skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to take bets on when Texas turns blue in a Presidential election, I bet 30 years in the future, 2020 is too soon. Beto did great against the least popular Senator in the United States. The voter registration number among Latinos in Texas is abysmal, but they will be a bigger bloc than any other in Texas in the future, it's just that older, whites make up 2/3 of Texas voters now and that's a pretty reliable GOP vote source.

Every year for some time people have been saying Texas will turn and it has not happened.

A little analysis here:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/latinos-wont-turn-te...
If there is no substance behind the enthusiasm, then it can't last because it has no legs to stand on. I agree that there are tons of fake nonsense on all media, not just social media. But that doesn't mean everything on media is fake.

Of course online content is generated. My point is whether that generated online content gains actual traction. Whether that generated online content has legs and real enthusiasm behind it.

An easy way to tell is if politicians can draw crowds to their speeches. You can measure online interactions between actual people and their enthusiasm. For example, if a politician has tons of online interest and he can draw big crowds, then we can assume that his online interest is real rather than fake. If a politician has tons of online interest but can't draw any people to his speeches, it's like his "enthusiasm" is bought for and has no traction.
Yup and organizations like the AMA that artificially keep the numbers of graduating doctors down to create a shortage and drive up prices.
Is there a model M clone that is readily available in Europe? I have heard so much about these mechanical keyboards but have never had the chance to try one.

I easily have wrist and pinky issues when using regular modern flat keyboards like laptop keyboards or the Apple ones. The keyboard that solved my issues was the original Microsoft Sculpt of which I have already had keyboards that broke on me. The latency on this wireless keyboard is annoying me lately so I am looking for a new wired option with good latency that also does not kill my wrists and pinky
I mean, you had your friends page, which aggregated all the posts from people you'd added as friends (this was a one-way thing, it didn't require the other person's agreement). You could also make posts locked so that only your friends, or specific subsets, could see them. (Later it became possible to separate these two different functions of adding someone as a friend, although a little troublesome. On Dreamwidth these are entirely separate functions, with the "friends page" now called the "reading page"; you "subscribe" to people to add them there, and you "give access" to people to let them read your locked posts.) People can also set up "communities" that people can join and post to. And of course people had profiles where they could write a little bit about themselves, and you could see their friend lists (or these days on Dreamwidth, subscription lists and access lists).

Seems to me it basically resembles the later "social networking" sites in features (and outdoes them except possibly Google+), just the tone was more focused on long-form blogging.

I guess the one thing lacking that people these days would expect was that you couldn't easily upload pictures and such (that was a paid feature IIRC; haven't checked how that works on Dreamwidth). But if you ignore that...
Awesome, do you sneak in experiments on time crystals ;)
Start firing up the chainsaws to mow down the forests for paper plates.
> or pay extra for some wooden ones

Even if it was plastic: at least you'd get a chance to say no. Of all the single use food utensils handed over counters, a considerable fraction isn't even wanted by the customer and only accepted because denying would be extra effort for both sides.
In UK you are using NHS, a public service, funded out of your tax dollars. NHS spent over £124.7B in 2017/2018 so your average cost is about £2000/person. Not sure how you can break out costs for heart bypass but I suspect they will be much more than $2K/surgery. Narayana Hospital is private and has been profitable continuously, with $8M profit in 2017. And still their patient mortality rate is lower than the US (1.4% patients die within 30 days after heart bypass, compared to 1.9% in the US).
Off-topic, on an off-topic comment thread:

> I sometimes keep a continuous Chrome up session up for several weeks with a dozens of tabs open

I am still completely mystified why people do this. Browser tabs were never intended to be used this way, bookmarks are. You are making the process of web browsing unnecessarily hard on yourself, and browser makers have had to invest significant effort into features regarding mass tab management just for this bizarre habit.
If you want to avoid a similar sounding question getting marked as a dupe and closed, you can contextualize your question with the similar answers to show that you've searched and read them.

For example, "I've read the answers to A, B, C (linked) and they get me this far, but now I'm trying to take that output and output it to YAML" etc.

As mods / queue reviewers, we generally assume someone has not read (or found) similar questions if they don't mention this. I don't vote to close many questions as dupes unless it's clear the asker didn't even try to look at the related questions. I tend to close vote only on low effort questions that don't meet the minimal complete verifiable example (MCVE) best practices for asking a question.

https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve

To the comment on the 50 rep threshold, I believe you can hit this more easily than you think. For example, writing one answer that gets accepted (+15) with 3 upvotes (3x +10) is worth 45 rep. Then giving 3 suggested edits (3x +2) that get accepted is worth 6 to put you over 50. Suggested edits don't have to be big — you can look for common aspects of aging popular answers like outbound links that may now 404 or fixing grammar mistakes. A lot of people on Stack Overflow do not speak English as their first language, so if you do, you can help improve the clarity of their questions or answers which benefits the whole community.

https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation

Here are some accepted edits I've made for inspiration. Many are simple one liners.

https://stackoverflow.com/users/149428/taylor-edmiston?tab=a...
Ordering a test and not acting on the results can create liability too.

