skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That clarifies the argument, but I'm still not sure I buy it. I do agree that there are words that convey more pomp and that those words tend to be derived from Latin and Greek (typically by way of French), but I don't know that the distribution is particularly bimodal. Off the cuff, I would think it's more likely that "pomp" of a word is derived from its distance from the core of the lexicon, because these rarer words indicate more education. The core of English is based on Old English and Old Norse, so naturally there are a lot of these words that seem pedestrian, but on the other extreme there are other words very recently borrowed into English (and thus at the periphery of our lexicon) that tend to convey a lot of pomp--typically these are from Latin or French or Greek, but sometimes even from other Germanic languages (e.g., schadenfreude, hygge, etc). To restate my point, the distribution appears gradual rather than bimodal.
If Windows 7 was still receiving regular DirectX updates, and similar, then there'd be no reason to switch to Windows 10.

Windows 7 is a superior product in all other respects.
> I don't have a problem with garbage collectors in general, but that's only one facet in deciding a language.

In the same sense that the president of the US is only one voice on US policy. If you've been writing OCaml and then you want to change your project to another language, you will most definitely miss the garbage collector. All of a sudden you have to solve problems a second time in a different way, which is something you wouldn't have to do using F#. There's no way I'd shift a serious project from GC to non-GC unless I had absolutely no choice.
> I felt pleasantly surprised and never felt like there was anything bad about the language itself.

After working full time with F# for nearly two years I can attest to this. At worst there's inconvenient things, and as you get deeper into FP you'll wish F# had certain features, but all in all it's an very sane and well designed language. I think the only thing that's caused me any pain is the lack of type classes, and after doing a lot of MVU I wish lenses were a language level feature.
it just tells us that the end users are not the customers.

and those of us who actually paid $200 for windows 10, are too small of a section of the customers to be heard.
That makes sense. Though it seems like it should be inconsistent with "if the loan defaults, it's the partner bank's problem, not Ant's."
On site surveys have been effective for us[1]. Ultimately this is a super general question and it depends on: 1. What data you want to collect 2. Where you place your poll (if it's on site) 3. What questions you ask.

[1] https://www.zigpoll.com
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what do people use this for?

While I was really excited when i encountered it, I didn't find any practical uses.
Lattice appears to be OK with this and that's great - they're the only FPGA company at this point that seems to understand that open source could actually help them with tooling and adoption. Xilinx and Altera are hostile towards open source so I'm rooting for Lattice.
Interesting! I don't think the laggy feeling on most elevators is actually due to regulation, though - the elevators in my current apartment building are wicked fast, and it was built <10 years ago in SF so almost certainly code compliant.

- They're thrown at speed to exactly the right position, no separate leveling stage.

- Door opening is violently fast, as you mention.

- If you're stopping at a destination entered in error, you can press the door close button while the doors are opening and they will turn right back around. (Presumably disabled if someone has also called the elevator from that floor).

- If called to a floor and no one is there (no one crosses the threshold) the destination entered from that floor is canceled.

- The doors close almost immediately after someone gets in or out. (This might be an ADA thing; you can request more patience from the system by pressing the wheelchair button on the destination dispatch keypad while entering your floor).

Really the only thing I don't like is the poor accuracy on the touchscreen keypads in the elevator lobbies. Also there's no "enter" so if the second digit of your floor number doesn't register fast enough, you will also be stopping at the first digit. Ugh. Just give me real buttons. But overall it's a great system.

I also discovered a novel "slow elevator" pathology in college - a trickle of people arriving at the lobby level and pressing the call button would hold the elevator there indefinitely. It is frustrating when you're 3 seconds from an elevator that closes its doors and departs, but this is actually necessary! If it waited for everyone it would never get off the ground.
This is cool.

I suspect that the value (white to dark scale) should be proportionate to votes/square km (or even better votes/pixel, since the projection isn't perfect at preserving area) instead of just number of votes though. In the current formula a huge county with 1000 is as dark as a tiny county with 1000 votes, but is visually much larger.
Try running wireshark on windows 10 calculator.
The points end up sorting certain people to the top, both because of algorithmic decisions and because _some_ people care about the points.

They also end up hiding certain people, and their content.

The points matter.
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If a language doesn’t support spelling as a competitive sport, it is not like English.
He's dead, dude. There is no privacy. Diogenes of Sinope solved this already.
If the email provider says that email addresses are case sensitive, then that's the truth you live with, it's not your system, not your design and you can't dictate other systems how they should work.
see also: iSH for iOS (https://ish.app/)
I get unreasonably annoyed at seeing posts get downvoted just because they don’t fit the mainstream opinion, especially if the author clearly put in a lot of effort to articulate their views. Bonus points if there are zero replies too.

