skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He was previously governor of California. Guess when California stopped offering free higher education?

And why hasn’t California added free public education or expanded housing in the last 20-30 years then?
Hate speech is any speech someone else HATES, its plain and simple

If you take a decent look at the situation
White Right Wing ethnic Nationalists
are not in power

If they were
Why would they allow

Censorship
Poltical correct
LGBT
Trans
Anti White culture
global left activists as "news"
Constant blame on males, straight males and white males

Anti nationalist push

Pro censorship

Pro free trade

Pro Globalism

Pro central banking

Pro USRY

Along with every SINGLE mainstream platform parroting the same anti white message as Global LEFT, Jewish Zionists, and "news"/education/history/uni/schools/churchs/etc
at the same time kicking off

whites

males

right wing

christians

anyone calls out the BS on goverment/news/mainstream

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Go look up the pure HATE on twatter that Jewish people have towards whites, its a plague
> Suicide, abuse/trauma, [...], drug and alcohol addictions, and depression have all been seen to increase since we first had lockdowns.

Correlation versus causation.

We're in the middle of a major health emergency. Why are you attributing those to the effects of lockdowns, rather than the effects of the pandemic? You don't think that the risk to personal health of a potentially lethal virus, seeing older friends and relatives dying, and worrying about the risk of health systems collapsing are causing any of the above?

In March, someone I know in Italy passed on the virus to his grandfather, who died at home. All the ambulances in the area were tied up for hours. You can imagine the effect on his mental health. I doubt the impact was comparable to the effects of intermittent lockdowns.
As far as I understand the problem with dark matter is also that there isn't a single dark matter theory, but lots of different ones with a lot of very variable tunables. So the problem is that dark matter by itself isn't that predictive.
> You want outsiders to participate (think: new employees)? Write all documentation yourself, too!)

Shouldn't you be doing this anyway? Not trying to be snarky: it's that every job I've worked at has a classic underdocumentation problem. Tribal knowledge dominates, and the practicalities of shipping product overrun the need for teaching employees, new and old, about the idiosyncrasies of the system. [edit] This seems hardly an issue with LISPs or DSLs in particular.
I've added some screenshots! Let me know if you think that's better and what other screenshot you think might be relevant!
> I was simply asking if it was verified by showing that weighting by education made the 2016 polls align with reality.

To try and answer your technical question: yes and no.

I know why you think this would be easy to do. But this is harder to do than you're thinking because the problem with education was both weighting and sampling.

So, yes, you can play with the weights and get a corrected result. (That's literally just tautological though -- of course in a parameterized model you can wiggle weights around to give the perfect result when you already know what the result should be...)

But, no, that doesn't tell you about what the effect of increasing the sample of these voters would be, and improving sampling is the only real way to get closer to ground truth.

So, some pollsters are sampling larger numbers of less educated people and also weighing those votes differently. But no, we can't know what the combined effect of those two things would've been in 2016. Why? because we can wiggle around the weights post hoc but can't go back in time and resample. And the question about correcting without resampling is kinda uninteresting because the fact that you can get the correct result by just wiggling around weights is literally just a mathematical tautology.

Hope that helps.
The classic paper Imperative Functional Programming https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/imperat... introduced the IO monad and explained that its internals are based on passing around the state of the world. The monad hides the world and keeps it linear. The compiler (ghc) optimizes out the world so that it is implicit in the compiled program. I believe this is still the way that ghc works.
> No they can, local governments must zone it as residential, and then they usually have strict restrictions on how many units can be built on each area, licenses, permissions, building codes...

Which are exactly the same for condo or apartment.

The reasons are economic AFAICT:

> For a long time, the economics of constructing a rental made little sense compared to a condo. Condo builders get a significant portion of their financing directly from future unit owners, who give hefty deposits to secure their spot and therefore assume some of the risk. Rental landlords, on the other hand, need to front the majority of the equity, assuming all the risk themselves. When a condo building is complete and all the units have been sold and paid for, the developers quickly reap the returns on their investment and move on. For a rental building, the returns take many, many years longer.

* https://nationalpost.com/life/homes/is-this-rare-new-rental-...

Toronto has had vacancy rates <2% for decades, so it's not like rental demand wasn't there. In fact prices peaked just before the pandemic and are now falling because the Airbnb folks are switching to long-term rentals. The price of condos is dropping as well since plenty of people are just selling their Airbnb units and flooding the market to certain extent.

A good number of rental buildings are actually being constructed in partnership with insurance and pension funds, as they need long term cash flows and baby boomers aren't getting any younger.
This is like the Posterous of notes.
You can get some 85+" TV's for under 2k currently. We're running a few of those for ours.
Your own link from the Github docs has this to say:

> GitHub is committed to continuing to offer free public repository services to developers with individual and organizational accounts in U.S.-sanctioned regions. This includes limited access to free services, such as public repositories for open source projects (and associated public Pages), public gists, and allotted free Action minutes, for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes.