Not all tests are binary: you have to correctly interpret the levels.

And no test has 100% sensitivity and specificity.

What is clear, is that the provider can charge for these tests and their interpretation, so it creates income.

The liability talk may be a smokescreen.
Following your dreams is a multi-generational undertaking.

Only rich kids get to follow any dream they want.

If you're not rich already your job is to get rich so your kids can follow their dreams.
Yes, artificial interest can generate real interest. Isn't this what advertising does? I don't see why online publicity is necessarily less effective than advertising.
maybe this is because i am no longer a kid and not spending as much time outside or due to location, but i can’t remember the last time i saw a frog, worm, toad, or turtle in the wild.
Who are “shareholders?” Pretty much anyone with a retirement plan or a pension.

The majority of Americans own stock.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by that final sentence, could you maybe elaborate?
Well said!!

> Honestly, the more surprising thing at this point is when people do make these things explicit and get caught.

I suppose the effort involved to insulate oneself from liability is eventually seen as an unnecessary burden when one is accustom to getting away with things. I imagine a thief on his first heist who has spent a great deal of time planning and plotting only to find that it was actually quite easy to pull off, the security wasn't nearly as strong as he expected. Maybe on the next heist he is less cautious, and on the next heist even less, until he gets to the point where he's casually strolling in wearing flip-flops and sunglasses and just takes what he wants. Of course this is when he gets caught and the news paper shows this ridiculous image of an offensively cavalier thief who is supposedly a great heister. Then the public is shocked how such a dope could be a great thief (where is his mask and great stealth), but they only know the lazy thief, not the thief when he was disciplined. The lazy or stupid thieves are the ones that get caught.
It is a surprise it is open sourced and is not v19.0. Used it from time to time for ... 10 years. Sorry.
Circles

Peoples relationships and interests tend to be grouped by their circles. Whatsapp and Facebook groups seem to understand this which is why they are soo sticky.
> I thought the general consensus was that case-insensitive filesystems were a mistake.

Where did you get that idea? Case-senstivity is NEVER the right answer. Never, never. NeVer.
User devoply just posted this paper linking climate change to the spread of this fungus. It’s not just trade and travel.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685858/
Lessons for IT leaders from baseball execs
Is there direct evidence this is true or is it just a "common sense" thing that makes sense but might very well be false?
I approve of both the general encouragement to use the original headline and rewriting the headline in this case.

Maybe we could have a general rejection headlines that include the words "worse than" and "thought"?

The Gray Lady coloring with clickbait. sigh
Interesting idea. How do you plan to implement Z and up to what height/depth?
In college, there are plenty of classes open to students of all ages...
So good example of Fake News then. It's not just one side that does this stuff.
That was the words that came out of Trump's mouth, but not what his supporters heard
> any Democratic leader would be waaay more forward looking, less out of touch and more dedicated to their job than the incompetent incumbent president.

"I don't like the current President"

FTFY

The final options last go-around weren't very good on either side.
Global warming I swear can be used to retroactively explain any anomaly just because the effects of temperature on different processes has so many difficult to predict side effects. Like, if America suddenly had a mini ice age next year I'm pretty sure AGW would be used to retroactively explain how this might happen. Or if crops die, etc.
"low inflation"
...
not if you include assets (stocks, houses, education, health[care], etc.) that are not included in the "official" inflation calculations.
An option that can achieve something like circles on Twitter is to not follow any accounts but instead assign them to Twitter's "lists". You can create lists for work, hobbies etc and view whichever one you're interested in at a given time.
The top question you should ask is what browser you use. If you use Chrome, and the parent uses Firefox, that's why. (Not because Firefox is slow, but because Google uses a lot of Chrome-specific hacks.)
A few weeks ago, I hoped 3geonames could become a standard. But it has some painful limitations:

The system picks very unusual names. For example STOCARDA-KRRABA-SIPLA is in Germany, but doesn't use the German name of the city. (For those wondering, Stocarda means Stuttgart in Venetian according to Wikipedia.) That makes it harder to use for locals and can hurt the feelings of people in some regions. Also using cities of other countries can cause controversial codes, especially for young and or small countries.

3geonames has to use a language for each name. This makes it hard for people who don't speak that language to pronounce the words.

