skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telling Sanders and Trump voters that their support is based on conspiracy theories is not a good way to win their support away from their current candidates. Not sure when it happened but at some point it became part of the collective wisdom of political wonks that the best way to win someone to your point of view is to call them stupid. Pretty sure the works/fails ratio on that is at least 1:10 and probably more like 1:100.
I'm not pushing back against the article, but against the comments that tend to appear below articles like this. The headline in particular, to someone who doesn't read the article, could be taken as "Discord has decided that Rust is better than Go and here's why", and run with.
i'm starting to think that Durov was right after all...
Fireflies face decline due to habitat loss, light pollution, pesticides
Be yourself, man.
ALL of the chefs on Top Chef are professionals. All of them. That's the point of the show.

NONE of the singers on the Voice are professionals. That's also the point of the show.

The bigger point that clearly wasn't understood is that celebrity and success aren't mutually inclusive when it comes to cooking or music. You can be a successful chef that isn't on Top Chef just as you can be a successful voice that never goes on American Idol. In fact MOST people successful in both realms will never ever be on even a local TV show.
The Geography of Inequality: How Land Use Regulation Produces Segregation
Which - as a Minnesotan - I find to be a frustrating interface when gloves are required.

(somethingsomethingdesignedforcalifornia)
Not all deep learning is hierarchical and not all machine learning is deep learning.
> This thread is full of the dumbest takes imaginable.

Such as yours.

> Also, what was DHS going to do here?

Test the app, as they offered.

> This is a private organization doing a [private] caucus in a single state

...So what? How is that a good reason to not care about it?

> DHS should focus on securing the national elections

The national elections are run by the states too. That's how elections work, they are decentralized..
I called this building consciousness. If you are pouring lot of code daily and moving between many projects, you will start writing comments automatically. Once you build enough consciousness about anything, learning become very second nature. And this is the reason 10000 hours rule work imo.

On side note, the biggest mistake people do is they can't think straight. If you want to learn coding, start coding first. Don't read theory or watch youtube videos. If you want to learn public speaking, start giving speeches. Don't read motivation books. This is how child learn. Fail and improve. Sadly many kids want to become hacker by watching hollywood movies and youtube videos.
Do you have stats to back that up? I'm having trouble finding it, but the only study I've ever seen on the subject showed lifting as being fairly on par with other athletic activities.

However, when it comes to results, squat and deadlift are way ahead in producing muscular and skeletal adaptation.
How to create fake traffic jam with 99 smartphones
(You can call Go from Rust: https://blog.arranfrance.com/post/cgo-sqip-rust/ )
Yes, it's about time Amazon enter the one market where there's even more counterfeiting than what they now have.
> Or maybe there's an opportunity for a truly neutral company to make inroads there.

Truly neutral companies are hard to find; most companies of any proven competence have well-known political preferences, and those that don't there is going to be a concern of unknown and hostile-to-the-customer leanings, which you really don't want to discover after they've manifested.
Most people consider the illegal hacking and distribution of emails as "meddling" with the election and believe it had a greater impact on how people voted than the ad buys did.

If you're just arguing that it's irrelevant because vote totals weren't hacked, fine. That's a dispute over word choice of what it means to "meddle." Russia also hacked into and downloaded data from voting registration systems, which should cause us to re-evaluate our voting systems, but again, that didn't impact vote computations or anything like that.
It's true that the average person has a set amount of weirdness points and needs to use them somewhat sparingly.

But there are certain cases where a person might have more weirdness points available to them than the average person and can spend them more freely:

* If you are physically attractive, you often get an extra helping of weirdness points to spend.

* If you are a celebrity or a person with lots of power, you get an extra-large extra helping.

* If you are obscenely rich, you can buy just about as many weirdness points as you want.
I completely agree with both points. I think that people are also terrified of spending that much money on a house after 2008 and having student debt.
I think this is the first year that they are reporting the results of each round. My guess is that the round-to-round numbers didn't match expectations, and my guess-the-second is that more people leave between rounds than we realized.
Concrete example: if your office is a bunch of boys who regularly game together, you can still fit in if you don't. Unless you're female. A woman that games with the boys would fit in, but a woman that doesn't would likely end up an outsider.
This should really be getting more attention, here is an alternative breakdown: https://imgur.com/gallery/ycOC0HX.

The jest of it is one of the most important institutions in the United States (the Democratic National Committee) uses a highly nepotistic and incompetent system for managing IT which leads to colossal failures in marketing, canvassing, and security. Not to mention massive PII violates as millions of emails, phone numbers and SSNs, are passed around in plain-text via CSV files.

