skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, not the EU. The EU will cooperate with the US if they want an extradition.

In all seriousness, move it to Russia, China, or some other country that has better freedoms in this particular regard and won't take crap from the US about silly copyright concerns.

Or put the source code on the blockchain and it will never be eraseable.

Even better, build a decentralized Github that is actually based on a blockchain but allows transparent interaction via the "git" command. No matter what the DMCA or RIAA want there is nobody that can erase anything from past commits.
I highly recommend reading chapter 9 (number theory) just for the sheer fun of it. Number theory is one of the oldest and yet probably the most surprising branches of mathematics.
I remember when UEFI was about to be released, there were a lot of concerns about how this will completely block Linux installation, dual boot, etc on Windows computers. Did that problem happen? How was that solved?
I think it's boring, overly simplistic, and ignores the last couple of decades of PL research.
> If you fit a model and don't explicitly constrain against "un-physical" results like negative correlations, you'll end up with them.

The Economist model does exactly that, and all of their correlations are positive.

I recommend reading their methodology, they know what they're doing (I wouldn't say the same about 538). Andrew Gelman has developed some of the Bayesian methods and software that people like Nate Silver use, he's the main author of what's considered a reference book on Bayesian statistics.
Android proves otherwise.
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44... worked for me. But I can't get the tree. But if you download the repo as a zip in their gui that's the easiest way.
Are readers trustworthy? This is like the “rational” investor argument, which has usually proven to be an unhelpful simplification of economics in reality.

After all, on Facebook when left to their own devices Myanmans decided to commit genocide.
Radio spectrum is owned by the public and licensed. iPhone is private.
I've picked it up from time to time when I've had to, either for a small web service or cli tool. It feels kind of like a blunt instrument rather than a fine tool but thats also totally OK. It seems to have found it's place in various parts of infrastructure tooling and developer tooling.
Well now, that is an interesting question! I don't know much about the historical use of "payola" that record labels would pay DJs to play their songs. It's interesting that the libertarians would say "So what?" Most of us though would recognize the conflict-of-interest, just like we require people to at least tell us that certain speech is paid. Maybe that's the comprimise that would work here - Apple would keep Google as the default, but add a clear notice that they'd been paid, and how much. "Keep default search? Google paid us 12B USD for this value, are you sure?" Maybe it will get people questioning why the Goog wants search traffic so badly. And ad traffic. And DNS traffic. And video consumption traffic. And...
You said “Biden has as much chance of winning Texas as Trump has of winning California.”

What do you mean when you say “chance”, if not probability?
For what it's worth I do embedded/hardware development and almost everyone I work with uses Vim/command line tools. Some people use an IDE for programming, but all the build scripts, etc. can be run from the command line.
No, that's not what I meant. I meant that a positive PCR test without any symptoms can't tell you if:

- you're about to have the disease (presymptomatic)

- you have the disease (asymptomatic)

- you already cleared the virus

You might be infectious, but you don't know. And given the time window of infectiousness, delays in testing can give you a "positive, please isolate" notice when it's too late, and you potentially have spread the virus to others without knowing.

OTOH, antigen tests detect virus proteins (with far lower sensitivity), so it's far more likely that you have an active infection if you are positive.
The thing about the law is, it's not the company that suffers but employees can and will be thrown in jail. Executives aren't going to stick their necks out.
Pretty much. There isn't any real scientific backing to anything they claim.

In fact, they admit several times that most studies are "inconclusive" then go on to site single studies that may indicate "the potential" for harm. Like my phone could also theoretically increase my potential for getting eaten by a tiger.

Psuedo-science BS.
It seems more likely that it's actually the other way. Nate Silver has specifically said he built the model to have relatively high uncertainty, especially with the volatility of this year, so this seems more like the outcome of intentional decisions to not let the model be overly confident.
> It’s not comparable to companies operating in western democratic countries.

This line made me grin. Ironically enough, YouTube and Facebook also censored the exact same event that sparked this later event. (Actually the role of YouTube in this episode makes the parent comment doubly funny, considering "banned at Google" is listed as evidence that Zoom is evil™.) I found out when trying to learn who exactly Leila Khaled is from Wikipedia. There was apparently even an "End Jew Hatred on Zoom" protest in front of Zoom headquarters demanding Zoom to cancel the event, pictured in [3]. Of course now Zoom’s getting all the flak because any bad PR for them can be pinned on you know who, and fed to an existing narrative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Khaled

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200927005246/https://www.insid...

[3] https://www.jweekly.com/2020/09/22/after-protest-zoom-will-n...

[4] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zoom-criticised-cancellin...

