skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% not true, my Dell Latitude at the time also died. There were major class action lawsuits at the time and basically all the manufacturers had to accept liability and fix them.
>You cannot argue much with a public algorithm doing public tabulation, where you can literally follow your vote.

But that also means the guy with the big wrench can follow your vote and so see whether you voted the way he told you or not, and that allows him to decide whether to smash your kneecaps in.

Electronic voting enables corruption.
"Mail in voting" and "absentee voting" are two separate things. Trump issue is with the former, and has repeatedly advocated for the latter.
The word “impact” here is incredibly misleading, as most people would infer a causal relationship from that word, when the study and subtext are all about correlation.

I don’t think the science (As in the raw data and charts) is necessarily bad, but the title of the linked article (Which is not the title of the original article) is needlessly imprecise (Or precise in the wrong ways, I suppose).
>student in question verified that nothing inappropriate happened.

It's not like she's gonna say:

"Of course I just banged him to help my career. Have you seen him? Dude's hideous."

So again, she can't verify that nothing inappropriate happened because we can't trust that her testimony is honest.
Hence toUpper/toLower is not a strategy that passes the Turkey Test for case insensitivity.
I've read various takes, some say that if you don't eat anything at all, then you lose 100-150g of muscles each week, but if you eat just a little, the muscle loss is considerable.
That's a difference of $10k vs $6k - which is way less than the percentage difference in the relative value of the homes.
I don't know if anybody REALLY can have more than 1000 tabs open as in completely loaded into RAM. When my computer is slow I pray that I don't have any unsent edit windows or unfinished youtube/twitch videos and just kill all the render processes.

Chrome kills them regularly on it's own, which means they simply crash with out of memory.

For me, Chrome generally handles killed renderers better, e.g. it shows a popup about crashed extensions and just reloads them. Firefox requires me to quickly disable and enable adblock and I lose the build in screenshot extension permanently (except disabling and renabling it with about:config).
But for chrome a renderer often just freezes and only a day later there is a popup about it which offers to kill it.

Firefox seems to handle the tabs better overall, but at some point session resume fails with javascript errors in the shell.
Chrome seems to handle session restore a bit better.
Checking in - MBI over 30. Body Fat Percentage less than 10. It's not rare in my circles
> PP-QQ-YYYY is an unambiguous format

“US centric” is one way to say it
Delved into this a bit, and found some claims that there's no PPP driver for A/UX, so I guess there's the answer. I know about NetBSD. However, in my somewhat irrational mind, it lacks the cool factor of A/UX, the spiritual stepfather of Mac OS X (the biological one being NeXTStep, obviously).
Isn't Google much bigger than Bell ever was before it got broken up into North and South? I think Yandex and Alibaba are the international safeguards of Google preventing the split.
Hiking/cycling/camping can be crazy socially distant and probably one of the best things you can do for your own mental and physical health right now. A ride up Tam isn’t going to be any more or less dangerous than it was before.

Outside of a few extremely popular spots it is not restricted in Washington, at least to my knowledge. If it is in the Bay/CA then it is news to me.

In any case, that stuff will still be there when the pandemic is over. It won’t be anywhere east of the Rockies.
I love Google. Because the alternative is Apple which is literally an abusive relationship. Apple has the final say on what you run on your device. Apple blocks devs from developing for their devices unless you pay them thousands of dollars for inferior hardware. In comparison, Google is like an open utopia.
Majority vote in a block chain isn't an election -- it's a 51% attack. Without a consistent economic incentive, too cheap for bad actors to act badly.
> dialup user of AOL didn't interact with each other that much back then because the internet wasn't as central to life like today.

Speak for yourself as a kid I would go on AOL chatrooms all day every single day. The kids rooms were packed with at least like 30 instances of them and like 10 to 20 kids in between. Learned what a/s/l meant back then something you dont hear as often these days hah.

MSN Messenger had MSN chat which was IRC esque and MSN Groups had their own instances or chat it was glorious. Anywhere you went with chatrooms the internet attracted people like crazy! AOL was definitely full of those types.

AOL also had annoying (to me) parental control settings. Thankfully I could justify internet access outside the AOL program by stating that games didnt work online otherwise I would be restricted to AOLs trashy browser.
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The capstone of the engineering major is the engineering clinic project which has students working on “real engineering problems as encountered in business”. Companies pay the college to have teams of senior engineering majors solve a problem they face. Two of the sexier projects were Disneyland hired HMC to come up with an anti-collision system for autopia and West Dorm had a clinic team refurbish a beloved vintage pinball machine.
> Lacking native distributed search allowed Google to grab a monopoly position as the entry point to the web.

