skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I request that you make your data available as Open Data? Maintaining a dataset like this is a lot of work, and if people make data sets available as Open Data then people doing this kind of work can reuse and help each other.
I think it's pretty hard to argue that private companies are good and ethical at operating natural monopolies. History and all evidence is not on your side. I'll list a few examples: the California blackouts after electrical deregulation, the Bolivian water crisis after water supplies were privatized, the abuses of companies like Comcast in the US, etc.

Even Adam Smith warned of natural monopolies. Nearly any economist will tell you letting them be private and under-regulated is nuts.

The same with healthcare. Why is every other first world country able to get objectively better health outcomes for less money with universal healthcare? How is our system better?
> Still waiting for Chapters (a bookstore in Canada) to start sending me reading good reading recommendations.

Why do you need the store to recommend to you what to buy from them next? Obviously the store is only going to recommend content which maximally increases its profits, regardless of whether that content is worth your time or really in tune with your most passionate interests. Buying the book from a shop is a necessary evil (unless you just want to read pirated ebooks from LibGen for free like many Kindle owners are doing now), but for getting recommendations on what to read next, why not look to the numerous internet communities of passionate readers who are not motivated by financial self-interest and may better serve your particular tastes?
Sure, but to earn a PhD you have also to submit and present an amount of publications and even after that, to make the title relevant, you should continue with the subject and the activities.
I bother because I felt like these products were particularly bad and yet have good ratings. So I wanted others to avoid the same fate as I faced. But yeah, generally, I will stop providing ratings after these two incidents. It could be the beginning of Amazon's slow downfall if they don't fix it and IF another rival can consistently compete with them on the quick shipping front.
There was a comment on:

> Absolutely. America is internally fractured enough now to make any resistance movement useless. Most people are content to attack each other while the political/managerial class makes further extractions and the world moves beyond American hegemony.

> It's sad, really. This country pulled in generally the same direction for a long time. We don't have that strength anymore.

Which was deleted but raised some interesting points about the unification and cohesion of resistance movements and revolutions by my reading and I wanted to delve into movement fracturing even if that comment has been removed.

I don't think change movements are ever unified with the possible exception of those against hard force backed governments. Unless someone is literally beheading people to stay in power the revolution (or just political shift) will happen long before there is a unified and majority based embraced of the new order. Revolutions and resistance seemed eternally relegated to the fringe and exposed to excessive fracturing. This may possibly be due to the zealotry of those on the fringes or the academic origins of most political movements, but I'm quite uncertain as to the definite cause.

That said most political movements happen in stages where political ideals are embraced over time, in 2016 a 15$ minimum wage was decried as crazy and extremist and universal healthcare was viewed as an albatross, in this election round even Klobuchar had a plan that leaned toward universal healthcare.

Lastly, if by resistance movement you meant some sort of armed uprising - that's never going to happen in the US without it being a full blown coup which doesn't seem to fit the framing of "resistance movement" very much. The military far outclasses private individuals - even while the US might be the most armed populace, the US military is even more excessive.
It's not marketing, is it. Unix, then Linux, won all the mindshare. No company is advertising Unix or Linux as better than Multics. Multics is culturally not a thing. It wasn't AT&T who dun it. It was Berkeley.
Having each of the generic range functions return a <FN>Result type that all implement some variations of a random access range is absurd. Having "auto map(); Returns an input range" is much denser and helpful than "MapResult map(); struct MapResult { @property bool isEmpty(); ...}".

A more explicit "impl(InputRange) map()" may be better until you consider that map is generic on the kind of range you give it, so that just turns into "impl(MapResult!R) map(R)()". A more roundabout, pointless way of saying "auto".
Good thinking but they replaced the responder with cheap outsourced agents a while ago.
You're very welcome. I do believe looking at reasonml and reasonreact is a good way to gain insight into reactjs. It's on my (so very long) to-do-list.

Ed: as an example, I found this (oldish) post on hooks in reasonreact:

https://dev.to/iwilsonq/reasonml-with-react-hooks-tutorial-b...

Compare as you will with a comparable one for reactjs:

https://upmostly.com/tutorials/build-a-react-timer-component...

Note - I would advice looking at the reasonreact documentation for up to date tutorials and guides... It's a quickly changing landscape.

Eg:

https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/docs/en/usereducer-h...

Finally I came across this - I thought maybe a sibling comment mentioned it - but a quick search didn't turn up anything - but imo it's a pretty strong argument for hooks (in js react) :

https://tylermcginnis.com/why-react-hooks/
"It doesn't work, make it worse" is what I hear here. These are the kind of arguments that move states further towards fascism.
Why did you a few days ago complain that YouTube was banning covid-related content? Shouldn't you have followed your own advice and start a YouTube competitor instead?
Obviously traffic varies by city, road and time of day but on the nominally 55-mph section of I95 around Boston traffic flows between 65 and 90ish if it's not precipitating with the exception being peak commuting hours when the choke points cause enough of a disruption to make most of the system flow well below that speed. Even if you knock 10mph off those speeds because older cars aren't quite as quiet and smooth at any given speed it still results in traffic speeds well above 55.

All the 55mph limit on that particular road does in my mind is give law enforcement a pretext to make fishing stops.

I can't recall a time I ever saw traffic go ~55 on a limited access road without the presence of inclement weather or severe traffic congestion. When you consider the kind of traffic conditions that are the norm in rural ares I don't think a national 55mph speed limit makes sense at all.

Edit: I'm curious to know how a comment that is simply stating my observations and opinions can be considered so wrong.
You're absolutely right. There's a vast potential for very real problems.

When those problems manifest, we should deal with them. To try to address problems that don't actually exist is absurd overregulation and government overreach. It certainly is wasteful to expend resources on solving problems that don't need solving because they don't exist, isn't it?

Is there evidence of voter fraud by undocumented migrants that suggests we have a problem and should act?
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Interesting that I cannot access this link over TOR unless the exit router is based in the US.
You also don't get a free pass to cry bloody murder after resisting all market regulation efforts and then having your ass handed to you by Jeff Bezos.
It's interesting that you mention cognitive dissonance while presenting a false dichotomy.
That doesn't mean their engineering standards are low it means their efficiency is low.
You mean a like a loss leader?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
> That is a strategy only available to... monopolies.

I don't think this is the case. The strategy is called a "loss leader", and it's a very common business strategy.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lossleader.asp

> Loss leading can be a successful strategy if executed properly. A classic example is razor blades. Gillette, for example, gives their razor units away for free knowing that customers must buy their replacement blades, which is where the company makes its profit.

It's true that big companies can find profitable loss-leaders where small companies can't -- though this isn't always true; my startup uses a loss-leader B2B product to unlock a more attractive B2B2C offering.

I think what you're observing is that monopolists tend to be more able to use loss-leaders, since their monopoly power gives them the ability to charge a premium on their monopolized good(s), which would increase the scope of profitable loss-leaders. However loss-leading is certainly not a monopoly-only strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_exchange

The velocity has dropped rapidly in recent weeks. To not increase supply would be deflationary.
I have implemented a HAMT (hash array mapped trie) in Pascal

It has the same tree structure with a lot of children. But the hash is used as key, so they need no balancing. It is just assumed the hash is sufficiently well distributed.
bet it still lags when you try to open the app menu
Its called redistribution.
I understand and appreciate that that answer is not palatable to many people but that is the clear answer.
I'm personally concerned that someone might vote in the US senate and then proceed to mosey on up to Canada and cast a vote in the House of Commons - how can we prevent politicians from voting multiple times in separate districts or governing bodies?

(Edit, just for clarity, /s on the above statement)
A large portion of the U.S. today harbors active disdain and distrust towards anyone claiming to know more than them on any subject. And those people have voted one of their own into the highest office in the land.

It's really not hard to understand why this played out the way it did.
I don't think it is directly. I was referring to the 1/3 comment but possibly it is related in how we are representing decimal numbers as irrational numbers. I had made another comment directly on that somewhere in this tree but it was more an intuitive one rather than a proof.
Any other argument for a different base aside, in base 12 you have the analogous “problem” that 0.BBB... = 1. None of the usual bases, equipped with this “...” power, avoid the “problem” (non-unique representation).
Minor correction: Egyptians (those traveling on a standard Egyptian passport) require those things, not every other traveler, according to the article. Most travelers require a visa to Israel except for the usual suspects [1], and I assume Egypt doesn't mandate exit visas for most if not all non-Egyptians.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Israel
12 hours ago the OP reported the issue was resolved. No further explanation except thanking Pax from amazon.
That still fractures the ideologues and allows you to defeat them in detail. I would consider it a win if Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Iowa all adopted voter enfranchisement as a policy.
the betterC form of D does not use the GC (and the compiler will let you know).
So 99.999..% of the speed of light is just the speed of light?
This is a complete strawman.

Has this ever been an actual problem with actual remote voting?

