skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anthony Kennedy was a swing vote and he retired in 2018, so no - it was not "majority conservative". Kennedy voted in the affirmative for both Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Obergefell v. Hodges, both of which both being particularly egregious examples of legislation from the bench. I am both pro gay marriage and pro-choice - but neither of these things exist in the Constitution. Not one word. Either amend the Constitution or allow states to create their own legislation. If both Roe/Casey and Obergefell disappeared overnight - do you think abortion and gay marriage would all of a sudden become illegal in New York and California?

If the Democrats don't see the judicial branch as an extension of the legislative, then why would they be threatening to pack the court with justices that will vote for their causes?
I see the Cloudflare captcha page.
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I realize for political reasons we have to only support one side via extreme sophistry, essentially the whole topic is a giant dog whistle test to make sure our community is politically pure.

However its VERY hard to ignore the reality that essentially 100% of the US population has no difficulty, on average, kinda paying electric bills and property tax bills and phone bills.

Part of the sophistry is pretending that no non-white people are capable of responding to documents mailed to them and as such will be entirely disenfranchised. However, the actual percentage simply cannot be that high as 73 percent of households have satellite or cable TV and thus are at least occasionally responding to mailed documents. 73 percent of the population isn't even white anymore.

I mean, yeah, as a political purity test we can rally around Orange Man Bad and try to one up each other in our two minutes hate to eliminate diversity of opinion while encouraging groupthink, but reality is so far from the politics in this particular situation that its hard to play along. And if an individual can't stomach the extreme virtue signallers, may as well join the reality-based community and just vote Trump. So ironically I don't think this topic is a PRODUCTIVE purity test even from a purely leftist perspective.
It's taking a price hike, though.
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Amazing article, that starts a little bit simplistic, but actually goes into the not so pop sci details
Sounds like Rust should handle this case just fine?
The constitution never said to count the people who vote. If you wanted to know that, just count how many people vote.
Please don’t strawman on HN.
The Republican party had no reason to hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland - the votes did not exist to confirm him. The role of the Senate is to provide advice and consent - there was no consent so there was no reason to do it.

This year is different - Republicans hold the majority of the Senate and the White House. This nominee has the votes.
The US constitution requires them to do it every 10 years, and it was last done in 2010.

More cynically it’s been really politicised and not doing it this year would risk the Democrats being in power to do it next year.
4000 years of civilization and we're back to jungle life
Dogs noses have those slits in the side to move exhaled air out to the side without disturbing what's in front of the big nostrils.

Fun to watch this work when my dog is ratting for voles in the yard.
It's experience from having a few posts reaching the frontpage and seeing how contents published on the newsletter finally reach or not the frontpage
Yeah, that's probably more practical. Or a wrapper that uses a timestamp as the version so it's always higher than last run.

Still—one more thing you have to remember.
> Dan, I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep.

Agree! I don't have much control over pricing (traditional publisher) but I should probably raise the issue with them and see if there's anything I can do.

Thanks for the offer of feedback! Let me take what you've already given and see what I can do. I see you have contact info in your profile so will reach out after I've implemented it.
Creating a Snake Clone in Rust, with Bevy
I think our government is unable to budget without it. And isn’t it constitutionally mandated?
At least unwanted apps aren't as onerous as actual behavioural changes --- Fall Creators Update crippled my active stylus making it impossible to select text or draw in Macromedia Freehand/MX using a Staedtler Noris Digital Stylus:

https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Windows10-Community/issues/17

I've had to roll back twice now and the only technique I've found which works to block updates on Windows 10 Home is to have the C: drive so full that MS can't download the update.
This takes me way back to the Win 3.1 days, where I used the calculator, Notepad and looping the macro recorder to do number of calculations and optimizations. There were a number of special characters Calculator accepted to make this feasible. After all this time, the only one I can remember is p for pi.
14th amendment drops the "free"
An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
Under android you can use droid48 if RPN is your thing
It might not be close to 50:50 but it’s not 95:5. Less tainted is still tainted.

When I say both sides, I mean both sides. Gerrymandering to give minorities districts for example does the same thing to undermine people’s faith in the system. The goal should be to outlaw gerrymandering not find some way to allow it to be useful politically.

Should people in DC maintain the right to vote? IMO they should, but it’s become a political issue not a democracy issue.
I have not bookmarked them, but I found in the past very convincing evidence for significant fecal-oral transmission -- possibly of comparable standard to airborne and droplet transmission.

I'm kind of surprised that there isn't much of a discussion about that, because if it is indeed a significant route (say 30%), all the masks and distancing in the world won't help until this is also addressed.
My daughter smashed screen on her 4 year old Lenovo laptop, taking out panel and putting in new one took about 2mins.

