skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is weird. Normally the supreme court only hears appeals, so it only rules on matters of law. It wouldn't normally rule on matters of fact, wouldn't normally call witnesses, and wouldn't normally have a jury.
Lord you bought this story hook line and sinker...

> But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...

You hear this a lot lately from tech bros. It's hilarious considering how many things are illegal in Texas. Ya you can buy an assault rifle, but its illegal to buy hard liquor on Sunday. Have you ever looked at their gerrymandering? Did you know during the 2016 election they didn't allow mail in ballots?
I just wanted to call out the ending of the blog post:

> The Chrome Web Store will start accepting Manifest V3 extensions mid-January when Chrome 88 reaches stable. While there is not an exact date for removing support for Manifest V2 extensions, developers can expect the migration period to last at least a year from when Manifest V3 lands in the stable channel.

This means that we'll have at least a year where Manifest V2 extensions will still work. Hopefully by the end of that period there will be a good selection of Manifest v3 compatible ad blockers.
While there are differences between sales taxes and VAT's, and while there might be an advantage to the VAT approach, I don't think the argument made in your article is correct. I'm worried that you might not understand how sales tax typically works in the US. In general, it's a "consumption tax" or "retail sales tax", paid only by the final consumer. Everyone in your example other than the final customer would have a "resellers certificate" (name and details vary per state) that allows them make their purchases without paying a sales tax. Here's one article about this type of certificate: https://www.salestaxinstitute.com/sales_tax_faqs/resale_cert.... And here's a more general article about the concept: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/vat-surcharge-calculated-648....

Am I missing something?
Re: Artemis & NASA

The Artemis program and other contracts fund the bulk of Starship development. NASA has poured billions into SpaceX and they're SpaceX's largest "investor" by far, except NASA doesn't take equity and treats it as "pre-funding" an eventual contract (which would also pay per launch).

Starship is (likely) to be mostly (up to 60% to 70% or so) NASA funded.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-names-companies-to-d...

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1316417597257129985

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1316421539521327109

Re: early SpaceX history.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=903
The "bsfrance" sketch should work for you :)
Care to provide 2 examples of a comfortable and not confusing messaging apps?

Not trolling, I just have no idea what do you actually mean (as, for instance, most of my friends believe WhatsApp is some sort of nec plus ultra of easy of use and clarity).
The leader of course.

And we know she is good because all the news media say she is good.

And we know the news media is good because she tells us it is good.

Welcome to Hotel California, you can check out at any time, but you can never leave.
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Thanks YouTube! Trying to figure out what’s true and what’s not all on my own has been pretty damn hard. Frankly I may not be smart enough to sort it all out. Thankfully you, being at the center of truth in this universe, can help us all out. No election fraud. Got it.

Did you know that there are a bunch of videos that are critical of Apple products and a bunch more that praise Apple? They can’t both be right! Could you pick a side there and let me know before I buy my next laptop? Thanks!
In this context that has been done. No attempt was made to block court cases brought up about the incident and everyone has been talking about the claims made since the election happened over a month ago.

Algorithmic sharing causes misinformation bubbles to grow in a way that has never before been seen.

Why do we need to ignore this effect and let it run its natural course? We know what happens. Flat earthers and anti vaxxers and now millions of illegal ballots.

They even explicitly allowed the discussion during the counting process and afterwards as court cases were brought forward.
OK, but is 2 seconds of googling before saying "deliberate disinformation" the standard we want to set for ourselves?
Well, it wouldn't really be 'topping' it would it?

I don't think its really possible to fly any lower. The dead sea is the lowest place on earth, and -422m is even pushing that as it must have been a very dry season when they did the flight. Unless the dead sea evaporates even lower, flying below -422m is going to be pretty hard.
Just like Gore in 2000, who didn't concede until December 13th after every avenue to victory he had was closed.

Let the process play out. He'll have his day in court and will either win or lose, just like Bush and Gore.

Trying to rush things would have the opposite effect of building faith in the system.
Source for the debate question leak? The one I know of was given to Clinton against Sanders in the Democratic primary... so it was the "further left" being antagonized lol. But if there's a recent instance of this between a Democrat vs Republican debate I'd be interested to hear of it.
Yes, I am serious. The problem is there is no clear delineated line between "thoughtcrime" and plain old crime prevention. Where is the line for you when a threat of violence is equivalent to violence? When does a thought become a plan? Threats are just words, so I imagine I can threaten to kill you. What about if those threats are through deliberate and premeditated actions like mailing you a death threat? Is it any different if I tell other people to attack you? Those are just words, right? Is it different if I pay them? Can I brandish a knife if I am 20 feet away from you? I don't pose an immediate threat in that instance. Can I pull a gun on you without any fear of reprisal? That isn't a direct act of violence either yet. Do I need to pull the trigger before you respond?
It’s advertising Facebook isn’t getting paid for.

