skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would one determine whether information is false or not? It's easier to publish disinformation than it is to disprove it, and while some people are clearly better at sifting truth from fiction than others, I suspect everyone has beliefs that are based upon false information.

Moreover, this isn't censorship by the government, but by Google. Why should a private company be made to disseminate disinformation when it doesn't want to? A key part of freedom of speech is the freedom not to speak, and mandating that a company publish information it doesn't want to is surely just as bad as forcing it to censor information it does want to publish.
When I see the word ‘blazing’ I cringe. Anyone else?
Instead of pointer, you can do keyboard-everything, which some UX enhancements go for, like the browser extension Tridactyl.

If you look at a lot of interfaces that are built for a specialized power user (e.g. cashiers), they avoid pointers and have keys for everything. Also, AutoCAD, the last I used it, looked to be centered around command-line primacy.
Why Copper Jewelry is good for you?
It has nothing to do with "who's in charge," but it has everything to do with the specific policies that have been put in place, and Gascon's policies have been terrible.

I think our justice system desperately needs reform, but it needs to be done in a competent way. Could it be that your own prejudices are preventing you from Gascon's half-baked efforts with an objective, critical eye?

The fact that even questioning the effectiveness of an individual's policies gets you labeled as "prejudiced" sums up so much that's wrong with modern progressivism.
This type of blog post is the most dangerous — it has very detailed examples with math and diagrams, which lead the reader to think the author is an expert. Even I — someone who used to be a tax lawyer, but focused on federal issues (not state/local) — was second-guessing my expertise when I read the article.

Everything about it sounded wrong to me, but I couldn't imagine someone taking the time to write up such a detailed blog post without either being a state/local tax expert, or consulting with experts prior to writing this.

I hope that the author can learn more about the topic and revise the post, so that more people are not led astray by incorrect theories and examples that are detailed but not accurate at all.
> Could one make the argument that entities with an interest in destabilizing our democracy should not be able to inject propaganda into our discourse because “free speech”?

One could also argue that censoring one side of politics deepens divisions and drives people to polical extremes. I would rephrase "democracy can’t survive without free speech" as "democracy can’t survive without free political speech"
Yes, sorry for eliding this.
Misinformation? This is literally a very untested vaccine. There are literally no longitudinal studies. You should be weary of this vaccine. I am not an unintelligent person. I have a bachelors and masters and I am very weary of something that has been spread through its trials this quickly.

The people who you hear say "I don't want to be guinea pig" ... they're not wrong. This vaccine could be perfectly safe .. or we could see a lot of edge cases when you start injection a million people at a time with it. On top of all of that, you can be sure hospital will be sure to force front line workers to take it first.

Please, let's be honest about this. Why are we suddenly trusting drug companies after disasters like viox. I'm not against vaccines in general. I've had all my MMRs, took my Typhoid, Meningitis, Hep B for certain overseas trips. But those took time to go through trials and were vetted for safety in a way this simply hasn't had the time to.

People are going to be weary and that's not wrong. That's not "anti-science." This is legitimately going to be an experiment which, if they get wrong, can potentially harm a lot of people. You only need to look back to the 70s and the Swine Flu vaccine disaster.
I think you're talking about Philip Guo's lectures. They are great! Here's a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV58Zm8FuBL6OAv1Yu6A...
I'm not questioning that these headphones are a pretty bad deal, just mentioning that $500 is nothing special for headphones.

Also the high end is a lot more than just pro headphones, in fact I'll go ahead and claim that most mastering-oriented headphones (not that many, I'll give you that) I heard tend to have a tonality that I dislike.
I noticed this too. It unfortunately fits into a general trend of neo-Nazi/white nationalist material being shrouded in obscure, metaphysical language.

I think it generally makes sense to be somewhat tolerant of reactionary views in people who have suffered for class or substance reasons, like this author might have. But this author crosses the line into hateful recruitment, as their other posts indicate.

Mods: please consider removing it.
The WHO has even been telling countries that the lockdowns don't work and I feel like everyone has stopped listening.
Would have love to see ZM and WORK merging, maybe in a parallel reality.
The campus was beautiful but the inside it was a cubicle farm.
You made this same argument here about 80,000 deaths ago.
The link in your comment doesn't have anything to do with what you've said.
Most content is "delivered" in the form of suggested videos from within youtube itself and other social graphs that seem unwilling to concede that they might be part of the problem itself.

