skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree and questioned if I should just leave that part out.

However words are important and are used to disguise what is occurring.
Had the parent wrote "presumably not compatible with a non-democratic legal system." they would have been more accurate.

Rule of law is not accurate either. Purely democratic states can fall well within rule of law. The issue here is that there is some law that democracies cannot pass because it violates a higher law.

Piketty writes about this issue in regard to slavery. To free slaves (in the USA) without compensation was regarded as not following within the higher law which is ~ the law of property.

The same issue would be faced with trying to free the "ill gotten gains" of "bankers" from their holdings.
The childish subtext of our propertarian legal system is "new rules dont count".
Why should we believe you if you don't cite any evidence for your claims?
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/08/texas-ken-paxton-ele...

Having satisfactorily worked hard to make voting as difficult as possible in Texas, he wants to use the state's limited funds to sue other states that dared to improve their democracy. This is the government of Texas.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. The GP comment may have been lightweight but this is basically trolling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've already been breaking the site guidelines quite a bit with this account. Can you please not? Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333233 are particularly not ok here.
Yeah, I believe it's the introduction to a series of articles (TOC on left), but it isn't super clear from the text.

Lots of interesting stuff on that web site though. (There are a handful of other article series too.)
first of there is some dirt here , Tesla dropped the ball on this one. They made it personal and could have handled it more gently. But then again i have a bias towards TESLA and im more inclined to trust press release by lawyers which is legally admissible. There is no doubt she was traumatised by the sudden nature of it all. although i hope after all this PR spotlight she will have her name cleared and one of the many HN comments who are disgusted by the way Tesla handled this will recommend her for employment in their organisation.
I do not miss Google's monorepo one iota. It had huge benefits, but after stepping back far enough the result also easily begins to look a little like Stockholm syndrome. Anything they want to open source they basically have to rewrite from scratch because of that godawful repo, never mind reasoning about what actually ended up in your binary on any particular day when depending on such a gargantuan tree, and of course not to mention what by now is likely 10s of FTEs dedicated simply to managing the tree.

Those millions of LOC mostly only existed to serve their own purpose, and possibly the intrigue of many a doe-eyed eng. If I came across a codebase like that today, I'd likely be quite vocal on reallocating the evidently outsized engineering budget to some more productive use
In all of these threads on Apple, Google, Facebook and friends, its fascinating that the overall tone and position of technologists has changed over time from radical cyberpunk freedom to "monopolies aren't that bad really".
FB are pouring billions into oculus. They intend to operate it at a loss for a good 5 more years.

Only when AR is a thing will they stat to push for profitability.
Is that ubuntu 20.04? I've used 18.04 extensively and it's just:

apt-get install docker.io
Here is a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming#La...

JavaScript itself was inspired by Self in this case.
MelissaDB
There was no influence. Attempt to interfere != influence. And the evidence for that is non-existing. And Steele dossier was created by russian drunk.
Computation existed for more than 40 years before apps started making a ton of money on it. If BD develops robotic platform-"workers" that can be trained in 5 seconds to do any manual labor, that's the new "app" that one would be making money off of in the future.
Maybe a basic question, but is cash flow a concrete expression of the time value of money, a concept taught (abstractly) in intro econ courses?

I didn’t understand the value of either until this article, but they seem related.
I'm not sure I expect much to change. There's an insane amount of competition in this space, and they all seem to fall prey to the same dark patterns and mediocre execution. I'm starting to question whether any company can successfully squeeze into the already extremely tight margins that restaurants operate in without increasing the cost to the consumer in some way.
In some sense this lawsuit is saying that the regulatory approvals of the Instagram and Whatsapp acquisitions were errors.

How is the market going to fix that?
Interesting take given that the US has made more gains on carbon emissions without being a Paris Accord signatory than most of the signatories have...
>They'd be attracted to municipalities that they know will not prosecute them.

Sounds like you have a really solid understanding of the sociological nature of crime! /s
National security, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (Cfius), has gone as far as requiring the repatriation of Grindr after it approved a deal for it to go to a Chinese company.

https://www.ft.com/content/30408b0e-50e2-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626...

edit: not the FTC, it was Cfius
Nationwide farmers' strike shuts down large parts of India
https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/12592878791775313...
> It's playing whack-a-mole with illegal child abuse imagery.

As opposed to the alternatives? Have a moderator sitting in a chair behind every single person using a computer? Outlaw storing/transmitting any user generated data, and turn the internet into Cable TV 2.0?

Playing whack-a-mole with law breakers is a fact of life in a non-totalitarian society.
>2040s? 20+ years from now!?! Too fuckin slow!!

