skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the White House strategy was to ridicule anyone who wore a mask. To make life miserable for you at work if you considered the virus to be a risk. The White House strategy was based on convincing people there that the virus was fake. Not anything to do with rapid daily antigen test. From what I read, that wasn't an enforced thing anyway. Sounds like people there were also just not getting the tests at all.
(Responding to dead commentator)

I would, except that the GOP redacted all names in the document so that nobody could actually verify whether the affiant was a poll worker, as claime, or even whether they exist.

But since they included the "Center" portion of the polling place and described the parking lot, it limits the locations where the supposed individual could have been a poll worker to literally none of the polling centers in Clark County. (There are no polling centers in Clark County that have both "Center" in the name and also have a narrow parking lot.)

Point 5. Is clearly false and demonstrates that affiant does not know the id requirements for Nevada voting. https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/government/departments/electio.... The DMV interim document includes appointment information but the point of the document is not the appointment date, it is that the DMV has verified on a preliminary basis that the person is who they say they are.

Point 7: this is okay fine since the activities were more than 100 feet from the polling place; the statement conveniently leaves out the part where the GOP also had tables in the parking lots of polling places.

Point 9: this is not how mail-in ballots work. Also, Nevada does not use "pink and white" envelopes for mail-in ballots. The white envelopes are the cover envelope sent to the voter that include the mail-in ballot and the pink reply envelope; the pink envelopes only contain the ballot. The white envelope cannot be reused once it is opened, and it would not fit in the small pink envelope. Thus, in alleging that ballots were placed in "white and pink envelopes" it is clear that the affiant is lying.

Point 12: this is clearly a lie, as noted above. Ballot reply envelopes were pink, not pink and white.

Point 13: this is allowed. Family members, for example, are allowed to drop off ballots for spouses, parents, etc.
so you valued him for being a little snitch?
I've had a lot of discussions with technical-minded peers about how the only real options for email on your own domain are fastmail or gsuite, which work out to about the same amount of money for a family of 5+, which is a surprisingly large amount (imo worth it).

This looks like something worth combining with alps[0] for easy self-hosted email. I might give it a go and ditch gsuite!

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~migadu/alps
What’s crazy to me is that despite much of this and my general dislike of ruby, I still often reach for rails to get an idea up and out. For my uses I’d rather just test something out and either let it burn down quickly or pay the price eventually to fix it (an old colleague called this a “champagne problem”). I’ve only had to pay the price a few times, which probably made each sequential one easier to avoid some parts.

Rails is still a phenomenal framework to use, again something I somewhat begrudgingly admit.
and to promote fear.
I go to a university where we're doing something similar - weekly testing for everyone at minimum, 2x per week if you're high risk or live in a dorm with a communal bathroom. For the most part, we've been doing well, but recently we've had a small surge (~100 students in quarantine, about 4-10 cases per day, with about 4000 undergrads, only part of which are on campus at the moment).

We're in a much more suburban area than Ithaca, so that probably plays a factor.
Considering the new UI regularly takes up literally takes up 100% of my laptop's CPU, it would mean I would have just stopped using Reddit. Last time I tried it I couldn't even scroll without all sorts of yanking.
iSH is very good, and it is Alpine, but it's not _quite_ Linux, if I understand correctly. Note that the output of `uname -a` reports a kernel version of `4.20.69-ish`.
When I last looked into setting up my own email server, I read that your messages ending up in the spam folder was almost inevitable if the receiver is using a major host (Gmail, iCloud etc.)

Is that still an issue?
There are over 6 vaccines that have very low expected downside (vaccines rarely have severe side effects and these have none found in thousands of tests)and are all expected to work (>90%). They are all currently banned (people who want them can't buy them legally), and the FDA is refusing to even discuss lifting the ban for 3 weeks. It seems odd to discuss anything other solution than letting people who want to take vaccines, take them.

Literally if the vaccines were known to have side effects 10x worse than the worst side effects in history, it would still be orders of magnitude safer to give to those over 65 than not. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....
I've been on reddit for 14 years (14 years club!) and I can honestly say in that time it hasn't changed in any fundamental way. (It has however changed for the worse in many small ways.)

I'm sure they put a lot of effort into serving their own images and video and placing ads in just the right place for maximal accidental clickage but why would the user care?
the website says "With hardware becoming more and more powerful every year, obsolete iPads (according to Apple) should be allowed to continue to serve a purpose."
> how long will it be before some group or company creates a truly new operating system that takes off?

You won't get another Windows / Linux / BSD. They do their jobs very well, and as WSL emulating Linux proves they are near interchangeable. I have no doubt Linux could emulate the Windows kernel near perfectly too if we had the Windows source to see what is required. When you've already go a slew of interchangeable parts, we create another one?

