skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's not attacking poor people.

I may have made a leap with that statement, but if you look under "Why Is the U.S. So Much Richer?", he practically lists out the entire Republican platform as corollaries from this one point. Given his unabashed political agenda and the overall point he's trying to make here, it's not a huge jump to assume that he sees the problem of poverty in America as overstated, self-inflicted, and generally not worth making a coordinated public effort to solve beyond proselytizing his personal lifestyle choices including reversing "changing attitudes toward sex [and] marital fidelity" (???).
Even if they don't contain much chicken meat, just 40% of meat takes up a significant part of the chicken supply chain. I'd say if McDonald's does decide to one day use 100% of chicken meat in their nuggets, the entire world chicken market would not be able to supply them (and the world chicken market would need to start more farms than exists today to make up that 60% shortfall).
Most people don't understand Bayesian reasoning either, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. If the polls have no value to you, then you lack the framework to interpret them.
I experience it all the time when reading / watching / listening to news reports about technology, often rather visibly rolling my eyes at their nonsensical depictions of how things work.

I don't, however, feel like that automatically invalidates the articles on other subjects. It's possible (probable, even) that different news outlets will have different specializations - different strong and weak categories - and that tech might be a weak spot while, say, local events might be a strong spot. After all, I certainly ain't an expert on, say, politics or medicine or economics, so why should I expect journalists to be experts in technology?

The answer to that rhetorical question, of course, is that it's the job of a news publication to hire people who can competently report on the topics they cover, or else to not attempt to cover those topics. But that still doesn't invalidate the other articles automatically; it just means I should get a second opinion :)
I'm not dismissing that term, which was undoubtedly racist and reflected the poor race relations of the democratic party back then. Nor am I suggesting that there aren't individuals who may express racist views, I have no way of knowing that.

What I do know is that racial division has been a hallmark of this administration, from equating white supremacist protesters (one of whom literally murdered a protester, btw) with counter protesters in Charlottesville, which the president did.

Nor am I suggesting that counting the number of citizens is racist. When a high-level GOP party operative writes to other members of the party that they need to implement the question in order to suppress the count of minority members in the US, you can't argue that you're trying to get an accurate count of people living in the US.

I'm not suggesting that this was implied somehow, Hofeller explicitly stated this in his memos. He wanted to scare Latinos into not filling out the census and put it writing. How is that not racist? This was one of the most powerful GOP strategists in the country putting this idea out among party officials.
We Need to Find Out If We Are Living in a Simulation
Aside, there is an Esperanto Wikipedia: https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio
Exactly right.
Corporations already use a complex web of eula and tos that effectively opt you out of the legal system and into the court of their favorite arbiter.

If there's some guy out there with your name, who also lives in your state and also uses facebook, and he happens to be a klansman, by the time you realize that you have a Kafkaesque situation to sort out with your 'social capital,' the damage may already be tremendous.
We already see this at the U.S. border with agents checking your social feeds, and in legions of stories about stolen identities... god help us.
"I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"
6 months is insufficient to get the tones right unless you have a really good ear imo
All of us have a baked in Negativity bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

And in the current environment of negative info overload, things are going to feel much worse than they really are.

We don't live in a static world. Things are always changing and the environment of negative info overload will change too. Even though most people can't imagine how that is going to happen, it will happen. Why? Because the number of people sick of this unnatural state of opinion overload is increasing everyday.
Everyone with a credit card agreed to it. It's in the fine print. Don't want to be tracked shopping? Use cash and keep your cell phone turned off. And no modern cars with wireless comms either.
I think a) the bacteria aren't novel. b) Calcium Lactate is what enables this.
If Tesla can get China factory open, the Y launched and some more stable financial ground, I do believe Elon & Tesla will indeed work on the residential solar business in earnest and that it is a reasonable Tesla product offering.
The only JDK you might be able to download from them without needing an extended support license is JDK 12 - and that is only until October 16th. Every other JDK/JRE version, from 6u211 to 11.0.4 only has the patched versions available with a login. They might have had older releases still public, but those were a huge source of grief. 7u80 was the last public version, but 7u231 (if I remember right) is the latest release. You really, really don't want to be using those unpatched versions.

Adopt OpenJDK has a great long term support release for v8 and v11 of the JDK/JRE. Free as in beer.
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It's worth pointing out that the author was reading an outdated implementation of strlen() from glibc. The generic implementation is still here with the same code, and would be complied if no ARCH-specific implementation is written, as seen here, https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/string/strlen.c.

But it's probably irrelevant to most systems today, as the assembly version is almost always used, e.g.

* i386: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/i386/str...

* i586/i686: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/i386/i58...

* i686 w/ SSE2: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/i386/i68...

* i686 w/ SSE2 + BSF: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/i386/i68...

* x86_64 w/ SSE2: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/x86_64/s...

* ARM: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/arm/strl...

* ARMv6: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/arm/armv...

* ARMv6T2: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/arm/armv...

* ARMv8a/AArch64: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/aarch64/...

* ARMv8a/AArch64 w/ ASIMD: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/aarch64/...

etc.
Personally I do upgrade-in-place -- my main home machine is an in-place upgrade from its original install of Debian 0.93r6 back in 1996 or so (with different hardware now, of course). Some upgrades have been hairier than others, but fixing up any fallout has always been much easier than doing a clean install, restoring user data and trying to recreate all the configuration tweaks.

Crossgrading from i386 to x86-64 was a particular bear, and I have vague memories that the a.out to ELF transition might have been awkward too...
No, they're not even remotely the same thing. It's like saying that English and Javascript are both programming languages because they use the same alphabet.

Pen and paper companies sell you tools/materials to create works. They don't know or care what you create with those works. For all they care, you could just eat the pen and paper. Importantly to this example: they don't transcribe the audio--you do. Your transcription is a derivative work and if a fair use exception does not apply, would be copyright infringement if the copyright owner cared to enforce it in these circumstances.

Amazon's Kindle transcribes the audio of an audiobook using software created by its programmers for the sole purpose of transcribing audiobooks. You don't do anything. Amazon does all the work, at your request. And that makes all the difference, because what Amazon is doing has pecuniary value and thus fair use would not apply to their actions.

I believe that most people would consider this being an allowable thing to do.

Most people also believe it's okay to speed. It's still against the law and it's not a defense to a speeding ticket when you get caught.
> Civil engineering is also not computer engineering. There is no agile development and you have to get it right the first time.

Eh, that's a little overstated. You'd be surprised how many buildings and bridges have major refits when it becomes obvious that their design didn't live up to expectations.
Run one as a home server, another as a media player, another as a Pi-Hole. Then, when you can't think of any, give them to coworkers, especially those with children, who can benefit from learning about the machines.
Re: Y2K, wasn't it not a (major) problem specifically because the world panicked over it and fixed all those two-digit year fields in their databases?
Because news media is not in the business of facts as such, they are in the business of a story. The buzzword today is "narrative". They will fit their reporting into a compelling or provocative narrative to move more newspapers and magazines. Hence, news about Bush's tariffs must not be reported alone, but must be contextualized in terms of a narrative about what a dangerous man he is and how he undermines his own goals when it comes to preventing terrorism. This will sell more copies of the Times both to people who agree with the narrative and people who are looking to challenge it.

You can see this unfolding right now. The New York Times Magazine, for instance, is currently running stories about slavery and plantations, and tying those into modern stories about race, justice, and capitalism, as part of its "Project 1619" which is explicitly about selling the narrative that USA culture is a slaver culture. This "hot takey" interpretation of American history is being promoted because it will sell more magazines than a more nuanced view of history.
Why not end this stupid drug war, let J&J and other companies like it sell prescriptions to addicts until they are actually ready to stop, provide support to those addicts like counseling, jobs, housing, clean needles, etc. and actually do something to better their lives than sue these companies while addicts are dying left and right because their doctors are legally forced to cut them off from their pure supply of opioids making them turn to impure supplies on the streets and overdose? No, why do the only thing that's ever been shown to work to help people? We couldn't have that. We're the United States of America and if we don't kill suck and helpless addicts and force the rest of the world to kill them as well, then who will? If we don't treat every problem like a war we might have some compassion and we can't have that. Landmark ruling my ass.
IMO the “Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect” maybe should be titled the “Gell-Mann Amnesia Affect” in many cases since the people complaining about it are often in the position to fix, but don’t. Instead they complain about it.

To be more specific, if you think reporters are getting things wrong, you can call them and tell them what the real scoop is; most reporters are very easy to get ahold of, and would to get the real scoop.

The reality is that most people who really know what they are talking about, don’t like talking to the press. They either consider it a waste of their time, or have an agenda and are only interested in talking to reporters to advance that agenda.

In fact I think a lot of the times people think reporters are “getting it wrong,” it is at least partially because the reporting doesn’t comport with their view on things. Economics would be a classic example of a discipline full of differing theories and schools about how to interpret the basic measurable facts (or even how facts should be measured).
> Bundyville

I recently found this. How did you like it?
2018 Distributed Wind Market Report [pdf]
I finished watching the documentary. It was on my list, and this thread here got me to watch it during my commute.

> It felt like the filmmakers were trying to put her into Snowden or Assange type circumstances

Given they clearly showed the quote by the data analyst that she was not a whistleblower and given they clearly showed her questionable morals, I disagree. She seems to me like the classic spoiled narcissist American woman, but then again Nix is also from an upper class family. She even admitted she was in it for the money, with a sob story about her family (as if that justifies it). No, this woman wasn't portrayed as a heroine. The documentary quite explicitly described her flawed character.

A realization I had is that Trump becoming president is just a 4-year thing. The UK leaving the EU is going to have a stronger effect on the long term.

I found it a good documentary which ultimately describes an example of where it went wrong (in many elections). It also clearly describes the long-term worries.
> I feel that Radiolab sometimes falls into that category.

I really, really hate how the show's edited, especially when handling dialog.
It didn't have a narrator, which pleasantly surprised me, but was it unopinionated?

IMO I don't know.

Almost all docos are at face value garbage, David Attenborough for instance never turns the camera around to the human rubbish or half a town behind them and never shows the true brutality of animals. When you get to docos on humans things really fall apart.

American Factory pushes the divide between Chinese and Americans, but humour and brashness gets lost translation, not sure it existed as much as it implied.

What was interesting was American Unions which was eye opening how illegal behaviour in most of the West was so normalised.

But to be honest the biggest morsel was the 3 broken microwaves in the break room. WTF. One, understandable, but to get to three means a systematic break down in the supply chain looking after your workers.
I think technology and science inherently empowers a smaller and smaller number to a greater and greater degree while the size of the playing field remains the same.

It would have been virtually impossible for virtually any percentage of hunter gathers to wipe out humanity let alone the biosphere. Eventually one person crazy enough may engineer all of our doom. This could even be so without malice aforethought.

Once you get to the stage of a planetary civilization expanding further gets fantastically harder. It's entirely possible that most intelligent species go extinct between getting big enough to destroy the requirements for their continued existence and actually escaping their planets.

The more obvious answer of ecological catastrophe is actually a lot harder. We could actually be well on our way to crashing and burning and still not be able to predict well enough that far ahead.
> Very few people do that sort of thing anymore

Bread and jam making and baking seems like probably the single most popular hobby for young women and many young men, next to something like running, from what I see from Facebook friends. Baking is also the subject of a major internationally popular TV competition for years. I can’t see why you’d think it was likely to become a black art.
I'd put it at >20% data to be an issue, not 20% users. If generated data was realistic enough (way more than it currently is), even 1% of users should be more than enough to generate say 50% garbage clicks and data.
There is absolutely no way this could possibly go wrong.
my goodness, yes. My background is aerospace engineering, software engineering, and finance. Here on hacker news, the software discussion is good, aerospace is terrible, and finance/investing is teeth-gnashingly, garment-rendingly hopeless. Despite this I do read lots of the health and wellness discussions - and have no idea whether they are really any good.
I am having trouble getting through this book as well. I had hopes, but I may have to “lose” the book on the train.
How do you justify people occupying extremely valuable land that they aren’t using to anything close to its potential, while also not paying anything close to their share of the taxes that keep the local government afloat?
>Do you really not see any value in a country knowing how many citizens it has?

There is definitely value in that, but the Census' primary goal is to count everyone. And the experts in the Census Bureau believed the citizenship question would harm that count. That's a non-starter.
The best way I've learned C is to write tiny command-line programs for every possible task.

Need to get the current path? Forget `pwd` or `cwd`, I'll write my own.

Need to know the number of files in a directory? I'll write my own.
Agreed. What I noticed with most other Mac RSS clients is that they omit a very obvious sync option: iCloud, even despite providing an iOS version.

I bought both the Mac and iOS version of Reeder and was very disappointed by the lack of iCloud support. It was quite pricey for an app that I never ended up using properly.

For now I’ve settled on News Explorer. I still miss Reeder’s UI but at least News Explorer actually works for me.
> If you want to look at debt, look at yields; just the other day we were discussing negative yield bonds in some Western countries. You can't have a sovereign debt crisis and negative yields in the same country at the same time!

I mostly agree with you. But I seem to recall reading that US Treasury auctions had been recently failing, and only appeared not to fail because the dealers stepped in and bought the rest of the bonds. That's what they're supposed to do in that situation, but in a normal auction, they don't have to.