I am curious to hear what the author would propose instead. I’m not sure keeping a local cache of all web text would work very well.
Researchers find Amazon Alexa flaw exposing personal data to hacking
I've found Libby to be absolutely fantastic, smooth and stable on iOS, but the exact opposite on Android. The app jitters, freezes and reloads randomly.
Some links doesn't work on your website.

https://kislayverma.com/programming/learning-react-in-24-hou...
This is useful but the clunkyness of using FROM/WHERE vs JOIN ... USING has always annoyed me in Postgres, which they've based this on. The MySQL version is sort of what my brain expects.
Interesting point. The volunteers would have to be super careful. I’d envision leaving the food outside the door.
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I'm a small rover guy so I am partial to this announcement but before and after this announcement Astrobotic has 2 larger rover-related contracts with NASA:

Astrobotic Awarded $5.6 Million Nasa Contract To Deliver Autonomous Moon Rover[1]

Astrobotic Awarded $199.5 Million Contract To Deliver Nasa Moon Rover[2]

Such a small rover is a challenge due to the thermal environment on the moon. By avoiding the lunar night, one can avoid the approximately -150C surface temperature (depending on location). But you can still have a temperature varying from -80C to 100C or more for a mission lasting 10 days. That's skipping the first and last 2 days of one lunar daytime, which is of course about 14 earth-days long, and is typical for a mission proposal. A short mission duration lets you arguably get away from using rad-hard components and a lot of redundancy. There's about 10 lunar rovers planned within the next few years that I know of (and I mean mature designs such as this one, not the other dozens of perennial projects that come and go).

It's going to be interesting to see the result of this kind of small rover which could potentially fly multiple rovers once a year vs the more "traditional" ~100kg, 10 year space agency project which is much more capable. My bet is on iterating a 2-10kg rover 10 times.

Note: there is a John Walker at Astrobotic, but I am a different John Walker working at different rover company.

[1] https://www.astrobotic.com/2019/7/1/astrobotic-awarded-5-6-m...

[2] https://www.astrobotic.com/2020/6/11/astrobotic-awarded-199-...
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> Many interpreters let you use a column alias from the select clause in the group and order clauses. This has better readability IMO but I'm not sure it's in the SQL-92 standard, but I believe it is now standardized.

Not sure if it's standardised, but Postgres doesn't let you do this (rather irritatingly).
IHH. High inter cranial pressure is horrible on cognitive abilities.

If I get a spike, it can take a week to be back to normal brain function.

It puts a lot of pressure on the veins, taking them close to bursting. Body needs time to heal.

One insidious part is that exercise makes it worse. So if you exercise, pressure spikes, you need a week or two to recover.

I spent years trying to push through exhaustion, but everytime I worked out I would need weeks to recover. So I made little progress.

Proper diagnosis and medication suddenly enabled me to exercise daily. Massive life changer.
> 07/04/2008 -> March 7th

I think you mean April.
Google/W3C are currently rebuilding much of this ecosystem and you can share your input on github.

Project overview: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising/blob/master/README.md
It is very good to hear there are others leveraging the full capabilities of this software.

We haven't broken the 100GB barrier for a single SQLite database file yet, but we have strong confidence that everything will simply continue working as expected once we do.
Facebook algorithm found to actively promote holocaust denial
The internet economy is a winner takes it all economy. With the US being so weak in market regulations, the development of natural monopolies is just a natural effect of that.
Nice to see that there are efforts but until they can roll it out as a core feature with prompts/nudges it's not going to cut it and I'm not entirely sure they have the market/mind share to pull it off these days. Pateron came out in 2013 and has strong community/network effects now, YouTube Red/Spotify also address much the same problem. The current state of affairs is like their idiotic mobile 6 full years after the iPhone came out and at a time when Android/iOS had already won and Microsoft efforts already imploded.
>The only drawback is the ability to prove who you voted for,

That's pretty much the biggest problem to have in any election...
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Previously you would have to SELECT and then UPDATE in separate queries, meaning that the data is round tripping to your application server and back again.

Edit: Or use subqueries apparently.
Nice presentation.

In the mid 1970s, I was working at SAIC but moonlighted working at Salk Institute in La Jolla on weekends writing Algol code to facilitate collecting data from the various hardware they had in a lab. My boss at SAIC at the time was getting his PhD in CS, had to write his thesis in Algol, which I spent time helping him with.

I then became a huge fan of UCSD Pascal on my Apple II which I used to write my Go playing program Honninbo Warrior, which I sold for a few years.

Back then I mostly made my living writing FORTRAN so Algol and Pascal were a breath of fresh air.
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> If you can verify that your vote was correctly counted, your vote can't be kept secret

This is false. Votes (transactions) in Bitcoin are pseudonymous, meaning everyone can see what votes were placed, but nobody knows who was responsible for the specific votes. Only the owner knows, unless they choose to reveal to others.
Meanwhile people have difficulty filling out paper ballots, because it's terrible UX. If you want to have a nice voting system like STV or even ranked-choice, shading ovals on paper ballots is not ideal.