If something new is to displace them, it's going to have to do something very different. The only thing I can see is not a replacement, but a security kernel that allows us to establish a trust chain from the hardware to some application. It wasn't necessary when the hardware sits on your lap or desk, but now we are tending to rent out CPU cycles from some machine on the other side of the planet and yet still want to have some assurance of privacy, they are becoming kinda essential. There are a number of proprietary ones out there now, but I think that's doomed to fail. No one in the right mind would put their faith in a binary that could be in cahoots with anybody, from the USA government to a ransomware gang.
Gauss turned a O(n^2) problem into O(1)
Promoting fear of what? The deadly pandemic that's killing hundreds of thousands of people here in the US? That's fine by me as long as it helps keep some of them alive.

Maybe you would rather be a little less fearful of something but have it be more likely to kill you?
Or just increase the gas and diesel taxes, which has a win-win of encouraging EV adoption and cutting down on CO2 emissions.
In my 40's I built a cyclekart[1][2], which involved learning how to weld (not very well, but still), and how to do some fiberglass work.

[1] https://www.cyclekarts.com/ (cyclekarts in general)
[2] https://www.cyclekartclub.com/registry/2012-CycleKart-Custom... (my cyclekart in particular).
Interesting. I assume that would mean interacting with the 3D model in some way. That could be fun - grab a vertex and move it around. It would require some changes to copy the model (and sketch entities) into the VR world since it can't maintain that kind of framerate while the geometry is changing. A voice interface for simple commands like adding dimensions would make it rather like the holodeck.
USB-A has become practically a universal standard for DC charging, and USB-A drives and peripherals are ubiquitious. USB-C breaks all of that. It's definitely smaller, and that's great, but I'll take a slightly slicker laptop that doesn't make me carry around an adapter.
That.. and a person can walk across it in a day. You cant walk across brisbane or many of the capitals in Australia in a day.
I made the similar trade. It is better. Just saying it isn’t perfect. I’m in a horrible in-law unit that used to be a small workshop.
You need to get positives down to zero for two weeks before you declare success. Daily testing, with quarantine of any positives and then contact tracing two levels (everyone you contacted and then their contacts could get to zero quickly. But the quarantine step is required for every one to pull that off.

Of course this works out easy in a post. Good luck implementing it in real life. People violate quarantine if they can.
"smart" in terms of navigating society and understanding where value is. What things are worth learning vs not learning, what kinds of skills are worth taking risks for etc. "smart" in terms of just having a degree and believing that being credentialed = intelligence is completely orthogonal to the point I intended.

A stupid person will fall for get rich quick schemes. A stupid person will believe grinding it out at a job they hate will eventually lead to something better. A stupid person will lack the will to try hard enough to better themselves.
Digg was flooded with College Humor posts and XKCD comics before the redesign. For some reason, people think the redesign was the reason why people left.
Kinda just looks like new Reddit but predominantly right wing in culture. No thanks.
> Truth of the matter is most concert pianists and serious competitors have absolutely gigantic hands

Is that true? I wouldn't have thought so, at all, and a few minutes googling "do most concert pianists have huge hands" digs up a lot of sentences like "Plenty of world-class pianists have small hands, including Alicia de Larroccha and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and yet they seem to be able to cope with the most physically demanding works in the repertoire." And sites talking about how it's a misconception that classical pianists have or need huge hands.

Jazz pianist with huge hands here :-) Huge hands often goes with height, and I have never noticed classical pianists are unusually tall. I can't think of any who are. Maybe people are thinking of Rachmaninov (6 foot 6). One would expect classical pianists to look like towering basketball players if, as you say, they mostly have absolutely gigantic hands. But I'd say there are many more under 6 feet tall than over it.
Apple's tablets are essentially the only ones worth buying; nobody really makes good ones these days.
Do you remember the opus number of the Brahms piece? I just looked at the Op. 79 rhapsodies and couldn't find the part you mentioned, though maybe I missed it.
RedditIsFun is a fantastic app with a great dual pane mode. It almost feels like the desktop and having multiple tabs open.
> The Democrats want to address it but cannot focus.

What does that mean? Do they have ADHD?
I really enjoy seeing progress in this space.

Colorizing old movie footage has seen a lot of improvement since Turner's efforts in the 1980s, which sadly were awful. There's still a long way to go. Jackson's efforts with WW1 footage are wonderful, but require too much manual work to be widely applied. That's where AI can make a huge difference.

People colorize famous photographs and put them on reddit all the time. I bet if they would colorize one frame from each scene in a movie, an AI could use that to colorize the whole scene.

Old silent movies would be much more watchable if they were:

1. colorized and sharpened

2. dubbed instead of using the dialog cards

3. add foley sound effects

4. add some decent music (not the piano music trying to duplicate the 1925 theater experience)
I run my own mail server and have never experienced such issues. The important thing is that your mail server is not an open relay and you set up DKIM and SPF. Oh, and never run a mail server with an ip originating in a residential area, you'll get blacklisted almost instantly by virtually any mail provider.
Forums are built to support and foster discussion. Social media is built to feed dopamine addiction and sell ads. Forums have features to make long-term content and prolonged, thoughtful debate easy. Social network praise short-term satisfaction, emotional (over)reaction over thoughtful consideration, and actively discourage any attempt at organizing and preserving information.
Between Reddit’s heavy-handed censorship, rampant site wide political biases, their terrible new UI, the dark patterns forcing users to the app, unexplained bans of subreddits, overzealous mods, and deletion of discussions of Reddit alternatives (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hib1oj/...), it is time for them to go the way of the dodo.

