skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen and heard quite a few democrats addressing the need to do better Spanish outreach due to the spread of pro trump propaganda on social media. That mistake has been identified and is being addressed. I have not heard that the black community went big for Trump. Can you cite some sources?
Honestly, if I ever start a SaaS company, I'd rather just bootstrap from a developing country than deal with the hassle of messing with VCs. It doesn't seem worth it unless you are in an industry that requires a heavy capital investment to get off the ground.
I've been interested in it for the last 2 or 3 years, and pleasantly surprised that it's showing up on HN a lot.

Here's a surprising claim that has scientific concensus: Basically ALL humans have problems breathing. That is, apes and other mammals don't have these problems.

The two main reasons are the anatomical changes due to the evolution of speech, and the advent of agriculture, which completely changed our diets and thus the structure of our jaw.

Previous comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435964

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24247066

More comments about nestor's recent book Breath:

https://www.google.com/search?q=nestor+site%3Anews.ycombinat...

The book is very good, but it's not "conclusive". It's a good exploration of many facets of breathing. It is a big subject and everyone is a little different.

However it's been eye opening to me how many "minor" unexplained chronic health problems are ultimately caused by bad breathing. (And these turn into major problems over 10 or 20 years.) If you go to the doctor, you'll get treatment for the symptoms and not the cause (this has happened to many people in my family, and many people I know)
Thanks for the heads up! I just removed them. I should have removed them a long time ago (they were just there as a placeholder haha). Appreciate the input.
That evidence is not evidence. Do you think this is facebook and I'm your computer illiterate aunt?
In my last commercial project I used raw sql in the javascript code in a safe controlled way. I described it here: https://medium.com/@unodgs/sql-on-the-frontend-react-postgre... Very refreshing experience. I'll add summary post when my project is done.
The courts will decide that.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-201...
You're quite literally lying or severely misinformed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-D-2GOswwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7yNZsa8x0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6xOuhsiJw
I’m not on either side. I’m just calling out partisans for their obvious hypocrisy.
Election Result Thread Collection
Here's a list of all the submissions on the election result in temporal order (with luck they'll all be merged!):

Joe Biden is the president-elect of the U.S. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015967

Biden Defeats Trump to Become Next President
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016024

Biden Wins Presidency https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016059

BBC Calls Election for Biden https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016062

Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016070

Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016111

BIDEN BEATS TRUMP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016142

Joe Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016187

Joe Biden is the President elect as per AP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016229

Biden will be 46th president https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016402
Instead of ruining people's lives, we could just raise taxes slightly, but I doubt that will fly.
You can use an email alias service to create a different email address for each service. You can just disable or remove this address to unsubscribe from a service. SimpleLogin, 33mail do that.
I haven’t dived into the exit poll data yet (by county, race, income, and age), but it really depends on which states those voters reside in. If they’re in states almost blue (Texas and Georgia, for example), it’s moot.

Florida is likely a lost cause (between conservative minorities and the elderly), but you don’t need Florida to win national elections (clearly). If the electoral college is done away with, it’s also moot, as there is enough popular vote margin at the national level to always go blue.
I'm working on a self-hosted one: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/

You're welcome to try out the beta for free, in exchange for your feedback.

PhotoStructure is designed to be simple to install and run. Libraries are uniquely cross-platform, cross-computer, and tested to scale comfortably to 500k+ assets. You can run the windows desktop edition, put your library on an external drive, move the drive to your Mac, automatically import whatever's on that computer, and sweep all your photos (JPEG and RAW) and videos (with auto-transcoding) into one tidy, de-duplicated folder hierarchy.

The UI is web-based and mobile-friendly. The docker image runs happily on NASes and anywhere else docker runs.
Sore loser?
This is unfortunately true. Does not imply that the current organization is, though.
Yeah, I'm not sure, the one from 2016 where Donald Trump won had a very nice discussion on it.
Paying Google doesn't mean that the service will survive, or that Google will not harvest your user data. See, e.g., Google Music, Nest, etc.

It just means that you're paying Google for a service you could easily have gotten for free.

Given Google's history of killing products, especially on the consumer side, why would you ever pay Google for a consumer-focused product?
I like Zoris OS for low specced machines that I just want to install something and move on with life.

Edit: If you're fine with more manual work, Alpine/Void with sway is also fun.
For what it’s worth, I do recognise a lot of the dark/surrealist humour in GTA as British, even though it is delivered through the medium of Americana.
It's actually way worse than that. About a quarter of eligible voters voted for each. Half the population sat and watched the last four years, and still couldn't be bothered.
Which will fail.
It works with firefox under wayland, but there are still many issues with wayland (like drag & drop often not working).
I suspect it’s not just about what people think, it’s also about how strongly they feel about it, for it to override other factors when voting.

I suspect that a lot of people who on balance support legalisation, don’t feel so strongly about it that they won’t vote for someone that opposes it. Conversely I think a lot of people who oppose legalisation feel about it strongly enough that they just won’t vote for someone who supports it. Politicians are probably well aware of this.
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Not necessarily. Note that minority votes for Trump increased (even among blacks) in the 2020 election: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-are-the-voter-d... The Democrats really need to get on the ball and start listening to the public.
PS TailwindUI has been a godsend for me. My app would look like a three year old made it without tailwind ui haha
The picture is signed? In any case, using an older sibling's ID still works about as good as ever.
Interesting, a sort of artificial photosynthesis; converting CO2 + water + nutrients into edible food.

Edit: Found an interview with the founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iv0857U3UE. Basically the idea seems to be to grow bacteria and use them for food instead of plants. Bacteria can probably be grown much more efficiently than plants can, so that saves on a bunch of resources.
> One of those mail-in ballot batches had 130,000+ votes, all of one candidate.

This is not true. Please provide a source, or stop spreading disinformation.
And for the server market there's a sweet spot for each workload for how big you want your spinning disks to be. These disks aren't getting any faster and rebuilding a 22 TB HDD is going to take a while and that imposes serious durability risks.
And yet the literal tons of fentanyl and fentanyl derivatives that are swamping black markets in the US and killing thousands are almost exclusively manufactured in China and shipped to the US.
There is mathematical proof that the DNC is stealing the election: https://theredelephants.com/there-is-undeniable-mathematical... . Please help me achieve a negative vote reputation today for defending democracy, I'm honored.
To be clear. Congressman Cortez is asking if people are preserving the history of people that supported trump.

She is not making a list.
Another solution is to create a different email address for each website/newsletter. This can be done quite easily with services like SimpleLogin or 33mail. This solution also makes this harder to track you online, therefore protect your privacy.
Do you think of any solutions for this other than batching? I'm working on something similar just now, and I buffer several million records in memory, then write the file to external storage.
Microsoft Office worships the concept of backwards compatibility.

Outlook renders HTML emails with a buggy and incomplete implementation of HTML 3.2 that has had approximately two changes in the last twenty years (one was to support high DPI, the other I can’t remember). There was that time they switched to using Trident (IE) in Outlook 2000–2003, but they switched back to MSO (Word) in 2007 for terrible reasons (“uh… security, yes, security”; their explanation was atrocious and never made a lick of sense to me; the original article talking about it went down a few years ago, if I recall correctly from last time I tried to find it).

Excel sticks with known-bad and known-stupid behaviour because people depend on it. I can’t think of an example off-hand, but they literally have help pages saying “if you encounter this specific bug, here’s how to work around it”, because writing that help page was easier and/or safer than actually fixing the bug.

A few months ago, scientists even renamed some human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070385
Github on moving to graphQL and then moving out of it again; https://lobste.rs/s/me5emr/how_why_graphql_will_influence_so...

NB: I can't authenticate the veracity of the comments
Debunked... https://mobile.twitter.com/gelbach/status/132476099369259008...
It wasn't flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909752
Well that sure looks unbiased. This is sarcasm.
"One thing made by us will be able to control one thing made by us, so you should buy everything from us."

No. Put a general web browser in the car, make the devices controllable over the web by any general web browser, and you've got something much more useful.
> You should think things through and pay attention to the unwanted consequences of these sort of claims.

Who is "you" here? The media organizations are the one making the calls and defining the processes for doing so, not some random on HN.

> It makes no sense to argue in favor of taking shortcuts in the election process citing arcane arguments and models,

The media calling the election is not part of the formal election process. If the media calls the election wrongly they just get humiliated when the final results come in and they are proven wrong. The media doesn't decide the election result.
I use mine as a controller for my 3D printer (But anything powerful enough to send text through usb would do). The screen resolution make some software a real pain to use.
> Although Biden's lead has only grown there saying that it's "obviously won" is a touch optimistic.

No, if you follow the election analysts like Nate Cohn, Nate Silver, Dave Wasserman, and especially Jon Ralston (who is "the guy" for Nevada elections), Biden has been the clear winner for nearly two days.

And also AP almost immediately called Nevada after the Pennsylvania drop, so they were definitely waiting on that.
I mean they will count all the ballots, this is just the DDs of the major news groups seeing that its statistically improbable (like, less than 3 std devs) and projecting the winner.
Forgive me, but that seems like an excessively pedantic outright dismissal of what I am seeing to be the presentation of interesting results in the field. Whatever you want to call it—deep learning, multilayer nnets, whatever—it’s the same thing and results are exciting. Also, I believe that there is a difference between deep learning and multilayer nnets (though I can't quite articulate it), but throwing in things like “singularity” is a bit much as it’s not really related at all to the math results being presented.
The idea that 'free markets' are entirely voluntary is a complete fantasy - tell me, when mobile operators were selling everyone's location, how many people volunteered for that? [1]

And what are they meant to do about it in a 'free market' where there is literally no other option? I consent to having a mobile phone in the same way I consent to living in a country - the alternative is living like a caveman in the woods.

How do free markets, without anyone being threatened with jailtime, deal with monopolies and market manipulation - say all cable / internet providers just blocking Netflix, or Apple/Google making a secret agreement on wage suppressions [2]

And if you agree that free markets need regulation, and that regulation greatly affects who becomes winners and losers, then you are back where you started -> how many people have agreed to that.

1 - https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...
2 - https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...

"Also science != innovation, and it's not necessarily science->innovation. Many times it's innovation->science."

Could you give an example? To me this sounds logically impossible - one has to understand the scientific principles before you can innovate on them.
No, they won't bomb you if you bow to their interests.
I recently tried to give new life to an old Pentium 166 MMX with 80MB of RAM.

It runs Windows 2000 and DSL. A couple of things make it hard to turn it into something useful: it needs a 6 pin din keyboard connector; USB is only available after boot, so I can't boot from a pendrive.
My expectations no matter what the outcome.....

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss

-The Who
Getting Trump out of office was the number one priority. We can doom about the other stuff later.
Lots of European countries (and probably the rest of the world) also copy US laws for no apparent reason.

More or less everyone I know has tried drugs (MJ, magic mushrooms, LSD) or does them on a regular basis, but I don't know anyone who's ever been arrested over it. What I'm saying is there doesn't seem to be (much) of a stigma against drugs, neither with the population, nor with the cops. Nevertheless, MJ is illegal, and the protests for legalization started soon after the ones in the US.
Okay — but can you point to any mistakes?

Your comment is just a poisoning the well ad hominem: I believe that comments on HN should be substantive replies.
Yeah, no new wars in the middle east and troops are coming home. How can a president win reelection with that kind of record? Luckily CNN will save democrazy.
> it is almost always better for progress for it to move toward commercialization and that is where rapid innovation takes place.

In what context? A capitalist society that's not at war, with limited crime/corruption, with established trade routes where most people are literate and a banking system that's willing to give out loans?

If in that specific context, then probably yes. Do you see how that is an extremely narrow set of circumstances that's subject to change?

This idea of government = less efficient, markets = efficient, is paid for propaganda by American billionaires that's been well documented. I forget the name of the book that goes through this in detail.

It is not to say government = more efficient, markets = less efficient. The world is not that simple and anyone trying to make it out to be, is selling you an ideology that benefits them - check to see if it benefits you to believe in ideas that have insufficient empirical evidence to justify them.
OR one party canvassed for mail-in ballots more effectively than the other. Because they thought they could flip the state. Like we know happened.
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Twitter's search algorithm calling Trump “loser”
His case will be made in the courts, not in the media.
Calculate predefined hydrogen supply chain architectures
I wonder if, after we have our brilliant brexit deal, there will be some opportunity to ask the nation if we actually want the thing.
> Exactly. USA may not get it because they never really had fascism, but some of us in Europe do. It’s not pretty.

The scariest part, to me, regarding the way the Trump administration whitewashed fascism is that those of us who live in countries who experienced it are fully aware that fascism doesn't dawn upon us with a bang, and more often than not it just seeps in.

Therefore, people are desensitized towards fascism because they expect it to come as a bogeyman that strong-arms his way into power in an obvious way and against everyone's wishes. It does not. It sneaks in with overwhelming popular support, based on a rhetoric that there's an inhuman enemy threatening the little people and that the fascist hero is here to save everyone from evil by doing whatever it takes. That's precisely what we are seeing with Trump, with their supporters demanding beheadings and bullets to the head of reactionaries, while their supporters praise Trump for being a bully that's on their corner protecting them.
It's harmless unless the Supreme Court believes it. I believed the 2004 election was stolen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyl_YNA8Hs

I didn't feel the need to do violence because I'm a reasonable person. I listen to the other side and try to understand where they're coming from. We need more of that and less fear of ideas. Maybe things wouldn't be so polarized if we did more of that.
It's not close at all! When California and NY and Illinois finally finish counting votes Biden is going to be up around 7 million or so votes. It's going to be the 2nd least close election since 1996 (behind the Obama 08 landslide).
One quick question. GPL forces downstream users to disclose their source code and changes. Does it also force them to push those changes or improvements upstream or not ? As in, I make an improvement to a software and I am selling and also giving source code but am I supposed to push my changes back up or not?
Editorialized and misleading headline. Fox News has projected that Biden will be 46th president.

No legal process has taken place that has determined this yet.
> The other is blinking. I think there might be a third one but I forget what it is

There are reports of being able to predetermine when we wake before we sleep; I don’t know if those are anecdotal or properly studied.

I assume anything related to stress, anger, or sexual responses are also consciously triggerable, given we can make ourselves stressed, angry, or horny by thinking about the right things.
I wrote that he made gains, because he did. He did better than Romney did in 2012 and did better than he did in 2016.
I had been using Ubuntu for the last few years before I switched back to Windows as now I don't program much. I was amazed how much smoother the Windows experience had become. Windows feels far better than Ubuntu in terms of sound, Bluetooth connectivity due to the drivers. If this is the case with my Dell laptop which is officially compatible with Ubuntu, I wonder how the performance of Linux will be on other older PCs. With WSL2 and VSCode integration, switching back to Ubuntu makes less and less sense.
> There was no blue wave, if anything Biden has barely squeaked past the post.

Trump under-performed his 2016 margins in 38 states, including many deep red ones.
As if another family of pedophiles is any better.
Tell HN: Facebook choking off conservative discussion
My wife is a member of a couple of Facebook political groups. She's not far right, alt right, or MAGA. She's a center-right conservative, and these two Facebook groups are where she discusses politics. Some of the members of these groups tend toward the conspiratorial and paranoid, but the groups as a whole do not.

Over the last week, there's been some "election is fraudulent/being stolen" discussion on these groups - some of it from fringe sources, some somewhat concerning news items from more mainstream sources.

Facebook has responded by restricting the groups so that only moderators can post new things (though others can respond to existing posts). This will be in place until January.

I find this somewhat disturbing. Facebook is moving further and further toward becoming the thought police. In doing so, they are also removing avenues for the sane ones to try to talk some sense into the out-there fringe who believe everything that anyone posts anywhere. Oh yeah, they're also giving grounds for the fringe to believe yet more conspiracies against them.

If the center-right-but-reasonable can't talk about the election on Facebook... what has happened to us as a society that Facebook thinks this is OK?
wow, teams surprises me. In a browser or with the native client?
Cope
For portability reasons?
Sounds like a great way to filter out employers.
> You clearly used a pattern (accumulator) with wich you are familiar.

No, I didn't, and please refrain from imputing thought processes without evidence. I didn't even think the word "accumulator" until I got to the last paragraph and needed a term to describe the second argument to w.

> Do you agree that most imperative programmers would not come up with this solution on their own

If we assume most imperative programmers are idiots as a special case of most people are idiots, sure. I'm not sure that's a good assumption or particularly relevant, though.

> Showing me another version of a recursive descent parser doesn't teach me anything

Ah, I think I misunderstood your point, then:

> > Which problems are hard to solve with recursion instead of iteration?

> I found something like splitting a string into words not very intuitive...

I assumed you meant that "splitting a string into words" was a example of a problem that was hard to solve with recursion (which I found rather puzzling, because as my example shows, it really isn't), rather than that it wasn't a good/intuitive example to illustrate recursion in the general case (which makes a quite a bit more sense, and I'm afraid I don't have a immediate solution to, sorry).
I have an email rule that sends any email that contains the word unsubscribe to the spam folder.
The News division operates completely separately from the opinion division.
What's mask compliance like in Australia? I'm in a blue city within a sea of red. Everyone around me uses them, but drive 15 minutes away and you'll get looks for using one.
Well, no, Twitter users are correctly calling Trump a loser, so the algorithm is correctly returning Trump’s account when that term is searched for.
Britain died for me this week. It’s become a Covid-obsessed police state
These kids today have never seen a rotary Stargate
Biden is going to win the popular vote by around 4-5% (~7 million votes) but the tipping point state (probably WI) by only 0.6%. If he had done 0.7% worse across the board he would have won the popular vote by 6 million votes and still lost the election. The electoral college is a monstrous indignity.