skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it has teeth - for some values of "teeth".

Yes, the FTC wins lawsuits like this. Not always, but some of the time. And if they win, they can in fact ask for Facebook to be broken up, and get it.

And even if they don't win, Facebook has to take it seriously, which takes time and energy from executives. They have to at least consider the chance that the FTC will win, which means that they might think about a settlement rather than rolling the dice on a trial. How much that settlement changes things depends on how the sides negotiate, which depends (at least in part) on how much confidence each side has that they would win.

Does this suit have enough merit to succeed? I have no idea.
1. I'm not the one suggesting there are universal truths here. You are the one who established freedoms as binary. Something being "hotly debated" and "not black and white" is a point in support of my argument.

2, 3, 4. I thought not owning the rights was implied by my comment. I edited that to make it more specific. I don't know how potential for people owning a copyright and publishing their own works applies to issues 3 and 4.

5. You do have certain expectations of privacy even while in public. Laws against upskirt photos are one example.

>And yes we grant them conditionally, with the unstated assumption you lose them temporarily if your actions stop other people rights.

So do you know agree that there are "buts" on freedom?

> It certainly not the case of these youtube channels, they are not restricting anybody's freedom.

I have the right to vote and have my vote counted. These Youtube videos are trying to invalidate my vote from being counted.
I have my doubts, simply because the markets would be significantly disrupted if the government can retroactively “unapprove” a merger over a decade (or longer) after the fact - AFTER the government previously approved it.

You’re better off trying to right the wrongs through litigation that sets a better market environment.
Isnt that the case of network effects though ?

Facebook started off in a market with Orkut, Myspace, Friendster and along came Path, Twitter, Google+. Facebook had network effects and people gravitated towards it.

So this is basically saying network effect is bad. You cant get too popular.
> besides being popular

You're not wrong about any of this, but that final phrase weighs far more for most people than anything else. It is a communications app after all, and is only useful if there are people to communicate with.
Can you expand on "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"

Like, Google (or other company) still has to deliver to production and they do so using their existing system. I believe not supporting the existing system means not having deliveries.

I am actually facing a similar issue in my current job and it isn't an easy thing to move away from.
This is a good overview why you should be skeptical.

https://spectator.us/reasons-why-the-2020-presidential-elect...
You love corporate consolidation that much?
Instagram was not the "main game in town" when Facebook acquired them. It was one of many photo sharing/editing apps and had far less market penetration than it does today. Why should Facebook be punished for acquiring a promising app and turning it into what it is today by integrating it into its ecosystem?

Hindsight is 20/20 but at the time of acquisition it was far from a sure thing and it's safe to say that without Facebook resources Instagram would not be what it is today.
Would you trust the government to run a search engine so it can have direct access to your search queries?
Irrelevant to zoom acquisition, I refused to go anywhere near it from the get-go because this is not something that should be run by a for-profit company.
yes, see how the collared rkelly accomplice here :

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/09/google_search_arrest/

the judge are not supposed to allowed fishing expeditions, but in this case, the lookup requested was quite narrow. they still requested a search warrant.
This is not the case for likely 90% of the country. Note that I'm currently in Chicago where we have much better public transit (in addition to rideshare) options than you do in Los Angeles, but most of America doesn't have the population density to support it.
> Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they're on their way to low-level addiction.

What's the difference between this and being prescribed an antidepressant? I'd argue there is no difference except that self-medicating is much less likely to work.
Gavin Newsom's businesses collectively got nearly $3M in PPP loans
YouTube chooses not to display media uploaded to their servers. That is not censorship, that is discretion.

Censorship is going around to all the platforms and forcing them to remove content which has already been or is on the way to being displayed to the public.
I completely agree, if you're acting outside of personal bounds this does not exclude you. ex, generating profit by selling ads, which gets taxed as income.

Probably shouldn't have tacked on the company bit.
Let's try to stay at the higher levels of Graham's hierarchy pyramid.

What's the specific stat or claim you disagree with? If you read the article, you can see both the author and several interview subjects explicitly clarify severe times they're perfectly fine with porn, as long as it's of age and consensual.

What's a source on Facebook having millions of child pornography videos? If they did, I'm sure NYT would report on them and Mastercard and Visa would investigate them, too.
5-HTP will do nothing to your serotonin levels if you are healthy. That's mostly anecdotal evidence from communities that are usually looking into using it with more frequency that what most experts agree that you should be using it.

It is recommended as post-loading by psychiatrists but also based on their anecdotal experience with patients.
I would like to see a link. I just googled off of memory and used the least partisan link that I could see which was the BBC.