They do not ban Iranian IPs from accessing their site on a network level, and they do allow Iranians to have accounts to work on open source projects. These are both things that Gitlab is accused of doing here. This leaves us with a couple of options:

1. Github is not in compliance.
2. Gitlab, not allowing any Iranian to access their accounts, and blocking IPs, is over-complying.
3. It is not clear what is required to be in compliance, and Americans think that having to fear prison time in the face of such uncertainty is normal.
I think research & evidence is vague when you include gender & diversity studies in sciences. There's a lot that's barely above an essay, it'll stick for a few years and then get retracted (gender pay gap anyone?) The cultish behavior surrounding it ("I'm a sinner, even though I never know when I'm sinning, I'm worthless, oh please, Lord, forgive me, I submit myself before your will") makes it look like a replacement for religion, not anything stemming from science.

I don't believe the similarity to Maoist struggle sessions is an accident, it's born from the same general school of thought.
What you say about "temporal memory" is not exactly true for Google's assistant. You can try two separate queries

1. "Who is the president of the United States?"
2. "What is his wife's name?"

And it will resolve the deictic pronoun.

I haven't tried this feature out extensively, but it has worked for a few years now.
My dad basically tricked me into learning programming through Gorilla. "How about instead of playing games I show you how to MODIFY the games?" and I took the bait.
> In my experience this kind of gatekeeping eventually breaks down due to deadlines and similar.

I don't disagree. That's why I said the sweet spot is much closer to Java/C#/Kotlin.

> But I have not noticed that it's too often

That's the problem though. Those silent difficult to detect bugs are what affect reliability and safety. With exceptions, you're going to have to explicitly ignore them, whereas with golang errors, it's much easier to misuse them. Not to mention the fact that golang errors are basically strings, which makes dealing with them very error prone.

> Hard to compare with an anecdote like that, I just haven't heard much complaints regarding compile times, if anything the opposite, and certainly not that it's a significant problem in a pros/cons comparison.

My guess is that most people don't use golang for large projects, and few who do don't care about the long compile times.
I agree with you on the stacktrace. The libraries that provide context via wrapping are good but woefully underused.

> Error handling in Go is tedious and there's no visible indication if you forget to do it or don't do it properly so sometimes it goes AWOL

This is also true, though I would expect teams to fail on linting so I don't share the concern. Is there an equivalent for unchecked exceptions (honest question)?

I'll take your word on the performance being better for exceptions, but I'm less convinced that Go's performance is a significant sticking point for the language.
They can find new jobs, the people you've killed for disagreeing with your foreign policy are dead forever.
I was quite surprised by your claim, as I'm quite sure it is a right in EU and other countries. It seems you have been correct, though not any more. See quote[1]:

The U.S. Supreme Court has traditionally characterized fair use as an affirmative defense, but in .. (2015) .. U.S. Court of Appeals .. concluded that fair use was not merely a defense .. but was an expressly authorized right, and an exception to the exclusive rights granted to the author of a creative work by copyright law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Fed, FinCEN want banks to report international transfers of as little as $250
I don't see that happening anytime soon...

Today, you can download, install and use Win10 for free (zero cost) from Microsoft's web site.

https://beebom.com/get-windows-10-key-free-cheap/
Givanz/VvvebJs: Drag and drop website builder JavaScript library
Made up words to censor and stop debate by the ANTI WHITES, Global LEFT and Zionist Jews

* Sexist - made up word to CENSOR and stop debate about gender

* Racist - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate about RACE

* Anti Semite - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion about Jews/ISRAEL/Z1onism/Judism/Crimes that jews commit

* Islamfobia - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion about ISLAM and Muslims

* White Supremacist - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion about NATIONALISM vs Globalism/Multi culturalism

* Homofobe - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion

* Transfobe - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion

* Conspiracy Theory - Made up word to CENSOR and stop debate/open discussion and smear anyone that challenges the Government/education/system
Is the timing of this post meaningful? Could it be pointing at someone in particular?
No, it doesn't mean that 99% of the time. It's more like 99% contextual.

If I ask for recent wildfire news and I'm in a state that doesn't experience wildfires often, are you going to return 15 news articles about wildfires spread out over the 200 year history of the state? I almost certainly want 15 news articles about the current wildfires in some other parts of the country. Your algorithm doesn't really say what to do here.

If I ask for "recent relatively rare astronomical event" recent might mean hundreds of years or more. If I ask for "recent PC game releases" it might mean a month or the current year. If I ask for "recent public events in my town" it might mean over the last week.

In many cases, "there are no recent events" is a better answer than "here are the last 15 events."
Vaccines do have different effect on different people.
Personally, I think the reason is just another take on the bike shed effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
I suck at talking. I speak in halting, quiet sentence fragments. My mind wanders and I lose my point. I get in my head a lot. I'm much better at writing and reading as a communication method. I'm open to speech stuff, but currently no speech recognition solution meets any needs I have.

Just my 2c, I'm sure other people have uses for it. The most interesting one (to me) has popped up a few times on HN, which is voice-based programming. I would love to see that mature and become more widespread, there are a few things that are annoying enough to do that if I had a voice shortcut or eye tracking it would be pretty cool.
This is just the optimal halting problem; sometimes you want to spend time finding the exact thing you want, and sometimes you just want something that's good enough. Both problems don't need the same solution.
But unless I'm misunderstanding something, the change in approval is already factored into the current predictions. If there is a greater than expected turnout by a group of people voting - in aggregate - more for Biden than for Trump, then that favors Biden relative to the current predictions. So that's not going to be a reason for a surprise in the other direction.

There are plenty of reasons our predictions might not match reality, but they're not going to be wrong in that direction for that reason.
> a few financial companies (Capital One) are now seeing themselves and identifying as tech companies.

Is it branding or an actual shift?

I've seen many companies pivot to being "tech companies" but still didn't have incentives in place to attract real talent, and more crucially that still treated software and tech as a cost center.

But hey they had bean bags!
Alexander Hamilton's Hidden History as an Enslaver [pdf]
World's fastest directly modulated laser exceeding 100-GHz bandwidth
Hey everyone, I am the creator of Tempo and would be glad to answer any questions you may have.
What was your biggest painpoint(as client) when working with software companies?
What was your biggest pain point (as client) when working with software development companies?

Was it about delivery dates not being respected? Costs changing? Quality of the product?
Which version of Java are you using? And what is Rnd? The class included with JDK is Random. We rely on escape analysis to elide such object creation for us and it works reasonably well. If something this trivial doesn't work for you, file bug with them. We have had success with that as well.
Aside from the usability POV, GUI provided significantly more features to the user, such as visualization of information and data. Images, Audio, Video, Multi-Media, 3D/2D Video games. You could have more information on the screen and at your fingertips at the same time. You can load many of these things from the CLI, but it's not as convenient as within a GUI.
In some ways, this feels like the reviews of the last couple of generations of iPhone: it can work really well in very good light and at typical web resolutions. The photo of the woman in the parka is very impressive as a technical demonstration but is also pretty blurry/smeared, to my eye. As an only camera, it's probably the best or near the best of the phones.
Looks great !
Can’t wait to check it out :)
On the google side, "wake me up at 7" results in a 7AM alarm 95% of the time and a 7 PM alarm the other 5%. Just frequent enough to screw you over…
Did Linus Ever Meet Dennis Ritchie or Ken Thompson?
Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator
Ah interesting! Glad they removed it. I can't quite find out when, and I don't have the time to really dig in right now. Very cool, thanks.
What do you mean? Not sure I get you?
I had to read the title a few times to my self it was that shocking. The audacity. The CBP is doing something illegal to citizens and then they refuse to come to court, essentially.
Mental model to deliver high quality software
There is no right or wrong in software delivery - this is a post on learnings and suggestions in this area. I hope you enjoy it
For most short interactions, the mouse/trackpad/finger is simply faster.

Now for long-form typing, I'd love to use dictation and sometimes do for taking down short thoughts I e-mail myself from my iPhone.

But the problem is not just that it still makes tons of mistakes. (Probably a quarter of my notes-to-self involve errors so big it's even impossible for me to later figure out what I even meant by trying to sound it out phonetically.)

The problem is that I can't correct those mistakes using voice. There's no way to say "pause, correct affect to effect" or anything like that.

Even more maddeningly, the words keep changing in real time. Sometimes I'll utter a sentence it gets right, then it "re-analyzes" it and completely messes half of it up.

I just wish there were a kind of dictation where I could say a phrase, pause, see if it's right (and it wouldn't change after), say the wrong part with a kind of emphasis that lets the system know I'm issuing a correction, the system would look for the next most probable alternative, repeat as desired. Then I could actually dictate successfully.

This UX where the words are always changing back and forth according to updated statistical probabilities, even as long as 15 seconds after I said them, and where there's no ability to go back and correct them with voice... it's just so so dumb.

The problem isn't voice recognition anymore. It's voice correction.
I wonder if the effect works backward - excellence attracts the best and remaining on top requires assimilating the best from all sources. Diversity essentially is a side effect of their paradigms and world views in terms of openness to new things and experimentalism.