If I'd done same thing on my retina MBP you'd be looking at a serious repair, either by me or Apple (= $$$). Making me seriously consider where I'll buy my next laptop from.
I'm not in favour of tax evasion (but I live in a low-tax country where "only" 40% of your work is taken by the government).

From my perspective, someone evading tax, is like someone directly stealing from my wallet.

If someone doesn't pay his taxes, then I will have to pay more to compensate.

There is also a negative feedback cycle with people not paying taxes. If the neighbour doesn't pay his taxes, then I will not be motivated to pay my taxes, etc. So it's better to break this circle early.

The problem of underpaid couriers should be solved at the root with the delivery companies and work-force laws.

The whole tipping culture is a big question itself and one of the leading cause for extremely low wages. In comparison, the quality of service is extraordinary in Japan and the waiters are clearly driven by other values than Tipping Money as God.
You may enjoy these few photos I snapped an the 1981 National Computer Conference (NCC), where to me the most notable announcements were Ethernet (DEC/Intel/Xerox) and the Xerox Star. I’d never seen such a UX, or a mouse.

http://ozz.ie/ncc-1981
It really looks like you’re conflating policy with bureaucracy.
It's not about having a "liberal" justice or a "conservative" justice. It's about having a court that does what is supposed to do - _interpret_ the law, not create it. Republican Presidents have been very bad at choosing justices that do this as well, David Souter being probably the worst example.
California's climate has been wildfires and drought for millennia, and will continue for the foreseeable future. See the scrub oak (chaparro) plant as an example of an organism native to the area responding to evolutionary pressures of drought and wildfires:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral
Engineering RuBisCO (the enzyme in charge of carbon fixation and the rate-limiting step in photosynthesis) has been quite difficult, as some side reactions generate products that, for instance, inhibit RuBisCO itself. If you make the fixation reaction more efficient the other ones follow.

Another option is increase the amount of RuBisCO in the cell. In cyanobacteria the enzyme is encapsulated in compartments called carboxysomes. Some studies have introduced carboxysome-like components in non-cyanobacterial organisms with varying results.
Is it really necessary to go that deep in order to be effective? I mean, some stacks consist of scripts running on interpreters in a VM somewhere.
> infection can lead to persisting illness, including in young, previously healthy people (ie, long COVID).

It's hilarious. Even a dozen of scientists didn't manage to actually provide evidence that "long COVID" exists in significant numbers. All they cite is an editorial.[1]

> like other seasonal coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 is capable of re-infecting people who have already had the disease, but the frequency of re-infection is unknown.

In other words: It happened a couple of times, but there is no evidence it happens frequently enough to worry about. Millions of people have been infected, of course edge cases occur.

> Such a strategy would not end the COVID-19 pandemic but result in recurrent epidemics

How exactly can we get recurrent epidemics when the pandemic hasn't ended yet?

> It would also place an unacceptable burden [...]

What's acceptable is subjective, there can't be a scientific consensus on it.

> health-care workers, many of whom have died from COVID-19 or experienced trauma as a result of having to practise disaster medicine.

Lockdowns (including those euphemistically called "restrictions") cause trauma too, and they affect much more people. Psychologists are critical of lockdowns and social isolation.[2][3]

> Such an approach also risks further exacerbating the socioeconomic inequities and structural discriminations already laid bare by the pandemic.

The pandemic is at fault? Not the lockdowns? Too bad the authors don't provide any evidence.

> Japan, Vietnam, and New Zealand, to name a few countries, have shown that robust public health responses can control transmission,

The island nation of Japan has defeated Covid. The island nation of New Zealand is even more successful, having defeated Covid twice so far. Vietnam is a single-party state and shouldn't be a role model either.

> the endemic transmission that would be the consequence of waning immunity would present a risk to vulnerable populations for the indefinite future.

Apparently we have no idea when safe and effective vaccines arrive we can use to protect our societies and economies, which supports the authors' arguments.

> The evidence is very clear: controlling community spread of COVID-19 is the best way to protect our societies and economies until safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics arrive within the coming months.

Now we do know when safe and effective vaccines arrive we can use to protect our societies and economies, which also supports the authors' arguments.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02796-2
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53037702
[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/4/14/doctors-note-th...
Hacking Sweden's election with pen and paper
Haskell solves this reasonably well.

If your data type implements the Num typeclass, you can use literals like 4. (A typeclass in Haskell is similar to what they call an interface in Java.)

