skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck on your project. Post it to HN once you launch your Kickstarter. I know many toilet seats in Asia play music, so there is definitely a demand for this kind of thing.
I think you’ll find that that is true of all southern metros. Atlanta is different from Calhoun, Birmingham from Anniston, Huntsville from Madison, etc.

It’s not that people are choosing to insulate - the metros are where the jobs are. Those metros have been changed by the influx of people, and if there were jobs the suburbs you would see the electorate change there as well.
For the free speech absolutists out there, how can that ideology be sustainable in the long run? Lack of moderation gets blamed a lot of lack of moderation. Even if it's untrue, this will drive people to demand additional moderation or censorship. Unconditional free speech is entirely self-defeating.
On the other hand, we have sufficiently large number of people believing that Trump actually won this year - enough for it to be a potential political issue. I wouldn't count out someone getting killed over this.

So, the relative merits and dangers of "censorship" should be evaluated against this. The bar for the censorship being "potentially greater risk" is reasonably high.
I'm left leaning, and I hope that they absolutely do stress-test the Biden administration and every administration after it. If nothing else, 2020 has showed me how important the 4th Estate is in our democracy and the power it truly has. Watching the major news networks cut Trump's speech short on Election Night when he started declaring victory and insisting they'd already won before Florida was even counted was the most important thing I've seen them do in a long, long time.
Without ASML, everyone would make their own ASML.

Without TSMC, everyone would make their own TSMC.

This is what we see happening in the world right now. Previously the only consideration was, "Is it cost effective." Now there are a myriad number of other considerations up to and including geopolitical considerations. The US, for instance, has always been able to manufacture lith machines. Economic considerations obliged them to innovate elsewhere. Yet it's obvious that were the EU to threaten US access to lith machines, the US would start manufacturing those machines on their own.

Lith is not even the hard part. TSMC and Intel have the same lith machines. Why is Intel having so much trouble? Because there is so much more to this entire enterprise than doing the lithography.
Yes, obviously.

The point is, we have a whole bunch of mores and law that work together to form a free society work that were formed in times when most interpersonal communications didn't go through a few concentrated intermediaries. This new equilibrium a really big concern for free communication and freedom of speech: just letting whatever dangerous stuff circulate at massive scale isn't good, but fully empowering corporate entities being able to squash and marginalize categories of speech isn't great either.
This is the entire crux of the article's critique of first-principles (axiomatic) thinking being a full-proof way to guide decision-making.

The inability to logically prove that first principles comport with, or not, (some unknown) aspect of reality due to missing information.

"The map is not the territory", "unknown unknowns" come to mind...
Only if they have his nose.
They do via proxy of government laws. The public vs megacorp is not a balanced relationship anyway and will eventually get regulated.
It's worth noting that they didn't have a state income tax before either. People who live in Texas pay Federal Income Tax, but not State Income Tax.

Texans pay hefty property taxes.
What if you have your own CA LLC? Would they require paying a tax on its sale even if it's re-incorporated in another state?
Need to try this one
> Some courts are refusing to even allow lawyers to present evidence.

Source?

> Additionally, many of the Trump cases reported by the media are not, in fact, Trump Campaign cases.

That doesn't really matter. The "denominator" is not the most important part. In other words, it's not so much that his campaign won 1/51 cases or if it was really 1/10 cases. I only care about how many his campaign won (1).

And are you being honest, or are you being technically truthful while trying to deceive me? In other words, if a case was brought by Rudy Giuliani or Sidney Powell, but not some legal entity called "The Trump Campaign", then it's all the same to me.
Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse [pdf]
FWIW, redhat does offer developer licenses of RHEL specifically for this kind of thing. Maybe not quite as nice, but probably workable.
Its funny to see how effective the PR of Musk is!
Tesla benefited the most from california's policies and budget. Now, as tesla scaled and succeeds California is the villain.
Its easy to see that Musk is more worried about the Income tax. Please dont fall for the PR.
The GOP put itself out of power in CA by pursuing a series of explicitly racist policies in a white-plurality state, and then later settling on total political obstruction as its backup plan (in the short term this was effective at preventing the state government from addressing a wide range of serious problems). My former GOP state rep in SoCal used to send out mailers proudly proclaiming that he had voted ‘no’ on 100% of legislation, with some race baiting mixed in as seasoning. Considering that a couple decades of this led to the Democrats winning all of the statewide offices and supermajorities in both houses of the legislature, perhaps it wasn’t the best long-term strategy.

But the state remains a very conservative place overall, just like the rest of the USA. There’s a broad swath of the public who distrust the government, are opposed to taxes of any kind, and so on. Even in 2020, 34% of voters picked Trump, even though his rhetoric has included badmouthing CA as a cornerstone. And many CA Democrats are pretty conservative by the standards of most other developed countries, and would most naturally fit in a centrist or center-right party.
It is literally pre-judging. You are deciding the outcome of a case that has not occurred, based on cases that have.

I've replied in more detail to your other comment which said much the same thing.
And further, reward people who responsibly report them early instead of exploiting them.
That said, it reduces risk of loss when an actual full backup solution is impractical... I have about 10TB of media on my current 12tb (4x4 raid5) nas box. My next plan is a 6-drive raid z2 with 8-12tb drives early next year. I can't justify doubling the cost or more to ensure it's all backed up. The important bits (to me) are in various redundant places... that doesn't mean I want to lose it and the parity options allow for some safety without too much lose of storage space.
I know everyone likes to scape goat some policies for that, but as Occam razors would have it, I think it's just the population growth that was the main cause of price increase, and a population decrease would probably result in a price decrease.
A math or EE... what? A degree, right? A relevant degree is the traditional education. If you don't have one - you're non-traditional. Get it?
Inadmissible in court, but you can always leak to the press and see what happens.
Not Texas here, but

You might have to adjust your statistics regionally for income. Middle class in California is upper middle class everywhere else, even adjusting for salary reduction. Leaving California put us in the 90th percentile for family income in our new region even accounting for change in salary, vs 75th back in the South Bay. That opens up a lot more opportunity for leisure and better schools - we don't have to live in a middling caliber town or neighborhood anymore.

Also, owning a home is a massive improvement in quality of life. Something we couldn't do in California. No more shared walls, a garage, a home office, backyard, basement hobby space, spare bedroom, nursery... I would have to double or triple my take home pay (not everyone takes equity to pay down a mortgage) to have the same quality of home in my old neighborhood than I do today.

Weather is meh, we can afford central heating and cooling and there aren't wildfires that turn the air to poison for days at a time. Snow be damned.
> Better schools across all grades

[citation needed]

When I type “california public schools” into DuckDuckGo, the top suggestion is “california public schools bad.” Accepting this, the top three results are:

① “California schools were once the nation's envy. What went wrong?”

> The enormous strike in Los Angeles paints a grim picture of wealthy state that is struggling to fund its education system

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/19/california...

② “Are California Schools the Worst in the Nation?”

> Roughly speaking, there’s the usual mix of good ones and bad ones, and overall they’re about average.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/01/are-californi...

③ “California Is Home to Some of America's Worst Public Schools”

> In fact, a spokeswoman for WalletHub says, “California has the 12th worst school system in America.”

> The study was based on 17 metrics, including student-to-teacher ratio, dropout rates and average SAT and ACT scores. Compared with the other 49 states and the District of Columbia, California ranked 47th in reading test scores, 46th in math test scores and dead last in student-teacher ratios.

https://www.laweekly.com/california-is-home-to-some-of-ameri...

According to https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-wi...,
Texas public schools rank 28th in the nation, while California’s are now №37.
> Why are LEOs so drawn to authoritarianism?

You are reversing cause and effect; people who are drawn to authoritarianism are disproportionately drawn to law enforcement, where they have a protected position from which to exert their authoritarian impulses.

> Do they not understand their role as a vanguard against tyranny?

Many of them do enough to use it to justify their own authoritarianism, especially law enforcement leaders who tend to cite it as an excuse for their own arbitrary actions overriding or neglecting the law they are called on to enforce. Fewer seem to take it as more than an excuse for their own tyranny, though.
Why should "alleging" anything be policed? I concur that painting widespread fraud as "definite" seems like a false claim (at least with current evidence), but let's leave that aside for now. Exploration of election fraud would have to begin with speculation ("alleging"), just like challenging any prevailing thought begins with speculation. For example, imagine if no one was permitted to challenge the WHO's claim earlier this year that there was no human to human transmission of the coronavirus. Furthermore, if there WERE fraud happening, there aren't any great avenues by which outsiders could detect it to offer up evidence. The system is too opaque, proprietary in its implementation, and varied across jurisdictions to allow gathering of evidence. So the notion that there must be hard proof before people can talk about a problem doesn't make sense to me in this instance.

