skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the majority of people on both sides have chosen their position on the basis of political allegiance and social identity rather than a consideration of both sides

How would you suggest most people actually consider "both sides"? (i.e. a method not requiring more skills than most people have, or more time than most people would want to invest.) I think I have above average skills in reading scientific papers etc, but still it's not clear to me at all how to go about doing that. I guess I'd find the climate change report that seemed to have the most credibility with (ultimately) the kind of people whose politics I like, and yield to that because of its authority. Not much "considering" involved.

And..are there actually only two "sides"?
Do you have a reference for this? I can't find anything that supports it (only the opposite!), and, intuitively, it doesn't make much sense.

My ear drum, and the hair cells behind it, do exactly one thing: respond to changes in air pressure. If the ANC isn't reducing air pressure forces, then why do I hear so little? The only way to hear less is to have less changing forces to disturbed them, is it not?

I assume the good ones designed with lowpass and aliasing filters to block out anything high frequency, but inaudible, that might damage hearing. These are absolutely not air tight, so there's nothing static, and the lack of bone-conduction sounds from walking makes me think it's keeping lower frequency pressure very well under control.
Doesn't that seem like a build tool situation? At that point the other piece of code isn't part of source, it's a source dependency, and no different from a binary dependency at some version so you don't really want the tree, you want the file at some revision and if it's `github` based then you have the natural HTTP endpoint and otherwise it's trivial to proxy as an artifact.
"btw I use Arch" is a meme as well
With recent actions like that, you don't believe that Microsoft engaged in similar anticompetitive practices back in the early '00s, let alone in the late '90s?
In a watered-down way, certifications are to people what logging is to the server: a way to communicate information about state that could prove useful.

Certifications are a little bit better than certifications.

Without them, we'd be forced to rely even more strongly on interpersonal relationships than we already do.
Thanks so much for trying Nebula! We really appreciate it.

Sorry about the where clause issue. Do you mind bringing an issue in this regard on our GitHub repo? So that we can assign it to relevant staff.

As to the query language, thanks for your suggestion and nGQL will surely be aligned with the GQL standard. We are keeping a close eye on it. :)

We are planning to support OpenCypher in the first half of 2020 and TinkerPop would be the next.

Thanks again! Here's our slack group btw and you may raise any question there: https://join.slack.com/t/nebulagraph/shared_invite/enQtNjIzM...
Are they spending $$$ on marketing? Do they have connections to someone with a problem the software will solve? These things are worth money, and might be worth partnering.

But if this is just something that will be thrown into an app store and hope for the best, then I see 0 value in an idea alone. Make your own 2 day app and throw it into the app store. Reap what you sow.
Honestly was being half tongue in cheek, but your comment made me look it up because I never have.

It sounds like we have a program similar to the USA’s TN Visa program:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

FWIW, it can be expensive here, but Amazon and others are hiring like stink.
'Barnacle' car windscreen clamp sparks student fury
I think you're starting to (unintentionally) argue a straw man, or at least are making assumptions that just aren't true.

No one is saying that developers should just be able to build whatever they want, whenever they want, with no oversight. No one is saying that the community should completely shut up and have no input into the process.

But the actual objections brought up at actual planning meetings that happen in SF are universally bonkers. It literally actually is people opposing change just for the sake of opposing change. If there is anyone at these meetings making reasonable objections, they're completely drowned out by the other 20 people shouting that the sky is falling.

It's protectionism, and the "I got mine, so fuck you" mentality, plain and simple.
Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making
Maybe that's what it was historically, but these days, most of the sentiment against people moving from California is because more demand raises house prices and rental costs that are already perceived as overly high, and pricing too many locals out. Cultural issues are mentioned as an afterthought, if at all.
Right, but the media has chosen one of the more favorable metrics, and one that flies in the face of what most people would assume constitutes "employment". That's fine, but shouldn't it come with a regular disclaimer that this idea of "unemployment" is way out of whack with what most people would consider legitimate?
Or... publish everything as essentially a log in an openly accessible manner (ie. email as a on a list serv with it's web accessible archive), and places like archive.org will happily squirrel it away for you.
It is fine for adults. If it weren't for "online adult work" I'd have to degrade myself to being a waitress or working at McDonald's.
Come to Montreal
> They also bought a trucking company and said they were going to start building their own car carriers

Surely once they actually have full self driving nailed the cars will just deliver themselves. It's just a question of where in the 1-20 years away that is.
You're suggesting we should arrange society a specific way because of some connection to "biology". I am saying that the arrangements you seem to be for are no more rooted in biology than the arrangements you seem to be against.
This is a significant, but it's not an unknown issue. Any economist working in anything tangentially related would know that there are a variety of unemployment statistics (U1, U2, ... U6, helpfully ordered by size).