Edit to add: I have not followed the news that closely, so I am open to new information. But I think this exchange proves the overall point on censorship, there were extraordinary claims that were refuted for having no evidence. Investigations were had, preliminary reports said no misconduct but now you say that later reports are more damming.

If we treated the situation the same, the news and twitter would have not amplified the voices but silenced them and we would have had no investigation.
These wouldn't be FOSS, and wouldn't have the effects people hope for.
Fusion will likely produce a larger volume of waste contaminated enough to prevent easy disposal. That could very well make the waste more expensive to deal with.
SSR wouldn't mean it'd be faster because it could have still been coded like spaghetti.

You sound reasonable and I'm not directing this to you in particular, but there is a clear bias on HN that SPA sites are inherently slower or less performant, which is not true at all. Either can be fast or slow.

The debate around SPA and SSR is so heated and centered on the front-end bit that people forget that UX performance depends a lot on the server. Websites are client-server systems regardless of the front-end architecture.

I'd wager that the case of GCP is no different and that the perceived slow UIs are caused by problems all across the stack.
>There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California

No. There's a trend of rich people commissioning articles about them leaving california. Articles which provide literally zero evidence of a trend.
This smells political, possibly retribution for crimes such as fact checking. It’s without merit. The complaint states that Facebook should have competed with Instagram and WhatsApp instead of acquiring them. But if it did so successfully, it would be likely to run afoul of antitrust law anyway.

And since when is a company under any obligation to provide its customer list to up and coming competitors? That’s ludicrous.

It’s interesting watching all the ways America tears itself apart.
AdGuard dev here. Can confirm - it’s not sufficient. But the reason it got less criticism is a little different. Content blocking in Safari was never good, and content blocking API when it just appeared was a move forward. The problem is that it’s been five years and it hasn’t got any viable improvements. Manifest V3 in its current state is already way ahead of Safari. But how good will it be 5 or 10 years from now?
No, you're allowed to talk about whatever but people think YouTube has a responsibility to stop the spread of things that have been shown to be false and of which there is zero evidence dispite lots of searching for evidence.
That really is some of the lowest quality, most content-free technobabble I think I’ve ever read.
It's actually a bit backwards.

A private person recording someone illegally is a crime. In some circumstances (for instance to prove a witness in lying), it can still be admissable. [ref https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/secret-recording-con....]

Now is it is worth admitting to a crime that can carry fines of up to $2,500 and/or imprisonment for up to a year (misdemeanor) is a hefty question. In addition, the violator may be subject to civil liability in the amount of $5,000 or three times the amount of any actual damages sustained as a result.

If this was a lawsuit due to serious, career ending malfeasance against you, where a key witness would be trivially proven a liar and you could end up with millions in a settlement? Maybe? Could they turn around and sue you for 3x the settlement? Sounds like you'd want to talk to a lawyer first.

Not happening most of the time though.
Saw them protesting around SF as well
yes, that is a good clarification. Probably shouldn't have tacked on the "not a company" bit.

A person without a company can act outside of the personal bounds.
Yes, and it says republicans and democrats disagreed with the conclusions. The appendix written by each side is totally different.

Ok forget about trump Russia collusion. What about when they said Russia was trying to interfere with the Bernie campaign. What are we to believe? Who decides what to censor?
Agreed - its "an" investment strategy, not necessarily the best one. And if you have Softbank's backing - maybe a valid one? Kinda works/worked for Walmart/Amazon.
How to give feedback to a developer
Are you arguing with bad faith, or do you think that's what parent commenter meant?
"Pull panda" for your repository:

https://gh-api.clickhouse.tech/play?user=play#c2VsZWN0IGNvdW...

(replace condition on repo_name to your favorite repo)
Uh not really, Oculus has been working on AR for years and has prototype glasses in the field. They're probably ahead of Apple if I had to guess. VR is the bootloader for AR.
I know its weird, but if I don't like YouTube here in the USA, I can choose to watch videos somewhere else, it isn't my only choice. Except in China, YouTube isn't a choice at all (even via a flaky VPN, video streaming is iffy).

As another analogy, there have been resemblances made between Trump and Xi as both being authoritarians. However, one was unelected, and one declared himself president for life. Huge difference (and if Trump overturns the election, that difference will be gone, but that's a huge "if").
> But if you've ever done MDMA you'd certainly know it was a placebo

What's the dose used in the experiment? Similar to a recreational dose, or much smaller? If it was much smaller, i could imagine people not really being able to tell.

EDIT: The paper [1] says there are two MDMA 'sessions', about three weeks apart, and:

> Each partner was given 75 mg MDMA in the first MDMA session, and 100 mg in the second MDMA session, with an optional supplemental half-dose 1.5 hours later in both sessions (participants were informed that the supplemental half-doses could prolong the therapeutic window of MDMA effects).