There's no automatic conversion happening at all. It's done via overloading literals at compile time. (You can do the same for strings.)
I don't know if Unity does it but I think I remember Adobe and 3D programs like Maya and 3DS Max also have this "hidden slider" feature which you can also control the increments with a combination of the shift or ctrl key (don't remember which one)
When someone claims it’s 50%, it’s critical to point out when it’s actually 5%, or corrective resources are misallocated. Focusing as much on the 5% as the 95% is the exact mechanism by which the 95% is allowed to get that bad.
Validating v2 (a Go library for validating structs and fields) is released
Can you clarify what your scale and definitions of left|center|right are?
Having to download an app or having to login to read a post is a waste of time, will gladly read on a self hosted blog or anything more user friendly.
Not GP, but here's my 2c:

> How do you test your product hypothesis without a product?

You can't. Actually... it depends on how you define a product. The way I think of it is: a product is merely a vehicle for the added value. With that understanding it becomes easier to decouple the value from the actual product. Therefore the MVP is no longer a stripped down version of the product but rather the simplest tool you can build to provide [that] value.
Diminishing returns on usability. It’s pushing sites and apps past this cliff for the sake of fake progress, that kills software, instead of meaningful change
This is right up there with the "to gain users, build a product that users like by talking to users" paradox.
I like the that my pi’s all have usb 3 ports and 8gb of RAM.

It was also pretty easy to setup K3s and work through any issues thanks to the Pi community activity.
If you think those hot button issues define liberal vs conservative, you may be farther to the right than you think.
> After this long, I must say, anyone using Linux on a laptop has Stockholm syndrome.

Once again, using absolutes to try and make a point seem stronger. No, it's not "anyone". Sure, yeah, sometimes setting it up is hella annoying when your WiFi doesn't work out of the box (one laptop 8 years ago and one this year), printers won't connect (OpenSuse is terrible with network printers unlike Ubuntu), NVIDIA decides to stay dicks, and some media keys on your keyboard don't work, but those are all driver issues. Once those are out of the way, it also "just works" TM.

The amount of time I spent having to hunt down driver files for Windows XP and Windows 7, defrag the HD, clean up the windows registry, find a crack or freeware alternative for every little thing out there, or try to find out why something crashed and have absolutely no logs available, was inordinately high. I don't miss it one bit.

Sure, the community isn't the greatest and support is not always easy to find (or existent), but I dare say when things go wrong on linux at least you have logs and paste something into a search engine. When something crashes on Windows, most of the time you're shit outta luck - at least that how it was back in the day. It would be really surprising to me to see GUI apps on windows being runnable from the terminal and output something you can search for to debug. Hell, on Linux you can often even download the debug symbols, run the whole things in `gdb` or `strace`.

Your experience is yours and it's easy to find similar experiences and opinions, but it'd be great if you strayed away from absolutes like "anybody" or "everybody". Your experience isn't universal.
Depends on the party
I didn't strawman anything. Original question was asking about race discrimination and the response was about "poor people".
I've definitely jumped on waves via comments, rather than posts. Sometimes having the first comment on a highly ranked post leads to significant traffic, as well as insight.

But that's helpful to think about waves of posts too.
To me, your comment reads as an interesting bit of mental gymnastics.
Another poster had a YouTube link of a famous F1 driver. I couldn’t help but notice all the Marlboro advertising.
The idea that we all live as future fugitives now seems like something worth changing. If your plan is to hide, does it really matter how well? The best way to defeat drones is to engage in culture and policy making, and to vote.

The next best way is to use RF to triangulate their C2 location and either jam it or destroy it.

"Hide." Kids today, no valour.
I think you will find the overwhelming majority of things decided by the Supreme Court are ‘not in the constitution’. That’s simply not how or why it was setup.

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

First case: Attorney General did not permissibly construe Controlled Substances Act to prohibit the distribution of drugs for physician-assisted suicide

3rd: Habeas corpus relief may not be granted on the basis of debatable inferences used to overturn the trial court's finding vis-á-vis peremptory challenges

5th: Arbitrator must decide legality of contract unless arbitration clause is itself being challenged

10th: States may constitutionally limit the evidence of innocence a defendant convicted of a capital offense may present at his sentencing hearing to the evidence already presented at his trial.
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If you're looking for an even easier & cheaper way to start experimenting with an Edge TPU, the $59 Coral USB Accelerator has been out for a while now: https://coral.ai/products/accelerator

Check out the Level Up series for getting started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpNI4ZrfIM

And here's a fun real-life application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyM_qT9RZw
Does Xamarin owe its existence to Unity and Apple?
You’re so wrapped up in buzzwords you’ve lost the real conversations.
Wasn't Anthony Kennedy nominated by a Republican president?

