skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The monopoly argument feels questionable. FB's acquisition of Instagram and Whatsapp has certainly solidified their long term standing. There is so much behavior crossover between the three that at some level it's become just a branding exercise. Whatsapp is entirely replaceable by FB messenger, many instagram features are directly implemented in FB and vice versa.

These are all serving slightly different parts of the market, but the market has TONS of social networks that are entirely outside of FB control. TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, even an ecosystem like google accounts or apple accounts, these all are large competitors to different aspects of what FB offers.
I mostly agree, but on the other hand, if you were Google and wanted to fire Gebru, how would you do it? It's not like there's a better alternative, just firing her normally would probably have been worse.
There are some minor restrictions in addition to the nags. I think you can't change your wallpaper and some other silly stuff. You might also be limited in the types of updates you get.
This is simply false. Chains like Walmart and Best Buy own their inventory (i.e., they hold legal title).

They simply might not have forked over the cash yet, which is very different--for a variety of reasons, the actual transfer of cash can take place weeks or even months later. (This is how invoicing works with most companies. If you are an independent contract, you know exactly how this works.)

Very few products in retail are sold on a consignment basis (meaning, when the product sells). Generally, only new products or slow-selling big-ticket items (like refrigerators) get sold on consignment (or similar) arrangements.
Really shouldn't be using storyboards, because of errors like this.
Ah, that explains why the government is going after Facebook then. They must have refused to pay the protection money. That's the best explanation.
I remember Musk giving a big presentation showing off the model of this rocket when he announced the Mars plan, and I laughed because it was obviously a very rough, ugly aluminum grain silo that was vaguely rocket-shaped and not any sort of real rocket.

Well...that thing looks exactly the same. Shows what I know.
This proposal would seem to negatively impact the wealth generated thru the exploitation of the poverty class
First, I clearly flagged my post as sarcastic.

Second, my phrasing was actually pretty neutral, such as describing Flynn as a 'retired general' rather than several less complimentary but wholly factual characterizations I could have made.

Thirdly, your assessment of their significance is an speculative opinion about the future rather than a fact. It might turn out to be correct, but if I had suggested such events happening in 2020 a few years back most people would have said I was being absurd.

Update: Here's a relevant story that was published after I had written my previous comment. While similar isolated incidents have occured in the past, I stand by my argument that their confluence these days is a political abnormality in the US, out of character with elections over the last several decades.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/dec/09/police-investi...
The spending on the military is actually much larger, because the US also spends a lot of money on veterans.

$250.9 billion for 2021, according to this article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-2509-bi...
Building sky scrapers is way more expensive than building single family homes on empty grassland, where the land is also cheaper. Of course the city should build up, but building out is the real way every US city has kept housing affordable (look at the study I linked above)
Usually they only sell to businesses. For "privacy".
The proposal isn't to make everyone a millionaire, it's to give everyone an index investment at birth that they can't touch until they retire, at which point it would presumably be worth around a million dollars.

btw I'm not saying this is a good idea, I just wanted to make the point that there is plenty of money to pay for something like this.
Bloody Hell, that was the best thing since the Falcon Heavy!

Amazing, flying wheat silo!
My, how the times have changed.
The Ministry for the Future
Radicalize? Trump has pretty much said he condemns KKK even after winning the 2016 elections (30+ times and counting). I am sorry to say but your hatred seems to blind you to the facts.

> Trump was also a Democrat prior to Obama’s election

And he was a Republican prior to being a Democrat. It doesn't matter what party he belonged to. What matters is what views he held with respect to racism, KKK and white supremacy. It is more important to focus on views and policy than on party affiliations. Party affiliations mean nothing. Policy is everything.
Love Keybase, will continue to use as long as possible. Running a little company with it, too.
Cyph is utterly shit in comparison, and I even paid for that.
I am concerned at Zoom’s purchase but not that much yet.
My understanding of GP point is that majority of social media companies is negative to Trump and positive to Biden. The difference with Russia is that media is controlled by government, but the original point is that it is healthier when media scrutinises government
Not a teacher but know a few well.

The professional culture of teachers tends to flow downward from ed schools, and is pretty different from the professional culture of programmers. If you think of a tech company and then roughly invert the proportions of engineers vs. office managers and HR, you will have some sense of it. To first order, it will be a lot less autonomy than you're probably used to, and at a much more concrete level of direction. There is a sharp delta in the amount of paperwork, sometimes understandably and sometimes not. An admin that will run interference for you on those fronts, or simply not interfere with you, can make a big difference in QoL points. "I teach for free and they pay me to do the rest of the job [of which there is an awful lot]" is a pretty common sentiment.

