skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pah, the feeling when your shallow post gets all the upvotes but the link to a Covid-risk calculator of a renowned research institute that you submitted earlier gets none. Priorities, folks, pri-or-i-ties... ><
Just read the report and it was fascinating, but the dataset being from a decade ago from an age of IRC dominance and decenralized markets and before Telegram becoming a huge player, certainly have changed the dynamics somewhere. It'd be interesting to see how that shift has changed things.

We can't readily read DMs on, say, telegram, of course,but there are a lot of channel indexers for Telegram that I wonedr if anyone is using to map these things out.
That's faker than a 3 dollar bill. Many, many, of the "signatures" have been proven to be people that don't even exist.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/27/facebook-p...
I have known several prosecutors, and none of them want to convict an innocent person.
Seeing the fallout from Sturgis, I think the holiday seasons back-to-back are going to make things far worse. It doesn't help that we will already be in the middle of flu/common-cold season.
Facebook's “vanish mode” arrives on Messenger and Instagram
I'm all for minimum wage, but also this is a problem:

> some people are desperate and don’t think about the choices they make

Some people can't choose because they're in a desperate situation. And some people are in a desperate situation because they made many wrong choices. It's not easy to distinguish between the two. And it's certainly non-binary, but rather a spectrum. I think there can be a large difference between the two extremes of the spectrum.
High school student here who self-studied multivariable calculus and differential equations. I absolutely LOVE Paul's Online Math Notes.
That has been the steady trend for a while. Desktops in offices have been slowly dwindling down to two categories:

* Creatives who need more horsepower than a mobile workstation can provide

* Hourly employees with minimal computing needs who won't use their computer outside of their cubical

Anyone in the middle is better served by a laptop
Sure, I'll email you.

(And thanks for reminding me that I need to add my email to the site.)
Sounds more like the lunch boxes are co-branded or include Dropbox advertisement. I've seen a Yahoo branded pizza box once. Yahoo basically paid for the box (and some extra).
Instead, they're chanting "White silence equals violence". I'm sure demonization of a group that's on the way to becoming a minority will work out great.
Since COVID I’ve used DoorDash more than ever. I got the dash pass with my cc and have been ordering a couple times a week. That is until I finally cancelled over some recurring bad experiences:

1. The food is wrong often. Whether it’s the dasher’s fault or the app’s or the restaurant’s who knows, but it happens too frequently. Granted DD gives an automatic refund in credits but our meal is ruined at that point and no one wants to wait another hour to roll the dice on a DD order.

2. All the good restaurants are leaving DoorDash. Maybe this is more so a trend in my town but at the beginning of COVID there were lots of great restaurants on it and now there’s just chains like Chipotle and McDonalds. Apparently it’s not just DD that loses money on these orders.

Now I will just call the restaurant directly and pick it up myself. Much better quality control, timing, cost and selection.
Uber has signed deals allowing their drivers to sell other products during trips, I still bet its banned and poorly enforced at least.

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-cargo-teaming-raise-prote...
There's a fraction of the media that repeats unsubstantiated claims enough that their viewers believe them to be true. Examples: Climate change is a hoax, or Obama is a muslim from an African country.

I've lost count of the number of people who I met who blatantly make the above statements as if they are matter-of-fact... Because they watch the media that perpetuates these myths, every single day.

So, the vitriol towards Obama comes from a fraction of the media that will stop at nothing to destroy him.

(And, before someone goes and says that "the liberal media does it too," remember that the rest of American media does not openly contradict established facts to forward a political agenda.)
> The promise of a computer is to reveal truth, through a seamless flow of information. [...]
Information has not become more seamless.

I disagree pretty strongly here. When I got my first computer as a kid, OSes outside of POSIX were silos, you literally couldn't read a Mac disk on DOS or vice versa. We've made huge strides in terms of a heterogeneous internet that supports all manner of data exchange unimaginable in decades past.

Now, is it seamless? No, but with orders of magnitude more programmers and more code, the edges of the interaction graph also have exploded; of course there will be more seams. The lesson isn't that we screwed up and somehow need to wrangle the complexity. To the contrary, successful ecosystems require diversity. We do not need an omniscient benevolent dictator to show us the way, rather we need to embrace the chaos and carve out smaller spaces for elegant systems within the jungle. It's a tricky balance because economies of scale are valuable, and capitalist incentives push businesses towards consolidation, but a single hulking Tower of Babel, no matter how high, is still a local maximum and structurally vulnerable.
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People working in Linux will use GIMP, but you can also use Photoshop in a virtual machine, or possibly even natively using WINE. Here is a link for someone who did just that: https://www.archviet.com/how-to-run-photoshop-on-linux-with-...
>Both the left and the right [...] call basic and decent democratic norms into question (free speech, elections).

