skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for admitting that you are vilifying Trump supporters online in a thread about nuance for beliefs you have ascribed to them without talking to one of them.

> Anyhow, thanks for the answer. Got it; ‘murder’ of unborn theoretical children is worse than separating and losing track of actual real objectively alive, conscious, and suffering children.

The intent here was to provide an example of a thought process; not to speak for all, or even the average, Trump supporter.

> (Only as long as they’re brown, presumably? You don’t actually say that, but I assume that’s the intent?)

Why would this be my intent or even 'the' intent? In this case it doesn't even make sense. Non-whites have, by far, more abortions in the United States than whites. So ending abortion would 'save' a lot more non-white babies than white babies.

People are also allowed to be against both these things, but they aren't allowed to vote that way (at least if they believe voting for a third party throws their vote away). To play devil's advocate, there are far more abortions than there are immigrant children separated from parents; so a voter against both of these might reasonably conclude they're doing more good voting for Trump than for a pro-choice Democrat.

> And also, simply voting for a Democrat is worse, too. Got it.

Democrats are overwhelmingly pro-choice, so yes, if someone is pro-life and motivated by the single issue of abortion voting for a Democrat may very well be worse. You seem to be incorrectly ascribing this particular belief to me when all I have said is there are people who hold this belief.

>I'll be sure to keep those worse things in mind and not be at all insulted that you think I have a lot in common with that worldview.

What your worldview has in common with theirs is that it is a hard (read: non-nuanced) stance on a single issue. Just like you might think someone who could vote for Trump is vile because of the separation issue, a pro-lifer might think you are vile for thinking a pro-choice candidate is worthy of your (hypothetical) vote.
New York State Bar Passes Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Recommendation
Code a neural network with no coding experience
The WHO recently said the lockdowns Biden says he's bringing back were causing more harm than good. That should be easy to find.

The early CDC tests, during the period we might have been able to maintain contact tracing, were faulty. A different president wouldn't have changed that.

Republicans didn't embrace masks, but it's unlikely a Democrat president would've done a better job convincing them.

In my opinion Trump's worst fault here is that he lacks the temperament for one of the most important things we needed: fireside chats. Trump is a pretty good hype man, cheering on good times, but abysmal at the somber tough message delivery we needed.
Is Tesla still making them as fast as they can? You don't need marketing if you don't have the supply.
It absolutely helps America, and the world. One only has to look at the history of manufacturing, labor unions, and misguided attempts to 'keep jobs on American soil' to see why the wage fixation approach fails. What does work is defining the trend, then selling the knowledge while we work on the next big thing. That's been a money maker for America and has benefited the world too via secondary effects. If we get out-innovated, well, we deserve it, fair is fair.

Ps upvoted you for a great response. I absolutely agree with you on the other points about threatening and harassment.
I’ve seen the impeachment described as illegitimate somehow. It was political sure, no doubt about it. But he tried to use his office to coerce a foreign government to take down his political opponent. That should be a fireable offense. He only escaped it because of purely political defense.
Why shouldn't they? The burden to demonstrate a compelling argument should always be on those who want to restrict freedom, not on those who want to enjoy (or retain) freedom.
Celebrating South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut’s Soundtrack (2016)
Could you quantify that imbalance? How many are killed by police, compared to the number of committed homicides (used as proxy for rate of legitimate police interventions), by race?
See https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
My last Greyhound ride was also in 2003, a cross-country trip from Phoenix to Atlanta. It was three days of sheer hell and I couldn't feel my butt (from all the vibration; that was NOT a smooth ride) for over a day afterwards. Didn't help that every single bus stop along the way was in the worst neighborhoods in town, too.

It was enough of an experience that I've been loathe to consider giving them another shot.
Is your claim simply that “true” PWA’s don’t exist? I don’t care what you want to call it, I still can’t do web push notifications on my iPhone.
I would recommend memorizing the passphrase to your email as well. If you lose access to your password database for any reason, it's annoying but largely trivial to regain access to most sites, as long as you have access to your recovery email (and 2FA token, if applicable). If you lose access to your email as well, you're in a much worse position and may lose much of your digital life.
Ok, let's say this happens. Why is this a bad thing?

So consoles get slightly more expensive, or other revenue streams are created. Steam, Origin, Epic, UPlay and GOG all compete on the desktop while earning plenty, even though people can download games directly from the publisher today. Why can't the same model be applied to consoles which have always been basically pre-built mini computers anyway?

If you say that all these devices are computers then why have arbitrary treatment of desktops, phones and consoles?
> “ Why do you keep saying the labels don't matter than insist on using labels to say these parties and candidates are something else?”

I didn’t say these things. I have already provided more than adequate detailed explanations on all of these points.
They rely on polls. Very long and specific polls. This cycle a lot of us are looking at some seriously wrong polling. But that's how larger campaigns and politicians make decisions.

