skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It started as a business software play called "On-line Systems". It seems doubtful that Ken Williams was considering actual networked software on Apple II at the time (though the machine could do it) but probably it sounded advanced and cool. In 1979 "on-line" would have been recognizably computery, but not mean much else to most people, who would never have seen a computer network.

Says Jimmy Maher, who should know, On-Line Systems was "a name fairly typical of the vaguely futuristic, vaguely compound, but essentially meaningless names (Microsoft, anyone?) that were so common in the era."
https://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/
That would only make sense to do if they believed in their own business model.
I used it all last week, and if I had the Outlook window minimized, new emails and calendar alerts wouldn't show up. Finally switched back to old Outlook during a meeting I joined halfway through (due to the missing alert).
It's not as dire as you suggest. To simplify a bit, you can take the set of ~75% predictions created by a model (which can be an actual model, or it can be just the meta model of whatever model Nate Silver wants us to trust right now), and then see what percentage of them were right. If that comes to 75%, then the model is well-calibrated, and it's a solid enough basis to assign a 75% probability to future 75% predictions, which is often as good as you can get when trying to make decisions and plans.
Just to let you know, the citation at the end of 26 falls over and causes the entirety of page 27 to be a link to it.
Maybe this is just on Firefox Mobile, but for me there is an image of some berries and no text shown for 0.5 seconds, which then gets replaced by a black rectangle, and then text appears that is borderline impossible to read over the black rectangle. The first thing I see is basically broken to the point of uselessness.

Edit: yep, on Chrome Mobile I actually see an animation and stuff seems to work. On Firefox it's borked.
And in keeping with anthropologist tradition, they will assume all the trash was part of some significant religious ceremony.
My vote in MA is not mathematically meaningful today, as you could correctly call the 2020 presidential race for blue back all the way back in 2016.

Change the voting process and I could vote for Party Q, then F, then D and have something closer to my true preferences be measurable vs today and give the parties a sense of where they stand with the populace. I’m still not convinced it breaks the binary star in US politics.

Right now, if those are my prefs, I have a choice of voting Q, voting D, or staying home. If Q is a third party, there’s an argument that vote might as well have not been counted or cast (because from today’s voting you can’t infer the true level of support for Q because some Qs cast their ballot for D just on the off chance that R would otherwise win; for the same reason, you can’t tell as much about the true R or D support either).
I was doing image optimization manually but then there weren't much images in my case so that was doable by optimizing sizes/ resolution using Gimp. There are meanwhile better options but it's theme dependent. In hugo this is what I wanted:

https://after-dark.habd.as/

but IIRC not all of its image features were available in the theme's zola port
https://github.com/getzola/after-dark
If you can position the camera so that only the "counter" is visible from it, a much easier option is to use the pre-trained yolov4.

https://gist.github.com/YashasSamaga/e2b19a6807a13046e399f4b... (download links for yolov4.weights is at https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet)

Using this, you will be able to detect if a cat is present in your image.
That explains it; it is the Google Lens app I used. Or does it?

However, if you go to the Google Store page for it, it does tout this feature:

"IDENTIFY PLANTS & ANIMALS Find out what that plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park."

I have the current version, which was updated on August 13, 2020.

I will give it another spin, and also look for the lens mode in the camera app. (My phone is from Google, so the camera is the Google one; if any Android camera app has a Google Lens mode, it should be that one.)
That's the Go runtime.
Thanks glad you like it!
I have preferred results, but I can accept a range of democratic outcomes that I see as reasonable. I think most other people take the same view; those 'get out the vote' campaigns are usually targeted towards demographics with predictable preferences, so they're also results-oriented.

I'd rather that electoral outcomes reflect what people would vote for if they were well-informed (which is what the cited book is about). You can predict how more information and understanding would impact voting trends (there are various techniques for this), and the results are not that everyone agrees on everything, but the impact would be an improvement (in my opinion).
No, it is not. A ledger is a append-only data structure consisting of a list of (applied) transactions. What kind of transactions depends on what you're ledger-ing, but it certainly doesn't imply relative values (if anything the opposite, though probably not anything).
Team finds path to nanodiamond from graphene
RTN's focus on freedom of speech while condemning Mailchimp's actions is absolutely meant as an equivocation that tries to apply Constitutional protections in an argument where they don't apply.

And your comment does the exact same thing only more explicitly. The First Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with this issue. And it's very telling that people would prefer to focus on platforms regulating their content and "cancel culture" than addressing the very real and consistent attacks on the First Amendment by the current administration.
I think you have two incorrect assumptions here. You're assuming A) that parties and political ideologies exist in 1 dimension, and that B) the second party is closer to the third party than the first, such that its votes will go to the nearest neighbor, which is then the third party.