On a related note successful Empires become more diverse over time - one of the few virtues of Imperialism and they need the edge to expand further while the most xenophobic ones tend to be shorter lived or more limited in their success. One insulting but true observation about national flags flown by white supremacists is that they are all flags of losers (Nazi Germany, Confederacy, Rhodesia).
So, I responded to you in another thread above. You seem to agree that Github is allowing Iranian IPs to browse the website, as well as have accounts to work on OpenSource projects. These are things Gitlab is not doing. Not sure where your disagreement is then.
> Maybe what we really need is to slow down?

In some cases, we should slow down. But in general, I disagree. Especially because of the way in which we use technology now. Our smart phones are becoming a bit of an external brain to us. It holds contacts, conversations, searches, notes, musings, etc. We use it to recall a fact or answer a question without really even thinking about it. Maybe what we really need is to slow don’t think it is only a problem now because smart phones and the like aren’t really designed to improve our lives, but as ad delivery platforms to manipulate us into buying products and services we probably don’t need. I would love better tech that helped offload mental tasks my human brain isn’t great at, but computer brains are, and let me focus on things my human brain is good at as well as things I just would rather think about.
The language in the post doesn't seem too soft. My reading of it is a pretty blunt enumeration of failures on the part of the CEO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous This Posterous? Nice, didn't know about it :)
Not to mention extra wear and tear to roads from their delivery trucks, the air traffic controllers handling their planes, etc.
I built my first PC recently, a desktop that I'm running Linux on. Cost me under $600 and is powerful enough for my needs. I love it.
I don't think that's the case at all. How is the joke on the American if the guy pretending to be Khazak is acting dumb? I've not seen Americans being rude or mean or judgmental to the Boat character until he is rude first, so it's not like it's highlighting some immoral or prejudiced behavior.

Borat skits seem to be him pretending to be a foreigner and being dumb and obnoxious while his subject looks increasingly uncomfortable. There is no layered irony or subtlety for the most part - it's just the low brow humor of being dumb and awkward to make someone else feel dumb and awkward.
I (late 30s) am unable to talk to younger members (late 20s) of my family about science in western society because they believe that academic science is inherently corrupted by patriarchal and racist power structures, whereas I believe that there is no need to be anywhere near so cynical about academic science and that it is in fact one of the areas of society that we can be proud of.

The younger members have grown up taught by many university professors who have pushed postmodernist, power-structure analyses in any different subject areas, to the extent that they find it more important to think of science from the sort of postmodernist cultural theory point of view, than to actually think about the science itself.
I think that (the compositor doing the screenshotting) is already the way it works. But "screenshots" (i.e. fed to the user as files / on the pasteboard) are the exception, not the rule, of the use of this API.

The normal, non-edge-case use of the relevant screen-capturing API is for screen-sharing ala Zoom, or for remote desktop using RDP et al. These are use-cases where one app wants to see what's going on in other apps — exactly the thing you wouldn't want a malicious app to be able to do, but also exactly the thing that you do want these apps to be able to do.
Those are also blocked, but I genuinely implore you to make an Iranian friend (somehow) and ask them what works.

For myself, I saw my users go to zero when I migrated to AWS+GCP over my European based co-location provider.

I was hosting services that had 30,000~ monthly active users from Iran at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran#Un...
I talk to my phone in the car all the time.

Hands free.

"send message to john"

"how far is it to"

"get directions to"

"play podcast"

"play audiobook"
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart: From Empty Pockets to Stained Glass
Kinto.sh v1.2 Released – Mac like keybinds in less than a minute
> if a restaurant had no menu and the wait staff just recited the menu

That's exactly how food is presented to you at lots of high-end restaurants. Once you get above the fast-casual tier, menus never have pictures. If you know a lot about food and you trust the chef, voice is a perfect medium for explaining the choices. Pictures are just a discovery aid.
>I would consider an illness "eradicated" if the vaccine is no longer regularly given.

That's not how it works. Just because you don't see an outbreak for a while, that is never a reason to stop immunizing children. Pathogens can and do have natural reservoirs. This is why when some idiots stopped taking the Measles vaccines we had an outbreak here in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir
To expand on this...

Engineers often love to say you can't do this because regular expressions parse regular languages, and HTML is context-sensitive, not regular, and therefore it's impossible to parse.

What they often miss is that the language actually being scraped may only be regular. If you want to parse a page to see if it has the word Banana on it, then your language may defined as .?Banana.?, and that's regular, it doesn't matter that it's HTML. This even applies to questions like "does this contain <element> in the <head>?", or "is there a table in the body".

HTML is not regular, but you're not implementing a browser, you're implementing the language of what you're scraping, and that may well be regular.
Sounds like a great idea. I can’t wait to see what the tips are