skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Government intervention" may be a codeword for social programs

Yeah, are you sure that racism is about opposing welfare and quotas? Not thinking that other people are inherently inferior or malicious due to their race, but that there should be no affirmative action.

That sounds like a ill-minded umbrella term to me, invented to call people you don't like racist.

> racial animus is a powerful factor motivating opposition to social spending and redistribution

It's not a surprise if you define racial animus as being against welfare.

https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/you.stonybrook.edu/dist/f/1052...

> Consistent with the expectations of new racism researchers, resentment accounted for racial bias in support of the experimental college scholar-ship program examined in this study, reinforcing its role as a measure of racial prejudice. But these effects were confined to self-identified liberals. Racial resentment did not explain racially biased program support among conservatives and was not linked to other negative racial attitudes among them. This leaves the concept of racial resentment in real doubt. If resentment measures prejudice among liberals but not conservatives it cannot function successfully as a broad measure of racial prejudice.
Every time music that I like disappears from Spotify I just buy the Vinyl. I bought at least 10 Albums last Year because Spotify dropped them, it really sucks.
Oh, it sadly requires `sudo` but only tells me it's for `/usr/bin/env`. Not that I'm security paranoid or anything but I'm afraid it'll bork my system by overwriting random things on my filesystem with root stuff. Gonna have to pass, sadly.
> The only thing this time was the politician was incompetently bad at hiding it.

Whilst all politicians bend the truth and perhaps most do tell a small number of outright lies, that does not make them comparable to Trump.

Trump repeatedly lies, contradicting himself - even within minutes of saying one thing, he'll say the opposite. He doesn't even acknowledge the idea that being truthful is important. This has had deadly consequences, for example in his inability to acknowledge the reality of the pandemic.

It's not just the lying. The narcism and clownish behaviour has made it impossible to take him seriously, and that has damaged America's reputation - this does matter, your reputation matters when negotiating and trying to get things done internationally.

He's also been hateful and offensive towards many individuals and groups. This is bad for social cohesion, but moreover our leaders should try to set an example for us to follow, not debase our society.

Note that I'm not arguing for or against his policies here, and I can understand why some people voted for him.

My point is that it's really important not to normalise his behaviour. That way lies tyranny.
> If you find yourself unable to use a CLI browser for some reason, at least you don't have to tell work "sorry I gotta install my OS before I can look at <thing>" (that doesn't go over well).

Can relate so much. Tried to go CLI only, switched back, but I settled to use a WM (sway).
Keep on digging: Trump team holds press conference at suburban garden centre
I'm really glad I saw that comment, because it's good to know people can look past their bias to see the very terrible thing that happened to our democratic process to give you the outcome you feel is good.

We need reconciliation, but it will never happen until we're at least willing to look at the facts objectively and realize we just witnessed a type of coup.
I don’t accept the arguments against direct voting on issues. Often those against direct voting are also the same people who claim increased turnout and reduced barriers to voting will lead to better outcomes and is inherently “more democratic”. And yet they arbitrarily draw the line there and are against direct voting on issues. You can’t have it both ways.
They actually just changed that:
https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/audio/a34587809/spotify-appl...
I second Resolve being excellent. I still run into crashes now and then and have had pains getting some OFX plugins to not fail-- mainly the deflicker one which causes the memory usage to skyrocket and cap out during rendering.
Policy wise he probably didn't make any bad decisions. But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist. He made my life slightly more inconvenient. And I am sure if I didn't had high paying job I would have suffered more balant racism. Trump is evil human and I am glad he will gone soon enough.
The "everything is a file" in UNIX is bit of a lie. And plan 9 went on fixing that. UNIX has many files that aren't actually files but special devices that you access with non-standard interface (mainly ioctl). In plan 9 everything truly is a file and all communication happens with read/write system calls.
So the budget is going into research instead of something like NHS.
Well, when you have one side saying "count the votes" and another side saying "stop the count", it's unlikely we're in a well-functioning democracy. These are the exact issues at stake in elections: whether religious protections extend to denying abortion care, whether one polling place per county overwhelmingly favors rural whites, whether racial sensitivity training is itself racist and should therefore be banned from government contracting. These are from the last month. So it's fair to assume, with one side for and one side against, that while these issues might resolve themselves they might not to your satisfaction.
Very pretty! Thanks for showing it. What I'm going to say I hope will be taken as constructive, for those who are a bit more OCD about their electronics.

Safety: -

The mains safety earth (chassis bolt) should only ever have one lug: the mains input earth. Put a separate bolt an inch or so away from the mains safety earth bolt for the chassis connection of the bridge centre ground. (People have killed themselves doing repairs by ignoring this, and having faulty mains wiring.)