Anyone who downvotes like that is just lazy, close minded and cowardly. It’s sad that it happens so often.
Windows 7 is faster and more stable for me than Windows 10 has been. I am forced to keep a drive around with it so that I can run audio recording applications without glitches. I have tried every optimization point that I am aware of, but latency mon shows a variety of problem in Win 10, most prominently with NDIS.sys.

None of those problems exist in Windows 7 for me. It just works for music and it works cleanly without problems, just as it has since I first installed it. Using GRUB makes it easy to maintain multiple OS's, but it sure would be better if Windows 10 didn't have the problems that it does.
Does this fix the issue that was posted where Apple's apps bypassed it?

Thread of that here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
Is there any question on which Balkan countries can find consensus? This is a part of the world where you have family feuds that have existed for more than 6 centuries.
Yeah, I'm on the same page. An idea for a follow-up map has been to do votes per thousand. I'm curious to find out what that resulting map would look like
If you read the paper they are very very careful with their claims. Also please prove us wrong is the default position in science, thats what peer review is all about. I dont see a problem with that.
Don't have a primary source offhand, but here is one researcher for example:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...

"Contrary to what most people think, Germany did have hate-speech laws that were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilizing anti-Jewish sentiment is irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch, and Julius Streicher, were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech. And rather than deterring them, the many court cases served as effective public relations machinery for the Nazis, affording them a level of attention that they never would have received in a climate of a free and open debate."
Thank you! I've been saying this for years.

I will admit that the request for a la carte assumed channel theming along the lines of cable, which isn't materializing in streaming. If I want just high quality sci-fi, which streaming service do I subscribe to? If I want feel good family movies? Etc.

But it was always going to be a dozen streaming services. Anybody who thought otherwise was either delusional or didn't understand how money worked.
Thank you! Was ready to create this site myself. Glad you did a better job. I would love the ability to upload an image as linking to its URL.
I guess I'm really talking about the "lightness", not saturation
Perhaps the most ironic thing was the Scaleway account manager who eventually unlocked our account (for the incident where they locked it over someone's personal account being ~3 Euro overdue).

They said - cutting-and-pasting from the email - "Please remimber to avoid a such new situation like that. We wont be so tolerant the next time.".

Well, lesson 100% definitely f#@king learned all right. :(

Probably not the one they meant though. ;)

Even more ironically, was until that point I'd personally been porting various OSS projects to ARM64, and assisting others in doing so, in order to help bring customers to Scaleway.

Which completely and utterly ceased right then.

Yes, I'm still pissed off about them. ;)
Those machines were terrible but you have to be a little wistful for the days when the American public actually liked science and liked products associated with it.
Comparing it cable is unfair. At least cable worked properly with my television unlike the HDCP infested upgrade nightmare that streaming turned into.

I started just pirating the content I was subscribed to because it was easier. Then they made it harder with all the fragmentation so I stopped paying for it full stop.

Movie industry has to do the leg work to get my attention and that is very fragile. They choose not to so no cash from me.
I find Microsoft's documentation pages on F# to be a great reference as well, particularly if you're already well versed with .NET

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/
The only reason why I even still have to use windows is because of Adobe Lightroom. But perhaps I will look for alternatives. There is literally no other reason anymore. Microsoft has ruined their operating system.
But the question was about Tor, how would torrents solve the low bandwidth problem?
You’re getting downvoted, but it’s true: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
Always nice to see unique things posted! I like the error page
Hah, yes, I don't mean to downplay the diversity within the geographic region in which Serbo-Croatian languages are spoken.
You are referring to Google Primer?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Primer
I've used it for ssh-ing into my various machines, both work and personal. I also did some development work using this when I was stuck without a laptop. And one time it was useful in sending out a mass text.
Really liked what you have shared. UX is not that great though, not sure I am unable to click on stuff.
I wish this were on the Docker home page. I too need the occasional refresher but I haven't seen one as well written as this by a long shot.
Are HN karma points fake too? I hope not
There is privacy. Citing a philosopher that made his life into a joke doesn't magically make privacy disappear.
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If someone wants to check, I'd bet he at least forked or starred the github repo. A script to pull the list of those people, minus anyone whos been active since april 2017, would probably show his account.
On the other side of that coin, roughly in the 90s over there people started picking frequent fights over the order of the two words. Some wanted Croat-Serbo variant (hrvatsko-srpski). Others shrugged as they were neither and didn't have a horse in the fight. But the stunning absurdity that captures living over there in the era was when Croats and Serbs demanded UN provide them with translators for negotiations. With earpieces and everything. Just months prior, they spoke the same language. In the same government buildings.
Is anybody having success using ECP5 (not -5G) at 1.25 GHz for 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet? I'm suspecting that the serdes has locking problems at these lower speeds.
you can really see the urban blue centers surrounded by grey suburbs surrounded by red exurbs. East and mid atlantic show this in several metro areas. US is not red state / blue state, but blue core / red rings.
All of those languages went through a deliberate reform where the language academy said "this is how we spell things from now on." English didn't really have that, but a bunch of dictionary writers did make changes that have stuck. In the US we can credit Noah Webster for having us drop the unpronounced "u" in "colour" or write "centre" with the kind-of-metathesis spelled out.
Census blocks aren't equivalent to households. Most of those census blocks are going to be rural with few people living there.
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> At minimum it's a desire to stay pseudonymous

