skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having recently moved from a northern blue state to a southern red state, I have one foot in a very liberal social circle up north, and another in a very conservative social circle in the south. My friends in the north have already made up their minds that they won't accept a Trump-Pence victory. My friends in the south have likewise made up their minds that they won't accept a Biden-Harris victory. The two sides talk and think very similarly to each other, and they're making similar plans.

This will definitely be a popcorn.gif kind of election.
> Go's mediocrity is a feature, since it's supposed to allow larger teams to get more work done.

I get it. Most software is boring, doesn't break new ground, and Go is well suited for those kinds of projects.

But I'm becoming an old, cranky developer who wants to work on problems where Go's mediocrity is more hindrance than advantage.
Though the terror missions are still there in XCOM 2.

Regarding the overwatch turtling, another issue is the pod system, as the player will always meet a group of aliens, which, so activating a pod is more dangerous than just sighting an alien in the old game. But trying to play without the Overwatch crawl makes for an interesting challenge.
WW2 was straightforward— Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and (afterwards) declared war on the US before the US declared war in response. WW1 it’s harder to point to one thing but the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram were taught.
It will make a tiny dent, and did you think this wasn't going to be expensive?
> They are scared of what shenanigans might be pulled with their mail in ballots and plan to show up in person to avoid that

I'd like to personally thank my fellow Americans for helping to bring the country to a point where we can no longer trust the fucking mail. Good work everyone.
Absolutely true!

He's leaving with 3 billion in paper money. If it truly is a Theranos level fraud, that'll drop to near zero very quickly.

You should be more pissed that he cashed out something like 30 million in the original IPO at the expense of investors.
> I hope my generation is planning to vote in person.

Why is that? BallotTrax lets me see exactly where my ballot is and if it has been received. It's about the same level of transparency as inserting my ballot into the polling machine. The only difference being that at the polling machine I can see the number of counted ballots increment.
Begging the question is not going to convince people you're right.
I’m in a close demographic and have the same sentiment.
Not to pile on here, but you did claim 'everyone'. Apparently people took it more literally than you meant it.
In short "push" means to use violence to force the will of otherwise non-compliant "dissenting" citizens.

It's disgusting and a stunning violation of human rights.
At first I didn’t understand what the motivation for such complex social behaviour, and risk taking. But then they explained the acorn larders. Large static depositories of food wealth.

This makes me think of humanity and the organisation of large societies, and war, that appears to be associated with the development of agriculture.
I do not doubt it is a full game.

But that is not its sole purpose.

The only debate is whether is a game first, or a demo of how full games work in the framework/hardware first and a full game because that was deemed the best way to showcase the what is possible.
There is a free and open source version of IDEA so many people might be using that.
The issue can be reported here:

https://github.com/ElectProject/Early-Vote-2020G
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Bullshit. American States can't even manage a 0.027 death rate covid. We won't be on the moon nor mars. But your money will he spent like we have a trap house on Jupiter.
There are secure drop-off boxes for ballots.
considering 61M ballots were requested in the reporting states.. and there were 128M votes in the last election, this may look like almost half of the voters plan to vote by mail ballot.
To clarify, what I meant was more that if you're using something like Hugo then (for you) that's off-the-shelf software, not custom software. Think about how millions of dollars of consulting revenue the people who actually wrote that framework probably turned down in order to create that instead.

Not to mention that once you've created software like that, each individual blog post might well take literally hundreds of hours to write.
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I don't think you'd want to whitewash Zenz as a Tibet-Xinjiang researcher when he is known to have said that he is on a religious mission against China.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...
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> It can be helpful to take a look at what all of that auto-configuration code is actually doing

You can't tell by reading it either, because it's all dynamic: all of the autoconfigurations create beans conditionally only if other beans of that type aren't defined, if certain classes are present on the classpath, if particular values are defined in the configuration that's written in magical self-transforming YAML, or all three. The only way I've found is to breakpoint at the point where something is wired in to see what the concrete class is, then breakpoint again in the constructor of that class to find where it's being constructed from, so you have to restart your application and run the (slow) spring boot startup twice for each thing you care about. And even that doesn't always work because spring encourages doing AOP with bytecode-manipulation-based proxies.
Sure, a frontier is an (extremely temporary, usually) relief from the alienation of capitalism for those on it.

OTOH, if the alienation of capitalism is really the problems you want to address, Mars is an extremely expensive way to solve it, even temporarily, for a very small slice of the people who are afflicted by it.
Look for a youtube "Dirty Money HSBC" for news stories about HSBC's money laundering.

