skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said, “Nobody attempted to overturn any state's electors.” I thought you might like to know that is not true.

I posted a video which calls for exactly that in 2016. It’s a pretty amusing piece of history actually.

To her credit, “Clinton’s team and the Democratic National Committee have steadfastly refused to endorse the efforts spearheaded by a group of electors in Colorado and Washington state.”

NY Mag wrote a piece on the eve of the electoral vote documenting the extent of the harassment campaign, including hundreds of thousands of emails, hate mail, and death threats. Of course it also mentions Russia.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/final-push-to-sway-e...
She was a GIS major who got a job running drag and drop BI software for Florida state govt. She's been called a data scientist by journalists who don't know what data science is, but think it sounds cool and bolsters their narrative that the governor of Florida is a very very bad, mean man.

The entire story has been a ringing example of how mainstream media outlets that were respectable 5 years ago have all turned into Buzzfeed.
what launched today allows you to use it even if you don't proxy your traffic, hell even if you don't have your nameserver pointed to cloudflare at all.
Oddly enough, the anarcho-libertarians that fill out the HN userbase don't want to talk about that at all.
Here's crazy case report of man who "overdosed" on placebos given to him as part of a blinded clinical trial.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17484949/

His blood pressure crashed (80/40 initally, 100/62 after several hours of IV fluids) and his heart rate was over 100 bpm. When he found out the pills he had taken were inert, he bounced back almost immediately.
Yes I did and after many days going back and forth and multiple escalations they rejected my request to change email on a member account. They explained it because email I used is using valid domain, they can't change it. Should I made a different typo I would be much likier.

Possible resolution is unlikely to be within their internal policies. Questioning legality of their decision is my only clean way out apparently.

If two parties enter contract, there always must be a way to terminate it by either party.
1) "The total rejected ballots data is not yet available for 2020." from the fact check. So how can the fact check be used to disprove Trump's statements, or that it "Didn't happen".

More worrying, its been weeks since the election, and we still don't have definitive results. You don't find that suspicious?
Most countries have final results on election night.
The obvious solution is to break up YouTube. Moderation doesn't scale. It's NP-Hard or whatever.

Dynamical systems theory tells us that when you have a large densely-interconnected system (like YT) you get dramatic behavior. In other words, YouTube is always going to create memetic storms and we can predict that (even though we can't predict the exact content of the storms.)

Adding regulators won't help.

Cybernetics revealed the law of requisite variety, to wit: "the variety in the regulator must be equal to or greater than the variety in the system being regulated"

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/LAW_VARIE.html

YouTube is doomed, the question is do we let it take us down with it?
> assuming it had transitioned to a better scheme later to avoid collisions attacks

Exactly. Collision attacks are fatal to Bitcoin, because they can make it impossible to achieve consensus over what is the valid version of the blockchain data. If you get advanced warning, transition is possible with some caveats. But hoping for advanced warning is risky when money is on the line (collision attacks can even be used to steal money in certain scenarios, eg with certain ways of doing multisig).

> because bitcoin didn't used a brute-force resistant hash function

That's really a topic in of itself. There is no such thing as a non-"brute-force-resistant" PoW function.
As a junior SRE that got hired in this role as a new grad, I find these resources quite handy for anyone that would like to step into SRE. I would like to add three other ideas

- Reading the SRE book from Google to get a glimpse of the SRE philosophy. A lot of companies rebrand their Sysadmin or DevOps roles as SRE because it's trendy. Many businesses do not need SRE and need to make sure they understand the idea behind it before doing so.

- Learning Golang for such a role is becoming increasingly vital. So many SRE tools including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Terraform are written, and extended, in Go that it's almost a requirement next to learning Bash.

- A lot may disagree on this one, but get yourself some certifications. SRE is kind of a broad role and companies do not know how to assess the skills of candidates, and unfortunately they often rely on certifications to do so. You don't have to enroll in the most challenging ones as a junior, but just one or two basic certifications to get a rough idea of a provider or service capabilities. Choose wisely.

It can be difficult to show off any personal project in such a field, but you could try to create your own infrastructure as a side project, self-host some services and provision them with Ansible for example.

But most importantly as a new SRE, find yourself a good team and good mentors within that team. Getting into SRE without any previous experience is a hell of a ride, but a very rewarding one. Like previously said, SRE roles are jack of all trades and the field is so broad you never stop learning :)
> without a huge cost overhead

DoorDash and Uber Eats are extremely expensive.
I can find my way easier in Google Cloud than in AWS. The services are also more polished and seem more mature compared to AWS. I'm about to give Google Colab Pro a try because the free version has been deteriorating.
Not off hand. About a year ago I watched and listened to a huge number of talks and videos on psychedelics in general and psychedelic therapy in particular, and it was at one of those that I heard an MDMA researcher mention this.

My best guess is that it was at a video of a talk or interview given on the Aware Project[1], or on an episode of the Psychedelic Salon[2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oErWkP157InE47YAuhzPg

[2] - https://psychedelicsalon.com/
If Trump was appointed President in a similar fashion to Hayes then we would suddenly care if YouTube or any other platform was censoring content that questioned whether this was legitimate or not.
Nobody suggested that Webkit isn't open. You have a nasty habit of putting words into other people's mouths.

It seems like you agree with the person you originally responded to, who noted that Chromium is an open source browser, and Safari is not.
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain"
Stackdriver Monitoring is now fully merged into the Cloud Console.
Ummm this country is built upon free speech ... all free speech from the dawn of time has either been true or false!

Youtube getting involved and hushing any type of free speech that does not cause physical harm or threatening to one's life is vile and disgusting period!

I am independent who leans republican yet did not/could not vote for the maniac.
Don't call it tech debt
I feel like YouTube is much less of a monopoly than Facebook. Facebook has strong network effects (i.e. everyone you know is already on it and you want to see what your friends post) whereas YouTube has much less of a social network element. Can't someone just host their videos elsewhere? I understand most random viewers are on YouTube, but if there was a niche video site for woodworking, chess, or bass guitar I don't think it would be too hard to convince YouTubers to go check out those sites
Serious question, why do we need ODoH at all? Isn't a plain proxy good enough to achieve this? https://www.pcwrt.com/2020/12/oblivious-dns-over-https-vs-do...
Yeah, they are basically the Korean equivalent to GE, Siemens, Philips, Rockwell, United Tech, Northrop, etc.
She only started recording meetings to collect evidence after being "bullied, humiliated, demoted and retaliated against in the most horrible way possible."

Seems ... justified.
Thanks! That's actually just a tease of an upcoming longer video.
Yeah we decided to have some decency and keep his pants on. :P I think everyone still gets the message?

We have built our own custom audio mixer to noise cancel the unwanted sounds without microphones and achieve what you are talking about, more info coming in a few weeks!
I don't believe, correct me otherwise, that there are any major religions whose main stream/expression universally taught that interracial marriage was a sin. Certainly some Protestants in 1800s USA did, but Christians in 200, 500, 1300 etc did not.

Atlantic chattel slavery could be argued to be crueler than ancient/traditional forms of slavery and hence a temporal decline in moral goodness from the middle ages to late 1800s. It may also be noted that in a low-tech society, feudalist and traditional slave economies may have had some advantages over e.g. a laissez faire wage worker economy. (In a famine perhaps? A question for historians). The cruelty of nature itself on human lives in a low tech society interacts with moral judgments about economic systems etc. in ways that complicate these questions - I would say be careful not to credit to improved virtue what is really the due of technological innovation.

A counterexample of moral improvement could be respect and care for elders and parents, broadly speaking. The point being only that the march of progress is not always consistent nor can it be counted on to be so.
Straight from the source: https://maps.org/research/mdma

MAPS does pretty much all of the coordination with the FDA and other regulatory bodies for making these studies possible.
I would like to have this for email.

I try to stay out of email except for defined time slots so that I don’t get distracted. But sometimes I would like to send an email outside those times.

Most clients require you to see your inbox if you want to send a message.
Unfortunately there's literally thousands of social networking sites, chat apps and photo sharing apps out there, and many of them have millions of downloads which keeps Facebook on their toes. Facebook can easily win this based off of that technicality.
The 'best' ones currently do, which is the challenge. To wit; LiFePO4 (I don't know how to do subscript on HN, sorry) chemistries aren't exotic, and tend to be more 'stable'. But, you lose about 14% capacity per volume. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery...
Stock market is real, what's fake is all the modelling they do in excel.
Is memorizing a string of words a key to what makes the human brain unique?
> There's no way to provide access to the social graph in a privacy preserving way.

If we're not okay with other companies having access then why is it okay for a single company to have that access? Do you know and trust every facebook employee including those that don't work there yet with your data? Do you trust that that data will be securely handled when the company is sold after declaring bankruptcy?

I think your objection is an accidental straw-man. I don't think it was intentionally made, it is a valid thought to ponder but it should exist independent of the question of sharing data.
I think it becomes a "defaults" problem. Lots of people do not understand or care about "the social graph" so when prompted for consent to allow someone else to export them in a social graph, they simply click whatever gets them into Facebook the fastest. That also has the negative effect of giving companies an out when confronted with privacy concerns. It's like shrink wrap licenses. You can always say someone agreed, even if they didn't understand it in any meaningful way.
Even better, Standard Oil.
Some say if you disagree with someone else's speech you should not just ban them, you should defeat them by arguing against their ideas. But when state-sponsored actors spread fake news and divisive ads at a massive scale on social media you can’t simply defeat them by arguing against their ideas. How do you counter it? By buying opposing ads on Facebook? Even if you have pockets as deep as Putin’s, what a waste of money that would be! This is a new world and the old methods are no longer applicable. Communities and social media companies will need to engage in some censorship.
It’s a cultural thing, and changing cultural habits takes generations. A meat replacement is something that can be done now.

