skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Everything about a startup is sales”

Haha, nope.
> Then why wasn't Biden asked the same question? Or anyone else? If this was just a gaffe factory then surely it would be a staple of the presidential interview genre, no?

That doesn't even make sense! Biden isn't the sitting POTUS. The question "will you support a peaceful transition of power" only makes sense when asked of a sitting POTUS, not an incoming POTUS. Biden doesn't currently have any power which he's required to transmit to Trump!

I know TDS can be a powerful effect, but surely you're not asking me to believe (or to take seriously) that there's someone else other than Trump who currently holds the position of POTUS.
Path Tracing with Babylon, Background and Implementation
Yeah but that was just WinME 's normal behavior.
I say all companies should boycott Apple until it learns to play fairly. Apple is nothing if majority of bigger services and apps are not available on it's app store while available elsewhere. People should realize this is similar to uniting and revolting against dictatorships. The premise of the situation is same. Apple should realize it's 1 trillion+ valuation is nothing if no one buys or sells anything to/from it.
> Could this be a situation where politicians have faulty data and use that to guide how they act?

I'm not aware of any data on this specifically with regard to drug control policy, but there is research from 2013 which reveals that American politicians vastly overestimate how conservative American voters are on multiple key issues.

See e.g.:

Primary source: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/csdi/miller-stokes/08_MillerStoke...

Popular media reporting: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/study-congress-overe...

Further analysis: https://theprogressivecynic.com/2014/05/02/is-the-usa-center...
I am all in favour of even going after game consoles if it helps other platforms but smartphones are worth fighting for first.

Smartphones are logical successors to PCs as general purpose computing devices. A lot of people just have them as their device for photo editing, emails, gaming, spreadsheet editing, web browsing etc.

PCs had open software and hardware access, I think it is reasonable for us to want their logical successors to atleast have open software access.

There is trillions of dollars of ecosystem which PC had which has largely extended/moved to smartphones. Everyone should get a chance to compete on fair and equal terms in this ecosystem.
FWIW, none of the major cloud providers support ed25519. It's 2020 and no one seems to care about it.
Just trying to think functionally here:

Netflix now has “interactive” video content (see: Bandersnatch). Isn’t a streaming video game service same as “interactive” video. If so, isn’t Apple almost saying they’d also have to approve every video on the Netflix platform?

Or am I missing something?
Can you explain what definition of application you are using in this post. The only application I use that is just a front end to a web service is a client tracking software I am required to use for State level reporting purposes at work. All the rest of my software, ranging from development, to digital audio, video, and art, rendering and 3D work, etc, are all native and local. Some are open source, but many are not.
I think a visual representation of a concrete instance of the type would probably be a better explanation of c type declarations. At the moment this tool seems more a C gibberish to english gibberish translator.
Disagree - GraphQL is a legit better way to build APIs.

As a backend engineer, I publish a schema of all the available data - the frontend can fetch it in any shape it prefers. Web UIs and mobile UIs often have different views, so they want different data, and fetching it in one request or many is up to the preference of the UI.

I don't have to build different REST endpoints presenting some data in a different shape for performance reasons or because different applications wanted to request the data in a different way.

As a frontend engineer, all the data is often already there unless I'm building some new feature the backend doesn't understand yet. I'm free to refactor my application without bothering changing the REST API - and GraphIQL lets me inspect the api and mock queries for how I might fetch the data for a given view.

It's a cleaner contract to let different people get their job done with less fuss - game changer.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349396
C will go away when operating systems stop begin written in C but language X or Z, no more, no less. If Linux was written in ADA or Turbo Pascal then people would be using ADA or Turbo Pascal instead of C. It's a chicken and egg problem.

A lot of C programmers complain about the wildness of C++, but frankly, often complex C programs are that close to be their "own languages" with custom object systems, Macros and what not.
While it depends on your perspective, I'll contend the Swiss referendum system has also disadvantaged certain groups of people as well. One example of that was the 2009 minaret referendum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Swiss_minaret_referendum
Hong Kong: Snitch hotline gets more than 1k calls
One doesn't have to declare war to wage it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-have-bombed-yemen-more...

