skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then you should also use major media organizations' 2016 predictions as evidence of greater delusion

Why? They responded to evolving evidence and sentiment (specifically, the FBI announcement on the 28th). 538 gave Trump a 30% chance to win on election day. 30% isn't a super unlikely event. People regularly take a chance on events with much less likely outcomes.

Here's an analogy: Harvard has a 4.5% acceptance rate. If a mediocre student tells me in June that they're going to apply in September, my prediction is going to be that they will not be accepted. If in August they tell me they've randomly received a letter of recommendation from a US senator after saving them in a car accident, I'm going to change my opinion from "very unlikely to be accepted" to "moderately unlikely to be accepted."

That doesn't mean I was stupid or delusional to think in June that they were very unlikely to be accepted, and that still doesn't mean I'm delusional to think they will still likely be rejected (the mainstream media polls). That also doesn't mean that the person who told the mediocre student in June that they were a shoe-in for Harvard was prophetic by any means (Scott Adams).

> The dude is batty in some ways, but he clearly saw something that most of us didn't.

Ehh, or he just got a lucky guess? A broken clock, etc. etc.?

For an analogous situation, this happens in sports media all the time: Some sports entertainment personality will make a "hot take" that's really just a contrarian opinion based on little evidence. If they're wrong, no one cares. If they're right, they look like a prophetic genius. Either way, they win because they get attention for making a bold prediction.

Whether you want to call it confirmation bias/selection bias/whatever, I implore you to think about all the times Scott Adams has been incredibly wrong and whether you think he actually has some unusual insight or whether he just made a lucky guess based on his personal biases.

It's extremely likely that if the election had been held October 27th, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Think about that for a second.
Make them illegal?
I think it may be helpful to have some privileged commands which are only allowed in user stylesheets.

(Additional unprivileged commands may also be useful, such as ability to specify colours by index number, and ability to specify the names of user configuration values where other values are expected.)
Title IX is a specific law. Recent trends in Left wing / feminist thought and behavior have some interaction with that, but only in the sense that they interact with everything in the University.
And easier to be qualified to do.
I hate the way journalists try to make things sound scarier by throwing in 3D printing, as if a new world of criminal technology is upon us. Surely 3D printing is the very worst, and slowest, way to make a key. Nobody has been waiting for 3D printing to enhance their breaking-and-entering game.
I think you’re missing the thread of this conversation.

We are discussing civilians who have no official nor unofficial relationship with Area 51/military/government/defense/intelligence/etc showing up at the gates to participate in a “Rush the gates to free the aliens” meme event.
I would expect that the IDF has sonobuoys and hydrophone nets everywhere they can stick them in the area. Their neighbors have various large and small warships and have a history of using them via surprise tactics.
Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
Yeah but most ordinary people don’t travel hundreds of miles into the middle of a desert to a classified military installation to “flash mob.”
KDE Wallpaper Shader
No worries. Firstly, you are being honest with yourself. Secondly, you've got some of the causes identified already. Thirdly:

> Just a couple years ago...

... that's a well-known phenomenon called: getting old. Fourthly:

> I went back to the gym two weeks ago

... aaaand you're all set - just keep it up now. It doesn't matter if you bench 135lbs or 90lbs. Frankly, after a certain age it's one step forward two steps back, all the way.

Just know: you'll be on a bit of a slope from now on. Observe that the work you put into it is still paying off anyhow. It's encouraging, ain't it? Best of luck to you.
A+ my go-to git reference. I don't work with git in my day job mostly, but when I do I end up here at least once a month.
You guys should setup a rust donation site tho.
> It's not randomly special, it's special because it models something that deserves special treatment.

Can you expand on this, why is this more humane? And why should print be a special function?
>Artistic interpretations are, by their nature, more art than science but I’ve made an effort to cross-reference their appearance (hair, eyes, ethnicity etc.) to historical texts and coinage.

I have to agree with the grandparent, this seems like not very strong an underpinning for a project that clearly has the potential to be very controversial. There's no mention of accounting for the artist's potential implicit bias, the drift of ethnically-associated physiological features over the ~2000 years between the subjects and the data set that the process is based on, etc.