I only see Republicans doing this, but I am not American so perhaps my perspective is not as acute as someone "on the inside". Can you link to instances of Democrats calling free speech and elections into question?
The left and right deploy violence differently. Right wing violence is more precise, organized, surgical. Left wing violence is more chaotic, mob-driven, indiscriminate. Hence the mass rioting and destruction this summer, tacitly supported by major sections of the left-wing power structure in the US (local government and media).
It also demonstrates why the "personal choice" stuff is BS here. I see a lot of folks going "why are you worried if you're following the rules yourself?", and yet...

> None of the victims who lost their lives had attended the party.
The only source I trust for my critical and unbiased coronavirus information is the "corona-research" user on Hacker News.
It's worth mentioning for context that they gained power via a coalition government and the Reichstag fire: 'In January 1933, the Nazis apparently had only 32% of the seats.' They really did seize control very quickly from that position.

Full quote:

'After the November 1932 German federal election, the National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party had a plurality, not a majority; the Communists posted gains. Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor and head of the coalition government on 30 January 1933. As Chancellor, Hitler asked German President Paul von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag and call for a new parliamentary election. The date set for the elections was 5 March 1933. Hitler's aim was first to acquire a National Socialist majority, to secure his position and to remove the communist opposition. If prompted or desired, the President could remove the Chancellor. Hitler hoped to abolish democracy in a more or less legal fashion, by passing the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act was a special law that gave the Chancellor the power to pass laws by decree, without the involvement of the Reichstag. These special powers would remain in effect for four years, after which time they were eligible to be renewed. Under the Weimar Constitution, the President could rule by decree in times of emergency using Article 48.[7] The unprecedented element of the Enabling Act was that the Chancellor possessed the powers. An Enabling Act was only supposed to be passed in times of extreme emergency and had only been used once, in 1923–24 when the government used an Enabling Act to end hyperinflation. To pass an Enabling Act required a two-thirds majority vote in the Reichstag. In January 1933, the Nazis had only 32% of the seats.'

[source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire]
or, using an economic argument: if it was better to have a generator in your house or apartment than to use the grid for getting electricity, everybody would have one.
It's not necessarily the actions, but the perceived intent by "the other side" that is important. Events become provocation draws provocation draws backlash, etc etc.

I'm a fairly liberal person, but it doesn't take an inhuman amount of mental gymnastics to look at riots, anti-police sentiment, etc, and see a coordinated hostile agenda. I am lucky that I get to talk to both hardcore right and hardcore left people regularly, and they both tend to follow logical interpretations to inevitably polarizing and unhealthy conclusions. Both are not living in current reality, they are projecting their beliefs about the other side's agenda based on what they see on the news, and saying "I don't want to live in that world".
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> This type of speech ... should not be OK

I think there are perfectly good reasons to distrust democracy. especially in the information age.
Well, appreciate the explanation at least. I thought I was saying "even if xyz is still broken, I find abc to be a better solution anyway".

Guess my views are too radical for this crowd though.
Ah, yes. There were very fine people on both sides!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/herd-immunity-...

> An open letter that made headlines calling for a herd immunity approach to Covid-19 lists a number of apparently fake names among its expert signatories, including “Dr Johnny Bananas” and “Professor Cominic Dummings”.

> Others listed include a resident at the “university of your mum” and another supposed specialist whose name was the first verse of the Macarena.

> Sky News discovered 18 self-declared homeopaths in the list of expert names and more than 100 therapists whose expertise included massage, hypnotherapy and Mongolian khoomii singing.
This might be what you are looking for if you are into self-hosting or at least have trusted host.

https://pixelfed.org/
True story: a previous employer would not bother issuing POs for less thank 2000 euro, so we couldn't even think about buying anything that was too cheap
Some of the commentary on HN has been about how polls are especially bad now because of the types of people who actually respond to them. But the article shows that presidential polls have been historically "bad".

"[N]ational polls will miss by about 3 percentage points in an average year ... That means the margin of error is closer to 7 or 8 points. And every presidential election so far this century has fallen within that range."