It's not that the people working in the space don't know what's going on, it's that U1 is publicized when U5 or maybe U6 would better match the intuitive definition of unemployment. It's purely a PR issue, and it won't be solved because no administration wants to oversee a "massive jump in unemployment" that will be complicated to explain.

(The numerator is the same in every statistic, denominator changes. There are sensical reasons statistics that exclude some types of people from the denominator are useful. For example, often you don't want to count college students without a job amoung the unemployed if they aren't looking for one. See https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm for more info.)
I’m sure there are lots of people in Arizona that would love for you to die there as well.

I’m honestly surprised that so many “forward thinking” people can spout off such nationalist bullshit with a straight face.
Well not exactly. A lot of it is that China only allows their citizens to hold so much private wealth, so the wealthy find ways to get their money out and hold it elsewhere.

California real estate (and western real estate in general) is a good place to hold it because of our stable economy, solid legal system, and you get something tangible (the land and building).
Apple started recording audio exposure levels in Health. Using noise cancelling my normal dB level dropped noticeably.
Not that we are owed an explanation, but I didn’t see a reason either.
Please Buffalo peeps: keep coming here and sharing your food culture with us.

For a while, I would have said that they already sent you all the food culture they could. But I passed through Buffalo on a road trip a few months ago, and I gotta say, it's got a very hip vibe these days. Went to a great brewpub for dinner, and a local ice cream joint for dessert serving homemade ice cream.

They might be shipping you more food culture yet!
California my whole life. I live in SF. Considering moving to Washington. I can live on the west side of Puget Sound and take an express ferry across the Sound and get to downtown Seattle for work. What a condo goes for in SF you can get a beach front house with some land. I once saw a property on one of the islands with a dozen acres for less than a million. Farm house on it and it’s still commutable to downtown Seattle via the ferry.
My sarcasm detector just exploded.

It’s all a continuum. A great test for mid career programmers is solving a problem from a blank text file. Especially true for more languages with great IDEs like Java or C#
Besides the usual issues with SF, Bay Area .. really California: homeless, cost of living, fires (health), earthquake one of the most concerning aspect for me are taxes! You pay tons of state taxes to get pretty much nothing in return.

I and my wife have 2 years of run away. Wait for my kid to finish the pre-school cycle, after which we are out of here.

We have already begun to look into alternatives and evaluating pro/cons and yes Texas comes as one of the top choices along with Colorado.
Quite the opposite... I grew up in the 80's thinking everyone was a brainless moron and all corporations were intrinsically evil. Corporate messaging was unbelievably, brazenly disingenuous, and political speech was worse (!) than it is today.

In my dottage (lol), I believe that it's wiser and more honest to praise meaningful virtuous action than to dismiss it out of hand as "PR."

I'd think about whether and how you disagree with that statement carefully, particularly re: how you think knee-jerk cynicism improves the world you live in. In my experience, blind cynicism is a shield for people who are terrified of being duped because they are, at heart, deeply insecure (and possibly also exhausted, justifiably, by glossy PR bullshit). For my part, I don't mind taking calculated risks when I see action I agree with. If I were never right, I'd stop pretty quickly. But I find I'm right more often than I'm wrong, and I'm willing to tolerate a few mistakes in the process.
When I was a kid that was very much a hobby!

I’d save whole websites and play with their code (back then that meant html2/3 and early css and Javascript, but still). It was enticing after playing with terminal views for years before that. Kids like colourful things, what can I say.
Not if you're a Boltzmann brain.
yeah, forever-jobs are the main misaligned expectation from the market. laying off people isn't controversial, but too many businesses avoid the action until there actually is a controversial issue with the business.
I had the same experience. I was considering returning them but gave it a week of usage and I seemed to adapt.
You raise a great point. I don't expect most people to. But I know some power users who would. And I suspect a huge library of human-crafted commands would be more useful than (or at least compliment) a mediocre AI.

Back before there were better alternatives, I reverse engineered the protocol for a common Wifi RGB LED controller and glued it to the Alexa Skills API. Amazon has a great developer tool for training your own verbs and syntax. Unfortunately, all your vocabulary needs to be prefixed. So instead of saying "Turn my yard light red", I had to say "Tell Sparky to turn my yard light red".
Absolutely. And there is a gap here to be bridged. In the current political discourse, I see a narrative of men and women being put as adversaries, as if they were competing for something whereas in most cases they are complements and their whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And I repeat, males are just as guilty here. Divorce has gone through the roof, single mothers are an ever increasing share of the parental composition. Men are running away from their responsibility which is to raise their children in conjunction with their partner. I hope we turn a corner sometime soon.
That's per child. It's really not a small part of the problem.
Love this app. Has helped me track down TAF pinball. Great work!
Google Docs with a structured approach and handle it async.
Another comment told you how to change this behavior, but I heard someone rationalize the default behavior as taking out one earbud can signal you're trying to talk to someone so it disables noise cancelation so you can hear them with both ears.
only beneficial during the primary after the top candidates have been selected, which can both be extremely left-wing due to the caucus
I discovered that when you receive a random Amazon package sent to your home, it’s a scam for the product.