The 3geonames website describes the basic principles but there's no detailed description on how to build those codes besides (a somewhat hard to read) Perl script. For example, the documentation does not explain what encoding is used exactly.
Unless I'm missing something, this seems spurious, what makes you think a ban on single use plastic plates, cups, straws, coffee stirrers and cutlery means people will use glass equivalents? Or rather, to make the comparison valid, single use glass equivalents.
tl;dr On iPhones, the "spyware" runs in the cloud, connects to your iCloud account (the password must be provided), and monitors your phone's backups.
Not sure that's a goal of his, but in many countries a candidate will enter the primaries (or the general election, in a minor party) campaigning on a single issue, and then join the government later as a secretary (or minister) to either implement some version of the policy or prepare for its implementation in the future.
He succesfully performed a complicated surgery for $10K that would cost $200K in the US.

And India still can't afford to pay those prices.

The problem is obviously not that THIS guy is not working efficiently. It's that the distribution of wealth under our planetary economic system is deeply unfair.
It also compromises on resource abuse: "lucet does not currently provide a framework for protecting against guests that consume excessive CPU time (e.g. via an infinite loop). These protections must be provided by the host environment."

I'm not sure how you're supposed to handle that, either, given host environment usually does limiting at a process granularity but this doesn't use multiple processes.
Paul Brand's book Pain: the Gift Nobody Wants (also published as The Gift of Pain), which I mentioned in another comment, deals with this at some length -- he worked in India and was a pioneer in leprosy understanding and treatment.
“We’re surprised by HUD’s decision, as we’ve been working with them to address their concerns and have taken significant steps to prevent” ad discrimination, the company said in a statement. It added that it had been negotiating with the housing agency over the issue, but that the talks had broken down because federal officials were seeking access to too much user information “without adequate safeguards.”

Interesting. I also wonder if they are going after the landlords who knowingly discriminated using Facebook as a platform.
Deplatforming, at Scale
> I find Mastodon's Content Warnings an interesting/useful model for mixing such content, ...

Same here.

I also hope circles and collections will come to the fediverse. Pixelfed already had circles as one of four options for what to focus on in coming iterations.
Metadata on macOS works pretty well, given that it drives Spotlight.
You can absolutely have a cryptographically secure hardware chain that you can replace parts on. Just require that root keys get wiped on a part swap.
Nobody read the article I guess. The delivery companies are subsidizing the costs as the battle each other.
Lol, take a lap.
Nintendo Goes VR Again
You say he bombed the first 20 minutes...but how did he do the rest of the town hall?

Plenty of people into politics will give a candidate more than 20 minutes to make their case, especially now that they've seen what happens when you make emotional snap judgments about who you vote for.
I don't know why is this on the frontpage. It's most likely just a sponsored article. I own a few blogs and I've received emails about posting similar sponsored articles on all of them from a company promoting xnspy.
Do You Understand Elizabeth Warren’s Plan for Fixing Big Tech?
My word, but this would break _so much_. I would like to think that I've managed to keep my wits about me enough over the years that I haven't got any code needing to find both 'A.txt' and 'a.txt' in the same place... but I really wouldn't put it past past-me to've screwed that up... that guy's just the worst.

edit to add: I don't think I ever noticed Android being case-insensitive. Always something new to learn!
No need to guess. The article states this explicitly.
A reminder that the political faction spending decades deriding career politicians is mostly made up of career politicians
> Personal responsibility is "hard" so no wonder those who tend to outsource it get fleeced.

What is the effect on the market when everyone engages in "personal responsibility"? If everyone finds out about Lenox Hill Radiology and goes there instead of to hospitals for MRI, won't the effect be that demand goes up without supply obviously going up, causing increased prices and wait times? What will be the effect on hospitals that were subsidizing their other business by pricing their MRIs higher?

The reason people don't like "personal responsibility" as a general-case solution is not that it's hard, but that it's not a general-case solution. This article is talking about an actual general-case solution.
Well, events over trials is frequentist definition. Unbiased estimate with nice statistical properties.

You know that it's an underestimate because you have prior knowledge about cancer incidence. Bayesian methods let you incorporate that knowledge into estimation process, pulling the estimate up towards a more realistic value.
It's an intense process for sure. I interviewed with Google and made it through the process for a Linux admin job they had at Ashburn, VA, which was near to where I was living at the time (Reston). I had worked at the UUNet data center for almost 5 years at this point, but I took a job with a government contractor instead, as the pay was over 10k higher and the job a better fit. Google interview processes are no joke. It takes forever and the interview questions and practicals you get can make you doubt yourself. I don't regret not taking that job. I knew the guy who eventually filled that role and he said the job was very intense and very busy.
Yes, many screenings are covered 100% with no deductible. But if I think I'm having a stroke and call an ambulance, I'm responsible for the cost up to the deductible (I just checked my own HDP coverage to verify this). This wouldn't factor into my decision, but I'm fairly affluent (and my family actually maxes our deductible each year because of various chronic conditions). Someone that is in a different financial decision will absolutely be thinking of the cost of calling an ambulance (or going to the ER). Of course, if someone dies from a stroke rather than being treated and surviving, the result is lower healthcare expenditures (yes, that's morbid; but we also need to think about the incentives built-in to our healthcare system).
My wife fainted at a Shake Shack in NYC on the UWS. The 5 hour hospital stay with medicine, a regular check in from a nurse, and fluids cost less than $500. The < 5 MINUTE ambulance ride cost over $2500 to go from W77 to E77 (straight across the park, about a mile).