Could someone do this at scale _without detection_? No.
What about child care? Education? Transportation? Dental care?
It's a response to "The federal government does not have the jurisdiction", not "is this a good idea?"
It looks like they're a firm that does large-scale photogrammetry to build 3D models worldwide--this is just a tutorial on how to combine existing topographic datasets (e.g SRTM or a USGS elevation product) with satellite imagery to generate small-scale 3D maps in R. Similar in concept, vastly different in scale and execution
I'll just leave this here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12444
The U.S. Senate uses Jefferson's Manual, not Roberts Rules of Order, but they're similar.

Too few people today have ever been in a meeting conducted under Roberts Rules of Order. So few organizations today are run by their members. Roberts Rules of Order are for a meeting which has the power to decide something - it's for when the result is a vote and a decision to act.
Nobody made that claim.
Of course, I agree with you. I just don’t see how our political/media class can change. The incentives are aligned against your/our view.
The Fed did not just print money - it added liquidity into the market via long term term obligations or asset swaps.
Certainly not non-computable ones, but presumably they lie somewhere regardless of my inability to do it on a TM. Which presumably gives rise to all the weirdness uncountable infinities give you.

I guess I shouldn't phrase it as "you can fully order it". :D
Zermelo's theorem at that point right?
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The problem with declaring "universal basic X" is that once the "base" level gets set it gets very hard to reduce the baseline. We see this in countries that use fuel subsidies and are now trying to withdraw them because they are too expensive, and same goes for food.

For example; universal basic water in Arizona might have the adverse effect of incentivizing greater water consumption. Universal basic fuel can incentivize wasteful fuel usage, and so forth.

In countries that provide basic rations, there are absolutely massive problems with people illegally siphoning subsidized food, water, and electricity and reselling in black markets or other countries with unsubsidized goods for profit. (Haven't heard of it for Internet or healthcare, but where there's a will there could be a way.)

EDIT: removed healthcare
The NYT is also notorious for the same narrative building. Anyone who is serious about Indian news knows NYT, BBC et al report stories that are far away from ground realities.
When I'm port scanning my own server through my mobile operator (Bouygues Telecom), I see ports that are open that I know are NOT open on the server. Could it be interception tentatives ? Is there any reason to mascard them as open if they are not ?

Ports that are NOT supposed to be open : 21, 53, 554, 1723
Leading BFX Organizations in This Pandemic
•COVID-19 Genomics (COG-UK) Consortium (@CovidGenomicsUK)

•Nextstrain (@nextstrain)
-Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution

•ARTIC Network (@NetworkArtic)
-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Grant to drive real-time genomic surveillance during outbreaks and epidemics

•Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (@TheCGPS)
-Oxford Big Data Institute and Wellcome Genome Campus

•Oxford Nanopore (@nanopore)
-Nanopores for direct DNA/RNA analysis

Opinon: While the US, Asia, and various European nations are certainly contributing, the UK and specifically the Wellcome Trust really seems to be the most organized and allowing for great collaboration. With tools, data collection and access.

Nice screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVFKhRUX0AI2k2Y?format=jpg&name=large
When it comes to templates it's not until instantiation time - when the compiler see the code being used. So this is just an issue during compilation.

The docs on static if may shed some more light: https://dlang.org/spec/version.html#staticif
As if CNN, MSNBC are any different.
There's a painful cognitive dissonance that people seem to have about this disease - there isn't an option (unless you don't care about lots of people dying) where the economy doesn't take a big hit in order to contain the exponential phase.

It's not clear what the alternatives are?

I assume you're not advocating a no measures approach.

No lockdown even with social distancing still does huge economic damage and even then you would not get herd immunity - 60% infection rate is required.
There are some damning facts about Green capitalism there (Blood and Gore etc) and the platform Moore appears to have moved to with Gibbs is that there are too many people on the planet, and burning more wood and coal to create electricity isn't solving pollution problems. The materials EVs are created out of need some serious changes to be a lot cleaner before ramping up out of the current niche market.
Sounds more and more like heat is a major factor, whose effect is amplified when coupled with the massive lockdown that India implemented. I wonder whether or not the heat will continue to keep it at bay after the lockdown is lifted.
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Surely the scam doesn't last since 2013. Stop making excuses for Amazon, this isn't acceptable given the circumstances.

There's no scam going on here and bringing it up is just a way to take blame away from Amazon and for what end?
This is ignoring that disease immunity can massively vary, and if the antibodies only confer immunity for a few months, then this naive approach means we're back to step 1 relatively quickly.