Even granting A, B is definitely not true. There are many similarities between the two major parties, and removing one in favor of a third party would likely split voters between the third party, and the other major party.

Also, A is not true either, so the distance between parties becomes even more unclear.

I for sure believe voters should be able to reject the current political choice on offer! I support IRV over our current system for sure. But, my main point is that IRV is actually not what many people believe it to be, and is far worse than other, simpler systems, such as approval voting.
A much easier option:

Get a USB 3.0 2.5G or 5G card. With a fully functional DMA on the USB controller it can get quite close to PCIE option.

A setback for all Linux users at the moment:

The only chipmaker making USB NICs doing 2.5G+ is RealTek, and RealTek chose to use USB NCM API for their latest chips.

And as we know Linux support for NCM now is super slow, and buggy.

I barely got 120megs from it. Will welcome any kernel hacker taking on the problem.
The U.S. Hits the 9M Mark as Infections Keep Surging
I originally preferred Jekyll to Hugo and this explains why most of the 20 KDE websites are using Jekyll, but I recently fell in love with Hugo.

Hugo was a lot harder to learn, the template engine from Hugo felt very strange for myself coming from Django, Twig and the Jekyll template engines. The template lookup order is complex and for small website this complexity is unnecessary.

When building a large website (kde.org has more than 1400 pages) all these features make sense. I can organize my template in directories, enjoy fast generation time, separating the templating part from the content, create SCSS files for each pages that needs a special layout. There is also a (fast) JS bundler integrated into Hugo. Afaik Zola also doesn't support i18n and Jekyll has a few plugins for that but this is not a build-in functionality.
> What part are you referring to?

A lot of the program seems to have rested on subsidies and incentives, which are nice ways of saying you're relying on a profit or investment motive.

> Well, on the other hand, is there something inherent in housing that requires those motives?

Aside from that it requires scarce resources to produce and maintain and is rival in nature? I suppose not. Though that does put it in the company of quite a few other goods and services.
Well, who was responsible for this exactly?

Given the circumstances, they should do better than an amorphous "we".
>Adding the (partial?) equations of the path integral and/or the matrices would allow for an actual understanding without the confining nature of human words.

Go read the paper if you want that. Quanta isn't a journal its a popular science mag.
I always asked myself, were does the money go? Shouldn't they split it between all users who were affected by the data breach?
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but: I'm against code of conducts because they're worse than the problems they try to solve.

edit:

In my opinion, code of conducts become a distraction and a cause for worry to anyone contributing to these projects because someone inevitably gets their feelings hurt and points to some well-intentioned rule in the CoC to get the 'offender' shamed/removed even if no harm was intended.
"Online" used to mean "not batch-processed". Most of their games reacted immediately to player input, so in that sense they weren't batch programs.

This plausible explanation might not have anything to do with the actual reason for the name...
his papers are quite good though, and he did a lot of writing, just not for journals
Aw, thanks! (3rd edition is in the works)
Here is the State of Washington's wolf management portal. Lots of good information here:
https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-recover...

Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Grazing (Leasing/Contracts)
https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/product-sales-a...

Some Indian tribes (maybe just the Colville Confederated Tribes) have their own rules for range area management but they are similar to WA state rules.
I didn't address the POV of an external observer but I'm sure you're right. But what you describe for the POV of someone falling in seems consistent with what I suggested. I don't understand what you think is backwards about it.
>... chemistry and pressure must play together to deliver a 2-D diamond.
Here's my real-world grpc request ID propagation middleware in go, it's extremely simple: https://gist.github.com/llimllib/d0840eaee14411a50201960615d...

this function gets called a couple hundred million times per week, and has never failed as far as I know
I wish seeing the name Dijkstra didn't immediately remind me of his oft-quoted BASIC comment:

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

The problem is it's quoted regardless of how much the BASIC dialect being discussed resembles the one he was talking about [1]. There are lots of good BASIC languages out there running all kinds of useful software that are dismissed out of hand by a subset of developers simply from that comment.

[1] https://programmingisterrible.com/post/40132515169/dijkstra-...
The fact that humans interbred with them likely means we would just think of them as another kind of slightly different looking people.
This is not the first time I hear good things about Freespace. I had the first one, and I didn't think it was as good as X-Wing or TIE Fighter. Guess I should try the open source version of Freespace 2...
Some stories are too good to be true I guess. To bad. I'm always wondering how do the directors always find the right guy in the right time just before something is going to happen. I suppose it's just a trick with mixing up the timeline and presenting things in different order.
Ehm… As I was profiling the code base I found that most of the time was spent hashing the data. The hashing part is quite critical for correctness and any collisions will cause it to generate incorrect. Initially I used SHA256 and was thinking about ways to speed it up. One experiment I did was to tweak it to use 256 bits internally, but then only output 64 bits. This turned out to help quite a lot. Of course, later I got a bit anxious about only using 64 bits so I increased it to 128 bits: https://github.com/sanity-io/mendoza/commit/42c7dee4b42bfb4c...

