skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I believe it's because gas prices are quoted with tax (which is unusual in the US), and there is a federal tax ending in 9 tenths of a cent. Probably lobbied by the small 9 marquee digit manufacturers of america.
Agree over the java part. But Python is still orders of magnitude more productive, being it because of the ecosystem, available libraries, frameworks, or almost any other metric. The only advantage over python is performance, and maybe static typing depending on your taste.
I'm not going to spend an extensive amount of time responding to a dead comment chain, but just wanted to chime in and say:

> China, the very same political/military system, also got those same people into poverty in the first place in a matter of years/decades (killing up to some 60 million people in the process) through Mao

This is just very not true. You're saying there were tons of people making over $2/hr pre-CCP, they then got pushed into poverty by Mao, and all of the poverty gains since then are just raising out the people who got pushed down.

There is absolutely no empirical evidence for that assertion.
Thanks! Will check it all out!
It looks like ipleak.net does have an API [1]. Website is a bit "information overload" though.

[1] https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/14737-api/
I'm a big fan of walking but there is one more downside for me: in warm weather, I often arrive at my destination a sweaty mess.
I wasn’t saying that. I simply provided an example of something that correlates and predicts but is not an interesting psychological phenomena.
> So no, around here, I couldn't recommend walking to pretty much anyone

I don't know about that. Things don't change overnight, and never by themselves. Advocating for a more walkable city is probably a good idea. Might require political action of some sort. Or maybe it just needs a critical mass of frequent walkers.

For the record, I live in a walkable city now, and grew up in a tiny, walkable villagle. Wouldn't even consider moving somewhere that wasn't walkable.

Addendum: a city that isn't designed for people probably shouldn't be considered a city. I'm trying to think of a better name, but I'm stuck on expletives.
>No fancy beekeeper suit necessary

What? have you seen size of that hornet? I am wearing space-suite if available.
Unfortunately, Go is not even close by the number of tools written for it, at least for web services, where I work. It's hard to imagine something useful that doesn't have either JVM port, or originally written in Java (testing/mocking, builders, freaking ORMs, frameworks).

It's not always good though, in Java world you have to choose between multiple competing tools, while other ecosystems have mostly only one, often adopted from Java version (except Javascript, Rust, they have their own zoos). But IMHO Java is still the nursery for all kinds of tools for development.
Did you read the article? Specifically the section "Correlation only for low IQ"?
The real value is that Google is pumping a lot of money into writing high quality libraries.
Any language with similar backing would do equally as well.

The golang standard library and high-quality third-party libraries are really great
Canonical announced Mir out of nowhere in an attempt to gain control just like they are trying now with Snap. After the announcement of Mir their developers went to IRC and made abundantly clear they had no idea how Wayland works and that Mir was useless. Where is Mir now? Using Wayland.

People who were in the fence about supporting Wayland were now even more convinced they should ignore it. That's one of the reasons a decade later you still have this much FUD.
Why do you think that?

COVID-19 has become more infectious over the course of the pandemic, with a strain that results in higher viral loads becoming predominant: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32697968/

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: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza...

As surgical masks are much less than 100% effective even in ideal conditions, let alone actual wear, it wouldn't be surprising if more usage of them would just be an evolutionary pressure for flu to have higher viral output. Quite similar to how widespread use of less than 100% effective anti-bacterial agents just results in bacteria evolving resistance, reducing the usefulness of those agents for the most vulnerable part of the population who need them most.
it took me about 10-15 minutes to turn my eyes towards SELinux, after some initial debugging.

i turned off selinux temporarily and activated the connection successfully, and determined that it was indeed SELinux that was preventing NetworkManager from doing its job.

then i re-enabled SELinux went to look at /var/log/audit/audit.log to see what it had to complain about and indeed some files created by NetworkManager in /root/.cert had bad contexts.

I set the proper contexts (semanage fcontext -a -t <context> <pathregex>), applied them (restorecon -Rv /root) and all was well.

SELinux was initially scary but:

- The "SELinux for mere mortals" talks are very informative introductory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOKRaM-HI4)

- The SELinux User's and Administrator's Guide from Red Hat was a deeper explaination (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... -- linking to rhel 7 because that's what i read at the time)

I had to study this stuff in order to get Red Hat certified (RHCSA, passed with 300/300).