The rate of spread is a problem of YouTube's own devising based on clicks, views and likes.
Remove this gamification and you'll see less engagement, hence less scale of radicalization.

With youtube labeling people "radicals" is a deliberate polarising term designed to do little more than tar and feather people into a specific box. Just like segregation, just like Protestants, just like the German Jews... Etc. It's very unflattering.
I am worried about potential long term risks of the vaccine. We didn't know COVID could have long term side effects until well into the pandemic. It's a tough choice to make, what if the vaccines cause long term problems? What if I don't take the vaccine and get COVID and develop long term problems...

It's hard to trust pharma companies. I lost a lot of people to overprescribed opioids and that shook my trust in the healthcare industry.

I don't at all miss the "life" precovid, and my job doesn't require me to be in office or travel. My family is closer nowadays than before. So I'm not chomping at the bit to get the vaccine.
How are you making most of your life?
We all have finite time. Are you living it to the fullest?
What are you doing to make yours and others life better?
https://expose.sh
It's a tool that will expose a local web server to the internet.

Used for webhook testing, client demos etc.

Simpler CLI interface compared to ngrok.
Truerng claims this on 100MB of generated data:

Entropy = 7.999998 bits per byte.

If you can fit this quality on a usb, why didn’t motherboards contain a circuit like that?

Maybe they do on server boards?
> A thing that keeps worrying me is the amount of people I've seen/chatted with (empirical evidence) that don't trust these vaccines. The most common comments they make are: "I don't want to be guinea pig", "How do I know the government won't control me", and more conspiracy theories. All of these fears seem to come from misinformation on the internet, friends and family get a ton of memes/fake news through WhatsApp highlighting the unproven negative effects of the vaccine. Is there any effective way to control the propagation of misinformation on these platforms? How would one even get started to tackle that problem?

Whether or not you agree with their opinions or the sources they derived them from, what you're advocating is dangerous. Who should have that authority to determine what is and is not misinformation?
In fact, if someone is falling off a building and you shoot them dead midair, that’s also murder.
> I’d like to sit down all university professors who teach compiler courses and teach them a course on what’s relevant.

I'm sorry if you've already answered, or if it comes up a lot, but could you toss up some buzzwords/more industry-standard things you're looking for? I was going to look into this course, and still probably will, but if you're saying it's not relevant I'd like to know what to be looking into instead?
If you don't like YouTube's content policy then use something else; as many other people are now doing.

Vimeo, DailyMotion, PeerTube, BitChute and so on and so forth.

I'd hazard to say that this marketplace of providers and their variety of policies is quite American.
That option is PHI though and would itself receive skewed results because of that.
Please open a documentation issue at https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues describing exactly which internals you would like to see explained: indexing, ufuncs, linkage, random, dtypes, ... and what format you would like to see the documentation in: text, video, lessons with questions/answers, ...

As for python internals, https://snarky.ca/ has some great short high level “how does this construct work” text explainations.
Yes but in practice it means that reselling old used stuff is now taxed, which of course discourages the reuse part of the reduce, reuse, recycle paradigm.

FB marketplace has the same tax requirement, so that only leaves cash transactions on craigslist now (which people probably wouldn't pay the tax even if were required).
If the bad guys can point an X-Ray gun at your stuff, random numbers are probably not going to be your biggest issue. :)
Yeah, Canada was looking really good compared to the US back in the summer... but recently things have kind of gone to shit for both countries and the outcomes are pretty indistinguishable now. I don't really know enough to comment on what changed, maybe random chance is a big factor like you say.

The only good thing is that my family and friends in Canada have stopped making smug comments about the superiority of the country...
"How dare they have the freedom to what speech they can transmit."
> it becomes clear

It's won't though, not for at least 1~5 years. All the long term studies are being skipped. So long as this vaccine is a choice, I'm okay with it. But if it becomes required for certain jobs, or to be able to enter a store or venue ... I dunno. The speed that this has been rushed through just does not feel right.

I would rather wait 5 years. I prefer that risk for myself over the risk of a rushed to market vaccine. The trouble is, everyone will yell that you not getting the shot can hurt everyone else.

This gets into the dangerous game of personal agency, liberty and autonomy vs what the State is telling you is mandatory for the safety of all. There won't be enough doses for this to matter for a while, but when it does, we'll see some big ethical concerns and court cases.
Libel means defamatory.

Pornhub does not deny any of the allegations in the NYT article. They only claim that they have instituted policies to address the issues raised in the article.
Also, the rate used in the example is double the sales tax rate in even the highest jurisdictions. More to the point, the author doesn't understand that no sales tax is paid when it's being used as a business input for resale.

