skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah and then something caught fire near the engines.

This is an artifact of air flow vortices around the base of the rocket and its skirt and is completely normal. This video [1] explains it well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJceyvBKxc0&t=15m14s
To would be downvoters, list contributions of pinker that's novel and long lasting? Until then I'll continue to view him as another overrated commercial intellectual.
I think Gebru didn't want to resign immediately. By having her employment end before her preferred date she missed out on the annual bonus
It's retaliation for not handing Trump the election like in '16
> Chinese regulations are designed to ensure that the domestic Chinese market is dominated by Chinese-owned companies.

All regulations around the world are designed that way. All markets are national security issues and all major powers protect their own turf. China isn't special just because you have something against them. From britain to japan to korea to india to mexico and even canada, they all cater their laws/regulations to protect their own companies.

> Whether or not Facebook can follow Chinese law is irrelevant;

It is relevant. Just because you decide something is irrelevant doesn't make it so.

> The US, on the other hand, at least pretends to have rule-of-law that preempts attempts to use government power to determine economic winners and losers.

You mean other than tik tok? Other than subsidies for boeing, etc? Other than the bailouts of car companies? And that's not even taking account of all the wars we've engaged in to further the interests of our companies. Our invasion and colonization of china for much of the 19th and 20th century doesn't count right?
And the application, the browser, is configurable by the user. There's no OS standard for DoH configurability so it can't just rely on the OS for that.
Affidavits are not evidence until they're presented to a court. There has been no evidence.
Will cell-based meat ever be a dinner staple?
It has always worked the same way: people ask publishers to change what they publish, and the publishers decide whether to make a change or not, based on their own opinions and sense of self-interest.
Sorry, my response needed to better clarify with a complicated mess like this. The idea I was trying to get at with “both email stories” was the attempts to blur everything together - trying to use the DNC email acknowledgment to lend credibility to all of the other stories. There were a lot of self-proclaimed infosec experts posting about how disqualifying it was.

I completely agree that Comey bringing it back into the front page played a bigger role but I wouldn’t rule out all of the social media trolling having more than a little influence. It seemed to leave a lot of reporters covering non-stories lest they be accused of bias again.
Within the context of wallstreetbets the prevailing logic and thesis as to why you should buy the dip after the March crash was simply: "Money printer goes brrr" and "stonks only go up".
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the social graph isn't all that valuable to outsiders. anyone determined enough can scrape it without permission anyway. no one else can do much with it except maybe intelligence agencies which were already voluntarily given root access a long time ago.

the main economic value of it is to serve ads on Facebook dot com. that's it. that's how they make 100% of their earnings.
So... that whole Russia thing for the past 4 years--are we scrubbing YouTube of those too?
Declassified FBI documents indicate otherwise. Flynn actually notified FBI of all meetings with Russians and debriefed with them afterwards.

There is much that is puzzling about the judges treatment of this case considering:
1) The FBI agents in charge of the Flynn case wrote a 'case closure memo' on Jan. 4, 2017, concluding he had found "no derogatory" evidence that Flynn committed a crime or posed a national security threat. FBI management then ordered the closure to be rescinded and pivoted toward trying lure Flynn into an interview.
2) In an extraordinary interview with prosecutors this fall, the FBI agent who led the Flynn case, William Barnett, admitted there was never evidence of wrongdoing by the retired general or Russian collusion by Trump, but the probe was kept open by Special Counsel Robert Mueller because his team was obsessed with punishing the president. [2]

And there are a long list of other odd facts about the case that put into question Judge Sullivans extraordinary actions by acting as a prosecutor in this case. [3]

[1] https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-04/FBIFlynn...

[2] https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-09/04518073...

[3] https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-sc...
I don't try to change people irl. If they don't understand in a couple of tries, it's better to ignore them and let them go their merry way. It's not my job to educate tons of willfully ignorant people. Something something, don't fight with a pig, it will drag you down to its own level and win with experience.
OT: After reading and discussing this feature in this thread, I realize, it's not about the feature or if it's good or bad.

This Deno update and the whole thing shows once again that we want a node successor but Deno as great as it sounds doesn't offer enough benefits or is 10x better than just using node + Typescript in order to leave latter and their huge ecosystem.

Even worse, it creates the notion that the Deno team desperately tries to climb back on stage and get our attention with minor improvements. Maybe I am ignorant but Deno feels just like an opinionated node/Typescript distribution with too little improvements but not like the successor we hoped for.

Besides, I wonder if the Deno team solved all the performance issues which popped up the last time I've read about Deno. There were some debates with the ws community but can't remember details anymore.
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At some point it needs to be illegal. When a large company of 30000 employees starts wiping out entire industries with cash buffers, you can see why this is just wrong and monopolistic/oligopolistic behavior.
As a dutch subject I have to agree. When Americans talk about social security and healthcare they seem to attempt to do it (read "fail") from a purely selfish angle. What seems like a complete lack of empathy born out of a selfish culture where no one has your back is really just my linguistic shortcommerings. Jokes aside (not really) Its pretty funny if you think about it. Europe wants to build a cute union that nurtures the citizens into a bunch of weaklings while team America wants their country to be this big hungry monster that hunts you down and eats you. Clearly non of this is right but migrating from the US to the EU would seem the best experience.
It was slowly rolled out, some users had it. Now I think everyone gets it.
She offered to resign if explosive conditions weren't met, and Google said we accept your resignation. I was speaking generally.

If you offer to resign, you must be willing to walk away immediately.

Imagine negotiating with a used car salesman, exclaiming "I'll walk away right now if you don't sell me this car for $X", they call your bluff and then you refuse to walk away. You've lost.

You cannot make threats and expect no repercussions, I don't know why that is even suggested.
That's not what happened though, there's a 14 hour video feed.

These workers announced that they're closing the count for the night and that everyone must leave. You can see them in the video just sitting still not doing anything until everyone leaves. Then when poll watchers leave they spring into action pull out the ballots from under the table and start counting for three more hours.
> The most damning thing for me is preventing poll observers from challenging the ballots.

Citation please.

The closest that occurred was that when Republicans tried to put more observers in place than was the agreed number (the number has to be equal between Democrat, Republican and Independent observers) they weren't allowed.

> Regarding the judges throwing them out, this is my understanding of the situation: First, people are claiming that Trump lost 60 or however many lawsuits. That's just not true, his team haven't filed anywhere close that number.of lawsuits.

Well he does keep changing who "his team" is. But the all the Guilliani lawsuits have been thrown out, and all the ones he has tweeted about have been.

> Second, the evidence wasn't yet presented, allegedly because the courts didn't gave them the chance to do so yet.

Citation needed. The cases I've read (and yes I've checked because of people like who do the fake lazy "oh I don't know but I've heard..") say the evidence doesn't support the claims.

Here's a typical judgement against the claims:

One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.

Note "unsupported by evidence"

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.pamd.127057...

> And could you please look again at that Nahshon Garrett affidavit, exhibit 2? Doesn't that mean that "he" in fact did voted in AZ?

No, that appears to be a voter registration record. Is there something on it you think indicates he voted?
No, that’s whitewashing what happened: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa...

Bush won Florida in the first machine count. There was an automatic recount, and Bush won again. Gore then proceeded to create a cluster—k by demanding a hand recount of under votes only in counties he had won.

> Bush won the initial count by 1,784 votes, and he was still ahead by 327 votes after the automatic statewide machine recount. Gore then filed “protests,” demanding a hand recount of the ballots in four heavily Democratic counties, only three of which are relevant to the following discussion: Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade. Gore apparently chose these counties for one or both of two reasons. First, to the extent that errors by the counting machines were randomly distributed, Gore could expect to be a net gainer in these most heavily Democratic jurisdictions. Second, the hand recounts would be supervised by local elected officials, and the chances that such officials would be biased in Gore’s favor (or at least not biased in Bush’s favor) would be highest in the most heavily Democratic counties.

It’s a simple trick that leverages the large number of under votes (1-2% of all votes) generated by these punch machines. The machine can’t read cards that aren’t fully punched out, so there is a large pool of potentially discernible but uncounted ballots. If you only recount ballots in counties that went say 2-1 for Gore as the base rate, then when hand counters look at markings on the ballot to identify “voter intent” you’ll get 2 new Gore votes for every new Bush vote. Not only that, but there was some insane maneuvering by Gore to include partial recounts in the results. The Florida Supreme Court found this unconstitutional and ordered a statewide recount. 7 to 2, the Supreme Court found that recount unconstitutional as well. (The Court split 5-4 on what to do with the mess. But people overlook that Gore precipitated the mess, burning a ton of time before the safe harbor deadline, with his partial recount strategy.)
Because the interstate disputes SCOTUS has heard and decided are not about states challenging other states' interpretations of their own laws, but almost entirely about who actually has various water rights? Because the suit alleged here is almost exactly the kind of interstate dispute that SCOTUS has rejected to hear as recently as 2016 (Nebraska v Colorado)?
You're right, we are living in different realities.
"HiFiBerryOS is based on Buildroot":

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/doc/bu...
He's one of those YouTube sleeper channels. On the surface a DIY/science tinkerer, then you pop on a livestream and he's hacking DNA on a website and creating mutant organisms.
> I don't believe the government, either side, should be the arbiters of what is real news or real information.

Shouldn't they?

When a murder happens, a court (which I guess is a part of a government) decides which testimony is true.

When a company makes food, FDA (or some similar department) gets to decide if their nutrition facts are correct or not.

ditto for IRS, FTC, etc.

What a government doesn't decide is if a certain opinion is right or wrong. But they usually urge public entities (e.g. media) to state the truth and suppress misinformation.
>So what do we do? From where can we possibly derive knowledge?

We all have brains capable of thinking. The idea is to examine objective facts as best one can, this means yes overcoming personal bias, which can be difficult and assessing things from a variety of sources.

Personally, I find, if you can't find an objective source, about the best thing you can do is listen to the extreme voices and assume truth likely lies somewhere between them, whatever that truth may be.

>I would assert that, collectively, we have a vested interest in determining what's knowable about the material world. We have a tradition of allowing particularly well suited people to spend the majority of their waking lives in the detailed study of difficult to understand phenomena.

We have a vested interest in figuring out what is untrue in the world, it's the only thing we as a species are truly capable of doing and what the scientific method is based on. Silencing dissenting opinions has never worked well at that, compounding observation and evidence does.

>We have experts, in other words.

No, we have people who have spent a lot of time doing one thing, those people are often times extremely knowledgable and correct many times, but they're still human with the same fallibilities and humanness as the rest of us.

>We have a political process that encourages the cultivation of experts and even has rules allowing for personal consequences for when experts and politicians breach ethical standards.

That comes down to the same thing that plagues a lot of science reporting and other things and is a logical fallacy called an appeal to authority.

A 'so called expert' is never correct over logic and facts. This may come down to an education, knowledge issue, I dunno.

>Is it here where we disagree? Should there, indeed, be no ethical standards to which we hold out experts?

>Asking honestly, bc I don't follow your argument. Maybe I'm completely off base.

Yes, but, a person posting videos on youtube isn't a expert just because they post things on youtube.

It's fairly easy to post a video on youtube. The issue of people assuming every video posted on youtube or every word someone says on the internet, is the word of an expert is something that again I think comes down to a lack of proper education on such things as psychology, marketing, written communications other things at maybe a younger age.

We live in a world where it's possible for anyone to say anything publicly. Censorship is not the solution to the problems that arise from that.

Every person has a brain, everyone's capable of being taught critical thinking. The world seems to push subservience, acquiescencing blindly to the authority of experts and assuming the average person has the intelligence of a child instead.
It's weird because back in October the head of LA County Health Department gave a briefing where she said that contact tracing shows that 15% of COVID cases are due to outdoor dining.

Then the the board of supervisors asked her more specific questions about the data when they were preparing the latest lockdown order. Instead of reiterating or expanding on what she said before, she walked back her claims and said there was no specific data about the spread of COVID due to outdoor dining.
But special this year the USD lost a lot of value. USD - CHF (Switzerland) is about minus 8.5%, so your +7% would be still a minus business for me.

The high stock market and the high prices for building are more the true inflation than a true plus on the market.
lmao, that might be too obscure for HN
Plus, if you’re an actual restaurant it’s a lot harder to rebrand if people don’t like what you’re doing. They’ll notice it’s the same people, the same location and a similar menu, but if you’re a ghost kitchen that gets bad reviews you can just shut down Phil’s Mouthwatering Mexican and open up Tabasco Flavour Tacos the next day.
In America? You do nothing. These are cases of government trying to control things and losing.
He made no claims about any entity knowing better than any other entity.

Also, if you think a “private” company in China is even remotely the same as a private company in America you’re in for a surprise.
While you're maybe not wrong about it not changing the election outcome, I just wanted to say that it was more than a few Facebook ads. Russia was the likely source of the DNC email leak. Also, it was a lot of sock puppeting and co-opting large groups on Facebook and also Twitter and Reddit. Hundreds of people, masquerading as thousands, playing both sides off each other, all day long every day for months. There were groups for every demographic imaginable, swaying them, as appropriate, to stay home because Hillary doesn't care about [ethnic group], or to vote for Jill Stein because Hillary is just a neocon in disguise. Or to vote for Trump in protest. Or to vote for Trump because conservative.

It was a well funded and coordinated effort by a nation state. Not a few thousand dollars on bad english ads.
Declassified evidence and interviews of the FBI agents in charge of the case corroborate that they thought Flynn was innocent, and actually tried to close the case in January 2017. [1 - contains links to declassified evidence] FBI management overrode their decision, and tried to arrange another meeting to fish for something to nail him on.

Here is the declassified note of the agents in charge of case trying to close it from Jan 4 2017. [2]

[1] https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-sc...

[2] https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-04/FBIFlynn...
It's not a perfect take, but a contributing one.
Not just allergies. I was just looking for biscotti recipes and there's basically two styles of biscotti: made with butter (the soft chewy kind) and made without (the crispy you'd better have a drink to dip it in kind). It's impossible to search for the latter without excluding butter.
> California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Mark Ghaly on Tuesday acknowledged the state’s regional prohibition on outdoor dining has more to do with preventing gatherings and limiting movement than the activity itself. “The decision to include among other sectors outdoor dining and limiting that — turning to restaurants to deliver and provide takeout options instead — really has to do with the goal of trying to keep people at home, not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining,” he said at a press briefing.

> "By failing to weigh the benefits of an outdoor dining restriction against its costs, the County acted arbitrarily and its decision lacks a rational relationship to a legitimate end," wrote Judge James C. Chalfant.

In what sense is there a lack of a rational relationship between "restricting outdoor activity" and "reducing mass gathering" here? Whether or not the approach is ultimately a good one, the reasoning behind it seems pretty rational and simple to understand: they're restricting outdoor activity to reduce people's incentives to gather and reduce COVID-19's chances of spreading (which seems like a pretty legitimate end). What am I missing?
Property Tax rates are higher in Texas. But there is no major city in California near a job center where I am able to get a nice move in ready home for 250k. A comparable home to that house that is 250k in California will be paying more in property taxes annually.

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Houston/9730-Arched-Oak-Dr-77095/h...
Jeff Dean's document makes it sound like they aren't opposed to Gebru's paper in principle, but are opposed to it without what they consider missing context.

"A cross functional team then reviewed the paper as part of our regular process and the authors were informed that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were given feedback about why. It ignored too much relevant research — for example, it talked about the environmental impact of large models, but disregarded subsequent research showing much greater efficiencies. Similarly, it raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn’t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues. We acknowledge that the authors were extremely disappointed with the decision that Megan and I ultimately made, especially as they’d already submitted the paper. "

And:

"But the paper itself had some important gaps that prevented us from being comfortable putting Google affiliation on it. For example, it didn’t include important findings on how models can be made more efficient and actually reduce overall environmental impact, and it didn’t take into account some recent work at Google and elsewhere on mitigating bias in language models. Highlighting risks without pointing out methods for researchers and developers to understand and mitigate those risks misses the mark on helping with these problems. As always, feedback on paper drafts generally makes them stronger when they ultimately appear."

I'd be surprised, having read this, if Gebru and coauthors made the requested adjustments, the paper wouldn't have been approved by Google. That's my intuition at least, maybe I'm off.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...
replace 'language model' with '737 Max' and 'research paper' with 'safety analysis'
> Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are within their rights as private companies to enforce content rules as they wish, but these recent censorship actions have strong implications as to their protections under Section 230,

No, they don't; 230 exists to promote censorship, it does not involve a bar to it.

> and are alarming insofar as they represent a trend that crosses the line of free speech protections normally recognized by the government and content platforms.

They aren't the government, and there has never been a set of free speech protections “normally recognized by content platforms”, especially since 230 was adopted specifically to remove legal disincentives to active moderation.
I would feel entirely different about Fox News claiming election malfeasance than I do about the President of the United States claiming it.
Why would google release a press statement like this if they felt it was insignificant or that they were in the right here?
Why are these famous guys only betting $400?
I wonder how many real-world pieces need to fall into place for WASM to become a realistically viable option.

Obviously browser support is one fairly big component. (I've long wondered how much of Chrome's ~65% is straight-from-dl.google.com evergreen, but I guess that's just commentary).

Then there's tooling... heh. That'll be its own eternal September just like JS has been I guess.
Funny thing is Democratic party and Biden themselves are center-right by most reasonable international definitions. The fact that republicans try to paint Biden and Democratic parties as radical left is laughable to most people with an international view. This also gives insight into the Republican style of pushing out falsities just for the sake of being in power.