skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious where everyone is getting their "news" at. For one, the "blue wave" of mail in ballots is a myth: https://i.imgur.com/LIX2cwQ.jpg

Two: No one is really questioning the machines not "working right". It is clear that there is no validation with the mail in ballots. MIB's are some of the most rejected ballots there are, yet no one seems to have any stats on this, or the stats provided are very low. Then you factor in tons of twitter and facebook posts of women saying that they were sent two ballots, one for their maiden name and one for their current name, at both their current address and their old addresses. Never mind that it is state law in most of these places that a ballot has to be "solicited" and cannot just be mailed en mass via mail. Put another way, you can't just mail 5 million ballots out to just 1 million physical addresses. I would not be surprised if during a recount, 50% of these MIBs are rejected.

Three: elections are quite predictable. There are 100's of counties that for the last 40 years have always predicted the outcome. If this county is blue, then blue is our president, etc. This seems to still be the case this time around, except for the states in question.

People's Pundit Daily https://youtu.be/Em0R9DRSbIE for the most part has been a really good source of information on behind the scene numbers and what "normal" elections typically should look like. I'd recommend it.
What Helped me be more Productive as a Software Developer
I have for many years (since nearly the beginning).
"a tolerance for failure" is a key point I believe in what you wrote here.

I have spent a ton of time in Asia and feel I have a better then average understanding culturally than most Americans (at least that is what what my friends from their tell me, but who knows!) Failure in Asia a source of great shame. Here if you fail the VC ask you "So did you learn anything...good, here is some more money for your next thing." I think that a key difference is the view that failure is a lesson that helps you do better for the next time and not a reason to be ashamed.
>However, a comprehensive medical history—assessing dozens of physical and mental illnesses—revealed zero actual health differences between people who did or did not take multivitamins.

I can't trust a society (or medical/scientific community) that can only express health as the lack of critical illness to make me optimally "healthy" (operation and expression).

To illustrate the point for many diseases/issues they are progressions and spectrum -- like Osteoporosis -- such that sure maybe the humble multivitamin (and minerals?) didn't cure it for life, but maybe it made it more manageable in the final 10-15 yrs?
It shouldn't really throttle to 1ghz - it's because Apple puts low quality paste in it, and sometimes because of dust.

My Macbook from 2014, is still excellent but it started throttling to 1ghz with video encoding.

After going to a repair shop and telling them about the problem they put high quality thermal paste in it for about 100 usd and the problem disappeared. Now i get 100% CPU no matter what i throw at it, pretty incredible with a computer from 2014!

Just fyi..
It _could_ have helped because, for example, here in Oregon where we just decriminalized they are taking tax revenue from marijuana sales and building drug addiction treatment centers. If you get caught with a small amount of the drugs, you pay $100 or have to go to an appointment at the drug addiction treatment center.

It _could_ have helped in this case because maybe Ryan M. Moser would have gotten help and broken his addiction with a treatment center that didn't have shame and felony crime associated with it. Maybe Ryan M. Moser would have sought help. Maybe. And at least Ryan M. Moser would have had the option if the drug addiction treatment centers were more accessible, walk-in style.
Yeah I hate it when distros do this.

Does Debian actually change upstream significantly? I thought they kept things fairly vanilla.

I know Fedora patched in VAAPI support on Firefox before it was merged into the Mozilla codebase. I can’t think of a worse piece of software to patch, the last thing I want to be running untested code on is my web browser.
Anyone who thinks they’re getting actual intimacy from some sort of transactional relationship is, to put it bluntly, an idiot. However, I think it reflects more poorly on the people who raised these guys than the guys themselves.
The author made a conscious choice to use л instead, on the grounds that it would be a better etymological (albeit worse phonetic) correspondence.
He's probably block listed pictures of himself lol
That and the lack of upgradable RAM/ storage.
I wish more managers were aware of this, especially in fields where there is a lot of intrinsic motivation beyond the money. I'm definitely guilty of this, I know its not worth my health and yet I kept pushing myself beyond breaking point several times to support company/team, now at the point where I have little to no motivation for anything. Thankfully I will be taking 2+ months off to try find my motivation again and try something new.
>Anyone with a job that requires them to talk to people with unknown numbers calling.

Exactly this. I'm forced to answer a lot of calls even when I think it's 80% likely that it's a spam call. I own a business and need to keep my employees fed with work. My likelihood of landing a contract with a person drops by about half if I don't pick up the phone right away.
Not all RAM is used the same, and the SSD is on par with RAM speeds from a decade ago. Probably won't need it. An iPad Pro does magic with only 4GB.
1. Is a bad advice. If you don’t take breaks then your brain will stop trusting the structure and it is effectively useless then. The point of pomodoro is that it’s a promise to your brain, that if you focus now for 25, then you’ll have a break for 5 after.
Neat! I had created an LXC for Steam, but that was way more involved than I would have liked (especially setting up a pulseaudio socket accessible for it).
It's not about the default. It's about the maximum, like I said.
> there is no correlation between when a Dem condemned violent protest and whether they won their election

You got a source on that? It's clear that democrats lost ground, despite the Republican party's abject failure to control the coronavirus. This should have been the easiest win in world history, and somehow, the Democrats barely escaped with the presidency. There is pretty clearly something to explain here.
There isn't a performance decrease. Apps run as an ordinary process but with extra restrictions about what they can access.
And prioritize function over form? I think you just want to buy a PC.
> You can measure this effect for yourself by measuring glucose rise when eating various foods: a raw apple, for example, vs the same mass of apple sauce vs the same mass of apple juice.

Just to be pedantic for a moment, but you'd want to compare same calories (isocaloric), rather than mass per se
Marx's problem was that he thought of everything in terms of class. If I'm poor, and I know I'm poor, but I also think about something other than class when making political decisions (no matter what that "something" is), then I have "false consciousness". That is, if I don't think about this totally the way Marx says, I'm stupid. Nice.

If you think about your life that one-dimensionally, you're poor in a way that Marxism can't fix.
New York Times first: Revenue from online readers exceeds print subscribers'
> The voter approaches their table, and gives their name and party affiliation.

Is this a joke? An electoral system in which votes are not secret is anything but democratic.
The problem is that your fingerprint is really just a set of information attached your body, similar to a long static password. Not very secure and you can't change it if it was compromised.

The fingerprint on the yubikey is really just a possession check for the yubikey in case it was stolen. The main protection comes from the asymmetric cryptography inside the yubikey.
I'm a big fan of high-assurance code and feel that we should write software as if people's lives depend on it, because they do! But your response is a bit hyperbolic and calling someone a zealot or a snake-oil salesman is in poor taste.

CompCert and seL4 represent the upper limit of what can be formally verified, and they are relatively small programs. CompCert targets a subset of C99, which is fairly small. Certainly much smaller than C++ and most other production programming languages. seL4 weighs in at 10K LoC and only provides memory protection and process scheduling. The implementation cost ~2.2 py but the proof cost was ~20 py (although they estimate new tooling would reduce this to ~6 py)[1].

Even Gernot (the head of the seL4 project) stipulates that formal verification is suitable only for software that doesn't change much over time, because it's difficult to add new features without breaking the proof. seL4 benefits from decades of iterations on the L3/L4 design. Now imagine trying to sell formal verification of a product like Gmail, which IIRC has a code base churn of ~20%/year. Even using formal methods to create a markup sanitizer would be a huge research project, probably larger than that of Everest's formally verified implementation of the HTTPS stack[2].

Economies of scale have made commodity programming languages designed for low-assurance code ubiquitous. If we ever want to see investment in high-assurance tooling, we have to prove it's value within the existing marketplace. And we can only do that if we are honest about what is possible and what is profitable.

So no, we can't just choose to verify any program. We are getting to the point where it is profitable to formally verify small components, like DNS or the WASM bytecode. That's exciting! But it's not as feasible as you or I want it to be.

[1]: https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/klein-...

[2]: https://project-everest.github.io/
I think you misinterpreted what the research was about, because you pretty much summed up their conclusion in your final paragraph --- except that people who use supplements generally don't know that (in no small part thanks to the efforts of the companies represented by the Dr. Wong quoted in the news article).
Just a continuation of the cat-in-washing-machine metaphor. Yowl instead of meow, where a real example would be learning how to have a hard, yet productive, conversation with your manager about issues which are or could lead to burnout.
I see how one can come to this point of view, but I think there is a perspective missing here about just how lonely and miserable some people are.

When you have never had a partner, when you have never been hugged and told you're loved, when you may also not even have friends or co-workers, and much more, things... are much different. I've met many males on the Internet where all of this applies, and they have a very easy time getting addicted to things that provide social comfort, whether is is Twitch, OnlyFans, Youtubers, and many other things. They want so badly to feel comfort, friendship, affection, and so on, that it is very easy to be tricked into thinking you're attaining it when you are in fact only attaining many strong correlates of it.
I don’t think that’s true for M1.
Reuters didn't even site the study. :(

GOD WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JOURNALISM?

Nowhere in the article is there any attempt to define "mental illness" or validate the rigorousness of the study.

Without any objective data or methodology, it's impossible to determine if the study also includes normal and expected outcomes of any hardship like:

* What percentage of the "1-in-5" patients already had contributing factors to the mental illness diagnoses before contracting COVID?

* What percentage of the "1-in-5" patients were diagnosed with "depression" which is a normal and temporary part of the grieving process experienced by otherwise mentally healthy people experiencing hardship?

I'm not trying to minimize or invalidate the situation of anyone suffering from the effects of COVID. I would just like to have a better understanding of the actual risk of interacting with people on a day-to-day basis. The title of this article suggests I have 20% chance of mental illness after being exposed to the virus. Having read the article, I now understand that I have a 0.0000000001% to 20% chance of such an outcome. I feel I've learned nothing, and I regret wasting my time reading it.
Say what you want about the npm ecosystem, but I've found that the most popular libraries to solve a particular problem are almost always the ones with the best documentation. It's natural selection: the ones that are easier to install/use get installed/used more often.

It's to the point where I expect good documentation, and will pretty quickly discard a library if the docs don't look robust on first inspection.

It's sort of bizarre to me that Apple doesn't know this, or at least hasn't acted on it.
I think it's proper way than hack
Faxes are "exempt", not secure. The intent was that they die off sooner rather than later.
Probably Chrome.
This is exactly right. They could have done everything in one go, but they had to change the keyboard and call that the 5th generation macbook pro. Like they didn't even include wifi 6 in the previous model nor did they hold an event for it. Kuo says a redesign is due in 2021, but apple can't keep getting away with doing the same thing since 2016. There are laptops with dual screens, 4k touch screens, vapeor chamber cooling, and apple just be changing out the keyboard for the next gen. This new chip is good for the chip industry, but it's not really a different laptop at all.
> (Unless it's being used to pull in attributes that are shared between and used for wire-up, but those should then be in a separate assembly.)

Right. It's primarily interfaces, but they are tangled.

This was especially painful between Net Core 2.0 and 3.1, because moving fast and breaking things is ugly when you have tangled dependencies and everyone is trying to catch up to the breaking API changes and related nuget versioning dance.
Okay. I misunderstood something. I've reread your comment and I don't know where the disconnect is.

One of the things you commonly see is that men get divorced and don't want to pay alimony or child support on the grounds that she isn't sleeping with him anymore.

So I think for a great many people, there is a strong connection between "he pays the bills and his expectation is sex." And I think this begins with our dating norms where he typically pays for the date.

I think the fact that this is baseline normal for most people is why it is offensive to point it out. People want to think their relationship is a good relationship and not transactional and the evidence seems to be that it's much more often transactional than not.
Seems like .Net 6 will have cross-platform UX forms! That sounds very exciting.
I'm not sure if you were trying to prove his point, but you did
Is this a serious question? Do you honestly believe the left has no agenda or that “mainstream news” is not effectively propaganda?

The news business depends on division to thrive. Division and anger drives clicks and eyeballs. Oh, and let’s not forget the billions of dollars in political advertising that goes into the pockets of corporate news organizations and social media companies — the very same entities that are fomenting the division that necessitates the advertising in the first place. It’s a rage cycle.

As a starting point I would recommend reading Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc and subscribing to Glenn Greenwald’s substack. They’re two of the only left-of-center commentators who have not lost their integrity over the past five years, and their ideas are worth listening to.
user identification and telemetry come to mind
Just tell me if I need to buy one?
> is there a name for this bias?

I think it's response bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias
That's 16GB of DRAM. Caches are SRAM, which has a very different set of design tradeoffs. SRAM cells use more transistors so they can't be packed as tightly as DRAM.
I think the heyday of being together in SF was actually before the boom. At some point, there were almost as many recruiters at meetups as there were engineers. I miss being with the making-stuff nerds quite dearly.
"With the translation technology of Rosetta 2, users will be able to run existing Mac apps that have not yet been updated, including those with plug-ins. Virtualization technology allows users to run Linux"

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...
It depends. In Minnesota, wearing any of the items you listed would be considered electioneering if that was a major issue of the campaign.

So if one candidate has made gay rights a major plank of their platform, then wearing a shirt with a gay pride flag would run afoul of the rules. But that same shirt would be allowed in the absence of that specific issue being promoted by a candidate’s campaign.
> So you're defending the person who is trying to explain why polls got it wrong by using polling data to show that their argument belittling the BLM protests was correct.

He's not belittling them. He's supporting them and their cause, and offering course corrective advice so that they are better able to achieve their stated goals.

> This is ridiculous on it's own, but also ignores things like how wrong it is to blame the protests for violence often instigated by the police

Violence was instigated on both sides, but regardless of what the underlying reality was, the perception was that leftists were responsible for much of the violence, and that is problematic electorally.

The Twitter thread you linked is exactly why the Democrats lost power this cycle. This thinking, right here:

> And for those pointing out that Dems may have lost some House seats in conservative districts, at least in part due to BLM: If you define your party based on what you think might work in one district in Oklahoma, you're doing it wrong.

You may not like the fact that you have to think about the median Oklahoman voter, but the reality is that that voter is much more important than the median say, NYC voter. Because you already have NYC in the bag. Oklahoma, on the other hand, is up for grabs. Whether or not this system is how things ought to be, this is how it actually is.
It seems likely that if the national response to covid had tracked with, say, the NY State response, that yes: we'd have seen far fewer deaths. The first 60-100k, mostly in the northeast, probably couldn't have been saved. The initial outbreak happened too fast and too hard. But after that, NY has been flat. They controlled it. The same could have been true for the rest of the country, yet we collectively chose not to.

And yeah, that national response is the job of the executive branch. So very roughly 150k americans are dead now because Trump was in office. Somewhere around there.
Yes but any MacBook Air, not just one you've previously provisioned to recognise your fingerprint.

The selling point here isn't 'yet another external fingerprint reader', it's 'portable fingerprint-authenticated OpenPGP smart card'.
Are there any other ARM devices with Thunderbolt? I am not aware of any.
logged in into one of my machines via ssh. The daemon is running with all uids being 0 and full capabilities. Don't see how that would be dropping any privileges. On the other hand

* The machine has no desktop user at the moment

* The program was patched on 04-Nov, I guess addressing this issue.
I was under the impression that price is dictated by long-term underlying company value. That is to say, time-discounted, risk-adjusted dividends, including buy-outs.

It's true that price is determined by long-term value, but long-term value isn't sorely dictated by dividends. Expected price appreciation itself is a factor for growth stocks. Growth stocks include some very large companies, including Google and Facebook.

Earnings is seen as an indication of future value (and future dividends if it is an income stock rather than a growth stock)

https://finance.zacks.com/profits-reflect-stock-prices-8263....
Most of the Debian changes I've seen consist of changing default paths to match Debian's standards, backporting security changes (esp if a version bump changes functionality), and support 'conf.d' directories so packages can drop-in configuration files, and remove them easily.
Downvoting won't change the truth, it just shows that your are rich
> I think Poland is better off not using Cyrillic for political reasons

Not sure anyone implied that Poland should use the Cyrillic alphabet...

> On a practical side - even if you know Cyrillic, lowercase letters are kinda awkward to read at a glance - very blocky, way less a/descenders, many look alike and they are a lazy copy of upper case.

That's both pretty subjective, and partly incorrect, given the latest tendencies in type design: https://www.lettersoup.de/what-shall-be-done-for-bulgarian-c...

> And Cyrillic cursive is a nightmare.

Sorry but Cyrillic cursive is 90% the same as Latin cursive
I think they know it's bad, they just don't need to make it better because its their OS so they're the only game in town. Developer experience isn't why people write apps for mac/iOS, so there's not much incentive for them to invest in it.
I would happily.

Who else is making 8 core, 18 hour battery life laptops that have >200ppi displays and weigh <=1290g?

The choice is now performance xor privacy.
While PIE-inspired, the dialogue there was not recognisably related to any PIE reconstruction -- check out https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4008 for more on this.
Big +1. Those docs are a big reason I found Phoenix to be so fun -- all my beginner questions were stupid easy to answer, and my more intermediate questions had guides and links to further study in the official docs.
Fork then handle child/exec error codes appropriately.
Can I do one?

The UX for paginated threads is awful. I know you want to get rid of it, but I really hope you don't, because reading through something like the 4000 comment Biden thread as a single page would be incredibly taxing, and having to go through 'more' links to get to recent content is annoying.

Long threads do need to be paginated, but I think you should consider what other forums do and add a set of page links at the top and bottom of each page. It would be slightly more clutter but you wouldn't have to remind people that paginated threads are a thing every time it happens.
Another perspective:

> As a “big S” Socialist [...] I often find myself explaining my preference for the pink paper of liberal capitalism over the Gray Lady of cultural liberalism. The answer is simple: by literally any measure, the Financial Times is just a better paper. It covers the world as it is—a global battle not of ideas or values, but of economic and political interests. [1]

[1] Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-t...
Better screen, better thermals (this is really important, hopefully they do it right), larger battery (almost 15%).

At 1500$ for 16GB version 13" Pro seems like a really good value deal for on the go workstation - if M1 benchmarks come out decent.
You are supposed to read the article!!!
The recomended daily values have varying levels of scientific support.

There are many diseases related to micronutrient deficiencies, that isn’t being questioned.

The problem at hand is at what levels measurable outcomes disappear.
This completely... sort of.

OF is a cynical take on relationships and love. I don't know how anyone could be taken in by this fantasy. It's a hollow thing. Still, if that's what you want, that's fine.

I happen to be single, and I'd say 95% of my interactions on dating sites are these gals who are "selling."

This is my main problem with the thing-- I am looking for a wife, and I am bombarded with insincere people on these sites.