skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this back in iPhone 3 era, and even made a few thousand dollars on the App Store when you could still make money there.

You could improve this by adding a state machine to the algorithm. Basically, only count _repeat_ events, not single events. When you start walking, you start "provisionally" recording the peaks, which can be done fairly easily, but unless it's N peaks or more (IIRC 4 was a good number) within a certain period of time, you don't count those events and don't display them. Once you enter the steady state, count all events. This eliminates a lot of the "steps" that would be recorded due to user fumbling with the device, or other singular, non-step events. This, plus some tuning of the LPF yields an excellent pedometer.

I don't know how it is now, but back in the day the phone would turn off the accelerometer if you lock the screen, and there were also no background tasks of any kind, other than those pre-installed by Apple. So I also had a music player in the app, as well as a fake "lock screen" that would leave the program running, but looked like a real lock screen. The battery would be gone in about 3 hours - this was before the advent of "energy efficient" cores. Total hack, but people paid for it and left good reviews.
I mean sure, but if the best you can do is get +/- 3% that's not good enough anymore. This US election cycle was ~$50B over all the races. 3% doesn't cut it at those ad spends. Something more precise is needed and the funds are more than there to develop it.
I wrote that. Thanks @happy-go-lucky for sharing that.

This is indeed an India based pov. And based on real life experiences and learnings over 4 years now at this farm. Lots more to learn and understand, surely. I'm sure there's some stuff that translates well across geography too, especially the patience bit.

Do want to see regenerative farming grow, because as it happens today is eventually a dead end.
Is there anything more you can comment about those positive changes? I've been using Dropbox since 2012, would love to hear more.
Which is completely irrelevant in many cases. Depression can be caused by serotonin deficiencies, and once you’ve got depressed (pun intended) values, it’s difficult to return to baseline without medical support.
None of the Trump voters I've encountered can even be remotely described as shy
I highly suspect that most of the industry does little due diligence to vet DMCA takedown notices in favor of automation.

Just curious, what would the effects be if one were to use multiple accounts to automate the submission of DMCA takedown notifications for all <content> hosted on <content provider>? Does <content provider> honor takedowns only from or in preference to blessed accounts? Could one DoS <content provider> in such a manner? If a human has to review all DMCA complaints, would a flood of false claims DoS the human reviewers?

Asking for a friend.

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

mentions:

> The DMCA requires that you swear to the facts in your copyright complaint under penalty of perjury. It is a federal crime to intentionally lie in a sworn declaration. (See U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1621.) Submitting false information could also result in civil liability — that is, you could get sued for money damages. The DMCA itself provides for damages against any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing.

That's interesting; is US copyright law enforceable everywhere?
If they were successful they wouldn't be encourage people to subscribe. They are attempting to be successful youtubers, in a number of cases. I saw this researching rocket stove configurations.
The Japanese beat you to it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/world/asia/murder-hornet-...
It's worth adding that even in California, Trump got about 1/3 of the vote according to the current numbers and the percentages for the other west coast states are higher than that. The narrative in our circles that the American left is dominant and has the universal support of the people is not supported by the voting numbers; if we avoid a repeat of 2016, it will be by sheer luck.
> I recommend Quillette and Reason

But I already know of the existence of a sizable number of conservative intellectuals. I don't see how that helps me extrapolate to whether it's going to be 60 or 70 million "regular" Americans that are going to vote against my candidate. (Not to mention that the difference between a razor-thin margin, and a huge Electoral College blow-out that would have resulted in articles like this not being written, is only a few hundred thousand carefully-placed votes.)
Hello friends

I'm excited to announce Grader.JS

It's a little project I've been working on the last 3 weeks.

It lets you build cross-platform desktop GUI apps using the power of Node.JS and HTML.

It was motivated by the desire to have a way for me to build native binaries using my existing HTML skills.

I looked at electron, and some frameworks like Qt, and Tauri (which uses Rust), but the main problems I encountered were:

- Electron is full featured, but maybe too much so. Big binaries and Chromium inside each one. Too many APIs and they even need to fork Chromium so you don't have parity with latest browser features.

- Tauri looks good. Simpler and produces miniscule and fast binaries, but I didn't want to learn a new language right now. I wanted to make something right now, and also feel confident that I'd be able to use all the HTML I already know.

- I really like the idea of Qt, and experimented with the Node binding for it. But my main concern was the barrier to access that comprised of having a dedicated build set up for Qt, and also learning to think in its native GUI paradigm.

I had a bit of a think and decided that:

- I could use my existing knowledge of Chrome DevTools protocol to provide a sophisticated API that could scale to almost any use case, especially if combined with Node.JS

- Many people already have Chrome installed so there was no need to bundle chromium inside my binary. And if it wasn't installed, I could download it once and then it could be used for all apps built this way.