Some thoughts on content curation and censorship by big tech platforms: YouTube is not a small backwaters website. It is one of the most influential and popular websites, with reach greater than most countries' governments, and it is therefore a digital public square. YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook should not be allowed to implement restrictions on content beyond what the law minimally requires, since doing so effectively curtails practical access to the right to free speech. And I am not talking about legal technicalities of free speech as enshrined in current US law, but rather the fundamental principle of free speech - something worthy of aspiring to regardless of what the law allows right now.

Lastly, a word on elections: elections need to implement the law strictly and be tightly controlled. There should be nothing left to chance. This means there needs to be multiple cross-checked counts by default, with a variety of organizations involved (observers and counters from parties, media outlets, etc.). There should be random sampling of ballots where citizens are asked to vote a second time to validate their initial ballot. There should be strong voter verification to disallow any illegal voting. All machines and software must be open source and audited by third parties. People should be able to verify their ballot's choices were recorded as expected online. And so on. I realize some of this may run into limitations of secret ballots, but we can perhaps come up with technical solutions to allay those fears (like issuing one-time use logins for each election that have no PII tying a ballot back to a specific individual).
Fury Meta Skills: Metaphysical Skills to forge your own reality
See my reply on a parallel comment. I will be moving to a more diverse area.

It's remarkable how "I don't like the Bay Area" translates so easily to "racist dogwhistle".

Quality of life means things like:

- "there are children in my neighborhood"

- "I don't need to keep looking over my shoulder at the playground with my children"

- "I can get a 15-yr mortgage on a house that is 2000 sqft, be financially stable, and safely deal with recurring large medical expenses that we will always have due to pre-existing conditions"
Apple starts selling yoga mats
It's not only about money though, it's also about megacorps extending the code but keeping that code to themselves, not contributing back.
> Russia really did interfere in that election and in your rush to point out something dumb that Dems did, you’ve ignored this crucial fact.

Well democrats clearly interfered in the 2020 election. Emergency laws to allow no excuse mail in voting (which turned out to largely favor Biden), social media banners in your face from every angle to vote vote vote, just go out and vote, don't think - vote, quick - vote, here let me hold your hand to help you register so you can vote! One of the things Dems blamed for Hillary's loss was low voter turnout, so they pushed extremely aggressively for higher voter turnout to change 2020 election results.
Sure, but a large person is probably eating 3x as much food.
This is debated. Some people say that AWS will never touch AGPL software which accomplishes the goal of not getting AWSed while remaining OSI certified.
So, this is one example of many, many users who haven't killed anyone.

If "one incident is too many", then marijuana must stay strictly illegal and violent video games must be banned, because both have nonzero body count IRL. Remember Harris and Klebold?
Yes, it's non news dressed up as news because it feeds into fear. Ideally people would read the story, come to the same logical conclusion you did, and disregard if they aren't in the small group of people who know they have this issue.

Expect similar scary headlines when news outlets realize that they're not recommending it for pregnant or nursing mothers or children (because they haven't had chance to study the effects and effectiveness).
Again, I am sorry for being direct, but this does not make sense. If a Venusian man is immortal, then the "axiom" (preposition) that all men are mortal is false. In other words, the issue is not that the preposition "Socrates is Venusian" was missing but that the preposition "all men are mortal" is false.

It is possible to develop significant mathematical theory without using some axioms. For example, mathematicians sometimes choose not to use the "axiom of choice" when working with Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. That does not mean that mathematical theorems proven without using the axiom of choice are invalid, even if you later assume that this axiom is true (or false).
Impressive, a throwaway account that uses the very controversial summary that Barr wrote quickly before the report was released and without Mueller's re-reading.
Here's the follow up from NPR where Mueller later distanced himself from this obviously misleading summary: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718883130/mueller-complained-...
"Potentially saving lives" is a really dangerous way to choose whether censoring speech is ethical.

Squashing what one might think is dubious criticism of police potentially saves lives, too.