I had some very good teachers for whom I'm grateful. In retrospect, they gave up a lot in order to teach. Best of luck with your decision.
As someone who is multilingual and often watches political commentary about US issues by non-US creators, for non-US audiences, in non-English languages—I wonder if this new policy will extend to material that is not primarily for US audiences.
Because we are faulty creatures with faulty institutions. Let us work with what we have. Authoritarianism is mostly never better than democracy. Absolute democracy isn't always better than authoritarianism. And in this case it is largely irrelevant because the government is not the one censoring people.

The arguments about if and when companies can exercise these rights are good to have otherwise we may end up in one of the extremes.
Disney seems to have a different idea of "public domain" from you. Why don't I have the copyright to my life, if Disney has the copyright to Iron Man?
I don't believe I'm "whining" about anything.

"host your conspiracy theories"

I don't even watch anything political on youtube. I use youtube for music and learning about hobbies.

I still think it's worth talking about the precedent that youtube is setting here, and it's not productive to be combative about it. Of course youtube can censor or remove whatever it wants.

My main point, anyway, was that I dislike the "just use a different platform/site/company" argument, for the reasons I outlined above. Not because I think youtube -has- to host any sort of content, nor did I ever state that.
Cool story but not really sure where this is coming from:

>Youtube caved to corrupt government censorship

Youtube, the private company, is doing what it thinks is best for the business. They are not the government, free speech does not apply, there is no censorship against any right.
Planned. They wanted to test restarting the engines as if it was reentering the atmosphere.
As is Yogi Bear. It's unclear what either of those self-generated factoids has to do with the article.
> It's unfair to Zuck for being very visionary about this.

I personally disagree with the idea that Zuck was being a "visionary" here. I don't think buying Instagram for $1bn was a particularly visionary move but rather just... cautious. Facebook also bought Gowalla, Lightbox.com, Friendly, TBH and tried to buy Snapchat, Musically (since merged into TikTok), Houseparty, etc. All these are/were competitors and threats. Some were small, some were big. Some worked out and grew, others didn't.

The Instagram acquisition happened fairly early on, so it makes sense that it was worth a lot of money to Facebook. Now that Facebook is huge it can get turned down by a company like Snapchat, and it'll just go ahead and copy/improve its features with its much-larger team, capital, and user-base. Back then, buying the competitor was the best option since Facebook didn't have as many resources or reasons to believe they could compete as effectively.

Moreover, I'd argue the reason Instagram worked out so well is precisely because it got acquired by Facebook. Had Instagram had to figure out its own monetization strategy, find its own clients, compete with the established players, build its own infrastructure, etc. it probably wouldn't have been able to grow as much or as quickly.
> I didn’t say anything about Biden dude

Yes you did not. I am not saying you did. But I made an observation on how Biden was given a free pass when he literally not just passed racist statements but passed bills that incarcerated tens of thousands of Black Americans and destroyed families. Providing a counter-balance to the biased narrative is important in this day and age. Media is completely biased. So is Big Tech with its censorship. When all streams of information are openly supporting one side it becomes even more important to speak out the Truth. I wouldn't have cared much if the media was evenly balanced. If it had taken both candidates to task. Had held both accountable. But the media has completely lost credibility. Even if I'll end up being disliked and downvoted for it so be it! But if I feel something is wrong I'll say it. No matter what people think.

> As I said the fact that actual white supremacists, not from the media via their own boards, believe Trump is there guy tells you all you need to know.

This is truly ridiculous to be honest with you. I am a brown guy. Does my view count or only what white supremacists say count for you?
The scope of the effects. Firearms can be pointed, explosives have a damage/kill radius. It is not permissible to arrange so that a person is brought within the range of effects of a weapon without their consent.

In the case of explosives, that means you need enough property to contain the effects. In the case of nuclear weapons, it basically requires an entire planet.
> Using URLs means there are no rules enforced

How is using a URL different from using a NPM package? In both cases you can specify a module, a version, and need to trust some remote server that it is sending you the correct files.

> the code hosted at that URL can change out from under you without any warning

The same can and has happened with NPM. See left-pad.
Apple and Google Ban X-Mode from Collecting Data
When Doordash can deliver food from restaurants around the world straight to my door, they can be the "app store" of virtual (kitchen) brands.

Right now DoorDash can't even offer 90% of local restaurants and zero of my favorites - it's just Groupon 2.0.
or we could just make it much easier for people to break off and start their own business
Currently I'm relying on the poster (a) identifying the year of publication in the title and (b) trusting that the year claimed in the title is accurate.