Getting certified is absolutely worth it. Getting certified is the difference between "10-15 minutes to get a diagnosis" and "I gave up on SELinux about 20 years ago".
It seems most likely that they wanted to avoid killing the hornets. Perhaps to study them and find out which native Japanese population of hornets they came from in order to stem the flow of this invasive species. Could even be simply to preserve life.
I'm biased for sure, but embedded rust has a growing toolset that is likely to be long lived as it's a collection of simple but effective tooling. It's the entire goal of knurling-rs and surrounding tooling to make it dead simple to run your programs on hardware.
> Take down chrome then its "intended to circumvent copyright protection measures" as you can clearly watch these youtube videos with chrome.

No-one out there thinks there's any problem watching them on Youtube, where royalties can be traced and paid.
Full end-to-end encryption bumps up against Apple's second goal of user friendliness. If the data they store is encrypted with a key that you and only you own, and you lose that key, they can't help you as a user.

This may be surprising, but a lot of users don't accept that as an answer and find this to be a less valuable business model than one where the trusted vendor has skeleton keys.
> Why is there so much fascination with polls to begin with?

Polling is useful for candidates and gives them ideas on where to target outreach and spending.

For the rest of us, it gives us something to watch. With Presidential campaigns running for almost two years in advance of the actual voting weeks, there’s a huge gap between when the thing starts and when we see results. This way, people have something to fill the time. Even now that voting has started, we are still another 10 days until the voting is done and likely another 7 after that until we have a sufficient count to know who has been elected.

That’s a long time for a populace that’s worried, distracted, and interested, especially since so many of us live in states where—due to the mechanics of a broken election system—we can’t do much to influence the national outcome.
Huh. I had thought I'd seen some well placed comments describing migrating away from the platform.
Really? They don't take that long though, I vaguely remember doing the APM in about 30-45 minutes for an assignment.

They do a much better job of getting estimates of IQ which are robust to culture, which was a real problem for the Stanford-Binet ones (and lead to some belief that the IQ of poor black children was lower because they weren't familiar with some of the analogies).
They were generally correct with their prediction except in 3 states where nobody had been doing detailed polling because the pollsters didn't think it would matter.

It simply wouldn't have been possible for the models to be more accurate with the data they had. As they say, bad data in, bad data out.

That's why this time around the pollsters made sure to be more thorough in their polling.
Universal rhyme would dictate that machine intelligence is learning our behavior and one day apply it to us when it is in charge.

All children eventually become stronger than their parents, and most parents reap what they sow, and are treated a combination of how they treated their parents and their children.

In this case, our ancestors is all the other DNA-based life on earth, and our children are silicon machines.

Now, think about how we are treating the animals and also the machines (yelling at, cursing out, smashing, being very impatient with, expecting perfection)

The picture is downright scary.
Some of your sibling comments seem to suggest otherwise.
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People are living, shitting, and dying en masse on the streets of LA who need food and basic sanitation but you really can't even imagine a non malicious interpretation of someone saying paying for teams of bubble suited wasp chasers seems like potentially a misallocation of resources?

Or do you just generally like to bully anyone who challenges any form of government spending by attacking strawmen?
Highway to hell: C++ enums and bitfields
If you want to do single-file conversions with Pandoc without having to install it, try http://markup.rocks/. It’s a compilation of Pandoc into 2.2MB of JavaScript so you can convert documents (and preview their HTML conversion) in your browser as you type. Its source code: https://github.com/osener/markup.rocks.

I most often use http://markup.rocks/ for converting HTML to Markdown and for testing that my reStructuredText syntax is correct when contributing to docs.

Pandoc also has a demo web page for trying it out (https://pandoc.org/try/). The demo supports all of Pandoc’s formats and doesn’t require a large JS download, but it silently truncates inputs to 3,000 characters.
It's not "wrong" to predict a low chance for something that eventually happens. Unlikely events can happen.
Zoom already globally banned users on behalf of China related to Tienanmen, and Zoom just said they had to do it.

If that is still a thing I don't know what policy you can count on if there is always a "except when someone tells us to censor it" exception to everything.

Granted there are always legal changeless and exceptions to everything, but if Zoom is at the mercy of a simple request from a non free state that there's no way to challenge or push back on ... what do any of those rules mean? How quickly can a topic go from ok to getting you banned?
You make a good point from a software point of view, but ‘features’ are not just things you code. You mention educational features: is the freedom to express ideas and to discuss important historical events not an important feature in education? It’s certainly more important than green screen cutouts but nobody ever puts it on the list explicitly
I don’t favor giving IQ tests to candidates for private sector employment, but a 16% improvement in candidate outcomes would seem to be massive overall, not minor, for many companies where company outcome is highly correlated with employee performance (SpaceX tech, self-driving tech, EV/battery tech, some areas in many other science disciplines)
Soo reading the Kama Sutra leads to derivative "work" too :)
Its a good compromise between python and java. We gradually moved our codebases from python to golang. This has reduced our infra cost quite a bit. Some of our mission critical stuff is still in C++ and I'm fairly certain golang would not replace any of those.
I hope the golang community takes a thing or two from rust in terms of package management.
> Where is Mir now? Using Wayland.

It could have not gone that way. Now we've got two equally bad alternatives out there.

> That's one of the reasons a decade later you still have this much FUD.

I don't think you know what FUD means.
>It’s a matter of balancing costs and income.

I know, I just thought car accidents were a bad way to make the point.

Data breaches vs skyscrapers/airplanes are harder to distinguish, so yeah those are more comparable.

Edit: that is, data breaches under the proposed system of high per-user liability are comparable.
Seam (YC S20) is hiring engineers to build an API to the physical world
> The information published could not be more sensitive: it included the patient's name, personal identification number, telephone number, email address and residence address, together with the content of the therapy sessions.
In that book was he still claiming that PV uses rare earth elements?
I've seen libdecoration, and yeah, that seems like their intended solution to this. It doesn't seem like a terrible solution, but last time I looked at it at least, libdecoration was a long way off being production ready, and GNOME with Wayland is shipping _right now_ and must be supported.
> Those standards need to exist, but those standards do not need to exist as part of the display protocol.

They do. It's pointless fragmentation otherwise.
I'm no expert, but I've read a bit about Vespula vulgaris (the most common sort of wasp in the UK) and tackled a few nests in the past.

My impression is that if you put a vacuum cleaner next to the entrance you may, if you're lucky, catch nearly all the wasps that leave the nest, but the queen never leaves the nest, and the eggs and larvae don't leave the nest, and I think there may also be some workers that stay in the nest looking after the larvae, so things will be quieter after you've finished vacuuming, but the colony will probably regenerate itself in a week or so.
Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale
I don’t think that’s quite a fair representation of reality. “Standards Track” RFCs are fully-baked internet standards, and “RFC” is a misnomer the cause of which is “historical reasons”.

But as regards this particular RFC, the key details that are terribly easy to miss are right at the start:

• Independent Submission

• Category: Informational

In other words, the IETF is not “vouching for” this thing as they would be on standards track RFCs. (Another hint at this is that the registry the RFC establishes is established with GANA rather than IANA. And the URI format; I suspect that if it went through the full standardisation process it’d be pushed to payto:authority:path rather than payto://authority/path, the // style of URI being strongly linked with DNS resolution.)

(I completely forgot to check this when I first read the spec, and I’m used to reading these sorts of specs and checking their status. Read my earlier comments bearing this in mind.)
Nate Silver said Trump had a 1 in 3 chance, which basically means one shouldn’t be surprised no matter the result. I’m not sure where this “all the polls were so far off in 2016!!” narrative comes from, but it’s wrong.
Not that hard to imagine in a country with a No Fly List.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-if-you-think-y...
I've been using Go as my main programming language for the past 5 years or so, and it's still my favorite language (picking from PHP, Java, C++, Python, and a few more I have experience with).
Its simplicity makes it relatively easy to write high quality software and reduces maintenance, as there are no breaking changes in the language itself. Tooling is on point, you get everything you need, standard formatting (which helps to keep all code bases in the wild consistent), and cross compile.

One of the things that might make it even better are generics, but I haven't really missed them so far. In conclusion, I don't think I will switch to anything else soon.
> That's why this time around the pollsters made sure to be more thorough in their polling.

"This time is different."

I've heard that enough times to be highly skeptical. I'm also deeply skeptical of the notion that polling is even remotely correlated to actual results. Cultural and historical trends play a drastically higher role and are almost always left out.
wlroots excellent performance => bottleneck is not Wayland.

Gnome will catch up some day.
> "I stopped using zoom after they shut down accounts because people were discussing the Tiananmen Square Massacre."

Now, now, many HN readers in recent political threads have piously reminded us that corporations have no obligation to allow speech they don't want to host and it's perfectly okay for corporations to deplatform things because it would never be used in bad way. Surely, they could not be wrong? Surely...?
I only use Amazon Route 53. Does anyone know if that's ever been blocked in Iran etc?

It doesn't seem to be blocked at the moment, but it's also something I can't find any official documentation on.
Saying that the ultimate outcome had a 1 in 4 chance is not wrong, slightly wrong, or less wrong. If the weatherman says there's a 1 in 4 chance of rain, and it rains, he wasn't wrong.
I have defaulted to using X.Org on my Debian GNOME installation because of awful font rendering on Wayland along with other issues such as recording.

