skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bad analogy.

First of all, we have nukes. Why would we care if Russian troops showed up on the border. If they cross that line, their country gets wiped off the map. The same dynamic exists with Ukraine and Russia.

Also, you analogy completely ignores the economic relationships that the West has been trying to build with Russia for the last few decades. Western doctrine has been largely focused on building international trade and economic relationships as a method for maintaining peace. There is a reason we exported a good chunk of our manufacturing after all.

The only way your analogy holds is if Russia and Canada had been spending decades trying to build peaceful economic relationships with the US. And they openly express little interest in invading the US. But then the US starts saber rattling at Canada and claims that they feel their security is threatened. I think most people would agree that the US is behaving belligerently in that scenario and that Canada would be justified in building up defenses.
Even if the discarded ballots Gore fought to save had been counted, Bush would have won.

It was very close. Close enough to reveal the messiness that extremely close elections can create.

But not enough to change the outcome.

Bush won. He probably won by double digits in Florida. But he still won.

As late as 2008, Howard Dean was falsely claiming SCOTUS had “snatched” the election from the Dems, which was demonstrably untrue at this point.

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/howard-d...

Read that article. Nowhere do you see the “this is a lie” disclaimers. Yes, Trump is spreading disinformation, as Howard Dean did (and probably still does.)

Here’s another good example: by the end of the Democratic Primary in 2020, Biden had more than enough votes for the nomination. He had won, plain and simple.

But he and Sanders kept campaigning, because they knew an active campaign would turn out Democratic votes in downstream elections.

The press went along with this facade. At no point did they “declare a winner” even though Biden had effectively won.

They allowed the charade of a campaign to go on, allowing Democrats a heavy advantage in elections like the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.

Again, the election was already over, and a winner should have been declared. But it wasn’t.

The press is very selective. And study after study after shows journalists are almost exclusively Democrats.
> I would guess both commenters got higher offers at the other company because they did so as part of the job search process instead of via the within-company promotion process.

Either this, or they may be looking at the value of RSUs at vesting (vs. at grant date) to calculate their (perceived) total compensation.

In the latter case they may see wild swings depending on how much the stock went up / down since the grant, and have the perception that they are "underpaid" vs. a friend in other company.
> You can click the edit button.

Don't think so.

> If we are going to say that censorship is justified because you want to prevent violence

Nope. Just agreeing with my parent comment that there is a significant difference between harm-causing misinformation and this very good election business.
That's a good point. It just keeps moving upstream. I'm especially worried about the tie between big tech and the government. There's open communication between the two and the current administration is helping tech companies craft their "misinformation policy". On a certain level its inevitable. If you want to make sure people have reliable resources, someone needs to identify whats reliable and what's not (usually a three letter agency).

But when you have the white house openly call on a Swedish company to censor a popular podcaster, that's where I draw the line. Artists can pull their music, people can boycott, but the government shouldn't have their finger on the scale. That's exactly what the 1st amendment is about. If the state can declare something should be censored and it is (voluntarily though!) then it's no different than force. And when you exert that same pressure on upstream providers, you've essentially rebuilt the great firewall of China without any casualties.
Another fan of the freestyle here (although I have the pro)
Youtube is a major information source for two billion people, that has largely supplanted the online 'public space' of video hosts. No other video site is remotely comparable, and it's not even feasible for the vast majority of individuals, companies or even governments to compete with it. Google also controls the largest search platform, so good luck growing that 'conspiracy theory video' platform.

I don't believe any entity should ever have the power to frame what is and is not acceptable to believe to such a large amount of the world, be it Google, Facebook or a government.
You are right about the first part. You won't know you have a dead raccoon in your basement until it starts stinking. I was hearing the conservatives complain about the mass mail-in voting rules and Trump himself also, long before the actual election.

On your second point: If a state holds an election contrary to their constitution and it's proven that it was contrary to their constitution, the votes wouldn't be constitutional. In other words they're illegal. So wouldn't it be sensible to hear calls to count only the legal votes?

There are many, many more irregularities that are too numerous to list but here are a few:

https://rumble.com/vhj5at-2020-election-irregularities-compi...
Excellent!

How i wish it was more detailed :-)
> the cost of sanctions is trivial compared to the cost of war.

To whom?
hey HN. I made a tool for NFT collectors that lets you monitor collections, set up alerts, sync your wallets to see your NFTs from multiple wallets in one place. This is the first rollout, will do few more rollouts in the upcoming weeks if this gains traction
I don’t buy “to get what they’re paying for” as a motivation at all. It’s a simple sunk cost fallacy. If a company is doing just as well or better with people at home at no extra cost to the company, it makes no sense to make everyone come back against their wishes. At best it’s making a decision that pisses off your employee base and has no upside.

The only thing that makes sense is that something is going worse with everyone remote. Something important enough to make an unpopular decision to fix.
The difference between a private company and the government is that the government has a monopoly on the use of force. A government can imprison you for life. A company can't.
>And how exactly is Google prohibited from censoring? By definition?

They're not a publisher. You have zero ability to post anything to Google, so there is nobody to be censored. They're an aggregator, and any aggregator can display whatever information they want.
It's bizarre that they even got into this situation. Betting your entire company on the fact that your stock will never get suspended from NASDAQ seems...unwise.
Also stop tagging me in a direct message, it doesn't send an extra notification...

It just muddies up search when I [later] want to see where I've been mentioned in channels
i saw a man running into a crumbling building that was mortared to hell to get their neighbors children out.
Where is Putin getting the money for this massive mobilization, in WWII they had lease/lend with the US... China? I don't see where this benefits China unless they own half of Russia when they are done. Russia economy is smaller than some US states.
Let us just take a moment to remember that Gore conceded, as did Hillary. On the night of the election, in her case. Former President Trump still has not conceded. There is no double standard. Citizens thinking the election was rigged is one thing, but when the President of the United States refuses to respect the democratic process, it is a very big deal.
I use Divvy (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/divvy-window-manager/id4138575...).

It's probably the simplest one. Draw the shape you want on a grid, assign a global hotkey to each shape (fullscreen, top half, bot half, left, right, etc.), press the hotkey to move current window into that shape. Press the same hotkey again to move it between monitors.

It's funny how you get so used to your own dev environment and all the global hotkeys you might have and then completely take it for granted until you use a computer with it.
That’s illegal in China. You’re only allowed to use VPN approved by the government and only for some use-cases.
Apple Maps has put Crimea back in Ukraine
Iron Dome is a very expensive way to intercept small numbers of not-very-sophisticated rockets and mortar rounds. It wouldn't help Ukraine much.
> There is only one way to [grab dependencies] and it's built into the language runtime

The `go` tool. "Language runtime" refers to the ~2MB of thread scheduler, garbage collector, etc.

> No central server required!

Now you have five proxies to choose from, because coupling your project to a bunch of strangers' version control systems is bananas.

> Neither of these are Go issues, just maintainer issues

In practice, separating downstream quality-of-life from the language proper seems to breed chaos.

Example: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661

Until I have an extremely Go-shaped problem, I don't need that headache.
800k-1M with no engineers?! Is that a new startup?
Yandex employees are among the few in Russia, who could have left at any time with not much more effort than many of FAANG switch jobs.
MAD is a defense against complete invasion, but not a defense against strangulation via power projection.

Non nuclear military projection matters because not everything is a nuclear war. They are encircled by the US which has invaded and toppled more regimes than any other country in the world, and destroyed or destabilized several Russian allied countries in the last 2 decades alone.

It still matters where bases are.

If it comes to nuclear war, it also matters where bases are.
Putin's war on Ukraine, explained [video]
> It’s sad that youtube can choose what content to host?

There is virtually no competition to youtube in the video streaming space (in terms of sheer reach and volume), so choices that youtube make have clear political implications on what voices get heard.
It seems like IAM users are really only useful for very small companies or for off-platform access. Anything more than a handful of users and it's probably best offloading your auth to some other federated platform

AD is extremely built out and well established so I guess no surprise Azure leans on it heavily. AD/Kerberos authentication is pretty slick, too
They made serious gains in 9 days and are encircling 3 of the 4 biggest cities.

It doesn't seem to be going that bad as some would make you believe.

In comparison, took poland a month to fall from germany and ussr combined with much larger armies on both sides.
Requiring hover/tap for content context isn't good accessibility. Better to just find an alternative to footnotes.
Not completely unplayable, but I distinctly remember the first Dead Rising on Xbox 360 having completely illegible text on CRT displays[0]. No amount of squinting harder could have fixed that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising_(video_game)#Recep...
You seem to be the closest person on this thread who can answer questions about Google. Can you please tell us why Google summarily suspends accounts? Why is there absolutely no way to talk to a human being?
What is your metric? We have weapons that can end our entire human species. Never before in the history of our entire planet was this even been a possibility. Its like living with a loaded gun to your head. Not to mention the impending climate related crisis domino effect we are going to face in the next 50 years. I'm sure having nuclear weapons will make that go smoothly.
It's really rather beautiful. I'd love to able t run it in my terminal or my emacs. IDK, maybe when I can splurge.
Some political websites have been blocked on the hosting level and even the ISP level. I can't defend these website's political views, but I can defend their right to at least host their website somewhere.
I'm sceptical that is technically possible. If it was, it would have been deployed against the torrent websites by now. Despite countless attempts to shut them down, trackers are still easy to access with only basic technical knowledge and no specialist software.

Communication is even harder to block than torrent traffic. At least torrents have an unusual characteristic traffic pattern that could be checked for. Watching wrongthink videos over an encrypted connection doesn't even have that.
I assumed Valve would have acquired you by now!
In the US, the 7 day average is around 1700 per day. Weird denialists will claim it's overcounted, but it tracks quite well with excess deaths.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
No new law needed!

All you need to do is serve Google in court and they'll respond, trust me :)

A lot of the stories you hear and see online of this flavor are planted by Google and others to dissuade you from filing simple legal actions!
The Kremlin's only real goal is power. Other goals are merely means to that end.

Same goes for Beijing and North Korea.
"Since March 1, 2021, she has worked as a regular columnist for German daily newspaper Die Welt." (Wikipedia)

Her career is alive and well.
Do you think it was weird that when a damning article about a presidential candidate's son came out a few weeks before the election, every single media company and social network decided at the same exact time not to cover the story? Even so much as censoring the one paper that carried it and on private messages between people? Twitter, Facebook, NY Times, NPR and others.

The former guy got banned on all the services all at once. Even tiktok which he was not on. Hell, even grindr banned him.

There may not be direct coordination (maybe there is), but there's a signal and no one likes to make waves

They all took a different direction about the "pee tape":

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/comey-book-steele...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/magazine/nothing-proves-y...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/media/spooked-pr...

For more: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+trump+pee...
no immediate savings, maybe. but if they chose to remain remote, they'd downsize, cancel or not renew leases, etc. they're not dumb - they know this and if they wanted to do it they would.

bottom line - follow the money. it wasn't thought (correctly or not) a good value proposition.
> To what extent does that apply to the Internet, which effectively has unlimited spectrum?

It's about having equal reach for different political opinions. If you completely remove one voice without any legal mandate to do so, you are just the same as a political tool.
Are you suggesting that the 2 children mate with each other?
Unless you're Chinese, would like to know what nation you're in that isn't covered by that statement.
Since it is now Putin's stated goal to annex Ukraine, he's going to end up with more NATO states on his doorstep if he wins this war. So is he going to demand that Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia renounce their membership next?
Yes. She was forced out for doing her job. They don't want alternative view points. That's the point
not a monopoly on paper, but a monopoly in terms of reach. When 99% of videos seen on the web are from youtube, can you pretend it's not akin to some kind of monopoly?
Russia has a tiny economy so yea, losing lots of stuff is very expensive for them.
> Ukraine has enlisted openly white supremacist neo-nazi's in their national guard to fight Russia in the east

[Citation needed]
It seems they could have put a sentence on the bottom of the screen "There is no credible evidence for Trump's claim of a stolen election." Takes approximately zero effort to solve the problem.
> Youtube doesn’t have any kind of monopoly on posting videos to the internet

Of course they do. There are channels that can be removed that would instantly lose access to millions of monthly viewers that can't practically be replaced anywhere. They have a monopoly on that type of reach (the most important type), and especially when these platforms decide to blacklist in concert.

> now that they’ve done so they should no longer be allowed to moderate and curate content

Yes, because once your business decisions have the power to decide who gets elected President, for example, it's in a different class and has to be regulated differently than a corner flower shop. There are many examples of laws and regulations that apply to business based on size.

> what is this extremely strong claim based on? youtube is just one of an endless series of options for posting videos on the internet

Again, it's not one of endless, it is entirely unique -- for many channels, their reach on YouTube is not replaceable anywhere. That's like saying, AT&T can shut off your phone service for your political opinions because you can always go meet someone in person to talk. That's simply not how we've historically agreed to interpret the obligations of massive communications platforms, and there's a very good reason for that.

I don't want who gets to speak to the public decided by some faceless, unelected tech oligarchs. That's a dystopia. "They only get to decide if you easily get access to an audience of millions, you can always get an audience of 5" is a deeply flawed argument.
advertising took over capitalism, rather than going away it's driving.
I’m not sure what Hiroshima and Nagasaki have to do with the discussion. The context is so completely different as to be irrelevant.

I’m sure Putin doesn’t have a big red launch button on his desk, but between the US and Russia, who do you honestly think will have an easier time getting those missiles launched? The guy who mixed up Ukrainians and Iranians during a speech last week or the guy who ordered an invasion of a neighboring country? My money is on Putin.

Hopefully we never find out.
Having used GKE and EKS, I will say GKE is much simpler. Kubernetes is a powerful platform but you're right--it does have a lot of complexity and overhead.

ECS and Fargate are pretty solid if you want to run fairly simple containers but it's still a bit annoying they don't have all the cross-service integrations that Lambda does (SNS/SQS invokation, Kafka, etc)
> You could argue that the electoral system gives an advantage to smaller States because that’s true. But that’s by design to force a consensus at multiple levels.

Millions of votes of a difference and complete capture of many states. My vote, living in Massachusetts, has no value in the presidential election because there’s a 100% chance it’ll be blue.
New Cult Documentary with Details from Reddit
r/RBI found a property record that totally changed this story. The internet is very cool.
In China you would risk being arrested for such a thing. Not just see your channel or video taken down by a platform.
How does CCU via plants compare with CCU via your product?
If Russia, Inc. was a thing? Yeah maybe? If you're talking about just yandex, it's not securities fraud unless the executives had something to do with the invasion.
If you’re in a park where everyone else is shouting through a megaphone, and you don’t have a megaphone, your voice will not be heard.
But didn’t the job start as a specific alternative viewpoint subsidy?

Getting to zero after boosting doesn’t seem like censorship.
> Trump is spreading disinformation, as Howard Dean

President Trump. What was Howard Dean? The distinction really matters.

> They allowed the charade of a campaign to go on, allowing Democrats a heavy advantage in elections like the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.

Primaries are not elections, though, and there is no reason a political party has to call them off just because someone believes the game has already been effectively won. I.e. it ain't over until it's over. It's bad enough that voters in later primaries basically believe their vote doesn't matter, but you're suggesting that we should formalize that? The parties are private organizations, so who do you propose gets to decide when to call the whole thing off?
Lots of logical leaps here.

Utilities haven't been "seized" by the government because there are regulations on them. Telecoms haven't been seized by the government.

YouTube has monopoly level dominance in terms of engagement. Competitors can't gain market share because YouTube is already prevalent, and video is a "solved" problem. Consumer gets no benefit by using a different platform, and there is essentially no product feature that could be invented to make an alternative platform compelling enough to use over YouTube.

Instead of regulating YouTube, we could define an open database/protocol of video content and allow anybody to build a UI around the same set of content. In that way, there is no network effect gating people into a single platform. This is where things will likely trend in the longer run with social etc. And I would bet the free market will get to it eventually.

Then YouTube is just a web UI. And I guarantee you in this world there would be many other widely used sites, as there's no content/network effect lock.

Monopolies appear on the basis where it is effectively unreasonable to expect a competitor to form. E.g. railroads. Anybody can build their own railroad. Is it going to happen in practice? No, because cost to do so is prohibitively high.
No one believes the two powers compare, starting from Russia.

In case of nato, if it was a defensive one, it would play very differently because russians counter air superiority with their AD, they give up on controlling the skies and are happy with shooting the enemy.
It's now the creditors' problem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
This isn't a problem, there are alternatives. Attacks that involve choking off access to the banking system are dangerous because starting a up a new bank is legally challenging. Attacks involving deplatforming are just a temporary annoyance, there is already a fairly healthy constellation of alternative platforms growing that can host serious political debate that have grown up in a few short years once these companies went off the rails circa 2020. There are competent competitors out there to at least Twitter & YouTube. Probably Facebook too in time.

YouTube can play politics if they want. It isn't a good thing, but life has survived CNN and Fox News and it doesn't get worse than that for biased publishing.
An API is defined through two parts:

1) Machine-readable definitions of the functions and data types used

2) Human-readable explanation of what the previously defined functions do when passed each of the allowed data types, with a high-level explanation of how is the API supposed to be used.

The first part is usually implemented as part of your programming language - in case of Python, type hints can be used as a substitution.

The second part is necessarily informal, since it targets humans. But that does not mean it cannot be well-defined.
For example:

mmap() creates a new mapping in the virtual address space of the calling process. The starting address for the new mapping is specified in addr. The length argument specifies the length of the mapping (which must be greater than 0).

There is no concept of "virtual address space" or "memory mapping" in C. All C knows about is functions and values. But we still know what mmap() does and there is absolutely no ambiguity to its behavior.
I think this is largely (entirely?) a failure of marketing on Adobe's part. I spoke to several people who created flash animations and games in the 2000s and they thought Flash-the-tool had died along with Flashplayer, they didn't know it had been rebranded Animate.
This is a bullshit argument. US could do nuclear submarine strike as close to Russia's shores as they wanted. Or from Latvia or Estonia.