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453935/zoom-facebook-yo...
Yeah I don’t think this map is accurate. This maps states that rats don’t inhabit Iceland, but I’ve personally seen them in Reykjavík.
Silver's 2012 book "The Signal and the Noise" discusses our inability to rationally process probability, pointing out that commercial weather forecasts (e.g. Accuweather) never list a probably of rain under 20-25%. A 5% chance of rain is a mathematical possibility but people "feel" like 5% = "will never happen" and get angry if it rains.

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's life's work is about this, what he calls "System 1" and "System 2" of our brain, where System 1 is a fast responder that provides insta-feedback but is largely incapable of processing mathematical inputs. His 2011 book "Thinking Fast and Slow" summarizes his work well.

I'm not sure popular media can be trained to frame statistical probabilities in a way that doesn't provide people with the certainty they crave. But who knows?
Remain objective (if your personality allows it). What the Americans do is their business, even if it is in the gray area also there. But the cease and desists to (ex-)developers in Germany are simply tasteless. And the project should move to a server in Switzerland.

EDIT: and please be specific which sections of the Readme justify such action by the IP owners or their (effectively legitimate) representatives, or the github responsibles.
I called it a debacle because 99.9% of media sources, pundits, politicians, political figures, or anyone else thought that Hillary had anything less than a guaranteed win. I'm simply suggesting it was actually always a close race, but that the media ignored this because it went against their ideological model / they weren't familiar with places like the Rust Belt.
There is definitely one correlation: People with a measured high IQ defend IQ measurements. People with a measured low IQ don‘t .
> Zoom just said they had to do it

Is that incorrect? What was their other option?
GitLab through tor sounds slow...... (Six dots for six hops)
I was trying to be clear here: There is a reason and it's that it's not really possible architecturally for them to support SSDs in Wayland; doing so would require a redesign of significant parts of the compositor's code. I'm sorry if that was misunderstood. If you're trying to say they should have anticipated this and made a different architectural decision years ago, maybe that's true, but that also offers no practical solution to the applications that need to support it right now.
That's a neat point. My gut reaction is that there probably hasn't been enough people migrating to make a big difference. As in, I doubt enough people left CA to make it cut Republican and I doubt enough people moved to SC to make it cut Democrat. But that's just a gut reaction - I have no clue really.

It's a neat possibility to think about though. If there were enough people who did that, it would really depend on the demographics moving and where they're going. It could swing the election either way. I wonder if anyone has found numbers on this and attempted to model it.
And I suspect this is why Apple doesn't implement its own search index / service.

If I were at Apple and I had payments like this coming in, I would absolutely take $1B/year off to fund building a search engine. This because Google can 'turn off' this at any moment, so having that be a non-threat would be useful. Further there is a tremendous amount of value in crawling the web in terms of data set generation. And finally it really would allow them to build knowledge bases that would enable Siri to be more effective as a verbal assistant.

But while the cash is pouring in like that? Well just ride that fountain of cash for as long as you can.
Shims.

MS signed some at the start, see https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/UEFI_Sec... or https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#Shim
I'd argue negative correlation on conditionals distributions can be reasonable here.

In that particular WA-MS example, if Trump suddenly took more liberal positions and somehow won WA (e.g., announces he's pro abortion), he would in fact be more at risk of losing Mississippi. The idea that these two states are in play already is fringe and would require some major idealogical (or other third variable) shifts.
Might be a bit true but China still gets a lot of coverage. Imo, anything that's on the Indian, Chinese, American or EU startup scene gets a lot of coverage these days.
Lightweight, high performance particles in canvas
A quick web search may answer your question

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=invasive%20species%20erad...
I swear I'm not trying to get the last word in, but my phone life hack was to get a spare Android phone to keep in my office where I install only a minimal set of apps. It's worked pretty well and I might even try putting on a VOIP app so I can use it for calls. I don't care about getting distracted when I'm stuck in a long line at the grocery store.
Why living with and tending plants is good for you
"youtube-dl should be re-named to something like webvideo-dl"

I think a better choice would be to fork/branch wget or curl and maintain a "supercurl" or "curl2" whose superset of curl functions just happens to be the merged functions of youtube-dl.
That's not really how Wayland extensions work. If I can reword your question as "are these protocols legitimate and standardized" the answer is "yes".
In kotlin your example would be:

fun process_item(input: Item?) -> Item? {
input?.plus(3)
}

This would have to be modified in rust to apply to both error and option types, as well as working on stuff other than the . operator, but I think it could be made to work.
The main difference is that the ?. operator in kotlin works at the expression level, instead of the function level.
The US still supports the Mujahideen-e-Khalq which is a terrorist organization.

