skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Patriot Act" is so maliciously named its more funny than sad.

Reminds me of George Carlin's show about changing words to make them softer.[1]

An good example he used to show this is the condition the fighters get from shock in combat. In WW1, it was called Shell Shock, a terrifying name. The same condition in WW1 was called Battle Fatigue, a nicer name. In the Korean War, the name changed to Operational Exhaustion, removing any humanity from it. After the Vietnam War, the name because Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. When you compare the terms "Shell Shock" and "PTSD", it's obvious what the intent is.

[1]: https://youtu.be/vuEQixrBKCc
Also, oops, missed this part. There is zoom.

Unfortunately it requires mousewheel or some magic combination of your trackpad and pinch which, I just hate mobile and macs apparently. Key Z is to zoom-all.
I have seen men over-generalize things just as much as women. Case in point: your comment.
Are any of those senolytic treatments available now, or are they still in FDA purgatory?
Too soon for whom or for what? This is not explicitly stated and it seems much of the discussion is based on different assumptions. Too soon to make good shows? Too soon for you? Too soon for Netflix? All of those likely lead to different answers.
It seems quite possible that optimizing for Netflix's interests might leave some dissatisfied. But it is hard to call that cancelling too soon if it lets them get to their overall objectives.
An interesting question is if Netflix themselves in optimizing for the short term reward are penalizing themselves in the long term? That is much harder to know.
Are these fair statements to make? Most counties don't set up infrastructure for early voting at the same capacity as they do for election day voting. This level of early voting turnout is unprecedented right? Of course people shouldn't have to wait in line to vote and it's great that these people are but I think people abroad are not getting the full picture.
I think setting an example and keeping to your principles is the right approach. Naivety won't go away, but things will continue to improve in the long run.
There is still a lot of unrest in Portland and Seattle, but Federal police (US Marshals, FBI, BORTAC, et. al.) have used regular old police work (cameras, under cover anarchists, wiretaps with warrants) to arrest a ton of these people when the city prosecutors simply wouldn't do a damn thing or catch and release them.

Now many of these people are facing federal crimes. You can get some serious years for swinging a sledge hammer at a US Marshal, as what happened at the Federal Courthouse in Portland. (Remember, three of those Feds are now blind in at least one eye from the green lasers?)

But the Anarchists/Antifa types that are burning down Portland are also being thrown together with the McCloskeys who were arrested for having guns out, while on their lawn, after people broke into their gated community. Or Jake Gardner, who the DA ruled as acting in self defense, with a full video clearly showing him acting in self defense after both he and his father were attached.

We're starting to see real terrorists conflated with what are clearly political prisoners from local officials.
What does this have to do with long lines?
Disgusting country. The GOP is actively supporting and implementing systems of voter suppression, and the opposition party doesn't seem to have the will to do anything about it.

I was concerned about the reports of foreign influence on the 2016 election. Since then, the senators in Washington have made it crystal clear that they do not want to protect the integrity of the election. The Republicans want to win at all costs, and if they can't win they want to poke enough holes in the system to completely undermine trust in American democracy.

And I don't see it getting better. If the GOP stays in power after this election cycle, I am going to be trying to get out of the country ASAP. I've read enough to know that it doesn't get better when the single autocratic power is able to fully insulate itself from the will of the public. At that point, it becomes fight or flight time, and the local gun stores have been sold out for a while.

If the Democrats win this election, their first priority should be holding vote suppressors accountable, and trying to restore faith in the federal system. But I've seen Democrats win before, and they have never failed to disappoint. I am sick of trying to pretend they're good, when the reality is that the opposing party is just so, so bad.
I don't disagree with moving voting to the weekends, but I can confirm that when I was attending High School some 20ish years ago, our school would block off the path from the entrance to the gymnasium from student traffic, and use it as a polling place during the school day.

Students old enough to vote were encouraged to go do so during their lunch or free period.

Some areas do make the effort to make the elections fair to all. It's a shame that there are so many areas that don't.
I don’t spent more than five minutes voting either, but that’s only because Oregon figures it out and does statewide mail in ballots and automatic registration. It’s stilly the other states are so far behind.
That’s kind of the point, not every district has ballot boxes to drop off at. I think some of us (myself included) have forgotten that all parts of the US aren’t the same.
Have lots of hispanic family in rural california... I grew up in conservative california and when I visited this year... It's like I've never seen it. I don't believe the polls. Californians should actually go out and talk with the people who live in their state
There are no gaps, women want to be what they want to be and they don't want to be in tech. trying to shoehorn them into tech just going to end up with products that suck because you got employees that don't want to work in the industry really and don't care about their work. See "firefox pocket" whole team hired on diversity and nobody likes the product at all
This is a great approach. Does your data analysis go beyond TRD?
Very neat!