Marijuana legalization probably isn't polled unless it's on the ballot.

But politicians have rational incentive to move towards what is clearly popular. 60% is a landslide. There are definitely 'Mavericks' who hold strong to their beliefs or independence, but for the most part those who win follow their constituents rather than lead.
Not really. The download speeds beta testers are seeing go up to 100mbps and that’s at low load, but the project isn’t aiming to replace submarine cables. The goal is to fix the problem of running fiber being uneconomical for most of the rural US (and elsewhere), so 100mbps is amazing speeds for end users who otherwise would be on slow DSL/satellite connections.
Bottom line or at least some silver lining?
The simple fact that a comment made you compare me to "the far right leaning media" (Which one is that btw?, even Fox went extremely anti-Trump) says a lot about your tolerance. Ahi nos vemos mijo.
> The reason it's important is because it would be the end of the gaming console model if they were forced to accept anything onto their app stores. Which would have pretty broad implications.

Which implications precisely? Because consoles not being sold at a loss seem like a positive outcome.
Predicting Individual Customer Lifetime Values Down to Each Purchase
Hi all, I've been working on this for a while. I'm looking for feedback. CLV is important because it is unlikely the first or second purchases by a customer will cover the cost of acquiring the customer. This approach predicts CLV early on in the customer's lifetime so that it can help scale businesses without increasing losses.
No. the other side is millions of emotional people with incorrect data posting on twitter getting everything wrong but then getting retweeted thousands of times based on a headline.

bless you that you think that doesn't do anything and is beyond analysis.
Man, Dwane “The Rock” Johnson has to be really scared about this news.
I can easily explain both of those examples and why they’re left standing. I find it interesting that you do not explain why the Robert Lee statue is important to remain standing. And why “very fine people” think it’s so important that it’s worth protesting with neo nazis and members of the kkk. Which again, if you protest with members of the kkk, people carrying nazi flags and people chanting blood and soil, you’re not a good person.

To your other argument, Dachau was never a monument to the Nazis. It was left standing as a testament to the horror of the Nazi regime and is a historical place.

The Robert Lee statue was erected sixty years after the end of the civil war. And this statue was erected as part of the historical revisionist “lost cause” movement, that has tried to frame the south’s decision to secede from the union as just. So, the origin of the statue is racism, the man the statue represents is also racism. And this is entirely consistent with the kkk and Nazis protesting the statues removal.

To compare this to a person of color who has reclaimed a symbol of hate, such as the confederate flag. Makes no sense. In order to make your argument you need to explain what the statue means to these people. And how that can possibly be worth it, given what this statue represents to people of color and the fact that they’re supporting Nazis and the kkk while protesting this.
We're talking about restricting the freedom of a corporation to increase the freedom of people. So, as you stated, why should the status quo exist and restrict the freedom of consumers?
mods: probably worth changing the title to say this is only for nRF52832 ?

This seems relevant, as this is not a very common MCU at all.
These responses are great, glad to hear perl is alive and well. I miss working with it and need to use it more often.
The state desires what the voters demand. Apathy will be the death of liberty.
Here's another one: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/c3/f3/59c3f3e74d9ca7f2ce94...
For a site full of engineers I'm surprised to see the discussion center on partisan politics, talking points, unsourced claims and demands for sources, bickering over every detail, when what I'd want to talk about among technical people is the fact that Biden hasn't actually won, based on the rules of the system. He claimed he won. So did Trump. Neither are backed by anything tangible, yet. It looks like the PA AG has called for a statewide audit of votes, several court orders have been issued in several states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, there are lawsuits in several jurisdictions, and recounts in Georgia and Nevada are going to start soon. Notice how I'm not saying the lawsuits and accusations are founded, because I'd like to talk about the system.

This is far from over. You could have votes invalidated. This is only over when the electors travel to DC and 270+ vote for one person. That could be halted. You could see the house delegations vote, you could see state or federal courts rule, you could even see some state legislative bodies make decisions on it.

It takes a lot more than a claim of victory and a news organization calling it for an election to be over, and I'd expect a bunch of very smart people to know that.
Yes!

There are unavoidable, expected, sampling errors which are, by definition, random. That's why valid, trusted polls calculate a confidence interval instead of a single discrete result.

Other types of "errors" -- election results that repeatedly fall outside the confidence interval, or are consistently on only one side of the mean -- only arise when the poll is flawed for some reason. Maybe you relied on landlines only, maybe you spoke with too many men, or too many young people, asked bad questions, miscalculated "likely voter," whatever. Accurate, valid, trusted polls don't have these flaws, the ONLY errors are small, random, expected sampling errors.
Yep for sure, remember how Chiquita had the CIA start the 40 year long civil war in Guatemala? Then the CEO walked out of his 40th story office window in the Pan Am building in New York.
Not irony, but perhaps hypocrisy. Self-defeating hypocrisy.

There _are_ FOSS alternatives to Visual Studio and Windows which can be used without engaging with capitalists.

Even simply using non-FOSS is an endorsement of it and helps to perpetuate its dominance; there's a reason why Microsoft competes with free by being free, itself.
As a non-US citizen watching this from the outside, I'm divided between my relief at American's not having to endure Trump's stupidity for another 4 years, and some trepidation for world citizens on what a competent/active US president will do w.r.t. foreign policy & proxy wars.

The perception is that Trump was too dump to start new wars and wasn't subtle - so you could at least know what he's thinking w.r.t. your (non-American) interests. On the other hand, most American presidents are nice & courteous at face value while raining drone bombs on unsuspecting non-Americans, spreading Freedom (with a capital F).

As a non-American, I would rather Americans endure a bit longer and the remaining (7B-0.3B) world citizens have 4 more years of (relative) US non-involvement. Selfish, I know, but the world needs a breather.
Apple is going to get lot of flak for this and rightfully so. Do they really watch all the videos YouTube or Netflix has to offer to review and approve?
> I'm not sure what a "sampling error" is.

Perhaps you shouldn't be commenting on polling then.
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Awareness and consciousness is different then responding to stimulus.

> Even a single cell is alive. You have really drifted from textbook science at this point.

We're not talking about human cells being alive. were talking about the whole organism being considered alive and its own thing.

Talking about whether an organism that can not exist independently of its host, that hasn't experienced life yet can be aborted by that host.

It feels like your being disingenuous arguing semantics like cell life with me. Yes cells are live, no the organism is not an independent thing with its own rights. An nonviable fetus is not a fully grown human, this isn't killing babies.
I started with pine about 20 years ago and have been using it since then (through the pine -> alpine -> re-alpine -> alpine cycle) but have never used Mutt. What are the advantages of mutt compared to alpine?
On the bottom of the page, there's an absolutely galaxy brain take that made me twitch:

“A world that uses facial recognition does not look like Hollywood’s Minority Report. It looks like a smarter, more pleasant experience interacting with complex computer security systems to help make a safer world for our friends, our families and our children.” Marios Savvides, director of CyLab’s Biometrics Center
Maybe try 1Password? It is absolutely available on mobile.
From keeping close tabs on general software engineering pay, Intel is only half what other companies pay for the similar years of experience. This means that anyone who is competitively looking in the job market is skipping over Intel. Anyone in the company who is very competent can easily jump ship and get a 2x pay increase, and what’s left inside Intel are the rest.
> "It doesn’t matter if the labels of right or left would have context ... I am ... saying those reference points don’t matter."

> "but it would just be falsely shifting definitions, it wouldn’t make ... to be any less [than] what it really, actually is."

Alright then, since you claim to know what everything "really" is while overruling all the context then there's clearly no more discussion to be had.
> Have fun doing your taxes on your car

My car’s 17-inch touchscreen-based web browser happily runs turbotax.
It's going alright for Sacha Baron Cohen, though I'm not sure how much he is still using it ;)
I'm not sure how iOS can be considered a bastion for the web when it doesn't even have WebM support, which has been used across the web for years.
It's probably the same story for any mid-size Canadian city: there's fibre in two places: the way in and the way out.

Probably over-time the 'way-out' got rung around so any cut isn't a total outage, but just a guess on that.
What? This is completely false.

I don't know what other manufacturers are doing but Google on stock android and on Pixel does mandate asking for permissions. Even Google's own apps ask for them.

If your Pixel is stolen you have remote wipe options and newer Pixels contain Titan M chips that disallow tampering to gain access.
> There will always be people not happy with the government.

> Who should they vote for? They can only go to an extreme party.

That is what extremists want you to believe. But the belief that both big parties are corrupt exists in the USA as well, and it helped Trump. The fact of the matter is, if you are unhappy with what a grand coalition does, you can still vote for the party that you agree more with to have it gain more power next time around. Only if you believe that cooperation and compromise themself are bad things, you have to vote extreme.
I guess it’s true, at least from many of these comments, that many people really want division. They seem to need division to qualify what are otherwise extreme or unbalanced opinions.

That sort of division seems to have cost one party the White House and the other a lot of seats in Congress.
Google Music has just the--what's that--oh--oh dear.
I agree. While I haven't read through all of this discussion so perhaps I'm missing the dumpster fire, I've found that HN in general is much more accepting of contrary opinions than anywhere else I hang out online. (as long as they're presented respectfully and any controversial claims are argued coherently, especially with data)
My point is... responding, in particular, to the very first line of the post that I replied to.
> Whatever your partisan opinion, at least 70M American adults, 48.5% of those voting, disagree with you and think you’re an idiot.

This is a site for hackers - people with a special affinity for technology, science, building things, and solving problems.

Openly supporting a president who gleefully ignores the advice of scientists and bans immigrants from Muslim countries is inherently harmful to the work of hackers not to mention life on this planet.

To pretend both sides have equal merit just because large numbers of people exist on each is dishonest.
I live in America, am a foreign-born naturalized US citizen, and I agree with them completely. Your comment is another example of the moral superiority and insults aimed at anyone who questions this soft-bigotry from the left.

Ironically, living in America usually means you have no idea about the level of violence, racism and suffering around the world, and lack much of the perspective of immigrants who sacrifice so much to move here.
If Netflix started putting porn in their portfolio, how long do you think their app would stay in the store?
If you are just gluing modules together... then buy an amplifier. ;)
> You have to decide how much time to allocate to each of the sub-events.

I'm not sure what the "right" amount of time is; that's an incredibly difficult thing to determine--probably impossible in fact. But I certainly, trivially, know what the "wrong" amount of time would be: zero. If a reporter doesn't find some non-zero balance between those three perspectives, they have utterly failed in their role as a journalist. Eliding any of those events doesn't reduce bias, it effectively maximizes it.
Resonates with some big corp's I've worked with in the past; especially in industries where technology (rather than old business models) are becoming the primary channel of sales. Technology companies with technology management often disrupt the companies managed by the old way of thinking (e.g. finance, insurance, etc).

Some of the things you mention are red flags though at least to me having worked in them before - for me they normally make me question the companies management. The biggest one seen in a previous place I worked IMO - is buy vs build as much as possible off the shelf. How many successful tech first companies who have disrupted actually use that model for their core platform? The companies I've seen get away with it until they face competitive pressure OR technology isn't their primary advantage. In fact as you get to a certain size it can make sense to build your own and reduce your vendor count + ongoing costs and take advantage of your economies of scale. How many big tech firms rewrite db's, parts, dev-ops tools or are at least open to when the advantage is there? The successful tech first companies often do, even if they were once things like book stores where it "wasn't their core business". They even open source their components often to support their business and give their tech people more cred; allowing them to attract even more tech talent. The most successful/nice to work tech places usually err to building when it concerns their platform, with some pragmatism thrown in to use modern tooling from elsewhere if required normally open source but can be bought if it offers nothing of differentiation (e.g. cloud products, databases, etc).

Cloud is just a potential enabler IMO; you still need the culture to execute. A big corporation has a lot of interacting requirements, and needs the long term flexibility to change it without being on the hook in a vendor's backlog competing with other firms. It also potentially leaks your roadmap to other competitors. Common business software (e.g. document writing, email, chat, etc) are the exception; if your a big corp your usually in a monopoly/oligopoly position - there aren't too many people doing what you do at the scale you are and most vendor solutions are really just "outsourced builds"; where the long term flexibility as the vendor pivots/changes deteriorates.
The Ghosts of the ’68 Election Still Haunt Our Politics (2018)
I'd argue that you have other countries that have a better functioning direct democracy (Switzerland has lots of initiatives each year)

Isn't the main problem in ça that there are few limitations on how much can be spent to promote and initiative and essentially buy the result?

And this seems to impact the quality of representative democracy too...
I would argue no politician ever made it legal in the beginning. Afaik, all the states that legalized it did so through initiatives(ca, ak, or, wa, co), and then forced the changes on the state by voting for them.

I think the other states are getting on board because of the incredible new found tax revenue, and the stats showing crime didn't go up in those states. More states would certainly have legal pot by now, if they could decide who gets to get rich from it (ie: who gets the golden tickets to grow and sell). NY is a great example of how the politics of where the wealth will go has turned the process into a quagmire.
It matters if the cost is unpredictable and only one side can control how much it comes to. The information isn't symmetric.
It is a simple matter to make voters demand central control of all computing resources. All they have to do is mention the fact that terrorists, drug dealers and child molesters also happen to be computer users. Can't even offer a counter-argument against that without being marked as a pedophile sympathizer.

Put enough fear into the population and they'll accept anything any authority presents as a solution. That's the danger of relying on democracy. You depend on the public to do the right thing and the public is easily manipulated.
What kind of meditation?
You are, according to you, destroying relationships intentionally over a difference of opinion. Isn’t that the very definition of intolerance?
Apple has always individually approved apps on iPhone. Is that news to anyone here? Why would they change that policy just because of some low-level implementation detail around whether the interface is rendered on the server or the client?
So what Apple is saying is basically "Nice app you've got there, shame if anything happened to it"
So, if all your friends jump off a cliff are you going to follow them?