They were very recently fighting alongside actual ISIS and ISIS offshoots in Syria...

Elimination of Iran is a goal of the US government (they call it the "regime" the same way the Iranians do but the intent and action is still the same)
It would be fun to do some sort of textual style transfer on these docs and flood the zone with hundreds of plausible fakes. Would make hijackers job at least harder.
Good luck? Short of moving entirely to China or Russia, they have no chance of escaping us sanction law. If they wish to hold even a european bank account, their bank will force them to comply with the sanctions or they will be terminated.
Folks aren't worried burglers will steal their photos because the photos are objectively precious, they are worried that the photos will be stolen because burglers steal things which are precious, and since family photos are considered precious to most people they make a faulty connection. It's irrational, but so is most everything we do as a society when you look at it closely.

Webcams being hackable means people can begin to irrationally fear for their privacy in their own homes. Rather than be free to move about and do as they wish, they second-guess whether someone would be watching, and even though they have no logical obligation to appease this unknown third-party's desires for propriety, they're going to be concerned about breaking norms. "I hope I don't look like a slob, or pick my nose, or start whacking it or ... " anything, because we all have a nervousness about being a particular way when others are around, even when we don't know those people or, as in this case, those people have no right to be there in the first place.

It's dumb and irrational and you can dissect it a million different ways and wax poetic about what it "says about society" or human psychology, but in the end it's just another expectation most people have - that their privacy in certain places will not be invaded and they are free to let their guard down - and as engineers and developers and everything else, it's our job to work within those constraints if we want user adoption, or at least if we want good-will.

Is it rational that people want privacy but they also want to post their thoughts and photos and videos online where anybody can see them forever? Nope. That's humans for you though, and the people who capitalized on letting them do it are now wealthier than most of us can imagine. Finding a way to reliably both actually make a webcam free from being useful to hijackers, and to prove to and convince the public that it is so, is a lucrative opportunity - I would say especially so in this new pandemic age.
> The latency associated with a 2MB or 1GB read/write to disk is just too long to be reasonable.

On spinning rust, seek times are O(10ms) and speeds are O(100MB/s). That means in the time it takes to seek to page in a page, you could read about 1MB worth of data. That should make that order of page size vastly more efficient for paging in data than tiny 4kB pages, from an HDD.

From an SSD, sure, the seek penalty is much lower so things should skew in favor of smaller reads.
And in particular any claim 538 was the site that was off the mark compared to other prediction sites is clearly based in a reality that is not shared with the rest of us. In the week before the election Nate and crew were posting articles specifically outlining the non-zero probability of a Trump win and if it happened how it was likely to happen.
Red light is typically used at night in order to avoid destroying the eye's rhodopsin, which helps with night vision and takes at least 30 minutes of non-exposure to blue light to fully replenish. You'll see pilots and astronomers using red flashlights for this reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopsin
pip is broken in no many aspects, between pip and pip3, things installed in your home folder vs /var, "binary" entries that don't exist after installing a tool, cryptics stack traces because of missing libs / not compatible for your platform ( native build ) ect ...

Why do we need virtual env in 2020?

It's one of the worse "modern" language to build, even Java / NodeJS are better.
That seems plausible. Still, I think the "exodus from cities" theory doesn't apply much to American cities outside of New York and San Francisco. Places like Philadelphia may have even seen a small uptick from NY emigration. But this is just a guess, it would be nice to see any statistics (I haven't found any).
Class action is very limited in Finland - the law that allows this is quite recent, there has been no class action suits yet at all and I'm not sure if it would be even applicable here.
What Nate Silver got right in 2016 were the correlations in the Rust Belt, which were traditionally considered Democrat. 538's model predicted that losing one of those states would likely mean losing all of them for Clinton, because for example the polling errors were likely correlated. And indeed losing there is what cost her the election
The IPs are announced by oracle: https://bgp.he.net/ip/193.122.212.125

Reverse DNS for the IP is handled by oracle cloud.
> I know bees are fundamental but I think we should adjust ourselves along with nature, and not try to always dictate things.

Nature? You realize this almost certainly happened because of international travel/trade, right?
> youtube-dl is not, strictly speaking, a downloading tool. It's an access tool.

What you’re describing is a circumvention device. The DMCA explicitly outlaws these. 17 U.S. Code § 1201

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
> Afaik the U.S. no longer sponsors terrorists.

I find that very hard to believe, considering the activities of the CIA -- just the ones we know about -- over the last several decades (or, really, since its beginning).

--

Side note:

Does selling billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia count as sponsoring terrorists?

cf. Jamal Khashoggi, et al.
A number of Taleb's testable claims not addressed by the author:

- Let us return to the point of the correlation test-retest. Unlike measurements of height or wealth, which carry a tiny relative error, many people get yuugely different results for the same IQ test (I mean the same person!)