Sometimes it feels as though existing problems get a free pass because of tradition, but new issues (even if addressed) are scary and so the entire thing should be stopped.

I think the right strategy is to pick a state, implement a voting system there for people to vote on their phones, and then see if it works out or not. Had this been done a couple of years ago, we would have been more prepared for covid-19 this election. And we're only going to have more pandemics and other disasters going forward.
ITT calling setlocale or std::locale::global(...) is ALMOST ALWAYS a heinously bad idea and should rarely be done, because it breaks tons of code (notably everything that uses printf/scanf and everything using stringstream).
That is kind of entertaining to think someone can store a 281TB SQLite file and I am still waiting for companies to sell 1PB hard drives.

Back in 2010 I thought yeah soon we will have 50TB hard drives then 500TB and someday I can have 1PB it will be all I will need! Sadly no such change. I would be happy to be in the 10s of TBs rage for under 200 dollars.

Games are getting stupid wasteful. Someone told me Fortnite is almost 90GB or so and I flinched considering GTA5 is around that range and offers a loooot more rich gameplay and features! What a wasteful game resource wise.
Pretty sure that’s not true. When you switch your keyboard you will have a proper i character in another language unless your keymap is broken. How do you think Chinese, Russians or Greek type their characters?
I remember for a brief period where there were 256 GB micro SD card listings on Amazon...before there were any real ones released by anyone.
Google itself is the scam.
I did have AOL in the early days of 56k in Germany.

It was the same walled garden as it was in the US, and I was 'locked in' that garden without knowing. I must've been 12 or 14 years old and this was our very first internet.
Direct link:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/08/stable-channel...
The real issue is that Amazon has turned into Alibaba/Aliexpress and is filled with low quality products. Amazon will sell anything as long as its cheap.

I think this will only hurt Amazon where there is some injury beyond a defective product. Amazon already uses its contracts and terms of service to push the cost of returns and such to the third party supplier. Amazon will do its best to deflect most or all of the pain through better contracts.
The era when some of New York City (even parts of Manhattan) had substandard public services didn't stop hipsters moving there. A city might not be corporately "thriving" with a tax base of such residents, but due to the power of its brand the city can still draw alternative young people and keep the legacy of art and culture going.
"I" is in ASCII.
Json and markdown output for the CLI also...that's nice.
Safari did exist on Windows, up to version 5 or so; was discontinued a couple years ago.
Centralization is clearly bad in the private sector. I'm curious why people here don't see centralization of government as similarly bad. With 3.5T in revenue, the US federal government is the single largest entity in existence, and it's scope is vast, covering things as disparate as mail and health care. There are plenty of examples of them abusing their position (and occasionally their people...), yet this forum rarely expresses the same level of frustration and outage found on this thread.
There are practical limitations that prevent us from doing that in the US. Specifically, our ballots tend to be long and complicated. A California ballot on a presidential year can have dozens of contests, from president to dog catcher to referenda. Reading out all ballots would be very time-consuming and likely very error-prone as poll workers are pretty tired by the end of the night.

This is why we have scanners to speed up counting paper ballots. And paper ballots are retained for targeted manual counts if there's a need for auditing or recounts.
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>Speak for yourself as a kid I would go on AOL chatrooms

My phrase of "interact that much" was relative to today's Facebook type of social penetration. Yes, I also interacted with others on old USENET, BBSs, Compuserve (CIS userid), AOL, etc. Many of us did.

But Facebook's social graph is the phenomenon that bridged the gap of grandparents seeing updates on the grandkids, high school alumni and past coworkers "finding" each other again and extending weak ties ("friend each other"). This type of social interaction is very sticky and difficult to switch away from. USENET/CIS/AOL level of interaction was much weaker.
I have a better solution: use combining characters COMBINING DOT ABOVE (which already exists) and DELETE DOT ABOVE (which needs to be added into Unicode), which would manipulate "I" into "İ" and "i" into "ı" respectively. Those combining characters would also work perfectly with j too.
Yes but they could have done much better than this - assuming the distribution of their students to timezones isn't very even.
You managed to state “every part of this is wrong” without refuting anything I wrote, and in many cases confirming what I wrote with your citations.

1. “Sex is about reproduction”

WHO page: “ When a Y chromosome is present, early embryonic testes develop around the 10th week of pregnancy. In the absence of both a Y chromosome and the influence of a testis-determining factor (TDF), ovaries develop.”

These are reproductive organs.

Each detailed description of chromosomal variations references “sterility,” “infertility,” or “fertile.”

2. “Gender is about sex.”

