fasting.
I'm not your monkey but this one is easy enough:

"Even just a few matches would be indicative of a much more substantial voter fraud operation" said by a Trump supporter who get's the support from a majority of misinformation spreaders when he opens the GoFundMe:

https://twitter.com/ZubSpike/status/1324871896689750017
https://twitter.com/Ester04848788/status/1324535773819924481
You are quite simply wrong. Here is a map showing how next door neighbors frequently have a 10x difference in property taxes paid on equivalent dwellings: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/map-bay-area-property-ta...
Sure, just like Cologne never happened, Paris riots weren't news worthy, BLM protests were fiery but mostly peaceful, etc.
Why, open source does work: look at Linux, Webkit, Postgres, LLVM, any programming language with wide adoption, every serious Web framework.

But open source does not necessarily mean:

- that the bulk of the work is done by people at their leisure, unpaid;

- that commercial use for free is necessarily easy or possible; dual licensing has a long history.

- that large companies have no interest in maintaining, advancing, financing, or starting open-source projects: currently the opposite is true.
> Make Facebook open up it's API to allow other applications to connect much like the baby bells could connect to the central network and eventually there were separate interconnected networks.

The Facebook API is already pretty open. That's how we got Cambridge Analytica.
I think you make an excellent point. When it comes to echo chambers, social media platforms like YouTube exacerbate the problem with algorithms designed to keep users "engaged" by feeding them whatever the platform thinks they'll watch ads on next.

Ironically, if YouTube really wanted to help, they could just stop trying to "engage" users based on their political preferences. As if that would ever happen.

Any time I watch a video from CNN, Fox, or NBC, YouTube suggests political crap for weeks afterwards. I bet political content is one of their most "engaging" subjects, so I doubt Google would ever do the responsible thing and put a stop to that.

Modifying the algorithm to show "both sides" instead might help, but I don't think that would do much to encourage a middle ground. I'm worried both sides would just get more and more extreme.
From my understanding, most of the cases that have been thrown out were due to lack of standing not evidentiary merit.
No.. just afraid. Fear is a powerful motivator, one sufficiently strong enough to get a lifelong Democrat to move to a Republican state.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/26/14340542/wh...

I understand it's an uncomfortable discussion, and I'm happy to stop, although I personally think these discussions are worth having as there are some fundamental issues around diversity and inclusion at play here. For the record, I have not once claimed it's motivated by racism.
I think having it at a filter would be nice. Maybe 5, 10, 20 years.
That is a very narrow definition of freedom. For a simple example of freedom being taken away without state involvement: a person who (illegally) locks up another person is absolutely taking away another person's freedom.

This idea that only freedom from the state counts is very pernicious, and it's at the root of the inordinate power corporations have in today's world.

Freedom is the ability to do what you want. Any conditions that don't let you do what you want are restraints on your freedom, even if they are being enforced by a private company.
And in order to run it, you have to purchase it from the Microsoft Store, which means you have to have a Microsoft account, which means you have to login to your own PC using your Microsoft account.

No thanks.
*> maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca with less resistance as it is no ones language(Well, there are the Irish but it's a small country).

I have not looked at it this way, but maybe you are right and this is the big chance for the EU. It would make the EU so much more efficient.
People love to post comments like this on every thread where nuclear comes up, but it really distorts the reality of the situation.

Investment in nuclear has essentially evaporated. This is because fission plants take billions of dollars and around a decade to stand up. If you go through the numbers the ROI looks pretty ugly. Meanwhile you can look at the trend over time in levelized energy costs and storage costs, and can see that we're very near the thresholds for simply doing it all with renewables plus storage. All together this makes it clear to any investor doing the most basic of diligence that fission is a risky bet. Even if you waved a magic wand and eliminated any form of political opposition, that doesn't change this less than favorable cost picture.
> Most Linux users would prefer a well-designed curses application over a GUI.

I've been using linux both professionally and for personal use for over a decade and, with the exception of working over ssh, the thought of using ncurses apps over good old GUI apps is so outlandish that it doesn't even register in the realm of possibility.

Your comment sounds like a meme of how linux users are detached from the real world with regards to usability.
Yeah, well, that's why I wrote XM4. XM4 is mostly like XM3. One of the very few improvements is the multiple device support (but the price difference is IMO unlikely to be worth it).

I use the WF-1000XM3 and WH-1000XM4 and the pairing of the WF-1000XM3 works fine for me, but the ANC of the over the ears XM4 (as well as your WH-1000XM3) is superior. At times, I don't even have listen to anything and it still works. Its terrific at work. Even works with getting less agitated by the noise of my children.
For some people it is. I got a digital wristwatch to help with time blindness associated with my ADHD. It beeps every hour, and it has vibration alarms for appointments, timers, alarms, etc... I very purposefully did not get a smartwatch, because a simple watch that I can wear everywhere, that I never forget to charge, that will never develop a glitch or need to be updated, with an interface that is hyper-focused and does exactly what I need without distractions -- that's a superior product for me. And the fact that it was only $35 is a bonus, but it would still be a superior product even if it was $200. The cost isn't the reason it's superior.