But the thing that made my radar go up was that it was talking about a US sales tax rate of 20%, which is just plain nuts. Even in CA, the highest rates crest just above 10%.
How would that work for say the windows code base?
That's the case with any government agency, right? Even in other countries.
I watched all videos a while back. Really liked them. The 'Self Under Siege' series was my faovorite. The talks on Nietzsche were great too.
My colloquial understanding is that resign is when you end it and fired is when they do. In this situation it seems half and half, which may be why the difference between the terms doesn't matter to much to me.

Using your definition, yes, it seems clear this was a firing, but again, so what? Does a disagreement on terms really necessitate the drama (news articles, petition, protests)? If she was being denied money somehow because of the distinction then I could see it being a legal case, but I haven't heard anything like that. Google said she resigned, she said she didn't, okay.

If anything, saying she resigned sounds a bit nicer to me than saying she was fired. Probably best if Google had not commented on it at all.
This reflexive “YouTube can ban whatever they want” is just a way for people to stop thinking about the issue to avoid cognitive dissonance. Aside from a few hard-headed libertarians, no one who says that believes it in any other context aside from censoring conservatives.
How much forest is left to burn at this rate?
And record the results on punchcards?
> It's just a consumption tax.

FWIW, many/most states exempt services, so sales taxes are generally much more limited than a true consumption tax.
If someone wanted to take three weeks to analyze an experiment with these kinds of stakes, you’d fire them?! I have to assume you’re being hyperbolic.

And are you suggesting that it’s easier because the data isn’t as extensive as what the rest of us deal with? That only makes it harder.

Sure if it’s some random A/B test with data from your own systems from an experiment you designed, but this is a vaccine the whole fucking world has been waiting for for most of the year. God forbid people treat it a little more carefully.
Thanks. So on that basis their combined valuation is a bit higher and the valuation not quite so crazy, though still pretty crazy given the risks and capital reqd to become a toyota, let alone 3x a Toyota. Interesting that Toyota has so little debt compared to others.
Finally, left-pad is going to get properly funded :-D
I hate politics in general... that said this is such a dumb precedence imo and anyone cheering it on I feel is short sighted.

There was some quote about how unfortunately when you defend free speech, you're mostly sticking up for the worst of the worst.

Same thing here.

Personally, I hate how hard it is to find the really crazy conspiracy stuff these days on youtube. I remember you could fall down some rabbit holes and I loved that. I didn't believe a word of it... but all the same, it was fascinating to see these far out takes.
If they were a company offering services of transport, they might do that (e.g. ads on a side of a bus).

Alternatively this could be your next great side hustle: live ad and t-shirt marketing in the gig economy.
Thanks, I like yours as it's neat and calm. Interesting that you say it's a family website.

I like to color code my projects to get into focus when switching context, so orange color was based on traffic lights for different stages of startup as I already had Red[1], Green[2].

But, of course the site visitors doesn't care about those and I have might have executed the color scheme poorly. I would do the necessary changes to improve visibility.

[1]https://needgap.com

[2]https://hitstartup.com
> Would you mind sharing this tool

It's not online. I suppose I could spin it into a web application if the demand was there.
At a specific place or anywhere?
Show HN: Architecture Analysis: public beta released
> that you may be spreading it to other people who may contract it.

Yes, but, given my age/health, wouldn't the people already at risk already have been offered the vaccine? And if they opted against it, they also made their choice?

And for the people that are unable to get the vaccine for whatever reason, isn't that a scenario in which I feel it's either me putting my safety at risk instead of them putting theirs?

I am sympathetic towards people that are allergic or for whatever other reason cannot get the vaccine, but in the same way that they opted to not take the vaccine to protect their health, is that not exactly what I'm suggesting? I do not feel the vaccine is verified safe and am attempting to protect my health?

Curious what you think.
> Here in Germany we have taken fairly strong, preventative measures to tackle hate speech

Only when those speeches are formulated in German.
It was a US military study for fighter plane cockpit ergonomics. They had accidentally designed cockpits to be suboptimal for all pilots.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/insight...
> I wouldn't be surprised if it was a 10x difference

The next sentence:

> Hanlon et al. (10) estimate that those dying from COVID-19 have only about 1 y less of remaining life on average than those at the same age in the general population, which would mean that the overstatement is not very large, around 8%.