The reason this happens is because hundreds of millions of dollars are lit on fire during election season and all the sharks, including former Google employees, come out to swim. Even well intentioned projects get slammed by the crunch of the election season (seriously trying shipping a well scaled app in < 2 months with terrible product direction) and ultimately fail - failing the needs of the entire citizenship of the country.

After the success of Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns even more money was funneled into IT as a sort of perceived silver bullet. But in 2016 it wasn't, and yet no analysis was done to correct the problems for the 2020 cycle - because the decision makers (all these "CTOs") are clueless fucks who are just there for the money and could care less about the integrity of our democratic system.

- in 2016 I worked for one of the companies in this niche and saw the bidding/sales/engineering processes first hand. FWIW I am a life long democratic voter and this makes me sick to my stomach.
> The reason I didn't is that I don't target this market, don't have domain expertise in how caucuses are run

Then why are you still spreading your stupid take?
Oh this is funny. Very, very funny :P Thank you kind sir, you made my day!
2d wing does not have a wing "tip." It is infinite.
This is a really important point. Some people are marginalized by default due to the fact that they‘re different than “normal”, because that’s how they were born.

That’s a reality for a lot of people: “You shouldn’t assert yourself so much, no one likes that coming from an X.” ”Don’t show so much anger. You’re a Y — it’ll scare people.”
From a technical perspective, this is a lot of effort for a parody. I'm impressed.

Where did they source the fake reviews from? (you can click the review title to get a review, although it doesn't always match)
Again, I claimed no explicit corruption. I said that these events favor Pete and he had his hands in making these events occur. Why is evidence regarded as baseless?

He called in and pulled the poll that was released in a timely manner for 76 years. His adviser is married to the company's founder, and he bought 42k$ worth of "service" from them before. When app crashed, he claims victory like a rat and all of media announces his speech to the public.

Again I'm not claiming Iowa Dem party actively helped him. I'm claiming that he was allowed to help himself in multiple ways and noone stopped him, which is unfair to every other candidate.
Security flaw? Surely some entity is squatting youtube on some TLD?!

If there is a country TLD of X where Google owns google.X but entity Y owns youtube.X then entity Y gets the X-CLIENT-DATA header information. See usage of IsValidHostName() in code.
5 powerful tech companies now make up 18% of the stock market
Zoo Animals and Their Discontents (2014)
I agree. One of Go's design goals was to be simple enough for thousands of developers to use it simultaneously across a huge monorepo. To me this is in the same class as companies use k8s; unless your Google (or Facebook or Netflix ...) you probably shoudn't be using it.
Just because they were competent at something somewhat related, doesn't mean they were competent at this particular thing, or that they gave it the attention it needed.

A real-time vote transmission system that requires data integrity and validation is not quite the same as a consumer website, or an email marketing system.
> But if you're a guy wearing a dress in public, ... recognize that you're spending your weirdness points fighting lookism, which means less weirdness points to spend promoting veganism or something else.

Being trans is antithetical to improving the world? Yikes, that's a bad take.
I'm terrified of how excited I am for this. I got huge into aviation and Flight Simulator X, and now I'm worried this will be a huge deviation in design despite looking amazing and exciting. Will I still be able to design and modify custom terrain? Will I have to subscribe to some expensive add on service just to get their streamed ground textures? They say you can cache them for frequently used or favorite areas, what if you let that theoretical subscription lapse? Would you lose all your locations?
Here's what I'm considering for the year:

- typing with Colemak (-dh?)

- Statistics 102 (calculating sample sizes, t-tests, etc.)

- Tensorflow
The parents should be brought under law for child abuse by indoctrinating such young children in religious politics.
I think the way I'd put it is that languages with manual memory management, like Rust, have more scope for optimization than languages that don't. You can just use the gc crate in Rust and have almost the same ease of development but the same performance problems you do in Go.
Sure, but that doesn't make Go unsuitable for those tasks on a fundamental basis. Go is very high performance. Whether Go or another language is the best match very much depends on the problem at hand and the especial requirements. Even in the described case they might have tweaked the GC to fit their bill.
How Dart 2 type system influenced Dart VM
> There's the big square sailed ones which always have to move downwind.

Actually, that's not true. Square rigged "pirate-style" ships are more efficient when sailing downwind compared to fore-and-aft style sailboats, but they can still sail just fine close-hauled (into the wind) or on a reach (perpendicular). There are some efficiency pros and cons to both styles, but they all have the same aerodynamic capabilities.

The main reasons square-rigged ships fell out of fashion, as far as I know, are mostly logistically. Square-rigged sails make sense when you have a really big ship. A single huge fore-and-aft sail would be too hard to handle. Square-rigged ships break that sail area down into a larger number of smaller individually manageable pieces.

