skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have fond memories of mutt, and some of my coworkers still use it on our IMAP server. I've vacillated over the years between mutt, Thunderbird, and Gmail depending on the company and capabilities. Recently I've played with using Outlook desktop (after a week or two with Outlook for the web) because of better teams and meetings integration (it's an ISP, we have our own HA dovecot cluster and an exchange system for employees, but we can get mail in either reliability with some procmail and exchange rules). The only thing Outlook has over Thunderbird or mutt are the aforementioned exchange integrations, buttery smooth cursor movement (it had been so long since I used MS Word I forgot about that, and it's nice), and the ability to set conditional rules to not just set color on messages in a folder, but font and font size. Having unread items not just a different color but bold and bigger is pretty cool. Not sure how mutt would support that, but I think some newer terms might open up the capability...
I don't think that the majority of federal regulation necessarily does, but I think that the majority of Americas current problems do.

For example climate change, immigration, poverty, healthcare, and gun control.
Oh meep, one of those viruses that overwrites those ranges in lower memory...

Did you ever try to boot it from a floppy, just to see what would happen?
Distribution of wealth is a metric, it can neither provide nor deprive of liberty.

People protecting their property is an ethical action. People trying to take it from them against their will is not. This can't be reasoned away.

Fortunately, we have agency in this world that does not require violence. We can work to improve our lot.
He was repeatedly asked if he would support the peaceful transfer of power if he lost, and he repeatedly refused to do so. That’s pretty much as authoritarian as you get.
>There are plenty of arguments a reasonable person can come up with for not wanting a Hillary Clinton presidency in 2016, with or without the advantage of hindsight.

Sure. But voting for a "chaos monkey" isn't reasonable. It's not as if Republicans would have been happy with another Democratic candidate, and they had an entire field of their own to choose from, and they chose to vote in Nero to watch Rome burn.
Why are you drawing an equivalence between "murder all non-white people" and "give power to the working class"?
It would nice if there was terrestrial fiber map which shows fiber lines in cities and towns. Also is there is a map available that shows where active fiber connections are available by address. FIOS doesn’t have a coverage map.
Russian bots... the lefts favorite cop out argument of 2020. Please provide an example, otherwise your claims are nothing but rhetoric.
I too am curious, but I think it's way, way more than you're guessing. I imagine humans are the single biggest threat to mosquitoes in a city (and also the single biggest source of sustenance).
This strikes me as a bad idea conceptually, for all use cases.

For any use case for which this could be good, simply factoring the code into normal files / modules / packages, put it through code review in a version control system, and enable on-demand reproducible execution through normal means like a task queue that writes output artifacts like plots somewhere for you.

Relying on interactive, possibly out of order execution of notebook cells, relying on the notebook for embedding assets like plots or interactive widgets, or collaborative changes (instead of documented change requests as in a true code review) are all just from-first-principles very bad ways of working that have cheap, easily available long-standing best practice alternatives.

If you find you need to layer in visual diffing, locking notebooks, notebook “code review,” realtime edits from multiple authors, or embedding long-lived business artifacts like charts or images in notebooks - you should see these as significant bad practices and code smells that your understanding of what it’s appropriate to use notebooks for is totally off and you need a major reset and huge change to your approach.
This may be a surprise, but there is 'Common Ground' on almost all of the issues, even the most difficult, like abortion.

85% of Americans believe there is racism in America. If it were not political, reform in the prison system could absolutely be achieved.

The vast majority of Americans would accept reforms to Healthcare if each law were not hugely politicized. For example, some Republican voters accept or reject literally the same policy when it's presented by different sides of the aisle.

Americans would overwhelmingly accept some kind of Amnesty for children of migrants, and 'some kind' of program for others if - on the other side of the aisle - there were serious reforms and enhancements to ensure border integrity. Any attempt to offer amnesty would probably be weaponized by Republicans and Fox for political points.

The majority of Americans believe that fetus/babies that are viable in the 3rd trimester (i.e. could be born premature) should not be up for abortion. But that 'the day of conception' isn't really tantamount to life. But the extremists won't allow for any common ground.

Even on business tax, income tax - if you actually put numbers together, there are plans that are very popular, but rejected by one radical side or another.

Left wing Governor Cuomo, and Far Left Wing Mayor Deblasio pushed hard for the Amazon deal for NYC, but AOC et. al. really pushed to kill it even though the majority of her constituents (ever people of colour) wanted it. Amazons investment in NYC, while controversial, was quite popular - but killed by more radical voices.

