skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Has it occurred to you that perhaps Trump, his brand of populism and his supporters are worthy of that caricature?

No it hasn’t. The news shouldn’t be caricaturizing anyone. The reporting should be as faithful to reality as possible.

> My guess: because this is playing with fire. You might not be privy to it, but the calls for violence in their various echochambers if the crapshoot for overturning the election doesn't pan out(hint: it won't) are reaching audiences well armed and with nothing better to do than to engage in stochastic terrorism.

So because there exist some extremists with a particular viewpoint, nobody else should be allowed to entertain that viewpoint?

Funny because on the other side of the political spectrum there actually just recently were extremists that were not just hypothetical and they did actually go out and commit violence in order to “make their voices heard” and their viewpoint was not condemned by the media at all for doing so.
Setting aside standing and even setting aside any effect on this election, does it not matter for future elections that it be clear that the legislature can't be bypassed in these matters?
On the other hand, it’s not unreasonable to believe that monopolies stifle innovation. Although Peter Thiel claims the opposite:

“Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate. Then monopolies can keep innovating because profits enable them to make the long-term plans and finance the ambitious research projects that firms locked in competition can't dream of.”

Is he right? Looking at FB and Google, I don’t see much innovation on their core products: search and social.

Google’s autocomplete has improved, but in my anecdotal experience the search results have gotten worse. Certainly the UX is the same. Surely there are ways improve on a single list of results beyond a sidebar of knowledge graph information for known entities?

With FB, for all their efforts to tune my feed, I still see the same uninteresting content, even if I do occasionally snooze a “friend” for one too many dank memes. If anything, I see less relevant and compelling posts on my feed than ever before.

And yet I do love what I see from Google and Facebook in their ML research, and Thiel seems right that the massive resources put into those long-term projects only come from monopoly profits.

So it isn’t that a monopoly isn’t innovating, it’s just that they aren’t innovating on the value that is provided to their users. They are innovating on what can make them more money. With having conquered their markets and bought or bullied their competitors, they no longer have to make users happier with a significantly better core product. Instead, making more money requires innovating on their monetization products, or on side-products.

As a monopoly, the biggest risk is taking risks with their core product. But risk is where innovation happens. You might argue that their side-products carry risk, but what risk is there to well-paid well-funded workers on a subsidized side-product whose liquidity depends more on executives’ happiness than users’ happiness? What happens when you are making what capitalists want instead of what users want? If you’re a startup founder with meddling investors, you know what I’m talking about.

So although Thiel’s advice to aim for being a monopoly is relevant for creating a successful startup (in a tautological way), his arguments that monopolies are engines of innovation aren’t convincing.
After engine ignition, isn't it pretty much that success or massive explosion are the only outcomes?
In that case, what protects against fraud? Anything?

I personally know of two ballots, not mine, that I could have filled and out returned, if I'd been so inclined. (People in apartment buildings I have access to who have moved out of state, but still got sent ballots, which were just setting in the foyer; I'm sure there are gazillions of other ways to get ballots.)

If you're not even going to require the signatures to match, it seems like committing vote fraud would be ridiculously easy.

(Of course, if you really want to have a secure election, make people vote in person and have a continuous chain of custody of those votes; use the ink-on-your-finger trick to prevent double-voting.)
>If you're complaining about lobbying, that's an entirely different matter, for an entirely different discussion. If you're complaining about monopolies or concentration of power, that's also an entirely different matter, for an entirely different discussion.

I am doing both.

Also, switching hosting isn't a cure. Google/Youtube and Facebook and reddit and twitter, for better or worse, control much of the audience online. If they decided you do not exist then for the majority of people you do not exist. Not because those people chose to ignore you, but the companies made the decision for the audience. At the same time companies like google do everything to disrupt the "open market of ideas" and replace it with a "walled garden of ideas we can monetize and do not object to", so far mostly to gain a competitive advantage not to push their point of view, but that may well change.

Taking about hosting in isolation is in my opinion not helpful, one has to always consider the larger picture.
Graveyard Spiral
I rather categorically did not condone anything. You've made some truly astounding logical leaps here.
A related study I did. This sheet compares cash flow for Build to Order (BTO) vs Build to Stock (BTS) for a very popular widget sold at $100. BTO is not sensitive to Cost of Goods Sold (COGS); BTS is.