I’m got a huge meat eater, but I crave burgers every once in a while. Unless you have some way to codify that out of me, an impossible burger is the next best thing.
In other words you just wanted to make a comment highlighting your anti-black resentment, and then off into the bushes again.
I'm not tied in any way to a nation state hacking group, and through my albeit limited experience in cybersecurity it's clear to me that most attacks attributed to nation state actors could probably have been done by private ventures.

And there is, of course, very strong incentive to make such claims.

I'd imagine my experience isn't unique, and that many people came to the same conclusion.

I'd say that your conclusion isn't warranted.

There have been comments stating with high detail why exactly it's probably not a nation state actor, but ultimately it's a case of the burden of proof being on the party that makes the claim, and generally those parties just can't substantiate it.
To be clear, I did not say this is part of a larger coverup, as you seem to believe. I stated, quite clearly, I see no evidence that anything particularly strange has happened.

I suggested that a major tech firm banning content which challenges election results, not only this most recent election, would be considered a red flag if it were to happen anywhere else.
That's just not true. You can fully move and start working for a non-CA company and you wouldn't be paying CA taxes.

You make it sound like if you ever lived in CA you have to pay CA tax for the rest of your life until you retire lol.
How stupid is Youtube to think this will do anything but make people believe all the lies they're hearing? "Would Youtube do this unprecedented thing unless it was true?"

Why not just let the marketplace of ideas shake things out? They can't magic away people's beliefs, they aren't the CCP. So they might as well let people hash it out.
It scales the sampling rate at data collection time based on your active view counts and at crunch time based on the time range you are looking at.
The big issue with the unlock password being used for FDE is that the average user unlocks their phone many times/day, often in view of cameras.

If I worked for a LEO and was asked to "crack" a locked phone, I would start by looking at surveillance footage from anywhere the suspect might have pulled their phone out of their pocket.
I think there is a lack of imagination here.

Perhaps a "social graph" shouldn't belong to any company. The concept itself might be anti-privacy.

Perhaps it's time to move back to simpler things like OPML. (Which people seem more comfortable sharing freely - not sure if that's still a "social graph" tho.)

Perhaps specific relationship details shouldn't be housed in the social network - just the permission to follow.

Perhaps companies who house a "social graph" should be regulated - similar to what is done with medical data. It should be a toxic substance.

I just think we're a long way from doing this right and there are a lot of untried options - and I lack imagination as well.
Push messaging is a service, just like anonymous proxies are a service. It doesn't make sense to put them into a platform if they can be built on top of the platform. It would make sense to put something like this into iOS because it can't be built on iOS. It doesn't make sense to put it into AOSP.
Supplements are not mandatory even on semi-legal MDMA assisted psychotherapy and in research studies. I don't know were you got that from. If they are effective or not is also a matter of debate, the specific action mechanisms are not well understood even in simple models like mice, and all the evidence in humans in anecdotal.

They are only recommended and it's usually preloading and not postloading.

The most common side effect on people with ASD is anxiety and difficulty concentrating, and on people with PTSD it's anxiety or depression. They happen in around 50% to 25% of the population and they also happen on people taking placebo. Here we are talking about people _with an actual serious mental condition_ that is leading to chronic social anxiety or dissociative episodes even when not under the influence of any drug.

That's all data from MAPS sponsored published research studies. I'm not sure where you got the idea that supplements are mandatory to prevent a really large comedown period, but I think you might have confused yourself from reading too much anecdotal data, or you have been lied to.

Data gathered from surveys on recreational users point out that depression happens only in something like 10% to 15% of the population but it's tricky to get conclusions from self reported studies.
Neandertals Buried Their Dead
Doesn't look like it tracks conversions? Will this be available in the future?
Genuine question, is mdma cardio toxic? Thought that was cocaine?
I watched live as Trump suggested during a Covid-19 briefing that injecting disinfectant might be an effective treatment.

