skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this but think it misses the actual point. To paraphrase a popular pundit, “People need to realize that things that are bad for the US may not be bad for the world.”

To clarify the point, the US largely rode a post-WW2 manufacturing boom for a couple generations where the relative quality of life for US citizens disproportionately outpaced other countries. Globalization has started to erase that disparity. So while it’s bad for the US middle and working classes it’s largely benefited pulling people out of poverty for other nations, exemplified by China. The irony is that much of this is driven by the US’s addiction to cheap shit.

I’m only saying the above because I think people are confusing the discussion, not because I think that it’s the best long term strategy
The same was said of Hillary when she "beat" Bernie. Same was said of Biden who barely squeaked out wins in key states.

That said, I am not sure Bernie would have done better against Trump, and the electoral college needs to be retired.
If I understand how the election works, the “first past the post” voting system is just as damaging. Correct me if I’m wrong, but they are not related.

Explanation from game theory pov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhO6jfHPFQU
And yet it doesn’t matter to the above posters point. You can blame the electoral college if you want, but it just means the type of demagoguery to get elected is different.

Hillary Clinton had a very long history of antagonizing anytime she could people on the right. For example remember her slut-shaming of bull Clinton’s accusers, or her attack in the “vast right wing consipriacy” trying to defend her husband from the totally untrue charges from Monica lewinsky. The reality of it is that the Democrats have to appeal to more than just their base to be elected. They seem to of learned that lesson this time.
Judge for yourself

"It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief...

Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States."

Federalist 68
A wooden palm rest?

gah.

The idea of a palm rest is valid. but it should not be a hard surface and it should not conduct heat away from your body.
Biden has already said the crime bill was a mistake. In his final town hall (that was a debate substitute) iirc
All voting in multi-cultural states is ultimately demographic. Republicans represent "Whites" (e.g. 92% of Trump voters in the 2016 election were White).

As long as there are conservative Whites living in California in sufficient numbers, there will be a Republican Party to represent their interests—that's how a "representative democracy" is supposed to work. Republicans lose when there aren't enough Whites with conservative beliefs to elect them, and win when there are enough.

Republicans today remind me of the Confederacy in a lot of ways, and I expect them to fade away over time in a similar manner. The US can no longer support an effectively White-only national party.
It's a conundrum. I prefer to have devices that are open to user modification or fixes, but that inherently means bad actors could also readily modify the device. Though even devices locked with DRM can be rooted, so perhaps it's a false sense of security.

It'd be great if one could build on zero knowledge proofs with something like monero that could let you verify the firmware of a device. Or rather, your phone/credit card queries the device with a ZKP (or something), then uses a public blockchain to verify the devices firmware signature chain. A user could possibly then use a "adblock" like software to warn of manufacturers that have been breached, etc.
It really does not. Florida was the deciding factor and was an extremely small margin we don’t see here.
Funny, I choose OpenBSD (back in '94) instead of Linux as a desktop (text-only) because it had very good documentation available for kernel and userland stuff.

I am typing this from Ubuntu because I need some basic Wine emulation, Docker, and K8s. Not for work, just for tinkering.

I still have an OpenBSD vm around, but I don't use it much :-(
Sure. They were also victims of highly targeted propaganda.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/florida-latinos-dis...
I think the OP was talking more about:

["name","address"]
["Bob","1 Apple Street"]
["John","2 Apple Street"]

It's compatible with JSON Lines, and mostly equivalent to CSVs, at least how they are most commonly used.
Thinking about these concepts are what made systems like GPS possible.

Shitting on pure research leaves you not knowing what you don't know to a much greater degree.
Related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805748
Perhaps but it isn’t like he didn’t pick a lot of these fights. He constantly delegitimized them, do you think they wouldn’t strike back and pour as much mud as they could on him?

I actually liked a good deal of his policies and some I found ridiculous and others awful.

But how you speak matters. He set himself up to be mocked and ridiculed. He picked fights as much or more as they came to him.

I get it - he was “playing to his base”. But I don’t think he was. In fact I think it got to a point his base controlled him. He just couldn’t help being repulsive to a lot of people, media or not.

It’s sad too because he could have been great. He was independent and free from obligations to either party. But he couldn't get out of his own way. He couldn’t act “presidential”.

He should have picked his battles better instead of making everything into one. It gets tiring.

And that is why he lost.
You wouldn't burn the ammonia, but use a process to 'crack' ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen gas, for example [1]. No oxygen is involved.

Edit: Upon rereading, I found that the article actually states: "There are challenges. Burning ammonia can create polluting nitrous oxides, therefore the exhaust needs cleaning up", which would indicate they're burning it. So either the reporter misunderstood or it's really a non-innovation then.

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja5042836
Assuming republicans control the senate, it would be practically impossible for Biden to accomplish anything remarkable.

It seems the best we can hope for is a president who doesn't try to fire CDC experts and who doesn't appoint far right judges.
Behind the Scenes of the Dark Knight Trilogy
He won an NAACP award.
Just clone it and move on

DMCA take downs don't delete stuff stored client side on your computer, I fail to see what all this discussion is even about

If it looks hot, just clone it and forget about it
I think you need to intercept the network request then decrypt it using the key.¹ Can be automated I guess, not sure if someone has done that yet however.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/fuck-capitalism/spotifykeydumper/-/releas...
Job Role/Further details are risky to discuss because this forum is read by my colleagues and likely the nerdier execs. I could leave it at I am someone very senior and actively involved in trying to tackle our problem, so I see the efforts and the challenge first hand.

I can tell you that execs are very aware of the problem. Higher ups have spoken about it at townhalls, though they use softer language than I do. Since 2017 a lot of modernization attempts have been made(go cloud, use standards, use off the shelf software as much as possible), with very little to show for it so far.

Obviously it isn't all just tech that causes this, culture has a big part to do with it.

It feels like the scenario in the phoenix project almost, it'd be funny if it wasn't so serious.
Hmm. My knee-jerk response is that the example you give is not in any way denialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_X_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrasomy_X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentasomy_X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

Clearly it takes more than a dichotomy of chromosomal options to define one's gender. You're drastically oversimplifying "biological science" in order to put forth an example of the left denying scientific fact.

More importantly though, the left's "agenda" with regards to trans people isn't about rejecting medical or scientific consensus on gender. A trans woman's doctor is still going to give her advice tailored to her specific case of being born with a male body. It's about accepting people for who they want to be, and that doesn't clash with any category of facts or knowledge. Implying otherwise is disingenuous.
Well, actually the article didn't present a plan to get there. Blue Origin has never so much as put anything into orbit around the Earth, so it's pretty silly to hear them talking about reaching the Moon in just a few years.
Lol

The original post, if you’ll read it again, carefully, pointed out that you can compose a complex query in a single graphql query. And if you need this data, you have to get that data one way or another. What’s so hard about that? Now if you can make a single query to select that data, then great. In most cases there’s enough information to generate it automatically and efficiently and refine it if not. What’s not clear about that? Oh, maybe you have some magical and complicated infrastructure? Well, you have to query them anyway, right? It’s not automated you say? Sure, but you can always get insight from libs like Haxl, made by same Facebook. The magical database tool is a simple and comprehensible example (but still is brilliant in how well it works). The bottom line is that if dev team is capable of working with graphql, it’s just a better choice. Most of the projects I saw unfortunately are made in such a way that you hope they sticked to the good old Rest, because when you do that, use graphql as rest, the result will be disappointing. But come on, that’s the same as people migrating from react to vuejs bc it’s feels less alien or use mobx and other bi-directional storage instead of relay or redux, they’re obfuscating the problem for short-term benefit.
DMCAs are a shoot first, talk later kind of deal. Or rather take it down first, file counterclaims, and see if the other party responds, then put it back up they don't.
Trump still lied about it.

1. The 2% target is a non-binding guideline.
2. Germany has (for some time) a plan in place to increase the defense budget to meet the 2% target. It will increase on a year-by-year basis.
3. Germany spends quite a lot on foreign aid, which 'could' be understood as a risk preventing defense spending.
We can celebrate now, but we need to remember that almost 70 million people voted for him, this time. After seeing him on the job for nearly four years :(

There is a lot of work left to do
I grew up on a farm in Canada and we would breathe ammonia when testing the ammonia nozzles on our air seeder.

It didn't smell great, but we didn't die.
As much as I wish that were true, the 70+ million votes mean he’s still powerful within the GOP, reflected by the fact that most Republicans are still being fairly quiet about the need to accept defeat and move on.
Americans: "we made up our mind about racism, color doesn't matter, all citizens are equal"
Also Americans: "omg look at how the BLACKS are voting!"
This post is a great example of the attitude that led to exact to the Trump win.

The middle class in America paid for globalization in a way that the lower and upper classes have not. I spent enough time in other countries to truly appreciate that there are 1 billion less people in poverty because of globalization. But they are also very many angry people who will point out that globalization has not been great for them. The only politician who They felt they could turn to was Trump.
Biden is leading in most states by more votes than there are outstanding ballots; that does not really qualify as hair thin. The margin may be small in a few states, but it is large enough in a sufficient collection of states right now that while we keep counting every last vote we also know that Trump lost.
A person that wants to put Trump supporters on a hit-list (AOC) and someone willing to force weapon buy-backs upon the population (Rourke). What an amazing combination for triggering civil unrest and possible war.

Get out of your bubble
Hard not to think about that Simpsons episode when you read about stuff like this...
Don't take my word for it

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...

Not only this, but the offices of the SECDEF and secretaries of each service branch are also led by civilians, to which the JCS report. There are strict limits to the number of positions in those offices that can be filled by uniformed officers.
Sure, but overnight trips were still not normal. Notice parents taking issue with pupils being there for tree hours and dinner.
FBI: Hackers stole Source Code of US Agencies due to SonarQube misconfiguration [pdf]
During the initial attack phase, cyber actors scan the internet for SonarQube instances exposed to the open Internet using the default port (9000) and a publicly accessible IP address. Cyber actors then use default administrator credentials (username: admin, password: admin) to attempt to access SonarQube instances.

Given how often this happens, not having a default password and forcing users to set it should be a standard practice these days. Relying on administrators of the instance doing the right thing obviously keeps failing, thus an option to do the wrong thing should be removed completely.
This may be true, however, the investors pick the lawyers and the lawyers work for the investors. The investors manage their work, controlling how much is spent. The investors have limited incentive to keep the costs down.
I like Biden more than Bernie or Trump, and he's not wrong. His then vs now speech and debate performance is clearly not the same. He doesn't have dementia, but he's a lot slower and comes across as less intelligent than before, which is to be expected for a man his age.
Grooveshark's was a beauty as well: xor 0x25

Wrote a blog post about it back in the day, for those wondering how to break (super easy) encryption: https://lgms.nl/blog-1-plain
Yes, and that was mentioned in the article. I guess you need a catalytic converter or similar before atmospheric release.
A part can have features much smaller than it's total size.

One way to think of it is, a part is nanoscale if you would choose nanometers as the length unit on the drawing.
Needs what? Macron is always in the spotlight.
You are describing different situation now. Overnight trips were not normal teacher activities back then.

And no, their schools were not like Americans ones either. The culture was completely different, they hold different values.
It’s a moot point.

The “OS companies” are already there. Windows, macOS, and iOS all send vast amounts of telemetry to the cloud.

Apple is aware of all hackintosh installs out there. Microsoft is aware of all un-activated Windows installs.

Clearly now, unlike the old days, they’re not too concerned about it. I remember a couple of times where Apple quietly issued a macOS fix that fixed a hackintosh-specific issue.

Pirated installs get additional users onto their service platforms. Their cloud service platforms are what OS vendors care about.
Yes, article mentioned needing to manage emissions. Evidently NOx scrubbers are existing tech.
N=45 is relatively high power for simple analyses, like a t-test (not sure if that's what the paper did).

You can detect an effect size of 0.6 with 80% power when N is 45. You can also detect a effect of 0.7 with 90% power at N=45.

There are other things that can make results unreliable, like p-hacking, but a sample size of 45 is not a sufficient condition for bad science.
> more progressive policies were divisive even within the party

divisive within the Party, but not among the constituency.
His #2 quality is probably having been Obama's Vice President. The majority liked Obama though to vote him in twice, and Biden represents more of that.
It's a sensationalist headline, with some questions assertions.

> 36% percent of people in the UK use an adblocker, which means your javascript based website tracking is meaningless

"meaningless" is a strong word. If I run an ad campaign and see an uptick of 20% visitors, that's useful. The 36% is consistent on both side, so deltas are still very meaningful.

If I do need absolute metric -- e.g. distinct people -- I have to decide how to handle adblocking. I can model it, or I can accept the undercount. Honestly, this is largely going to be based on what the advertisers are welling to accept.

> The black boxes inside Facebook and other ad exchanges give you flat out wrong data about how your ads are performing

When you can tie it back to sales, you have pretty hard data. Also, there's third parties out there if you don't trust companies grading their own homework.

> The audiences you're targeting on Google, Bing, etc are fraudulent and don't even exist

Again, fraudulent is a bit of a stretch. Audiences do have waste. That's true in TV, magazines, and digital. It's not a question of perfect or fraudulent.
What do "observers" normally do? How close are they normally allowed to be?

Can you read a ballot from 6 or 10 ft away? Does that affect the ability of observers to observe whatever it is they are responsible for observing?

Does COVID justify relaxing the rules on observation of a vote count?
> However he has almost half a century of experience in Congress driving bills and fighting for his constituents. He was the safe bet.

It is extremely notable that Biden is the first candidate in ~30 years to win the presidency and have what I'd call a "serious" career in US Federal politics.

There is circumstantial but somewhat compelling evidence that American's don't like Congressional experience. Congress is despised, their wins are thin, their lies are large and their missteps catastrophic.
That’s not strictly true; the original intention was for slaveholding states to have a roughly equal voice in presidential elections without letting slaves vote. Smaller states threw a fit about counting slaves as full citizens for the purposes of representation, which is how we arrived at the Three-Fifths Compromise.
really though, what tangible value do polls provide anyway? i get that the polling over the last few years hasn't been great, but i don't really understand why everyone's so upset about it. did anyone actually make or change decisions based on these polls? they're just predictions anyway.

for instance, in your example, a hurricane's path directly affects citizens of cities that lie on that path—do they need to prepare to leave their homes, etc.? but is anyone actually basing their decision to vote or who to vote for on the polls in such a way that it significantly affects the outcome?
Tell HN: Friend says their teen child can’t tell time from clockface
Can HN parents test this on their children? Do kids these days find it easier telling time on a traditional old fashioned clock face with hands or a digital clock with numbers?
The easiest way for us to manage this complexity was to add new, simple, RPC endpoints to our vanilla API. It certainly wasn't worth adding GraphQL resolvers to the mix.
Agree with you, but completely understand the original comment. Its true that, similar to previous elections, people aren't voting For. They're voting against.

That said, the reason Biden, despite his substantive proposals, isn't well-liked by Dems is because there seems to be broad disappointment with the Democratic party's failure to nominate and elect someone who is representative of the future we all want. There's a comment in this thread to the tune of "why are only 70 year old men running and winning the presidency in the USA" today. Indeed -- there's so much political failure in our government across the board that it's hard to believe in Biden and the party.
IANAL but doesn’t the DMCA takedown system only apply to distribution of content itself? No RIAA member has the ownership rights to this software. It probably is illegal but I believe another legal mechanism other than a takedown notice is required.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong. This is a layman’s understanding.
Yes it does, because it's not a random third party.

It's the device manufacturer.

Everyone is already dependent on some level of integrity by the device manufacturer, whether they're happy with this or not, because there is no other option.

That integrity might be checked. The manufacturer may be audited. Their processes and people may be background checked. Their hiring practices subject to a standard. Some of their devices may be selected at random, scrutinised, picked apart, checked by third parties, just to be sure. It's not done much, but perhaps it should be. Anyway, if that's done there is some higher level of justification in trusting the manufacturer's integrity, even if it remains a weak point.

If we already have to trust the device manufacturer and/or their auditors, that makes them owning the software trust root a very different proposition compared with anyone else owning it.
And I think left has the opposite problem of denial of science by taking it as gospel and trying the most extreme solution possible instead of actually looking at the tradeoffs (let's be clear that the right buries their head in the sand instead of looking at solutions and tradeoffs as well).
I've been in a few agile teams and one of the recurring action items to do at standups is to ask "I wonder why Jira's so slow today?"
Amplifier Impedance Explained
That's a rather defeatist attitude. Perhaps be a bit more creative in how you ask the questions? Find new ways to interact with a more diverse group of people? Take larger samples?

Further, the media could refuse to echo consistently unreliable poll results. Ultimately the media loses when people can't trust what's being reported.
They’re cheap toys that seem cool but end up having little practical use. My point isn’t that they’re useless, just that they have an awful lot of potential to be useless, and a lot of the time a laptop would be better.