skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use vipe frequently, to let me pipe from/into vim. This enables fun shortcuts as:

xclip -o | vipe | xclip

This one in particular, let's you edit your clipboard with $EDITOR.
I'm well aware that ASPI isn't an unbiased source... which is why I picked that quote, since it runs counter to their biases. (It also contradict the title of the report "Uyghurs for sale", since in a sale you'd expect the money to flow the other direction.) If two opposing propaganda machines agree on something, that doesn't necessarily make it true, but it's better than when only one of them says so.
Imo sponge is the most useful of all of them. For example if you want to filter a file in place you can do ‘grep str file | sponge file’. If you do that with a redirect you’ll end up with an empty file.

Some commands (eg. sed) have an in-place option, but many don’t.
I wholly wish micro transactions would be made illegal. To me micro transaction is equivalent to a movie pausing mid scene and ask "Do you want to continue watching this scene? You can if only you pay 99 cent.". It's a pure evil practice that taints games.
I disagree. In this case, it would be Google who is changing the status quo.

I think it's legitimate for a fully internal server on an internal network that only handles internal clients to only implement the parts of the HTTP spec that are relevant to the exchange.

If Google worms its way into that network and starts to talk to random servers, they'd be at fault for causing problems.

I think this holds particularly strong for this case as the requests are not tied to an obvious user action: If I typed "http://dumbo/" into the address bar and the browser's GET request broke the server, I'd be more inclined to view the server's team at fault than if I just searched for "dumbo" and found out the browser broke a server that I didn't even know existed.

Independent of that, it's of course good advice to always build your services as robust as possible - internal or not - and to follow the spec wherever you're able to.
https://spidr.today/ ?
So we’ll have AI controlled missiles instead? With small missiles attached to them to fire at enemy aircraft.
The best way to migrate from synapse to dendrite will probably be by decentralised accounts. We have plans (driven by p2p) to let your account exist on multiple servers at the same time. The sort of way to do this would be to have @alice:example.com sign something on @alice:elsewhere.com to prove that she’s the same person. She then participates in all the same rooms from both accounts, which are presented as a single logical identity to everyone else.

So example.com could be synapse and elsewhere.com could be dendrite, and she would automagically replicate her account over between the two. If she turned off example.com, she’d have migrated over.

This is scifi right now, but it’s getting closer, as P2P isn’t very usable if you can’t sync your account across multiple devices/nodes.

Alternatively someone could write a script to migrate synapse’s db into dendrite’s schema (or dendrite’s kafka logs), but it’s be pretty fragile given how rapidly both synapse and dendrite evolve.

tl;dr: jump in with Synapse today - the water’s great (even if others have been scalded in the past). Migration to Dendrite or Conduit or whatever in future should be transparent, one way or another.
> which does not involve a transfer of anything of value;

Since the order only blocks transfers of value last I checked this exception does not seem on point at all.
Thank you, appreciate your response. I'm glad he wasn't penalized for an honest mistake. I've heard of folks citing policy and firing great employees, good to hear a happy end to the whole situation.
> Would the PlayStation hardware that Sony spends millions on to design

What? It's off-the-shelf PC parts designed by AMD! This made sense when the consoles were custom chips, but no longer.
Because success is either inherited or magical!

That's the narrative, anyways. Of course, the people telling the narrative have success in telling the narrative, not the actual success!
Once I knew the trick of putting ./ before the dash ('./-'), I have never had a problem with files starting with '-'.
Wow, this is Qanon, didn't see that coming.

The frontpage of Reddit got sucked into this and a quite a few commentators.

I have to admit, it was a change to see the Left being morally outraged, compared to 25 years ago when they defended movies like Kids against the conservatives, things the Left should be proud to had done.

I think they are so used to following what insanity they are told is 'woke' this week, Qanon played them quite easily.
A lot of these seem easily achieved in a POSIX shell manner, but most annoyingly to me

> sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file

I do that all the time...

cat > file.txt

Update: reading the comments on here, apparently sponge sucks up all content before opening the destination file which allows editing an input file in place. Minor advantage there.
> No other dictionary provides a definition that even remotely comes close.

Shorter OED:

> Myth (miþ). Also †mythe. 1830 [- mod. L. MYTHUS, late L. mythos - Gr. μῦθος.] 1. A purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural persons, actions or events, and embodying some popular idea concerning natural or historical pheononema. Often used vaguely to include any narrative having fictitious elements. 2. A fictitious or imaginary person or object 1849.

>1. It is chronicled in an old Armenian m. that the wise men of the East were none other than the three sons of Noe 1899. 2. Parliamentary control was a m. 1888.

The second example is exactly the usage you're objecting to.
Nor I! And now I'm wondering, if a game design studio knew about this stuff a decade ago, why are we now seeing it presented as a revolutionary new breakthrough?

