skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you that in pretty much every presentation context a graph (no matter what graph) beats a table. We are much more accustomed to visually processing things than through numbers.
I mean take the example of the given map (and let's keep it to the "simple" winner takes all map), the table for this map would definitely be so big that you could not easily tell which party won more counties. With the map it would be one glance.

Yes as the author points out it does not tell you anything about the number of people in the county, but trying to convey information in graphics well is difficult (and when people get it right it can be truly amazing, i.e. take Roslings talks, which really visualised public health effects and enabled many people to understand for the first time). However, everyone who regularly has to present data to people should invest time into learning about how to graph and visualise your data.
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> I think part of the reason why React causes negative reaction towards perceived "Javascript fatigue" is that Facebook introduced too much at once.

This could be relevant if this conversation were taking place in 2014; but it’s 2020 now. Today, the negative reactions to React are caused by:

- it being on the heavier side of frameworks (given that some frameworks/libraries are below 10kB)

- its relative slowness in benchmarks (absent concurrent mode), and the ease with which an inexperienced programmer can make it slower and more resource-hungry than it should be

- its least compatibility with web components, compared to other frameworks

- bad practices that have arisen in the community around it (using react when there's no need for it; serving large html payloads with SSR containing a stringified populated redux state, etc.)
I got my DSL in 2010.

1.5Mb/688Kb. No change in ten years. Also, I get dropped and reconnected every couple of days to a DSLAM channel running at 20Kb (!) down and have to reboot the modem to get back to 1.5Mb.
It doesn't exist (at any real scale) because there's no impetus for it to exist. As long as there's no real premium to go to the store and buy single-use products, people are going to continue defaulting to that.
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I'm unfamilar with this tech, but I think I need this badly in my life. Care to explain a little about what you'd use this for?

I think I need this because I listen over headphones to audio that changes volume levels (eg. Spotify playlists with a variety of artists) in a somewhat noisy office environment (I can't just listen more carefully when the music is quiet) but don't want to turn the volume up too high. I also don't want to have to be constantly reaching for a volume slider. Currently, I am constantly reaching for a volume slider, because some song comes on that's loud and I have to turn it down, then a quiet song comes on and I forget to turn it back up, and eventually I notice I'm distractedly listening to conversations from sales instead of focusing on my tasks and drowning them out with background music. And heaven help you if you have a source of audio with ads (eg. Pandora or Youtube playlists), where every half hour you'll get your eardrums blown out with some obnoxiously loud ad break.

My uneducated expectation is that this would run in the background on my Linux laptop, letting the volume decay in between beats and as the song switches, but amplifying quiet songs and compressing loud ones. It would be nice if some of the dynamic range of a song was preserved, but instead all songs should go from, to use the musical terms, mezzo-pianno to mezzo-forte. I don't particularly care if it has to buffer the next 10 seconds of the song to make that work, but as I like to stream a variety I can't wait for it to compress a full hour of audio.

Is that what this does? Do I need to use mpv, or have a local/offline mp3? Is there a better way to do what I want?
You probably know this but others might not: there are literally agencies that develop ideas through a tight lifecycle of inception, moderate form to long form market testing in publications like Wired and investment and film/podcast/TV development sourcing based on feedback from those market tests and brand sponsorship and alignment for the launch of the final product.

Here is one agency in particular: https://www.epicdigital.com/
With this logic, most of the world is exhibiting deeply ingrained magical thinking by honoring 3000+ year old commandments like "You shall not murder".

Just because an ideology is honored and held in high esteem by its adherents (and to steelman your argument - even in higher esteem than it may deserve) does not mean we have better alternatives to the ideology.
>at the same time I don't want a single government ISP controlling everything controlled by bureaucracy.

Firstly, most municipal broadband networks, either built or proposed, absolutely do not include ISP services.

Rather, they provide last-mile/Fiber-to-the-premises infrastructure that comes back to an interconnection point where multiple ISPs can provide Internet access services to customers.

This actually increases competition, because ISPs don't need to pull cable to every single customer in order to provide service. They just need the appropriate back-haul capacity to service those customers who sign on with them.

