skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not out of the woods yet, but you came very close of being the richest, most powerful banana republic in history.

And that's insanely dangerous, for everyone else too.

BTW, they did change the launch codes, right?
This does not apply to transactional email, which is email from services you’ve signed up for that relates directly to your account.
The Electoral College system effectively subsidizes the Republican party by giving it presidential wins it doesn't deserve, by giving empty land a vote. It's a national election, and it should be one person one vote, not a case where a Wyoming vote counts 7x that of a California vote.

If it weren't winning the presidency, it would be compelled to be more competitive. No major party exists nationally without winning presidential elections.
The details of Yang's blockchain proposal may be off, but the basic idea that we could really use a strongly secured voting system and that a blockchain or other three column ledger accounting could be a part of that is sound.
Political pluralism in other democratic countries seems to do a good job of countering this trend. When there's only two parties they are free to drift to ideological extremes, without other parties being able to take up the center.
cool, where are the links? if you want to go on about appearance of wrongdoing, there's been plenty of that the last 4 years. in fact, the president was impeached for it
Correct.

It's amazing that in a world where we can all be connected that actual result was we all chose to connect with people who think just like us.
Sorry ... just got up. different time zone.
Wrong link again (I’m on the smart phone as away from the laptop)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAumoTIeik

Around the 9:45 mark.
For what exactly? This has all been reported on in mainstream news outlets.
Right but my point is you can _already_ do this in javascript, but people largely don't. The playing field doesn't change with WASM. If some WASM code creates a canvas-based ad, we can use the usual tactics to block it (delete the element by ID/selector/etc or block that particular WASM payload)
>They quite fairly took aim at it.

Not really. They twisted his words into the worse possible interpretation and then took aim at that. Like your Mexicans are rapists quote. That's not what he said. Here's the quote:

>The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
They are the equivalent of mindless downvoters on hn, lol.
> objectively, sweeter

qualia BTFO
MIRC 25 Years Ago
> Personally, I want someone smart and rational who can put in the work to understand what's going on, listen to subject matter experts, and make tough calls based on what's right for the country.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that we should have a robot! Yes, leaders need to listen to experts and advisors and make thoughtful decisions. But they should also stay in tune with the electorate.

Perhaps a politician is naturally inclined towards removing regulations so that it's easier to grow a business. That's a reasonable baseline position—but if there's suddenly an up-swell of support for strong environmental regulations to combat global warming, it's completely reasonable to change your position in response to the will of the country.
Yes. I haven't touched this since 1995, so I had to refresh my memory. I was indeed, talking about Sprecher's modification. Back when I studied this, the proofs I found were not constructive.

I was unaware, but apparently Gribel gave a constructive proof in 2009 (link from Wikipedia article about KA rep theorem). I would have to read it and hope I am not too rusty to understand it before I could really ponder your question...

But I could offer two places I would have looked:

1. The approximation is of a continuous function, and such approximations (e.g. chebychev, bernstein) usually require that you be able to sample the function at specific points - but learning usually gives you training data that does not correspond to those specific points. It's possible that construction fails here somehow.

2. The approximation is too hard in practice. This is the too often the case for Breiman's beautiful ACE (Alternating Conditional Expectation) which, if you squint hard enough, looks like a two-layer network where each neuron has its own transfer function. The algorithm is incredibly simple in theory, but very hard to use in practice.
Ah. I see.

Self deprecating humor is fraught with problems under the best of circumstances. (It's a bad habit I'm trying to break for myself.)

Thanks for clarifying everything so nicely. It's been nice talking with you.
None of that was sidetrack. Both addressed what exactly you responded.
Googlebot runs a full web browser these days and executes javascript to a certain extent. WASM will have the same treatment if/when it becomes widespread if it doesn't already.
You're describing the Democrats platform. Clearly this is not why Donald won.
Thanks for clarifying, I genuinely appreciate comments like this one that go into actual details, without vague fluff or generalized claims. At this point, I am fully with you on this one.
Seems odd (to be charitable and say the least)... Do they vet music/movie streaming services content too?
uh what, more likely because disease resistance? places like SK absolutely are doing well because of policy difference. Restricting access in, robust contact tracing, phased levels of lockdown that are clear and unified.

Some of these would never work in the US due to gov't structure and just the culture of people (privacy rights), but to discount American politics is a stretch. The entire debacle has been a war on misinformation from the top down.
Well said. Let startups be visionary, the government should be boring and centrist most of the time.

If everything is going well and on track in the government, there shouldn't be any news.The president of the united states shouldn't be the center of attention.
If you want to scare yourself, look up reports of spreadsheets with errors.
> Knowing 70 million people would happily drive me to a concentration camp

That is a really silly statement. What group are you talking about?
The way the house and senate looks, this is going to be one long 4 years of gridlock. That's the only meaningful thing republicans can do now. Block everything. Make Democrats look as bad as humanly possible, then campaign for a second Trump term (or whoever is not imprisoned at that time, maybe he can tweet-lead the country from prison as well).
Hillary lost due to being an extremely unlikable candidate. In addition, she faced a charismatic and controversial wildcard candidate who promised to shake up the system in a time where people were sick of career politicians.

And a portion of dem voters were pissed off about how Sanders was treated by the DNC, though I have no idea if that caused any meaningful portion to abstain or vote for Trump.
So you rejected libertarianism because of ineffective government response? Seems an odd position.

The COVID response by the government further illiterates why libertarianism is correct.

Having an authoritarian government is not a solution to a pandemic, and it is sad that once again people are willing to sacrifice essential liberty for promised safety

Ofourse as the truism goes, you will lose both in that deal...

The cult of personality that has wrapped itself around the office of President of the United States is down right terrifying.
Because they go insane and get very angry. I've learnt not to ask.
I wonder if it's BMI per se, or the lack of exercise? While the two are correlated, they are not the same - you can be fat and muscular at the same time. And if it's just BMI, then through what mechanism it increases the risk.
No mention of the wonderful "My Friend Mr. Leakey"... :-(
I think ineffectual is wrong here, re: Trump. By State Department metrics alone, we pay more now for less people and less passports processed than before Trump took office. Anecdotally, we tend to have less State department representation at trade and industry conferences around the world. It's not very clear to my why we're spending more on the State department under Trump than any year under Obama if we're doing less with it...

You can compare the financial reports on their website: https://www.state.gov/plans-performance-budget/agency-financ... and https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/perfrpt/index.htm
> we never really did much mail in voting as a people (absentee mostly).

That is false. An official report of the US Elections Assistance Commission:

https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/2016_...

says that, in 2016, 23.7% of ballots were mailed in.
Well, after all societies are also dissipative structures...

http://www.francois-roddier.fr/blog_en/?p=29
Like the Acme or Wily editors?
TSVs are exactly unlike CSVs where it matters. The quoting rules for CSV are just bizarre, and also make it impossible to skip records without parsing every single field. TSV does the right thing: only three characters are special (line feed, tab, backslash) and to include them in fields, you escape them. This is totally unlike the mess that is CSV!

I also don't get why TSVs aren't more popular.

Ironically, even the only reason why CSV exists at all, MS Excel, likes TSV better. The only format that can be exported and imported without trouble is TSV, encoded in UTF-16 with a BOM. But everybody uses CSV anyway. Weird.
Maybe they are seeking "special arrangements" from major providers, like their very lucrative search agreement with google. Maybe that's Apple's model going forward.
> Knowing 70 million people would happily drive me to a concentration camp is not something that's easy to dismiss.

There’s a high burden of proof for such a statement. Surely you don’t believe every single Trump voter would do such a thing.
There is also an issue of avoiding the 5pm rush hour when heading home.
The trend where large Internet platforms control political content propagation will intensify, and prevail in the end. Elites all over the world will not easily cede control of important narratives, which they wield in traditional media (news paper, TVs). For me, deleting COVID misinformation is ok. Blocking Trump's tweet on the election results is a bit more dubious (why not leave it to the people to judge, which are given the right to vote anyway?). And we will see more of these in the coming years.
As un-democratic the electoral college is, the US parties do a much better job in picking candidates in a democratic manor. Especially when compared to Germany, our parties run their party leaders as top candidates for chancellor. Party heads are elected by party members, but in practical terms any results under 85% plus percent is already seen as a lack in confidence.

So yeah, who ever wins party primaries is the candidate the parties base wants. Obviously, distorted by money, but still.
Saying the Vietnamese fought for "freedom from colonialism" implies that this was a war waged by the US on the entire country.
Open intents is trying to standardize and promote such cooperation between apps on android.
Tasker and similar apps are also a way to stitch together apps.

http://www.openintents.org/
Seriously, all these mental gymnastics of how the media is portraying him and what not is interesting. Like just reading his twitter feed with zero context and I can already tell.
> The original post, if you’ll read it again, carefully

Literally says this, emphasis mine:

--- start quote ---

If you need to get user, then 5 of his posts, then 50 of comments for each post and then 100 reactions for each post, all connected by IDs in your DB, GraphQL allows you to do all of this in a single HTTP request, single SQL query and with 0 lines written by backend developer.

--- start quote ---

No. In general, it doesn't. There's a magical tool that they use, and they still have issues with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25014918 So much for "single SQL with 0 lines of backend code" when you have "weird joins that we won't optimise for, and sooner or later there will be determined DDoSers who will figure it out"

> The magical database tool is a simple and comprehensible example (but still is brilliant in how well it works).

Yeah, this magical tool is only a tool, that works with a single database, for a single set of problems, and has to be constantly fine-tuned because you can't optimise ad-hoc queries.

But yeah, dismiss all that and just shout to the world: "REST sucks, GraphQL is so much better because we have this one single tool". The moment you step outside the limitations of that tool, you're screwed. But you haven't reached that point yet, so you consider yourself "competent".

> The bottom line is that if dev team is capable of working with graphql, it’s just a better choice.

This still has to be empirically proven by anyone without magical handwaving and dismissing any issues.
7 of August? I believe that was discussed back then.
Keep in mind the holidays are highly sought after days to volunteer. Get in early if you want to put in time at a soup kitchen, etc., particularly on Thanksgiving or Christmas.

If you are holiday shopping with the kids, you might be able to add on a little shoe box shopping. The items can be picked up at a drug store, Target, Walmart, etc. The kids can help you pick out and pack up. Then drop it off at a local shelter, church, whichever kind of group is collecting.

Have a great time! And don't stress. Find something that works for you. You're much more likely to do it again :-)
Ah yes. Mr 'let me tell you why Nate is wrong' Gelman, who is now Mr 'let me tell you why the fact that I missed bigger than Nate is not my fault and in fact is entirely the fault of these other people' Gelman. Forgive me if I find his excuses laughable, but I guess if it makes him feel better about himself we can humour him. He even manages to choke his first rant by missing once again on EV and vote percentages.
I did discover a SonarQube instance at $work open to the internet, default credentials too...

Developers are good at copy/pasting commands.

docker

We're not an US Agency, but it seems those things happen eventually.
I don’t think the RIAA can touch this.

After all, fuck-capitalism added this prominent disclaimer:

> This program was created for educational purposes. It is not intended to be used otherwise

/sarcasm

Pro-tip: Intent matters to the courts. Intent is really hard to show, since the prosecution has to prove the internal state of your mind when you did the thing.

Focus on plausible deniability when you do this sort of thing. I, for one, still own a Cowon iAudio, and can’t wait to format shift my legitimate subscription to it so I can use my high-end wired headphones.
I have a theory that non-progressive Democratic voters are so concerned with candidates' perceived "electability" that they're repeatedly picking unexciting candidates who end up being less electable. The Democratic party needs to focus on increasing turnout (a potentially huge pool of new voters) rather than swaying an extra 2-4% of consistent moderate voters over, IMO.

Republican voters don't seem to have the same problem. I mean, Trump was probably the least "electable" candidate of all time. But he got a lot of people excited about voting.
> Instead of saying, we see no evidence of widespread fraud - where we have no idea in what context you’re using the word - let’s turn the conversation to making solid attestations about the integrity of the processes, which we certainly don’t hear.

If that was the case then why has the Trump campaign failed to present any evidence whatsoever to substantiate it's baseless accusations of electoral fraud?

I mean, the Trump campaign complains that the election was stolen from them as a result of this hypothetical electoral fraud campaign that no one sees or has any tangible proof of existing. Heck, the Trump campaign is even accusing elections organized by Republicans of having been compromised. If there is indeed a problem then how come no one is able to see it anywhere, no matter how may times everyone asks?

If no one is able to find any problem anywhere, is there really a problem to begin with?
>You need to out-left or out-right all other candidates your party puts forward to get their backing for the real election.

How can you claim that when Biden was one of the least left leaning democratic candidates?
> core Republican positions: support of free trade and being against protectionism and tariffs

This is not the case, as (or at least has not been since Reagan) there have been 2 main tools of regulating/restricting foreign imports by Republicans: Tariffs and Quotas. Both have different tradeoffs.

Reagan was heavily in favor of quotas instead of tariffs: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/i-am-a-tariff-man-com...

Reagan CEA economist Steve Hanke added:

“the share of American imports covered by some sort of trade restriction soared under ‘free-trader’ Reagan, moving from only 8 percent in 1975 to 21 percent by 1984.”
> "flip flopping"

A small observation: you know when we had more political compromise? When we had less (de facto) transparency.

Agreements bargained out in a dark room, with everyone announcing the compromise and expressing support for what's agreed, are how American politics worked best.

Radical transparency poisons compromise. By which I mean, non-comprehensive but absolute transparency: everyone knows details, but no one understands the greater picture.

In a largely uneducated democratic electorate (relative to our elected officials, their staffs, and professionals, and leveled as a non-partisan charge against all parties and independents), why do we try to completely usurp our elected representatives' ability to bargain on our behalf?

We, as voters, should judge our politicians on what they do, not what they reject.

The former results in functional compromises we're not thrilled with. The latter results in ideologically pure paralysis.

More depth: https://president.upenn.edu/meet-president/Mindsets-Politica...
> He also supposedly brokered numerous peace deals

No need for "supposedly": https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-do...
In 2016 I put the result down to the general disenchantment in many democratic countries with democracy generally - similar to the 'logic' behind brexit.

That I can understand but it's the relative closeness of the vote in this election that surprised me.

Earlier I was looking at a live online polling update with maps of both state and popular vote figures. The popular vote map was detailed enough for me to drill down to county level and finer. In states like Ohio, N Dakota and Nebraska with sparce populations and high overall Republican vote one would occasionally (but not infrequently) come across small settlements of 500/1000 or so only 20/50 miles apart where the vote in one was say D-70%, R-28%, Lib-2% and the other almost exactly the opposite with Lib remaining the same at about 2%.

This seems to backup your tribal identity point very well. Given that these settlements likely have only trees or farmland between them the figures are actually quite startling. I took into account that some may have been Native American reservations (which I've not yet ruled out), so I resampled in other states with low populations such as Vermont and New Hampshire and found similar instances (of course, with these latter instances the overall state figures had the Democrats in the majority).

These demographics are fascinating to say the least and I'm going to revisit them again shortly.
In strict mode you can because you can statically determine if eval is present. If it isn't, it is trivial to determine if it is written to after initialization.

Otherwise it has the same issues as const (is there a temporal dead zone violation?)
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Actually, in Biden's defense - while those emails do provide further evidence of corruption, they don't show he doesn't care for anything other than family enrichment. They perhaps show that he care to unduly benefit his son, which is bad, but not the same thing.
This is... Humbling.
No, like the quest of understanding cosmology is one of the pillars of scientific knowledge that enables our civilization from an engineering perspective. Ignoring it stops real progress.

Also, feynman's Nobel was about blending cosmological concepts into quantum theories. If he didn't obsess over that stuff we'd be without a lot of tools we used for nuclear engineering, and I'd argue distributed computing considering how inspired by feynman's work Lamport is.
VCs pawning off legal fees on startups is an anachronistic byproduct from when all entrepreneurs lacked power in fundraising.

forcing VCs to eat legal fees would lead to standardization and lower costs, which benefits everyone except attorneys.

the only way this changes is if top entrepreneurs and VCs commit to a new baseline for legal fees. YC has already started chipping away but cannot break this ridiculous standard on its own.

many elements of the VC-founder dynamic are broken today. it will be interesting to see which investors risk crafting a more balanced environment for startups. the downside is alienating their peers and jeopardizing peer-based deal flow, but the upside is attracting more founders and generating goodwill.
I've always wanted strong voter verification/ID but also massive voter turnout efforts. I haven't found many people with a similar take.

> I'll vote for voter ID if you vote for expanding access to voting. Make election day a holiday. Make issuance of voter IDs automatic. Switch to no-excuse absentee ballots everywhere. Expand early voting options.

I support all of this. And let's also make sure people who are voting are eligible to do so.
> illustrates, is what a poor set of choices we have had.

> We need better candidates who generate real support and appeal other than just not being their opponent. Not sure how to get there.

This is in great part due to First Past The Post voting method[1] employed. The US isn't interested in democracy if they can't at least move from FPTP to something at least as good as Approval Voting. (Which is one of the simplest alternatives)

Some criterions FPTP does no meet from Wikipedia[1][2]:

1. Mutual Majority Criterion: if a majority (more than 50%) of voters top-rank some k candidates, then one of those k candidates must win.

2. Condorcet Winner Criterion: if a candidate would win a head-to-head competition against every other candidate, then that candidate must win the overall election.

3. Condorcet Loser Criterion: if a candidate would lose a head-to-head competition against every other candidate, then that candidate must not win the overall election.

4. Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Criterion: the election outcome remains the same even if a candidate who cannot win decides to run.

5. Independence of Clones Alternatives Criterion: the election outcome remains the same even if an identical candidate who is equally-preferred decides to run.

6. No favorite betrayal: Can voters be sure that they do not need to rank any other candidate above their favorite in order to obtain a result they prefer?

At least consider how 2, 4, and 6 affect alternatives like Howie Hawkins, Bernie Sanders, or Gloria la Riva to name some examples. I find it hypocritical when US government officials criticize 1-party states when the US is a 2-party state and as if that was a big qualitative difference.

[1]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/First-past-the-post_voting#/Effe...

[2]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Comparison_of_electoral_systems#...