> pack the court with justices

Without taking a side myself, I think the problem is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_...

And more specifically:

> He [Mitch McConnell] said the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the next president—to be elected later that year.[1][2][3] Senate Democrats criticized the move as being unprecedented, and responded saying that there was sufficient time to vote on a nominee before the election.[4]

Democrats are not happy with the double standard set by Republicans of blocking a nominee when a justice dies during an election year when it's a liberal one, and not blocking (instead, quickly accelerating) a nominee when it's a conservative one.
Most local sports leagues (and some clubs) still run their own websites (and have systems that support mobile apps). I find the online presence far richer these days where little league teams collaborate attendance, schedules, practices this way.

I think this “everyone got lazy” is overblown. Yes some folks are lazy, but they were the folks that used Microsoft Frontpage in 1998 :)
I think in Scott Meyers case it is he basically never used C++ in production, which in some sense is ok, since he makes his living as a language expert, but sometimes this shines through; also from a D conference talk I remember, even he got sick of it and switched to D.

Also let me use this comment to recommand John Lakos, his talks, his books. He knows how to build large scale applications and if you saw his talk on the 'is_working_day' function (if I remember correctly) you know you were not overthinking.
> I think LLVM is too low level for accomplishing...

What I mean with "LLVM for language interoperability" is not using LLVM itself (although it could be part of the wider LLVM project), but the idea of LLVM. LLVM decoupled language frontends and code-generation backends by defining a common intermediate layer. Suddenly it was possible for individuals to create new languages that automatically run on all CPUs and ABIs supported by LLVM. What's missing for those small new languages is the same effect for connecting those languages to all the other languages that already exist. Doing this for each other language is impossible for small teams. Doing this for a single common interface specification on the other hand is fairly trivial.

Such an "hourglass shape" would also make sense for language interoperability. But instead of having a common intermediate bytecode representation, have a common intermediate API-definition + ABI specification (somewhat similar to existing IDLs, but without a separate IDL-language that must be manually maintained, but instead automatically derived from the "native"-language interfaces.

Also, it doesn't need nor should support all sorts of special language idioms, just a basic common set of "interface features". It would be very close to what we already have with the C API/ABI interoperability, just flavoured with additional annotations for some common higher-level concepts that languages have agreed on since C was invented (e.g. different types of references: unrestricted pointer, non-nullable pointer, ranged pointer, ownership annotations, etc...).

Once you have such a common set of annotations, languages can create more idiomatic (not perfectly idiomatic) API bindings automatically. It doesn't have to be perfect, just an evolution of the current state (basically "rich C-APIs" instead of "plain C-APIs"). And plain old C would still be part of the language mix that's supported, it would just ignore most of the high-level annotations.
> courses to generate passive income,

pardon me but it sounds like a potential for future ponzi schemes :)
I feel like SharePoint and Google Docs are fundamentally different products that Confluence.

Looking for a Confluence competitor with permissions, version tracking, templates, and search but don't feel like I have found a good alternative.
Haha this is great. What the hell is Active Directory and why can't Windows connect to my other computers via KDE connect like everyone else?
great tip! Thanks :)!
Would be glad to read your posts!
I checked reddit through this, and on the front page there was a post by Aaron Swartz.
Also, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/362
> Is it a big fucking deal to detract from actual issues? No.

I think its a big deal when candidate keeps on cheating or lying. It establishes a pattern of dishonest behaviour which the other candidate can easily make a soundbite by calling her crooked.
What a goofy comment
You seem to be extremely certain of your position and seem to find it impossible to believe that Robert Santos, the statistician in question, could have any motive other than a political one in sounding the alarm. However, "if people can pay their electric bill then surely they can respond to the census" is not a fact and it's not a logical argument, it's just your gut feeling, which you seem to find a superior source of truth to what experts are saying. Why?
> And at least for me, I only received instructions in the mail telling me to do the census online

FWIW, I believe the Census Bureau sent either an online form or a paper form, depending on the prevalence of internet access in your area. I think they would also follow up with a form in the mail if you didn't respond online.
I find it extremely fascinating - that the workings of our body and mind are actually encoded in the DNA. The secrets of AGI & consciousness are right there, and we know they are, but we just aren't able to read it so that we could replicate them. I've been wondering if there's some sort of computational method to extract the algorithms without having to simulate the biology.
Cryptographic signing using SSH-keygen(1) with a FIDO authenticator
What were those attempts and powerful forces? I’d be interested to learn about it.
Whats your top reccomendations for channels we might not know? I like Rose Anvil for boot deconstruction and learning how good boots are made.
Mr. Rogers on Educational Television