skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That book uses many American examples, but it is fairly representative of most western democracies. That specific book is actually about ways to improve electoral results (while abandoning some traditional notions of democracy). There are many other books which discuss voter ignorance, and you can take your pick, any of them will give you the same idea.

>"If the average voter is poorly informed, the obvious solution to me would be to work on that issue directly, not on chipping away at what little power they have."

If someone is capable of doing a great deal of damage, the first step is to limit that damage, before teaching them how to do things properly. Educate the marginal and non-voters before you let them wreak havoc on an already troubled system.

>"It's kind of counter-intuitive, but getting people to turn up to elections is often the first step in getting them to build informed opinions, read up on issues, and take their civic duty seriously."

This is actually a variant of one of the first philosophical cases for democracy (though I can't remember who originally made that argument); the only problem is that it isn't true. Just read some of the books on voter ignorance, and you'll see exactly how wrong it is.
In Emacs, there is tight integration between the editor and the REPL. You can write code in an Emacs buffer, and you can enter that namespace from the REPL and the code from the buffer is immediately available. You can also add new code directly from the REPL, but I usually just add what I want to an Emacs buffer and eval it. It's a very productive workflow.

Skip to 15:53 and 20:30 for examples: https://videos.confluent.io/watch/yHoHM4Gxo7Bu1MCdo8vVh6?
I don't know if I agree with the first bit. Wolves were reintroduced to my original part of the US to much benefit, not just the conservation of the species. Stupid whitetail deer were running wild, destroying flora and destroying too many cars on the region's highways.

Departments of game and wildlife tried to address this by issuing more hunting permits for whitetail. Didn't work. There are only so many hunters, and they hunt all they can. More permits doesn't do anything for them when the population is booming. They're not hunting anything that exists, they're looking for trophies at this point, and taking the best of the gene pool. A group of vehicle insurance companies were organizing events, leasing hunting land, and paying bounties in a couple counties due to the rampant whitetail population.

Wolves were reintroduced there to much benefit making for a healthy population of whitetail. Also, because the whitetail overpopulation has been curtailed, game law violations dropped in that rural part of the world. It takes a dedicated hunter to actually 'hunt', but attracts any idiot with a rifle when game in an area is rampantly overpopulated.
To be honest, this reads as quite the Luddite article.

Not to mention the focus on Simulmatics is akin to using the 19th century use of bleeding as the basis for a criticism of modern medicine.

Also, the modern example of Cambridge Analytica obviously has essentially nothing to do with what 538 actually does...

Towards the end, the criticism of if a predictive model is falsifiable is an accurate one given that its output is probabilistic, and given the small number, and relative infrequency of, American elections (especially presidential ones) - which impacts the model's calibration. But, Nate actually brings this up quite often (which I assume the author would attribute to him "covering his bases").
Hey Markus from Lobe here :) all images and labels stay private to your computer, we don't ever see any of it. We only collect some generic app usage data for telemetry if you opt-in to sharing analytics after installing Lobe.
I don't know about the costs, but here in Brazil the turnout for the second round isn't much lower: for instance, for the 2018 federal elections, the turnout was 79.67% in the first round, and 78.70% in the second round (source: official results website). But that's probably because voting is mandatory (except for voters younger than 18 years or older than 70 years).
Television: It’s Called a Medium Because It’s Never Well Done
Wow, what a disastrously short-sighted business model.
If you browser instagram comments for more than 10 seconds, you have a 100 percent chance of seeing a bot or a thot. They do not give a fuck about spam. Only engagement.
Seek (the iOS) app works great -- I use it all the time on walks to identify plants (and even bugs and birds, if I can get close enough and they'll sit still). I think it's based on iNaturalist, which has a large community of professional botanists etc. collecting and classifying image data.
ESPs live and die by their delivery stats. Get enough people clicking “this is spam” (whether or not technically spam) and mailchimp is harmed.

The question of “will google deliver my mail to a gmail inbox?” is the key one, not whether someone, given enough time to study the matter carefully, can intellectually determine that mailchimp acted ok.
The article site is powered by Jekyll. The actual KDE.org site is Hugo
Creation of a MVC in Django
"The 11 Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of", which you only get to after landing on an ad funnel page?

This is essentially clickbait, despite the reputation of the domain the article is hosted on...
Apoorva Govind shares a practical framework to look at when considering changing teams, projects, or companies. I use something similar to look at how far I am from my comfort zone and whether this is the type of challenge that makes me excited to experiment - failing is acceptable as it's hard to know how success looks like at certain scale. I like to define my Failure Indicators, so I'll know how to be less stupid.
> I'd be curious to know if Dijkstra had access to a similar embarrassment of riches.