This also ignores the potential for a chickenpox-like situation where the virus could reactivate itself, in which case exposing our population to the disease is just going to cause further issues down the line.
Healthcare is reasonable, but the right way to provide people food is to give them money. Otherwise, you can't possibly provide a useful service.

People choose to spend more or less on food, eat different things, etc. If I want to spend a lot on food, that's my choice, but I should give up something else. Or if I decide to eat rice and lentils multiple times a week, I should be able to save money.

Even more important than fairness is just practicality. There's a huge amount of infrastructure dedicated to people going to stores/restaurants to buy food in the manner they see fit.
> There is no smallest positive infinitesimal either.

There is in the surreal and hyperreal number systems. I got that from skimming wikipedia though....
Author here. Yes, there is a trade-off. The resulting code is much bigger than the original code because of this transformation. But, I think the trade-off is worth it because it makes the code simpler to read, write and maintain. As far as speed, I don't have any benchmarks but I don't think there is speed penalty. It's mainly an issue of code size.
Remote voting for senators and remote voting for the presidential election are very very different animals.

Remote voting for senators is an easy fix, probably (hopefully) temporary with a very low risk of foreign interference.

Remote voting for the general public is fraught with complexity due to voting being the jurisdiction of the states, as well as rife with opportunity for foreign governments to mess with the results.

I mean, we literally saw hacking attempts from the intelligence services of Russia on election reporting servers in 2016. Enabling remote voting for the general public needs EXTREME vetting before going live.

Not doable for 2020.
Are you familiar with subreddit simulator?

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
Mobs are highly visible. A senator's flaky Internet is less so.

I agree that new Senate conventions could cover these cases.
I generally think that people are pretty good at spending money on necessities, which may not be the necessities that others have or want. Universal basic services will likely mismatch resources with demand or need, and will thus be inefficient. A basic income is flexible and lets individuals choose where to use that resource. As a rapper once alluded, foodstamps don't buy diapers.
It's completely unwarranted because you essentially can't have inflation in a depression. There isn't enough demand competing for supply to raise prices. That is why governments and central banks usually try to inject money into the economy in lean times, and take it out to keep it from overheating. It's the basis of essentially all macroeconomic management.

The real danger in times of low demand is a deflationary spiral. Those are fiendishly hard to get out of, as the last few decades for Japan have demonstrated.
I almost always reach for the reader mode button. Then there are mirrors like these that clean up the clutter: https://outline.com/TxScD5
The article you linked is well over a month old. You can google this stuff yourself since you clearly are not keeping up with the news.

The restrictions in Denmark and Germany for schoolchildren are elaborate and inventive. We should be working on something similar here. The size of the country is a red herring, as these are local actions overseen by local schools. Of course I would put my kids in schools with these kinds of safeguards. Children need school.

And remember, our goal is not to prevent all transmission of the virus, only to keep the transmission rate low. Some transmission is unavoidable, so we have to be smart, not mindlessly strict.
As you said, they are paying $5,000 a month ($60,000/yr, they alone are paying 30-50% the salary) for an account rep whose sole job is to facilitate communication between customer and Amazon, and they are proving useless.

If this is some sort of "suspected fraud, don't tip them off" then it is a really shitty way to handle it - and probably not legally required. Amazon is choosing to handle it this way.

Sounds like Paypal - never keep your money in it a day longer than necessary. I don't know how Amazon Marketplace funds work, but this is a lesson never to trust Amazon with your money if you can avoid it.
Per issues with #2, they are assuming that the webcams of students are unmodified.

Yellow highlighters' coloring is called 'Solvent Green 7' and has a peak at about 494nm.

You can buy filters for lenses that will knock out certain bandwidths of light and keep the rest coming into the camera. These are called notch filters, as they take a notch out of the light.

There just so happens to be a notch filter that should know out the yellow highlighter color. Meaning that the light reflected from a yellow highlighter will not enter into the camera.

https://www.thorlabs.com/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=NF488-15

They are not cheap though, and as such, I've not tried this at home to see how well it works.

Other solutions may exist at to the ideas that these people may have about how your webcam is working. I'd experiment with other lenses, polarized filters, exposure times, etc.

That said, studying is a lot easier than trying to jerry-rig your webcams.
It is awful how all git gui clients completely ignore git submodules
Anyone has example projects using this?
Multiply both sides by ‘x’, then subtract one side from the other, then take the limit as x -> inf. This is obviously undefined. To get to zero, you have to make a new rule that one form of infinity is bigger than another form of infinity.

Infinity is very slippery, and there are several divergent fields of math that depend on particular definitions of it.
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