For a long time now, I've felt that the best practice for this sort of presentation isn't necessarily a static image, but an interactive experience that allows viewers to explore a range of reasonable outputs.
Aim at the stars, atleast you will land on the moon. That's how current govt things goes.
that's true, because a CC gives you points from its processing fee, so your reward won't be more than processing or transaction fee that CC companies earn
The full text of Title IX is a single sentence:

> No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

When people refer to Title IX offices, investigations, or practices, they're not referring to a part of this sentence, but to the administrative structures that have been set up around it.
What industry relies on a recommendation from a Masters degree advisor of someone who has a PhD from a different University? And even if that's true, the problem is the discrimination practiced by the employer, not the advisor. In corporations, supervisors are banned from giving recommendations for former employees, due to conflict of interest concerns.
I’m not arguing one way or another, these are all very broad claims in both directions.

But if you’re interested, that books also speculates that many such health issues, including the above, are relatively recent human ailments brought on by the modern diet facilitated by agriculture.
Hard pass on anything that involves Mongo.
Tenure agreements don't protect for sleeping with students.
Isn't Linux's existing NTFS implementation read-only? I'd be very surprised you would get corruptions from that..
The US disagrees too, except for the certain brand of feminism that has taken over universities and partial taken over corporations.
You mention black and white colorization and that was my first thought upon seeing this. The statues are already super “photo-realistic” so I’m guessing this was a pretty similar process.

On a completely different note, I am not sure what you’re getting at with the racial stuff. Like what are you suggesting? That perhaps some of the emperors weren’t totally Caucasian but rendering them as such from the best available evidence is somehow racist? In my humble opinion, trying to find racial undertones in every tangential thing is a distraction from the real conversations that we should be having. And there’s a real possibility of alienating people that are otherwise sympathetic to the cause.
Ah, that’s meant as a qualitative figure of speech, not a measurable objective function. Intended to express that Scheme is a simple language that remains apparently simple even when you build tremendously powerful constructs within it and upon it.

In this case by contrast with CSS where no matter how much sophistication one tries to introduce into the styles its capabilities seem to be horizontally asymptotic or very substantially sublinear.

I reach for the word ratio because the concept (of two parameters whose magnitude varies and that would be meaningful in some relation) is a friend, and the word “better” is a writing trick to avoid having to define exactly what those are whilst still expressing the sentiment.
Too symmetric features in most cases to be true...imho
In Buenos Aires, Argentina we are in lockdown since middle March. Never stopped.
https://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/blob/master/NEWS#L2 "Version 1.0.29 (2020-08-15) * Add support for Opus files."
And people profited frim the crime too. Both should be held responsible.
Check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
One would hope that the level of discourse on HN is sufficient to deal with incorrect, false, or poorly written stories on its own terms, rather than blanket bans because one disagrees with their politics (or even if only because the publication is considered political, which would call for bans of lots of other sources regardless of political affiliation). It brings the division and toxicity of Twitter here to HN, which it has thusfar avoided, because then the two "sides" would battle it out on which "news" sources to accept.

One might equally say "HN should not allow linking to Huffington Post" which I don't honestly know if that is linked to with any frequency but I wouldn't be opposed if it did. It is valuable to know what people are thinking and to see what people are discussing.
It seems futile to discuss this with you. All you have done is, counter arguments with counter questions while never addressing the issue. I chose to reply once hoping that it would be constructive, but it isn't.

If all both of us are going to do is counter questions with more questions and just refute the arguments entirely by questioning the other person's knowledge and research boosted by our own biases just to prove oneself right, the whole discussion becomes a non sequitur. For instance, you don't even know the dumping this is something an actual engineer working there told me about, the decision wasn't upto him, alas. You see, while backpacking one thing I make a point to do is to talk to locals.

Additionally, the landslide vs road widening argument. Things are not binary in real world, it is not like one has to exist at the cost of other.

While accusing me for having an ideological position which you know nothing about, you are conveniently ignoring yours. In no way, I have opposed "development" anywhere in the thread, it should definitely be at balance with other things and definitely not indiscriminate like I saw.
This is somehow worse than your synopsis makes it out to be. The same standard was selectively applied to this person when compared to another dental hygienist that did the same thing. And apparently somehow it is not against the rules when dentists do it, but it is when dental hygienists do it. Sounds like a case of regulatory capture, really.
Problem is most unemployed people don't have the specialized skill set to contribute to these projects and those that do aren't unemployed. The unskilled labor these projects require has mostly been automated over the last 100 years by robotic tools like excavators.

Basically every problem we used to be able to throw manpower at now has similar automation and the same sorts of projects would now be done by far fewer people. Any modern new deal would have to look very different to the old one.
I work over at the non-profit Internet Archive running their Open Library. There are a lot of people in the space, applying their entrepreneurial affinities towards public good. I spent ~5 years doing startups before joining the Internet Archive.

Been here for ~5 years.

There's pretty high leverage for impact. It's very fun and satisfying work. Big community of passionate, smart people who care.

This can be true... and at the same time, I'd say there hasn't been a day which has gone by where I haven't felt impostor syndrome as I'm forced to compare my work against the aggressive forward progress achieved by well funded and staffed for-profit organizations.

One of the reasons talent steers clear of non-profits is circumstantial. VCs (who have a vested interest in smart people starting companies or joining their portfolio companies) encourage smart people to do startups. Makes sense, not bad advice.

But this also results in a strange form of dissonance where I'm perfectly certain millions of people could do better work (better design, engineering, and PM'ing) than I'm doing, and yet in the past 5 years, no one has come along and done it.

I think it's in part this self fulfilling prophecy why more, talented people don't try the non-profit path. You likely won't earn stock and may not save up enough to buy an Bay Area house.

1. The impact at non-profits can be extraordinarily high.

For years, I was the only PM / SWE / ops / dir of openlibrary.org responsible for ~3M+ patrons. We were enabling millions of meaningful book borrows for patrons and students. I've been able to independently drive large programs forward, shape partnerships, and am afforded a massive amount of trust and agency w/o having to escalate through a chain of 20 directors.

2. Many non-profit orgs (Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Mozilla, EFF, et al) offer competitive salaries

(I guess SF is a magical place) I'm still able to earn (sans stock) w/ a competitive 6-figure salary.

3. Non-profits can offer opportunities for self-directed personal growth

As someone who considers themselves an early stage "startup person", I've been able to (at my discretion) participate in community organization (50+ contributors), project planning & management, design, devops, software engineering, program creation, and partnerships (I've helped lead a design partnership with the Tradecrafted Group & Rutger's University). I've mentored 3 interns and have had ample opportunities to participate in public speaking.

4. Flexibility

I work remotely with a diverse group of people from all over the world (Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Amsterdam, India, Italy, etc) :)

5. The team & mission

The people I work with care so much.

Caveats: Non-profits are like startups in another way; I've found myself perpetually having to move quickly and balance time constraints (knowing even if I build something people love, the "rocket fuel" or funding is seldom available to scale up the team we need). This also means (at least for Internet Archive) it can be hard to specialize and I don't always get to build the sexiest solutions with the latest tech.
Indeed, and would therefore be up to each reader to decide how that reputation factors into their evaluation of what they're reading and the subsequent conversation.
I learned a long time ago never to invade Russia in winter and never to use git submodules.

Git doesn't compose.
.... you assuming the cute girl's interested?
The basic idea of Joe Rogan’s responsibility goes like this:

Joe Rogan is engaged in an activity with potentially serious consequences. His audience size is such that, to make a contrived example, if a tenth of a percentage of his listeners become convinced by whatever jackass he gives a microphone to that, say, “the Jews” run the world and decide to “do something about it,” that’s 30,000 people deciding to “do something” as a result of Joe Rogan’s podcast, or roughly the population of a small city now contemplating violence against a particular group.

Joe Rogan has a responsibility because his actions potentially have effects on a large enough scale that it’s simply irresponsible for him to ignore them. He’s not legally obligated to fulfill that responsibility, but he should expect people to get angry at him over the consequences of his actions, as should we all.
The striped logo actually dates from 1972.

In the 60s and 70s, many more people had seen line printer output - more common than teletype output - than had personally used a computer. So the stripes were definitely a cultural signifier long before computers became everyday items.

And raster lines were very common by 1970. See e.g. DEC's VT05 "affordable" terminal from 1970.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/vt05/vt05-3.jpg

The 2260 scanlines may have been vertical, but the impression was definitely of characters made of horizontal lines. It's an interesting history - not least the fact that the electronics for the terminal lived in a huge wardrobe sized-box.

http://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-hist...

You can see clearly how the look of the character set prefigured the new IBM logo.
Fortnite' CEO Has Support, War Chest
The supposed concern is vote fraud
You guys use stripe for payments in the book but what about taxes? I feel a good addition to your book would be to mention Paddle as they operate as a merchant of record so taxes are accounted for.
They will however be shamed into being less than human for lacking empathy. Like the past XXXXX years...
What do you call this section of sites that you rue in your search results? Sites that everyone hates, and would never willingly use if not for resentable, possibly tech-illiterate people putting the odd thing on there? "bintech"?
See also Researchgate.
Not true. Your trading provides a secondary market for companies. It encourages people to create new companies to later sell to investors.

Further, you get rewarded to the degree that you correctly speculate on the future prices of stocks (or whatever you trade) and penalised when you get it wrong. That tends to bring future prices back in time (that is, speculation causes the price of something to reflect today what it otherwise would have been in the future). That's really important because it causes capital to be more accurately alloted to ventures that will be creating value in the future and away from those that will create less value or be destructive of value in the future.
Can you clarify if the reviewers paid full price or not?
A new web stack would be awesome. Using latest technologies available and suppressing backward compatibility. Replacing everything from HTTP to HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

But 2 big issues:

1. You have to get the specs right from the beginning and for the long term

2. You have to get traction to move the whole web to the new standard

Hackers can do it, starting with a small user base, writing blogs on the new stack and improving it day after day, adding new features. Then more people start to use the new stack and Hackers start to build services on it and more people come because it's faster and better structured than the old web. Mission accomplished.
So far as I know, all covid tests in use right now are being produced under emergency authorization.
Unfortunately, I think this is countered by municipalities losing funding from sales taxes.
They both work very similar in theory: unpurified saliva with qPCR. Though as far as I know U of I doesn't have their EUA and have not stated they applied.
While I think you're right that the last two are very uncommon, they are not a large contributor to the complexity of handling font sizing. Once you've done all the rest, I suspect you could add them with <5% more work.

Leaving out rare features to build a browser more quickly only makes sense if those features let you remove a lot of complexity from your implementation.
He's doing better now than he did back then. This is from 2019: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/gen.... Trump's numbers have improved substantially since, in spite of the riots. In fact, it'd seem that the riots only helped him in this regard, since the poorer inner-city minorities are disproportionately affected by them, as well as looting, burning, and "defunding".

Now granted, these are not _votes_. But we'll see soon enough if this increased approval translates into votes. At least some part of it will.

I do maintain that the artist is a smooth brain racist though. The implication is pretty clearly that there are no minorities on the right at all, which is absolutely not the case. Another implication is that it's only the right that's misinformed, which is rich coming from a party that believed (and still continues to believe) in the piss dossier, and the most ludicrous conspiracy theories in recent memory. Another, even more pernicious implication is that the debate between the sides should not be allowed to take place, which is both shortsighted and dangerous, because that's how things boil over.
I grew up in a family where life was basically based around meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all sitting down together for an hour. Since I’ve basically ditched routine eating a few years ago I feel much better.
I don’t have any specific approach other than eating whatever I feel like eating, when I actually feel hungry. It’s a huge mental shift to make initially to really listening to your body about what hungry really is. There are lots of cues around food which have no basis in hunger at all. Sometimes my body screams for quick carbs, other times protein or just a good all round meal. But I’ve just learnt to listen to it. I’ve gone from 100kg+ to a steady 78kg for 2 years.

I quite often do a 1hr power ride on Zwift at around midday on an empty stomach and feel less hungry than when I started now. Before I would have felt that I deserved a high calorie meal and eaten more than I should of. Now I listen to if my body is actually, really hungry. Quite often I feel less hungry after a workout, so I might go through till dinner without any food if that’s what I feel like. Sometimes I might have deep hunger pangs, so I’ll eat straight away after in that case.

Something that shifted my approach to food dramatically was a 7 day fast two years ago. My approach to food has never been the same since.
> I’m honestly baffled why people are against mail in voting.

Because it's bad for their side. Mail in voting massively improves Democratic turnout for a lot of reasons. And when Democrats actually turn out, they win every time. It's the same reason they support gerrymandering and voter ID laws. It has nothing to do with what's "fair" or "democratic" and everything to do with ensuring their ideology doesn't have to hold up in an actual fair election.
It's a straight up reaction to the market.

The majority of people in the market the university cares about think that professors who bang their subordinates should be railroaded out the institution.

The power dynamics bit is the best part. The voluntary collective of rational actors known as "the university" can choose to ignore violations of unjust policies (the absolute authority given the assent of the managed) the same way jurors can choose to ignore violations of the law though jury nullification.

Freedom includes the freedom to bend the rules and have an arbitrary and subjective number of people nod in agreement, thus making it "Okay", no?

If the above statement is not true, then literally, in the literal dictionary definition of the the word "literal" every single aspect of society will have to be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up.
that is something to consider. thanks for the input