Dijkstra spent a good chunk of the latter part of his career at the University of Texas in Austin. There was plenty of access to facilities there, but that wasn't really what his research was about. He wrote longhand (scans here: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/) and didn't really use much technology directly in his work.

This makes sense, because after all, Dijkstra is responsible for this famous quote: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes".

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Dijkstra-mean-when-he-said-Co...
Ah, thank you. I've been learning about internationalization recently and wanted to make sure I understood the lingo. Much appreciated.
It is the way it is on purpose. The President of the United States is not meant to have so much power that everyone is all up in arms about it all the time. If anything needs to be evaluated, it's executive orders and whatever has happened to Congress.
Have you looked at generating a specialized version of this stack machine for other types than JSON values? It'd be neat to have a version that works directly on data with Haskell's GHC.Generics, or a custom derive in Rust.
Microsoft Clarity, a tool for visualizing user experience is out of beta
you could do that with openCV years ago
I'm not saying they're hard questions. They're annoying, pointless questions that I have to answer every single time I create or consume a REST API. Those pointless questions also create very real bugs that I have dealt with for years, because humans make mistakes.

It's a complete waste of time and energy for everyone involved. Every one of these questions creates additional mental overhead and an opportunity for incorrect implementation. I would rather deal with meaningful decisions as often as possible, like questions of state management, instead of constantly deciding what color to paint the bike shed based on each person's interpretation of what "the most RESTy" API should look like.

You didn't seem to disagree with me in any way... I see nowhere in your comment where you say that REST APIs are better than gRPC, or why you would pick to make a REST API over gRPC or vice versa. Your rant just has nothing to do with my comment, as far as I can tell?

I never claimed that `gRPC` would solve state management. I never even mentioned state management.

So... cool? gRPC is not a magic bullet, I completely agree. It's a tool, and it seems to have advantages over REST APIs. That's what we're discussing here, since the OP asked why someone would use gRPC.

Your comment seems to imply that it's pointless to improve one problematic situation (RPC) without completely fixing all other problems in existence.
Heh, I know that ~3 Gbps is the maximum you can get through the PCIe interface (x1, PCI 2.0), so that is expected. But I was hoping the internal ethernet interface was separate and could add one 1 Gbps more... the CPU didn't seem to be maxed out and was also not overheating at the time (especially not with my 12" fan blasting on it).
Political Playing Cards over the Centuries
I think the chance of a recount is pretty low. Court battles are almost a certainty if things are close though.
>However, when someone responds in a way that says they are willing to at least consider an opposing view, I will have a conversation.

But what if they don't want a conversation? What if they want a "silent majority" that they will then claim to represent? What if they interpret a lack of resistance as evidence of support?

You may not be changing people's minds outright, but you do have some impact on the strength of their convictions, and their sense of how broadly held they are.
I personally think Homo Sapiens killed to extinction all the other ‘human’ species, and the megafauna as well. (That’s sad, I know)
Being the Maintainer of the Veterans Appeals System
Google Lens (on the stock Android camera app) works pretty great for identifying plants to me. I'd say it's right about 95% of the time (in New England) if I can see a flower, and about 75% of the time for a leaf.
It would be great if this were a wiki, with Pro and Con columns for the products and services in each category.
A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X Is Deprecated? ' Conundrum
The website of the blog post describing kde.org has the "Powered by Jekyll..." footer. The actual kde.org website that the blog post is talking about, does not.
Not the one I have. Google Cloud Print or the manufacturer app only.
More chip industry action as Marvell is acquiring Inphi for $10B
What happens in the US for company fines? Insurance covers the fine under professional indemnity or something, and then the company passes increased insurance premiums on to customers? Or fine has to come out of earnings?
some of these cards are wild!
From everything I've read, Dijkstra was usually pleasant face-to-face. It was the later written backstab that one had to be prepared for.
Your argument has validity in Germany where they properly test drivers before they are allowed to drive.

But in countries like the USA, India, Perú, I think the AI is the safer option.
What about laravel?

Rails doesn't even have it's own authentication built in?

Seems laravel, might be closer to django, and with jetstream - it has an admin area baked in, which others don't.

Laravel is also just as, if not more performant (if you mix in swoole).
> Information, they now say with confidence, does escape a black hole. If you jump into one, you will not be gone for good. Particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge. Most physicists have long assumed it would; that was the upshot of string theory, their leading candidate for a unified theory of nature.

Does this mean string theory produced a prediction? I thought it had no predictive power and that's why people didn't like it.
FWIW the screenshot is of Blockly, not Scratch.
Thanks, I now added a direct link to kde.org in the blog post and I also added a link to the Capacity framework that was used previously.