That’s not some MSM lie, that’s just what he said. Why deny it?
You are free to disagree but for me a company like Youtube who has a quasi-monopolistic dominion on internet video (yes people say go to dailymotion etc, they are being disingenuous, for many reasons youtube is the only good option) is playing a dangerous game by selectively enforcing what content to host. If tomorrow they start removing BLM videos or even worst any video critical of Google I expect you wont just shrug your shoulders and say "Well, they can go and create their own video service, nothing is lost"
> It isn't Zuck's fault nobody else is as competitive as Facebook is

FTC seems to be arguing that at least part of the reason why that is the case was the employment of illegal tactics by Facebook.
He faced a tone of consequences, just not criminal or civil charges in a court.
Parallels to McCarthyism striking
California has a country-wide monopoly on weather conditions that many people consider ideal. This attracts people, which raises prices, which results in a proportionally better talent network, as higher income professions are better represented. It's hard to give the government much credit for that.

Also, Elon has been paying taxes there for how many decades? Is he forever indebted to stay there now? Ridiculous.
I’m curious, how long does it take in Scandinavia to fire someone? From my experience in large American tech companies, it usually takes around a year of documented underperformance.
No, communists want to abolish the private means of production.

To reciprocate your condescending comments I could say you should read a little bit before making a fool of yourself.

I'm not wasting my time anymore with you.
> California has about half the deaths per capita as Florida does, another warm climate, fairly dense large state.

That's not a fair comparison!

Florida's age demographic skews elderly because it's an extremely popular retirement destination for folks living along the eastern seaboard.

This census website is a little out of date [1], but it has good proportional data:

* California 62 years and over = 4,253,854 (12.6% total population)

* California 65 years and over = 3,595,658 (10.6%)

* Florida 62 years and over = 3,245,806 (20.3% total population)

* Florida 65 years and over = 2,807,597 (17.6%)

Florida is a retirement home. The reason it has double the deaths is because it has double the old people. That counts for a lot when age is the largest risk factor.

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/california/demographic-...
Couple of changes here that would be directly useful in what I'm working on. Does boost my confidence - as a dev newer to Rails - that the rough spots I'm spotting are recognized by other folks as well. It also tells me I can be more proactive in proposing changes, or at least in addressing those rough spots.
Grubbhub, Seamless, Eat24, Foodler, DiningIn. They were all around and fairly large by then. But they didn't go big on spending VC money, so over time DoorDash wins. Pretty interesting, however it turns out.
And Centurylink.
Amazon can be split on other dimensions, e.g. AWS as a separate company, delivery as a separate company.
Well, it's not all that relevant to the conversation at hand, anyway... :)
I acknowledge that the Russians were, are, and will continue to interfere in elections. Our federal government is the most powerful country in the world, everyone domestically and internationally want a piece of that - corporations, countries, and special interests. Our government does it to everyone else, also. I don't agree with any of it, but that's what happens.

The big irony to me is that supposedly the biggest Russian bit of mischief, involving the Guccifer person you mentioned above, was to expose the DNC emails showing the corruption going on there, how back-room deals screwed over Bernie and a lot of Democrat voters. I have a hard time understanding why this is not talked about more.
Really? You can't go 10 minutes in many LGBT spaces without hearing someone using the f-slur in an affectionate way. Also banned is "b!tch", which is not really considered that offensive in most of the US between female friends, as well as "pu!sy", which is maybe vulgar but not an offensive term at all (I notice "dick" didn't make cut). Maybe for a site like Hacker News those terms aren't usually appropriate, but I see Lemmy \more as a replacement for Reddit and I'd hoped it would be inclusive to everyone, not just to those in their bubble.

I don't know how their system works, if using these words just means the comment won't be shared or if it flags it for a moderator's attention, but I don't think so. Here's a direct quote from a developer:

> I'll have to think about this. Hard-coding it means I don't have to do a database migration every time someone comes up with a new slur. And putting it in a DB table means someone could very easily remove it by deleting every row of that table, which isn't good. I want to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

In my view this goes against the core point of the fediverse. The whole reason I like the fediverse is because it democratizes control by giving it to the users instead of a small-group of potentially self-interested owners.

(After googling I found out "n!ps" can be used as a racial slur but I associate it with a funny slang for "nipples". I wondered how the AI conference dealt with this but apparently they changed their name a couple years back to avoid connotations with the slur so maybe it's more widespread/well known than I thought.)

(edit: censored slurs. asterisk didn't work because it triggered the markdown so I used !)
> Are you also 100% not committed to the 1969 moon landing being an impossibility? Big Foot?

There are obvious incentives and a huge, immediate payout for using voter fraud to overturn an election result. And voter fraud is an old, recurring phenomena - even if you only consider the history of the US elections[0].

On top of that, we're talking about an event from barely a month ago. The Russian collusion thing from the 2016 election went on for years.

While I would be astounded if the voter fraud investigations yielded sufficient evidence to overthrow the election results, you'll have to forgive me for not outright rejecting that potential. Of course, I would also be extremely skeptical if that did happen.

Besides, why do we have to be 100% committed to anything right now?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas