skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is the same.

No-one here seems to be asking 'WHY' there's even a need for electronic voting machines? Paper and pencil manual voting will always be safer as it's almost impossible to game the system when there's 10,000+ unpaid volunteers double checking each others counting.

Electronic Voting is a solution looking for a problem. It's only advocated by the losing parties, as they are convinced that making it 'easier' to vote (really? It's not like it's hard) will get more bums off seats and into polling stations, which will increase their chances of winning said election.

NASA spent millions on a space pen, that never worked properly;
The Soviet Union just used a pencil.
Worth to mention that it was NOT the communist "regime" who forbade citizens of Eastern Block to own personal computers but... USA under the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) who banned import of personal computers or transistors to eastern block...
Yeah same here on android chrome. How can something so simple as a blog post can have so many problems just rendering?
I believe that loneliness comes from lacking people that are emotionally invested in you. The strongest bonds and closest relationships people tend to have are family (blood and marriage), which often come with a high cost to sever. The easier it is to walk away, the more superficial the relationship. Loneliness is a realization (or fear) that nobody is there when you need them.
It isn't a modern problem, but modern life seems to be exacerbating it.
The Left has plenty of unsupported ideas.

The question is really why people debate Physics or Chemistry. People that thought the Sun was a perfect sphere would discount things they could directly see with their eyes.
No it would not, the analogy doesnt even make sense
With all due respect for the Professors that wrote this piece, it is rare to see such a mish-mash of semi-random data (IMHO very badly) assembled together, from the beginning:

So the percentage of total household expenditure used for food has decreased, actually halved in the last 60 years, fine.

Sixty years ago, that is the '50's, the UK (like a number of other Eu countries) were just after World War II and in the linked article, there is already an explanation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42735294

>People's resources were more meagre and essentials such as food and clothing took a bigger share of the budget.

and:

>A typical household had a third less to spend per week: £381 in today's money, compared with £554 at the moment.

8% of £554 is 44.32 and 44.32 is almost 12% of 381, so that already justifies a lot of the decrease, but something is way off.

The present article affirms that:

>Britons spend an average of 8% of their total household expenditure on food to eat at home.

The linked to article affirms that:

>What we are allocating to food has more than halved. It was a third of spending, at 33%, and now only 16%.

So it is either 8% or 16% and it was in 1957 either 16% or 33%.

to the end:
> In January 2017, cold weather in Italy and heavy rainfall in Spain caused a "perfect storm" for courgette importers, pushing up prices at a time of year when Western consumers demand healthier food.

And how this exceptional weather in 2017 will possibly affect 2018/2019 prices is left to the imagination of the reader.
OK, implicit self in the signatures is probably OK. I don't find it a problem personally because I use snippets to generate functions and methods etc. while I write them.
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For me that's a reason to ditch my mobile, not ditch org-mode.
>Why do we suddenly get very inward-looking in our 30s when it comes to forming new friendships

This is typically the time when you or those in your age cohort are focusing on their families. Time is at a premium.
Sorry, I didn't know it was controversial, I thought it was a fact. I listen to a lot of podcasts about the supreme court from the Constitution Center (very very good btw) and some of the judicial philosophies very often advanced by conservatives are originalism and judicial restraint.

I don't have any eggs in this game, so I maybe should have added : politics on both sides are primarly shape shifters and adapt their positions to their relative powers and current objectives. I only think that at one point both sides should take their responsabilities and own their previous positions, accountability is the only way to move forward imo.
Now when I think about it, I spend a lot of my time alone. I lived alone from 17 to 37, I parted ways with my only true friend when I was 24… yet I do not recall being horribly lonely.
And I think people should learn to spend more time alone and, most important, undistracted. It looks like many are afraid ot the silence, or the voices from within they'd hear if they are alone and in silence. Forget your headphones (and maybe phone too) and go for a half-days walk. You may find something interesting even without going to the new places.
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TensorFlow is a very bad example of exactly the failure mode I’m talking about. In professional deep learning, TensorFlow is very widely regarded as a mess, with hostile developers who make breaking changes without warning and refuse to fix huge usability problems, let alone add important enhancements or support-specific bug fixes.

Nobody seriously uses TensorFlow without Keras, except in situations when they have to make custom modifications precisely to support broken things that the core devs won’t fix.

Contrast this with Keras and it’s night and day. Keras actually has support guidelines and a GitHub project and, even if lacking capacity, actually cares about its users instead of being willfully hostile to users like TensorFlow is. The original creator of Keras, Francois Chollet, can even be found very often in GitHub issue threads assisting totally novice newcomers to Keras and explaining tips and tricks with custom layers, etc.
Is there also a video on how to defeat Blue Shells?

Because I would pay cash money for that info.
people get less tolerant to other people's problems as they age
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No.

It was never difficult to "come up with something truly unique".

Your unique thing might be rubbish, but that's not the problem for the millions of shovelware Unity asset flips.

Jim Sterling has covered this at length, even running a competition to show that people can take a horribly over-used cheap asset and do great original stuff - if they try. Asset flips don't even try.

The are tens of thousands of games in which you are an elite soldier running around shooting zombies. There are zero games where you're a pot plant using psychic powers to create sculptures.

Like Hollywood the video game industry chases trends until they're beaten completely to death, and then goes one more round just to make really sure.
> no one could possibly like driving of their own accord

That's what weekend cruising and trackdays are for.

Sitting in commuter traffic is to driving as being a passenger on a low-cost airline is to flying.
Thanks for kind words. It is very motivating.

Indeed, not a rocket science. Just do your best, talk to your customers, make their life easier. Although sometimes it was very difficult mentally).

I like to say that if you want to earn a billion, you need to innovate. If you want to earn a million, take an existing problem and improve.
Love way back machine. An exploit of modx recently resulted in losing a website that I maintain. Remembered the way back machine...all content plus my ass saved.
Congratulations. You’ve just joined the new borderless economy for exchanging value for computer resources on a global scale.
> And Haidt, while claiming neutrality is very definitely on the right end of the spectrum.

Is he? I have always felt like he is at the centre, if not slightly to the left, where most social psychologists are. (BTW, I am on the left myself.)
Your recollection doesn't seem accurate, sorry :)

Btw, it might be interesting to know that AAA games also use plenty of procedurally generated assets through tools like Speedtree and Substance, but they are typically generated offline instead of application startup.
I learnt emacs for org-mode and magit. If you see what org-mode can do and you find that attractive, learning emacs will just happen. Learning emacs will set your life on a new course filled with joy. At least that's what happened to me.
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That's not a causal relationship.
Feynman, Leighton, and Sands - The Feynman Lectures: I always look here for a good intuitive explanation.

A. Zee - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell: this is so approachable and in the path integral formulation of QFT. Anyone who points you towards Peskin and Schroeder wants you to suffer.

Gattringer and Lang - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice: essential reading for anyone learning lattice QCD.
Yeah, but the nice thing about it, and emacs in general, is you use as much as you want and the rest just stays hidden away until you need it.
Merely "relating to someone in person" is not intimacy.

"Intimacy: close familiarity or friendship.
"the intimacy between a husband and wife"
synonyms:	closeness, togetherness, affinity, rapport, attachment, familiarity, confidentiality, close association, close relationship, close attachment, close friendship, friendliness, comradeship, companionship, amity, affection, mutual affection, warmth, warm feelings, understanding, fellow feeling;"

Some random coworker or some person you might meet at the coffee place once in a blue moon is not an "intimate" relationship either.

But online-only relationships are hardly ever intimate.
Not to mention that you get mandated time off (iirc 4 hours unimpeded by work) to vote on election days here in the states. There are some caveats and restrictions on getting this time but it does ensure you can get to the polls even with a odd work schedule.
Interestingly, a lot of states are like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
Yet I doubt even these scientists have engaged in radically rewriting their lifestyles to reduce climate impact. If they had, they would have video conferenced instead of flying to Korea.

Basically no one in the West other than the very poor live a low impact life.

In the US in particular, we are really only very good at telling others how they should change. Case in point was the "March For Science" that took place a while back...in San Jose the parking for the event was full of giant SUVs...yet they all seemed so angry.
Yes. It would help to test how rational the study subjects are to begin with, why / why not they are so, etc. And then, what can / cannot be done to increase flexibility.

That said, be careful that we with for. There is certainly unforeseen consequences here.
This specific line is not a good example of meaningless words. It makes intelligible comprehensible sense and describes the project well. What problem do you have with it?

"Project Atlas will connect the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network [the existing network, utilizing the existing BitTorrent protocol] and the TRON blockchain network [TRON blockchain exists, it's a separate project, look it up] via a set of bittorrent protocol extensions, a custom token [not the TRON token itself, but a sub-token used for the purposes of project Atlas specifically], and an in-client [the functionality will be built-in into the BitTorrent client, the users will not have to use any extra software or web platform] token economy [economic system where tokens are used as means of transfer of value] to address existing limitations [rare torrents becoming hard to find seeds for, fakes, etc..] and open a new borderless [global, not contained within a single country or economic region of the world, users from any countries will be able to participate] economy for exchanging value [Atlas tokens, maybe other cryptos through exchanges] for computer resources [storage space and bandwidth used to store and distribute a torrent file] on a global scale."
Try board games! Close enough to computer games but social.
Broadband internet is still not available to large chunks of the population. It’s really three groups those who can’t afford it, thouse who don’t want it, and those who can’t get it.
There's some delay and/or timeout related to the huge amount of tracking scripts they include.
>Sure, it can be. Or it might be the opposite.

As with everything that's not a law of physics or logic.

But it's more often that way than the opposite, and the nature of the "online friend" relationship (remote, mediated by UIs, not committal, etc) makes it so.
> The Dutch oven, a lidded pot that can be used for baking, may or may not be part of this trend: It’s not truly an oven, but the Dutch may have simply been good at producing them.

I don't think anyone who uses the term 'Dutch oven' is referring to cookware, and the definition they're using is far more insulting to the Dutch.
Sorry, wrong reply! I was referring to Options, Futures and Other Derivatives.
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A few years ago I really enjoyed arguing politics on the internet. Not trolling, but legitimately arguing. I ran into several people who would just link-bomb the conversation.

So one day, when I had a couple of hours free I sat down and read every single link. All of them.

The lack of substance beyond an opening paragraph that claimed a point was appalling. When it was brought to the attention of those link-bombers, they actually agreed that there was no substance and that they hadn't read those links at all. I was really proud of my friend and thought we had actually resolved a political disagreement on Facebook.

Then I saw them dropping the exact same links in another conversation within a couple of days.

Facts without context don't prove anything. Some of the facts but not all of them just frame the story in a particular light.

After years of this stuff, it becomes clear that nobody has time to become an expert on every subject just to be able to identify the critical details that people are leaving out.

Eventually, you just research your positions on the subjects that matter to you and vote accordingly. Now, if something doesn't make logical or mathematical sense, I oppose it. If there's no logic or math involved, I generally take no position at all.
If you know how to use Notepad/TextEdit, you know how to use (GUI)Emacs. Even easier than nano.
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Ask HN: How do VMs hot swap native code?
* The JVM compiles bytecode to native code on the fly

* Lisp implementations like SBCL take an expression entered at the REPL, compile them to assembly, and insert it into the running process

How does this work?
I think I should be looking at the internals of some scheme implementation, but am not sure where to start.
It loads but it takes the same amount of time to start that Gmail does.
It's a simple question. Are you able to answer it?

A Danish state owned power company or some other local to EU, protected company, doesn't really have any effect on the world market, does it? It does not have anything to offer in terms of innovation or management skills.
>Businesses have become increasingly creative in their attempts to misuse the DMCA to remove negative reviews from the Internet. They have gone to great lengths to falsely claim copyright infringement with the intent of taking down content from Google’s search results and review sites.

I dream of a world where companies doing any consciously shady shit like that are automatically slapped with a huge (1/2 their annual revenue would be a good start) fine, even if it's nominally legal, as long as a jury of experts decides their actions were harmful to society/transparency/the environment/etc.
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Here's one of their online resources for helping learners think about thinking: http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/...
Pesky humans!!
Needs more "disruptive"
Might as well also link the 1.0 version bible, Veach's thesis: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/
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Does anyone have books about visual management or data visualisation ?
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No sure why the sibling was downvoted to oblivion, the Eastern Block countries would have loved to import Western microelectronics (soft currency issues aside), but there was indeed an embargo in place which prevented this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...

AFAIK 8-bit chips weren't really covered by this anymore during the 80's, but apparently the Amiga fell under the embargo for being 'too powerful'... probably a convenient marketing myth ;)

The Eastern countries were pretty quick to build clones of popular chips though (mostly Z80s and x86, Bulgaria also built MOS 6502 and Motorola 6800 clones).
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If anyone would like to explore the topic a bit further try "The Influential Mind" by Tali Sharot. It was on FT's short list for best of 2017. It's a quick easy read. Gladwell-esque. The difference iis, she is an actual scientest who works in that field. Tho' perhaps that makes her bias? ;)

https://www.amazon.com/Influential-Mind-Reveals-Change-Other...
The burden of proof is on those who claim it works
For some reason this made me think of the problems with side effects in programming. If we can read and write willy-nilly, it’s very difficult to figure out why the data is the way it is, and we can’t undo/rewind unless we planned for it all along.

When our minds are mulling over some piece of information, whether it’s true or not, it will have side effects on other thoughts, opinions and emotions. If we’re confronted with a revised set of facts later, there is no way to rewind all those side effects.
Right. We'll claim it's too late to "prevent global warming", keep our lifestyle exactly the same because it's "radical" to suggest otherwise, and shoot for +5 degrees in 50 years instead of stabilizing at +2/+3.
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Factorio doesn't look very visually appealing, but if you play it for an hour you can pretty much write off your next week because you'll be hooked.
What are you doing? If I must change, why not you? The people telling me to change must also change. People think this is an adolescent response but really, it boils down to us merely sneering at each other and not doing anything.

edit: totally predicted...people are reacting with a simple question about actual change by downvoting my comment into Oblivion. You need no better explanation for our fate.
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> Every time an open source project complains about the challenges of monetization (see the recent Redis controversy), people say "Don't like other companies making money off your software? Then don't license it that way!"

Did @woodruffw say that anywhere? Otherwise it's not really a double standard but just different people having different opinions.

> We, as a community, need to make up our minds and stop being misled by our own agendas.

We as a (presumably "open source" community) should accept that people within our community have a divergent range of views on monetisation and are all entitled to express those views.

@woodruffw is a Homebrew maintainer and I'm the Homebrew lead maintainer. We're both surprised to learn about a project that's monetising the work of the package manager we work on (and many others) without any sort of heads up. There's no obligation to provide one, of course, but at the same time we have no obligation to make it easy for or be happy about our work being used in this way.
For signals (as opposed to images), you should have a look at "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard G. Lyons (ISBN-13: 978-0131089891). I enjoyed this very much and if you grasped the contents from it, you should be able to understand audio-specific books easily.
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Here's Proof of Spacetime:

https://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

and here's Proof of Replication:

https://filecoin.io/proof-of-replication.pdf
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The occult technology of power serves as a nice heads up. Don't let the "occult" part put you off.

Cheers.
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People are free to believe what they want. The problem with science is that it cannot change, so it can appear as a problem in politics, people feel science is a prison you cannot criticize.

Also there are good reasons why science is not in control of our lives.

What's worse is that people will also speak in the name of the science of economics to advocate about any kind of policy or tax break.
I'm the Homebrew lead maintainer and I can publicly confirm you have not had any contact with our project to discuss monetisation.
Okay, I agree with all of that too.
I run a 1st gen Thinkpad Yoga X1 (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, had a 2kEUR price tag in 2016). Linux runs nicely, even with the digitizer. The single frustrating thing is that on Linux, the Intel Sky Lake graphics chip can only control a single external drive (HDMI / Mini-DP or VGA via a Thinkpad docking adapter). In contrast, on Windows the notebook can control three external displays in parallel :-(
Would like to hear general information security recommendations as well.
And even then, the original point wasn't "an OS thread is as cheap as a userland thread", it was "all things considered a native thread is pretty cheap".
Carbon pricing is probably the only way to effect a change in behavior.
> they are not displaying a popup

But that's exactly my point! If you have set your browser to make all popups appear as a tab taking up the whole of your existing window (and adding an entry to your tab list), and then a fake one looks like a separate window, then it will stick out as fake immediately. For me, a browser-like window within the boundary of my actual browser is so foreign that I wouldn't even consider the possibility that it's real.
So for sleazy payday loan ads if you were to click them for a half an hour a day it could impact their bottom line?
Ok, I'll bite.

...will connect the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network and the TRON blockchain network => BitTorrent will start accepting "coins"

a custom token => a new "coin"

an in-client token economy => the "coin" will only be valid for downloading torrents

to address existing limitations => too many leechers, not enough seeders

and open a new borderless economy => will be valid across nation-state boundaries

for exchanging value for computer resources => bandwidth and storage

Translation:

BitTorrent will start accepting a new type of "coin" that will only be valid within the BitTorrent network to allow leechers to pay seeders to download files.
Likely. Considering the three letter agencies get early access to these things from other vendors: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/nsa-g...
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There is a concept of chiral symmetry [0] in QCD---the symmetry whereby left and right handed quarks can be phase rotated independently. It is explicitly broken by quark masses, but the dominant effect is actually the dynamical breaking by the QCD vacuum [1].

However, as far as anyone knows, the chirality at the quark level has nothing to do with the chiral symmetry breaking apparent in eg. the organic molecules of life whereby one enantiomer is used and not the other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(physics)#Chiral_sym...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_symmetry_breaking
> NASA spent millions on a space pen, that never worked properly; The Soviet Union just used a pencil.

Someone has to, might as well be me. The reason you want a pen in space instead of a pencil is that graphite can chip off, and cause lethal danger to electronics and (consequently) crew.