So it's not automated. I'm not sure if automating such a thing is doable in a reliable way, but I'm happy to be corrected.
That's a pretty quick backpedal from your previous post.
"Disinfo for thee, but not for me..."
You've linked to the second interview he gave about Charlottesville. In his first statements[1] in an interview on August 12th, 2017, he famously didn't condemn white supremacists who murdered someone, saying instead that he condemns "egregious displays of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides".

Then, several days later in the second interview[2] on August 15th that you linked to, he equates the violent white nationalists that murdered someone with what he calls the "alt-left", the purported group that the murder victim belonged to, saying that he thinks there is blame on both sides. After asking for further clarification, he says that there were fine people on both sides. Only after further questioning, and in a separate statement, does he condemn white supremacists.

People were criticizing him for his initial equivocation on August 12th, comparing the white supremacists who murdered a person to the victims of their violence, and the fact that he didn't name or condemn white supremacists. In fact, when journalists asked him to condemn them, he walked away from the interview. He refused to differentiate between the two.

Then, on August 15th, he defends his initial comments through his continued equivocations in the second interview.

It isn't unfair to criticize inappropriate equivocations, especially when it took him 4 days to muster out a condemnation, but still only after doubling down on the equivocations.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/12/tr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-lef...
> aka, the state. The formalization of the social fiction.

No, rights. the state is distinguishable from rights. They are both social fictions but they are not the same social fiction.
Agreed. There seems to be this assumption among certain partisans that the only reason people disagree with them is because they’ve been lied to. If everyone just knew the truth, then we would obviously be in unanimous agreement on policy etc. First example that comes to mind is the oft-repeated assertion that working class Republican voters have been duped into “voting against their own interests”.

I’m of the opinion that misinformation, while dangerous, is often incorrectly blamed for problems that are really caused by fundamental disagreements in morals and values.
No, that's not what is taught, even subliminally. One might expect a more cowed populace were that true. Rather, public education in the US needs a deep overhaul, and a renewed discussion of what we collectively believe necessary to know and understand, and how best to accomplish that.

The public are not stupid. They have been tragically under-served by US public schools. Need to fix this.
The problem is facebook is wiping out the alternatives. In Australia there is a decent buy/sell site called Gumtree but its ultimately doomed as facebook marketplace uses its massive pre exsting userbase to wipe it out.

Facebook either buys or crushes all competition which doesn't have billions of dollars to push back.
Lapham's Quarterly is great stuff. They had a 50% sale a couple of months ago and I bought...a lot of their back issues.
Hmm I don't find this article very convincing. From my perspective this is a security and sysadmin nightmare (for the reasons in my link above). Lockfiles actually provide repeatable builds almost all the time, the only times they fail are when depending on non-JS builds like node-gyp or other C++/etc dependencies where you can't lock on system build tooling versions because they're outside the scope of what npm can lock.

The real appeal of Deno for our org is the stdlib, which as a side effect means we can depend on fewer packages. The wholesale removal of the package manager seems like an unwanted pain that will only keep us away from switching and gaining the stdlib benefits.
The problem is that when a side has no real standing, they'll Gish gallop.

A good example of this is flat earthers or anti vaxxers. They've got no scientific or reasonable leg to stand on, yet they publish so much unscientific garbage as to be garnering support. It will LOOK like they are more credible because the shear amount of garbage they push will go unresponded to by the other side. Meanwhile, they'll just simply ignore the other half of the argument. They refuse to address those points while making a ton of their own.

It gets worse. There's starting to be major bubbles of misinformation forming. So broad that the arguments made are almost impossible for the other side to decode. A great example of this is something like the comet pizza Q anon conspiracy. If you don't know, it goes something like this "A pizzeria in DC was a central location in a pedophile ring which the Clinton's had deep connections to."

Where does a reasonable debate even begin with something like that? It's easy enough to show that "No, that's crazy" Heck, even minimal rational thought should be enough to debunk this garbage. Yet it still flows (so much so that someone decided to show up armed to demand the pizzeria release the kids[1])

Yet, when a debate comes up, all a Q anon follower would pretty much have to say something like "Yeah and I bet you like comet pizza as well". That sort of attack would be devastating in the eyes of those already tuned into Q anon crap yet would be completely reasonable for an outsider to be like "Yeah, I like their pizza".

These techniques are effective which is evidenced by how much misinformation flows throughout the internet. Giving equal time and access to both sides doesn't appear to be effective in combating this misinformation. There's got to be a better way.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533941689...
Why should I? I can pick a single point out of your many with which to make a comparison without being obligated to compare them in their entirety and also without discrediting the entire comparison itself, whose purpose you seem to think is proving CA is the best state.

Would it? How do you know?