Why no prosecution for HSBC money laundering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C05S0pVKQE
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/204642759-Op...

Is it the case that Fairphone 2 is only on Android 7.1? I understand it's modified, but I don't think we can consider that really supported with updates with an OS that old.
EEOC Finding Against IBM Signals New Req. For Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
If you were to add to title 17: "facts are subject to copyright protection if they have monetary value" -- you still have not solved the problem. Again, copyright doesn't apply to the subject of a work, it applies to the one who created it.

Also, your proposed change has made most of Wikipedia illegal.
There's a whole complex system of pumps and drains that take care of this. Same is true for any subway system, underground parking, etc. It ain't gonna be cheap though.

EDIT: shotcrete will help some, but is not a solution to. You need a membrane as all concrete is permeable.
The sense of mystery and dread that you mentioned touches on the only part of the article I disagreed with - the critique of the "pointless" weapons, of the game giving you a sub-par base and sub-par craft to begin with, and basically no guidance is what made it such an adventure.

X-Com (the organisation) truly feels like a hastily slapped together ragtag bunch in the beginning. Governments have thrown money at a problem with no real plan or strategy and whipped up something ASAP. They want results and it's your job to deliver them. You're the expert, they're more than happy to pull out if you fail. You are probably unprepared, but no one had any idea how unprepared, something you very quickly learn after your first encounter. That elite squad you outfitted with all of mankind's best aircraft, armour and weapons? Just got owned in their first encounter. Medkits? Basically useless when you're being melted by a single plasma rifle charge.

The clutter and disarray really drives home just how vastly outgunned humans are in the beginning and the story driven by player experience would suffer greatly if all the "useless" stuff was pared back and the starting condition pre-optimised.

Otherwise a great article.
I have been thinking about applying GP3 to manuscript scoring. Better yet, line up manuscripts with similar books already published. Then publishers or agents could get a constant stream of submissions that they are likely to accept. The writing quality and story could be scored. Can an AI determine quality? I think so.
US International is indeed the keyboard layout most would recommend for people who need compose keys. Except it's absolutely utterly pants for developers, who need the single-quote key more often than they'll ever need a compose. At least that's my experience.

Many (most?) Windows layouts that are not US, like English-UK, will likely have combos with AltGr that are more useful than US International.

I use Colemak, which has a compose triggered with AltGr+` and a bunch of others. I couple that with AutoHotkey to trigger it via CapsLock, as documented here: http://blog.pythonaro.com/2020/06/better-access-to-special-c...

MacOS is a different beast, I currently do stuff with a programmable keyboard but Alt+` is a pretty good compose combo.
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Just to make it clear: The article actually makes the argument that changing your default port is a good step with proven positives.

(It seems to me that a lot of the commenters haven't really read the article and just assume the opposite based on the title.)
The answer is "of course, of course."

If you convince an American military person to hack into a computer system and leak you files, and conspire with the Russians to release other hacked files to make the American military and political class look bad, you'll be having a bad decade or two.

Of course.
Show HN: ExGAN-Adversarial Generation of Extreme Samples
Jonathan Blow recently streamed a talk called 'Video Games and the Future of Education'[0] that makes similar arguments.

He discusses various tools we have to transmit knowledge from teacher to student and argues that games really shine as away to trick people into 'learning by doing'. He's sharply critical of existing educational games and really lays into 'gamification' as a concept.

The talk certainly left me hearing that echo that the author alludes to.

Books are great.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFScmtiC44
Hurricane Electric provides free static /64 and /48 tunnels: https://tunnelbroker.net/ I've been using one for years, it's great, albeit with the occasional hiccup connecting to picky CDNs.
When I am aware that a High-Caste network or a white-dude network is pushing me their candidates I have to watch for my diversity.

Castes or races in the US are very similar in their effects.

But I need to take a step back. I am not an expert on it, just rambling my thoughts.
Maybe you're in a bubble? I work at one of the "liberal elite universities" if you believe the media rhetoric and nobody around me is just straight up ready to deny the election if their favorite team doesn't win.

Everybody I have contact with understands that it's a close race and isn't sure who is going to win. They understand that it is possible for Trump to win and not even that unlikely.
Can you give an example on when you would need a link that does not link anywhere? The only cases I can think of are better served by `<button type="button">`.
Not until China stops manufacturing everything, and I'm thinking by then it will be too late.
Yes but they are clearly missing something and that's simplicity. I use goland because ei get go refractor and move utilities but I get annoyed when I feel like I have to fight it to do simple things. I think the default keyboard shortcuts between the two products show a lot.
The race issues are part of the financial theft. Racism is used as a tool of division to keep the poor fragmented, people are rightfully trying to destroy that tool.
Why should it take weeks to certify the election? Isn’t a drawn out election a serious issue?

