skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've studied political science a great deal, and there are absolutely nuanced critiques you can have here.

I personally, for example, find that political science went overboard in rational choice theory (borrowed from economics) over the past several decades, which hasn't turned out to be particularly fruitful. (And there are 20+ subfields of political science as well, rational choice being just one.)

But that's simply arguing over the relative usefulness of specific methods, like to what degree TDD should be used in software, or have we gone overboard with microservices.

The original article's absurdly broad critique of quantitative methods somehow taking over generally remains bizarre and completely uninformed.
Twitter removes Trump campaign tribute to Floyd claiming copyright complaint
Many tropes in fiction can be boiled down to weird/unnatural social networks. I’m not convinced it’s a bad paper, in fact I’m worried the author of this post is being unfair to what seems like a pretty harmless/fun digital humanities paper.
Hello! Thank you so much for your kind offer. I am trying to solve a problem I am experiencing at work (in the restaurant industry). Essentially I need a simple solution that 1. allows for stakeholders (in our case managers/chefs) to place a request for a service such as a broken cabinet or a broken fridge 2. I would then like that service request to get pushed out to a pool of vendors that we've vetted to be able to perform x niche service via a simple Trello like system. There are obviously other logistics such as paying the vendor after etc and on-going booking management but I can't seem to understand why such a product doesn't exist. I've seen things like ShareTribe and Launch27 but nothing that is as simple as this. I almost envision an intake form sheet --> pumped into Trello --> alert pool of people if a card hits within a certain list --> allow the person interested to claim and complete the job --> payment issued.

Many of the options out there overcomplicate this. Think Handy.com but much less intense.
Surely it isn’t though? A state machine is generally considered to be a finite state automaton, isn’t it? Turing machines are substantially higher up the Chomsky hierarchy than finite state automata.

Edit: take finite out of it, and then I suppose it’s equivalent to a Turing machine, but it’s a weird use of terminology
Wildly off topic, but I ended up on his and Isaac Hoffer’s ‘Top 100 albums of 2004-05’ [0], and wow I’d forgotten how many amazing albums came out in that short span! Wonderful commentary too.

Then I did the math and I guess now I’m an old guy that listens to... classic rock?

Back on topic: For anyone using ffmpeg/libav this tutorial might as well be the official documentation. Absolutely indispensable in my opinion.

[0] http://www.dranger.com/top100/index.html
I agree that absent Locke, there would be no US as we know it.
I love my job as a web developer/designer, and JS is my favorite language. Currently learning C++ and laravel (PHP framework). And I find it so silly when programmers hate on other languages, usually languages they do not want to take the time and effort to understand.

> If you don't particularly love computers and just want to get a job shoveling

Why would you assume everyone else in this world has your same tastes and preferences? All the time and energy spent writing stuff trying to put other peoples skills/interests/occupations down (FUD) may be spent doing something more productive.. like learning those languages.
Not exactly, you can still back out by not raising future rounds, or buying back their shares, as Gumroad did.
But how is this possible? Water has a vapor pressure of 23 millibars at 20 C, meaning water would boil from the leaves.
This is an interesting question because it cuts across the usual left/right divide in a rare way. Union busting is a right-wing thing.

A similar issue is the prison guards' union (a major political influence in California at least), which some people have been arguing for years has been a major factor in the brutalization of prisons.
I didn't buy it, it's something somehow had extra that I tried to make work for a bit
You're not wrong, but here's a big raspberry for those (often the press) that use average to mean median.
As a non mathematician, I’d like to be able to take bits of math I don’t understand and dump it into something that makes a Penrose representation, maybe helping me understand it better.

Too often even when reading relatively ‘Simple’ CS papers I hit a spot where they’re doing some math shuffling that stumps me. I can skip over and keep going but I’d prefer to know what they did.
It sounds like a non-native speaker to me, I wouldn't even be surprised if this is Google translate output
what freelance platforms do you recommend?
Indeed, my alma mater has the natural sciences in the same college as the arts. Engineering is separate.
Why would you have to process "all" the rows equally? It should be more than sufficient for almost any practical scenario to use some constant factor of "scattering", i.e. access 100 random rows + 1 row that you actually are interested in.

It will probably be more complicated than that, due to repeated queries revealing patterns, but there are other mitigations for that, some of which are sure being developed.
Hard so hard
If the universe is a hologram (or sorts) then non-locality should be expected, and spooky action at a distance is not paradoxical or terribly interesting.
Great feature request. I've been there.

I'll look into it for sure!
It seems to be about the clients rather than the server.

A level deeper than "how signal works" and more "how signal is made"

For example, I'd expect a "how signal works" article to explain why they even need when an account was registered and when it was last used.

"this phone number is using signal" is still a pretty large metadata leak.

