skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And Macron is the left candidate—his far-right opponent is now receiving 45% of the support in polls.

A centre-right candidate doesn't become "left" just because there's a far-right candidate. Maybe in the US that rhetoric works, but not in the EU.

What poll are you referring to where Macron's far-right opponent received 45%? Le Pen has 26% - less than Macron - from what I can see [0].

[0] https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/france/
Picking a tech stack as a web developer
I don't know why you'd be downvoted, this is absolutely right and explicitly what she believed. That if you've had something taken from you it is absolutely your right to take it back. To not would be self-sacrifice - for what? You can still argue that it shouldn't have been taken in the first place. It's consistent.
What are you talking about? Every loan I've ever taken out (car, mortgage), except for school, had a payment due the first month after I took out the loan.
> Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.

The reality is that everyone is prepared to allow others to die for their own convenience. I intentionally phrased that harshly, but it is indisputably true. In the US, 70,000 people died from the influenza season of 2018-2019. We could have sharply reduced that through quarantine measures. But no one wants to do that.

Once you accept that everyone is prepared to allow others to die preventable deaths for their own convenience, then all you are talking about is a matter of degree. It can't be immoral to believe 1 death is okay, but 2 is wrong. That's just an opinion. The only difference between believing 70,000 is okay, and 700,000 is not is a gut feeling about how much preventable death is worth it to maintain our living standards.
It also completely ignores the knock on effect of increased poor health due to COVID. Organ damage leads to reduced quality of life and economic output.
There's a bunch of commercial prep courses and coding bootcamps that focus on applied programming.

I wonder how long-term those skills are, reminds me of companies teaching MCSE certification a few decades ago.
If everybody's gaming something a little bit, nobody is incentivized to take action on most things, even if someone reports it.

It often takes egregious abuses to get people to care.

(And is this so bad? The end result of "perfectly efficient" is pretty brutal for the individual worker.)
Considering that the health care systems were partially shut down too, how do you determine that covid was the culprit rather a change in the health care system for those counted as excess deaths?
I see these as reasons why Teams doesn't have to compete on usability or features. Their customers literally can't use anything else.
> That's not the same as "no strategy", because this level of decentralization is how nation-states work today.

It's one thing to leave pandemic response to member countries like the EU does. Each country knows it's responsible for its own response. Money is budgeted and spent specifically for this purpose.

That's not the system in the US - or hasn't been. The Federal government maintains what, until recently, was the world's premier infectious disease-fighting organization - the CDC. The implication was that pandemic response occurs through this organization. In the past, this is exactly what happened.

You may recall the one state (Washington) earlier this year whose brave scientists decided to test for COVID on their own. They were told in no uncertain terms from the feds to stand down or else.

So the idea that this pandemic response is up to the states doesn't hold water. Had the states known that they'd be left twisting in the wind, they could have taken steps beforehand.

That's one likely outcome of this event (assuming it has a clean endpoint): states realizing they really are on their own - and acting like it.
“the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.”

Not only hypocrisy but also economic illiteracy.

Money != Wealth.

How terrifying that people like this get so powerful in a super state like the USA. Craven greed mixed with such refusal to deal with what is real mixed with heartlessness on a industrial scale.

Breathtaking
The Pygmalion effect is complete rubbish. If you look into it, you see that the original study was p-hacked garbage which relied on impossible gains like individual students gaining literally hundreds of IQ points (yes, really, they reported this with a straight face and built an entire literature on it, which immediately showed massive decline effects so now the meta-analyses argue over whether the actual effect, which is now like 100x smaller than originally claimed, is distinguishable from 0 or systematic biases).

Links: https://www.gwern.net/Replication#pygmalion-effect My opinionated summary of Rosenthal's oeuvre: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1798638457

We see the same thing for growth mindset, BTW, if you compare the original studies which made it famous with the most recent rigorous large-scale studies (and then extrapolate out the usual decline effect in long-term followups).
There are many ways happiness can be manipulated though. People tend to be happy when things are improving. The most obvious way to manipulate this metric is to deliberately hit rock bottom and then slowly improve from there.

Another problem is drugs. It's possible to manipulate people's happiness rather explicitly with that.

Edit: these are out there examples, but here's a more realistic one: borrow money from future generations. Set up a system that will eventually fail, but provide a lot of benefits/happiness in the present. When the long-term consequences arrive politics have already changed.
> first half of the book takes 80% time, while the second half is rushed in the remaining 20%

Yeah, once you get to the end of the first half, it's like oh crap, we're out of time, montage montage, end battle, fight with Sting, plot plot plot, end credits. The film that's supposed to be released this year is reportedly only the first half of the book; I guess we'll see how that goes.
argparse should not be the first thing to reach for, imo, when good old sys.argv can do the job.
> This is arguably staying within the spirit of the rules (the animal isn't dead when slaughtered, and won't die if you don't slaughter it), but not the letter (in that it's an addition to the prescribed procedure).