So I do get what you're saying, and you're kind of right, but there's absurdity here in both directions. A superior product is not necessarily just one that has a bunch of features crammed into it -- it's one that solves a lot of problems without introducing new problems. If you stick text notifications into my microwave, or a charging port onto my shoes, you haven't actually improved those products.

There's a little bit of irony in having this discussion about a company like Apple, which was lauded for a long time for building interfaces that were purposeful and simple. It was the Android crew ran around talking about how iPhone was behind the curve because it couldn't do multitasking or set up FTP servers, while Apple confidently asserted that building a good, focused device was better than trying to do literally everything everywhere.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that making a product more powerful or capable is orthogonal to making it superior/inferior, and trying to equate the two concepts in either direction can lead you to absurd conclusions. Of course, for many people, the Pebble watch would not be powerful enough; they want/need the extra features in the Apple Watch, just like many people wanted/needed the extra multitasking features in early Android devices. But for people who don't need those features, the Pebble was a superior product because it did its job better and didn't introduce distractions or compromises to accommodate unnecessary features.

It's good that powerful smartwatches exist, but it's unfortunate that there's now an unsatisfied niche of people who are left wanting a more elegant, purposefully designed device that costs less money. At least (thankfully for me) the Apple Watch didn't mean the end of good old-fashioned Casio and Timex watches, because for all of its power, the Apple Watch isn't capable of helping me with my ADHD. It's too complicated and has too many significant tradeoffs to be even useable as a daily driver the way I want to use it, regardless of how much it costs.
It's why this is a politicized move by the FTC. No reason to get into politics on this site, but it's pretty obvious.
I hate to tell you, but if you conceive of multiple billion dollar companies, you have an exceptional grasp on reality. CNN is the thought police.
>Apple moved in this direction because Apple is all about restricting you from running any code Apple didnt sell to you in the first place.

This is about Safari, which is not about preventing you from "running any code Apple didnt sell to you in the first place". It's about security/privacy.

>They are in a war against general computing

Well, general computing has many shortcomings that don't exist in computer as appliance. For some, the latter is better.
Human-made materials may now outweigh all living things on Earth
A very interesting idea.

I had my own idea:

xornews - news about politics that are only in one camp, or the other, but never in both. For example liberal/conservative. That's the main split in my country.

But I realized it can't work without a bunch of moderators fascinated by political science.
Seems really nice. It's just a Rails abstraction for Multi-table inheritance (MTI) but to me that was sorely needed. MTI always felt much more manageable to me than Single-table inheritance but the latter was the only one with built-in support in Rails, until now.
I agree and find the attempt at a breakup a bit frustrating. This is an action that could have profoundly disruptive effect and it's not really clear what the positives or negatives would be. For instance, FB has invested massively in trust and safety people operations and AI. What happens to that investment when IG is spun off?

Laying out laws and regulations so the market works as intended (no doubt with adjustments on the way) seems like the far preferable way to ensure healthy competition than taking a hammer to the job site and hoping for the best.
Yes. I would imagine it revolves around demonstrating harm. Just because something is big doesn't necessitate a break up.
This is a feature in many public toilets in Japan. (or perhaps not public, but at least the restrooms in more upscale locations like nice hotels and restaurants). It is not the only amazing feature (I miss Japanese toilets) and I do recall having to trigger it manually, at the time.
I would seriously question why you would want to attract anybody that used any of the regex statements words, but is as easy as changing it in the code.
A better question, is there really an arbiter?

The only thing we have is freedom of speech to challenge ideas, debate and find what is true by ourselves, if such truth exists.
In a free and fair society, it is not dangerous to ask questions. It is very dangerous to be told that you are not allowed to ask questions.

In a marketplace of ideas, with free sharing of information, bogus claims will eventually (usually quickly) collapse on themselves, and true claims will bear themselves out.

Attempting to silence ideas, even potentially false and harmful ideas, is the greatest way to build a society that is not free, fair, and based on fact, but only one that is based on the opinions of the gatekeepers of the ideas.
Platform is user uploaded content with minimal censorship and where the platform has minimal responsibility over the content. Publisher is curated content with arbitrary censorship and heavy responsibility over the content.

As a voter, I'd expect to be able to use the platform/publisher spectrum to determine how much censorship a service should have. If a service has censorship capabilities different from what a large enough part of the population thinks they should have then the law should be changed to rectify this.

My questions to you (and anyone else):

Where does YouTube lie on this idealized platform/publisher perspective? How much censorship ability should they have? To what degree does your expectations of their censorship ability differ from their actual censorship ability according to the law?
Anyone that wants to hear about how the election was a fraud can still watch any number of right leaning media outlets to get their fill. I'll be concerned when the government actually tries to shut down right or left leaning media outlets.
Why can't I downvote?