skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By 'quite badly early on in the primaries' you mean the first two where Pete won one and then tied Bernie in the state next to Bernie's home state, and then one that Bernie won, right? After that was South Carolina where Joe won handily, then Super Tuesday where Joe basically ran the table and never looked back.

The party did not decide, the people clearly indicated who they wanted. They wanted the person who could win the general election. Turns out they were a lot smarter than you give them credit.
Does anyone use Mutt with gmail or alikes today? Is it worth it?

Mutt was my preferred email client back in 2000-2004. But gave it up for Gmail web interface.
> It seems the only talents he ever had were inherited wealth and marketing himself.

One of those isn't a talent, but yes. Although he also married wealth, so that might be a talent of sorts.

His business record is a string of failures, lawsuits and bankruptcies, his greatest cultural notoriety prior to election was playing parodies of himself on television, his greatest political accomplishment was running for President in 2000 as a Reform Party Candidate and losing, and he didn't even write The Art of the Deal.
I'm being down voted for saying something that is happening right now.

Here's an example: https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1324792225260253184

Backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20201106194139/https://twitter.c...
Just institute Voter ID like the rest of the civilized world and this "voter fraud" thing will be solved.

And open source the voteing machines.
Where does 12 years come from? Obama served more years in federal government as a senator than did Bush or Clinton (former state governors).
No they don't. They don't have a competing service there yet.
‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection
> Russian election interference was investigated by Trump's own Justice Department. They didn't find any.

The DoJ very much found signs of Russian election interference. They just couldn't prove that the Trump campaign actively conspired with Russia.
It doesn't much matter what people wrongly thought in the past, any more than one has to study the four fundamental elements of water, air, earth and fire to become an expert in chemistry. GOFAI didn't work, hence the winter. If it did I'd think otherwise.

It's true that you can, in some places, merge the two. The significant majority of the time, this just makes your ML system worse in the long run, per The Bitter Lesson. Occasionally—very occasionally—your problem is fundamentally simple, so something brittle like AlphaZero works, even though we'd still rather shave the fixed-function parts off with MuZero and the like. But it's no coincidence this is reserved for simple, thoughtless problems (like brute-force move search) and kept isolated from the thinking, as intelligence needs generalization and abstraction, and GOFAI doesn't generalize or abstract.

> And of course, one of the most widely used and well-known type of machine learning approach used to this day, decision trees

Though decision trees live a healthy life in data analysis, alongside things like k-means clustering, they're obviously not AI.

> Of course, most people today know "ML" as a byword for deep learning, or at best statistical pattern recognition (if that).

‘Statistical pattern recognition’ is just name calling devoid of real criticisms. I can ask GPT-3,

> a = ["fitness", "health", "heart"], b = ["lifting", "curls", "squats"], c = ["running", "jogging"], so what is b.append("pushups")?

and it'll happily answer

> b.append("pushups") returns ["lifting", "curls", "squats", "pushups"]

or I can give it the Loebner Prize questions which it can almost ace, or I can test it on 10-digit addition and it gets 60% right (with thousands separators, but still suffering BPEs), or I can ask it to do quirky tasks like shuffling letters, or ask it to write sentences with novel words and find that it understands nuanced differences between the definitions...

You can scream ‘but it's just statistical pattern recognition’ all you want, but the criticism doesn't mean anything if ‘statistical pattern recognition’ includes this level of generalization, reasoning and algorithmic sophistication in natural language with scaling curves that assure us the best is yet to come.
Whats next iphones only opening approved websites?

EDIT: While that seems super sarcastic. Consider this: Game streaming services are in the end just a gateway app to games, in the same way the browser is a gateway to the internet. Furthermore apple already did hinder "browserish" gateways, like apps which are a gateway to more ergonomically reading word-press blogs or message apps which where gateways to a federated "internet of messaging".
Wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
I expect cost/mb is king.

Lots of companies now use hard drives for backups instead of tapes.

I've also heard that data on flash drives degrades after a while without power, which is not the case with mechanical hard drives.
I think this is spot on.

The way people in the US behave resembles atheists more than they resemble any religion. Generally people don't want to defund the police, including African Americans (people want police to be more accountable and empathetic), and really no mainstream politician is very close to socialism in this country. But its just the labels that stick.
This may be a very specific example, but it all goes back to the number one rule in raising: If you‘re a hot startup, you make the terms. If you‘re in need of money, they make the terms.

If anything, focus on growth, revenue and timing so that you‘ve got both good curves in the reports and more than two investor options lined up when it‘s time to raise. Nothing else matters.

We lost our biggest client around Series A stage and were strong-armed into a seed stage contract with bad valuation and lots of other unfavorable terms. We signed it because we had to.