It's staying within the spirit and the letter. The letter never dictates NOT to stun the animal. As a matter of fact, there are narrations that order us to make it as easy as possible on the animal being slaughtered. This falls perfectly inline with the sprit and letter.
OG Warcraft is one of those games that was groundbreaking at the time but is nigh unplayable to modern sensibilities.

Warcraft II is still very retro and missing a lot of quality-of-life stuff (especially the original pre-Battle.net edition) but it's at least tolerable. OG Warcraft is nails on chalkboard level bad.
Building a 2D Multiplayer Game from Scratch in Flutter
I agree, it's just that for many Americans, including white Americans from disadvantaged groups, tracing national heritage is hard. Need and class-based considerations make sense to me, though. I think that starts getting on the right track. Anthony Jack from Harvard argues a similar framework would actually assist in advancing racially-discriminated groups like black Americans in his work on "the privileged poor" and class-blind racial affirmative action. I recommend reading his work.
Having an optional subscription to enable the heated steering wheel or adaptive cruise control is bold (and probably a bad idea) because people want what they buy to be 'a good value.'

Tesla has made me believe that software 'eating' cars is the future because, by letting software take over capability from hardware, it allows for software updates to improve earlier models of cars, making them a better value long-term. The marginal cost of improving a car with a software update is essentially nil for the manufacturer.

With that low cost per unit to deploy a software update that improves the car, BMW choosing to hold it hostage and demanding a subscription fee is a bad look, even if it's efficient for them. Having the steering wheel already in the car with the necessary hardware (where the unit cost is for BMW) exposes it as being a feature cheap enough that they can throw the necessary hardware into every model.

Even if it made less economic sense, it would appear more valuable if you were able to go to a BMW dealership and have the steering wheel swapped out for one with heating enabled.
I don't think he posts the links because it's a duplicate post. He posts them when there is interesting and relevant conversation from that last time it was posted.

Edit: I see now that the post itself is tagged with [dupe]
A couple points. Just because you personally don't remember or know the book does not mean that it is not memorable. Also, it could be that those who weren't aware of the book used it after seeing it used elsewhere.
There are many ways of mitigating the harmful effects of the lock down. State aid targeted directly towards individuals (and not corporations) is a good idea, I think. The same goes for a freeze on mortgage payments, rents, evictions etc.

These are all measures that a modern state can take to prevent people from suffering economically.
Loved this game! If you want to play it in a slightly more modern version, the OpenRA folks have done made a pretty faithful version of it, which runs on their "clean-room implementation" of the original Command & Conquer engine: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA
The obesity rate in Michigan is about 50% higher than Sweden. Numerous studies have shown that obesity is a significant risk factor for COVID-19 death.
We had a quite strong formal / theoretical community in our cs department, and besides really enjoying automaton theory in my later studies, it kind of formed an understanding of the practical side of researching algorithmic questions like "how to fit multiple circles into one bigger circle to maximize their combined diameter", as a reservoir of solutions you could later abstract your less abstract cs problems to.
I think it might need a "stone soup" kickstart.
Lots of big companies do pay their engineers to tutor underprivileged kids. This isn’t an either/or case.
Facebook ad boycott organizers met with Zuckerberg. It didn't go well
Bad idea to have your smartphone as your long hour meetings webcam. Mainly it will drain the battery fast and will make it hot, meaning in long term will shorten its life. This is only recommended in emergency situations, not as your default daily setup.
Deployment, inference and management can participate in this as well!

Here is the missing part for a total e2e solution: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/algorithmia-ci-cd

{disclaimer, we built this Github action}
> Consumers patience will wear thin

Feels a little odd using a massively successful example from a decade ago, with it still being used as a technique with success to say patience will wear thin.
It was clear based on the Chinese response much earlier that it was spreading widely.

> At what point would you say CDC started taking it seriously?

I’ll let you know.
Yeah. Every country had vast majority of deaths in care homes.

In fact, this is a complete repudiation of the Swedish experiment because the one thing they did say they would do was protect the vulnerable. It was the only goal they had. And they failed miserably.
"professional" is entirely about public image. If it's behind closed doors of course they no longer act professional. In some languages that value professionality there's even words built into the language. In Japanese there's the word "tatemae" 建て前 that translates roughly to "public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts)" that people hold while at work and they switch it off when leaving the work place/in private settings.