Especially when state actors and probably a fair few non state actors can remotely compromise devices via the stuff in the baseband processor.
This will just create more animosity.
Why is this buried?
Art of the Corpse
Better yet, the person that ordered them to do it gets charged with a felony. And so on upwards.
Carlin talks about weed and coding
At 5:52 carlin is talking about someone he saw on the news or something. Does anybody know what/who he's talking about?
Ubuntu definitely done a lot of good. 6.06 LiveCD and Theme, installation in Windows partition, these we good.

A lot of people recommended Ubuntu and that I believe is a problem. I got it wrong too. Ubuntu does a lot of experiments on its users - Pulse Audio, Unity, now Snaps. Each time a lot of fuss. It means technology is not ready.

It would be fine if rolled in separate distribution Exbuntu (experimental Ubuntu) and rolled to masses once feature becomes popular, but no. Those who listened to my recommendation would see bugs and that is zero-sum game.

But we can easily resolve it - recommend no nonsense distros - Linux Mint, ElementaryOS, Pop!_OS, Debian. And that's already happening on this page. Ubuntu may even encourage that. Everyone would be happy.

So what is wrong with silent snaps Chromium install? Those who use apt are sophisticated enough to chose. And "issue has been around", have you red The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? “But the plans were on display…”

> You just need to attract new Windows users, not steal Ubuntu users.

That's gross. Have you red what people say? Those who switched to Linux because of such moves from Microsoft. I'm fine with Ubuntu destroying itself. I do not use it. No one steals Ubuntu users, that's Ubuntu who destroy its userbase.
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But I am not upset in the least about the rioters or anyone else, I can assure you.

Guarding people's privacy and rights to a voice (during protests or otherwise) is a good use of the first and fourth amendments. But let's not confuse form and content. The protests are not advocating privacy, and I'm not even going to voice my opinions about them. There's a difference between backing the content of the protests, and defending the rights that incidentally enable them. The blogpost in question ended with "it’s your powerful voices that are out there organizing and advocating for change". I can only construe that as either explicitly siding with whatever ongoing protest there is, or an empty general statement (I assume it's the former though, but makes little difference to me).

I think my point got side-tracked by fault of my own. I don't require every single thing I use not to have ideologies attached, because it's simply impossible. And everyone has every right to voice their idiotic opinions, God knows I'm doing that. But it saddens me that more often than not people who could choose to be content-agnostic instead leverage their position to fight the good cause. And there's a thousand conflicting good causes.

Thanks for the links, btw.
You caught me because I didn't read the article. I was just thinking of the old duality between bugs and features. An unimplemented feature is just the bug "the software doesn't have this feature yet", and a bug fix is implementing the feature that "the software should do this correct thing instead of that buggy thing". Since this insight is decades old, maybe I should switch to saying the article contains nothing new?
What a bunch of nonsense. You can advertise anywhere and no one has a monopoly over it. This is just scared media companies running their propaganda so they can protect their failing cable advertising markets.
One of the best courses i had.
It gave an First view of functional programming.
And ML, is just great. And now I can see many languages influenced by It.
WebRTC mildly competes with their proprietary FaceTime URLs that, along with iMessage, "encourages" people to keep coming back into their stores. They could make it work exactly like the implementations on Windows and Linux (and the other macOS web browsers that are "required" to use WebKit) if they desired. You can still use an SDK though --as long as they allow you publish it to users.
> Why are they even taught in colleges? They're more of a hobby thing really (and more enjoyable that way imo)

Because that's why colleges exist...? Historically universities were not the workforce mills they are today. You did not go to a university to help you find work. Stuff like business/management, engineering, medicine, etc really shouldn't be part of universities.
“Tribute”
“Let’s zoom” means just that; let’s get on Zoom and have a meeting. I’ve never had somebody say, “Let’s Zoom,” and contact me on FaceTime, Google Meet, WebEx, or another service.
FHE has a lot of properties beyond just those needed to search a db. If you have a specific application in mind there may be more efficient things. E.g. if you want to keep secret what you are looking at but server knows the keys, see research on private information retrieval. See also some of the research on order preserving encryption and the like (although lots of those schemes have questionable security properties). Of course everything has tradeoffs, but often "perfect" security is unnessary in an application.
I thought people with "showdead" enabled could see those and if they upvote enough of their comments the comments become visible and the user becomes unghosted. Is that not the case?
The May jobs report had “misclassification error,” underreported by 3 points
Interesting! Did you work there? Do they have an internal package manager of some kind?

(in a meek voice) ...do they use MacPorts?
> If you can do a double-blind controlled study, it's a science.