It's not that nothing has gotten better, but it's obviously relative. Everything has two sides.

- Marijuana was legalized and the convictions of thousands of inmates and priors adjusted accordingly, bettering the lives of thousands.

- Better protections and benefits for those here illegally.

- LGBT protections and rights under the law have greatly expanded.

- Worker protections from discrimination and predatory employers has expanded.

- Most types of crimes have decreased (and if you think things have been wrongly decriminalized, I'd be interested to hear what they are).

- Home values have probably doubled in that time without property tax increase.

- The tech industry continued to grow and employ more workers.

One could go on.
I wonder why, since AFAIK git can use pluggable remotes. You can't easily get the sharing aspect, sure, but how hard is it to find/build a git backend that encrypts everything with a GPG key on push?
Yeah the search could use some improvements. The firs result for "pizza" is "Fruit Cookie Pizza" which I think almost no-one searching for pizza will want.
How’s that relevant?
Duopolies are bad, but I'd say still better than monopolies.
hey shae - can you email me? I'd love to learn more about your project. noemit@ucla.edu
Except that the man himself made some comments to let others know he is not happy with California not bending over backwards to his whim.
Craigslist has had it coming for a long time.

There are other marketplaces that proved the value of identity and reputation like Mercari and offerup in p2p before fb marketplace launched its own.

I do think FB would stomp or buy other marketplaces, but that there is even a smidgen of opportunity in this space in the US is due to the neglect of buckmaster and newmark.

They went from benevolent dictators to doggedly avoiding any increase in value to users.

This has happened at great detriment to Craigslist users who have been scammed, dealt with well-known but terrible landlords and wasted countless lifetimes due to the shoddy communication features of the site.

I am no fan of Facebook, but have only crocodile tears for Craigslist.
"Not to put too fine a point on it, but the current system depends on keeping a cadre of people on the financial hairy edge so that they can be coerced into doing the actual work."

Not just to do the work, but also to do the dying.

Enlisting in the military is often a resort of financially destitute people who don't see many other options.
Many states have two party consent for audio recording, for example. Not every interaction is or should be freely licensed to both parties.
I enjoy the outdoors here more than most but the taxes are bullshit.

Tens of thousands per year in state income tax. The nation's highest sales tax on top of that and we barely even afford school buses for my kids.

Why? Because all that tax revenue is going into my landlords already fat pockets. Prop 13 is over $30B per year -- that's 4x the size of the NSF and $7B larger than NASA. That stupid law ruined the state and I don't fault anyone for leaving. I'm trying to figure a way out to.
Want is different from entitled.
No, you're making a good point, but my meaning was that TypeScript is a language that is always (and has always been) written as an improved, benefit-of-hindsight, good-parts-only language. It does of course allow any old JS to be used, but that has always been for the purpose of allowing code already written in JavaScript to be called from code written in TypeScript. No TypeScript project, library, or tutorial is ever written like old JS, so TS's allowance of old code that was already written as JS is like a C compiler's escape to assembly, where inline assembly is valid code handled by the C compiler but isn't really C.

Traditional JS with new features added, or traditional Node with new features added is the opposite case, where the old standard is being extended, unlike the TS or C+asm case, where the new standard has a mechanism for calling back to the old if necessary. (Deno could still be what I'm talking about even if they added a Node-emulation-library to allow it to call modules written for Node, but I have no idea whether such a thing is planned.)
Adobe Releases the Last Flash Update Ever
Being of a more wholesome mind, I was picturing an animation starting with a partridge in a pear tree…
> Additionally, we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules.

Then STFU and do it, it's a 30s change. If you haven't done it yet, it's just another lie.
I think GP meant, that and the offense are different because of the real harm done.
Yes, on reflection, I could have phrased it better. The government is for sure a powerful entity though and although the media can push misinformation, there's multiple outlets (that aren't all working together to push the same message) and only a single government per country. Anything the government says or does immediately becomes news and gets reported everywhere too, and few have a megaphone like that. Just having a lie with no evidence being discussed is enough to give it some legitimacy.
PhD here as well.

My advice is to learn as much as possible from experts who study their fields for a living while you have access to them.
>One potential resolution I see is to say that if you see someone making his own nuclear weapons without telling anyone about it, this is strong enough evidence that he's going to try to do something terrible (i.e. it looks like a crime in progress) that you would be justified in using force to stop him.

Only 2 nuclear weapons out of the 10,000s made have ever been used. Almost no one announces they are building a nuclear weapon, it is usually done in secret. So this argument does not really hold.

What I think most people do is they see from a practical standpoint that having unrestricted access to nuclear weapons is extremely dangerous and work backwards to justify why it fits their ideological framework.