Being professional is entirely about being a good lier.
Contextual advertising doesn't imply the system's completely ignorant of the device's detected language or geolocation. It simply means you're not employing a series of correlated requests across a stable identifier (browser cookie, IDFA, etc.) to model some outcome, e.g. probability to purchase, for a given advertisement.

Instead you infer a set of user features based on the domain/content _and_ attributes of the single request: device, geo, time of day, language, etc.
Those are covid deaths
People believe you can lock down to 0, then suppress further growth with test and trace, mask wearing, etc. This sounds perfectly fine but it has never been done before. So ironically it's not "backed by science" since there is no empirical evidence of effectiveness. It would literally be an experiment.
Fulltext: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/smpy/2020-bernstein.pdf

I keep a fulltext bibliography of SMPY-related papers at https://www.gwern.net/SMPY - this is just one of many papers establishing that various kinds of enrichment and acceleration are just fine, do no emotional damage, and do save a lot of their life from formal schooling, which has been a major premise of SMPY since Stanley founded it in the 1960s.
Wow! no sign of this or any other thread from the front page..
Analysis of voting data reveals manipulation of Putin president for life vote
> I get tired of these startups thinking they can just throw up videos of non-existent products and get signups as some kind of validation.

Why? I'd suggest they take it one step further: Offer discounted pre-orders and use that to measure if people are interested. The only way to be sure that someone is willing to pay for what you're building is to ask them to pay for it.

> Then the only way to validate things will be the old fashioned way: take a risk and build shit up front.

This is bad advice. You should never take on risk that you don't have to. A startup is full of anticipated and unanticipated risks, there is no reason to expose yourself to even more.

For reference, we tried your approach at my first startup. We built something people found really cool but that no one wanted to pay for. We wasted eight months doing this.

Our next product was launched with minimal tech investment (1-2 weeks of development) and accepted pre-orders. We made $x,xxx this way and things went very well. If we hadn't sold enough we would have refunded all of our pre-orders and chose to work on something that people actually wanted.
Rand's books gave her more than sufficient income. She took social security because she paid for it.
Arte itself, maybe? I hit this quite frequently in the opposite direction. Try invidio.us, or duckduckgo. A VPN as a last resort. Or other channels.. I'd have uploaded it, but my upload is very slow today...

The documentary is nice, if a bit short. The target is a general audience, so you might not be missing out that much.
Sweden has been doing this a long time too. Some areas have a pool of extras that travel around the whole city to different places to work. This might have spread the virus very effectively to the most vulnerable.

Heard on the radio today that we have less educated people working with elder care compared to our neighbours and that this could have made a difference too.
You can run something like Spydroid or "IPCam demo" from the fdroid store, to turn a phone into an IP webcam. I used an old Moto Z with LineageOS as a webcam for a while there, against a linux host.

Took a bunch of messing around, but it worked well.
Slack is the worst piece of tech I forced to use in years. It is also an eye opener for wishful thinking myths like "better products will eventually win the customers". But it is still no wonder they lost to first competitor with similar feature set and slightly better user experience.
see this too ,the debunk of the nurse in the previous youtube link ;)
Ron Graham has died
In the EU, land crossings were re-manned on many borders and during the main lockdown (which is now mostly over) passenger travel on many land borders was stopped. On many borders (though not all) physical border checkpoints still exist even if they're widely open almost always, and the legal and administrative framework for controlling land borders is still maintained. Of course, it is now much easier to cross the border illegally outside of these checkpoints than before, but this still allows effective control of travel as most people are not criminals.

"Border enforcements have only been enforced at airports." is absolutely not true. For example, I recall the international issue of making transit arrangements through Poland when back in March many people were stranded as the Poland-German border was suddenly closed; if I recall correctly, the agreed solution to repatriate these people was a police-escorted car column that was allowed to transit through Poland without these people being allowed "proper entry", but before that they were stuck for days in their cars as they could not get through the border.

This is a key difference between EU and USA - the Schengen agreement allows member states to temporarily "opt out" of the free travel, reinstate border controls and impose travel restrictions (up to a full closure of borders) for various purposes, and many EU countries did just that due to Covid; while in USA, as far as I understand, the constitution greatly limits the right of states to prohibit interstate travel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqfY2F2KR8
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why universal healthcare, free college, basic income, and general socialism won’t work in the American culture. It may work in other cultures like nordic countries where people usually don’t take what isn’t theirs.
> A NASA Langley presentation [2] mentions formal verification of the FCP-2002. I think that if it is formally verified, it is probably not a 286. A 286 would be a poor choice for a formally verified microprocessor for embedded applications since it has a huge number of extraneous features that would complicate the verification process while yielding no benefit for the embedded application.