This allows for more competition on price, features and customer service, not a "single government ISP."
Not even a passing mention of the privacy questions at stake here. I don’t fault the police for seeking answers, but every self-nominated amateur sleuth isn’t due an answer about the identity of someone who in all likelihood wanted to live privately and never committed a crime.
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Guido Van Rossum also works there, so what's your point?
Sick and tired of toxic players or is hard for you getting people online to play with, Teemu to the rescue
Somewhat amusing to see the police highlighting "trust no one" as a note on p2p networking.
This reddit thread lacks numeric data. Here is a survey from the Pew Research Center (their methodology is sometimes arguably biased, but the overall tendencies should be OK).

> How important is religion in your life?

> (I summed "very important" and "somewhat important")

> USA: 82%

> Germany: 57%

> Spain: 46%

> UK: 42%

> France: 37%

> Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2008/09/17/chapter-2-reli...

On the same page, the graph that correlates Purchasing Power with Religiosity is also very interesting. The correlation is obvious, with the USA an outstanding exception. This anomaly probably has multiple causes, as the main Reddit answer explained, and especially the "unsafe environment": many people live in the USA with social conditions worse than in most western countries.
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You can run it on a FireTV stick by downloading termux via the F-Droid repository. Connect a bluetooth keyboard and you have a nice little linux environment to play around with. I installed archlinux on it and use it to test packages for ARM.
What the Constitution’s critics often miss is that it isn’t magic, it’s law, and as a piece of law the Constitution is neither a code (codified laws came later in America) nor is it exhaustive. It’s a starting point.

But since it is law, and carries the force of law, then if you disagree with the law the way forward is clear: you change or amend the law. If there’s any magic, it’s that laymen critics don’t often understand it well enough to criticize it in an effective and useful manner that would lead to useful improvements or replacements.

You can sit down at your computer and bang out 7 to 10 articles and call it a Constitution, but what choices would you make and why? What would be the ramifications of your changes and would they actually cause more harm than good compared to the status quo? The real magic is that if you put a gun to ten to fifty wisemen of the Present day, they probably couldn’t do much better and you would end up with a tweaked version of what we have because it turns out, they did a decent job of it back in 1789. No real magic, just forethought, debate, ambition and consideration for what has worked, what hasn’t and what is likely to work for the society in which they lived then and we live now.

Anywhere else in the world is likely using the Common law, which goes back a thousand years or more, or a version of the Napoleonic codes modified to the present day or German civil code modified to the present day.
> i'd be shocked if they haven't shipped more unix workstations than all the other vendors combined

Not to mention all the unix-based laptops, tablets, phones, and watches. ;-)
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You might reconsider this opinion once you or someone you know loses money and/or time because of some CS idiot. I’ve had my fair share of such incidents (so much that I’m paying 10x more for an enterprise-grade leased line just to not have to talk to them ever) and I no longer have any sympathy for those people.
From my own experience (my own history with printers and of those of the people around me who I've done pc clean ups for in the past) I fell that it's all down to the fact that consumer grade printers are built down to a price, often to the point where the profit lies in the ink refills and with inkjet printers consumer printers are not used enough to prevent them from drying out in between prints.

About 10 years ago I purchased a 2nd hand mono laser printer (A Kyocera FS-1010, had over 65k pages on it at time of purchase) because I was fabing my own PCB's at home and it is still "mainly" working just as good as it was the day I got it. (I say mainly because the front pull down paper feed isn't fully working, but that is my fault I damaged it, not the printers fault)

I've put another ~15k prints on it in the time I've had it, Its still going, Sure its big and bulky but its a work horse thats just keeps going and going.
> Most of the settings reverts ars bugs not caught by Insiders

This is simply not true. Nowadays I have a freaking ps script to run after each upgrade, to set things back how I configured them.

> Personally, since a major Windows update or two ago I only have one settings panel I actively use that is still a Win32 dialog and not directly in the modern Settings app.

So you never had to use the Network Adapters window? I need that one pretty often, the new one in Settings is not adequate. How do you add or remove features from Windows, like HyperV or WSL? That one is also inside the old Add/Remove Programs applet (the features on demand in Settings app is a different mechanism, with different content and applications. Yay for consistency).
Ahhh the coconut ridle...
It's so funny watching people trying to ignore the obvious answer and desperately try to make up nonsense.