This desperate push by Wayland people is putting me off of Wayland. You can't FUD a software into being dropped in favor of yours.
Australian fuel prices are listed in cents to one decimal place. >80% of the time the last digit is a nine, the rest of the time it’s most commonly a 5. I’ve seen other odd digits rarely, with even numbers just about unheard of. But what you actually pay will be rounded to the cent, or to the nearest 5¢ if you pay in cash.

The whole concept involved here is called psychological pricing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing). I wish it was illegal.
Oh, nice:

https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/
The payer does not have to know content of therapy session though. Just have two databases and practice good separation of concerns.

John Doe | Street 1234 | Therapy | 6 Units | $12,367

That is way less interesting information than what we are discussing here...
> I think what this supposed DMCA is best compared to is making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material.

Ah, just you wait. If ever the analog loophole becomes the dominant way to reproduce copyrighted works, it will be difficult to get a camera without a content-recognition and blocking system.
I don't know what that is supposed to mean. If something can be built as a web page, I would just build it as a web page in the first place so that it is a thousand times smaller and still runs faster.
Every single one of these models will break down this year. We are living in an unprecedented time. I can't understand how we can model how many people will vote, when we don't even know how many people have moved out of cities this year. Half of my friends have left San Francisco - if as many people left Philadelphia, The Twin cities, Milwaukee or Pittsburgh, then that really effects the outcome.
It seems like the behavior between WA and MS could just be statistics saying that WA and MS always[1] vote for the opposite candidate, rather than considering a massive sudden change in the direction that one of them votes in. E.g. it's not reflecting who they vote, just who they most vehemently disagree with.

I'm not sure why that kind of interstate correlation should impact predictions?

<incoherent rambling :D>
IANAS but it feels like these correlations were added to compensate for the failure in 2016 to recognize that state A going one way implied that state B would also go that way. It "feels" like a more correct approach would be to compute some kind of error/weakness measure in a states polls by bringing in those of its geographical neighbors and incorporating the polling error of that entire block vs prior years. Or something.

The intuition I'm having difficulty conveying is that actual voting correlation is based on neighboring states only because you've got bubbles of ideology that aren't strictly cut along state lines. If strength of opinion in a bubble is going one way, then you'll see that mostly in the state at the center of the bubble, but the bubble still spreads into neighboring states, and a "stronger" bubble could push it geographically further into those neighbouring states, and/or could increase the bias in areas inside the bubble.
</rambling>

[1] "Always" == most recent history
>It’s not that OpenBSD never changes; it’s that OpenBSD only makes changes that feel organic 20 seconds after you experience them.

Exactly! And Xenocara. And Upgrades are painless.
This seems like an either-or thing. Either you fully eradicate the species from the area, or they establish a foothold that is infeasible to remove nest-by-nest, and then they grow exponentially.
No, but it means that the weatherman isn't particularly effective at forecasting the weather.
Repos could also have a notice like "It's been X days since last interaction" which would track the last commit, merge or even just comment in the issue tracker made by the maintainers.
It’s a unique and different language that clearly hit some kind of niche. It’s great when a language has any users and this one has quite a bunch. That’s super cool!

Personally I don’t like it. Not low level enough for when I need to go low level, not high level enough when I want to go high level. Also I would have wanted generics right from the start; that should be the norm for typed languages unless the types are really super simple (Go’s are complex enough to warrant generics in my opinion).

But, maybe the reason why Go has the niche it has is because other programmers prefer it the way it so. So it goes with languages - it’s an aesthetics thing just as much as it is a technical thing.
One of the advantages a startup has over FAANG is tight integration of recruiting with engineering. If done correctly, a startup can quickly source, phone interview, technical interview, and offer with just a few individuals working closely together. Fast timing and building momentum with a candidate can make the difference
Mostly I would say you need to be a bit more organised with your shopping.
Go was the first language that put a real effort in building a community, best practices and a healthy, sustainable ecosystem. This starts to pay off as there are more and more actively maintained, high quality libraries available.
> it could be extended to be a download tool (in another project, operating in a more gray legal area).

don't have to be grey area, offline viewing is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions
The harsh truth about tech promotions(and how to deal with them)
"Washington State Department of Agriculture workers, illuminated by red lamps, vacuum a nest of Asian giant hornets from a tree in Blaine"

Interesting. Why do they use red lamps?
Am I misreading or does not having symptoms make you not infectious? I can’t tell if you’re saying that or not.

Why do the test numbers keep on piling up?