I don’t see why it should have to take longer than a few days to count ballots.
I was taught about all three (Black Tom, Lusitania and Zimmerman)...and there was a rather large contingent of people that wanted to go to war much sooner, just as there was in WW II, but due to the isolationist culture it was only overcome due to these pretty direct attacks.
Existing GAN based approaches excel at generating realistic samples, but seek to generate typical samples, rather than extreme samples. We propose ExGAN to generate realistic and extreme samples.

ExGAN allows the user to specify both the desired extremeness measure, as well as the desired extremeness probability they wish to sample at. Generating increasingly extreme examples can be done in constant time (with respect to the extremeness probability), as opposed to the exponential time required by the baseline.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08454
I got married and had kids so you don't have to
I've hiked through regions of Tibet and talked to villagers in relatively remote areas. One thing I saw hiking in the mountains and valleys was abandoned nomad lodges and pastures. My Tibetan guide sadly explained to me that the local officials found the nomads too hard to manage when they were living independently and so used a system of sticks and carrots (fines and subsidies) to move them into villages that were created from scratch and comprised of cookie-cutter cement houses.

One effective incentive to get the nomads to settle down is to threaten their family members with fines or removal of subsidies unless they move into town.

I visited some of those made-ex-nihilo villages and talked to the people there. One immediately obvious thing is there are Chinese national flags flying on almost every single household and big posters of Xi in the households. I asked about those and the residents explained they get fined if they don't fly the flag or hang Xi's photo. They were definitely not acting out of patriotism. The scenes reminded me of a wartime occupation.

Military recruitment posters were also plastered everywhere, as it is a form of employment in a region with relatively few alternatives.

This is the first time I've heard of migration ratios as bureaucratic targets, but it's not surprising at all as it is typical for the government to set clear KPIs for their policies.
Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables
Add to this that multi-release JARs created a way for Java 9 to break your code even when you're staying on Java 8†, and it's pretty easy to see why long-time Java shops are jumpy. Things had been moving along relatively slowly and placidly for quite a long time, and then, all of a sudden, Java gets a bee in its bonnet and decides that it, too, needs to move fast and break things.

† Admittedly only if you're getting feisty with run-time reflection fanciness. Which you probably shouldn't, in principle, be doing in the first place. But, in practice, it's pretty standard practice in Java.
Problem of On-Demand App Abandonment and How to Fix It?
Doesn't have quite the same effect as the Google one.
Well, for a concrete example, sometimes they misuse those laws to deport victims of guards.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/15/ice-deport-witness-s...
I knew someone was going to make/post this when Mozilla discontinued Firefox Send, lol
These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over.

Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?
Does someone know of something similar for C?
> Literally no one is interested in this Doomsday Cult nonsense.

If you think modern science's very real concerns for the near future of our planet amount to "Doomsday Cult nonsense", I don't know what to tell you. This stuff isn't magic- it's not made up- the evidence is right there out in the open. We can bury our head in the sand or we can face it with clear eyes.
I think I just found the linguistics equivalent to 'All asians look alike'
I feel like this could be done via the built-in text expansion shortcuts (prefs>keyboard>text). Like *wai expands to 'praying hands emoji'. (I just tested it, this works.)

Also as others have noted, cmd-ctrl-space opens the Character Viewer, which lets you search the entire unicode space, including emoji, for characters. Hit the gear at the upper left and do 'customize list' to pick just which sets you like, I have never actually had a need to type 𓂀 but who knows what the future will bring?
Wow.

Where did you get this list? I've known for a while that there sure seemed to be a lot of firms that never make money yet somehow never seem to fold. I think of them as zombie companies. They don't eat but somehow they don't die either. They just keep on shambling forwards, like the corporate undead. But seeing the list spelled out like that really rams it home, especially as it can't be complete.
Karabiner, in all its various incarnations, never delivered for me.
I don't understand why is it better to have something wired up by annotations than explicitly writing java code. Is 'new' obsolete? At least tools (including IDE) can look for method calls, annotation strings not so much.
I'm completely baffled by the popularity of Spring.
Great, yet another China bad article that paints what is probably a jobs and reeducation program to modernize Tibet as something much more sinister.