From what I’ve read and been told by people, it’s a seller from Amazon shipping you their product using a gift card. They create an account using your info (not sure how they get it, maybe public info web sites), ship you their product and pay for it with a gift card. They then create a review of the product you received as you. It’s then considered a verified buyer of the product. So it’s essentially buying reviews.

It’s happened to a few of my friends.
Thanks for the heads up. No firmware updates for a while then.
The valleys are mostly irrelevant due to their lower population.
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You're suggesting we should arrange society a specific way because of some connection to "biology".

Nope. I didn't say that.

> There is about 4 billion years of evolution and the thinking that it can be socially engineered away is a folly.

I didn't make any statement on how to arrange society. I simply stated that I believe they would all eventually fail.
The real problem here is that you have things you want to capture from ephemeral conversations, and you have structured information you want to build up over time.

Technology can't solve this for you, but using the wrong one will make things worse.

You need to

a) pick a medium for the longer lived stuff

b) come up with some rules for how it will be used and, probably more important, maintained, and

c) put the time in, ongoing.

Lot's of people spend time on (a), don't spend time on (b) and try and avoid thinking about (c). This means for example if a later conversation shifts the table a bit, some one needs to go over earlier material and adjust or annotate it.

I think a lot of approaches can work, but they have to be flexible - you need to be able to structure things, and also add different media (links, embedded images/scribbles, whatever). By nature any system that allows this will let you make a terrible mess of things.

Consider for example Wiki's. I'm sure most of us have seen useful wiki based documents, and completely useless messes where you can't find anything. The difference isn't the technology.

Trying to be practical, I would start with either a file system structure on a shared platform (google docs, dropbox, whatever) with some simple structure and rules. Or a wiki or wiki like system with good attachment support and hopefully search.
Even S3 can hit random expenses when you least expect it. I let a process go crazy and create billions of objects in S3. Of course AWS was happy to charge me for all of this, but what I wasn't expecting was the charge just to list the objects to delete them. I spent more than $100 just to empty the stupid bucket out.
Can you talk more about the state laws? Are they not discouraging homelessness or are they too weak on petty crime?
Airbnb went from cheaper than hotels and generally less BS, to way more BS and way more expensive than hotels. I now yearn for the simplicity of a boring hotel chain. Check in and check out are easy (and consistent). The room is private. The pricing is transparent. The process for cleaning and other standard housing maintenance tasks is invisible.
Paid them for four years. If I had known they were going to delete the backups in just over one month, I wouldn’t have risked that.

Lost everything when they deleted the backups. They turned off the server on the same day, and it was running fine right up until then. Zero warning other than the emails I didn’t see.
As an European, what's the difficulty to get a citizenship for the US in 2020?
I've been following this quite closely. Most of the work seems to be done. But development is very stop-start in fits and bursts, so it's hard to tell how much longer it will take.
> If you're interested in using X11 now

I'm interested!

Take a look on AzPainter[0] — modern looking desktop app for painting, written in pure C with own toolkit built directly on top of X11.

Would be happy to see it ported to iOS.[1]

FTR, AzPainter already ported to Android, thanks to Termux app dev team.[2]

[0] https://github.com/symbian9/azpainter

[1] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/issues/76

[2] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/issues/6
Exactly. Like the GraphicsMagick fork of ImageMagick.
Anecdotally, Denver and Austin were both pretty laissez-faire prior to the demographic shifts of the past 10 years.

I would guess Vermont, NH, or Maine still may have places with the same purple politics.
I really like the "Saved Queries" list. Nice and easy to click.
It seems like the only "Fossilhub" is this: http://chiselapp.com/

I would guess that it would make it very hard to create a community around the project.
How does a sparse checkout not defeat the purpose of a monorepo? I thought monorepos existed so it was easy to make changes that affect the whole codebase and to test those changes. If you only checkout a portion of the files, how are you going to test against the whole repo?

EDIT: my overall concern is that it looks like people are reinventing clearcase. Please speak to an older developer who worked at an HP/IBM type company in he late '90s/early 2000's before you do that. Please!
OneSignal is hiring a SRE to help send 5B messages/day
It would require some pretty big shifts in Texas, though. Since most revenue comes from property taxes, the government has an incentive not only to avoid things like Prop 13, but to also encourage building.

Sure, Texas could start imposing an income tax, and raise the sales tax rate, but that would be a huge political hurdle to jump in order to be able to enact CA's terrible housing policies.
Just looked it up, and the guy apparently has 9 kids already. So it's not out of the question...
Yeah, no. Reality doesn’t bear out with your theory.
Does ispc still offer compelling advantages versus icc or other compilers?
Sounds a lot ike GMail's actions:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/actions/actions-o...
> All the additional Common Core techniques seem to require some kind of visual representation,

Yes, because humans are not very logical or abstract thinkers. We are used to visualizing things. It's a lot easier to help students build the abstract and logical thinking required for mathematical literacy if they can fall back on visual representations when they need to.

> Whether it ends up helping students is moot; it helps put money into a lot of lobbyists' pocketbooks.

I mean I value helping students higher. And as you pointed out it can be drawn out.

> IMO the better teaching method is give them one way to get the answer. Once they've mastered that, then start looking at additional ways to reason about it.

Except that that doesn't work well. The point of giving them many different ways to reason about it is so that they can get the core concept and actually learn the concept, rather than just memorizing "the one way".
Well, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintainer
Remember those performances are for very constrained, some might say artificial tasks of specifically image recognition into categories.

Your Tesla might be 99.99% in recognizing red lights but will continue to drive straight into paper boxes in its immediate path.
To be fair, in CA it's massive SUVs that keep trying to run me over.
But that's not what the data shows. People from blue states are moving to blue cities in red states. Left leaning people are moving to similarly left leaning areas. Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, when was the last time these were Republican bastions? Look at the areas experiencing huge population growth. Texas might be red but the populations centers haven't been for years.
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> But they went out of their way to denigrate the people who called attention to this issue, called the issue "boring", rejected the patch, then deleted the issue and all comments.

This is an unfair characterization of what happened. Here's another version: The maintainer did not denigrate anyone, he did call the patch "boring" (which isn't really an insult or anything?), worked on his own patch (without closing the previous PR mind you). People immediately starting shitting on the maintainer - within the hour - because the PR had not been merged. Maintainer chose to delete the issue to avoid it devolving into the usual mess. More shitting contest happened here on HN, on Reddit, and elsewhere.
Excellent! Thanks. I followed the links on Github, btw. I'm looking into some of the trainings you're offering.

Last August, I took the Advanced Windows Exploitation course from Offensive Security (for the OSEE), and then I followed it up with the awesome Advanced Fuzzing and Crash Analysis course taught by Richard Johnson. Both were incredible courses, but my RE sucks.

I'm looking at the Advanced Browser Exploitation course next, but I'd really like to get better with reversing in order to get more out of these classes.
Huh.

I did maybe a couple decades of applied nihilism, as presented by Landmark Education. It helped me a lot, given that I'm bipolar and prone to pessimism and depression.

So this makes sense to me:

> If, as I suggested earlier, nihilism and pessimism are opposites, then nihilism is actually much closer to optimism.

But not this:

> Such a lack of awareness is the point of nihilism, as nihilism is all about hiding from despair rather than dwelling on it.

As Landmark taught it, it's not so much hiding from despair as cultivating the awareness that despair is an illusion. That is, despair isn't about what happened. It's about our story about what happened. And our stories by default just reflect our programming.

This does, however, but it's too ambiguous:

> But the nihilist has feelings. It’s just that what the nihilist has feelings for is itself nothing.

It's not that it's "nothing", exactly. It's that it's indeterminate. By default, it's however we've been programmed. But it can be whatever we choose freely.
Barr killed Epstein and everyone knows it and nobody cares
Ask HN: Simple cluster self-healing system?
I'm looking for a Linux based solution that, like the simplest uses of kubernetes, can run, monitor to insure N copies of task is running somewhere on a specified cluster on reachable hosts. I'm getting to kubernetes, but need something simpler first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story

Humans are really good at crafting narratives explaining complex and uncertain reality. However, just because something sounds superficialy plausible, doesn't mean it is true: it is usually easy to craft an alternative theory, just as plausible as the one at hand.

For example, the narrative of Prop 13 being the root of all California's housing problem very much depends on exactly how much it affects the decision making. It could be a lot, it could be a little, but without knowing exactly (or at least approximately), we're simply in the dark. Maybe it's not Prop 13, but environmental activists running amok? Maybe it's a cartel in the construction industry colluding to keep the construction prices up? Without putting numbers on these, you can't tell which of these has significant impact, and which is irrelevant.
There's a false expectation that if a package or project is open source then the maintainer should put in free labor to keep it up-to-date. If you don't like something then fork it and make it yours. Nobody is entitled to anything. If I were the package maintainer I'd most likely do the same if I were getting that kind of response from the community.