Fuses on the transformer secondaries are recommended if the transformer is expensive. If the bridge rectifier or an amp output stage fails, it'll almost certainly fail short, and the transfomer will heat up until its internal thermal fuse melts -- or if there isn't one, until it catches fire.

Likewise fuses on the DC rails will help protect the expensive smoothing capacitors from amp failure. (Yes, the TPA3251 has built-in protection - but that might also be damaged by the surge that caused the output stage to fail.)

I hope the polyester cap across the transformer secondary is X2 class.

Other points:-

A snubber across the mains switch will reduce arcing on switch-off and prolong the life of the switch. 10R-50R 3W in series with 100nF, X2 class, will do it. (The wattage rating is a proxy for both voltage rating and surge current rating.)

From the scale it looks like the transformer is a 120 or 160VA model. That's seriously undersized for an amp module rated at 350W (circa 550 VA with a traditional mains-frequency transformer). Transformer secondary fuses are strongly indicated.

OTOH, going up to a 500VA toroidal transformer means you'd need a soft-start circuit to prevent your house circuit breakers popping on start-up, from the initial transformer saturation inrush current.

I'm amazed you don't get RF interference with all that length of unshielded wire on the input side. I just have to leave one inch unshielded to be plagued with EMI - unless I use filters on the input terminals (100R / 220pF RC filter).

You don't have DC blocking on your volume control. I guess none of your sources have any DC offset. If not, changing the volume will be scratchy.

References: -

1. Bob Cordell, Designing Audio Power Amplifiers.

2. Doug Self, Audio Power Amplifier Design 6e.

3. Rod Elliott, sound-au.com. "Designing Linear Power Suppplies part 2" https://sound-au.com/power-supplies.htm

4. Idem, "Transformers - The Basics, part 2". https://sound-au.com/xfmr2.htm
Maybe you should look at the data.
Please say more about the point you're making. On the surface, it's not clear how it relates to anything I said in the comment to which you've replied.
Lamport took inspiration from many sources.
Would be great if it could run x86 on arm but I guess if it was that easy it would already be done
It would be better if this could acknowledge the security is an important requirement... Like not sharing the whole home drive when only a single file is required.

It's interesting because Windows 10 with VSM actually runs Windows apps in a VM (though letting them talk directly to devices, so definitely not a micro kernel).

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/wind...
There are some reasonable conservatives, and many completely insane trump supporters. I believe there are more insane trump supporters than reasonable people on the right these days, and denying the existence of this very vocal group that has a stranglehold on the zeitgeist is not helpful at all.
That's what drove me initially to aerc + notmuch
‘We will prosecute’ employers who help immigration sweeps, California AG says
If you roll that same die 10 times and you get a 6 each time, then we can say that your probability estimate was wrong. But that's what happened with the polling of these states. The fact that the estimates consistently overestimated the Biden vote points towards a bias in the model used to estimate likely voters. If this were just a matter of the margin of error at work, each pull at the lever (each state) should be randomly distributed around the estimate. But that wasn't the case.
The whole concept (of knowing [almost] everything) is obviously an impossibility. As a near ubiquitously accepted term it merely reveals what is considered "true knowledge" and therefore serves to illuminate the bias of an era or society. Or in more fancy terms: the paradigm.

It could also be a marketing ploy, which is no contradiction.
>This is not what a dialogue looks like

Yes it is. You just don't like it.

The post you're replying to lays out, from their perspective, a list of actions that they believe are self-evidently unjustifiable.

Do you agree with that assessment? Do you believe there's justification to be had? I think most of the real arguments in favor of them have been left unsaid, because they fundamentally contradict a number of modern western paradigms regarding inherent rights and human dignity. But that's not really fatal to the philosophic position; maybe those paradigms are false.
> cloud providers blah blah blah dumb HN comments blah blah blah

If you don't understand the article (ie. you're the typical sysadmin or blub HN programmer), let me explain it to you.

The author is saying don't write your own RSA routines because it's hard to get right. IOW, the same advice everybody has been told for decades.

He is not saying that ssh and rsa is bad, though the ssh maintainers should of course check their code since millions of people use it.

FYI: it's generally considered that SSL/TLS in practice has been broken by the US govt. due to setup problems per the article, and reuse of magic constants.

Source: I actually studied the mathematics behind RSA, and also actually read and understand the full articles on crypto problems, since the 80's.
If you run marketing to drive superficial vanity metrics like ad clicks, email opens, unique website visitors, then yes you're 'addicted to bad data' but more so just lack attention to detail and aren't good at your job.

If you run marketing to capture high-intent traffic, measure positive engagement with your content, and correlate those indicator metrics with product activation and monetization, then you're simply using data – even if it's partially flawed – to drive meaningful growth for your business.
I hope at least one person has all of WCD archived.
Lol domain is $5. I don't really care about a coffee :).
I am new to web development and ui/ux, picked it up during Covid for kicks. Have been a computer vision/ robotics guy since forever now. Just wanted some relevant feedback on literally the first web app I have ever built.