Two years later, we had managed to get our act back together and had a basically infinite runway through our own revenue. And that power to say no completely turned the dynamics around.

The same main investor basically begged us to take more money, so when we wanted to accelerate a bit, we told him we had a last offer for him to invest and left the room with it on the table.

He didn‘t even insist on participating LP, as he was so glad to get a small additional piece of that rocket ship.

There‘s a million ways to screw founders and just a single way to avoid it: Show traction and the money will find you.
I looked up shlub and the internet told me it means talentless, unattractive or boorish person.

I fundamentally cannot agree with your seeming dismissal of his responsibility to comport himself a certain way in public while he holds office.
Imagine you have a couple of algorithms that scramble a solved Rubik's cube into a configuration that takes at least 20 twists to unscramble [0]. From there, any attempt to make it ‘even more scrambled’ would be pointless — and actually likely make solving the resulting puzzle easier.

Now imagine there's a programmer who wants to make the ultimate cube scrambler despite not knowing any of the above. Their brilliant idea is to take the aforementioned algorithms and chain them together. (Result: snafu.)

In essence, the moral of the story is that one shouldn't try stacking encryption algorithms without first acquiring a pretty good understanding of how they all work.

[0] https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-08/gods-number-r...
The figurine on the insect head looks like a superimposed image.
The recent batch of Jira clones all seem to be missing a feature that was one of the few things that made me choose Jira in the first place: BPM style workflows with phase-specific data capture and actions / transitions.

Trello / Kanban / Agile style 'project management', gnatt / burndown charts and velocity etc. are nice for day to day views for people working at the coal-face and the never-ending war of attrition.

But a lot of the competing tools are not as elegant when it comes to modeling interlinked cross-team processes end-to-end.
No, its still an issue. If you have QueryA which requests User { firstName } and QueryB which requests User { lastName }, those queries both have to request their data in order for both fields to be cached.

If, instead, you have QueryC which does User { firstName, lastName }, but two usages of it (QueryC1/QueryC2), after QueryC1 requests, QueryC2 can use the cached results. This works whether you're doing Query/Operation level caching or Field/ID level caching. The former example works in neither. And QueryC is trivially faster than QueryA+QueryB because of network overhead.

This isn't necessarily an issue with GraphQL (and, I thought I was clear about this, but: I'm not against GraphQL). Its a behavior of both typical REST implementations and GraphQL. And, to be clear, GraphQL's out-of-box caching story is more powerful than any REST implementation I've seen short of hyper-engineered FAANG companies, because it enables really powerful field/ID level caching across multiple queries. But it doesn't work in this case.

The point is that its still very immature. Even the thought leaders (Apollo being the biggest one and worst offender) write these blog posts filled with Best Practices and Recommendations that often convey horrible advice and flat-out misrepresent GraphQL's actual advantages compared to REST. GraphQL solves a lot of REST's problems; it does NOT solve REST's "god-object" class of problems, like the grandparent comment suggests; and it introduces many new classes of problems that remain unsolved in the ecosystem because of how immature it is (one great example is OSI L7 inspection in many tertiary tools a typical SaaS app has. Many products like Datadog, CloudFront, AWS ALB, etc are capable of doing some really cool and powerful stuff out-of-the-box just by inspecting standard HTTP headers. REST is basically just standard HTTP; your resource is in the path, query parameters, http headers, its very standard. GraphQL is not, so many of these tools don't work out-of-box with GraphQL. People are catching up, but again, its immature).
Would there be interest in a centrist newspaper?
I've spent a lot of time working in both tech and media and this is something that has been in the back of my mind for a while; the liberal bias in mainstream media is real, but there are no good alternatives. If you're not reading the New York Times and the Atlantic you're looking at Breitbart and Fox News. (There's the Journal and the Economist, but they're kind of dry, and you can subscribe to Substacks, sure, but those are mostly analysis, not news).

So if you're a relatively technocratic person -- someone who say, believes that Trump's handling of the pandemic has been abhorrent and climate change is real but also that Brian Armstrong's blog post wasn't unreasonable and looters are making BLM look bad -- there's basically nothing for you.

I guess what I'm trying to ask here is -- am I crazy naive in believing that there could be a non-negligible audience for a more balanced news publication? The tricky thing about centrism is that it defines itself sort of inherently in relation to the two poles, but I still think there are a bunch of topics that a centrist newspaper could concretely offer a different take on, including technology and social justice.

Do you guys think that people WANT nuance, and can't access it, or that mainstream media is just catering to people's existing worst impulses to consume a flattened narrative?

I would be interested in having some concrete sense of number of interested people, so I'm including a Google Form if you want to get notified if I go anywhere with this idea.
> Someday maybe we'll know why.

I really want to know the truth. There were some really vocal never-Trumpers like Graham who flipped to become extremely loyal supporters. Why? What makes someone become that fiercely loyal to a man they absolutely know will not show any loyalty to them? It has to be power, he knows something, I guess. In the case of Graham, it can't be proof that he's gay, that wouldn't surprise anybody, even his own constituents. So it's got to be something far more devastating.
Ah yes, comparisons with GDPs based on resource extraction.
The staggered nature of the primaries combined with the inanity that is FPTP makes for poor fairness. ~No one will vote for their preferred candidate if they find out he/she is doing poorly - they’ll vote for the most electable candidate that they can stomach.
I don't think this was reference to that particular rule. It was reference to reputation American businesses have and reputation "American ideology" have - that they consider more powerful people taking advantage of weaker one perfectly fine.

That is the reputation.
I'll be honest, I don't see your post as a reply to anything I said... so I'll just leave all this as it is.

Stop looking at right now, today, this week. Look forward. Look forward to when you are old; look forward beyond your lifetime; look forward to when this time in history has been forgotten by the cultural memory, to when the transitory arguments of today, this afternoon, or this year, have been forgotten; and ask yourself what kind of world you don't want to see, even if it means you ruefully admit it makes things harder now.

That introspection has been lost and probably, the human race won't survive this period if we don't figure it out.
ZFS also periodically re-silvers the disks to keep the FS in top shape. IIRC ZFS tries to re-silver disks when the traffic is low but, it's not always possible.

I bet that the disks is 16+ TB range will be used for colder tiers of the storage. Also, they should be useful in the OST of the LustreFS since the random read storm hits the MDT more severely.
I can give you the background on the change CA made.

Imagine a district with the following breakdown: 35% Progressive D, 35% Liberal/moderate D, 25% Republican, 5% Other. So overall, 70% D.

CA used to mandate that on the final ballot, you got one choice per party, e.g. one D, one R, and N "Other".

Here's what would happen: the D primary would have a Progressive and a Liberal/moderate. But because Progressives were a lot more "activist", they got out and voted in the primary and their candidate would win. So the final ballot would be: Progressive D, moderate R, N "Other".

In the election, enough Liberal/moderate Ds would NOT vote for the Progressive D, so the moderate Republican kept winning, despite only being 25% of the electorate and not voting with Democrats in the legislature, even though 70% of their district were Democrats.

The change was to have the top two candidates of any party on the ballot. This resulted in a Progressive D and a Liberal/moderate D (and no R). R's (of course) vote for the Liberal/moderate D in this scenario on the final ballot, and they win (and vote with the Democrats in the legislature). This, more or less, is why Democrats have a supermajority in CA, but it's really two wings of the same party, and they have to negotiate much the same way that Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate have to get along.
The problem is that even if you had “better”, the majority of voters wouldn’t vote for “better candidates.”

Voters like users of a software application are hostile, irrational and often unqualified to use the system.

The question is what will we do and how will we improve our form of government now that the stress test of Trump’s presidency is over?

How do we make a more perfect union in the face of often uninformed, unqualified voters?

How do we really ensure that our officials are ethical and responsible individuals seeking to serve?

I have no clue.
Bernie only won a single primary, Nevada, prior to South Carolina. He lost in Iowa and tied in New Hampshire. Just prior to Super Tuesday several candidates who were polling in single digits dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden. Maybe it was because they agreed with Joe's policies, maybe the party put a gun to their head, and maybe they just didn't like Bernie.
This is going to create some interesting attack vectors.
What!?! The study was wrong? checks google wow just hearing about it today.
Disappointed that politics are now in the Hacker News.
If you want TPA3250 amps without having to build your own, they're widely available from the usual cheap vendors for less than $100.

The victory of class D is now total; extremely low distortion numbers can be achieved without heroic board layout or expensive passives made of unobtanium. All available in the tiny packages of AirPods, smartphones etc. And power levels in the tens of watts can be done with a single chip.
A chance? Nimble? This clown has been politically putting his foot in his mouth for half a century
I think this can work very good at scale. Create a well designed REST or GraphQL API, depending on use case. Then use this API inside the Next.JS API routes. Obviously, if you stick your business logic into the API routes this will become a mess if you plan to add other API consumers. On the other hand, if you never want to add other clients to an API, this could be less of an issue.
Every single member of the House progressive caucus in swing districts won re-election.

Everyone knows that Biden isn’t going to follow through on any of the progressive parts of his party platform. We already had eight years of the the Obama bait-and-switch with him as VP. He’s expressed more interest in appointing actual Republicans to his cabinet than doing any of this.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand powered by someone who was funded by YCombinator.

https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1324907788146008065

https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1324907989745233922

So sad to see this is what tech people do.
Also in PRISM for WPF.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2008/...
The Rust Belt didn’t need to be an economic zone, politicians made it that way.
> But then COVID hit, and I’m fairly certain that having coordinated, science-based leadership in the highest levels of government would have spared us from quite a lot of suffering. So much for rooting for ineffectual.

Yeah, COVID has really emphasized for me (a recovering libertarian) how important it is to have functioning and competent government institutions (along with other social institutions).
The meaning of life is essential also. Feynman was curious. Where would we be if he obsessed over cosmology?
Fair point. I was surprised at my blind spot, which I think I have because my media consumption consists mostly of the centrist media outlets you refer to.

I never realized how influential Bitchute QAnon believers are or One America News Network is either (mainly due to social media algorithms running haywire).

Tristan Harris of the Social Dilemma made some really great points to this effect on his podcast episode with Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTKaHKCAFg.
Because you cannot know whether the let variable is changing just with static analysis without running the associated code, right?
The Connecticut Compromise created the Senate, not the electoral college. The explicit purpose of the electoral college was to give more power to slaveholding states without enfranchising slaves.

The Three-Fifths Compromise is intrinsically related to the electoral college, because it instructed how to count slaves when determining how many House seats a state would get.
Mutt and Gmail work fine together. I always find myself opening up the web UI when I need to search, though. I’ve taken a a few steps down the notmuch path a few times but it feels like such a big Thing to have to set up a whole local mail system just for search.
This isn't a hypothetical problem. Trump is dead politically, but the dissatisfaction that made his brand of populism electable is still there.

And if Biden - or Harris - don't take steps to address it by 2024, someone much worse than Trump will appear.

And they may well win.

The reality is voters on both sides vote how the various media outlets tell them to vote. There's plenty of media noise, but the available narratives are carefully curated, and voters don't get to generate their own from the grassroots upwards.

This has become far more dangerous as Facebook and the various other online platforms have moved towards microprofiling and microtargetting.

This was a huge issue during the Brexit campaign, when disingenuous single-issue ads aimed at very narrow demographics with specific vulnerabilities put the result over the top.

Trump spent more on social in this election than Biden did, and the result was a good collection of surprise wins in states like Florida, and the second biggest voter turnout in US history.

If Trump had been even slightly more competent and focused and if Covid hadn't been happening this would have been a bloodbath for progressives.
That is unrelated to the school schedule. Most bus drivers aren't going to care if their routes start at 6, 7 and 8am or 8, 9 and 10am.
They do, but in different style. They pretend they don't while American style is to defend it or even brag about it m
This is an irrelevant nitpick. When you have the ability to actually shape policies, if you shape them in a racist way with the intent to do so and don't care about it, that's what it makes you.
Yeah, I might very well be wrong. I did put some thought into it, and came to the conclusion that Trumpism is no ideaology or even a movement. Especially when compared to historical political movements like the national socialists in Germany, fascists in Italy or Russian communism. It looks more like a combination of white supremacists, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, religious hardliners and macho culture. All held together by Trump's reality TV style bling and the GOP establishment.

Trump never was the leader of the GOP, was he? He turned people like Cruz and Graham into devote followers. Mostly, I think, out of fear of Trumps base. People like McConnell were never swayed, these people pushed their policies through. Yes, Trump has his stable 40%. But with him gone, that number will decrease. The GOP will make sure of that, because continuously embrassing Trump after he lost will only hurt them.

Maybe that's wishful thinking, but for now I, as a European, am grateful that the US internal problems are again internal ones and don't affect every country on Earth anymore. I am also glad that the incoming admin already now seems a lot better prepared and organized to fight COVID-19 and its effects. Because that alone will safe lives. And maybe a couple of years of America's absence from Western leadership was a necessary wake up call for the world in general.

Personally, so I hope Biden finds a way to sort stuff like healthcare, police violence, voter suppression, gerrymandering out. Because that can only be good.

Ah, and before I forget, I hope Harris as VP is a sign that they intend to legally clean up Trump's legacy. Letting him get away scott free because he was president once would do as much harm to Democracy than 4 more years of Trump.
How hard would it be to crowdfund a translation effort? In principle this could be done through Kickstarter, right?
As someone who uses a smartphone mostly for browsing the web and who hates installing another app, I just can't see the big innovation here.

If however, you're a developer selling apps, then I can see your point. Apple took the business model of game consoles and brought it to smartphones. Most people love it, developers love it, and that's probably why they call it an "innovation" even though it isn't.