If, for example, your COGS approaches half your unit price and you use BTS, you'll have almost no chance of getting your business off the ground. But with BTO your cash flow explodes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15JZyPEYJxNHEWTPFmxOI...
And sometimes the media is simply biased against that president: https://www.npr.org/2017/10/02/555092743/study-news-coverage...
We've all been watching with disbelief as Google evolved the narrative around the declarativeWebRequest API, coming up with new angles and changing the goalposts to wear people down as critics have disproved all of Google's reasons for deprecating the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API, and nothing substantial has changed.

It does not matter what any of you think and say to this company.

What you have to do now is organize.
What do you mean? Housing appraisals are done all the time based on finding comparable homes.
Just the opposite, every community has a right to decide their future.

If a community says 'we'd rather be homes and don't want to turn everything in to high-rises' then that's entirely their discretion.

It's definitely not any individual townships moral or civic responsibility to change their community to accommodate either state/national strategic planning, especially for the benefit of people who do not even live there.

There's plenty of physical space in Cali, if anything, the opportunity might be in Sacramento and in-between. If the FAANGs having trouble with salaries and bringing in people want, they can be part of this strategy.

I bet there are thousands of G staffers who'd live to live somewhere south of Morgan Hill, away from the city.
Does this mean that the Y combinator, Y = λf.(λx.f (x x)) (λx.f (x x)), is not a combinator?
> they are not applied to all income.

To show why this is a logical fallacy.

The US definition of income taxes also excludes gifts received even though that’s also “income.” As such by your definition they aren’t income taxes. Of course you could just define gifts as not income and things are ok, except if you continue to define income taxes as taxes based on a specific system then the definition is only applicable to that system at a specific point in time.

For example, is money received by tax free investments income? That’s now undecided until you determine the specific source, time period, and country involved. And as soon as you have statements that are both true and false you have a problem.

Even if you want to stick with US definitions, the states and federal government have different rules. As such the exact same transaction can be both income and not income. Which is about the clearest example of Doublethink I can think of.

PS: Instead, if you say for purposes of X it’s defined as Y then you don’t have this issue. But, then it’s very clear that specific things are exceptions. (To be clear I kept adding to this comment.)
I just don't get this. Why does Google have to be the censorship police here? Just let people post what they want (minus graphic and illegal content) and make their own mistakes and their own learnings. Google is going down a rabbit hole full of worms. Posting conspiracy theories about election fraud is just people exercising their free speech. Google is a private platform, so they can censor whatever they want, but it's not like Google is going to get in trouble for allowing people to post about conspiracy theories. What's the goal here?
In my experience as demand has increased due to the pandemic, prices are reaching the point where I'm not willing to pay them, and I make good money like most people on this site.

If that's any indication of what's to come when they need to stop bleeding cash... not looking great.
Shouldn't that be 1/2 of a green pepper and 1/4 cup blue cheese?
Dual license is different than open core.

I would be interested to see if a permissive core with dual-licensed (AGPL+ commercial) extensions would work, for something like GitLab. It's not that big of a step on top of their current model where the proprietary bits are still source-available.
So what is the solution for production servers? The only free alternative to CentOS is now Oracle Linux?
so, lobbying?
Personally I appreciate being able to choose my linter, compiler, dialect etc. I also tend to prefer distributed solutions. Deno running the entire environment is a negative for me, at least for now. To me, it just shows an approach of ignoring what already exists and reinventing the wheel.

I've tried to get Deno to work before in production, but it had so many compatibility issues last I tried it would take weeks or months to refactor things so it would work.
SpaceX has a huge lead, no doubt. But there's a handful of smaller companies which are very promising. Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle has had 13 successful launches (3 failures) to LEO. Firefly and Relativity (which are founded by former SpaceX/Blue Origin employees) are making a lot of progress as well.
Because it makes people feel good.

Twitter is toxic, yet people enjoy that echo-chamber.
Key caveat here is that it only works on AMD cards currently.
Always wonderful to see video and DaVinci resolve content here!
But missing votes isn’t even evidence of fraud. Could be just an error. And from my knowledge I know for a fact that at least NPR reported the change in votes and discussed it in commentary.
They're paid when the product clears.

Many big chains like Walmart and Best Buy don't own a significant portion of inventory on shelves or in warehouses. The manufacturers own the inventory up until the products are paid for by the customer.
I live in the US and I've said this for decades. I wish the media were just as hard on the politicians they agree with.

The one thing different about trump is that he purposely provoked the media and responded to petty nonsense that previous presidents would have just ignored. Trump and the media have a symbiotic relationship because they both need the attention.
Not much. Similar to the context switches column, a couple of thousand page faults are quite normal for a quickly executed Windows program. For comparison, listing all running processes, you'll hit ~1-10k page faults (see timeit benchmark results at the top of the readme: https://github.com/MarkTiedemann/fastlist).
This rules! SO FAST

Search 'vegan' and Colorful Guac displays

Ingredients
2 large ripe avocados
1 lime juice
2 garlic cloves, Minced
13 cup choppled scallion
13 cup choped red bell pepper
14 12 ounces diced tomatoes with jalapenos
14 cup snipped fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons Braggs liquid aminos
> idiot who told people to inject bleach

This literally didn't happen. His whole "cleansing" statement was cringy, yes. But he never told them to drink, inject or enema bleach. There was one person who did, for whatever reasons ... and really we should have let that problem solve itself.
To be fair, thigh, when the cloud provider has deeper pockets than the developer of the AGPL'd software, that means something different.
It doesn't seem that shady to me. You donate some assets to a DAF instead of directly to a nonprofit, so you can decide later how to actually give it away. As long as that's a one-way path and they can't withdraw it later, I don't see the big issue.

Now the money might be given to nonprofits that aren't charitable or are "bad" in some way, but that's possible normally. Seems like DAFs just create another hop?
The year is 2047 and California is half desert, half ocean. Youtube has moved their offices to the hippest, most promising upstart of a community, Beluga, once a suburb of Fairbanks, Alaska.

A small collective of cyberpunk hackers have declared independence on an island remainder of Mt. Diablo. They call themselves "Hackerbridge" and base their upcoming government around ideas of universal basic income and their culture is based on pansexualism.

Youtube blocks any videos recognizing the independence of Hackerbridge.

As Hackerbridge fails to be recognized as a real nation, they cannot trade their wealth of knowledge building outdated UI apps with necessities like food, water, toilet paper, and general plumbing.

As their society perishes, their leader, Alexis Ohanian, finally leaves behind a stranded leftover on the island as he pushes away his hovercraft in the direction of Reno.

It is thought to be heard him say, "Where were you in 2020 when Youtube caved to corrupt government censorship?" but this quote is contradicted by other accounts.
That seems like a mediocre patch for a problem that wouldn't exist in the first place if you used a centralized package manager.
Sure, they even support it right here on hn - the downvoted comments are very difficult to read and you can’t read the flagged comments - thanks guys for your gentle care for my mental health.
taxfairnessproject.org Worth a look
If you shoot stills and want the positives of film and not the negatives, try my open-source photo editor Filmulator, which simulates the depletion and diffusion of developer liquid to enhance color, improve local contrast, and reduce global contrast, without any of the halation, grain, scratches, color shifts, or any of that nonsense.

https://filmulator.org

Aside from the draw of the film simulation, I've designed it to have a very streamlined user interface that should be easy for new users to pick up.
That doesn't refute my point. You'd have to be willfully ignorant to our political context to not be suspicious of any results. If Biden had lost, I know people who I garuntee would be citing result and polling descrepencies as proof of impropriety and foreign interference.

To your point, they're both absurd. Trump should've been an adult, and conceded.

Responding to his legal dragnet by banning discussion of any descrepency it might uncover is just as toxic, and only validates the paranoia of his base.

Neither action is commensurate to any form of reconciliation. At this point, I don't think there can be any, honestly.
They should have also included the digital pre-processed shot to show the changes.
Ok thanks for making me cry, haven't seen that since it was live. How has it been two years already.. damn.
Question for those who know better: wouldn't this better be accomplished by some kind of archive/bundle? ie keep the packaging structure intact, but just archive it?
it is funny how people with liberal tendencies resort to "it is a free market" when it is convenient to the them and if not they say it is rigged for people with power
Will this also get rid of the accessibility issues and heavy patterns?
If the content is wrong, why do they need to remove it?

They don't remover flat earther content, or anti-vaxx content.

Or especially notably russiagate content.

This is why platforms shouldn't be allowed editorial rights.

Just look at who Youtube's employees donate too and you can see why they cannot be trusted: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?employ=yout...

Their factual bias is a matter of public record.
You make some good points, but I want to follow up:

With dpkg packages for example, you do get a few guarantees.