it reminds me of a recent experiment I did with raymarching & sculpting:

https://nico-boo.com/claysculpter/
(warning: only for desktop and not heavily tested)

You're using triangles? Did you make any progress with raymarching? I read you did some experiments.
What did you do with it? A Qt Widgets maintainer here looking to hit the mobile as well.
That's kind of how it works. Time will slow down for you as you get closer to the black hole. Everyone you know will die before you get to anywhere approaching the "center." Perhaps by then they'll have a cure and a way to pull you out.
How do you suggest that people in these lower income communities stop "accepting" this status quo?
Thank you for sharing that. Amazing times!
But this is true, and has always been true.
> for anyone who doesn't already have an active FB account (and perhaps even those who do).

This. Unless you have built up sufficiently high profile Facebook fame known inside and out of it, beyond just having a moderately active account, I wouldn’t consider it safe to spend a penny on this.

Really unfortunate that virtually no competitor exists in mobile VR segment.
As a data point, we had municipal elections in Vienna, Austria this last weekend. I went there at a "busy" time, so I had to queue for something like five minutes. This is in a city of about 1.9 million inhabitants.

Here's a map of the results of the election: https://www.wien.gv.at/stadtplan/grafik.aspx?lang=de-AT&book... . Ignore the colors, but each delineated area is one "voting district" (Wahlsprengel, not sure if there's a better translation). Each of these "districts" corresponds to a separate ballot box (not a separate polling place; several districts usually have separate rooms at a shared polling place, typically a school). I can't find data on how many districts there are in total, but each seems to correspond to about 500-1000 voters.
Paranoia that the postman, post office, and several different people are working together to get your vote to not count and you can wait in line to cast your vote and make "sure" it counts.
My voting location is a school, but voting days are always on weekdays while school is in session. The voting public occupies the school's gym, so it annoys me that the students must forgo PE and physical activity for the day for my precinct to vote.
> I've never had to queue to vote

In live and vote in the US. Never waited in a queue. Just dropped off my ballot at a local ballot box. Not sure why the people in the article can’t do that, but I’ve lived in 4 states and all of them had ballot boxes.
It drives me nuts that the "opposition" party is not responding to this with calls for mass action to demand fair elections, including occupations and strikes if necessary, but by exhorting unlikely voters who feel apathetic to vote harder against voter suppression.
You could also look at Sonic - https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic. This is used at Crisp, the customer messaging platform.
I don't know why but I was surprised to watch it execute a 3 point turn to get out of his lane way, seemed very human like hehe.
You can also mail them in. That whole thing was a fake controversy.
The USA is technically not a democracy and is instead a representative republic which is a fact. I guess you're alluding to how citizens can "vote" which means it's actually a democracy to which I would strongly disagree. I have little to no influence over my government as I live in a gerrymandered district so my representative is decided for me ahead of time. I also only get to pick between 2 old white guys every 4 years which is me actually being optimistic as I don't live in a state that actually decides the presidential election so my vote doesn't matter there either.

In a democracy I would actually be able to vote on issues and have my voice heard. That's clearly not happening in the USA.
What on Earth are you talking about? The headline, first paragraph, and last two thirds of the article are all about _criticism_ of long voting lines. The fact that they spend part of the article acknowledging that some in the US take pride in coming out to vote in the face of long lines doesn't mean that they're taking this position, especially given that most of the article is dedicated to criticism of the conditions.
I'm playing tons of simulation games with my Oculus Rift and starting some weeks ago looking around for an upgrade. HP Reverb 2 is certainly an alternative, anything else I should check out? Playing mostly flying simulators, but also racing and space.

I was thinking of maybe upgrading to the new Oculus' but after announcing it will require a Facebook account I started to rethink that. This submission really hit the nail in the coffin and will absolutely not get another Oculus now.
At the end of the day ordering the new iPhone should not be easier than voting
The Future of Catholicism
I think that it's not that there is no norms, it's that there's no point in having norms. These attack ads are conducted by proxies, not the interested parties themselves. It takes more energy to go after them then it takes for the interested parties to make a new proxy.
I'm not saying this is universally true, but in my area, a large portion of the people standing in these long lines are intentionally doing so to make a political statement (or more skeptically, are virtue signaling).

There has been one voting station open in the entire county which adequately supported early voting based on historical trends, while dozens more are opening soon and will reduce (if not entirely eliminate) the long lines.

Personally, I'm waiting until then to vote.
I am confident that an interface standard could be developed to allow some level of identity portability. Supporting such an interface would be rolled into the myriad other compliance requirements that tech service providers have to deal with these days. (A natural part of being in a maturing consumer facing industry.)