TIL this is called a Covey chart. Thanks for that. I couldn't find a solution like this which allows for moving/ re-arranging tasks and presenting them in an easy to use way, so I made it.

Sorry if I hurt your feelings, can't make everyone happy I guess :)
> 10 million cumulative cases

Known cases. True numbers are likely to be much higher than that. For starters, the estimated percentage of entirely asymptomatic infections is around 18% to 80%(1), with many more getting only mild symptoms. Many if not most people with mild symptoms will never bother to get tested.

It would not be surprising if 100 million Americans have in fact been infected already. That's the kind of ratio of known to actual cases that antibody testing has repeatedly found. And even that may be an underestimate, as antibody testing doesn't measure T-cell response.

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470698/
I don’t think he killed it “because it wasn’t NeXT software”.

I think he killed it because the market didn’t support it (MS Office showed that an ‘everything but the kitchen sink” solution could conquer the market, leaving only breadcrumbs for smaller parties) and to focus the company.
It's designed to update only when you let go, o/w it's unnecessary compute and repainting. If that's annoying, I can enable during the drag too.
The original reason why Bellard wrote QEMU was to run Wine on non-x86 machines. In theory one could do the same here.
> Progressives seem to believe that Western = white, and that is how they make the leap to white supremacy in this context.

I'll note that my comment did not directly link proud boys to "white supremacy". Instead, I (and the comment I replied to) used "right-wing extremists". I think that's an accurate description that does not require an assumption that "Western = white".
I think it's safe to say that one of the major reasons Trump won, was because he was hailed as some mastermind business person, who'd "run America like a business".

That mantra started with Mitt Romney, but he ran against a strong candidate - so it never really took off.

But then it turns out, Trump is a really weak businessman, with almost 4 decades of bankruptcies and crushing debt to his name. His business failings have been known forever, but his personal debt is new information.

Normal people joining any position which requires security clearance can get denied, on basis of relatively small consumer debt. Why? Because it makes you risky, and susceptible of corruption.

Based in his personal debt alone, Trump would never, ever get any security clearance of any kind.

Also, letting the senate decide seems like a broken system when it's absolutely clear that both sides will pick party of country, any day of the week.

If anything, the Trump administration has been the great stress-test of how things work in practice. Better to patch up the system now, than to wait for the next smarter and more cunning wannabe-dictator.
Indeed. This or something like it could be incorporated into a Microsoft-maintained Ubuntu-based Linux distro for backward compatibility. Meanwhile it could have a new displayPS compositing window manager and a nice dev kit. I’d probably abandon macOS for web development...

Maybe call it Windows NC (for next century).
Reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/lhx6ZCrspX0
To be fair, the Fed has managed to maintain its independence. So while the money printing has buoyed the markets, Trump had little to do with it.
This article reeks of arrogance. I stopped reading it after a while since I can't stand the style of the writer. They seem to think that they've seen it all and this is a huge red flag to me.
It's not about morality, but about responsibility.
WCD and RED?
No. The server can inspect its GraphQL schema (what the frontend will be querying against) and emit Typescript types to type check against. If someone changes a field name on the backend, type checking the frontend will fail in all the places that expected the original name. No grepping around and chasing chains of passed data.
Racism is baked into patent systems
Arrow said “Most systems are not going to work badly all of the time. All I proved is that all can work badly at times.”

I think we’ve proved that FPTP works badly a lot of the time, time to try something else
There are a lot of open source apps to implement actual, real democracy : https://decidim.org/ , https://consulproject.org/en/ , and it's already implemented in a lot of cities and countries. Another interesting concept is liquid democracy : https://liquidfeedback.org/ ,adresses most of the problems mentioned in the other comments. Although, using an app for democracy is ignoring the digital divide. There HAS to be something similar done in real life, otherwise you're leaving 50 to 90% people out of the conversation depending on which country you live in.
Can you enlighten people who have no idea what these acronyms mean?
Thanks! Definitely, should mention that somewhere
Right, but my comment isn't about current-day America, more a possible future where your access to care doesn't rest on an election, because not everything is hyper-politicized and some decisions get made for what is the best decision for most not what matches the ideology.

The hyper-polarization of the political landscape means you either get care or you don't. If one side will help you and one side wont, you're going to have a tough time holding on to your rights regardless of one election win.

A more unified America with a strong middle class wouldn't need to undermine one group to bolster another, and you would have more moderate political candidates rather than having to choose between two distant evils every election.

I get to not care because years of moderate politics in my country has seen a general trend toward humanitarianism regardless of which "side" wins. Recently the "right-wing" political group of my country protected same-sex marriage, even though it doesn't align with their ideology, because they're only moderate-right, and so their priorities still lie in pleasing the majority and not extreme political interests.

Obviously the US would have a long way to go before it could ever take any of this advice seriously, I was just trying to point out that the divided nature of your population drives the politics too.
9/11 killed a minuscule amount of deaths in comparison and warranted huge cut of freedoms, multiple massive military interventions, the US starting to normalise torture and black prisons, but somehow requiring people to distance and wearing masks is a step too far?

Let's not forget it Trump suggested to slaughter Muslims using bullets dipped in pigs blood, so he is definetly not a antiwar as some here suggest.
It's the "steel door in a wooden frame" problem. The implementation is the weakest link, and not the theory.

Don't worry too much about quantum computers for now; worry about the attacks listed tfa, about the history of attacks being discovered, and the history of implementations being weak years after those attacks being discovered. And then consider that the NSA is the world's largest employer of mathematicians, who have each been toying with RSA since the very beginning of their career.
Thanks! Yeah, I should mention that somewhere :)
I think it is reasonably uncontroversial that many people believe drugs to be some sort of scandal.

But regardless, it is uncontroversial that a large amount of people would describe pictures of someone doing hard drugs as "bad things".
> Generally laws are not enforced exactly by how they are written

I think that’s pretty much untrue. Laws are enforced exactly as written. Where the judges come in is the interpretation of what was written. If that’s in line with the intent then that’s great, but I very much doubt that’s always the case.
>That is what each of these statistical models did, yes. And the actual outcomes fell into these confidence intervals.

The CI is due to sampling error, not model error. If the error of the estimate is due to sampling error, the estimate should be randomly distributed about true value. When the estimate is consistently biased in one direction, that's modelling error, which the CI does not capture.
I believe the only way we can push the state of the art at this point is to replace Linux entirely with some new experimental kernels. Linus will never accept a radical departure from his own design.

We definitely also need new ways to talk about these ideas (or I/we just need to learn them!). Object orientation is a philistine way to group concepts that have matrices of complexity. For example, there are distinctly different functions of code that most languages I've seen don't provide a syntactic way to express. How can I explain to someone that this part of the code is one part of an ordered set of operations tied to a variety of states influenced by a variety of functions, while some other code is idempotent and stateless? And can't our compilers take advantage of this to connect the pieces for the developer?
Harmony Square: A game to teach you about political misinformation
Lots of friends and my very own wife are musicians, their take on it is that to be competitive on Spotify and such, you have to produce content so regularly that quality is diluted.

There’s a whole market of tool-assisted beat and melody makers that build and curate then offer these for sell for artists to buy. The whole process is heavily industrialised, tools allow the maker to produce dozens of such bricks a day, basically bruteforcing a whole space, but everything resembles everything else, diluted to no end, channeling the money stream and bleeding the “old way” creators to death.

Albums have been dying for a while already, even EPs are barely living corpses in this attention grabbing landscape. Even for singles there’s just no way to mature ideas and create truly creative content in an amount of time that allows to keep up pace and make money through these platforms. So they stay on the local scene, which is being obliterated by COVID.
132000 cases per day, doubling every 30 days, would be about 328 million additional verified infections by the beginning of May. You may note that exceeds the total number of Americans who have not already tested positive, which gives a pretty good hint that model can't actually reflect reality for that long.

Additionally, the 10M number is the number of people who have tested positive, not the number who have been infected, which is probably several times higher than that even.

So yeah. I doubt we have even two more doublings ahead of us, at least as measured by hospitalizations (positive tests are a bad measure because early testing was very lacking). Less than one wouldn't surprise me.
We’re still waiting to find one of those proper implementations 20 years later.
Disputing the vote and questioning results is very common in elections. Don't pretend like Trump is the first to do this, or the first to insinuate that fraud has influenced the result. It's pretty run-of-the-mill politicking. Here's Hillary doing the same thing, except she's blaming nefarious foreign actors instead of the local machine:

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/18/hillary-clinton-tr...

The simple fact is that Hillary simply couldn't believe she was defeated, and did as much or more disputing of results. That doesn't make her an enemy of democracy, and neither does Donald Trump's caterwauling. But if you read the recent news reporting or watched the current President-elect's speeches, you would think that the very foundations of Democracy are shaken. Utter hogwash.
> This or something like it could be incorporated into a Microsoft-maintained Ubuntu-based Linux distro for backward compatibility.

I prefer if LSW would be incorporated in WSL for "recursion":

> LSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWSLSWS...
Direct link to blog post: https://www.sankalpjonna.com/posts/anatomy-of-an-email
Book Review: Atomic Habits