But larger vessels are almost all powered now. For a smaller sailing vessel, it's easier to manage the simpler Bermuda sail plan, and its more efficient. I think maybe square-rigged ships have an efficiency advantage when going straight downwind, but most sailboats simply carry a spinnaker to cover that case.

(Caveat: I'm not a sailor, I've just read some textbooks.)
Interesting concept but I am sceptical when it comes towards operationalizing social interactions. From my perspective these operationalizations come from positions of weakness of charisma and self-criticism.

If someone has very little self-reflection and does not care about others perception, all those interaction mechanics fall apart. In the end the reality of weirdness is not about getting 50%+ votes in an hypothetical election from a randomized crowd but finding those people that are the most attracted to that weirdness.
Would it have been better if they went with Elixir?

Write their code in a functional style. Get the benefits of the Erlang BEAM platform.

Their system runs over the web, so time sensitivity isn’t as important, in comparison to video games, VR, or AR.

Anyone ever done a performance comparison breakdown between something like Elixir vs. Rust?
My 15 year ago self would have taken a double helping of DoubleClick if my only choices were that or Internet Explorer 6.
Avast Secure Browser: Anti-Fingerprinting, Anti-Phishing and Adblock Technology
I once rowed a "half marathon" on an erg (~21km) on a whim (with a "slow and steady" strategy). It was amazing to me how much of finishing it was mental - especially the last third.
Ran FS X up to a couple of years ago, FS98 before that, all the way back to C64 Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, and the Sublogic Flight Simulator.

This looks awesome but CYAC is still my all time favorite. I need a Win10 compatible flight stick, though.
I guess this falls under the "Dumb Starbucks" defense?
Pollution is something so abstract, hard to measure and put a finger on that a lot of people get away with it. When you punch a person in the face or rob someone, soon there's one very angry person wanting to get even with you. Because of its nature, pollution diffuses in air or water. It's hard to see, put a finger on, point to the wrongdoer. There's a little bit of it everywhere, everyone is a bit harmed by it, but it's hard to reason about and notice until it's really bad. And by that time the guilty is either dead or far away. Or everyone is a little bit responsible.

Which reminds me of... democracy. The easiest way to make people not care about something wrong happening is to diffuse it. Like, diffuse responsibility.
Limbo doesn't only run on Inferno; anything with the Dis VM will work.
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

— Steve Jobs, 1997
Yes I am using Signal. It's just that most people around me are not on Signal. Trying to convince them to switch is useless (although I try). WhatsApp is not my first choice either.
Many people calling for free speech are undisturbed by a leader that calls the press "the enemy of the people" and leads rally where the press is screamed at and intimidated and where chants to lock up political opponents are common.
Remember that even Flight Simulator X was pretty hard to run reasonably at it's release time
Diligent Engine now has C API
I noticed that too but also doesn't the ocean just look weirdly static from great heights? Haven't flown in a while, can anyone else confirm that observation?
It doesn't. If you disable the GC… you only have an allocator, the only "free" is to run the entire GC by hand (calling runtime.GC())
>Photons do not get a special "laser" tag added to them by physics.

I thought they kinda did. By being very similar wavelength and power, compared to normal light which has all sorts of wave lengths and power. This difference can mean certain rods/cones being stressed more than average and not triggering the sort of fatigue that normal light would cause.

Perhaps the best example of a similar concept, though not with lasers, is looking at a total solar eclipse right before or after the sun is fully eclipsed. There is a small period of time where extremely bright light makes it into our eyes, but not he frequencies that cause pain normally associated with looking at the sun. This means that our default defenses against looking at the sun don't kick in and doing permanent eye damage is extremely easy without feeling any pain as the damage is done.
It does, but headlines like these are a distraction from the actual facts. All it takes is a series of half-truths to form a false narrative that doesn't serve anyone constructively. With an ineffective law enforcement, parts of India are like a tinderbox waiting to go off as people act on emotions.
Show HN: Fancy new release of “Sauce for Strava ” browser extension
Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: Parapriacanthus fish obtain luciferase from prey
Discord is a heavy Elixir user, and even uses it with Rust via NIF: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-1...
I overheard a conversation at my local barbershop last week, a technical recruiter lamenting about how "strange" software developers are....
I completely understand it, his target demographic being kids fresh out of University and probably need to exercise their social skills a bit, but the lack of empathy is what irked me the most.
I stopped using it about two years ago and started... oh, four or so years before that. If it's even slower now than it was then, whoa. It was already probably the generally worst-performing "web app" I knew of at the time, which is saying something.
Serverless Scripting for URL Redirects
The director of the DHS said that their testing would not have caught this issue. They are quoted as such in the article referenced in this submission (and I quote their statement here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22239826).

"So what? How is that a good reason to not care about it?" Yes.