I think people just have unrealistic expectations of how accurate polls can be.
Impaired spermatogenesis in Covid-19 patients
Sadly, if they actually cared about the consumer, then they would remove DRM after those N days. Since they don't, I just don't buy these games (Sonic Mania damnit!) , and I'm probably not alone..
Ask HN: What are some differences between x86 and ARM processors?
Better than IPO price, market cap is 82B+ today.
Right. Wirth developed Modula after his first PARC sabbatical, where he worked with the Alto and Mesa. Modula supported even nested modules. And Pascal didn't have modules at all.
Anything travel related as well. Somebody in the 1980s thought that being able to read your order with just your surname as a password was a good idea. Or that passwords have to be 8 character maximum, no profanities or common words, and they can't have Y or some other characters since you could not have dialed it on a specific model of 1980s phone. I haven't touched a GDS for the past 10 years or so, but they are out there, probably still on mainframes as well.
I can’t speak for the person you’re asking, but Tulsi Gabbard is representative of what I see as the rational middle.
Dissecting landscape art history with information theory
Thanksgiving is going to be one massive super spreading event, and I shudder to think about christmas.
this is super exciting to see! love the task mgmt features amidst others. can’t wait to see this develop over the next few months.
Yes, you can get into a feedback loop, but that needs to be talked about, not just outright dismissed.
There is no “antifa”, everyone in the US should be antifascist.
But all of these performance measurements won't matter if users don't actually own their devices; without being able to run applications without Apple's permission and knowledge, these devices should be ignored by many privacy-conscious computer scientists from the get-go.
* even when accounting for losses, the CO2 output of ICE is worse (today)

* electric cars allow us to tap into "free" energy (i.e. base load we can not turn off at night)

* we can innovate much more on electric (generation, transmission, storage) than we can on ICE (gains are largely realised)

* centralised emissions are easier to manage than decentralised emissions

Does electric pollute? Yes. Should we stick to ICE? Hell no.
I thought copyrights on numbers were deemed invalid? Copyright applies to data as it appears right? You can encode a number in any base, the idea that a company has copyright on every base encoding is equivalent to me saying I have copyright on every key because I wrote a program that enumerates all keys.
you really don't see how weak this counterpoint is? e.g. if you break your hands what exactly are you going to do with your legs?
I'm sorry, but there is no moral equivalence in the U.S. between the left and the right. It's certainly true that neither side is squeaky clean, but the left does not deny basic facts, and in particular, it does not attempt to dispute the outcomes of elections when the results are clear (and indeed has in the past thrown in the towel even when the results were not clear). I could go on and on, but those two things are key. Once you subscribe to the idea that whatever the Dear Leader says is true, evidence be damned, you are lost. The right is doing this even as I write this. The left never has.
An interesting article, but unfortunately far more focused on Brentano's personality and his students' impressions of him than his thought.
"Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed."

http://gbdeclaration.org/
I feel like I keep saying this every single PLT-related HN thread. Sorry for preaching, but I just can't resist. I think Agda is an excellent programming language, and it's a joy to write anything in. Its learning curve is steep at the beginning but once you gain experience how to write coinfinite programs, it's such a joy.

I think its module system is a huge bonus. It makes code a lot easier to organize and reason. It forces toplevel module X to be defined in X.agda so there is no argument what the module should be named or where it should be found.
So, all of New Zealand and Australia? Tipping is a very cultural thing. In Germany you might tip someone your change. Getting 1/2 euro is rare. In Ireland, people usually tip closer to 10%. In AU/NZ, people rarely tip at all.

I tip quite a bit now that I'm back in the US, but I prefer restaurants where servers were paid a better wage and their service was baked in to the cost of the meal.
A good companion book on the subject, "The German War", is about the German 'home front' during WW2. Very readable, one neat anecdote was how security agencies like the Gestapo were increasingly hollowed out as the war dragged on.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/German-War-Nation-Under-1939-1945/dp/...
> we are finally here.

we've been here for a very long time!!!

the only computer that is "yours" is a raptor talos II.
Much of the violence at protests this past summer was actually organized by right-wing extremists, possibly as a false flag: https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-po...
There is no rational middle. Liberalism, the 18th and 19th century ideology that America was built on, is really just a truce between the monarchists and the jacobins. Everyone in between is simply confused.
Has anyone carefully checked his work? Skimming through his first few papers it seems he just built datasets covering the past several millennia and ran PCA (or models with similar complexity). Fine for explanatory purposes, but not so great if you want to make predictions when most complexity of the society arguably comes from the past few centuries.
Crazy synchronicity. I found this and Beepbox yesterday while looking for chiptune samples.