The ambulance game is the real racket.
Those 6-core 8th gen Core i9s just not scratching your itch then.
Sterilizing and re-using IV lines definitely carries some risk. The alternative to that "risk" in India seems to be letting most not-rich people die because they can not afford to do those things differently. And the Indian health service is telling him he's _still_ costing too much. The result will be taking more risks, with some people paying the price for them. Because that is what India can afford.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. we can afford spending two orders of magnitude more. Something is not right.
ALL else being equal? I'd flip a coin. Because if all else is equal, the credit score (that indicates past interactions) isn't predictive of future outcomes.

If we're assuming conscientiousness and intelligence aren't equal across these workers, that's a different story. In which case, it depends on particulars; I might take the one with the lower credit score because they've demonstrated willingness to take risks.

But really, the issue is that credit score is a lousy predictor of work performance. I have no reason to believe it's actually correlated.
You need to checkout submodules - $ git submodule init && git submodule update. Sorry, multiple people have reported this problem, and we're adding it to the docs right now!
Sure.

Does WASM have better performance than the JVM? If not, could it have better performance theoretically? Is it more secure? How much slower than a regular binary would it be? etc.
Besides the fact many people may not want Google to listen to their phone calls and voice mails, I still receive robo calls on my GVoice number, albeit less.
> Working through the string is then accomplished by repeated calls to:

int utf8byte(struct utf8cursor *u8c);

> This function will return the next byte in the normalized (and possibly case-folded) string, or zero at the end. UTF-8-encoded code points can take more than one byte, of course, so individual bytes do not, on their own, represent code points.

What's the choice behind going byte-by-byte rather than grapheme-by-grapheme? Seems like an API designed for comparisons and nothing else…
"We value your privacy. Atlas Obscura and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our website to personalise ads, support social media features, and analyse our traffic.", sorry, what? Does not compute. So they don't value my privacy then?
Thanks, good to know, but it still doesn't make sense to me :-)
Google didn't have a social network, and their competitors did. /s

Seriously though, I really liked the Twitter-esque default-public interaction model, but with long form posts. Just doubling Twitter's character count has helped a ton with this. Public interaction still feels like an oddity on Facebook.

And then the ability to divide out people I was following was super nice, although I eventually filtered it down to two groups: One which I read religiously and had notifications of in my email, and one I would scroll through when I was bored and had time.
I mean people vote based on brand, and having good policies is one way to build a brand. There are lots of other ways, E.g. Bernie and Trump both have good brands, but they are completely different.

But regardless, the debates are going to weed out the candidates who lack substantive policies unless they have a good brand built on something else.
Back in the mid 1980s, I learned Pascal immediately before learning C, and to this day I (internally) pronounce C's -> operator as "up dot".
MSCoE here. FPGAs have limited applicability due to their high cost per unit and relatively low clock speeds. They were all the rage ~15 years ago during my grad study, but then flattened out. Although, it does look like they're bouncing back, likely due to newfound popularity for mining, and cheaper/better product lines coming out. Cheap, embedded stuff based on MIPS, ARM, even mobile processors like NVidia Tegra, will probably enjoy an order of magnitude broader market footprint, however.
How the hell is this severless?
> shareholders

Shareholders have zero say in how modern corporations are run.
I'd not be surprised if the tonnage of illegal or substandard waste exported from first world countries is 1,000,000 times greater the tonnage of improperly disposed plastic straws, plates etc etc.

So why are the EU making a huge deal about the latter and not the former? Sorry but it smacks of greenwashing and narratives to me...
This. I have family, military friends and recruiters and I don't want those conversations crossing over. With facebook, I have no idea what will leak across various groups of friends.
In Norway all bottled beverages come in refillable plastic bottles. They’re basically the same as normal bottles but a bit thicker. You pay about 50 cents for the bottle, and every grocery store has a little machine where you return the bottles and get a refund. The whole system works pretty well. I wish the US had something similar.
I spend a lot of time outside and see all of them fairly regularly. Don't think the frequency has decreased.
Really? Its prevalent in the Anglosphere for sure. Aus, Can, UK conservatives all run on that.

Its not designed to work in practice, its just a message like "kitchen table economics." It appeals to people who dislike complexity (so basically everyone).

Government functions about the same as large organizations, so in practice its about as useful as suggesting GE should be "run like a business."