I am told that a typical recreational dose of MDMA is 100 mg. More concretely, an Orange Tesla is ~250 mg, so make of that what you will.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2020.1...
I think the accidental straw-man is actually your reply. People give Facebook their access willingly and they know what information they input into Facebook.

Should Facebook have all the info your bank has for instance? Or auto mechanic, your realtor? This is a slippery slope of logic of shared data for all leads to.
Post logic: Here is an example of a company taking their software closed sourced after previously being open. Also, AWS.

AWS uses the crud out of open source. They admittedly "steal" it in that they fork it internally, applying patches, add UI, and then sell it. They still depend highly on basically all the open source software in the world.

That Amazon does this is a rallying call for new licensing schemes. Large monopolistic companies such as Amazon need to be legally shut out of this type of abuse of open source software. So long as we go "It's fine. You have to allow this to truly embrace open source" then we will continue to see Amazon try to shut down all "open core companies" that they can by outright stealing their IP.

Open source is not developed primarily by hobbyists or aficionados. Most open source imo comes from closed source projects being open sourced by companies in order to gain free testing, free work ( contributions ), and more market share ( exposure / interest )

Heralding the death of open-source seems like nonsense just to grab attention. I agree that the large companies are trying to crush open-core companies that are small, but it is obvious they are doing this and there will be a backlash from those of us who don't appreciate their meddling.
The default block lists on many adblockers will also block common analytics platforms.
It shouldn’t be a manager’s worst nightmare to have someone underperforming on the team. It’s just inevitable once you are managing enough people! If you clearly communicate to someone that they are underperforming and honestly try to help them to improve, you’re doing them a favor in the long term.
The issue is that it hasn't translated into local production fabs. Which means that the semiconductor ecosystems in Belgium is still really small.

IMEC's research mainly benefits companies like Intel, Samsung, TSMC. The only relatively local link is ASML.
Is it? Where? Which winning campaigns?
Its a common joke in teen tv shows, where the main character is supposed to obtain alcohol but can't so buys non alcoholic beer, but everybody thinks its the real thing and nobody notices.

Not sure how based in reality that is, but seems to imply a similar effect for other drugs might be real.
Hide and Seek: Master AR Occlusions
Neera was clearly saying that she believes that Russia’s actions affected the election results.

Trump made two distinct and unrelated claims in that tweet. One claim was a lie, one was true. You dishonestly pretend there is only one claim. Neera was not addressing the true claim about voting machines being touched.

Trump has a habit of mixing in things he’s not accused of and running on them to acquit him of the things he is accused of. He consistently did it by attacking nonexistent and unprovable accusations of “collusion” (an imprecise term that is not a crime one can be charged for) when the actual investigations, hearings, and findings centered on Russian interference and any of the campaign’s coordination of it. This includes direct communication with Assange as well as the Trump Tower meeting over Magnitsky Act sanctions.

Your NYT article, in opposition to your stated conclusion, addresses infiltration attempts related to voting and voter registry systems, not the DNC hack.

Nadler’s claim is only unbelievable if you memory-hole Trump’s attempt two months ago to start another misinformation and character-smear campaign against Hunter Biden. The impeachment hearings specifically addressed and exposed the early stages of this campaign.

66% of democrats in that poll are wrong, so we agree there.
> Theres no way you can conceive of truly amazing software yourself, unless you are linus torvalds

False, in two ways. Truly amazing software do get conceived by an individual. Linux has many flaws.
I heard about this here in Austria that Swiss laws are way more business friendly at less worker friendly than here, basically reaching at will employment.
It's not clear it's cardiotoxic even on heavy users. Most research points out that it is, but the mechanism is not well understood so it may be a correlation as most heavy users will not be leading a healthy vascular life.
My getting on in years parents pretty much feel the same way. They live just outside the delivery range of every restaurant because their house is right on the border of the city. When these delivery companies started popping up it was the first time in years they got to have someone else cook for them since they have a hard time walking.
Rather over-the-table. France pushes Toulouse every chance it gets, the city basically only consists of plane and rocket factories. When the A380 project went to search for other sites to manufacture some parts of the plane, European cities and governments went all-in with dubious offers, fast-tracks and regulations-be-damned to get the site. E.g. for the Hamburg site, read about "Mühlenberger Loch".
This was originally a metaphor used by a judge to support restricting the speech of anti-draft/anti-war campaigners.
I don't think it's a good example of appropriate censorship.
Let's say that 30 years from now some of your beliefs would be considered extremist. What value judgement do you place on yourself today?

Can we live in a world where "if you believe this now you're evil but if you believed this 10 years ago you're cool."? Replace 10 with any number of years.
I don't think that platforms can be neutral, or unbiased.
It's shame it's Hyundai Motor Company and not Hyundai Construction Equipment.
Sure, by "gained power", I mean that they went from fairly important group to _the_ leadership of the party, actively purging other groups, and their decisions were the de facto decisions of the party as a whole.
Drug users like to see themselves as experts. It makes them feel smart. It's really that simple.
Slow performance is always my impression with RAIDZ. There's an obvious performance hit if you are coming from conventional RAID setups (like mdadm). I've even seen some unbelievable slow speed like 1 MiB/s in the middle of copying a large git repo (which have a lot of small files, repeated git pull also creates a lot of fragmentation). But my experience was based on early ZFSOnLinux, perhaps a real BSD will perform better. Anyway, I knew ZFS's first goal is data safety, not performance, and it's why I could tolerate the performance...
Expressing an opinion is not obscenity. Showing images for provocation is obescenity. The I know it when I see it argument is ridiculous. The Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. California that obscenity is content that is without socially redeeming value to that which lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Now you can argue the points of what has literary value, but the written word has always had literary value, no matter how grotesque.

We don't burn books in this country.
It's a clear example of California's policies. There are many more but you have a strange defense of this state that I can only assume is due to being insulated from the experiences of millions and discounting them as false.
To be fair, that Whatsapp deal still looks insane. Still no meaningful revenue coming from that end 8 years later
You can login to the MS Store independently from the system account.
It has basically already been to court several times and been flung out repeatedly. With lawyers stating they have nothing to present. There is a certain point where we need to own up and remember saying Biden rigged the election is slander and YouTube is well within it's right not to host it.
It's not any different than splitting a company up into parts. Historically, that hasn't disrupted the markets as much as it's made sharedholders more money ... because the multiple, smaller entities are more valuable than the whole.
> I started looking into the Elixir/Phoenix world just for LiveView but I don't really want to switch languages...

Yes, you want to add languages! Join us...
Clearly you've never seen one of the kegger pranks where someone buys a keg of non-alcoholic beer and everyone acts drunk :P
Careful how? Do you typically "stand out" as in being overtly gay, or wearing anti-relgious clothing?

My own (black) experience in West Texas (Ft. Bliss), "Careful" meant driving across state to see family in Houston and absolutely not stopping in certain counties, not even to piss or stretch my legs.

After getting stopped, pulled over and ordered out of my vehicle while an officer stood back at his car several times and interrogated about "where are you going" "where are you supposed to be" "who do you know in this town" and "where did you steal the car from" (all separate experiences) while doing nothing but trying to take holiday leave.

So... that kind of careful for some of us.

edit, before anyone even makes the attempt:

- I was not driving erratically

- I had no bumper stickers on my car signaling political viewpoints

- I was not wearing any 'curious' clothing other than a shirt and jeans

- I had functioning turn signals and brake lights

- I was driving a legally purchased, registered and insured vehicle at the speed limit (or +5mph) consistent with how I drive literally every day
...but your examples are completely unrelated to the conversation we're having here. Censoring content to millions of people is in no way similar to requiring a dentist to be properly trained and licensed.
The problem I have with this statement is recently(past 4-5 years) the left has gone extremely far in their beliefs and ideas. Take real life examples like - completely disbanding the police, emptying prisons, outlawing all criminal laws. Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems. Destruction of city statues without due process. These ideas are dangerous for any functioning society and saying every idea from 30 years ago is bad or backwards is wrongheaded.

In addition alot of the far left is pinning 'nazi' or 'facsict' on any politician or idea that does not meet their ever changing ideas. Even feminists are now getting trampled on if their ideas don't meet up to the week culture temperature checks.
That's only a technicality in internet discussions. Actual antitrust law in the US does not have a binary definition of "monopoly" that lets large companies off the hook.
Since 1.1.1.1 introduction, Cloudflare is able to perform HTTPS man-in-the middle attacks even for the websites which do not use Cloudflare CDN: they could forge DNS answer and proxy HTTPS traffic of any website via their CDN, instantaneously issuing a valid HTTPS certificate, as they have root certs and could issue certs for any domain.

Since ODoH they could perform such attacks without being spotted by ISPs.
Nice.
I moved to PA from MD. At the close my career, I chose to move to PA as they do not tax income from retirement accounts like IRA, 401k etc, nor pension accounts. It's quite a bundle. Retired, now in PA I pay no state tax.

Honestly my tax arguments with MD were furious and frustrating. It's difficult, once you start paying MD, to escape their claims on you. Even while working out of country for multiple years running, MD will claim you owe them taxes, unless you have changed domicile in the manner they demand.