I'm impatient too, but perspective is important here. Even the leading private efforts don't have plans to put power on the grid for at least 10 years. Also, before this report, there wasn't an official plan of any sort for the US federal fusion program to get to a pilot plant -- so this is progress. (FWIW, I participated in the early community input stages of this report.)

>For all Musk's faults, he recognizes such timelines are untenable, and pushes people to do the 'impossible'.

Musk has a good nose for what's possible to commercialize in a medium-term (5-10 year) time horizon on a few $bn budget. I have reason to believe he's considered fusion (he has a background in physics after all). Instead, he's made a play in batteries & solar.

Now, if someone had ~$1-5bn to gamble, it might be possible to leapfrog the existing crop of private efforts by ~5 years. Just pick one concept and build the engineering-breakeven experiment (gain ~ 20) without the intermediate scientific-breakeven experiment (gain ~ 1). It would be significantly riskier, but it would save time if it worked.
That's what we do nowadays, is it? Somebody walks and say something against our preferred political ideology and we throw vague threats of ruining that person's life with false accusations?
I hope you realize how your argument is in bad faith.
Good, so we agree that this is not an anti-censorship issue but an anti-trust issue.

Private entities can't censor anything, anyhow. Independently and freely choosing which sentiments to platform on a private service is not censorship, no matter how far anyone tries to stretch the definition of the term.
I look at how the world around me seems more polarized and divided with every passing day and I find I am unable to agree with you that we have progressed far.

But I do agree with you on the point that the training does not need to be with weapons, I would rather have some sort of mandatory Civilian Conservation Corp program than military service program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
The same with me.

There is a comprehensive description and history of the Tyler Slide Rule in German language at:

https://www.rechenwerkzeug.de/tylerbausatz.htm

There is also an online simulator and a downloadable kit for making your own Tyler Slide Rule on the same page.

A very good review in English language is available here:

https://osgalleries.org/journal/pdf_files/9.1/V9.1P23.pdf
Have you read the complaints they've filed? It's public information.

"No evidence" is the lie here.
If California wanted to make those subsidies conditional on folks like Musk maintaining residency, they certainly could have done so.
> The ideology is still in our blood and we keep the open source circle of life running.

I'm curious about what exactly you mean by these two sentences. Particularly the second one.

Is this circle you speak of the one where a company announces an open source product and once the goodwill—that open source development gives it—ensures a number of contributors and early adopters, helping the project grow until the company thinks it's good enough to monetize, at such point they close it down and start charging everyone; then they start a new open source product with the extra money, rinse and repeat?
Agree. VR is not more than a novelty and gaming tool yet. Gaming is a huge potential, but I think the real use cases haven't been proven out yet.

I'm still a believer, but I suspect there are other non-VR technologies that either need to catch up or just figure out how to dovetail for VR to be anything other than a novelty.
Forget metaphors, here's a real example.

You have stock in amzn, say you buy at 3200 a share. A year from now it's 4k a share. 800$ capital gains...you get taxed on that.

It is a terrible tax law bc it is unrealized. What happens when you get taxes on that 800$, then the share drops down to 3300, you sell at 3300, making a REAL profit of 100$?

Do you feel fairly taxes at 800$ profit despit having only 100$ profit?
I'm glad to learn about alpha-liproic acid, and on the same theme the beta (and alpha1) blocker Carvedilol taken 1h before has been found [0] to reduce hyperthermia and other cardiotoxic effects of MDMA without "affecting the subjective effects".

This is your threadly reminder to practice harm reduction if you plan to take neuro- and cardiotoxic drugs like MDMA =)

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22404145/
> WhatsApp is basically the norm outside of the US from what I can tell?

Which would mean that the lawsuit would fail. pretty much everything that happens outside of the USA is irrelevant for this lawsuit.
Based on this GitHub comment[0], it appears the answer is yes although it requires a little additional customization out of the box to prevent N+1 queries..

[0] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/39341#issuecomment-72725...
Open core makes sense if you can provide a "light" version of your product that is already useful, and most professional users of your free product will eventually get into a situation where the "pro" version will save them money or will have a feature they dearly need, so they upgrade.

I'm not familiar with Mapbox JS toolkit but maybe the problem was that the free version was too useful already, so only a few of the free users saw the need to upgrade? In that case I can understand why they put it under a commercial license, because providing free support for the project can be a burden.
Of course we cannot simply trust that the good side will win. The people that want to retain the democratic system have to defend it. And I count myself among these people. It's hard for me to watch what is happening, too.

All I'm saying is that democracy is built upon free speech. Without it, it cannot work.

You cannot defend a system by destroying its foundation. It's a trap.
Ha, I meant linux folks don't mind inconveniences like having to recompile the kernel, like having to use jtag and having the take the back off to access switches. :)
It very likely did. The Muller report showed that it did, at least in all likelihood and given the evidence available. The report just stopped short of taking the next step, calling it proven and going forward with whatever the next step would have been.