I wonder if the possibility was recognized a while back, and what's new is an apparently significant step toward realization, while we're only seeing the use of PEDOT in implants presented as a totally new concept because we're seeing it refracted through the rather cracked and dirty lens of popular science reporting.
Wells Fargo has been involved in a multi-year scandal over deducting millions of fake fees, to inflate their stock price. Fined $3 billion so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...

How it worked was the top executives set targets for tellers to meet, or the tellers were fired. To meet the targets, tellers had to upsell clients whether the clients wanted the service or not.

It's kind of like how cable companies, etc. pretend to not hear cancellation requests, but Wells Fargo was actively doing fake transactions.
> unable to find any evidence of wrongdoing

It's also too early for any "wrongdoing" to occur. Late October is when I'd do it, if I were a Chinese intelligence agent looking to sabotage the re-election of the president who endorses de-coupling, in favor of the one whose crackhead son magically got to manage $1.5B in Chinese investment funds in spite of having zero experience.

And after it does occur, it will be too late.

Since you're going to ask for sources on Chinese money and "crackhead" comment, here they are:

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7857001/Hunter-Bide...
Hey, I'm down to be Root. If I can come out with Amy Acker's looks and figure, well, that's just a bonus.
Apple claims Epic Games wanted a special deal before the ban
Are they willing to write than on a contract for perpetuity? Is it not dereliction of duty they have to shareholders?
That is the point, though. They make you pay VAT twice: once to the state, once to them.
I briefly studied voting systems at university and the studies behind them

The Duverger's law for example states that there is a strong psychological component, beside the mechanical one

If the vote process is effortless the elector is less involved and that's why going to the ballots is still the favourite way to engage voters

If a system promise to be unbreakable and solve every voting fraud problem, voters will be less careful when voting

Etc. Etc.

Elections are not primarily a technical problem, it's a social rite they are like the rites of passage in ancient tribes
What attitude?

The "Generally, people who actually know what they're talking about"? I could have phrased it better, but "Rewrite it in Rust" IS a bit of a groaner in the Rust community because of the history of having to do damage control for counter-productively rabid fans who have no idea that Rust isn't magic pixie dust and that rewrites actually take effort.

(I've been lurking in /r/rust/ since before Rust 1.0 came out in 2015, so I've seen a lot of that.)

The "In that respect, Rust serves"? I'm not the only one who sees Rust as taking the best stuff from functional programming and stopping before the return on investment starts to tank. For example:

https://dev.to/yujiri8/why-i-don-t-believe-in-pure-functiona...
No, I'm saying they should build a business model that doesn't abuse participants. They can certainly make money by offering a great payment gateway and other services that developers and/or buyers would prefer to opt for than any alternative. Instead they simply charge for the privilege to be on their platform.
Replacing the glibc memory allocation with tcmalloc or jemalloc did wonders in many projects I worked with.
A super simple intro to binomial distribution
Didn't know about "ncd", ended up re-inventing it. The following script, named 'F', takes regexp(3) pattern in $1 and works reasonably well in the 'all text is hypertex' environment of (p9p) Acme. If it finds one match, it opens it via plumb(1). Otherwise lists results; one right-click opens the clicked result again via plumb(1).

Yes, the find -type f focuses on files; nonetheless it's easy enough to right-click-select the relevant directory to open it rather than the file.

#!/usr/bin/env rc

if (~ `{find -type f | 9 grep $1 | wc -l} 1)
plumb `{find -type f | 9 grep $1}
if not
find -type f | 9 grep $1
Antitrust violations were part of the suit brought against Nintendo, but the court basically ignored those in the ruling.

Here's a legal analysis that predates the ruling:

https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/489/

It outlines the requirements for a successful antitrust case, particularly that simply having a monopoly is not enough.
Please don't bother with Civilization 6. Get Civilization 5 and the expansions, then get Vox Populi.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ez34jp/the-modders-who-de...

https://civ-5-cbp.fandom.com/wiki/Civ5_CBP_Wikia

Civ 6 is just so bad in comparison.

Some things are up to personal taste, like the graphics and art style. I definitely prefer how Civ 5 looks.

There's also the fact that Civ 5 was primarily designed and developed as a desktop PC game, while Civ 6 was designed as cross-platform (desktop, tablets, consoles, and smartphones). Some people will prefer that too, though.

But there are major differences that aren't up for discussion:

Civ5 has better mods because Firaxis exposed/released APIs that give modders more control/access than Civ6 provides. This means more & better mods.

VP has better AI than Civ 6. I think it has some of the best AI in the history of gaming.

VP has better balancing, for both civs/leaders and tech/social.

VP has an active developer who releases frequently and listens to community feedback. More importantly, VP's developer primarily cares about making the game fun. Firaxis primarily cares about squeezing money out of customers through expansions and DLC.

I really regret buying Civ6. I even got suckered twice with the expansions, thinking they would at least lead to modders bringing the game up to par. Nope.

I have 1000 hours in Civ 5 (mostly Vox Populi), and ~100 in Civ 6. Those hours in Civ6 have been in 5-hour bouts of me trying to enjoy the game, then giving up because it feels so bad to play.

I wish Firaxis would just hire the guy behind VP and put him in charge of the series.
Xbox Game Pass is like Netflix for games, you pay a small subscription each month and get to essentially rent hundreds of games. Sounds like it might be what you're after.
There are Vim plugins that let you rename files and directories within Vim, such as https://github.com/qpkorr/vim-renamer.

Also if you happen to use fern[0] you can mark off multiple files and directories, hit a hotkey and now you can edit their paths in a Vim buffer.

[0]: https://github.com/lambdalisue/fern.vim
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I would rather believe a word on this by an investor/entrepreneur or a tinkerer like that kid instead of Journalist.
Tech journalism is more crappy than blockchain/bitcoin hype market.
if you do true double-blind reviews and don't do the thing, they do at the great CS conferences (e.g. chair is from FANG, 80% of papers are from FANG; chair passes everything from his FANG).

Open science is great, doing the mixture of boasting over mediocre results (hey, we can classify 10 samples more correctly from MNIST) and outright faking stuff (which is also there) is a problem even with journals. It doesn't get better wirh Arxiv and all the details packed away in never published supporting information (happened to me sometimes now...) - of course you can ask and then with the SI realize: this is bullshit... Good peer review should weed this out.
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Oh right I forgot about that. People ignore this with the 15%-30%: Apple has done a lot of work to get money into the app store ecosystem. The larger margin allowed them to spread this sort of currency.

They can make a different solution, but it may not be better for the app ecosystem. Those gift cards got a lot of people into buying apps. I personally started when I got a $100 itunes gift card while buying a laptop as a student.
I did wonder which of the two cliche examples would be pulled out ;)

Also everything by Milgram, Pavlov, Zimbardo, Jane Elliott, Ron Jones, My favourite - Schachter and Singer (Misattribution of arousal)

Basically anything classical you read about on HN about psychology no longer passes ethics.
> He’s been consistently more right (less wrong?) than the mainstream media.

Well, once he rose to popularity, 538 has been part of the mainstream media, affiliated with the NYTimes, then owned by ESPN, then transferred within the Disney Empire to ABC News. But, sure, it's pretty consistently been one of the better (not just election) statistical forecasting shops in the mainstream media.
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The purpose of sponge is that you can do this:

grep foo file.txt | sponge file.txt

If you do this with redirections then file.txt will be truncated before it's been processed, leaving you with an empty file instead of what you wanted. Sponge collects its input first and then writes everything out at the end, so you can output to a file that was used as an input.

(Parent updated while I was writing. Oh well)
Could you link the article? I'm no statistician, but I do find his '50-54% delta is different than 95-99%' compelling.
Don't miss the National Archaeological Museum in Naples; most of the best frescoes and statues found in Pompeii and Herculaneum are there, and it also presents many other spectacular artifacts.
" I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue. " - Monty Burns
Some months back an article was posted here about the Library of Congress’s newspaper digitization technology:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583

https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/

What they have done already is great:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/

I’ve used it quite a bit and they have some of the best OCR results I’ve ever encountered when it comes to scanned newspapers. But it’s just the tip if the iceberg. Historical newspapers seems to be one of the largest corpuses of material yet to be digitized.
Nice guide. I didn't realize the security implications of iOS devices and the Touch Bar (being practically an iOS device itself).

I'd be interested to see an equivalent guide for Android devices. My current suspicion is that I'd be far more alarmed by Android than iOS but it would be nice to verify this.
This has always been the dumbest Eureka myth because... Isaac Newton only noticed that shit falls downwards when an apple fell on his head?! If it was something that gave him some insight into the mechanism... like two differe tobjects falling at the same time and landing at the same time, causing him to think about force and mass etc... that would make much more sense.
Nice work!

I believe you should make the video visible, many people prefer a short intro, and the link isn't that large. Also, I'm not sure whether you intended to have it play the music or that was what you were listening to while recording the screen cast, it was a bit confusing to me.

It's similar to Word's serial letters, only that it produces individual files, right? Maybe you can put that into simple sentence and why it's better than using serial letters. How does it prevent (common) errors? A short "don't you hate it when ... happens? We've got you covered by doing ...." or something similar will make it easier for people to understand the value, as if you're telling a co-worker about this new cool thing that solves/improves something you've both been working with.

Since data will be uploaded (which likely will include PII), especially in a corporate context, you might want to put more emphasis on being GDPR compliant, and offer an automated way to sign a data processing agreement so users can stay compliant as well.

It made me remember the first time I used the serial letter system to print a mailing and I somehow managed to edit some fields and turn them into text, so I ended up with "Dear {firstname} {lastname}", but only noticed it when I picked up the 500 pages from the printing shop.
Perhaps I should have said "for what it's worth". I'm not clever enough for C++, but it does seem to be what Livermore, for instance, are committed to. The oneapi propaganda does talk about other bindings, which I haven't looked for. The question might be how it works with OpenMP 5 offload, which was intended for portable performance.
I think you are right it can. But the last election is proof that the polls can fail to predict the outcome of an election.
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> you need to persuade people to believe what you believe and to vote for you. Money doesn’t do that. It buys you a bigger megaphone..

A megaphone is a naive and unsuitable analogy.

Money buys you the two-party system where the only viable candidates are the ones that have been paid for, that do the bidding of the lobbyists and special interests that actually dictate national policies and run the country.

Money buys you the mass media, that surrounds and saturates the public with messages, dis/misinformation and values skewed to suit your agenda.

Money buys you the power to shape laws and regulations, so that your industry is.. You get the idea.

"Money governs access to political power in this country."

As an American, I'm ashamed to learned over the decades how much this statement is true. Didn't you see how money bought the presidency? How else did we end up with utterly corrupt and incompetent (or maliciously competent) politicians running the country?
Caprover is what you're looking for.
> His tone comes off as very defensive about his own work rather than constructive criticism of the Economist model.

Most of the linked thread isn't about his own work or the Economist model, but about the false description of their forecasts as being pretty close, made as part of the (true) description that fairly small changes in intermediate results in the Economist model would lead to the same bottom line forecast as Silver's model.
I've been seeing something semi-related quite a bit on Reddit. A lot of innocent/innocuous/non-political subs are now quite frankly "obsessed" with equality, rich-people/capital, race (black people in particular) and police violence. I guess you could say it's "hot" right now. E.g. Science sub-reddit having articles that talk about the cognitive science of voting, and studies that imply/prove that Republicans or anti-maskers are stupid (I paraphrase this one, can't recall the details). Or the documentaries sub now being unnaturally filled with documentaries related to the above-mentioned topics.

I understand people are trying to solve what they see as problems in society. And I understandably think politics and social-organization is broken at the moment. Especially if ordinary people have to resort to infecting normal spheres of life with politics/activism because they are essentially powerless, which I will agree with them on. Democracy is broken.
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>The probability of winning is based on the popular support for a candidate

This isn't actually true. The probability of winning is based on aggregation of regional probabilities. The same national vote probability distribution can lead to very, very, different election probability distributions due to regional variation. The electoral college essentially guarantees that the national probability distribution is worthless for actually predicting who will be President.
the hysterics when china is involved are amusing. "ideology threatening the world" is just a comical accusation to levy when juxtaposed with the West's track record of imperialism, forcibly spreading "democracy" and supporting coups worldwide, initiating wars across the globe - the list goes on. Be upfront with it already, we all know it's really about power and economics.
That makes sense but in the example provided, why can't we use sed with the in-line flag?
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Have you evaluated the latest version of Tesseract (developed by Google)? They added an LSTM-based OCR engine starting with version 4 and the improvements over version 3.x are startling.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the E2EE encryption itself is flawed. I'm saying it's not being used at all by default. And I'm saying it's not possible to use it for groups or desktop clients. That's _the_ travesty, and the proof that this is the state of things is so obvious people don't realize how serious it is. And my concern is that will lead to a tragedy.
Some of the other models for the last election were really bad. Giving something like a 95-98% chance to Hillary was arguably a fundamental failure. I found it very odd how they arrived at those numbers by e.g. treating every state as a separate chance while mostly ignoring that those results are not uncorrelated.

I think he does a better job at emphasizing the uncertainty while still showing that polls can be pretty reliable.
Off-topic but by any chance are you hiring copywriters or want to A/B test new leads?
> Taking it down would leave us with w3schools

I've long avoided w3schools, but a lot of comments on various HN threads suggest the site has improved a lot over the past few years. If true, this makes me less worried about the future of MDN.

Plus there's other reference sites I find myself using from time to time, for instance Can I Use[1] (which has a Patreon) and QuirksMode[2] (supported by donations). Monocultures, in my view, are not good for the environment - and that includes coding reference sites.

[1] - https://caniuse.com/

[2] - https://www.quirksmode.org/
It was invented as a solution to the problem of making bitcoin and was good for that.

Then people saw bitcoin made money so thought if you stick blockchain on something else maybe some of the money dust will rub off. Less good.
Anti-piracy outfit hires VPN expert to help track down The Pirate Bay
I like the current logo, it's almost like a classic computer peripherals logo from the 80s. The tramp stamp is tacky and cheap, I'd expect the items to last less than a year