You've just disqualified much of physics research today :-)
You can always define backwards compatibility that only goes to a certain lowest common denominator feature set, and no lower. For instance I have a number of httpd that support TLS1.2+ and specifically disallow SSLv3, TLS1.0 and TLS1.1. The population of browser user agents that don't understand TLS1.2 is infinitesimal at this point.
This comment breaks more than one of the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and also the global HN guidelines, which include: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Would you please be more mindful of how you address other people's work, and not just apply the usual internet snark rules of being a maximal jerk about everything? I don't mean to pick on you personally; it's a common phenomenon, of course. But when the first response, indeed the only real response, to someone's Show HN is a nasty putdown, poisonous fumes fill the thread. Not to mention it's a sucker punch to the person who did all that work and went to the trouble to share it.
Sadly, the code in this tutorial doesn't work anymore due to upstream changes in FFmpeg. There are quite a few attempts at keeping Dranger's tutorial up to date, but I found the repo below to be one of the better ones.

https://github.com/rambodrahmani/ffmpeg-video-player
As I described previously, I don't think I have a conflict of interest. Bias? Sure, but I had one prior to being employed there as well. In many respects I think it was stronger then than it is now. That isn't to say that I'm not open to suggestions that I should make this more apparent, but I'm really not satisfied with solutions that would cause me to preface any comment on something involving a previous employer with a disclaimer, or shove my entire memoir of my life in my profile. People who actually care can find that information in seconds, anyhow.
Decoded version (trigger warning, it talks about suicide):

> my housemate committed suicide last night :( it’s hard to know why. apparent reason is that he was stressed from working everyday for last 4 years. I guess this a reminder for all of us that we need to look after our mental health and seek help if you are stressed.
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Echoing those saying it wasn't your fault. Don't be afraid to reach out and see a therapist yourself, as this can be a traumatic experience.
I'm of the opinion it can be, but i don't know if a comparison to the era of moore's law is really compelling, since we are not in that world anymore.
They're already in orbit, though?
What was the impact of being in top of the range? Were you noticing something adverse?
I hope that reforms will make the WHO more responsive to updating information during future pandemics. We are likely to experience them more frequently as the climate changes.
I loved the Stanley Parable but it seemed to me entirely written for gamers so I'm curious what a non-gamer would get out of it. Much of the dialog is about the experience of being a gamer.
Show HN: Complete Educational Background for 116th United States Congress
I recently heard the phrase "America is run by lawyers, China is ruled by computer scientists."

I was curious about this, so I made a dataset to understand U.S. Legislative Education. This dataset contains complete education details for members of the 116th United States Congress, including universities, degrees, and political affiliations. I hope that this dataset is helpful for anyone who may wish to further investigate the correlation of education and academic credentials with policy decisions made by members of our government.

This dataset can be used to answer questions like:

- Is political affiliation correlated with education?

- What is the most common degree type for U.S. Senators?

- What percentage of U.S. Congressmen dropped out of college?

- Which college has the most representation in the House of Representatives?

- What percentage of Congressmen are scientists?

With some creative co-mingling, this dataset can be used to supplement research questions like:

- Are policy decisions correlated with education?

- Are there relationships associated with college affiliations and voting in Congress?

- Can we find a relationship between hot button topics and education?

- How is public sentiment influenced by education level?
So just STEM bros talking about humanities without understanding them? Must be a Friday.
Well, there's also the flag mechanism for the negative direction. Perhaps there could be a way to flag something as off-topic without filling up the moderator queue?
Vim emulation in VSCode worse than any other IDE I've used.

All extensions have to run on the same thread in a background process and intercepted keystrokes are passed to that process over IPC. So if other extensions (like the TS language tools) are tying up the extension host process, the Vim extension can't respond to your keyboard input until other extensions yield.

Performance issues come and go but for awhile I was stuck waiting for several seconds any time I typed a < after an identifier.

A lot of us have tried to demand a separate process for extensions that intercept keystrokes to solve this issue permanently. But the maintainers don't really care.
Because nothing ever changes anything or has any influence on anything it's just all.

Is a very reductive position to take and blatently antiscientific about what we know how racist ideologies spread.
Amen! Google’s well established track record of experiment and kill with these sorts of collaboration products just is not worth the risk to buy in. Certainly not early. It’s kind of like maybe not getting involved in season 1 of a Netflix show until these proof it’s going to survive (at least to season 2).
There is this logical error that comes with elitism. People are generally simple, therefore must have been manipulated by a much smarter "center".

But what if opinions on complex subjects are instead formed as an emergent phenomena of interactions of many humans?

It reminds me of Cartesian theatre, the idea that there has to be a central place in the brain where "real decisions are made".
In my view a huge part of the problem is that we keep giving bad people a benefit of the doubt they don't deserve, and keep treating bad faith nonsense as arguments worthy of consideration. In my view I am not making a "personal attack" so much as calling a spade a spade.