At this point all of this is probably completely moot.
I read it more like people back then weren't so sensitive and didn't even take that kind of straight talk as arrogance and dismissiveness.

But then maybe Alan Kay will show up and clarify.

I'm just old enough to remember when corporate culture was like this too. It used to be OK to say when people were wrong or get mad when programming errors lit the building on fire. That started to become NOT OK in the past 15 years. A lot of older engineers really had to to work hard to adapt because it's so frustrating today when people make careless mistakes over and over again and no one can say a word without being accused of not being a team player or something.

People were more likely to admit their own mistakes then too. In that environment it was better to come clean then try to hide a mistake even when coming forward can solve the problem faster.

We've overcorrected this stuff.. correcting it helps make the field more inclusive but at some point after we're diverse and inclusive we need to walk some of this behavior back a bit.
What's the vegan reason to not eat lab grown meat? No animal was harmed or even involved in the production of the meat. It's morally equivalent to greenhouse grown plants IMO.
When deciding a few months ago to update my Video Hub App website from hand-edited static template I used I wanted to find a good approach.

I needed i18n (internationalization) with unique per-language routes (as is described in this article). I tested Hugo but ended up going with Gatsby. I'm happy with the result - adding a new language now is just adding another .json file.

public: https://videohubapp.com/en/

GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/video-hub-app-gatsby-website
Canada immigration plan 2021-23
Seconding the recommendation for xsv; I've used it extensively and it works great.
5 Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
Is there a chance you'd be willing to release the template eventually?
I think stock is supposed to be like gold, you invest in the value of gold. As long as it's a valuable asset, there will be demand. The idea of explicitly returning value to investors wasn't common until the 1980s
I thought this was going to be about the blog site which I loathe.

But it was a fun quick read about television.
Some women voted 100 years ago. Not all women. As an example US born Japanese Americans got to vote in 1952
I definitely encountered other games for which you had to look up stuff in the manual, and maybe it wasn't done as well because I always hated it.
I don't use any of those. This is written in Go and doesn't use MySql. It's an encrypted file.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDNZBT_GeqU&t
Three Tesla owners in the U.S. thought the same thing, and they all died relaxing while their car drove them into obstacles right in front of them that any other car or human driver would have easily seen.

Tesla's FSD might be worth the investment one day. But it's definitely not right now. (Some drivers are reporting issues with FSD already; at least 3 near accidents in just the past 3 days https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/tesla-is-now-beta-testi...).
Boy, have I got the incredibly specific article for that exact question:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-we-say-70-percent-...
> If platform published their content rules and publicly demonstrated how they apply them equally I doubt we would be having any of these discussions.

They do (or at least the publishing part). Who decides whether or not they apply them "equally"? The government? Like you want the Trump administration to have decision making power over whether or not Twitter is fairly moderating content?

> Instead we have "moderation" that always favors one political line of thought.

This is certainly a claim made. I view things differently: right-wing media and pundits have been treated with kid gloves for decades now. The shift to treating them "fairly" is viewed as discrimination, much the same way as certain groups on the far right have viewed every other example of "objective" fair treatment as discrimination, since they ultimately feel as though they've lost some privilege.

You may view things differently, but you're clearly biased (and perhaps, so am I). So why should I trust you to make objective decisions here?
National Initiative is an existing proposal for doing just that which was proposed by Mike Gravel. Tom Steyer included it in his 2020 platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_initiative
What was the context
As you'd expect, this is a well-known problem. We call them 'formation processes'. There's a rich literature out there, but always more to explore because there's no general solution.
That is good stuff (well he was Dijkstra). I think we've all seen such hubris play out. When you want to prove that you are intellectually superior you will demonstrate that you can master the most difficult tools (say category theory?) without understanding that your real goal should be to find simple solutions to difficult problems.

A simple solution does not look like much because it is so simple, but it can take a genius to come up with it. Whereas complicated solutions are easier to come by and do demonstrate your intellectual skills.
The context for those out of the loop:

https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/
Wow! I just saw the patreon notification and thought that was some kind of mistake. Thank you so much!
> I was just "too smart" to sit in class bored all day or whatever.

Yes, you WERE too smart to be forced to sit around and learn at a pace that was way too slow for you.

Imagine how much you could have learned if you were progressing at your own pace (let's say top 10%) rather than school curriculum pace (let's say tuned for 90% of students to keep up)

Think about how much more successful you could have been in programming if you had learned calculus by 8th grade, a task I'd say at least half our U.S population is capable of.

Instead, you are forced to put up with the same spoonfeeding as everyone else, and if you don't like it, you have a disorder?

You were rightfully frustrated and upset at this waste of your time. Not to mention how unnatural and unhealthy it is to sit in place for hours at a time.

It's not a disorder, it's a natural response to reality.
That is why many prefer viridis.
It's a tradeoff. I'd rather duel with the borrow checker a little bit every day then have a long debugging session figuring out where's a missing copy causing values taken from a map to be not available - that is a fun multi-hour challenge sometimes.
One of my past career pet peeves was not being able to work in the same team with some people I was really excited to work daily with. I almost joined the research group, passed interviews, got accepted, but eventually everything got stalled because some "credentials" weren't there.
Hamilton Richards (maintainer at the time of the EWDs on the site) was my analysis of programs professor at UT. I had arrived there in 2003 as a freshman, the reverence and impact of Djistrka was incredibly palpable.

I remember some of my classmates were turned off by how theoretical some of the core courses were. A lot of people saw it as less practical. Also the height of Java's OO take over of CS programs, it was definitely a mix of classes. Although the theory courses tended to either care less about language choice or focused on Haskell.
You can read the GP's post, but you were not able to read the text in the TFA?

"Instructions

CTRL-Z, CTRL-Y (or S,F) to undo/redo
CTRL-C, CTRL-V to copy and paste between doodles
W,R to switch between doodles (or use the menu buttons)
TAB to toggle menu
Mouse wheel (or e,d) to change brush size
RMB to pick up a colour
RMB in menu colour palette to select secondary colour (used for patterns)
LMB+RMB in menu colour palette to set the background colour

To save all doodles, use the cartridge icon button in the pull-down menu.

Wobblepaint saves data to itself. To start a new wobble cart, type LOAD #WOBBLEPAINT from inside PICO-8 and then save it as something. The data storage is reasonably efficient so you can get around 20~100 doodles to a cart depending on complexity.

To save a gif to desktop, use the gif button to record a second of looping wobble. If you want to record multiple doodles (e.g. for an animation or story), press tab to hide menu, CTRL-8 to start a gif, W,R to flip through the doodles, and then CTRL-9 to save the gif."

They even go into details on how to use a game controller.
Can't bring to mind a good book or paper that compares all the countries side by side, but still fairly sure UK would top the list.

For a good introduction to the sad state of UK elections:

> The electoral process is "rigged". In 2005, if you total all the votes cast for the main parties, it took an average 26,906 votes to elect a Labour MP, 44,373 to elect a Tory MP and 96,539 votes to elect a Lib Dem MP. Not since the rotten boroughs of the 18th century have elections been so corrupt.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/03/democr...

> All votes should be worth the same, right? With First Past the Post votes are not equal. In the last election it took 26,000 votes for the SNP to win a seat compared with over 800,000 for the Green Party.

https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk/first-past-the-post
Trying to keep third parties off the ballot while still operating under a first past the post system is very different from opposing a switch to something other than first past the post.

Under systems like ranked-choice, IRV, etc., having the Green party or Libertarian party on the ballot would be much less likely to harm the near-term prospects for candidates from the two major parties: most of the voters that minor parties would gain are people who currently pick a major-party candidate that has a real chance of winning. Those voters would mostly continue to select a major-party candidate as a second choice.
https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1321626078985687042

https://blog.jupyter.org/jeremy-howard-8dace7b4a34a

For people like myself needing backstory.
Same story here. I was looking for a static site gen that was a bit more comfortable than my previous shell scripts around pandoc approach.

I settled on Hugo because it ticked all the boxes and even had org mode support.

The next three nights were horrible. I'm a professional web dev, full stack, I've used dozens of langs, frameworks, probably hundreds of tools. It took me three nights to set up a basic home page for an academic CV and some publication lists. Nothing more. And even then the whole thing was wonky and super unreliable for inscrutable reasons. Big red flag.

I was angry and frustrated, and I started doubting myself.
So I pulled the plug. Tried Zola, I was done in 1.5hrs. Start to finish, just done. Zola is great.
You can think about it this way -- approval voting allows you to vote strategically for a candidate (in case you are worried about the lesser of two evils winning), and then allows you to also vote for anyone you actually prefer, guaranteeing this can't hurt the strategically chosen candidate.

This would allow third parties to see real support, and then go on to win subsequent elections.
Kind of a positive approach to addressing a form of bias, which is nice to see. Seems as if they're talking about the same thing as this from a different perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
HN should adopt an IBM 3278 terminal font. ;-)