Not too long ago Youtube was removing videos criticizing the CDC for not advocating for masks... Squashing criticism of the CDC during a pandemic seems like an action that could potentially save lives, too.
Youtube has no more obligation to host these videos than your local coffee shop has an obligation to host an oral reading of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. This lack of obligation is not censorship -- it's private property rights and the free market in action. If you want to hear a recitation of the Little Red Book while you sip coffee, you are free to patronize a coffee shop that will do so, or even start your own coffee shop. Likewise, you're free to use a different video platform, or start your own.
The other side had hordes of FBI and DOJ professionals digging every nook and cranny for years in an attempt to find evidence. That did not stop anyone from screaming "Russia collusion" all over social media and the 24/7 news cycle.
Mainly through the Pocket mobile app. Sometimes I do a more custom solution.
You really think the story is any different in many parts of California?
> So in your case “pretty anti-censorship” means censoring what you don’t agree with is fine?

I like ideas that I don't agree with when debate is healthy. I don't like when people who hold those ideas just keep shouting the same thing over and over without actually engaging with the rebuttals presented--frankly I find that behavior reprehensible. I have sympathy for people who want to suppress that sort of behavior, which is what you're picking up on from my previous comment, but I'm far from convinced that it's a viable solution.

Mostly though, this conspiratorial content is so obviously damaging and in bad-faith, etc that I don't care so much about imperfections with respect to free speech ideals, just like I'm not very worked up that Germany bans holocaust denialism.

> About them being loud, how can they be “loud” when none of the media is representing their case?

Because social media exists, and because the POTUS is using his enormous platform to the same end?

> This act of censorship is showcasing very grim future where absolute minority gets to decide what tune whole generations are playing to

This has always been the case. Traditional media is exactly this model.
In this case, one also assumes that Musk will continue to spend a fair bit of time in the state. Low-profile people can usually get off with just paying taxes in their home state even though they spend a lot of their time at company offices, conferences, etc. elsewhere. But presumably there is some threshold beyond which you're supposed to be filing taxes in other locales.
As a technical answer: this is about the federal program, and SPARC isn't part of it, while ITER is.

More practically, Commonwealth & other private fusion efforts have been advocating for (A) federal funds to be allocated to solving the thorny nuclear materials science issues common to (essentially) all fusion schemes (B) a NASA-COTS-inspired cost-share approach to building the eventual pilot plant. (Presumably the industry players would like to get federal support for building their pilot plants (like ARC), much the way SpaceX got support for Falcon 9 / Crew Dragon development.)

This plan reflects (A) for sure, and a step in the direction of (B). I was involved in the early stages of the community input to the plan. I think there's openness to increased partnership with industry like this.
Low-effort what-if scenarios don't deserve much consideration.
The cynic in me sees this, which is just the latest move in a series of overreaching actions being taken by the big social media giants, as an effort to get Section 230 repealed.

The more blatant they are in their partisan actions, the more they rile up the opposition and the more the pressure on lawmakers to repeal Section 230.

Once that happens, they get to have full control over the content on their platforms "because the law makes them liable", and they never have to worry about competition ever rising up against them ever again. They basically got to ride the coattails of Section 230 to the point of a monopoly; repealing it just gives them everything they want.

Ah whatever, censorship is not the answer in a free democracy. Freedom of speech has to be more than just a law written on some paper somewhere for it to mean something; it has to be something the people believe in their day-to-day interactions with their fellow countrymen. I suppose that's gone at this point...
I was being told my data would be stored securely and deleted when the case was closed. The investigation is closed, but because both the prosecutor and culprit/perpetrator are going to a higher court, I am not sure its already destroyed. Given the nature of my profession I don't feel like I need to fear about my DNA, but I understand YMMV.
This reminds me of the lengths Ernest Hemmingway went to avoid paying taxes - he kept meticulous diaries, in part because that's who he was, but also to prove to the US and Cuban authorities that he didn't live in their respective jurisdictions long enough to be taxed at <whatever rate>.

Of course, the Castro government seized his assets in Cuba come the revolution, so I don't think it worked out for him in the long run, financially speaking.
That not how VC's work, they invest in places where they know the laws, customs and markets. It is more common for teams to nove to place where there are VC's, thanthe other way round.c
>"There are a bunch of ballots that were entered into the counts without proper chain of custody" that can be easily proven or disproven."

And unfortunately due to the amount of bad faith in play, I would be concerned of the party hoping that there was a break in the chain of custody to employ an insider to perform a break in the chain of custody in order to get the result they want... throwing everything out in hopes of getting a different outcome. The conspiracies will never end. Sigh.