Edit: Reeducation might be something as normal as going from an agricultural society to a modern one. Reeducation sounds very sinister, I'm sure, but Tibet was a feudal society just 60 years ago.

Also "reeducation" is entirely my phrasing and has connotations different from say "job training" or "education", which I could have easily used.

You can make almost any government program sound super sinister, especially when there are translation complications thrown into the mix.
I think the million+ uighers in concentration camps are a precise analogy for death camps run by you know who in the 20th century. The u.s. should tell China, hey you hid your concentration camps really well, we totally just found out like today, but the thing is we can't let this go on so you have to free all your concentration camps in 18 months or we come invade. Sorrrry. We totally didnt know you were doing this. Take your time.

What's China going to do? Keep up its million people in concentration camps?

It'll totally say "hahaha that's funny we dont have any concentration camps though" and then free its concentration camps by deadline.

I think that's how it should play out.

Of course it is not what's happening. Everyone is turning a blind eye including me and people in this thread. The last time I suggested this course of action I was downvoted.

Guys, a million people is SO MANY. I mean ignoring fifty or a hundred thousand people is one thing. But a million?

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Edit: this is not a hawkish sentiment. Obviously the suggestion is absurd.
I'm not sure how much my cynicism is just me or my immediate experiences over the years, but I don't really trust the academic system anymore in terms of credit or even as much in terms of validity. Or rather I do, but in some abstract sense, in that if I see a meta-analysis with some mechanism of dealing with publication bias (formal modeling of bias, or preregistration) I might believe something, but I don't attach any credit to the body of work beyond those who as a group in toto were involved in it.

Too much credit is given to trappings of progress or something of that sort; conversely, people are punished too much for things that are irrelevant, and both seem to be weighted capriciously.

I see similar viewpoints expressed repeatedly in various outlets, but little seems to change.
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This is the information I was looking for, thank you.
Voting is good, vote often. Don't be ashamed of whoever you vote for. You know what's best for you.
The other plus of text replacement is synchronization. I have a bunch of LaTeX style symbol names mapped on my Mac but they work just as well on my phone. I’m typing this on a phone and \Omega is automatically replaced with Ω or a favorite of mine \shrug becomes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I also spend time on Windows and nothing seems to come close to this convenient (win-. has a few useful things like the character picker panel in macOS but to get more, tools like autohotkey feel really cumbersome).
Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Playing this game late at night with headphones added to the mood.
Firefox Send is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/send
But that's a total non-sequitur? You don't need to write your own blog system, so why assume that's what people would have to do?

(Also, a basic blog system is really not that much work if you decide to go for it)
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Some of these are a bit spurious. I mean, Venkman was replaced by Firebug, which was much better. MXR was similarly replaced by DXR.

Unlike Google, which look much more arbitrary in their shutdowns, Mozilla typically kill projects that are already on their last leg, or replace them with something objectively better.
I agree with pretty much everything you've said, but wish to add that one thing I really didn't care for about the newer X-Com games was that the reverse difficulty carve is significantly more pronounced than it was in the original. Ironman helps a little, but it still feels like the real game is all in the beginning and you're just going through the motions after that.
To stir more controversy and sell more pageviews? It's literally the definition of "clickbait".
It is already open source
https://github.com/mozilla/send
Which vehicle should I buy in 2020?
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The funny thing is the Google one has google trackers on it and requires JS to view whilst this one has neither.
Ok, so maybe the Zenz quote is out of place - I don't know his history, but I don't know think you can disregard the government documents by discrediting Zenz, especially as Reuters explicitly says it's investigated and corroborated some of those claims.

> Reuters corroborated Zenz’s findings and found additional policy documents, company reports, procurement filings and state media reports that describe the program.
> Depends on the ONT. With GPON, it is not that simple. Many ISPs will refuse connecting anything but their ONT to their network.

Having this exact issue in a place where I got stuck now.

GPON hardware makers are artificially limiting interoperability, while the underlying hardware is fully capable of that.

GPON has a out of band configuration protocol which is usually unavailable to the OS. Here they put their vendor ID block.

Huawei is a virtual monopoly in GPON, and they strike such deals where they block competitors in exchange for discount left, and right.

GePON is by far better in this regard as it had no technical provisions for anything like this to start with.
Midular, sure, but lightweight?
Once you've loaded VsCode with all the plugins, It's actually slower than a proper IDE.
For WWI, the Zimmerman notes were seen as the reason for entry into war in my High School.