> You've then said that gender is tied to sex, but that's only true in some countries at this point in history, and it mostly stems from Christian colonialists imposing their view (often using violence to do so) across the world.

This is an absurd claim and appears to imply that pre-colonization, people could not figure out which individuals would bear children and which would sire them based on their physical characteristics, and sort them accordingly. Hammurabi’s code had bride prices, Aztec women were not permitted be soldiers, Chinese women were taught the three followings 2500 years ago. Your statement is simply profoundly absurd. All societies — even the ones listed in your citations — especially the ones listed in your citations — have been capable of distinguishing sex, and setting up different rules of behavior that depend on sex. That is gender.

3. “You've said that identity is irrelevant to reproductive role. That's wrong, which is why there are trans-fathers who give birth.”

This is again deliberate confusion. No matter what pronoun or title you afford this trans man, his reproductive role was to bear a child and not to sire one. Only female mammals produce eggs and only female mammals bear young.
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The only thing here that "doesn't work" is that there aren't enough people like the OP. He's helped dozens of people learn a worthwhile, mind expanding skill that pays well enough to have a family.

Let the man help people. He's got plenty of time to make back money and I highly doubt that after helping all these people that in the end he'll be left with nothing. He already has more than most people.
Exactly. First time. Mistakes were made on all sides.

And yet - no flexibility was shown.
People would definitely notice if the checkproduct for two candidates had a nontrivial gcd. Which is almost guaranteed to happen if primes are recycled to a significant degree.
I want to be open-minded to people I’ve known throughout college, etc. that are lefty activists but the stuff they share about “beautiful” fat people/“medicalizing” is frankly deranged.

I get that recognizing humanity and compassion for everyone is important.

But what more evidence do we need of the outcomes wrt covid where Japan has a 4% obesity rate vs US 40%. We’re talking an order of magnitude disparity.
They already do that.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth pays tribute on 75th anniversary of Japan's WW2 defeat
From the Discussion in the paper A subset of broadly responsive Type III taste cells contribute to the detection of bitter, sweet and umami stimuli [1]:

> Our data suggest that BR cells are a subset of Type III cells that are capable of responding to multiple taste stimuli, except sodium chloride. Since the BR cells always responded to sour, 100% of these cells responded to multiple taste qualities and approximately 80% of these cells responded to either three or four modalities (Fig 3D). This is in contrast to Type II cells that are usually narrowly tuned to a single taste quality.

It appears that broadly responsive (BR) cells make the taste response slightly more complicated than original thought. Salty seems to be the odd man out and conforms to the original model; I'm not sure which observation I find more intriguing.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
This is still vulnerable to a DoS attack as the parent suggested. Not terribly difficult for an individual to tie up all the phone lines or overload the web voting portal.

I also agree with the parent comment re hubris about this stuff: the incentives are immensely high for someone to compromise a system like this, and it only takes a small oversight to cause a huge disaster. Everyone gets a random password? Better hope whoever is generating them used a good RNG and a proper source of entropy...
What would you suggest as a more up-to-date alternative?
I think of it as grease blobs on the surface of your soup. They naturally tend to merge and merge and merge until there is only one. Unfortunately you need active regulation to counteract this.
Worth noting that the vast majority of the participants in this study had existing mental disorders, 57% "generalized anxiety", 51% ADHD, 17% Major Depression, 7.4% Bipolar Disorder, and so on.

The authors claim (but don't show their work) that adjusting for these factors did not change the statistical significance of the relationship, but it does still mean this isn't exactly a representative sample of the population.

Very interesting that underweight people generally have more blood flow than "normal" weight people, though if you dive into the supplementary data that doesn't hold for every region of the brain studied (and the general trend seems to hold in all regions studied).
Well a round-trip or two could still be ambiguous which could easily fail when comparing strings later in some edge case. Especially when we can't even consistently agree to use by-application, by-OS, by-language and by-locale settings consistently. I don't have a solution, just pointing out that this is a really challenging problem to fully solve.
This

And I'd argue that google's about the only thing propping up the internet. Chromium's a reasonably open platform (certainly more so than internet explorer, which not that long ago looked destined to become the dominant platform), gmail has kept email viable, android is somewhat open (and without it, apple might own that space entirely), etc

Every other player that's gotten traction has set up a walled garden
Just because CIDR happened doesn't mean that the subnet selection isn't relevant anymore.
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This is America. Your social security number will make a perfectly fine secret key! It works so well as a secret for everything else in your life, after all. I'm sure nobody else has has it, or can acquire it for use in mass voter fraud!
Did you stop reading right at the end of the part you quoted?
The decision (linked above) makes the distinction based on Amazon placing itself in the supply chain between distributor and customer. eBay seems safe from this one, Newegg will have liability for those 3rd party products they actually ship.