That's an interesting observation. The presentation specifically mentions verification of the microcode, which I think would be feasible to do for a 286?

> I'm not sure where this "286" stuff comes from. I think maybe, FCP-2002 is a 16-bit CPU, and then people say a 16-bit CPU is "like a 286", and then maybe that gets corrupted in the retelling, and "like a 286" turns into "a 286"?

Yeah, I'm not sure where the rumour came from either. But I do think it's plausible. According to "Computers take flight" [1], the 777 uses (among others) a 486 for its control system:

> Boeing finally built an airliner with fly-by-wire controls, the 777. The control system is more straightforward than that used by Airbus. It contains three “lanes” of three different computers each: an AMD 29050, a Motorola 68043, and an Intel 80486.

The source given is "Primary flight computers for the Boeing 777" [2], which doesn't seem publicly available.

Given the closeness in time for the 777 and the 737 NG, it seems somewhat unlikely (to me) that the 777 would go for the most popular options, while the 737 would use a bespoke CPU design. The A320 used 80186 and 68K processors [3], so the 737 would really be the odd one out in that case.

1: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200501...

2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...

3: https://books.google.se/books?id=KDX0BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=P...
The problem is, covid has tons of indirect negative consequences on people's health. Folks overall stopped moving around and exercising so much. Tons of people with all kinds of medical complications stayed at home rather than receiving checks and treatment in hospitals. Imagine finding some lump on your body, but staying at home. Or missing regular health check.

Probably impossible to estimate how many people died because of this, and how many will have their lives shorter because they didn't get treatment earlier. Here at local cantonal hospital, this has been recognized as a big failure of general directions given to the population, and is a huge problem for old people.

Its far from the trivialization you make out of it about some kids missing some festivals and parties.
The actual `man` command does this:

/usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c | /usr/bin/less -is

So you could do it "manually" that way. Not the cleanest or prettiest solution but it's much lighter weight than using something like pandoc.

EDIT: Full example:

{ /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c | /usr/bin/less -is; } <<EOF
.\" Manpage for encpass.sh.
.\" Email contact@plyint.com to correct errors or typos.
.TH man 8 "06 March 2020" "1.0" "encpass.sh man page"
.SH NAME
encpass.sh \- Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts
...
EOF
I missed it even after your changes until I read this thread. Maybe modifying the CSS is too much of an ask, but I personally think the link color should be a bit differentiated, the link should be underlined, or the link should be moved since I didn't expect a link there.
GP is saying that most terms using black with a negative connotation, like "black list", didn't originate from racism towards people with dark skin, but from the fear that many people have of darkness. GP is suggesting that this is pretty universal across humanity, including among African cultures.
I think you could stop as a cliffhanger when Paul and Jessica escape from the worm, and are confronted by Stilgar. Then you start with a knife battle for the second movie, and who doesn't like a knife battle?
> if it passed any judgement on Religion, because it literally cannot provide evidence to support or contradict Religion.

It's the religion cult the accountable one who need to probe their magic.

> "Science!" has become it's own sort of religion

No, Unicorns are better. And magic. Magic explains everything.
Thank you! I had no idea that multiline strings were valid bash.
Sweden still did very poorly on that basis especially compared to it's most direct 'peer' - Denmark.

The differences are quite a lot and worthy of consideration.
The 1066 Diet: Normans passed on their love of pork, study suggests
Like "MIT Wins the Harvard-Yale Game"!

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25276347/be...
I was shooting my brothers brand new shotgun (1) ("here, try this") when I backed up and stepped on a fire ant hill. I was getting stung but I didn't know how to make the gun safe so I couldn't just drop it. My brother had to run to my aid and take it. Its funny now but certainly not at the time.

I hate fire ants.

(1) We shot skeet for 6 days in a row! Happy times.
I once won a huge performance win in a commercial project by discovering that some numerically-heavy computations on large vectors of numbers were actually using lists to keep those numbers. I replaced those universally with arrays, yielding some ridiculous efficiency benefit. The lists were fine when there were 5 numbers in the bag, but nobody noticed when the amount of numbers grew to thousands...
Does it go contrary to evidence? We have prior examples of pandemics where things were not shut down and the economy did not collapse.
> Internet Atheists

Not Internet Atheism, HN is being read worldwide. Just an European with common sense. We tought like that since decades.
So maybe a more accurate description is every technology can be used for oppression?