- I could use the '--app' flag for chrome to create a standalone GUI window with OS title bar, then use my existing knowledge of HTML to build a UI in that window.

- I could package the code into binaries with nexe, and shrink those using upx.

These realizations gave me the idea that I could create, with a bit of scaffolding and a bit of scripting a way for anybody to create a desktop binary using Node.JS and HTML, that was smaller than electron, and easier than Tauri or Qt. So i decided to turn it into an open source project.

I looked around and many others have had this idea before. It's not that different to using the system webview, or even (a la Carlo) using Chrome. But Carlo was discontinued and I thought the API could be better, and using the system webview introduced integration complexity and limited hour I could use DevTools protocol to control it. I thought the approach i would take was simpler so i decided it was definitely worth the effort to have a tool with the API i wanted, that i understood (if not fully, as i would come to see during development!), and that i owned and could use how i liked.

But development took me 3 times as long as i anticipated, because as i discovered, i didn't understand much about how Node worked at the intersection with the OS, and modules like child_process behaved slightly differently across platforms.

So i had to work out those things to try to make everything as consistent and platforms as possible.
Right now the average high in large parts of Sweden is below 0°C. And your link leads to data from the output of a model, not actual recorded deaths.
How's their IDE integration? (Though TBH I'm coming from a starting point of "Maven isn't broken, there's no need to fix it")
The mail in ballot is probably the most secure element of the whole voting system. So long as your address is up-to-date with the Dept. of Motor Vehicles you are sent a barcoded/secure ballot and return envelope. Multiple states have been doing this for decades with effectively zero fraud. The few errors have been from people not updating their addresses or people filing out absentee ballots sent to old addresses, which is an entire different issue. Or there was one guy in Oregon that underwent a kidney transplant around election time, moved, and accidentally voted twice because he received two ballots. He did not even remember doing so he was so haggard.

The only real impediment/threat to voting is the Republican party doing any and everything they can to limit peoples’ ability to vote.
What are the API features you use most and would want/need?

Also, we were frozen for a long time but have been making meaningful improvements for a while now, I’m guessing your evaluation of us not growing comes from the olden days.

As we do work on things, though, we have standards for usability and polish that are higher than Dynalist and Roam, so things take longer.

Images is a good example, which will be coming out soon. We’re just going to do a good job with it, whereas the functionality in these other tools is a little weird and feels tacked on, at least to me.
A week ago we listened to this podcast by Nationak Review where they interview Robert Cahaly of Trafalgar.

They may be the ones who got it the most right ... Again. They also discuss some of their methodologies:

https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-editors/special-...
It doesn’t seem like any of this happened this time.
If you were following Nat on Twitter you would have seen that they are doing all within their power to get Youtube-dl restored.
What can you buy with gold bullion? Is gold worthless?
The Pollster Who Thought Trump Was Ahead [audio]
Is the discrete accelerator required for dual 4K? The article says it only really helps
(vs the integrated intel GPU) with video encoding and machine learning workloads.
What percentage chance must a forecast assign to an outcome before you would be able to accept it happening not being due to dishonesty? 538 gave Trump a ~30% chance of winning on Election Day 2016. If you roll a die twice and it comes up less than 4 both times, would you start looking for criminal intent?

It’s also worth noting that 538 doesn’t conduct any of the polls that feed into their forecast, and so aren’t pollsters in a relevant sense here. Their entire reason for existing is that they agree that there is systematic bias in polls so they attempt to model it.
Java doesn't have one of the fundamentals of typed FP--algebraic data types with exhaustive pattern matching. And just in general--Scala, despite its warts, can be very succinct and packs a lot of power in simple-looking code.
There was some really great insight tonight on The Agenda (Current issues/politics show on TVOntario Canada) from the president of Advanced Symbolics. She went over what they got wrong and why.

https://www.tvo.org/video/what-the-polls-got-wrong
I wanted to post the video first but accidentally sent it to the comments. That is most of the video title.

I can not remove this post or edit the title. I understand the rules but don’t think this title is misleading.
The title is a little confusing - it's not about the vote counting - this is from last week and is about the pollster who thought Trump was doing better than the other pollsters thought.

I've changed the title to be past tense for clarity.
No, the polls were horrible last election and this election. Just randomly picking an example, the polls were of by almost +10% for Trump in Florida.

And “any democracy”? Is Canada not a democracy either? We don’t elect our leader based on popular vote either.
I still don't get it. How are we supposed to recognize his face?
Extensive ID requirements and indelible dyes are measures to minimize voter fraud, such as voting by ineligible persons or eligible persons voting more than once. Voter fraud is nearly non-existent in the United States.[0]

The overwhelming problem with American elections is electoral fraud, a term which encompasses such things as preventing eligible voters from voting, not counting legitimate ballots, voter intimidation, and jerrymandering. These problems cannot be fixed through measures intended to minimize voter fraud as they are the result of the state, and/or parties, abusing the democratic process rather than the citizen abusing it.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/fbi-has-not-seen-evidence-of...
I understand this comment completely. I got 'inspired' by the lecture and book, and was excited a join a company that is so highly portrayed in that book/lecture.

I had to leave within a year as I realized it was not suitable for me.
The president himself has admitted that he wishes to starve the USPS to limit widespread mail in voting: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-... . This in a pandemic where vote by mail is something any sane government should be supporting enthusiastically.

Potentially relatedly, right now there's 300,000 ballots missing/delayed: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1103/USPS-won-t-... .
> If the result is always within the margin of error, how useful does that make the polls?

That's what Gelman's post is about. There's something wrong with polling methodology and statisticians' models, and it's time to see what.
Blue won the popular vote in all 7 previous elections. It's not very useful or difficult to predict that.

If you don't like the electoral college system, go look at what it was negotiated for and also stop wanting whatever that was too. Otherwise you're just like someone saying "That other country should be part of my country! Not fair!"

In New Zealand's last election, the National Party won the popular vote but their opponent the Labour Party actually won the election and is now in power. So New Zealand isn't a democracy either?
It’s okay. Fincher cancelled it to do a movie with Netflix that looks great. Netflix wasn’t going to get Mindhunter continued successfully without Fincher’s interest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mank
The first problem is identity. The voting part is easy, the politics are impossibly expensive to navigate though.
My bad, mixed up Metallica and Nirvana in my head. I don't listen to metal, obviously. Can't edit.
Offtopic: we are evaluating rabbit at the moment vs activemq; rabbit won for one detail: we need delayed messages (ex. publish {...} in 2h) and activemq seems to support those clustered while rabbit only on one node, which does not fit the business case (we cannot lose messages). I worked with rabbitmq before and it was great but this seems indeed an issue. Someone here with some insights?
> when you could still make money there.

What has changed since? Speaking as someone who has never written apps before but have also wanted to in my spare time, what has changed from before?
Another way this _could_ be solved is to allow HTML authors to use idempotent HTTP methods like PUT.

Sadly, it doesn't seem browser vendors are very interested to support this.
It's the right direction, but you wouldn't mail a car...
The youtube-dl DMCA notice does not allege copyright infringement (section 512 of the DMCA) but rather breaking DRM (section 1201 of the DMCA). Arguing that there is no [copyright-]infringing material is completely missing the point.

The EFF has a write-up about it [1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-youtube-dl-take...
I’ve tried a wide variety of plant based “meat”. I’ve also tried a wide variety of meat. Some of the plant based “meat” is surprisingly good, but “mind blowing” is going way too far, and setting up unrealistic expectations that will end up being detrimental to the goal of getting more people to reduce or eliminate meat.
Yeah, it does the work of every actual credentialed economist I know has nothing but utter contempt for praxeology. As should be. As should you, if you cared enough.
Sterilized by radiation sounds much more risky to me. You don't know what else was changed by the radiation. With gene editing at least you know what you changed.
No, they have higher quality data now because they have twice as much engagement with the thumbs system, and users weren’t rating 2-4 stars in a useful way. Losing the review comments was a shame but they were infrequently viewed.

As much as it offends my sensibilities, sometimes the best move is to simplify a feature so that improved usage makes up for the loss of the complications.
African American Kidneys: Why is race used to measure kidney function?
It's incredibly rare because it's very hard to both have an impact and get away with it not to mention the consequences of being caught are a felony.

You need to commit a lot of voter fraud to swing an election, it has to be a very close election. Like one state and 20,000 to 100,000 vote. A once in a 30-50 year election. You need to figure out before hand which state will be swing state that decides the election.

Now you have to commit voter fraud 50,000 times in that state. You can't do it in person because the numbers are too larger so you have to do mail-in. How do you find 20,000-50,000 people across the state who you can get a mail in ballot for, steal it, and turn it in without anyone noticing.

This is basically an impossible task that even if you pull off has a low chance of making a difference, and a large chance of sending you to jail.
Yes, I agree with all these things. I still think there needs to be a lot more precision and details about what the polls claim to do, to say they screwed up.
I absolutely agree. Many plants are delicious. I will take eggplant, courgette, cabbage or any number of other delicious plants over a brown mush of unknown plants and other things that tries to pretend to be meat, thanks.
Do you have any issues with other pests?

I have a tiny terrace garden with several potted plants and a part from slug pellets I also run into leaf miners and aphids and whatnot. So I see myself inspecting my plants daily and often spraying or manually removing bugs. This is much more time-consuming than the watering aspect.
God that would be useful. The least enjoyable part about using an iphone is all the media elements that show up blank because it uses vorbis/vp9
The United States is a representative republic, not a democracy. Yes, I am aware of the nuances of each. The Constitution clearly outlines how voting should proceed, the Electoral College, etc. It would take Constitutional amendments to change this system, the same as any other part of the Constitution.

There is no "popular vote" for the President, legally speaking. The popular vote is essentially a colloquial totaling of 51 separate vote-totaling processes.
I'm not aiming to maximize yield, so I only add it once a year, to sort of "replenish" things. I also have a compost heap in which I compost grass clippings and autumn leaves, so I mix that in as well.

If I wanted to maximize yield, fertilization would have to be customized more (and I'd probably just use liquid fertilizer out of a watering can). What I have is adequate for my simple set up.

My parents were concerned about yields (because they sold part of the produce for extra income), so they fertilized several times a year, mostly either with manure or with guano (chicken poop), but they used granulated nitrogen fertilizer as well. Then again, they harvested three crops every year, and I only harvest one. It's not hot enough where I live to grow more than that.
True, we're far from a credible simulation.

But even if we had that, simulation isn't love. Deep down we'll know it's a lie.
The Simple Reason the Polls Failed So Hard in 2020
Reading wikipedia, the Sterile Insect Technique seems awesome! I hope someone knowledgeable can answer some questions:

1. If a fertile female mates with a sterile male, why does she not just mate again?

2. How are males selected?

3. How are males sterilized? Wikipedia refers to "irradiation of reproductive cells" but this can't be so precisely targeted...right?
Looking forward to try this new network observability software framework.

Just wondering how is this different from the OpenTelemetry framework [1]?

For those who are wondering what is network observability perhaps this article can provide some contexts [2].

[1] https://opentelemetry.io/

[2] https://securityboulevard.com/2019/10/network-security-obser...
We are about 10000 steps away before worrying the power usage of websites. Transport and energy generation changes are many many order of magnitudes more important
Of all the problems with eating a lot of corn, you chose cannibalism as your example?
I don't think they are trusting, in general, but things are easier to overlook or rationalize when the results go in one's favored direction.
I read the entire article, and the actual criticisms seems to be that not everything that can be represented with ownership semantics. I don't see how that would be a "fatal flaw" in any way, and it just seems to be a sensationalized headline.
I've listened to Sawbones for a long time and finally had to give up. The shows does present some factual information, but also spins some things, and seem to primarily exist so the hosts can create a setting where they can "prove" how smart they are and insult anyone that doesn't agree with 100% of what they are saying. It just comes off as really mean spirited and not particularly informative or funny as they claim to be.
Who said this is a great idea? We're backing here the new Flash, consuming resources on clients.
I think if you're not aiming to be fully self-sustaining it makes a lot of sense to buy things like these and focus on growing fresh fruits and vegetables. From a sustainability perspective beans/wheat/corn and to some extent potatoes are fairly easy to store, making them suitable for central/slow processing. I don't have numbers on this but my sense is that a lot of the resource usage of our agricultural system is due to perishables - food that needs to be cooled, that gets thrown away if no-one buys it on time, that's easy to damage in transportation, and that has high water content (making it heavy to transport).
I feel the fact that statistics are uncertain gives them incredible cover for their deceptions. They aren't just slightly wrong, they are extremely wrong in not just the overall picture, but in state after state and race after race, in multiple election cycles to the degree that if it happened in any other country, the UN would intervene.

The magnitude of their errors are shocking, stunning, and increasing over time. I can't understand how anyone can ever look at these again without a canister of salt. If Trump won in a landslide after they predicted Biden up by a landslide but assigned it some kind of probability you're going to give them a pass? Of course not.

The fact that there are so many polls and they are all wrong means that there is something foul at play at the heart of this entire enterprise. The most charitable thing I could say is that they are completely useless, a toy metric for amusements.
Because polling response rates fell off a cliff over the past decade or two, leaving a sample population much different than was historically available. (https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2012/05/15/assessing-th...)
Good to know! Will consider for my next replacement
I think that the whole concept of demographics is part of the issue. The Florida vote seemed to treat “latinos” as a single bloc, yet “latinos fearful of communism due to having lived through it” wasn’t a distinct sub-bloc.
> More realistic modeling of the polls can correct for biases and add uncertainty for the biases we can’t correct.

Yeah, I heard a pundit on NPR describe a polling bias that arises from individuals' distaste for the news agency conducting the poll. I would think you could model this phenomenon (and/or create a polling spinoff marketed with a more independent brand).

However you slice it, it seems like the polls just aren't painting a picture as accurate as they have in decades past.