skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why wouldn't someone who holds the view that polls are corrupt and biased have their attitude towards answering them affected by that?

If your opinion was that polls were biased against your candidate, how would that make you answer? Is it more likely to make you answer in favor of your candidate, answer in favor of the other candidate, or go out of your way to participate in polls to "fight back" against the bias?

You can invent a narrative that supports pretty much any activity. Only some of these narratives have any data behind them.

As far as I'm aware the best-supported theory by data isn't that people intentionally lie, but that they simply don't participate in polls because they narrative pushed by republican campaigns is that the polls are always wrong. This is, we'll say, half true.

What I'm interested in, now that the republican talking point is that the actual polls don't matter, since Democrats are stealing the election anyway, is if Republican turnout will similarly decrease.
Gag orders don't force you to state wrong facts about your products in the first place.
Huh, I'll be damned. I found some stats (from 2011) that were roughly 20% SF & NY (bucketed together), 30% the rest of the U.S., 30% Europe, and 20% elsewhere. I'm surprised. 20% for two cities, and 50% for one country are still a pretty heavy focus, but definitely not to the degree I'd previously thought.
Google Releases ‘Objectron Dataset’ of Object-Centric Video Clips
> Bootcamp probably won't happen since windows does not support the architecture

Windows supports ARM and has for a while. But still probably Bootcamp's days are over, yeah.
I advocate for "was this page helpful?" being the standard question across docs sites because ultimately it does reflect the purpose of documentation (to be helpful in one way or another, which usually means helping you complete a task or understand a concept) and because using the same question on all sites enables us to benchmark and compare. I once ran an A/B test on the same page where 50% were prompted "was this page helpful?" and the other 50% were prompted "was this page useful?" and the results were different to a statistically significant degree which suggests that even minor rephrasings skew the results, so we need to all use the same terminology.

> its a request for feedback I don't know helps me or not

Yes I'm aware that readers aren't incentivized to respond which explains why it's rare to get higher than 5% response rate. This situation is a microcosm for documentation's overall problem: we can't find incentives for people to voluntarily and consistently confirm the value we provide and we don't have any other means to prove the causality.
Yeah, seems like “SX is a binned faulty DX” was a popular but unconfirmed rumor that has stuck with me for 30 years.

The die is the same, but there’s no evidence Intel rebranded rejected DX chips. Here’s an extremely pedantic discussion (when it comes to obsolete hardware, the best kind of discussion) on the topic:

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/lies-damn-lies-and-wikipedia/
OK, but when some random pollster calls me, what do I get out of it if the parties can allocate their resources more effectively? That's not anywhere on my list of concerns. It lets you campaign more effectively? Great, go bother someone else.
2018 polls were pretty accurate IIRC. Lots of theories going around about how Trump uniquely screws up polling. Not a ton of evidence, but it is really surprising both 2016 and 2020 were off in the same direction. It could happen due to random chance of course. Too bad we probably will never see Trump on the ballot again to get any more data on this phenomenon.
I also prefer secure hardware, but I find macOS completely useless for work.

While I can appreciate that some see other-OSs as something of a curiosity, for many of us it's a big deal-breaker, and it's a shame Apple is not willing to provide their hardware to so many potential clients who simply don't want their software.
But are you suggesting addicts can commit crimes to finance their addiction in impunity?
>It's a logo that is more strongly associated with one political party than another

As long as you'll admit that BLM falls under this same logic, and should similarly be banned, then you're being consistent.

If not, you're being hypocritical.
I agree here. I really don't understand some of the bashing that happens every single time the Macbook Pros come up in HN comments.

I was a longtime happy owner of a 2015 15" MBP until earlier this year when I decided it was time to upgrade to a refurbished 2019 16" MBP. I was a bit nervous at first but I have to say that I have no major complaints, other than the fact that I wish I had F keys instead of the touchbar. Contrary to everyone else, I really like the keyboard.

As for solving the touchpad issue, I use Pock [1] which I read about on HN. It removes the need for using a slider every time I want to adjust the volume or brightness and lets me control Spotify and see what song is currently playing.

I also have a 2018 15" MBP for work. If you believed the comments here you'd think that I am unable to type or use the damn thing. Honestly, after 1 week of use I'm already used to the keyboard. Not having an escape key kind of sucked, but I have rebound caps lock to escape on all of my Macbooks and enjoy that even more than having an escape key.

My other complaint is that the trackpad is a bit too large - I find myself accidentally hitting it sometimes and it just seems excessive. Finally, it's a shame that you can't mess with the battery/RAM/SSD yourself but unfortunately that's more of a trend for the industry than just Apple.

Overall I'm a totally happy user on both the 2018 and 2019 Macbook Pros. I was quite nervous about the possibility of having to use a Windows PC for work when I started my new job. And don't even get me started on having to use a Pixelbook at Google.

[1] https://pock.dev/
Then you need to follow the advice of health professionals:

https://www.theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-u...
Can this provide application firewall kind of network control, like Little Snitch?
Opinion: i like it when journalists state their bias and their opinion, then give their report. If I know a classical Democrat is reporting on a trump rally I can expect some heavy bias. Etc. Maybe journalists and news anchors should have scorecards where they personally identify their opinions on issues from foreign affairs to drugs to crime and gender.

Ethically, is it okay to be biased towards one party (esp as a journalist) when that partys positions are objectively projective, dishonest, and baseless across senior party members, senior partisan journalists in the parties favor, and dutifully documented over the years?
> However, it makes little sense to say that the decision to buy TV subscriptions, radio subscriptions, toothbrush subscriptions, video gaming subscriptions, dog food subscriptions, car subscriptions, or productivity software subscriptions should drive “subscription fatigue” or mean each subscription competes with one another. For decades, consumers have bought TV, music, toothbrushes, video games, dog food, cars and Microsoft Office. What’s new is that they all have similar models – digitally-based, predominantly D2C subscriptions. This changes nothing about the individual value or baseline need for them.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. The point is that many of those were one-time purchases - or lasted long enough that they could be considered one-time purchases for practical purposes (yes, this includes software, no matter how much the business side of software developement hates to hear that).

One-time purchases compete with each other for the budget I have available for those purchases - which may include money I have saved, loaned or have momentarily available for other reasons. So you could say, they compete with each other for my wealth.

In contrast, I need to pay a subscription every month, so they compete with each other for a part of my monthly income - which in a typical middle class scenario is something I can allocate with far less flexibility than my savings.

> To this end, it’s important to highlight subscriptions are often a preferred buying path for consumers. Most would rather (or can only afford) $10 a month for a multi-year license to Microsoft Office for $300. Subscriptions also meaningfully reduce the cognitive burden of repeat decision making. No longer do you need to “track” your toothbrush for wear, risk “running out” of toilet paper and then be forced to overpay for a small-volume purchase, or need to scan and hoard coupons to ensure a great deal.

Yeah, I'll just have the cognitive burden of keeping track of half a dozen different subscriptions. Thank you.
Say there's a vote on decriminalizing marihuana (from what I understood this happened in some states). Are you then allowed to walk around with a weed leaf t-shirt? What if its a band logo called The Amazing Cannabis with a bunch of happy leaves smoking a joint? What if its a flag in colours red/green/yellow with a black weed logo on it?
Apple Silicon: The Roads Not Taken
I completely understand. I'm fairly certain my original issue was caused by playing basketball. The running and jumping really does put a lot of strain on the body. I have never played ball again since the injury.

As I mentioned, I also changed my entire workout regime. While strength is super important, 500+ pound DLs maybe not so much at my age. Both basketball and powerlifting I love, so it was definitely a mental shift. But, now I'm probably in the best complete shape I have ever been in. My cardio, strength and flexibility are balanced and good. COVID has actually been a good thing since I can jump up at any point in the day and take a 15 minute yoga class.

Good luck, I hope neither of us have to deal with back pain again :)
The new Mac Mini is €50 cheaper than what the previous one was 2 days ago.

I'm positively impressed here.
> but it has to be a Mac.

Bummer. I just paid $3200 for a lower end Lenovo P620 (only 12 cores), and similarly spec'd Apple machines were running almost $8k, and benchmarks say the Macs are technically slower. These were desktop workstations, though.

I know it doesn't help your decision, but I'm still excited about the new computer
this is as stupid as saying "evolution isn't real otherwise I could grow eyes on stalks when I want to see around corners"
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota aren’t statistically independent though, so if a poll is wrong in one of them, it’s also likely to be wrong in the others too.

Correlated errors are tough!
>You can't know, because it wasn't actually e2ee, eh

You can know that nobody external to Zoom spied on those streams as they were encrypted between client and Zoom servers. The fact that Zoom had access to your stream, in principle, is par for course.

>These are hard to quantify but they're not nothing.

And they got in trouble. There is the FTC slap and the PR cost associated with the negative publicity. That feels about right for the level of infraction. But when these kinds of articles come out, people are calling for regulatory bodies to 'make examples' of the companies in question. That's not how it works. That's not how it should work.
> On the other hand, this makes the whole operation unfalsifiable in any reasonable time frame. "I always said the candidate had a .1% chance of winning!"

I wonder how many people still think Nate Silver has a credible perspective: he's spun the above strategy into a job in unscientific punditry.
You must have missed the few instances when the NYT ran a rare Trump headline that could be regarded as positive, then promptly edited it to include leftward spin under the guise of 'adding context'. Here's the NYT's own reporting on one such instance:

"A print headline on Tuesday’s front page for an article about President Trump’s statement addressing last weekend’s mass shootings has added to a continuing debate over how news organizations cover his administration.

Times editors were concerned that the initial headline — “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” — did not contextualize Mr. Trump’s message on Monday and decided to change it for later editions to “Assailing Hate but Not Guns.”"

This strikes me as an open acknowledgement that negative spin is a hard requirement when reporting on Donald Trump at the New York Times.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/reader-center/trump-mass-...
I followed a lot of economists (ie Robert Reich, Krugman, etc) thinking they would post interesting economics related content. They do, but it turns out that they are ordinary humans who like posting the same tweets (and rants) that I would post.

I don't think Twitter can have the same signal to noise ratio as a well moderated forum like HN, even if you follow the "right" people, because the format of the site incentivizes a different style of discussion.
This bugbear seems as outdated at "M$FT is evil." Every company cancels projects. Flutter/Dart appears to have staying power.
I prefer that they change labels in a context-sensitive way. For keys that I don't use that often the icon is a better trade-off than a tactile response. Sliders are useful as well.
Something like ATX standard but for laptop shells would be awesome - imagine being able to replace a motherboard etc, just like you can with a desktop PC.
Yes I did. It didn't mention anything about more employees (mostly policies to encourage more POC). Although it does mention the expansion of their digital media. That seems fine to me but what about total employees from both digital and paper?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NYT/new-york-times...
Brain Facts 3D Brain
I think that is totally fine. If you want an unbiased source you can read from a newswire service like AP or Reuters, which often feed directly into nyt and other paper's articles directly.
I'm no DSP expert, but I did run into a problem in GNU Radio which I think applies because it happens to floating point numbers in general.

GNU radio has a component called "DC Block" which has a length of N samples... it averages those samples, and subtracts that average from the input... giving an output.

If you exceed the dynamic range of floating point by mixing inputs of lets say 1e12 and 1e-12... the filter can develop a permanent output bias.

The reason is performance... the samples are stored in a ring buffer, and they subtract the value when it leaves the buffer, and add the new value as it goes it. This is N times faster than adding up all the values, and subtracting. However... this bug can happen.

I suspect you have similar behavior occurring due to the smaller coefficients at the tails of the function.

That's my 2cents, I hope it made sense, and helps explain what you've encountered.
I ran into Pion when looking for a good example implemention of a TURN server. Your code is a great read, especially for something with so little documentation relative to its use.
(PM at Cockroach here)

There's a little blurb in this blog post about the decision we made at the time https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-were-building-a-busin... (Note: The blog mentions APL but we've since moved to BSL)

Quote: “The first [of the CCL features] is a fully-distributed, incremental capability for quickly and consistently backing up and restoring large databases using configurable storage sinks (e.g. S3 or GCS). The same functionality, but non-distributed, will be available for free to all users.”

I can't speak to what exactly the thinking was at the time (I wasn't around yet) but as you mentioned, the community told us that the non-distributed functionality (DUMP) wasn't good enough for the scale people wanted to run at. Makes sense, so we made the change.

If I had to take a guess DUMP was performant enough at the time for most of our CockroachDB Core users and their scale, but adoption has picked up since then, as have data sizes.
Looking at Dremio’s website they seem to be a good competitor to presto/Athena for some use cases.

Alternative solutions depends on your use case. If it’s about querying S3 data then Dremio/Athena/Presto/spark are good.
You must not rate photographers very highly if you are mentioning them in the same sentence as "bloggers, etc".
Slack, Whatsapp, Discord, and Skype, pick any two and I don't think it's unusual.
I assume the deal he negotiated with the buyer meant he got money and they didn't, and thus that was the only thing on offer.
I assume others are downvoting because they assume you already know, but DMCA takedowns apply to active distribution of actual copyrighted content (like a mp3 containing music), not to tools that puportedly are for the purpose of enabling infringment. If the RIAA wanted to take down a tool, the not-illegal method would be to file a lawsuit against the developers, recieve (or preferably be denied, since their case has no merit, but that's beside the point) a preliminary injuction from the judge, and present that to GitHub.
I'm not sure 16 GB is enough.
Sadly, the answer involves many, many years.

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Things I'm certain helped:

- Complete and total elimination of alcohol. I didn't have a sip of acohol for 6+ years. I will now occasionally have a beer, maybe 6 or so drinks per year?

- 9 month leave of absence from school and work, moving back in with my very, very loving and kind parents.

- Being showered with love and affection daily for years by close friends and family.

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Things that probably helped:

- Talk therapy 3x a week for about a year, and weekly for about a year after that.

- A heroic dose of psylocibin, about 5 years into my recovery.

- Extreme amounts of exercise (real boxing)

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Things that were also included in treatment that probably didn't help but who knows:

- I was on some SSRI (forget which) for about a year.

- Three weeks of an involuntary stay at a run-down mental health clinic. This mostly had a positive impact on my understanding of politics and liberty, less so on curing depression IMHO.
Cloud GPU instances are very expensive. If you get consumer GPUs not only do you save money, you can sell them afterwards for 50% of the purchasing price.
> Did this only happen in swing states and VA though?

I see no evidence that this is the case, but certainly you'd expect differences in the apparent pattern based on state ballot counting procedures. Swing states get a lot more attention, and in addition, the swing states where the effect has been noticed plus Virginia all delay even the beginning of mail-in ballot processing to election day, some not allowing ballot counts of mail-in ballots until after the polls close. So, that forces any systematic differences in mail-in ballots to also produce aystematic differences in vote count over time, whereas systems where the mail-in ballots are preprocessed well before election day and have no required delay after the polls close for counting don't systematically create that issue.
Right now it's just a project in development, so nothing yet. But it's supposed to be for time series data. This could be metrics, events, or any kind of semi-structured data that fits into tables where you want to ask questions about it over time.

It also defines rules for replication (push and pull), subscriptions to subsets of the data, and processing data as it arrives via a scripting engine.

Some of these features will arrive before others. Right now we want to make it work well for the data InfluxDB is currently good at (metrics, sensor data) and also work well for high cardinality data like events and tracing data.
Seconded! HN is my favorite community that I’ve come across online, and Dan and Sam’s work in curating comments and posts is a huge reason why.
Resistance exercise in young adults significantly improves anxiety symptoms
Reddit is like an average high school, full of dumb kids, who dont take anything seriously and who put a facade of competence to hide their lack of experience.

HN is like an Ivy League freshman class. Most of the kids are smart, opinionated and sure they will rule the world some day.Many have some pretty nice accomplishments. But you scratch below the surface and you will notice they are also just a bunch of kids: insecure,especially about their intelligence,they take themselves way too seriously, love one-up each other and beyond their close area of knowledge they have painfully naive//cliche views.

Dont take this site too seriously, especially since in the last 2-3 years it has been infested with "guerilla marketers"
If watching his conversation with Musk left you with a negative impression of Ma's intellect, he probably said some things you didn't expect a smart person to say. But that doesn't necessarily mean he's stupid. Personally, I think he just wasn't trying to fulfill your expectations, but instead targeting a different group, as I've explained in a comment in an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006975
I think argument was that it was worn by an official.

If it was a police officer wearing that or a poll worker, that's not acceptable. If it was a voter in act of voting it is fine.
> Why is this not happening in non-swing states other than Virginia?

On what basis do you say its not?
I got told repeatedly that I "knew why" I was rate limited, but never given an actual explanation. Then it was lifted. Go figure.
> they have to do stuff like restore the original display resolution

This is something that I find incredibly annoying: games handling their own resolution and having their own resolution configuration.

It's like their reinventing something that the OS already provides. Just use the resolution that's configured: if I wanted to change it I'd change it.

Non-native resolutions look awful on LCDs anyway, so apps really shouldn't change it.

Actually though, the easier way to support linux is just to run on windows mode with no chrome -- I can just fullscreen the window myself and that's it.

Games that try to detect screen resolution themselves very often screw up picking the right resolution when you have multiple screens: but again, the problem is they're trying to do too much.
It is very difficult to be pro Trump while also trying to tell the truth. And the idea behind a reputable media outlet like NYT is that they tell the truth. Trump lies almost constantly, especially to his supporters. How do you report positively on something like that?
I think that would probably be great for the country. At least give them time proportional to their national vote share.
You just publicly admitted to breaking California state election code.

The California Secretary of State specifically outlined that MAGA slogans and clothing were acceptable at polling places.[0]

[0] https://abc7.com/politics/ca-rules-allow-maga-hats-but-no-me...