So I worry that all is not as it appears in the bond markets, and therefore that your logic might not work. In particular, it might not work for long, because the bond dealers can't keep buying half the issues for long - especially not at the rate the US is having to issue bonds to fund the deficit.
Following your suggestion would be terrible for Tesla investors. Elon is demonstrating quite profoundly that he does not allow things to die. That is probably the main thing keeping TSLA at a $40b market cap with upside potential.
I didn't even know QEMU could do that. That's insanely cool; kind of a weird combination of traditional virtualization and Wine.
Hmm, I didn't remember using PPP or a modem. Now, I remember why.

At work we had a LAN. At home I had a Windows 98 box that talked to the internal modem and dialed up, which routed to a special orange ethernet cable with the wires crossed to an emachines box in the second bedroom. That one had dual boot linux on it for tinkering and thought it was directly on the internet. Good times.
Microsoft Is Requiring Lynda.com Users to Create LinkedIn Profiles – Slashdot
I'm not an expert and might be horribly wrong and welcome edification, but I believe you don't want your GPU powering your computer because

- GPUs don't handle I/O other than writing to video RAM.

- GPUs don't handle interrupts.

- GPUs don't handle branching well.

For the first two, a lot of infrastructure that is part of the chipset and platform would have to be extended to each compute unit of the GPU.

Imagine a database on a GPU. It's not like 1.5K-2k+ cores that are super good at math can read and write your disk or disk array at once.
If the counterparty survives...
The fact that requirements.txt files are by-default version pegged is an absolute nightmare for people upgrading. It simply does NOT work for a serious, large project that you'd like to keep up to date as dependencies improve. It might seem like it works great for a new, tiny, short-lived project, or to inexperienced devs.

The basic idea of pipenv, being able to resolve the dependency graph more cleanly and precisely, is far far far better - but there are still some usability improvements that leave something to be desired.
Their history with android is very poor. Their phones are next to impossible to physically open and they offer no way to unlock the bootloader but there are individuals who will charge you a fee to have the bootloader unlocked using their exploits.
Here's an example of an assumption she could have tested (as opposed to re-printing as a quote).

The headline of this article starts with: "He (Musk) is full of shit".

Why?

Because that's a quote from a single person she interviewed, who is a disgruntled ex-employee of Tesla with a history of ranging against Tesla and Musk (to quote the article "Since then, he had taken to sending Elon Musk emails and point-blank tweets, describing the pain the layoffs were causing.").

(as a total aside, if you've heard about a laid off low-level employee angrily tweeting and e-mailing a CEO of Fortune 500 company (116 to be exact) you would probably think "an unstable person" not "a good subject expert to interview").

Instead of treating "Musk is full of shit" as a fact, she should could ask herself "is Musk really full of shit"?

Should could do it by asking more people what they think about Musk, more Tesla employees, including those that are still happily employed.

This article is clearly sourced from the most vocal, the most virulent Tesla haters (the self-proclaimed members of $TSLAQ on Twitter).

You can easily find even more people very happy with Tesla's products and I'm sure there are plenty of employees who think highly of Musk.

But it's clearly a hit piece, not interested in presenting a balanced account.

The part about Walmart lawsuit doesn't mention Tesla's response (which paints Walmart in a very bad light) or subsequent joint statement from Walmart and Tesla where they make nice.
I think the usual term Wine (plus e.g. WSL1, Darling, Solaris/BSD Linux compatibility shims, etc.) uses is "translate", but "impersonate" does sound closer to what such systems actually do.
Very clear visibility into ability to payoff on double-digit yields?
I'm getting tremendous mileage from Peter Adamson's The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps -- which has a lot on history, culture, historiography, religion, and bad puns, as well as philosophy: https://historyofphilosophy.net/

The "New Books Network" podcast collective, actually a whole set of podcasts on numerous subjects, is a great way to keep up with literature in specific fields, as well as get exposed to new ideas generally: https://newbooksnetwork.com/

"Ideas" from CBC radio. Resuming with a new host following the retirement of very long-term host Paul Kennedy this past June: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas

"LSE: Public Lectures and Events", from the London School of Economics. Clearly, economics, though also numerous other topics: http://www.lse.ac.uk/lacc/Podcasts

"On the Media", with hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, from WNYC. About all the news I can stand (if that) any more, plus introspection on the media itself: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
This is not a great distinction because there are government imposed limits to the vendor imposed limitations, even if it is a "license". FSD will hold up with physical DVDs in American court, even if the vendor says they only sold you a non-resellable license to view the DVD. Court isn't going to care the vendor called it a license. The distinction is the jurisprudence regarding the medium, with a dash of vendor license agreement. Also how you purchased it and what a consumer would "reasonable expect" will probably come into play: if you buy 1M old DVD with license to not resell that you and vendor have physically signed, your FSD is less likely to hold up than if you bought one DVD at Walmart with an EULA.