Popular political systems tend to promote and highlight the more extreme views, this is amplified in the press with arguing talking heads.

AOC, Donald Trump get huge attention for the loud, bombastic, contrarian positions they take. In politics 'attention' is everything, that's their currency. They are not incented to 'govern well' they are incented to 'get >50% of the votes' which they do so by making a lot of noise, and spinning everything their opponents do against them.

It takes a lot of maturity, a lot of credibility in systems to get away from that.

Go ahead and have a look at the politics of Germany, they have some English language sites. They have some actual Nazis over there, and yet, somehow, the news and debate is still deftly boring. It's really amazing. Angela Merkel, possibly my favorite politician, has to be the most 'opposite' to Donald Trump imaginable. Coalition governments have a lot to do with that as well.
You're saying it should be like this because it is like this. That doesn't take us very far.
His inaction and obfuscation caused thousands and thousands of people to die from COVID.

He publicly condoned shooting unarmed protesters, and let his DOJ kidnap people in unmarked vans.

He left the Paris climate accords.

These are catastrophic.
More or less, yes. Take a look at the ACA. This is a piece of legislation that was essentially conservative in nature. It pleased very few on the democratic side, and bore plenty of similarities to some republican plans from the 90s. The Republicans reacted as if communism was coming to America.

It should be noted that this approach was an explicit plan that was noted by many at the time - some choice quotes in this article: https://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-de...

> As opposed to the excellent state and not "unusually obstructive " form that democrats left the nation with after 4 years of never trump?

During the Trump administration, the Republicans had 2 years of controlling the house, the senate, AND the presidency. Not sure how much you think the Democrats could obstruct in that situation. In the following two years there's been just a democratic house, from which the Republican senate majority leader has been more or less unwilling to review legislation. And not just democratic-lead legislation - plenty of bipartisan legislation has been ignore too.

Really not sure why you're giving Pelosi sole blame for the failure to come to an agreement on stimulus. McConnell seems to be the clearest blocker here: seems there was hope for the White House and the House to come to an agreement, which McConnell scuppered: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/10/15/mcconnel... .
Hear, hear. Do not forget the blackout on the Hunter Biden laptop story and the irresponsible amplification of any police shootings where a black man was a victim, leading to unrest, fanning of racial hatred and wantom destruction all over the country. It is hard to understate how much harm they have inflicted on the country.
What is “moral fabric”?
The state already bans illegal content. The question is whether we also want a second party banning it.
I’m a simple man, I don’t like being lied to, being constantly manipulated, being told what to think.

Democrats and mainstream media are one big brainwashing machine if you haven’t noticed in the last 4 years.

I saw them lying time after time, they discredited themselves in my eyes and in the eyes of other 70M people.

The biggest conspiracy they push is “white supremacy” boogeyman. If you believe in that bullshit please leave fancy words like “epistemology” alone.

This election has been a grand celebration of propaganda as a way to control the masses.
>wouldn't it be better to use examples that aren't as easy to do with those other tools?

hmm, food for thought...I wasn't thinking along those lines after I had shown/linked powerful one-liners in the very first section: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_perl_oneliners/one-li...

I'll see if I can also add such examples in the actual content too. I was concentrating more on explaining the syntax, showing features, etc
Is it appropriate now he’s declaring the democratic election invalid?

That’s what fascism is, you realise?

This really cuts to the heart of it; what does it take to get someone to change their views, when the facts don’t work?

Even if you disagree with a democratic agenda, how can you in good conscience continue to support someone who is blatantly acting like a fascist dictator right now?

I personally find it easy to distinguish Trump, who I consider an waste of air, and the GOP, who has an agenda I can appreciate.

Why is that so difficult to do?
I'll just say this comment screams "deceptive reasoning" / "flawed use of sources" to me. Triggers my sensors from a mile away.
Yeah, the mainstream Democrats in particular engaged in crap arguments like the dubious, hyper-partisan impeachment effort. Impeachment just distinctly wounded the anti-Trump efforts and only Trump's fumbling Covid was enough to get it back on track.

But the super mainstream Democrats are one of 3-4 distinct factions who want Trump out. Those actually even the mild left were only partially on this train.
People are probably harder on him because it was an explicit campaign promise that he would be less corrupt as a non politician. That doesn’t seem to have panned out imo.
When the framers were originally drafting the Constitution, they were originally planning on calling the President by "His Majesty", but the framers decided not to in order to specifically discourage any association with a King, who rules by fiat, and a President who rules through the consent of the governed.
I agree. In general I identify as very progressive (especially by US standards), but I hold some opinions that are somewhat outside of the leftist norm, and I'm more or less completely unwilling to discuss them online as I don't trust that I will be treated in good faith.

The sad thing here is that I'm genuinely open to having my opinions changed, and have a history of changing my view in response to argument in the past. But can't have my view changed if I'm too scared to even have the discussion ;-).
Sure! The issue is best described as the Peter principle. They guy who hired me didn't know enough to hire the right person. He was beyond his capacity and then it was me. That's the Peter principle. At some point in our career this might happen to allot us. We get promoted into a position we're not capable of.
President Trump was not working against China's human right violations either. I don't think a change of US leadership is going to make much of an impact on their quality of life one way or another.
So, American friends, I can't imagine Trump stopping his hissy fit and conceding... what happens if he doesn't concede?
Ask HN: Is Google pixel 5 secure with Titan M chip?
Hi HN,
I’m currently thinking of switching from iPhone to android and one thing that pixel 5 really attracted me was titan M security chip
Just to be clear, you are saying that having favorable trade policies with China is worse than directly associating the presidency with actual white supremacists? Really?
I don't think something that requires others to labor can ever be a right. I would call that slavery.
How? You have to do some kind of check with let, and you don't with const.
Facism is law and order? Hm... doesn't sound all that bad.
>Every time you gloss over this, you give a pass to it and to those who knew about it and supported him anyway.

I feel this unique cherry picking of obviously terrible stances by President Trump is used to undermine so many trump supporters who chose to vote for him for a myriad of reasons.

Its discouraging to see
It's the old adage, "conservatives think liberals are stupid, liberals think conservatives are evil."
Yes, very true, they are a big step forward but standardization is the real key to innovation. It lets society focus its limited resources as oppose to going all over the place looking for a way forward.
They've validated 1. of the emails, not "some": https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

And frankly, possession of a single legitimate email's source text, for an intermediate-profile individual from a corporate account, doesn't somehow prove anything else (which again: is zilch - nothing else about this story is verifiable - it reeks of an intelligence op, especially since Rudy Giuliani is known by the FBI to be routinely in contact with known Russian intelligence operatives).
Disagree. When Obama was elected, the Republicans in congress swore to never support any of his policies, regardless of whether they agreed with them. (Eric Cantor and others admitted this in interviews.) This severely degraded the relationship between the parties beyond repair.
It looks like drug laws are bound to become a cycle.

1- Drugs are cool, and not really an issue, people take them mostly reasonably.

2- Hey, drugs can be addictive, that's when people stop being reasonable

3- Too many drug addicts, it is a real society problem

4- People demand strict laws, drugs are not cool anymore

5- Parents, who have seen the damage done by drugs support these drastic laws, and tell their kids how bad drugs are

6- Kids, who didn't experience a real drug epidemic, start questioning what their parents told them, and realize that taken reasonably, drugs are not that bad

7- These kids, now adults, seeing how harsh anti-drug laws do more harm than drugs, demand more tolerance

8- Drug-related legislation softens, back to 1
It's amazing to me that you frame it that way and probably think you're doing so in good faith.

Anyway, I'm reasonably confident that if we tallied the deaths resulting from racism and collectivism, collectivism would win handily.
States "have a voice" in the local justice system and laws, as well as senators.

Making the president of the whole country be elected directly by the whole country would not make states redundant, far from it.
Nothing is going to happen. Just business as usual.

A big sigh of relief from the anti-competitive big tech companies to carry on with their old ways.
At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy compared music piracy to the prohibition. He said people didn't want to break the law. People just wanted to drink. I haven't looked at piracy the same way since.

Fast forward to seeing this, and I realize this doesn't have the same draw as it would have 20 years ago. People can get the music they want at a price they're willing to accept.
Am I missing something? That imgur gallery has a bunch of polls but I don't see anything about a drop in white male support for Trump.
Krebs has an article with evidence on this phenomena as well: https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/twitter-bots/

Edit: Specifically https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/08/twitter-bots-use-likes-r...
It's an incredibly strong correlation. Very few people with BMI over 30 have under 30% body fat: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/BMI-versus-total-body-fa...

There are some exceptions like professional bodybuilders (often with the aid of steroids), but we're talking about reasons why mortality rates are linked to BMI, not declaring absolutes.
you have to operate within the world that you exist in even if it goes against your idealized vision of the way things should be.
Yeah I just looked at the distribution on close of Nov 2. The modal bucket was 246+, and the p50 if you convert to a quantitative variable was about 238, which is almost right in line with 538. Ultimately I think the huge difference with betting markets v. 538 for this market was they had higher variance and fatter tails, which could possibly point to a win for 538, EVEN if 538 were legitimately biased!

https://i.imgur.com/O7UegtQ.jpg

We'll simply never know without 1000 realizations of this election but next cycle I'd like Nate Silver to bet money whenever he finds mispriced events/odds and show how much money he makes to strengthen the case that his model is an improvement.
Do you also worry about Boeing flight control software, nuclear reactor software, or XRay machine software?
>I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions.

So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources ? They don't just magically appear. The vast majority of people with material resources have worked very hard to aquire them, very often by working very hard at producing material resources.

>That's to say nothing of minority rights

What rights are being denied to minorities ?

As someone who always saw myself on the left, being a proponent of universal healthcare and focused on class issues, I can no longer recognize myself on the left with them going all in on identity politics, dividing people not by economic class, but by immutable characteristics like race and gender.
>It’s possible that many Republicans did cross the aisle, just like many Democrats (such as myself) did so as well.

It's possible. But the numbers don't bear this out.

In every state that was close where Biden won, his margin of victory was less than the number of votes that Jo Jorgensen (the Libertarian candidate) received.

That tells me that enough R-types were disgusted enough with Trump that they voted Libertarian for President and R for everyone else.

Check out the numbers for yourself[0]. Just click on each state and it will break down the vote totals for each candidate. And in every. single. case. the margin of victory for Biden is less than the number of votes received by Jo Jorgensen.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Elections/2020-us-presidential-electi...
I think the parent comment alludes to most revenue not flowing to the artist but being taking by the label, but of course that's not Spotify's fault.
Yes! He is such a clear writer. That essay is the title entry of the collection On Being the Right Size and Other Essays. The other chapters are:

William Bateson

The Future of Biology

When I Am Dead

Science and Theology As Art-Forms

The Last Judgement

Is History a Fraud?

God-Makers

The Origin of Life

The Biology of Inequality

Beyond Darwin

The Strange Case of Rahman Bey

Blood and Iron

Germ-Killers

Pain-Killers

How to Write a Popular Scientific Article

What Hot Means

Cats

Some Reflections on Non-Violence

Appendix: Adumbrations
Nothing. There is no legal requirement to concede, it's just a polite formality. At noon on January 20, Donald Trump will no longer be President of the United States and he will leave the White House. The Marines and Secret Service will politely but firmly escort him and his belongings to the curb if necessary.
There is a parallel in non-electronic hardware.

Certain safes irreparably break after several attempts to incorrectly or violently unlock them. Nobody — neither a thief, nor a legitimate owner, nor the manufacturer can open them. The only option to reclaim the contents is to very slowly and with a great effort to cut them using serious industrial machines.

This is a feature that customers ask for. They want to be sure that snatching their safe in an attempt to quietly brute-force the lock or the door in a garage does not make sense. It prevents such attempts, and they agree to pay for that with the risk to turn their safe into a piece of scrap if they screw up badly.

Same applies to locking bootloaders, firmware, etc. Sometimes it's better to throw away a device than to allow a risk of tampering.

Of course, the owner should voluntarily and consciously make this decision. In the case of DRM-ridden media players, or even phones, the consumer may have different preferences but not given a choice and even not made aware, which, of course, is not great.
One of the most destructive trends in recent political discourse is the tendency to seek out the worst, rather than the best, arguments from the opposing side.

Instead of engaging with articles from The National Review or Mother Jones, we just dunk on the most outrageous morons and trolls we can scour on Twitter or Reddit.
https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/#column-info

Or if you want column information embedded into the csv itself:

https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-model/#embedded-metadata
I am talking about authoritative source of truth. Not arguing which specific source.
Thanks, I'll give it a look!
Interesting.

Can you provide a scan of a health insurance invoice where there’s a line item for an abortion which you didn’t request or receive? It doesn’t have to be your receipt; any insurance invoice from literally anybody in California where they were charged specifically for an abortion that they didn’t request or receive?

I’ll wait.

Or is this a specious argument like the perennial classic, “I had to pay taxes which went in part toward maintaining the roads and I never drove on that particular road over there and so therefore the taxes are unfair”? Because I am very interested in your opinions if that’s the direction you’ve decided to argue, here.
Reminds me of this:

…the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy