skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure you're being serious.

Has you read the following line you would see that I was not. However, I can point a link to Montgomery county election workers filling in the circles on absentee ballots [0]. I unfortunately can't prove it to you, but I saw a confirmation that my friends grandmother's absentee ballot arrived. The only problem is that see has passed away a few years ago.

> But that's not what's happening, isn't it?

I'm not sure I'm understanding your double negative. I see that the election appears to be for the most part fair and that the questioning of the results are permitted within the legal framework.

> who lost the election

That is the question.

> hallmark of free and democratic elections, to have top military brass feeling the need to address the public to make it clear that they aren't tasked to obey the president, but the constitution?

It is it is. The fact the the top military leaders (not sure exactly who you are referring to) are able to freely exclaim that the follow the constitution, not a former president, is the Hallmark of democracy. Can you imagine what would happen if the Soviet milliary leaders demanded that Stalin hold a free election and that if Stalin lost and didn't step down, that he would be removed by force? Those leaders would either be executed or there would be a coup. I don't see any execution or coups goin on in America.

[0] The original has been censored from Google, but here is the county's response. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/ballot-frau...

Filling out someone's ballot, for whatever reason, doesn't spark integrity.
For ad profiles: There is Ad Nauseam, which tries to click every single ad that is shown to you in order to pollute your profile.
https://adnauseam.io/
I find it curious how this entire line of thought is verboten at HN.

It is understandable that this is tangential to the original topic. However, equivalent comments from a marxist or cultural marxist perspective are allowed.

There's a fair argument against undue political commentary. However the standard is unequally applied. Blatantly toxic "check your privilege" comments are a dime a dozen.

Questioning the premises of a Vox (or similar) article is problematic. Mises.org submissions are shadowbanned.

This is just the bias of the site. We have to take it or leave it.
My banks don't charge for any of those things either (Santander in the UK, SBanken in Norway). Santander does charge for unexpectedly going into the red I believe but SBanken just charges you interest on overdrafts up to 5000 NOK/ 500 EU). SBanken also makes a little money managing the little I have invested in funds.

Santander is making money out of me because I am resident in Norway it doesn't pay interest unless you are resident in the UK
Carriers don't act in vacuum. In both cases the US has enough ground bases and allies around those countries to suppress anti-ship capabilities first and then move carriers in. Of course in a surprise attack a carrier could be sunk using those weapons (esp. in the Gulf), but it's a one time opportunity only.
Why Finns conduct better than Swedes
You can actually if you have a version of the app before it was updated with the new icon. If you right click and show package contents, then copy out the .icns app icon file.

Then on the new version of the app, replace the icon as described here: https://www.howtogeek.com/677739/how-to-change-app-file-and-...
Sadly this sort of thing rarely matters when performance review time comes. I have never received any significant benefit career wise or money wise from doing this, despite this kind of stuff making a huge difference for the new joinee.
Well-written piece on what all signs seem to be pointing to as a truly historic move by Apple.

Key quote for me:

"The logic behind Apple’s transition [from PowerPC] to Intel boiled down to an old axiom: If you can’t beat them, join them.

The logic behind Apple’s transition now to Apple Silicon is this: If you can beat them handily, do it."

It's been a while since reception for an Apple product has been this consistently positive (and that's saying quite a lot).
How long did it take to read the full headline?
You don't have to go as far as Japan. Back when I lived in Quebec, Google would prioritize French results.
VRAI – Data driven VR simulation
Social media from wikipedia [1]:

- Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.

- User-generated content such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions, is the lifeblood of social media.

- Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.

- Social media facilitate the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.

By these definitions, though in their own niches, pornhub and HN are certainly social media along with youtube.
Ah, that was stupid of me.
it's not so much that gcc does anything specific so much as LLVM is just really really inefficient—they don't track compilation time at all so it's easy for releases to regress, half the stuff in there is academics implementing their PhD thesis aiming for algorithmic accuracy with little regard for efficiency, and LLVM's design itself is somewhat inefficient (multiple IRs, lots and lots of pointers in IR representation, etc)

that said this makes it an excellent testbed but compilation time will keep getting slower every release until they start caring about it
I would assume that the actual state of the art in missile defense would be kept under wraps in terms of capability testing, but the US military is such a leaky boat that who knows.
It’s really not a rounding error. What happens is we have hundreds of these little rounding errors and some poor dude exists solely to work out where all the money is leaking out of the budget.

Then you find it’s some weird inter VPC peering transit cost through a firewall because something was designed by an external consultancy who didn’t do a cost analysis or didn’t understand which one of the myriad of complex charging rules were invoked. The end game being you’re architecturally tied into paying $1000 a month 100 times over.

Corporate clouds are complicated and with complexity comes extreme expense. Even small ones can escalate quickly.
About a decade or so ago, NPR produced and aired a segment on memory savants that was chilling in its implication. Apparently, there are a handful of notable savants who have an inability to forget. They remember everything that has ever happened to them, and in their own words, it's a heavy burden. Forgetting is not just necessary, it is essential.

> Lots of people know that marijuana makes us forget

I forget where I read about the original hypothesis behind this (Michael Pollan?), and I have no idea if it is still considered true, but it was once thought that the reason cannabis had evolved forgetful properties was because the plant needed to protect itself from being eaten with a chemical to make insects forget where the plant was located, so they couldn't go back to their hive and tell the others where to find it.
> This is not a matter of left and right, it's a matter of truthfulness and peaceful transition of power, which is the most fundamental mechanism in any functioning state.

Truth be told, in the current US panorama it also doesn't seem to be a "left vs right" issue. Even in the Republican party there are elements who distanced themselves away from this dumpster fire.

Libertarians, who in the US political landscape pretty much fall on the right side of the spectrum, were never in the bandwagon to begin with. They might not be numerous, but they are large enough to have been attacked for not supporting the losing candidate, thus for some reason being held responsible for his loss.

What the world is witnessing is a political movement headed by a demagogue that's fuelled by populist propaganda, and just because he used right-wing tropes to snare up a following that doesn't mean he represents "the right".
During Covid-19, remote freelance work is on the rise
PredictIt also appears to have this issue. I must proxy my traffic through my US VPS to use it.
Agree. Always seems odd that organizations say they want people to be productive and then pepper them with email, messages, and meetings. Some of the better teams I've been on developed unwritten rules about when/how to communicate and the importance of time for deep work, but all to often it was just a free for all of chat pings. I think when people talk about culture this is a large part of it - how do you keep people working effectively together without swamping communication bandwidth?
Is it necessary to force a newly registered user to login?
The Shape of a Story
Well-written article, interesting.
Weird old tip unlocks running Slack with less than 32GB of RAM
I would be guessing that it's one where equal amounts of money are bet on each side/ there's a 50% probability of the result going either way.
I used to be a huge advocate of GTD, and I’m still a moderate advocate of it, but I’ve found it not so helpful in times where I am overcommitted or overloaded. It’s hard to spot being in that state, and it can be mistaken for being unproductive. GTD is built on the idea of processing your inputs and distilling them into next actions, but when your inputs start arriving faster than you can process them, and you start doing email over the weekend just to keep your head above water, and you find all your time is being spent curating that list of actions but not actually doing them... at that point, you need more than GTD - you need traditional management skills like delegation and negotiation and organizing people to take over those responsibilities.
And here are direct links to the pair of posts where he discussed it on the n-Category Cafe:

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/08/chasing_the_tai...

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2020/09/chasing_the_tai...
How is that cultural? Even through elementary school we were taught to have an intro with what your point is, follow up with supporting arguments, then conclude by reiterating the point the you made.

How could you read anything without knowing the point in the beginning. Even research papers start off with an abstract.
Interesting.

I followed the links, and found one that seemed legit: https://twitter.com/TheBlondeRN/status/1328378945172074499
> There is no ideology or religion behind NK

You lost me here.
I am not a fan of these types of proofs. Baez didn't explain how one would go about searching for this proof, he just happened to know that repeatedly using the differential operator on a seemingly random differential equation would create a pattern that resembles the original equation after using substitution repeatedly.

In other words, this presentation doesn't seem to teach me how to think like a mathematician, it seems more like showing me how mathematicians can find solutions that nobody else could ever find in a million years.

I guess that's the point when the topic is about Ramanujan, maybe?
As soon as he mentioned a fixed 40ms delay, my first guess was some obscure TCP configuration.

TCP is one of those ubiquitous things everyone takes for granted, but is more complex than most people realize.
It depends. A person who doesn’t want to learn doesn’t pick up either, in my experience.
On the other hand, having a style guide helps in coding, and it helps everyone express ideas using a uniform style and idiom, which enables a lot of implicit communication via the code itself. Training people would entail pointing to the style guide.

A big caveat is that you need a team or larger organization where this has already been set up, and that the hires need to be the kind of people who can take direction. It will fail miserably if even one of the above is untrue.
Also Seattle had a huge number of people who can WFH, not everyone can.
The technology is mostly done by TSMC and ARM. Apple just modifies the cores and slaps them together.
Compared to tools like contact tracing, this could be a tangible tool for the general population.

Problem is still availability, but it is great news that we might get something like this.

Even if you have a false positive, people can monitor their health or do another test. False negatives are a problem, but it would still be better than the current situation, so I think there are only advantages.
Please. The US couldn't even "decapitate" Taliban after 19 years and 1 trillion dollars. Nor could the Soviet Union. Nor could the British before that. You can't win a land war in 21st century without turning the place into a glazed desert, which is not going to happen due to the proximity of South Korea and due to the fact that the American people aren't totally nuts. The US tried this several times and failed every time, including in Korea. Kim Jong Un will get his ICBMs eventually, and there's nothing anybody can do about that. Better plan for that eventuality now.
>>Note that Qasem Soleimeini was killed in Iraq. The point being the Iran meddles in their neighbors affairs.

>Oh, wow. According to the Iraqi prime minister he was on a diplomatic mission to ease tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia...

He was on both the US and EU anti-terrorism list, and there was a Security Council resolution banning him from traveling outside Iran.

>And compare the Iran "meddling" with the US openly creating military bases in Syria without any authorization from the Syrian government

Iran has military bases and militias on Syria predating the US ones, these took direct part in the mass civilian deaths there.

>Also we have the rejection of the Iraqi parliament′s call to withdraw US troops.

Their call was non binding since the agreement was with the Iraqi government (imagine the GOP Senate calling for something ignoring President Biden's wishes). The US army does not wish to withdraw since ISIS still exists, we saw what happened last time Iraq tried to deal with them alone.
In the long run, the average member of society can consume exactly as much as the average member of society produces.

Productivity is what got us out of poverty of the pre-industrial-revolution era. And productivity is still key in the long run.
The method by which the favourite gets into the list is not discoverable. Why would anyone think that clicking on the time a submission was made would be the route to adding a favourite?

And the list of favourites would be much more discoverable if it were simply a link next to your name on the page. After all there is plenty of space at the top right of every page on HN
I'm not sure what you mean by 'an engine', but people who choose Electron typically don't want a rendering engine like Servo, they want to write a web app and have it installed locally. They need a rendering engine, a JS runtime, a DOM handler, an HTTP client library, WebSockets support etc - they want a whole browser.

Also, 150MB is not really that scary of a size in today's world. Also, a huge part of it is simply because of static linking - if they split it into dynamic libraries, the actual content of any individual Electron-based app would be reduced significantly. But people are mostly allergic to dynamic libraries, so we pay the cost in larger binaries. Also note that vim with all its dependencies is ~40 MB, without a GUI.
Maybe we just need a paid search engine, like there are paid email providers - as an alternative to paying with privacy.
iPhone 12 release was ho-hum to me.

But the M1 Macs are great!
> I see at least 3 Apple TV's in my iPhone's AirPlay menu which are not on my network, and there's no way for me to get rid of them

Write a script to stream Rick Astley's most popular clip to them in a loop, wait for the owners to turn off P2P Airplay.
I really hope so. And I’d think they’d want something to put in their new iMac, which could be a CPU with 16 M1-cores resulting in a 100 watt TDP.
GitHub doesn't understand that .v3 is a new programming language. Their policy is not to recognize new languages unless "hundreds" of repos are using them. Thus, it concludes my project is mostly bash. :-)

The C code in the repo is used for a few benchmarking and testing harnesses. It is not used in the runtime or compiler or libraries.
You don't have to "understand" it. Just form a basic opioun of what you think they will do and build an experience of what usually happens. That is what I do anyway as a software developer for 8 years.
I think its less about trying to talk to Google, and more about phrasing your search the way somebody would ask it on some random forum. That is often the benefit of asking as a question.

Although such queries are habit forming and now google does a decent job understanding the actual question
They say that "it's a bunch of radical left-wing priorities disguised as a pandemic bill".

What they mean is that they really don't want to give money to states and local governments, because they believe it will be poorly spent. This is problematic because these governments can't borrow, so will need to cut services in the midst of a pandemic.

Additionally, the Republicans are pushing strongly for a liability shield for employers from Covid deaths/cases, which the Democrats don't like.

Additionally, a bunch of Republican senators have found debt-reduction Jesus again, in the midst of the pandemic (even the IMF, those bondholder-buring, water-privitising backstards have said that now is not the time to worry about debt).
Snapchat refused to make a Windows Phone app. Microsoft even offered developers and resources to help, and they still refused.
This a good point. The application does x amount of work per second in the background. Your browser pauses it for y seconds. According to Google you have saved "x times y times energy per operation". Chrome devs say hurray 5x energy savings. Except when you switch back to the tab you end up spending the same amount of energy to catch up.

The primary source of energy savings would be poorly written websites that constantly poll in the background. Games with complicated logic would still consume the same amount of energy.
How to sink a product/platform business?
The article says "Cauchy’s two-page paper" but the slides linked in the article says "Jacobi wrote a 2-page paper".

Who is the author of the paper?
Most disinformation comes from mainstream media, especially the harmful stuff.

For example, Washington Post falsely claimed Russia hacked into critical US energy infrastructure. The story was fabricated.

The New York Times falsely claimed, repeatedly, that there were WMDs in Iraq. The story was fabricated, thousands died.

Hence why not a single media organisation in the US is trusted by more than 50% of Americans, including "neutral" (self proclaimed but false) organisations like the Associated Press.
Indeed, when I had a chance to play around with one I thought it was a pretty decent take for a first try.

I had no idea Google played this dirty trick, if that’s how it went they’d indeed deserve a thorough spanking for it.

I suspect Microsoft being Microsoft they must’ve made other blunders to murder the platform so badly though
Yeah I can find it/was trying to add it in PA. But it hangs on the episode search/listing(where you can then choose from the episode list what to download/listen to), this is the Android app. I just wasn't sure if maybe your RSS feed or something was a different format so PA wasn't able to consume it correctly. Anyway don't really know if it matters regarding your sources of traffic.

I did just start listening to the podcast in browser. Thanks for responding.
Beautiful, but sad, stories.

But there is another dimension this fails to mention for me: People who suffer from long-term traumatic events (like an abusive childhood, ...) release stress chemicals in their brains which alters the structure and makes remembering painful. Which is why people with "tough" childhoods tend to not remember as much as people with "normal" childhoods.
The fact that you was taught that in elementary school and thus literally concluded that it is impossible to read something without knowing conclusion first is what makes it cultural. The fact that he and everyone around him sees conclusion up front as jumping the gun and likely was taught that structure in school, is what makes it cultural.

> How could you read anything without knowing the point in the beginning. Even research papers start off with an abstract.

It is pretty easy to read email or argument without knowing the conclusion up front. You just read on. Research papers are specific writing with specific rules. I dont really think they are in general example of good or persuasive writing.
In tech and finance industry today, tribalism is everything. All success is because of tribalism, all failure is because of lack of tribalism.
> That's not a good mission profile at all when a stealth bomber, range 10 000km, takes off with a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile with a range of 2000km, and sinks your carrier before it can even be of any logistic use.

So far it's maybe remotely plausible in the second American Civil War, because no foreign enemy yet posses this capacity. No stealth bombers, and no hypersonic cruise missiles.

Otherwise yes a lot of hypothetical tech that can disable carrier fleet. Photon torpedoes, Yuri's mind control, genetically modified Krakens..
There was a time, a long time ago, where google had this:

www.google.com/ncr

'ncr' here stands for no country recognition. It allowed many expats to do technical searches without the noise of regionalization results.

Of course someone clever at google figured out that was probably too useful and now it just redirects you back to google.com because screw all those niche use-cases.
as an e-mail hosting provider myself asking for phone validation is one of the most effective tools against spammers which use company I work for infrastrucure to spread their spam
If curious see also

a thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14485789
>So still zero evidence that they've had a nuclear weapons program post 2009

If mass enriching of uranium isn't part of 'nuclear weapons program', well, it's a funny definition you have.

>just you think they must really want one because they keep getting attacked by a nearby nuclear power.

It's the Iranian government calling 'death to [far away nuclear powers]' not the other way around.
Looks like wttr.in forks wego which uses these sources [0]:

* worldweatheronline.com
* darksky.net
* openweathermap.com

I couldn't find anything more concrete.

[0] https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in/issues/544
DDG is a search engine that respect your privacy. DDG doesn't put you in a « bubble » based on your location, search history, your browsing history, physical moves, time of day, country of residence, IP, and billions parameters I don't know about. Therefore, there are things that cannot be done, like Google or Bing do.

Google is like an oracle because it exploit all of this. And it works, with a cost for your privacy (but maybe you are ok to pay it). DDG is more a "meta-search-engine" with limited capabilities. Bit you got the flexibility of accessing the search engines of thousand of websites.

If you don't care for your privacy, don't use DDG and stay with Google.
For large enough enterprises, $1M a month is similarly irrelevant.

Should security pricing only be accessible to businesses over a certain size?

A monthly price floor on services like this is trash. It’s pay-what-you-use, so it should scale evenly down to $0, just like lambda or network transfer usage costs.