Also he also didn't take Covid seriously, thus helping contribute to hundreds of thousands of people dying? It didn't have to be a political issue.
Hmm. I say this with respect but I believe you don’t understand politics well, if you believe it’s that simple. Everything that Trump did is unconventional in traditional politics. Trump didn’t care about whether or not he was burning his political capital for unpopular measures. But for his base that’s not the case anyway.
For Obama doing an EO that looks like a reformation to the H1-B program would have looked completely off-color when compared to the rest of his immigration agenda.
Elijah Daniel, Agent of Chaos
Time for my I once worked at a marketing analytics company anecdote to make its biannual appearance:

A lot of marketing data is woefully inaccurate. I was once responsible for distributing a data set to company clients which covered interests and personal info for all UK population.

Not only was most of the data about my dad wrong, the things that were accurate were years out of date.

__

This was akin to the Google audience breakdowns that don't exit part of the article.

My information didn't exist. A colleague's email was completely wrong. Indicated he liked going on holiday but had never been outside of the UK.
Trump destroyed the United States' Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. Without the treaty, Russia and USA can make as many nuclear bombs as they want, as long as they say they will only use them on intermediate-range missiles.

This single action by Trump imperils all of humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/02/what-does-the-demise-of...
Political language "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"

This feels a lot like GP/OP — Orwell’s politics and the English language, let’s metaphor away values and principles to the relativity of sounds from our meat flaps and we will all be free of this human condition
Apple doesn't have to approve every video streamed from the YouTube app. Apple doesn't have to approve every website accessed from a browser app. So why does apple have to approve every video game accessible though a video game streaming app?
Bypassing rate limits and amplification, presumably. Just generate a huge list of keys and push once to attack many services at once with the whole set.
You could look at it from the perspective that the only type is text. When you do this the responsibility for managing the data type rests with the parser and not the encoder.
1. Does continuous governance include a civil war? This wasn’t the most contentious election seeing as a previous one of ours did in fact lead to civil war, but it wasn’t “just one more election.” I reckon this election brought us closer to civil war than any since Lincoln. And whereas the trouble of Lincoln’s time was necessary for the moral growth of our nation, Trump has provoked our current discord merely to aid his dictatorial intents. The democracy was nearly lost. It may still be. But at least now we have a chance. If that’s not momentous I don’t know what is.
> It's been a constant stream of catastrophizing from them for the last four years. It was like this during the Bush years as well, though they do seem to have perfected it.

And the Republicans did the same thing with Obama, which is why he is so reviled among the right. The pendulum swings harder at each cycle, and how people still cannot see how thoroughly they're being manipulated by their party of choice continues to astound me. I get the tribalism, and I get the basic cognitive gears at play, but it takes only a modicum of self awareness and attempted empathy to understand the other side enough to open up the door to doubt, and only the tiniest degree of curiosity to find more nuanced understanding of issues at play. I do see this in some places, but I see ignorant partisan propaganda far more, and the pendulum swings ever harder.

The devil is the one we make, seemingly blind to the ingredients we carelessly continue to throw into the cauldron that will continue to produce them, even as one group rejoices that the latest one has been defeated.
I believe his point is comments like this are reductive, and more an indicator of pop culture familiarity than anything substantive about protecting user's privacy. minority report's facial recognition involved swarms of fist-sized flying insect robots invading apartments, and facial recognition on my iPhone allows me to secure my data from the state
Thanks for this. I was wondering if other people felt their anxiety pass with adderall and heard reports people get more anxious. Good to know less anxiety is a common response for some.
"lone"? That was the only point you made about how the polls were right or wrong! They disputed all of your one point(s).
> verbose Java

Ironically, golang codebases tend to be more verbose than Java.
If the ' news ' claims something as truth and fact it must be

Lets throw out the evidence against
Corruption

Fake balots

Bidens Laptop

Bidens pornhub account

Bidens crimes overseas with energy firms

and the fact that he is an old corrupt kike

that forgets and isnt mentally heathly for office
This is so vague. Then what do you think we should do? Open up all the bars and start packing concert halls again?
For TLS certificates? That's because none of the CAs support it.
Many problems with your comment. First SARS occurred in 2003 before Obama. It was stopped primarily because it does not spread asymptomatically. SARS-COV-2 does. That is the difference.
Looks like this had several threads over the summer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084373

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24077615
That’s a pretty arbitrary distinction. The average union worker finds not being able to put food on the table an equally terrifying prospect as eternal damnation.
Stop using Corporations

Stop using cloud

Stop using closed source

Let the corrupt diversity infected corporations die under its own stupidy and greed and malpractice
> Try to find common ground. See what you can work together on, see what you can agree upon, rather than point to the most stupid and extreme points of the other side and giving up completely or ignoring all their concerns.

They're not even the most extreme, that's why there's no common ground! The most extreme would be the honest to goodness neo-nazis like the ones marching through Charleston a few years ago, several other flavors of white supremacists and "nationalists" like the NatCons and Bugaloo Boys, religious extremists like Pence, their crazier brother the dominionists like Bill Bar, and outright authoritarians (all of the above).

I'm all for finding common ground, but I don't care for the liberals putting in the extra effort anymore, just to have bad faith actors take advantage of it. It's time for the conservatives to "find common ground" by getting their house in order. Get rid of the Nazis, get rid of the supremacists, get rid of the extremists, and undo all the damage that Barry Goldwater predicted the preachers would do.
I mean there's countless anecdotes, which is not good data, but its something. Many, many people (many people are saying..) have noted how crazily divided we have been in the past 5 years. And my above comment got a bunch of upvotes in the last hour so there's more anecdotal evidence I guess.
A lot of people support cannabis legalization, and Biden wants to decriminalize it and leave it to the states to handle.

I've seen a lot of people noting how drug policy liberalization won big across the country, even in red states.
America has many things I admire. And yes it is better than many countries. And some countries are better than the US. The US had also done a lot of awful things to other countries and killed/maimed/made destitute/etc way too many people. I do not see what is so casual about this.
I think it would be a very bad idea to nationalize federal elections. Right now, each state chooses how they run their elections. Some states (like Maine) have chosen to use ranked choice voting while others use first past the post.

Nationalizing elections would basically cement first past the post as our permanent voting system forever since it's extremely unlikely you could convince everyone in the U.S. to change to a new one at once.
For SSH, I’d guess.
This is admittedly rather region specific since we are located in Malaysia. Though the same applies in Singapore too.

For people who don’t or can’t scan a code (which is just a webpage URL), the is typically a piece of paper and pen that they can use to record their check-in if they so choose.
Engineers are dumb as hell in a lot of ways dude. Also the sun could blow up tomorrow and boy then we would all look stupid!
What some classify as "messing up the system", others might classify as "progress" or "benefit to the people". So, it's a moot point.

"Their real constituencies" (emphasis mine) - I assume that it's a sarcasm. Otherwise, I don't see how wealthy people comprise a majority of relevant party representatives' aggregate constituency. The trickle-down economics is a myth.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree that there are other structural challenges in the way of making additional parties really viable. My theory is that changing from FPTP would sort of break the ice and allow other parties to gain momentum, normalize the idea of other parties not being totally fringe, and maybe pave the way for some other enabling changes once it’s no longer strategically a terrible idea to vote for the candidates you prefer but almost certainly won’t win. It’s not the only change that would help, to be sure.
That's why I'm asking what regulations are there? I'm not claiming they don't exist. If something like Minecraft Story Mode is a movie on Netflix, what movie ratings does it have? For example, I can find it on ESRB's website rating, but it's not like it's on MPA's https://www.filmratings.com/

https://www.esrb.org/ratings/34178/Minecraft%3A+Story+Mode+-...

Meanwhile Netflix's own Bandersnatch is not ESRB rated, and isn't too different as a game. Yet Apple has supported both of these perfectly fine regardless of their lack of proper ratings.
> All the non-mainstream music makes I follow since I was a teenager complain that music has never been in a harder place in terms of making money off of it. Apparently their piece of the cake has massively reduced.

This should be expected, given that the amount of artists making commercial non-mainstream music has skyrocketed. The pie has gotten bigger, and the non-mainstream share of the pie has gotten bigger, but there's a lot more people fighting over its scraps.
> So far you've offered three variations: (1) Left-vs-right as based on "outcomes of lives", (2) as opposed to 35 years ago, and (3) as opposed to some international comparison.

The very obvious point is that by using any consistent definition of left and right, either time-locked, global, or otherwise, the US doesn't have anything resembling a far-left party.

> Why are you so insistent on using some other scale to label everything differently? What purpose does that serve? Is that not meaningless semantics?

It forces people to recognize the extreme rightward shift in politics, and therefore the idea that appealing "to the center" is in fact an appeal to regress further to the right. This is something those on the right vehemently want to avoid admitting, since it prevents them from painting themselves as victims.
TL;DR the secure password policy is to use their secure password test, the criteria of which are not divulged.
A well intentioned question: in your view, were the various conspiracy theories about Barack Obama that went variously unopposed, weakly opposed, or openly embraced by mainstream conservatives depending on who you asked, "normal" conspiracies or crazy conspiracies?

People who believe Obama was born in Kenya, who believe George Soros funds every leftist cause on the planet, or... you know the stuff... are believing things that are both nutty and really obviously false. Is that stuff really any less nutty than the QAnon stuff?

I guess I feel like that maximum level of craziness isn't really new.
The section entitled "So what should you use instead?" doesn't make a suggestion of what to use instead...
I honestly think that if Biden does nothing else, engineering an environment where people accept basic common facts has to be somewhere at the start of it. As you say, once your base facts about reality differ there's really no hope for reconciliation about things at a higher level than that. And for all the healthy spirit of "both-sides-ism" in this thread, I will put it out there that there is one side that has egregiously allowed it and its supporters to become detached from reality. Note I'm not talking about "bias" here which both sides certainly exhibit, but concrete basic verifiable facts of reality. I really don't see how much can be achieved if we can't repair that. And as much as I want to encourage a new spirit of unity, I fear that if that becomes an excuse to not confront this problem, then it will actually just make things worse.
> Though long-term I think this is a bit silly in the first place considering approximately everyone is walking around with computers in their pockets that would be perfectly capable of letting you confirm transaction amounts on a display you trust.

This is how China's new-generation payment systems work.
How is it that people successfully move from iPhone to Android if iMessage is locking them in?
123 people die every day from suicide in the US. Compare this to the ~1000 that covid kills a day. It’s nowhere close.
It's a good point.

One thing that would have been nice to see is a graph with several lines.

X-axis is bits of entropy, Y-axis is recall rate. The individual lines reflect a single combination of (a) formatting scheme (e.g. diceware) and (b) reinforcement mechanism (e.g. type 20x once per day).

I've run this experiment on myself and found that diceware with intra-word punctuation gives the highest entropy at the lowest effort.
With respect, maybe your vocabulary is 20,000 words, but I submit that the average English-only speaker is more like about 10,000 words.

This is a case where I choose to believe xkcd unless and until you can provide convincing evidence otherwise.
> 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

You’re putting words in my mouth.

> you might think someone who could vote for Trump is vile

Please don’t presume to tell me what I think. You don’t know me or my mind.

> What your worldview has in common with theirs is that it is a hard (read: non-nuanced) stance on a single issue.

Oh, don’t worry about that; I have opinions on a whole bunch of issues; this was just a single example of one that I thought was pretty simple and ought to be relatively uncontroversial.

And also, see my above comment re: not presuming to tell me what I think.
First digit visualization of 2020 presidential election
Traditionally it's been violence, but at some point(s) we decided that wasn't the best course of action.

The same can't be said of the government, of course.
You're underestimating the total number of people who just associate themselves with a party arbitrarily and vote down the party line IMO - but even ignoring that I disagree that people wouldn't vote for third parties if they were truly viable alternatives. A LOT of people in the Republican party in fact are repulsed by Trump; and there is also an obvious distinction in the Democratic party between AOC/Bernie-style progressive factions, and centrists and moderates in the party like what Biden represents. The super-crowded Democratic primaries made that pretty clear.

I think the big problem with the system as it stands is that people rightfully understand that if they vote for a third party candidate, that candidate is a) guaranteed to lose, b) guaranteed to be unable to enact any change in government without having a literal majority in the senate, and c) guaranteed to steal votes from a candidate who you may not love but is the lesser of two evils (plenty of libertarians do not agree with Biden much at all, but would rather have him than Trump/vice versa, and then vote down the party lines to avoid disaster).

Third party votes are often cast as a waste of a vote - and I don't blame people for thinking that way, because the system encourages it.
> Awareness and consciousness is different then responding to stimulus.

This is not some clump of cells that "responds to stimulus" before birth and magically becomes "conscious and aware" after birth. It doesn't even line up with fetal viability.

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

The whole organism is alive and its own thing from conception. This is undisputed among biologists.
COM is still used a lot in audio (at least the COM ABI) because it allows to share objects between programs/shared libraries and manage their destruction. It also has a nice way to add functionality.
Every kid from kindergarten age through at least grade 8 or 9 has had their educational experience significantly negatively impacted for at least a good 6 months so far. "Losing" is perhaps a strong term but a huge number of children are affected.
200 Gbps is 30Mbps for each resident.
12 characters is only 72 bits of entropy, and that’s assuming you’re using randomly generated passwords with an equal probability distribution of the entire set of printable base64 characters.

That’s nowhere near enough entropy for a proper password.

Just use the damn password manager already.
I recommend changing the link and title to the actual paper: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc/publications/Tan-CCS...

IMO this accompanying press release is devoid of content and meaning even by typical university PR standards.