skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically, it's used as a subtle metric of notoriety (without having to say so explicitly) in mainstream media.
My take on all of this...

Lots of states are pushing for larger scale vote-by-mail than has ever happened before. Some states have been doing this for a long time (Oregon, Colorado), but they have the processes in place to handle elections. Other states are trying to do it in a few months with no real prep ahead of time. We're already seeing this lead to ballot printing problems, ex:[0].

To build on that, many of these states aren't allowed to even open/proces absentee/vote-by-mail ballots until election day or after[0.5]. That means that problems with these ballots may not be caught ahead of time. Along with that, having to processing millions of ballets (when they are used to 5-digit amounts of ballots), means it will take a lot longer to handle those ballots. This will lead to a delay in knowing the results. As well, mail-in-ballots get rejected at a much higher rate than in-person voting[1], which will lead to lawyers fighting over which ballots are valid if things are close.

Democrats are more likely to vote-by-mail than Republicans[2]. This means those delayed ballots will likely swing towards Biden, which means as days go on for counting, Biden's lead is likely to increase (which is totally fine, but it will definitely stir up controversy).

Then you have lawmakers and judges changes the rules[3]. There are a few cases going on around the country where there is a push to allow late mail ballots to be counted. In this case, a Judge decided to allow ballots to arrive up to 3-days post election. These kinds of cases are going on around the country and still being fought.

It's going to be messy.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/virginia-vo...

[0.5] https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-t...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/22/904693468/more-than-550-000-p...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/...

[3] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/pennsylvania-becomes...
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It is until you read the terms and conditions and see that you have a 1TB data cap, or a more generic: we'll cut your access if you have "excessive" data usage.
Please couple this with VR + avatars + realistic settings and the future will finally be here. Business meetings will never again require flying
Heat death leads to absolute uniformity throughout the universe and when that happens, when no two points of the universe differ in any way, the universe becomes a single point and then a big bang occurs, according to Penrose.
How would, say, the base model 3 compare against a 2 year old base model C or E class? Or the same 2 yeah old Lexus Es350 or Volvo S90? All sitting comfortably in the base model 3's $30k price range.
I've heard the driving experience is definitely better but I have serious doubts that the quality or fit and finish would match.
Your federal law does not necessarily apply everywhere a tesla may be purchased and operated (I'm not saying it makes economic sense or anything, just that US law is likely not the sole reason it's there)
Also, you'll hate the PS5 in two years, when the curvy design is outmoded.

It'll be hard to hate a box you'll never even notice.
There are a lot of things that cannot be explained in neurology like why salt on the tongue eases the pain of pepper in your eyes or how some people sleep with their eyes open. There are a lot of what I like to call 'cross-connections' in our biology that defy logic as we know it. These I suspect, are the foundation for acupuncture (not that I espouse it).
> I would click on the watchredditdie link but I'm not a white supremacist

I had no idea what WatchRedditDie was, but after seeing a number of posts in their subreddit, I'm highly inclined to agree. Several threads are complaining about BLM. It's incredibly distasteful.

I disagree with the direction the Reddit platform is heading (my non-animated avatar is the Digg logo), but this community is not one I'd like to use to voice my displeasure.

Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves?
eSNI is going to fix that

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-07
Yeah, I only got it because I have 2.5 hrs of commute and I was getting frustrated driving into the sun both ways in stop and go traffic
> to a Model 3 test drive recently and it was surprising just how many little defects were there

Apropos of anything else, I'd not be so surprised that the cars Tesla probably hand picked for test drive events are the cream of the crop.
Before Covid, I flew to APAC or EMEA once a month. I did 120K+ miles last year just to Asia, on JAL (its a great airline, great service, good people). I will be first in line to get on a supersonic flight SFO to TKO (Narita & Haneda).
I like seeing arguments like these and then I go and see people do stuff like this where people get Debian running on Kindles:

https://github.com/kathamer/DebianKindle

Whenever there is locked down hardware, invariably there is always someone trying to hack it.
Ask HN: What wiki do you use for software dev project
I'm looking for a wiki with great search feature.

In the project im working on, before you can even write code, you have so much small things to know, that causes mini roadblocks. Im looking for some wiki software where I would dump plenty of small pieces of information that I could find again later. Something that can be shared with my teams and that everybody can edit.
Every large advertising platform I can think of has rules about what they will accept that are narrower than what the laws that apply to them require. For example, it's generally legal in the US to advertise firearms, but most large advertising platforms refuse ads for them.
Because it isn't different really.
It is always a goat door that is opened, so you don't gain any information about your door by the opening of the goat door.

I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10, guess it. If I now tell you a number I promise is not the one I was thinking and not your number, you have no more information about if you were correct.
They literally named the company “boom” so they must have thought about it.
How does it matter how he opened a goat door? If you allow the possibility of Monty opening a car door, you change the problem entirely, and you before stating whether it changes or doesn't change the odds, you need to tell us your new interpretation of the problem.
Do you have more information on this, links etc?
> You can easily fit a 1 TB 3 Gbps NVMe SSD into a $1k PC budget, and you aren't going to notice the delta between that and the 5.5 claimed Gbps

Bearing in mind here, that it’s memory+storage architecture has a theoretical top of 22 Gb/ps, and they demonstrated recently, when assets are compressed using the “Octo” (naming?) lib, they were getting throughput of 12-18 Gb/ps. That’s written by the storage controller directly into memory the GPU can access (without the CPU being involved) so the normal latency to load data into a GPU is effectively gone.

That speed is significantly above what drives can do on a normal consumer computer (to the best of my knowledge)
My regular PS4 is bad enough, I can't imagine it being any louder. I barely use it on account of the jet taking off combined with the terribly weak bluetooth connection for the controllers constantly missing button presses if I accidentally get an entire knee between the console and controller..
I wouldn't say it's just a English speaking phenomenon. Learning Korean in Korea and people are often far to polite to correct you, they're just pleased that you're learning the language, and let you get away with making a lot of mistakes. I continually tell people they should correct my pronunciation and teach me how to form sentences better, but even my friends rarely correct me, they say it just feels too rude.
Deep learning gives drug design a boost
In javascript:

const stf = [
{name: "x", pets: [{type: "cat", name: "kitty"},
{type: "cat", name: "kitty2"}]},
{name: "y", pets: [{type: "dog"}]},
{name: "z", pets: [{type: "cat", name: "miau"}]},
];

const myTransform = ({ pets, name: ownerName }) => pets
.filter(({type}) => type === "cat")
.map(({ name: catName }) => ({ ownerName, catName }))

stf
.map(myTransform)
.flat()
.forEach(({ownerName, catName}) => console.log(`Cat ${catName} to ${ownerName}`))
New revised release calendar (2010)
>But you can’t choose not to use IRS.

Just don't make enough income to interact with them. You don't have to be paid above $19,700 a year, you choose to be paid.
It doesn’t measure up if you want Luxury or ride comfort. OTOH it excels in commuter traffic and leaving everyone else in the rear view mirror at the lights ;)
If Oracle did buy EDB, then attempt to meaningfully screw the PG Community...

... then the PG Community would very likely fork to a new group of people and continue on growing just fine.

See OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, Hudson -> Jenkins, (etc)
Gotchya
Thanks though
I’ll go with lenovo since I have been using linux for a long time now
Isn't lung damage one possibility? I imagine that it could both eventually heal and be visible on an x ray if that's the case?

I'm only speculating based on some articles I've read.
What if underwater robots could autonomously dock to recharge and transfer data?
This. And another reason: these consoles gonna stay current for a few years, component prices decline with technical progress, console retail price more or less stays.
I have a similar experience trying to help someone speak German.
> In 2020 bandwidth is never a problem.

Unless you live in a rural area.

Or literally anywhere in Australia.

> If you live somewhere with a crowded Wi-Fi spectrum you'll have connectivity issues daily.

Like everyone who lives in a city does.
I consider curiosity and perseverance to be the most important characteristics for any career.
Why do you think its stupid?
> So instead I can run IntelliJ under WSL2? Nope, not until there's a performant X server. Ok, so under Windows, pointed at my Linux filesystem? Wouldn't there be dos2unix file format issues there? And it sounds like it's painfully slow for now until they fix the networking.

What would the dos2unix issues be? Intellij on Windows can deal with and preserve all three line ending types, so it's not clear what the issue would be.

Can't say I've noticed any significant issues on performance. It does complain about filesystem case sensitivity (every time!), but it works pretty well overall.
How to Handle a Suspicious Inquiry in Your Credit Report
And it would suck if non-competes locked the former EDB people out for a while, and it would take some reconstituting of governance, but it looks like a huge portion of contributions are outside of EDB even with the acquisition) so I suspect it would be rough patch that the community would weather, not an existential threat.

MySQL’s licensing model gave MySQL AB (and thus it's purchasers) a privileged role that no one has with regard to Postgres.

And even there, MariaDB is a thing...
Social networks could just disable the Share or Retweet button and I think the problem will solve itself.

I miss the old Facebook circa 2007 -- no likes and no shares made it a better experience for me.
> is incredibly heavy and so sticks to the ground

That's... that's not how cars work.
The heart still beats! The heart still bleeds!
How long should they take?
An AppIndicator for Ubuntu Tailscale Users
If reddit nukes a thread because it has been invaded by the type of person who has problems with open source community codes of conduct that require you to treat trans people with respect, that is a sign of it dying-- apparently.

Watch reddit die is just people complaining about "freeze speech" because they aren't allowed to tell homosexuals, feminists, and anti-bigots to kill themselves.
So the strategy "always choose the other door" boils down to the following simulation, which kind of makes it obvious

{
int count = 0;
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
int choice1 = rand()%3;
int actual = rand()%3;
if (choice1 != actual)
count++;
}
A sorting Algorithms Visualizer I've been working on
Automation and production efficiency isn't what people mean by "economies of scale", though, especially in relation to antitrust. When large companies make gains from "economies of scale" it's almost always because they've attacked margins, usually by wielding enough power they can convince suppliers to make less money, sometimes by replacing other parts of the vertical market by doing things in house.

If you think about the tech giants, they're not making gains by automating more production. They're buying up fiber, building their own chips, creating their own shipping companies, etc. They are big enough to alter most markets in ways that are favorable to them.
Given the simplicity of electric cars I feel like the Tesla would be in a pretty good spot.

But Tesla's continuous improvement means parts aren't tied to model years and are often already hard to track down. They're not going to be made by third parties given the lack of scale.

I'm foreseeing small faults totalling otherwise perfectly good cars later on in the current generation.

If Tesla ramps up like they're claiming though, this problem will sort itself out.
I haven't seen it yet, but there's a new Nova episode about CRISPR I've been meaning to watch: "CRISPR Gene-Editing Reality Check".

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/gene-editing-reality-che...

(Does Berkeley still have parking spots reserved for Nobel Laureates? They'll have to add a new one...)
There are a bunch of different formulations of "eternal recurrence"; some are merely similar, not identical.

Not all require literal repetition, either, and the recurrence is purely semantic.

Literal exact recurrence is certainly a poetic subset, though! It would fit right into "Einstein's Dreams".
Uh, the video shows a single seater. Doesn't seem to have an ejection system either.
At first glance this is brilliant and I don't know why there are so many comments complaining. The documentation is more than an idea and there are plenty of benefits/use cases included. Maybe it's just the term "decentralized" in the title that is unclear, the rest is solid.

This seems like a fantastic platform for microtransactions, transactional streams, and value flowing between devices and browsers using existing networking infrastructure. The ability to do this all ON TOP of decentralized networks like IPFS makes it even better?
I have to admit, I gained a lot of respect for the console's industrial design team after seeing this teardown.

Really hoping they put all that into a case that actually looks like it belongs in a grown adult's living room for the next revision.
Agence is an interactive VR 'film' that lets you train an evolving AI
I would say it's around 50/50 here in New Zealand.
> Oh, you mean using analyzing software. Yeah, I've never had a use for that.

One of the major goals for Haskell programmers (and users of fancy-type-systems in general) is to make it easy to transform runtime errors to compile-time errors. Further, an additional goal (albeit one which Haskell doesn't prioritize as much as some of its relatives) is to make the compiler better at telling the programmer what is wrong and how to fix it. If you have no interest in these projects and don't see why they could lead to code which is more reliable and easier to maintain, then your confusion about why people care about this stuff in the first place is perfectly reasonable IMO.
About half the country believes that Fox is legitimate media.

Given that legitimacy is exclusively a product of belief, they qualify as a 'legitimate media' source.
Remembering a classic “time travel” bug
Online Activity Shows Contrast Between the Candidates
>Edit: would the downvoters like to explain themselves?

They will never explain themselves. You are a "degenerate enemy" for thinking that calling for BLM marchers to be run over in the streets is "in poor taste".

As a degenerate enemy you are subhuman.
that's a beautiful sentence! I was so expecting Shakespeare at the end of it.
I think it looks by far the best. It's not random brick #4.
> This means if you take a point light designed to light a football field (football fields do have these light sources), and direct it into space instead of the ground, will be visible from low orbit.

A point light designed to light up an entire football field should work, yes.

What football field has single lights that powerful? Normally you have many flood arrays with a dozen or more lights each.

> People did it with less powerful light sources:

Cool! So that's somewhere around one kilowatt, significantly easier to do.

Though notably it's still a spotlight. I wonder how many watts of flood light you would need.
Please DO NOT send me emails with “a name and a face” if it isn’t from that person manually. I see through it and it makes me think you think I’m stupid and easy to manipulate.

Please. For the love of god. Just start being honest with your customers.
The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
Off topic, but do you have a strong preference for JAL over ANA?
That model is both true and useful though.
I felt let down by Penrose, because the book was dressed up as sonething it was not. By comparison Dennett and Pinker and Hofstadter were much more satisfying.
Yeah it took me a while to figure out this is what’s going on, I don’t understand why it was tossed in a word salad.
I'm not exactly sure you want carbon nanotubes in your water filter. They are mechanically very similar to asbestos and seem to likewise damage lung tissue. Probably better not to ingest them?
Thank you this is the first explanation of Monty Hall that finally makes sense. Now it intuitively makes sense.

I was always told Monty reveals new info and that changes probabilities. Never made sense. Your 2/3 vs 1/3 explanation makes it obvious.
I don't have a data cap though. In fact I specifically picked a provider without a data cap (out of the 2 available at my location). My understanding is data caps are more popular in e.g. Canada and Australia and such, and are hardly a thing anywhere else. At least not to the point where they'd be enforced.
The justification for having most internet services adopt this standardized, patent-unencumbered protocol with multiple free and open source implementations is well documented; it’s become a best practice for many reasons. Your reasoning for not using one of the aforementioned implementations isn’t documented and is hard to guess.

On the other hand, on a typical secured WiFi connection over TCP over an Ethernet connection, like 10 times more complicated stuff is going on in protocols and the software stack. It’s not as if we went from bit banging HTTP directly down an Ethernet cable to a hopelessly complex stack of software; we just added another element of complexity at the application layer in exchange for real security and privacy benefits. Example.com doesn’t need it but it has become a best practice for good reason so it is used on most of the net even when not strictly necessary.

Enforcing HTTPS is a best practice because an absurdly overwhelming majority of user agents, like 4 or 5 nines of them, support HTTPS and the redirect ensures they use HTTPS and makes downgrade attacks a little more involved.
> - Tesla's build quality is quite bad

You can blame today's rushed run-fast-break-things work culture that push engineers and line workers to their limits. Especially true of what I know from people that work/have worked at Tesla.
I couldn't tell you a scientific answer.

However, I have a vision condition where I can't see blue in my actual fovea. And that point is incredibly small. Maybe 3-4 times smaller than what you are seeing here.
The fastest way to eat an orange is to treat it like a melon. Cut it in "watermelon portions" and just tear off the good parts with your teeth. Is not so messy for nails this way (but some juice can still drop).

The procedure is much more convenient if done with navel oranges (that are always seedless).
Public vs. private probably doesn't matter all that much. I've had equity compensation from most of my jobs, and I never really felt strongly GP's statement of "What's good for shareholders is also good for [...] tech employees". My company's (public) stock could double and it wouldn't materially affect my lifestyle. For non-public companies I've worked for, the equity usually ended up worth $0. In one company, I was able to sell all my equity at the height of its stock prices, and made maybe enough for 2 months of rent. I think the idea that equity allows employees and companies to share success is kind of overblown.
I don't see a focus on testing in this course. Was that by design? I feel like a lot of design out there forgets this important implementation detail.
Profiteer off of unlimited Super PAC spending all year until 3 weeks before the election?

They really think we’re dumb.

The only thing Facebook can do right is to shut the ad and social graph down and deal with private shareholder lawsuits till the end of time.
Now you got my head all going, doing bad math.... As I simply wanted to write "That is not very 'green' of you" as in, compressed, minified, could be more efficient, better for the environment. But then I started thinking, is the saved traffic worth the compress (though once for static content) and decompress at all clients, increased cpu power, worth that trade off...

And I guess I am not the first person to wonder about this, any people wanting to share a bookmark/url, tia (so I don't have to use google... ;) )
I'm certain this is symptomatic of being a dick even in Germany.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
I don't suppose you would care to take a stab at summarising the conclusion would you? there's a nice wide margin for you to write in.
< What is the problem with allowing them to work while they wait for their turn to be permanent residents?
Why have immigration quotas. Why do you have to stand in line at Starbucks? You can go straight to the counter and holler. Happens all the time in India right ? Why stand in line at all.
Agreed. Facebook and Twitter really ought to have thought about the long history of chain emails, and realized what they were doing when they added an "all my friends have gotta see this!" button.
It matters because in the case where Monty does know to avoid the door, those games end up as wins for the person who selected to switch, as opposed to broken games.

You are taking an empty result and replacing it with a strict win.
The U.K.'S Rumored Underground Tunnel Network
Or expand it to seven people.
I grew up not far from an Air Force base on Germany. We got sonic booms multiple times a day. It was super shitty. We never had windows break, but as a young child I started to cry every time it happened. My grandfather woke up from his naps from them quite regularly which sucked especially when he was dying of cancer.
+1.

It seems like it would be a lot easier to learn a second language if you were:

- Surrounded by 1-2 people whose full-time job was to take care of you, and who could only communicate with you in that second language

- Unable to do basic things by yourself without communicating those needs to your caretakers

- Unable to entertain yourself with any material written or spoken in your first language

- Somehow deprived of the ability to form verbal thoughts in your first language

Immersion gives a very weak version of this, e.g. if all the signage or menus you read are in the second language, and if you engage with service industry folks in your second language. You can make it better by trying to restrict your entertainment material to the second language, but this usually involves seeking out kids' shows to try to find something comprehensible at your small vocabulary level, and to me it ends up feeling more like work than entertainment.