The entire kde.org website migrated to Hugo. Previously only a very small part was using it (< 10 pages) and this was quite helpful to test if everything worked before porting the rest of the website.
'Systemic coercion' implies outside influence; citizens suffer from a number of internal biases, entirely aside from outside issues. Please just take a look at some of the literature on voter ignorance.
Japanese Towns Use This Robotic Wolf to Scare Off Bears, and It’s Terrifying
Letter to (new) managers – Product Lessons
Paperspace is doing a great job providing infrastructure for data science workloads and mlops. The target users are data scientists/engineers. The ability to share with non-technical users is quite limited.

We built Deepnote so that the work you do as a data scientist can be shared with both engineers and non-technical folks. We're not really an mlops platform. We make a really good notebook that integrates with other platforms.
I created a semgrep rule for this:
https://semgrep.dev/s/GRD6/?version=develop
I've used Google Lens a little bit, to see if it could be used for object identification.

It always seemes assume that I'm trying to buy something and tries to find products me that are somehow visually related to what it's looking at, or else to the content of some lettering that it's able to detect.

So I gave up on it.

Are there some settings I can tweak?
tl;dr: We're fatter, have worse health care, are more likely to kill ourselves (usually with guns), there is more violence, and more drug related deaths.
Bryce! Holy shit what a nostalgia bomb. Creating guns and starships using only boolean primitives. It was so weird, and in the end, only landscapes came out beautiful. I wonder what happened to that.
>it just wasn't reliable with what was in the cache so I could never trust whether what I saw was actually the state of the site and causing me to push a broken state to the remote server

Can you explain this a bit further? Why would what is/isn't in the cache cause issues? I must be missing something here. I have used Hugo before but not sure what this means exactly.
Sure, gRPC is no magic bullet that will solve all issues across your stack, but it is still a very solid tool/library. Using it instead of REST allows you quickly solve the easy problems (sending typed messages across the wire) while letting you focus on the hard parts (building distributed systems).
Similar story for me. Another point I find challenging with Hugo is that they very frequently release breaking changes. I want to upgrade because of features or speed, but there are only a few patches per version before there are also breaking changes. These happen so frequently it's hard to keep up.

Zola is less powerful, but does the job and feels much more stable.
Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations
> How exactly is the ship sinking?

I genuinely don't understand if this question is legit. Are you seriously living under a rock?

Covid:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Unemployemnt:
https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

Lifexpectancy:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...

Education:
https://hechingerreport.org/what-2018-pisa-international-ran...

Deficits (please pay attention to Republican terms vs Democratic terms)
https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/defic...

US incarceration rate:
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08...

And I'll leave US racism, US supreme court politics, US voter suppression as an exercise (an exercise that I'm not sure you will pass since you appear to think America has been just fine lately)
That squares pretty well with the old rule of thumb for the cost of opening a restaurant or bar: Figure out what you think it will cost, then triple it and add a third.
Well, they still start from real animal cells, from what I understand.
As a vegan, I'd have that dilemma. If I was an utilitarian, I'd probably justify it more clearly.

In the meanwhile, I'm quite happy with vegetable based "meat". It was definitely harder to be vegan 10 years ago (social interaction somehow demands a certain diet), and especially here in Spain.
Now it's really easy and confinement makes it easier too.
When you said undercut their competitors I assumed you meant undercutting the price consumers pay so I told you the price they are currently offering. I do not know that their costs are and since SpaceX is a private company I don't think we know how much it is costing them to provide it.
Never heard of this news source before. Anyone know how reputable it is?
> The JVM gives you practically every knob you need to achieve maximal performance

While this is true, finding folks that deeply understand how those knobs work, (and what the potential pitfalls are of twisting each knob might be) is not as easy as finding a Java/Kotlin/Scala/Clojure/JRuby developer. The out-of-the-box JVM experience can take one quite a long way. It's that last mile to real performance that can be the nightmare.
Disney's Carousel of Progress and Facebook
I was going to say, Lens works incredibly well. Working with a farm box of random vegetables that we couldn't identify, Lens had a 95% accuracy and instantly, too.
I was very positive on Roam early on. I actually signed up for the Believer plan. I've since switched to Obsidian though. I was finding that Roam became very slow and laggy once documents started to get pretty long. It started to hinder my note taking rather than help. One simple example was how the cursor doesn't focus when jumping to a new document. That always really bugged me and despite bringing it up it was never fixed. They seemed to prioritize other things like Pomodoro timer for some reason.

Maybe these things are fixed now and maybe I'll try it out again one day but Obsidian has been great for me. My files are local so it's fast. I also have them backed up via Dropbox and because of that I can view/edit on my phone.
Previously I used Atom for my note taking so this is very similar but now I have the additional benefits of linked documents and attachments and templates and so on.
I'm saving that as a test case name but making some small adjustments.

'Mbaät\"a, Sho,dló'

"a" followed by "ä" because some suggest encoding umlauts as double characters. When you decode that does it go first or second?