It did so because of the very high bar Muller set himself given that the accused was the sitting president, that the DoJ under Barr claimed wrongly that the president is immune (=he were a king), and that he wanted the democratic system to act on the findings in the report.
They've been kept afloat with a lot of DARPA funding. Not a good ROI for the taxpayer.
1) the Meuller report is conclusive: there was collusion.
2) Trump did, in fact, say that. It’s recorded video.
3) Trump did, in fact, suggest that injecting disinfectant might be a treatment for COVID-19.
This is kinda unrelated to the Minecraft stuff, but I agree - it's very difficult to Windows anymore.

Windows installation now requires you to be logged in with a Microsoft account (no way to set it up with a local account).
I suspect the plan is to make ad blockers impotent by reducing their ability to adapt quickly to new forms of block evasion

the ad blockers slowly become more and more useless, people stop using them entirely, and google's the biggest winner
Are you in favor of allowing anti-vax and election fraud lies to be spread unchecked on FB, Google, YT, Twitter?

Talk all you want of freedom, but freedom is already reigning on these platforms, and SV's techno-libertarianism has clearly failed our democracy.
Yeah I wonder how many people work for Musk and pay taxes to California while building EVs that reduce pollution in California.
Mastercard/Visa and the patriot act.
Hackers revive dead version of kids game
I think the difference between now and the past is that everyone can exercise their constitutional right to free speech. Free speech used to be somewhat expensive -- by the time you've gone to journalism school and have been hired by someone with a media outlet, you've become the establishment. You want to tell a good story and hold those in power to account, but you know that you have a reputation and you can throw it all away if you don't think carefully about which stories you write and publish. All of this care has made free speech look pretty good and that's it's a must-have for society. (Using your words, to some extent this is "private companies getting to decide what's truthful and what's not"; Facebook doing it is not a whole lot different than the New York Times doing it. The Times doesn't publish every "letter to the editor", and Facebook doesn't have to either.)

What I think is happening now is that free speech is actually free. Thanks to tech companies, there is no cost to getting your ideas out there. The problem is, you have nothing to lose if your reputation is destroyed by poorly-thought-out speech. ("Cancel culture" seems to be the workaround for this, but it doesn't seem very good to me.) The result is that we have decided that we don't actually like this whole freedom thing. But, I think it's actually pretty okay; you have to take the bad with the good (or the very bad with the very good).

We should all be vigilant about calls for regulating speech. It looks like a very good short-term solution, but it won't be a very good long-term solution. To have the best possible society, we need to confront the underlying issues head-on. It's not "fake news" or that people are inflammatory on Facebook. It's that they don't have the educational background to think critically about what they read or hear, and can't actually distinguish a flame designed to manipulate them from writing that is designed to inform them. They are also often so isolated they can't even begin to understand other people's perspectives, and so have no mental model of how to even interpret writing they don't personally understand.

As a society, we have to make sure that we fix this problem. We need every human being to get a great education. We need people to interact with people that look different from them from an early age. It will be expensive, it will be hard, and it will take a long time. But I think looking out 200 years, it's where we want to go, and we should get started right now.

Resist the calls to sweep posts you don't like under the rug, or even to make them illegal. It won't fix any of the underlying problems.
On a percentage basis, yes. But property values are so much lower that you're likely to come out ahead.
The prior administration was very cosy with Google and Facebook, which helped even more.
Cryptography as a field advances and the next generations are better than the previous. But even if md5 was pretty poor compared to modern hash functions, AFAIK there is still no working preimage on md5 (correct me if I'm wrong, maybe there's been recent development I'm not aware of), which means bitcoin would still be fine if it was launched in 1995 with md5 as its hash function! (assuming it had transitioned to a better scheme later to avoid collisions attacks).

In fact bitcoin is a pretty good counter-example to your point. It was launched too early, with a poor hash function[1], and yet is still a success.

[1] because bitcoin didn't used a brute-force resistant hash function, Satoshi's dream of “everyone is a miner” quickly disappeared a was replaced by a monopolistic cartel of professional miners.
It does read that way, definitely. (I admit I was a little surprised at how broad that seemed when I was looking it up!)
> Neither you nor the media are in position to disprove or prove anything.

Then what do people want? I'm not hearing simultaneous complaints that it is important for youtube to host these. "debates" so that the social media community can address wild claims and also that it is a worthless effort.

If random internet commenters can't make productive change in the crazy beliefs held by some people then great! I actually agree that is the most likely outcome. This means that nothing is lost if youtube says "we don't want to be the home to this debate".
> This is a big deal no matter what your political persuasion is.

Yes, attempted anti-democratic coups d'etats in powerful, established democracies are big deal.

> It's not just some crazy people claiming voting machines are controlled by the Chinese using mind control and a local judge throwing it out.

That's true; while not substantially different in the craziness of the claims, if it is thrown out, it won't be by a local judge.

> If they take the case it's going to be a very historic event.

If they refuse to take the case, its very historic.

If they take the case and then dismiss it on threshold grounds like standing or the political question / separation of powers doctrine, it will be very historic.

If they take the case and reach the merits, it will be very historic.
...and known backdoors, due to their custom implementation of the Signal encryption protocol.
1. The prohibition extends beyond cases of sexual abuse. Computer generated child porn without any actual victim is still illegal.

2, 3, 4 - I don't know how "people do it all the time" is supposed to be a defense. People jaywalk all the time too. It doesn't invalidate the law. The fact is these forms of speech are illegal and people get in trouble for them all the time.

5. People have a right to privacy and you can't use your freedom of speech to infringe on that. For example, I can't publish photos of you that I captured from a camera in a public restroom.

6. Yes, you are right this doesn't apply in your home. However it does apply in several public spheres. In most of this country, women can't even take off their shirt in public. You are right that obscenity laws aren't universally enforced, but this is a common charge levied against undesirables.

>Human freedom does not mean,"I will treat the universe like my personal minecraft game" it means, "These rights are universally agreed to be indispensable for the human condition and we will agree to gran them universally"

But these examples prove we don't "grant them universally". We grant them conditionally as long as you don't use them to interfere with the rights of others.
> The democrats were claiming fraud 4 years go due to a supposed Russian influence.The evidence was tenuous and circumstantial at best.

Every element of this sentence is incorrect. Democrats were not claiming fraud - they were claiming that Russians interfered in the election and Trump / members of his campaign participated in that effort. Russian interference is undeniable - Dutch intelligence literally has it on tape [1]. And the report issued by the Republican controlled senate concluded that members of Trumps campaign and other people in his orbit were exchanging information with Russian intelligence and coordinating with cutouts like Guccifer 2.0.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/ef3b036949174a9b98d785129a93428b
> Rather than eagerly loading the react-scroll dependency for this, they load it on interaction with the button, saving ~7KB:

My apologies for being negative but isn't it crazy it takes 7KB to scroll to the top of the page?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25364073.
I like your 2nd point!

On the first, I agree it's valuable in abstract, but not in the example I cited. There's room for the employee to grow and add more value to the team by rising above and figuring out why shit's so buggy to begin with (could be technical, process, human causes, whatever.) The manager is trying to tell them that. When they double down in their mind to "what 's most valuable is the thing I already happen to be doing, my manager is an ass" they are not doing the right thing for themselves or the team.
> For the record, I have not once claimed it's motivated by racism.

> Texas is still predominantly white. I'm wondering if that is the unstated preference here.

Sure, you didn't actually claim it was motivated by racism, you just wondered it out loud.

I think it's pretty amusing the only conclusion you can come to for why a person would possibly move from California to Texas is because of race. If CA has a kool-aid you've been drinking it.

I love where I live, in Colorado. I would not move to California. I'm not racist though, I promise.
Micheal Flynn did not go to prison. Flynn pled guilty when threatened with the prospect of his son being charged and railroaded as well. Once he retained new legal council, he withdrew his guilty plea. The DoJ dropped the prosecution after exculpatory evidence came out that was being withheld by the FBI. Judge Sullivan decided to keep the case going instead of throwing it out- and eventually Trump pardoned Flynn.

Micheal Flynn was being charged for lying to FBI investigators about sanctions, when the transcripts of the calls were finally released by the FBI, it turns out he didn't even bring up sanctions with Kisylak at all. The FBI also withheld the original 302 from the interview with Flynn, and Peter Strzok, who was later fired for bias, had re-written the second 302 that was used to imply that Flynn had lied to investigators.

What's not proven, but suspected, is that the entire call to Kislyak was orchestrated by the Obama admin. Expelling the Russian diplomats/spies when Flynn was already under surveillance prompted the calls between Kislyak and Flynn. Flynn was in a foreign country when this happened, and given his place in the upcoming administration as well as his role under Obama's admin, it was a near guarantee that he would be in contact with Kislyak. He called Kislyak on an unsecured line while in a foreign country. Flynn would have known absolutely that the call was being surveilled, but he didn't believe he was doing anything untoward. What he didn't know was that the FBI would use this as a point to attack him. Comey even jokes about how sending agents to interview a WH staff member alone without legal counsel would never have been acceptable, but that Trump's young and inexperienced administration didn't realize it in time.

But that's all conjecture. What is not conjecture is fact that Flynn did not lie to the FBI, and should not have been charged as such.