- National IQ is a Fraud. From engaging participants (who throw buzzwords at you), I realized that the concept has huge variance, enough to be uninformative. [...] Some people use National IQ as a basis for genetic differences: it doesn’t explain the sharp changes in Ireland and Croatia upon European integration, or, in the other direction, the difference between Israeli and U.S. Ashkenazis.

- If, as psychologists show (see figure) MDs and academics tend to have a higher “IQ” that is slightly informative (higher, but on a noisy average), it is largely because to get into schools you need to score on a test similar to “IQ”. The mere presence of such a filter increases the visible mean and lower the visible variance.

> But to convince the community at large, that's what you should do.

I don't agree. I don't think that only scientific (or at least scientific-looking) arguments should be considered valid. Why would that be the case? There are a lot of empirical observations that we can draw useful knowledge from, without resorting to mathematical theories and quantifiable experiments. Not to mention that science itself is far less of a rigorous field than it may seem at first sight.
Can this scheme/standard be denied to some parties? Are there vectors for censorship or deplatforming (through denial of payment) that can be guarded against?
> It's hard to compare across countries. But mask-wearing Japan and South Korea have higher rates of flu and pneumonia deaths than the US/Canada/Europe

Possibly confounded by disparate population densities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
or you need a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_locking
Yes. See "libaa" and the "bb" demo.

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/
The sensation of self determination is the entire point of democracy though. We don't use democracy because we think masses of people are particularly wise; we use these systems because they feel more fair than the alternatives and that perception of fairness produces good results (peaceful power transitions.)
It was a large mistake to ignore the lessons of Java and now the language is full of quirks as well, including the upcoming generics design.

Regardless of the whole systems programming language polemic from the anti-GC crowd, several projects deployed into production like gVisor and TamaGo prove otherwise.

Finally thanks to killer applications like Docker, Kubernetes and everything around them, Go has become unavoidable for many developers, regardless of our opinion towards the language.
Can someone help me understand what odds like this mean in the context of an election?

The model says that Trump has a 1 in 10 chance of winning. With a fair 10-sided die it makes sense that you have a 1 in 10 chance of any given side rolling face up. But what is the die that is being rolled in these election statistics? What is the "chance" element that is being predicted?
Sure, because the effect cannot be linear, but then Taleb's article loses any merit, and it's 1-0 for JSMP anyway.

Not that I'm defending IQ. I find it a weird measure, and certainly not one in which to base all trust, but it does seem to correlate reasonably with many outcomes. That other factors also have an influence on these outcomes, and that IQ is not purely measuring intelligence, does not discredit it as a (limited) predictor. Taleb's article would be much stronger if he could point at better predictors.
You can manage your own secure boot keys [1].

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/take-control-your-pc-ue...
Point. They have taped seams, but breathable fabric would make more sense.
I have used Xe(La)TeX and the bidi package for mixed rtl and ltr script documents. I don't recall any problems with that. There's also a polyglossia package, but I have less experience with that.
My condolences, but on the other hand, you have to understand that not all open source licenses/projects are borderless, like MIT and Apache they are US-based, and so the curse US cast upon will be effectively apply there too.

Only libre software like GNU and public domain works will probably give you the complete freedom to not be wary of this kind of nation-to-nation wraith.
But wouldn't that mostly be concentrated in places/areas where their votes aren't likely to matter? Having just driven through the US South in the last month, I can confidently tell you people are not in any way shy about their support for Trump. I saw more Trump signs and flags than I saw US flags.

It's also likely this works in both directions - if you support Biden, I bet you don't have a yard sign for it if you live in Mississippi.

By construction, the effect is strongest the more you're not in the majority, which also means your unspoken support is more likely to not matter on the actual outcomes of the election.
> Some users report being able to see the boundary from a different room.

This is relocalisation. Two things to note here

1) Facebook don't have enough GPUs to do this properly at scale.

2) For that kind of thing to work it needs either a GPS prior, or much more robust SLAM. the oculus isft doesn't have enough CPU/GPU to make robust multi-room maps (with big occlusions that is)

> This is why FB is so adamant about using FB profiles, even banning users if they make a guest account:

Its far more mundane than that. Its all about branding. The "brand" is all about "One facebook" or someshit so they want everyone to be interoperable. Thats why messenger and instgram are now able to communicate. I assume whatsapp will be added to that as well.

You're assumption is that facebook are a coherent force for evil. They really aren't that well organised. They are a collection of highly paid, naive tech people. Surrounded by some people with experience.