Why did China, Russia, etc become less religious? Why did northern europe become protestant? Why is indonesia muslim?

The answer is because the elites wanted it that way. Religion is a way for the elites to control the population. Maybe Europe, China, Russia, etc found better ways of controlling the population?

If the elites need religion again to control the population, we'll have a revival. But modern societies have other tools for population control. It's why we are becoming less religious in the US. Maybe more religious than europe but less than we used to be.
the same (lame) argument applies to any medical treatment
I don't find it does discourage bad coding habits. It just amplifies the problems they cause.
I see now. I wonder if what Florida police took as 10 miles a day was in Florida or on the A.T.
It probably makes for a big difference as the Florida Trail is much flatter and the terrain should be easier though I'm not sure the middle of the summer is the best time to hike it, and the heat + humidity could have slowed him down in different ways.

As to the A.T. — I think it's not just the grade that is to account for the low mileage but also that the season is not as narrow as on the PCT/CDT.
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And then Agilent spun off most of the original HP domain to Keysight.
One of the many exhausting things about living in China as a foreigner is how much of their tech infrastructure excludes anyone who is not a Chinese citizen. Aside from the challenge of getting Alipay set up, the moment you leave mainland China (even to Hong Kong) you can no longer use Alipay to pay for anything, even though Chinese citizens are able to do this without any trouble.

Similarly, a lot of government-mandated apps require you to enter a state ID number which foreigners are not issued. The worst was living there through the coronavirus lockdowns and travel restrictions, because every town had its own special corona app to prove you had a green health code, but hardly any towns supported registration with a foreign passport. I presume that's changed now (i don't live there any more), but it's China, so there will undoubtedly be a new hazy private/public partnership gimmick app that makes things awkward for foreigners.
Kills the bacteria and the patient too!
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I find that unit tests are much less useful than integration tests.

When we write unit tests, we ask the person to write the code to spend a lot of work documenting how they expect the system that they are integrating with to work. What happens when that system behaves differently? Or changes in the future? And the way that mocks are set up are very sensitive to implementation details, which is a maintenance burden when you have to change that.

As a simple example, I had a function that was loading data into a database with a series of insert statements. I sped it up by several orders of magnitude by using a COPY to send CSV data. Guess how well that worked with the mock database interface in the unit tests? (Long story short, it didn't. I replaced that unit test with an integration test.)

And yes, I've heard all of the lectures from test first folks. But somehow I've never had the experience of things working that way with my projects. (Possibly because most of what I do is close to the software/database interface.)
Quantum Systems makes drones that do this, and they get massively longer flight times than standard quadcopters. Their Vector drone can fly for 120 minutes, comparable to this fossil fuel powered quadcopter, on batteries alone:

https://www.quantum-systems.com/project/vector/
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The teller can show a slightly stale, eventually consistent balance figure, depending on its use. This would allow for massively better read performance, which is important when reads occur many times more often than writes.

Instead of a balance of a checking account, think about the karma balance of a reddit post, where this approach more emphatically belongs.
A software firewall is useless against a DDoS attack. It will only serve to help your IP not get discovered in the first place.
MacOS asks you about it in the OOBE (you can change your decision later in the System Preferences) and then respects your decision.

A novel concept, I know.
> Let the market figure out what's the most efficient.

The idea of using the market, which has only ever been good at figuring out how to rape mother earth as thoroughly as possible, to solve environmental issues gives me calling-upon-Hannibal-Lecter-to-solve-your-serial-killer-case vibes.
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Url changed from https://inhabitat.com/u-s-contributes-5-times-more-ocean-pla..., which points to this.
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These dark patterns are very widespread, and are even seen on generally reputable websites like TomsHardware, but are they actually GDPR compliant?

GDPR enforcement is approximately zero, to my knowledge, so I don't know if there's even really an answer to the question.

For what it's worth, Wikipedia gives the impression no-one really knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I don't think it necessarily has to be madness, but you do need a competent and appropriately-separate regulating body overseeing the system and setting prices/rules that are fair to all the participants.