To be clear: I believe OP is not just ignorant, but is being a bad person. OP's point was not simply that anti-black discrimination is no big deal - which would be reprehensible enough - but that the opposite is happening, to the detriment of whites. It doesn't matter if OP is parroting racist propaganda or creating it themselves: it is highly potent racist propaganda, designed to convert whites into overt racists by playing on their resentment.

OP isn't "less racist" if they sincerely believe the propaganda due to misinformation: racism is racism and OP is perpetuating it. "Just because he's repeating a racist lie does NOT mean he is a racist" is unfortunately a common line of thought in the US. But this only assuages the feelings of whites, and does not accurately describe racism in America.
Go ahead Twitter. This road ends in your own downfall, and we'll all be better off for it.
It isn't clear if graceful degradation is possible in a security app.
A walk through a procedural forest of 16 km²
Interesting, I hadn't heard about that one.
It's a reason people use Electron. A few lines of code gets you a video player that works on at least Windows, Linux, Mac.
Just bought one for $14. Hope it’s good for streaming.
> Don't get me wrong, RCS will be a fine enough fallback (once it's E2E), but standardized chat is the dream.

Is there a plan for RCS to be E2E? Given that RCS went under the GSMA umbrella in 2008, and it's 2020 and adoption is minimal, I don't have any hopes for a future update that supports E2E to come out any time sooner than 2040, with handsets supporting it in 2050, and all endpoints supporting it in 2065; Google will have released about 30 more messangers by then, of course.
The real fun of that one is when you have more than one bomb consultant, and the manual has been ripped up into its separate pages, so the person diffusing basically goes round robin, barking out information about the different parts of the bomb to each consultant in turn, and then they each use the downtime between "turns" to figure out the next action is on their part and get it queued up.

It's pretty neat when it really gets going and you see just how efficient it can be.
How to stop police brutality, according to science
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How do people use `soft “skills” like charisma, rapport etc' as the excuse for rejecting a woman in favor of a typical white male neckbeard with a straight face? It's weird that people who everybody agrees lack social skills can be so entrenched in society. Maybe we need more education at an early age as to what social ability is and isn't.
Part of what made JavaScript such a success is that there were somethings it got stunningly right despite all the thorns and sloppiness.
How much should Apple charge Spotify to build it's business on top of the infrastructure that Apple designed, developed and deployed so that Spotify didn't have to?
There seem to be stark contrasts in this regard, depending on your personality (for obvious reasons, depending on how the person comports with your ideals): I find Alex Honnold to be one of the most fascinating humans ever and, say, the pope to be one of the least. Obviously many would disagree with me. Both are very singularly focussed individuals.
I routinely write video players in a single line.

ffplay how_to_write_a_blog_post_with_a_better_title.mov
Maybe we'll get some DMCA reform now.
tl;dr

Someone filed a copyright complaint against the video. The complaint is substantiated. The article does not say who did it.

Trump is of course saying how twitter is biased against him where literally twitter must take down that ad due to the DMCA and them being personally held liable if they didn't.

Trump doesn't understand the law, or at least pretends not to.
I hope that they can put some of this funding to work by hiring a copywriter, as it's impossible to figure out what this software does from reading the homepage.
Shoved? I didn't see evidence of vote manipulation on this post. Content marketing is sort of orthogonal to whether an article is interesting or not. If it's interesting, it doesn't matter much if the intention was to advertise. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for past explanations on this.

Technical merit is only one way to be interesting, so that's also a bit of a non-issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Enjoy your pool and boat then.

You listed primarily material things that make you happy which made me feel poorly for you.

Laughing at and judging total strangers then bragging about it on the internet though... my bad... you sound like a real nice wholesome human being!

Maybe you'll feel even better if you call 2 random strangers an asshole on the internet tomorrow, or 4?!

Good luck! You're gonna need it!
Following the DMCA, a law passed by Congress, will lead to their downfall?
Incorrect. I know several people working on Google projects as temps (with Google-provided laptops and @google.com domains) and with the code and technologies they're working with there is no way they can work without Homebrew. Maybe it's different for full-time employees but I doubt it.
To those who obviously disagree, please try and use some imagination for a moment and pretend the video was posted by someone you don't hate. Look at it objectively, and tell me it's somehow offensive to you. Tell me it's so bad that it needs to be censored (and yes, this was censored - if no one has the guts to even point to which image it was, then that's a pretty weak cover for the real reason).
That’s close to my theory as well, Googlebot is almost universally allowed, building the index happened at the right time to become to big to block. Trying to deep crawl to Google’s level may be impossible now, and maybe one way to encourage innovation in search/discovery is to force the raw crawl results for others to parse & rank.
Netflix uses A/B testing on millions of Users for improving UX