"The national elections are run by the states too. That's how elections work, they are decentralized.." Yes, and the FBI, DHS, and a number of federal agencies are consulted and have resources devoted to it. DHS has a webpage describing their involvement https://www.dhs.gov/topic/election-security.
Take my money now ...lol
For anyone looking for a simple writeup, the Wikipedia topic title is "Batchelor vortexes", and it has not been updated to reflect the papers mentioned here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batchelor_vortex
I don't agree with your definition of simplicity.

I like Go and I consider it a simple language because:

1. I can keep most of the language in my head and I don't hit productivity pauses where I have to look something up.

2. There is usually only one way to do things and I don't have to spend time deciding on the right way.

For me, these qualities make programming very enjoyable.
> How's the housing policy in Vancouver and Toronto?

Toronto has more construction towers (120) than any other city in North America (49 in SFO and LAX):

* https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/economic/2019/0...

It's still not keeping up with demand.
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Many paid and free mods existed to do exactly that. There was even a $20 mod that turned FSX into an airline tycoon game where you purchased aircraft, ran flights, and dealt with emergencies and maintenance of those aircraft
no, it's gonna be the samsung of cars, their window broke during livestream, and their cars are made of cheap plastic, just like samsung

the apple of cars is chinese
I take logging in the general sense to mean “print”, which is pretty easy.

I’ve used lots of languages without usable (visual) debuggers. I was probably programming for 10 years before I saw a debugger that didn’t crash the OS half the time it was invoked.
Automatic Generation of Specialized Direct Convolutions for Mobile GPUs [pdf]
I guess he needs a particle with the charge of the electron and the mass of the neutrino (which he chose one out of many to get his results) and other neutrinos without charge and the same mass with the previous particle. It doesn't make any real sense on scrutiny apart from some coincidences.

The rule of spin is broken with the four particles, so that model is garbage from the start.

In another paper, to justify the relativistic newtonian formula they used an analogy with general relativity, using a schwartchild effective potential with static masses (low velocities). But in general relativity you get different contributions in the stress energy tensor from relativistic particles, than static with the same enhanced relativistic mass. It's all so wrong... They don't even try to solve the problem of gravitational attrachion of particles with general relativity, i guess it's too difficult and in such scales maybe requires quantum gravity? (i don't know if i'm correct on this one)
I have some issues with this feature.

1. I don't really like this immutable approach, I want setters too.

2. I don't need those autogenerated equals/etc implementations, it's just code bloat. May be it's OK to introduce some syntax to automatically generate them like `String toString() default;` but it should not be implicit.

3. It uses non-standard getter syntax. Java developers used `getProp()` forever, now it's `prop()`. Shall we rewrite old classes or tools? Shall we live with two different styles in one codebase? Both approaches are bad.

This feature looks very out of place in Java. I hope that it'll be removed in the next release and replaced with something more compatible with old code. I waited forever to get short property syntax in Java and got unusuable feature in the end. I don't want to migrate to Kotlin just because of properties.
Does it strike anyone as odd that something trivial in toy languages from the 70s is a separate project 30 years in and named for the the heaven of the gods in the world of Java?
I was making a subtle joke that filling out a captcha identifying roadsigns could be the remote server that drives someone's car.
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In this case, since the lines of code that can touch the manually managed object pool are probably few and easily reviewed and audited, I don't have any problem with your advice.

I realize you're not advocating pervasive use of the technique, but if someone reading this is going to make pervasive use of manually managed object pools in a GC'd language, they should at least consider the possibility of moving to a language with both good language support for manually managed memory and a good ecosystem of tooling around manual memory management.

Manually managed object pools in a language designed around GC don't fully get rid of the costs of GC, and re-expose the program to most of the errors (primarily use-after-free, double-free, and leaks related to poorly reasoned ownership) that motivated so much effort in developing garbage collectors in the first place.
Not sure which angle you are implying on this.
Go's is more pragmatic. Rust's is more purist, and that reflects on the language features (more functional, more free in allowing you to use it for any purpose where Go is network-app specific, more strict in typing), the licensing and the attitude towards collaboration.

That collaboration thing is why Actix exploded I think. While mostly an isolated incident it does show some clash between the author's values (and possibly the author's employer's (MSFT) values) and the values of the general Rust community. I would not say that reflects on the maturity of the langues or ecosystem.

In Go a lot of stuff is Google dictated. In Rust it's a true open governance innovation project (looking to become a non-profit). Since the Go is a very specific language --made for networked apps and only has one way to do concurrency-- and Rust very broad --a true general purpose prog lang-- it is easy to see how Go mature so quickly (not much to mature) and also why it got a bit old so quickly as well (ignores most innovations in computer science of the last decades).