Answer: use Unicode.

Throw an escape character in there, before the quote character just to make it interesting.

This is a good time for everyone to review: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Would you say there are real CS advances when it comes to LZ family compression algorithms and containers? Wasn't LZ well known prior to the past 10 years? And is there any kind of fundamental or theoretical advancement in containers, or is this an example of a new(er) type of implementation?
> I would argue that the number of gatekeepers to nationwide mainstream dialog is much higher than 3 or 4 individuals. I think the number is too small, but 3 or 4 seems to me to be an incredibly hyperbolic number of individuals to name as gatekeepers to the entire marketplace of ideas. If you think only 3 or 4 people control the entire marketplace of ideas for "reputable members of society", then you should be able to exhaustively name them. Who are these 3 or 4 people that control all of reputable society?

Hence the italicized portion from my prior comment: "So that takes the pool of people deciding from hundreds of millions (in the USA) down to like 3 or 4 individuals (depending on how final decision making power is distributed)"

Let's try to minimize not acknowledging uncertainty qualifiers that are literally written within comments please.

Since we seem to be now in the mode of hyper-dissection of assertions, hyperbole, etc, and I may have committed the sin of being off by a couple hundred people, what would this same level of scrutiny come up with when taken to your claim:

>> But if all reputable members of society decide not to associate with an idea...it's losing in the marketplace.

Which of these two numbers would be larger in your estimation?

([All members of society] - [People who control a major publishing platform])

([People who control a major publishing platform] - [4])

...where [All adult members of society - USA] = ~250 million

...where [Twitter Users - USA] = ~68 million

...where [Facebook Users - USA] = ~235 million

...where [YouTube Users - USA] = ~126 million

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

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/408971/number-of-us-face...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/296227/us-youtube-reach-...

> It's almost like there's a monopoly concern I raised, and that the power is concentrated in too few hands.

I would say it's exactly that, and also other things. I don't consider myself in disagreement on that point.

> I did advocate for treating this as an anti-monopoly issue instead of a free speech issue after all!

It is literally both, so I think we should treat it as both.

I wonder though...might the problem be not so much my math, but more so that I happen to hold an unacceptable opinion on the matter of censorship, in general? Based on voting patterns on anti-censorship comments (most of which contain no mathematics), I'm leaning towards the latter. Considering the way the wind is blowing on such matters, maybe people like me should start toeing the party line around here, lest the very topic of conversation pays a personal visit to our doorstep.
Colorado is a rectangle? Think again
The problem with non-binding agreements is the same as unenforced laws -- those who are "good" people follow the rules, and those who are "bad" don't. In a competitive environment, those who have no qualms about breaking the law (agreement) are at an advantage.

China and other countries are trying to compete with the US economically, and this agreement would provide a way to do that via unequal outrage. US haters are already doing it, condemning the US (even though it's been lowering emissions for a while now), and making excuses for China and other major polluters because they are "developing countries". Meanwhile China is largely immune to internal criticism, and basically faces no meaningful pressure externally (aside from Trump, for other reasons). This would have been bad for the US.

Your views on this are emotional and overly simplistic. Grow up!
> Especially investor Twitter is raving about it for many weeks now about how the tool is a ..

I see this a lot. Especially on Youtube and twitter. productivity geeks rave about how xyz app changed their life, how they have squeezed out every productive minute out of their life just because they used the xzy app. Notion, Roam, Todoist, etc.

> If you're just starting out, I'd recommend using [Obsidian][https://obsidian.md]

even I use obsidian, mostly due to it being an offline app and having a good interface.
I offered (and was subsequently asked) to explain the basis for my comment upthread about those two deserving each other. I didn't offer and am not interested in being cross-examined. I've written in detail about both Taibbi and Greenwald on this site, so if you're interested in details, avail thyself of the search bar beloweth.
The Democratic party fought extremely hard to keep the Green party off the ballot in many states this year. They sued and literally harassed petition signers into recanting their signatures. Both parties in the United States disenfranchise voters.

https://www.gp.org/dem_voter_suppression
So, is there a way for me to use an easy cli command like:

laravel new myapp --jetstream

And have SaaS style teams, admin area, authentication, 2-factor, tailwind layouts, and vue+inertia all configured for me, so I literally just need to build the unique feature parts and not worry about auth/sessions/etc?
You can now get up to 4 TB of iCloud storage
Introduction to Functions – A Beginners Guide
Australia also uses proportional representation (STV) which is quite different from the winner-takes-all instant-runoff elections that are being referred to as "ranked choice" in the US.
I am interested in your thoughts on, say, Google refusing to send an email because the content is deemed objectionable by Alphabet Inc.
You can't tax the rich. They'll simply move to another country.