At minimum, he was using a nickname.

You might think it's likely that he was keeping private his non-trail identity, but that is not the minimum explanation.

(FWIW, knowing about through-hiker culture, I don't think it's even the likely explanation, but that's just my opinion.)
You can get your own domain name (ie: me@myname.com) so that you avoid vendor lock-in and migrate your email account to other service providers.
> Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Romanian are all pronounced as they are written.

?? I dont' quite follow what you're saying. The sound 'o' can be written in French in a lot of different ways, some of them even don't even have an 'o' in them ("au", "eau", "aux" "aux" and I probably forgot some). It's notoriously difficult to write things in French just because of the discrepancy between what you hear and what you should write.
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English uses one register for some words, e.g. "coal, handbag" and the othe register for other words, e.g. "carbon", "metabolism".

You're missing the point of "but the example you give of a low register" - English does not use the lower register in that context. It's noticeable by contrast with other languages where that higher register is largely absent, which do use the standard register throughout.

This guy gets it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981922 , for what it's worth. If you don't think if it's a significant point, then stop reading.
Some are.
2700X, 64GB DDR-3200, RTX2080, 2TB nvme storage - I'm due a new one, thinking 5950X next time.
It "works" as long as it isn't taken too seriously by everyone. I also believe that you can become addicted by karma and some people seem to completely compromise their character in the hunt for more points.
> Now I'm supposed to have Disney+, CBS All Access, HBO Max, Peacock, etc., and that list will probably grow

I honestly don't see why anyone needs more than maybe two streaming services. Do you really need to see everything? Even during the pandemic, two seems to be plenty for most families.

Imagine arguing that movies are too expensive now because you have to see a movie every day. The obvious solution is to prioritize what you view and watch fewer movies.

For most people the current approach is better: spending $20 or $30 a month instead of $80 -- and with much better choices available, and often without any ads.
Conde Nast's parent company is a part-owner of Charter Communications, which bought Time Warner Cable to become the second biggest US ISP. That fact is listed in a disclaimer on all the articles Ars Technica writes about what a scummy monopolist Charter is[1]

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=charter+communications+site%3Aarst...
i'm in the same boat. I want differentiated products on an open source engine, which is what Chrom(e)ium mostly is. Multiple engines seems to me like having half a dozen types of roads only 20% of cars can drive on.

I want open infrastructure, not fractured infrastructure.
I think it goes to show how easy it is to get reddit karma. I wrote a bot that uses 2 regular expressions to generate reddit comments. In the 16 days since I created it, it's amassed more than 7k karma (despite substantial downtime due to bugs)
They already did all that with their enterprise edition, but they don't market it much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison...

Even with the somewhat limited pro edition, our IT is able to give us months and months of uptime for certain critical computers (i'm in biotech). Heck we have a W10 pro machine that handles building security and it has over 2 years of uptime.

The problem is the disconnect between HN and the average user who is dumb as rocks when it comes to tech. The average user expects the OS to magically take over the sysadmin duties. They just want it to be as simple and seamless as their phone - not an entirely unreasonable expectation given that the phone is sharing a lot of tasks that were only done on dedicated machines.
On phones, I've installed node & python in it and used those systems as a powerful handheld calculator.

On my tablet, I used it as an ssh client.

On my VR headset, I used it to create a self-contained development environment: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/fc5sfr/oculus_qu...

You can use its PRoot functionality to run various Linux distros: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot

And you can run Linux GUI apps if they are compiled properly: https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop
Trump billboard in Second Life instantly surrounded by 3D political/NSFW models
I agree that the YAML format can be a pain. Both because of the copy/paste stuff you mentioned but also just validating syntax can be time consuming.

There is an offline workflow tester I've tried but it is not close enough to the real thing to add that much value.

I've also struggled at times with how data moves around. There are docs and even example actions, but the overall state of education on doing cool stuff with GA is pretty weak.

I've also struggled with some of packages, and services--although some of the pain I've experienced is just software and service dependency management in general and that's a big challenge unrelated to GA.

Speed is a real consideration, though self-hosted runners can potentially solve that problem for you.

Rather than a get what you pay for take, I feel more like it is still early for the product. The visibility is high because it is Github, but it is still getting a lot of things worked out.

For me, GA is too conveniently integrated to Github to ignore.
I could see it as a rather easy way to get people to try programming with a tablet / keyboard combo. You can install Go, or Python and run a web server and visit it from within the browser... It's pretty impressive and capable honestly. You can find < $100 Android phones that are prepaid these days, I got a few ages ago.
> Are those two¹ bugs possible only in memory unsafe programming languages

CVE-2020-16009 is a bug in V8 (Chrome's implementation of JavaScript).

You could write a JavaScript implementation in Rust. However, to achieve acceptable performance, you would almost certainly need to use a lot of "unsafe" code. A performant JavaScript implementation has to be able to generate raw machine code, after all, and then execute it. And the garbage collector probably isn't going to manage memory in a way that the Rust compiler can verify for correctness.

So no, "use a memory-safe language" isn't a simple answer to this kind of bug. Using Rust could reduce the attack surface somewhat but certainly would not completely prevent bugs.
Bivariate color ramps are usually a disaster, but they work beautifully here. Nice job!
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A bash script that scps today's photos to my NAS

Persistent SSH session to a server running Weechat for IRC

(Remember to run 'pkg update' every so often, a recent update to the app required a reinstall or manual fix for anyone like me who didn't know it could be a problem)
Twisted CONNECT-enabled HTTP(s) proxy
The key caveat being that iSH does x86 emulation to achieve this, but otherwise it seems to looks pretty darn nice. I have yet to try it but now that I've switched over to iOS I may just download it to compare usage vs Termux.
The price of being imaged with one of these:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcwNzM3OQ.jpeg

Was cheaper than being imaged today with one of these:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Xr...

Because the first one was a hack put together before we knew how bad it was. The second one is a high quality unit, with high safety standards, and regulatory compliance. The first one has none of those features.

You may as well ask yourself why a 737 costs more than the Wright Flyer.
U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates
If I may recommend, try to find and read a copy of John Reppy's Concurrent Programming in ML. The book is a little bit of an eye opener if only for that.

Hopac is a library that offers an excellent delivery of this model of concurrent programming on .NET and has top notch F# primitives.
What is the X axis representing in the chart in the article?

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/broad...

Edit: second quarter of 2019, third quarter of 2019, etc.

I read the Q as a 0...
Models are backtested against the historical record where hundreds or thousands of elections (federal, state and local) can be used as training data.

For example, a weighted average of polls has Biden up ~5% in PA. In state-wide elections, I wouldn't be surprised if candidates with that sized lead in PA (and states with similar size and socioeconomic demographics) end up winning about 85% of the time, which is what the 538 model has Biden's chances at in PA. That 15% uncertainty accounts for the bias you describe. If polling was perfect and there was no bias, a ~5% polling lead (and exceeding the margin of error) would be a 100% guaranteed victory.

It would be great to see Taleb's forecast of federal and state elections so he has "skin in the game" as he likes to say. Assume you get points based on your % confidence, so if you predict there's a 55% chance of a particular outcome and you're right you get 55pts, and if you're wrong you lose 55pts. If Taleb pegs every race at 50/50 or 55/45 because you "can't predict elections", I doubt his score will be higher than Silver's. You'll end up with silly predictions like 40% chance of Trump winning Washington DC or 30% chance of Biden winning Wyoming, when in reality each have less than 1% chance of doing so.

When you make reasonable, weighted predictions based on state polling, you see that Biden has leads outside the margin of error in states totaling 270 EV. So, the 10% chance Silver gives Trump is saying, hey there's a chance that the polls could be extremely biased in all 7 swing states in Trump's favor. But, if Trump loses even 1 of those swing states, there are so many safe D electoral votes that Biden will win.
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