1. The package will include a list of files which it installs
2. The package manager will not overwrite existing files which were installed by dpkg without an explicit diversion
3. When uninstalling, the package manager will remove any of those files, and the directories created for them (unless they are not empty or are also crated by another package)
4. It won't run as non-root (unless you've made some major changes to your system), and as such won't prompt you for, or try to take advantage of, sudo access.

Sure, that doesn't stop out-of-the-norm behaviour; the Oracle Java packages are a great example of this; the packages contain only a shell script which downloads, unpacks, copies, and symlinks the actual Oracle Java tarball from Oracle's website, and then (ideally) removes those packages if you're uninstalling. Still, it's far more of guarantees than curl|bash provides.
> I count such statements as personality characteristics

The problem is if you're going to move the goalposts so that lie means something else then what is there to say? The idea that Trump hasn't told a single lie in 5 years is so comically false that one scarcely knows where to begin. You are living in a fantasy world and it's not our job to cater to that and try to play by the rules that you are changing on the fly. It's the job of your family and friends who care about you to reach out to you and try to bring you back to reality. I wish them luck and I wish you all the best.
Gangsters, Thugs, and Local Government
This is truly the worst aspect of censorship - You don't know what you don't know. And this is being greatly amplified by social media. I am not afraid that I will be fed false information; if it appears too outlandish, I will do sufficient fact-checking before accepting it as truth. In most cases on open platforms someone would have already done fact-checking to debunk. I am afraid however that I become too enwrapped in my social bubble that relevant information never gets brought up in the first place.

This is nothing new and relates to "Lies, damned lies, and statistics". Most facts can be manipulated by omission, taking things out of context, and choosing favorable metrics, so that you can lie without saying anything falsifiable. Only way to correct this is to allow the other side to present their argument in an open discussion.
Yes you can read flagged comments. Turn on showdead. I leave them off because they're far less often than a regular comment worth the time spent reading.
Aah that’s a shame... but not surprising given Nvidias track record with Linux drivers
CloudLinux OS to release free open source 1:1 binary compatible fork RHEL
I unfortunately did not find a good field to sort by in the original dataset from earlier today [1]. So it's just sorted by text match relevance scores, and then the order that they appear in the dataset.

I'm hoping they publish a popularity metric, which will fix the issues like the one you pointed out. Or, once I have sufficient data on popular searches from this site, I can append that metric to the dataset. Early stages, so please pardon the dust in the meantime!

re: SI units, I hear you. There's definitely scope for improvement! :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
FB IG and Whatsap are not complementary orthogonal or products in the same way Maps/Search or 360 and azure are.
That's a very snide comment. I've read her tweets and other Brain tweets (eg, from mmitchell_ai, though she deleted them, which seems wise as they were angry). I don't take any of them at their surface as being truthful. I think we're only seeing the 10% of the iceberg. But I don't find Gebru convincing.
Not only is it hard to acquire, such viewpoints are impossible to acquire: every attempt to put experience and research into words has a point of view and that point of view colors the story being told. Attempts to be impartial are themselves often a persuasive technique intended to make your appear view more plausible.
Hm. That bill's goal seems to be to stop tech companies from using algorithms that lead to amplification of extremist viewpoints. That is not the same as censorship.
Full time colorist here that's been on resolve well over a decade (among other suites).

Mac only color correction plugins cut out a large portion of the potential audience. Most suites I've been in recently are either Linux or their IT departments tell me they're planning on moving to windows boxes (two of my regular post houses already have). These are large facilities and the resolve trend is definitely in that direction.

In the home market where this might be even more popular (most post facilities and freelance pro colorists already have "secret sauces" that we use regularly), the vast majority are on windows in my experience.

There's another popular Russian film emulation plugin similar to this that is also Mac only, but they have plans for win/linux in the next few months because they've found they are hitting a limit in their potential market.
yes but for investors the stock market matters, real world be damned.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Rick Doblin for all this. He's been crusading for the therapeutic use of MDMA for over 25 years now. We went to the same college (New College in Sarasota) and he was a famous alum as "the guy who's trying to make Ecstasy legal" in 1992.
The issue I see with this approach is that library code is duplicated among applications. In the limit, this is how you get every Electron app bundled with Chromium.

It's a little more complicated, but modern Node development is a huge step forward to the old days of sadly attempting to get the LINPACK header configuration correct in your C project.