I’m surprised they don’t go after it as a violation of their terms of service.
God would I love to live in a world where Youtube videos, facebook comments, instagram stories weren't the _actual_ source of most people's news (and by news I mean baseless things people with obvious biases and insidious motives say).
I really like this.

I've been thinking a lot over the last few years about Docker. Arguably docker is just another abstraction for "statically linked executable". But we've had static executables for years; and they work well, and the ABI for the linux kernel is very stable. So increasingly I'm not convinced docker is worth it, compared to just building and deploying bundled executables. And executables can be run anywhere, they don't need a separate testing environment, they can be debugged easily[1], and so on.

[1] Well, if you like systemd or have a reasonable replacement.
selective application of the law (aka, a lynchmob) has a very chilling effect on the populous. They will not take risks, nor try new innovations for fear of such reprisals.

You end up with a "can't go wrong buying IBM" mentality, but for society.
As an avocado fan I have trouble grappling with the concept of guac made without them. Isn't that sorta like orange juice made from things that are not oranges? Feels almost oxymoronic. Good suggestion though.
It is great that they provide an analytics without tracking or ads, but then if it is free what is the business model behind it?

Is it only an entry-point to attract people on other paid services?
It's very much related. You have one item in stock. Two users see the item as available in their browsers and click "buy now". That's the problem that you actually have to solve, and database transactions don't help you solve it: whether you're using a transactional datastore or not you have to do pretty much the same thing when the user clicks "buy now": issue an attempt to buy it, wait for that attempt to be confirmed/denied, and handle both cases.

And once you've solved that problem you don't need or want ACID transactions because they don't actually do anything for you. Order confirmation emails have the same problem as the browser: you can't (or at least shouldn't) actually hold a database-level transaction open while you connect to an email server, so you have to do something like recording a queue of email confirmations that are ready to be sent - exactly the same thing you do when using Kafka.
Did you ask for further explanations? What are his sources? "His opinions" may refer to the fact that he doesn't trust the secondary source you quoted in "the phase 3 trial for the Pfizer vaccine included 43,000 people", or the primary source, or the very process/protocol of this trial...
> Amazon does not assume any of this risk. Ever.

This is a bit extreme. “Shipped and sold by Amazon” is indeed a large part of their online retail and many people try to buy only directly from Amazon.
Sure, making stuff up takes very little effort, and refuting it properly takes more. Makes sense.

But what if it’s not as simple as “this side is making everything up, and the other side is 100% honest”.

You could easily turn that argument around and say that the right is going to great lengths to have their evidence investigated, while the left is just trying to make it go away. Surely “energy expended” is not a great metric for judging bullshit.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not making a “free speech” argument. Of course YouTube is free to curate whatever they want to, and competitors are free to provide alternatives for users that want that. THAT is free speech.

My argument was not “YouTube can’t legally do this”, it was more trying to appeal to this notion some folks have that a topic of discussion merely existing is dangerous, and that somehow removing all of that discussion will eliminate that danger.

It also removes any possibility of the side removing the discussion from ever having to assess the validity of their facts, which logically and naturally means the other side will never have to assess and defend the validity of their argument either. Hello tribalism.

You don’t disprove flat earthers by telling them they aren’t allowed to ever talk about the shape of the earth, because naturally people will come up with the idea on their own, time and again, and forbidding it only lends itself to greater conviction.

Instead, sufficiently convince a large enough group of people through reason and evidence that the Earth is round, and those few people who willingly ignore the evidence will be too small and too fringe to be dangerous.

The danger is not in asking questions, the danger is in forbidding questions.
For the first point I agree. In this person's case it is more extreme. I don't know what capacity your involved in sell side trading but I'll share some cases I've seen in case anyone else reading is curious as well.

For rmb, krw, and a lot of Asian currencies in general there is an onshore and offshore market. A lot of the times both onshore and offshore books are managed by the same team. This creates two tradable currencies which should theoretically move in lockstep and some corporates have capacity to arbitrage/move currency across border. A common strategy is to simply bet that their spread converges when some technical factor like a large trade going through moves one market more than the other. Hardly nefarious but exists because of regulatory reasons and hardly rocket science. The problem happens when currency trends strongly in one direction in which case one book has massive losses and the bank ceo of that branch is not happy. Or when the onshore/offshore team starts trying to claim a stake of the profits because their resources/credit lines are being utilized. A lot of bickering and politics then ensues.

Another case, in China, regulation requires long usdcny fx forwards to be accompanied with an extra 300bp charge to stop cny depreciation. Option structure only require half the charge. A lot of the desk pnl is essentially made from selling synthetic forwards structured from calls.

Similarly a large part of the hybrid structured business in general is because some insurance/pension funds are only allowed to trade bonds but want fx/equity exposure.

For 2, from my experience it really is ripping off most of the time. The exception is when a client comes in with an order much larger than what the market can digest quickly. This usually requires a mixture of luck, skill, and balls to avoid it blowing up in your face and is one of the rare times I think traders really are doing their job. However these trades don't come too often
This is a sort of standard reply that seems very clever but entirely misses the point. Colonialism or any other system of injustice has winners and losers, heck even "perfectly just" systems would have winners and losers. The winners are less motivated to change the system that might create different winners, even if those outcomes are "more just" or "just as fair" or completely arbitrary in the assignment of new winners and losers. This was the basis for a lot of the colonial systems in fact, the British intentionally aligned themselves with minorities in many places to ensure a reliable partner that both profited from the rule and depended on the British to maintain their status.

Is the great Chinese famine relevant to a discussion of colonialism? Not really! The Bengal Famine on the other hand, pretty relevant! It killed a good 10 million people. Look it up!
What's old is new again.

I went through my daytrading phase in the late 90s. Hell, everyone was doing it. ETrade's online portal was hot shit. You could wake up 20 minutes before the market opened, get an order in on whatever IPO was happening that day (Webvan? The Globe.com?), if you lucked out and got a block early in the open you watched it tick up +10 and were out and on your way to work with another $1,000-$2,000 in your account.

Then it all fell apart in 2000. And it will fall apart again. Like it always does, and you're left holding the bag.
Idea: create another Lemmy instance focused on 500+ year old content and federate it with mine! Then you'd get the best of both worlds ;)
An odd symmetry of sorts in the list of states participating:

Both North Carolina and North Dakota are participating in the suit.

Neither South Carolina nor South Dakota are participating.

(The other two holdouts are Georgia and Alabama).
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I gather that he's not really the kind of person to "hedge". He multiple times has gone "all in" on his businesses.

And honestly, once you have hundreds of billions of dollars across multiple companies, do you really need to hedge?
Perfectly said
Shifty 2.14.0 now outperforms GreenSock for animation performance
WebAssembly supports threads and shared memory, which should make it possible to implement software-based locks in the meantime. I definitely see the issue that you're bringing up, especially wrt external interoperability.
Isn't outperformance by assets with greater duration - e.g., stock in companies whose expected earnings are way off in the future - what fundamentals would suggest should happen in a decreasing interest rate environment?
Great Job Elon & team. Just keep swimming.
I think it's interesting that some folks are calling this government censorship. Obviously, companies can decide what they want to spend money/computing resources/ storage/bandwidth on. I'm not sure why that appears to be contentious.

As for senators sending "a strongly worded request" that this material be removed, I'm also puzzled by why people would conflate that with actual governmental censorship.

From where I'm sitting, I'd guess that Google's algorithm has decided that the whole "stolen election" narrative produces fewer ad dollars than its counter argument. Maybe "the election wasn't stolen" is more widely accepted as consensus and therefore, there's less risk of companies reducing their YouTube ad buys.

I genuinely don't understand people's outrage when in order to accept this move by YouTube as either being ideological ("they're doing what they think is right! And they're wrong!") or motivated by being afraid of Congress ("those handful of senators in a party that doesn't control the majority are strongarming a multibillion dollar corporation. They couldn't possibly pour an unimaginable amount of money into lobbying for policies and candidates that are favorable to them. They're helpless!")

I genuinely do not care what editorial decisions YouTube makes. I do not rely on YouTube for my worldview, and I don't rely on it shaping other people's worldviews.

It seems that some of the people that are mad about this aren't mad that YouTube holds so much sway over so many people, but rather some are angry that that power isn't being used to further their interests.
Right. Also each Electron app "comes with a copy of two large software frameworks, Node.js and Chromium"
( https://medium.com/dailyjs/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-w... )

Whereas if you build starting from Node.js (or Deno I assume) you can skip the Chromium part. Instead of packaging Chromium with your app you assume that users have a browser and can use that to talk to your app.

The benefit of using Node.js is you don't have to use a different language for the backend. It helps.

BTW. "Electrino" in the linked-to article seems interesting too.
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As others have already told you, the article [1] specifically addresses the distinction here. The "6%" is total rejections, including those that are from, for example, ballots arriving late. Nothing is out of date about it.

The total number of rejected ballots is not known because it isn't necessary to count rejected ballots to determine the election result (ie: they are simply not included in the count).