In Canada, that body is the CRTC. I think they largely do a good job, though some of it ends up in the courts, and TekSavvy happily engages customers by bumping monthly rates up or down in response to the rule changes, and encouraging us to write our elected representatives if we like or dislike it. Examples:

https://www.teksavvy.com/in-the-news/2019-press-releases/tek...

https://www.teksavvy.com/in-the-news/2020-press-releases/tek...
That commandment is not the thing stopping people for murdering others, it's the legal system. I would go as far to say that the ten commandments are mostly absent in the decision-making process of most people, and hence quite obsolete.
> If I am expected to make a better prediction of the election outcome by averaging your last 10 predictions than by taking your current prediction, then your current prediction is suboptimal.

That's not how poll averaging works. Or, at least, that's not how poll averaging works in the 538 model.
For the most part I figure if something is really important enough people will figure out a way to reach me. My e-mail address is pretty easy to find and any business I have subscribed to services from has that. I consider it the official way to contact me. I already deprecated snail mail and phone as official ways to reach me.
The new copperhead site reads like a marketing piece. All the tech explanation looks copypasted or typed while on coke John McAfee Style.

They state on their site (copperhead) that only 2 months after split with Daniel the rom got updated again.
That is not true. I was affected by the split and there was no update that early, while Daniel continued development.

My account has been created solely to defend Graphene here btw.
But this is my usual nick I use everywhere else.
I am a longtime passive reader.

The Copperhead site states that they support Zero Touch Provisioning of devices.

That involves Google and Vendor infra and as far as I know this cant enable installing custom roms from inside Google roms. I might be wrong there because I didnt dig that deep into MDM provisioning. But enough that it didnt seem anywhere open source friendly.
Banking is another sector where they seem to make it hard for no reasons for international players to bring competition in the market place.
Well, yes, this is true I guess. However, this drone is advertised not for those things, but for long range predominantly. This is what I find a bit strange.

As for complex and expensive the first google result for "rc plane vtol" for me is this one [1] and it costs around $50. And then there are things like [2]...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFISwEQbaz0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDxHamYEQNU
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In all those countries they extensively use Hydroxychloroquine which is anti malaria drug and super important especially in Africa. Indian government is very open in using it for covid-19: https://www.newsweek.com/india-promotes-hydroxychloroquine-d...
As well as many African countries:
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/djibouti-treating-...
https://www.theafricareport.com/26726/coronavirus-recovery-r...

can provide more sources if requested (or just google it)...
It's more like, high-order polynomials are fundamentally wild animals. You can use a math trick to make them to go through specified points, and to early statisticians & data analysts, this seemed like a good way to model a nonlinear trend based on a set of sample points. But that trick doesn't make polynomials tame. And it gets worse the more points you need to interpolate - you have to add a degree to the polynomial every time you want to go through another point. Each new degree makes the polynomial wilder and wilder outside of the points you're interpolating.

We later discovered that the tame functions that usually work well for extrapolating from a sample are things called splines.
A colleague used it to run iperf3 to test his home wifi.
Might be worth reaching out to other people working for "Xcite Media Group". 23 employees is small enough to know if someone went missing.
FWIW, a gym is about the last kind of place that should be open right now, based on what we know about how this particular plague spreads. No judgement from me either way, but take care of yourself out there.
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French was at some point written more akin to spoken, with variations in-between writers (and sometimes in text too).

Now the orthography is hard mainly due to: (1) change in the language not reflected in the writing, (2) etymological speeling choices made on standardization and (3) latent phonological information.

Instances of (1) include graphemes likes "au" [o].

Example of (2) is "pied" with final letter here to refer to Greek "podo".

Point (3) is more complex. Take "parent" were final t is mute. Its presence makes is clear it’s related to "parental". Some with pairs like "grand" / "grande" were in the feminine form the final d is pronounced.

Edit: Tibetan alphabet is notoriously difficult, and Thai alphabet is quite hard too, so the problem exists elsewhere as well even when staying in the realm of alphabets.
Thanks for using gray rather than purple.