Your own link states that healthspan is not quantifiable, so your claim that it is 3.5y doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Lets say you have 200 misfeatures, most of which you don't even know exist. You might want to fix 10 of them and not care about the rest, but if you start by breaking all 200 of them users will be mad and stop using your port.
Debian's popcon seems like a useful input to this sort of work?
TBH preact is faster than React. I don't know of a scenario where react was faster.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381397
Lightweight Native Event Bus in JavaScript
> Ok, and regardless of that, anonymity still helps people avoid consequences for their speech. Which is a good thing, given that the government has in the past done things like that.

Perhaps, but there is now firm legal precedent that greatly limits their ability to do it again.

> None of this stuff is exclusive. Feel free to try and stop government consequences some other way. But regardless of that, anonymity still helps some people avoid some consequences for their speech, which is good.

Some people should not be able to avoid the consequences of their speech. For instance, people that harass, slander, and threaten others online. Additionally, people that use their speech to obtain money under false pretenses shouldn't be able to hide behind a veil of anonymity. Police officers that enforce the law by day and joke about how much they hate black people and jews while squirreled away behind their keyboard at night should have to own their opinions in the public square.

> Lots of people have pretty effective ability to post speech anonymously.

It's possible with enough tech savviness, but tactics like VPNs are more frail than most people believe.
Sure, but that wasn’t the claim.
I’m more surprised that a single IP address is worth $20 apparently than Amazon owning 100 million of them.

What I wonder, is it a competitive advantage for Amazon at this point that they have so many? Phrased differently, would it benefit Amazon if the current status quo of IPv4 vs IPv6 adoption is maintained?
> Set accept_all_cookies=TRUE.

No thanks.
Bit Manipulation with C++20
Casino grade dice
Because any of those are even close to competitors...there are 2 billion youtube users (80% of internet users).

Posting this reply here since the site says Im posting too fast at a lightspeed rate of 3 comments for the day:

I just dont agree with you that there is a "healthy marketplace" by all metrics youtube has a monopoly on video streaming. For instance Vimeo has 1.5 million subscribers...compared to 2000 million for youtube. Thats .075%.
It all makes perfect sense. When you decide to kill yourself, that is: the thoughts make perfect, logical sense. There's no fear when you truly want to die, you just get up off the couch, walk into the bathroom, down several bottles of pills, lie down with your cat, and wait for the end. If you choose to do it with a gun, however, the cops can't bust in to prevent it.
Greenwashing, pure and simple.
Why Some Models Leak Data
How the novel coronavirus has evolved
I don't know, but am really curious to find out the rationale! I just noticed it as I started working on FDA approval of a medical device this year and thought it was really odd.
Between taxing the consuming or the producing of goods, tax the consuming. When the consume happens is where profit is made. If I produce a bunch, but don't sell anything, I payed a lot of taxes for nothing. Not fair at all.
I’d be curious how that compares to other cloud providers.
Top-scored projects: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ossf-criticality-sc...

For JS:

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that's a bug for 'amphtml' rite?
> That's not something legally recognized though.

We're having a discussion about what the law should be, not what the law is.

> You can't say you base this on something when there is nothing equivalent.

The above discussion demonstrates that our society already limits property rights in the service of an informed populace, which is relevant to the issue at hand.

> An education is one thing. It's something that's been recognized in court.

Courts have recognized ballot fraud in the past as well, its not some outlandish theory. Its why people are supposed to maintain chain of custody of the ballots.

> you'll have to explain how that equates with your established rights in the US?

Corporations are chartered by the government in exchange for certain privileges and limitations. We already infringe on property rights because an informed population is a public good. QED there is a precedent for requiring a public corporation to host certain kinds of content. For example, foods are required to meet labeling requirements.

> More to the point: You'll have to explain why you want to take away my rights?

The right to remove content is potentially dangerous to democracy. See recent events, where a bunch of trump supporters are ever more convinced that an election was stolen because people keep claiming there was no evidence and YouTube has a policy where they state they won't allow anyone to post the evidence that the Biden camp says doesn't exist.

> my rights?

As a GOOG shareholder, you exchanged certain rights for other privileges when the government chartered your corporation and allowed it to traded on the public market while limiting your liability for criminal acts that might be performed by Google employees. In a sense you are taking the benefit of profit and legally protected from liability for the actions that might generate that profit. That arrangement comes at a cost of increased regulation by the government.
Thanks! Good article!
More discussion from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381397
How to change the URI for a remote Git repository?