Cellphone carriers argued that number portability was too hard or too expensive.

"But cell phone companies argue counter that the idea of portability should be scrapped because customers aren’t demanding it. They argue that implementing portability, which involves retooling the software of each carrier’s computerized call-routing system, would be expensive and technically complicated.

“The cost to be able to move numbers from one carrier to the other is significant, and it would be significant for the customer too,” said John Scott, deputy general counsel for Verizon Wireless. “Our argument is that it’s not necessary to promote competition.”

Carriers Aim to Kill Number Portability - 2002

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-16-fi-cell1...
Great question! You are correct, these methods would be equivalent w.r.t. tree "shape". The problem emerges downstream. In our shared database, we reply on the fact that user IDs are uniformly distributed. If we directly compared values, we start skewing the data towards the lower end of the range. By comparing hashes, we get the same heuristic effect without disrupting the uniform distribution.
Folks often overestimate the power consumers have in meaningfully shaping a market. Consumer protections are rarely gained by simply refusing to do business with market leaders who behave in consumer hostile ways. Regulation really seems to be our best shot at reversing course on what is nothing short of the theft of digital goods from consumers.
Secrets are an after thought in docker. When I first started using docker I was surprised at how _rubbish_ it was

I've found its best to use the secrets provider that comes with your cloud provider.

For AWS using SSM's get_parameter seems the best thing. But it means you need to find a custom shim to put in your container that will go and fetch the secrets and put them somewhere they are needed.
Well, that was my knee jerk reaction as well, but they weren't putting it in black neighborhoods to collect democratic votes and burn them (as I would do it if I wanted to undermine elections), but they put them next to gun ranges to make it easier for their voters to vote. Still, staggering incompetence.
> cancellation is a business decision, not a story decision. And cliffhangers are often a tactic used [for] audience retention

Series can very easily "jump-the-shark" and go on far longer than they should. There's a beauty to having something just "END" rather than go on until it needs to be cancelled because people are sick of it.

The Walking Dead, for example, just keeps going on and on and on. 9th+ season now, they're just re-cycling themes they've already covered 2 or 3 times. I guess they want a "sure-thing" but FFS, I wish they would place more value in trying out new things which, after all, is what really brings in the audiences when it works.
The word abuse also covers scenarios where someone technically or legally has the capability or entitlement to do something, but a convention exists that they will not. This is the usage when someone is said to have “abused their privileges”, or to have engaged in “abuse of process”.

It sounds like you object to the standard usage of these words, which doesn’t seem like a productive position. Olive Garden isn’t actually going to give you unlimited breadsticks either.
I'm not doing any painting in Krita, I'm using it for image editing. I always hated when I had to use GIMP in the past and it ways a joy to discover Krita and find that it does everything I needed GIMP for, but with a sensible user interface.
netflix originals are bad. like most of them super bad. they either suffer from bad writing or bad directing or both. some originals might have good actors, but nowdays you just expect netflix shit to suck. hope they invest more in writers. like actually pay writers and nurture talent. but it might be an industry symptom - writing on most shows these days sucks. hbo keeps producing good shows, hulu has some good shows, prime too. netflix nada.
I've never had to do that, but I haven't flown since 2016. If I was asked, I'd refuse. If they wouldn't let me though, I'd walk away and eat the cost.

I'll remember this for next time though. I'll be sure to check my phone and laptop. I could always just buy a book and not have electronic devices .. or maybe take a cassette deck.
Same.

I loved USENET. Threaded discussion is intoxicating. I learned and shared a lot.

Came back after the spam waves to visit some retro computing groups. A few are active. Cool. Low spam.
The Democrats are a terrible opposition party. They only look good in comparison with the Republicans and their embrace of full blown doctrinaire fascist ideology.
Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes
Republic and democracy are orthogonal. Constitutional monarchy is usually democratic, and republic can be autocratic. Somehow a lot of people miss that.
A story for a story. My father had children from the age of 19 to 55. Born in the 1930s, passed in his 80s, he had a good life. As the youngest of many brothers by different mothers, our paths have diverged massively as we experience the world separated by decades.

And yet the commonality of genetics lays down a pattern of personality that is striking to see. We share the same baseline, the same personality flaws, the same basic interests manifest in different ways. We are in so many ways variation on a theme that is my father. And seeing all these examples of the same pattern aging, each person slowly becomes poorly fit for the world that evolves around them. We learn as children, grow into men, and eventually become rigid in our patterns. I expect this is reflected in basic biology of the brain.

The one thing that this has convinced me of, seeing these patterns far beyond what I can control, is that one day it will be my time to die, and this will be a good thing. I can pass on what I've done, the important lessons I've learned, but eventually I must make way for a new variations of genes, a new attempt at learning, a new crack at adapting to a changing world.

An individual dying is not an end, but part of a cycle of change, which is the core of what life is. Everything must die in the end, because to become static and unchanging is the real death, the real dragon that we should fear.
As investors and founders mature, Vienna emerges as a European startup hub
I recently discovered a similar thing with Twitter: when you sign up with e-mail, they block your account and will unblock it only if you give them your phone number.
Z80s are alive and well in test equipment!

Here I'm repairing a 5000V power supply that likes to kill itself. One of the recent failure modes shorted some 74 series logic and held down the data bus, causing it to spin through address space.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/ps350-5000v-power-sup...

More impressively, other members set up emulators and reverse engineered the calibration routines:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/quick-repair-standford-...
Since this is indeed just a marketing page, I don't see enough implementation details to tell, but in general I worry that this kind of thing makes it easier for people to find stuff when they're being vague and harder to find stuff when they're being specific. It's like how Google these days will so "helpfully" ignore the words that you search for and instead give you what it's convinced you totally wanted.
I suspect you and I define the words “fake” and “controversy” quite differently.
Confirming the confirmation that the Index is a good collection of hardware. I don't have experience with an Occulus or Vibe, but the Index fell squarely into the "works out of the box" territory.

The only thing I really did to improve it was to 3d print a stand for the hand controllers. More an aesthetic choice than anything.
I could have sworn I did this 9 years ago. :-)
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/announcing_olduse.net/

Did you find additional utzoo material beyond what was already on archive.org in tarballs?
>Worthy of a federal corruption investigation potentially resulting in criminal charges.

Except these voter suppression tactics are currently being applauded and encouraged at the federal level, which is itself engaging in similar tactics.
In Texas, where I live, the Republican Governor ordered counties to remove all but one box in each county.

In California, the Republican party setup unofficial drop boxes that aren't legal.
I’m excited to share The Tech Resume Inside Out: a guide on how to write a developer (or engineering manager) resume that represents you fairly. The book is free for any developer currently out of a job [1].

COVID was what triggered me writing this book. At the beginning of the year, I was in the middle of writing a book on growing as a software engineer. However, as COVID started and the tech the layoffs followed in April and May, I found myself wanting to help people impacted. I’ve been a hiring manager for a few years, so I offered to do resume reviews for those laid off or applying for positions[2]. I had more than 300 developers take me up on this offer in a few days.

I did in-depth reviews for the first few dozen people, then copied-and-pasted common observations for the next batch, and finally sent over a 15-page PDF with the most common advice, with a few pointers for the bulk of the people. Here’s an early version of this PDF[3] - which also was the basis of this book.

I wasn’t that happy with how little backup I had for the advice in that guide, so I started to reach out to tech recruiters and hiring managers for more feedback. I also asked people to share back how their improved resumes worked out, applying the suggestions, and started adding this into a growing guide.

Four months and 55,000 words later, the book is ready. I tried to give level-headed, but practical advice, with lots of examples from actual resumes (that are all anonymized). Happy to answer any questions here.

[1] https://thetechresume.com/complimentary-copy

[2] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1263855589861580800

[3] https://thetechresume.com/A_Good_Tech_Resume.pdf
One party as a platform is always trying to make it more difficult to vote in ways that mostly affect people that tend to vote for the other party. There's no reason to pretend it's incompetence when there's clear evidence of voter suppression
The IKEA Effect – Explained
Are you saying that this is fine because everyone knows early voting means limited number of polling stations?

You also cherry-picked a specific county with an extreme difference. Are they all 60x difference?
The only long line to vote (and it wasn't anything like the lines in the article, we're talking maybe 25 people) I've ever seen was the one time I voted in a jurisdiction with electronic voting machines.

Otherwise they all had paper ballots and it's never been more than (say) 5 people in line.

Some of these places with the long lines (and clunky voting machines for that matter) are places with a history of voter suppression and I suspect that's the real reason they see these lines year after year and do nothing.
Herd immunity open letter contains many fake medical signatories
It's hilarious how so many on the far-right label themselves as centrists and then blame the left on "forcing" them to vote right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/california-go...
In Ireland we don't have mandatory voting but we still provision polling stations to handle the possibility of all voters actually voting.

The result is when I lived in a high turnout area, I once had to queue 10 minutes to vote when I had to do it during lunch time, and now I live in a low turnout area 10 minutes is the time from leaving my house to being back having voted in between.
EVMs have always had vulnerabilities and should not be trusted. They are forbidden in Germany.

https://indiaevm.org/
so does x-plane work today on quest 2?
Many states don't have ballot boxes, and a LOT of people are distrusting of mail-in and absentee voting which forces them to vote in person.