Here are a few great songs from others posted on the twitter channel.

https://twitter.com/MirasBrush/status/1326576925276426241

https://twitter.com/MirasBrush/status/1326214034245431296

https://twitter.com/bitbeepsmusic/status/1326975412073865218
Honestly, I would be okay with someone being tried for murder over this shit. Isn't the death penalty supposed to be a deterrence?
I know. And given how hostile Amazon can be to sellers, I would love to see them fail to become the standard.
Maybe the masks and distancing don't actually work?
Long time lurker, made an account just to commend the parent post. Then I read your post and made the account just to commend you. While everything he said is true, that doesn't necessarily mean that the truth is between the two candidates or two parties as it may imply. There is a status quo of mild corruption that has happened throughout almost any leadership, and there is an acute enemy to principles that hold modern and just societies in place.
wouldn't curbside pickup be essentially equivalent in risk profile? you're outside and you only have to interact with one person.
i always thought everything being more expensive in australia (i'm most familiar with game licenses) is just tradition, i.e. nobody really knows why but they're buying anyway, so there's no incentive to actually lower prices.
To make matters worse when #1 happens, DoorDash apparently uses temporary disposable numbers for their drivers which get TERMINATED as soon as the driver marks your order as "delivered."

I once couldn't get a hold of my driver after opening the bag and seeing 1/2 my order was missing. Number was disconnected, and couldn't text it either.

#2 is because apparently DoorDash and Uber Eats takes 30-40% commission on the order! How are they even able to get away with this robbery, especially in an industry that already has low margins (apparently).
First of all, when I say "Java", I mean OpenJDK; things might be different in the Oracle side of the world.

My naive answer was going to be that, from Java's perspective libcairo is part of the underlying OS. But when I wrote my original post, I was taking the fact that libawt_xawt (the awt implementation for X11) links against Cairo at face-value. But looking a little closer at that, it only uses Cairo in its integration with GTK+ (as GTK+ uses Cairo).

Now, OpenJFX (which you could quibble about whether it's "part of" Java) uses Cairo extensively in its implementation of using HTML/CSS for Java UIs.
Dunno about the Leaf but at least with the Prius the battery is composed of individual cells that fit on a rail, so a lot of failures can be corrected by testing cell voltages and figuring out which one has failed and only replacing that one single one, which is usually substantially cheaper than a full rebuild.
Fake spin meant to assuage the girondins, the well-to-do leftists. The footage and evidence is extensive and obvious.
FWIW, Python was originally written as a shell language for a distributed OS called Amoeba.

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

I think it would have seemed out-of-scope to include too many sophisticated features. Also GvR was young, he might not have had [enough] exposure to all those languages, eh?
> before you have received service

One supposed origin of the word TIP is "To Ensure Proper Service. Ask people who are old enough and they'll tell you about how a tip was put on a table at the beginning of a meal. Today that's extremely rude, but it was common in certain areas.
Ah yeah, Amazon remotely removing 1984 from Kindles was incredible. It could only have been worse if it was Fahrenheit 451 !
Yes I did such tests and then compared the same scenario with jBridge.
In my own naive reading of this, I feel like the article seems to imply that the happenings of 2020 validate the theory laid out when but the historical examples given to backup this implication seem rather cherry picked. Further these theories imply that "elites" should maybe be purged which historically has been attempted to horrific outcomes (see the chinese cultural revolution or cambodia). Perhaps I am being reactionary in that concern however. Either way this article seems to over simplify the subject while also somewhat claiming that it explains more than it probably does.
I cant believe no one here is worried about this vaccine going into their bloodstream
punishing people at the poverty level for VC behavior is terrible.
By sheer coincidence I’ve been reading World War Z and it’s amazing how in the real world we’re making the same mistakes that countries in the book made against the zombies. Of course the situation is entirely different, but it’s interesting.

Why doesn’t the government actually just enforce rules? So many lockdowns, mandates and laws but so little enforcement, or the penalty is not commensurate with the risk. What’s the point?
The “personal choice” stuff was always BS even on the face of it. You can probably find some “libertarians” who will argue for removing all restaurant food safety regulations, for example, but I’m pretty sure even they are okay with banning drunk driving on shared roads.
> Edit: This news story has annoyed me, I think Apple have crossed the line, but I need to buy a new personal computer in March and a MacBook seems to be my only option.

If people keep buying Apple products, what is Apple's incentive to change?
Are you in USA? In UK (pubs/ restaurants that I've had an association with; some time ago) it was normal for tips to be shared with all staff. Maybe that was a UK/rural/independent establishment thing?
It's very clearly not murder; that'd set really bad precedents. You might be able to pull off something like involuntary manslaughter, but I tend to doubt it.
A few kilograms weight loss nearly halves the risk of diabetes?