Again, stop spreading misinformation. Continuing to do so would be malicious.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...
They really should open source the player. There's too much history to lose.
Ah, it does, but I'd like to second the suggestion to put the domain name at the bottom. All the cards I looked at looked like they had room.

First, it makes a big difference to me if it's from a site I know and trust. Second, I think that clear attribution is a good thing, even if you may be legally in the clear for copyright.
Great citations. I think the general point is that there are more specific examples of election irregularities than there are specific examples of Russia interfering.

you add this to your list:
https://hereistheevidence.com
which provides a detailed breakdown with citations.
The user determines it, and they're trusted to provide the correct year upon submission. Then I double-check most posts.

Not sure how long this manual honors-system style thing will work, but I'm not sure of a reliable way to automate this.
If Apple releases a search engine that was even half decent, DDG would be in big trouble. Most of DDG users would jus move to Apple because they have a better 'privacy' brand.
No, and I am sad about it. Like a lot of people, I stopped using it when the Zoom acquihire was announced.

The Keybase backend was never open-sourced and there doesn't seem like a viable path forward for Keybase without the founders.

At the same time, doesn't seem to be any other single solution for the range of things Keybase did.

For secure E2EE chat, I moved to Matrix/Element and it was extremely painful. I am rooting for them, but getting regular people (like my dad and sister) onboarded is super hard. A typical HN reader can probably make it work, and deal with all the bugs and issues, but a "normal" person not so much. The bot story isn't anywhere close to as good as it was with Keybase. Most of my friends can't be bothered to get it set up and working, either.

I really miss Keybase Git, which was a brilliant idea that I haven't seen anybody else do. I set my dad's company up storing their business documents in git backed by Keybase git instead of GitHub. I had to move that git hosting to a server I now have to manage, ugh.

I didn't really use the "secure file sharing between arbitrary people" feature, but I don't know of anything as easy if you did want to do that. I use Syncthing to share sets of files across my own machines, and it works well for that.

The crypto wallet part is well-covered by existing apps. No big loss there.

I really liked Keybase, especially toward the end when the performance problems on mobile with sharing images and basic stuff like that were mostly fixed, and the apps started to show a higher degree of polish.

It is pretty hard to recommend Keybase at this point, though — never fully open sourced, and complete radio silence since the "we've been acquired" blog post. I think it is highly likely that bits will gradually stop working and won't get fixed, and/or Zoom will pull the plug.

(I was afraid that happened the other day, when Keybase Git stopped working and git push operations were failing, but it came back up. Not sure what happened, and AFAIK there was no announcement or anything.)
That is one of many reasons that I alluded to why it might be a bad idea to take investors.
I agree with basically everything you said except for your assumption of what people are excited about. To be fair you lead with saying you don’t understand it if course, but where you’re landing isn’t anywhere close to what interests me about it.

For me the excitement is in the try, in the front row seat in failure and success. It’s not that it couldn’t be done, or that it hasn’t been done, but that somebody is doing it and we get to see it warts and all. The flight today is a perfect example. It was a lot of fun to watch. I’m sure there’s lots of amazing innovation happening at Blue Origin, but there’s nothing to really talk about because they don’t share it. If Bezos started some mad max bullshit and it felt like a legit race with giant explosions the whole damn world would be tuning into these things.

SpaceX has lots of new fans, but there are lots of old fans that have been around for a decade and are still excited. Elon time is what it is, two years or five it’s still progress. They nailed their first barge landing five years ago. If the first time we see the giant streak of a white hot Starship re-entering the atmosphere is 2025, it’ll still be worth the wait.
> mass surveillance vs cancel college debt

This dichotomy sounds completely made up, is there a basis for implying pro free college politicians are quiet about mass surveillance?
Totally agree, feel like it comes down to an exploration vs exploitation optimization.

Don't have an answer unfortunately, still looking for one myself!

I do agree with the method you describe: taking the recommendations of others, and then later navigating toward what you feel is best for yourself
> an 80-story apartment tower

If this is financially viable, that land must be worth a ton. Retiree should sell the property and stop monopolizing such valuable land. They'll have plenty of funds to use to move elsewhere

> a supervised injection place for IV drug users

Very few people want one of these built near them, which itself causes huge societal problems. We'd be better off in aggregate if more services for the poor could be built.

>an organometalic peroxide production plant, a hog farm, and a tire recycling plant

Unlikely to be built on expensive residential land, but if they were it would help fight climate change by reducing commute times, since employees can now live nearby. The existence of actual property rights allows ample housing to be built in this high-demand area
Risk an opportunity costs is a major issue with that argument. In 1981 for example the 30 Year Treasury Rate was over 14% which significantly outperformed the stock market over that period. https://www.macrotrends.net/2521/30-year-treasury-bond-rate-...