Here’s a list of alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...
If you scroll down on this page, you can find some data showing the correlation between hand size and national/international acclaim: http://smallpianokeyboards.org/hand-span-data-recent-austral....
The problem with testing once a week is there are four more days you can be positive on.

Also, by the time you get your test results, you have been positive and spreading.

I get tested on Monday mornings, got a call Thursday night telling me not to come in on Friday. What good did that do?
Cannot say for a company, but in Debian it seems that source code control is being settled with https://salsa.debian.org. For upstream code it is pretty flexible and low expectations are set, a tarball is enough. It also works with git (branches and/or tags), cvs, hg, etc.

There is no need for complexity in order to transfer files, that is why File Transfer Protocol works well. If you refer to public FTP services, those were deprecated 3 year ago. See https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425
The only documentation you can count on is to just read the code. It’s all pretty well commented and the interfaces make sense. I’d say the difficulty is it’s not very discoverable, and you actually have to watch the wwdc videos to learn the high level concepts. The only discoverability you get is just surfing around, reading the code. I think it’s all in SwiftUI though, which is obviously a huge file.
Plain HTMl, minimal CSS, and a template engine aren't quite substitutes for event driven systems that also drive really nice features. On the other hand, I recently was testing my website on Brave and a simple request from my frontend to the backend (which resides in the same container) was rejected as a tracking script even though I know it doesn't do any tracking that I've implemented.

I was really hoping WASM might fill this gap, and it still might, but it'll be a while from what I can tell.
I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web version.

But the web UI, combined with Google AMP, made it unusable.

I’ve gone back to the app but with iOS screen time restrictions.
"How does this do anything other than reset the clock back to last January just in time for next January?"

First, that alone would be HUGE progress.

"As soon as everyone lowers their guard and goes back to normal, it's going to spread again."

Yeah, but this time you're not going to have whining, tantrum-throwing, conspiracy-mongering, megalomaniacal, science-denying children in charge.

We've yet to see if they wind up being more competent and actually make a difference, but the chance to do proper contact tracing on the relatively few people that get infected will be there, and hopefully the country will take it more seriously the second time around.

I'm not hugely optimistic, but if they actually followed through and were competent in dealing with it this time, it could save millions of lives.
It seems that the term "information" is being used in two different ways in this thread. The usual meaning of a bit of information is with regard to a probability distribution over messages which the user wants to send to a server. I don't think most people are used to thinking about bits in other contexts, so that's where the miscommunication is happening.

Your interpretation, which I think is correct in this context, seems to be with regard to the entropy of a probability distribution over internet users, and the mutual information between that and the distribution over messages. The actual length of the message is irrelevant to the math once you fix the joint probability distribution.

The argument others seem to be making is that the joint probability distribution is in fact not fixed, and that you can smear out the conditional probability over users given a message by shrinking the space of possible messages. In theory that seems possible, but I don't know enough to have any idea how well that would work in practice. If you shrank the message space to be small enough to be useful for this purpose, wouldn't that get in the way of usability?
The role Facebook (& YouTube) have played in my life, is putting my health at risk.

They do this by recommending and promoting fake news, corona conspiracies and the likes to family.

It has put politicians at risk, caused damage to infrastructure like 5G cell towers, hospital attacked, doctors threatened etc.

You can block in hosts file, but at ISP level would be even better
I’ve been able to send to gmail and iCloud ok, but outlook/office365/hotmail has been a no-go, even after going though their self-service system to open up your IP address.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I suggested a hybrid of seeking employment and household income. It is similar to the one used by the study, except the article seems to use individual income rather than household income. Of course, there are still problems with that approach. For example: a baseline household income makes many assumptions about a decent standard of living, it would also be complicated to calculate due to variations in household size/composition and regional differences in the cost of living.

That being said, "seeking employment" is likely one of the worse indications of unemployment. People may be excluded or impeded from joining the workforce for a variety of reasons and stop seeking employment because of that. It is a rather long list: discrimination (age, disability, gender, race), accommodations for disabilities, access to affordable childcare, criminal record, level of education. While some of those can be addressed, they rarely are addressed in a meaningful manner. In those cases I find it difficult to treat not-seeking employment as a choice.
>There's EBS for that

Don't you have to spin up an EC2 instance to use that?
This isn't really what i meant, it's not necessarily that I'm working longer hours now (although I am).

I meant I miss the routine I used to have, go to the gym, come back home, make breakfast, shower, put on my "work clothes" then psychically go to my office, have coffee with colleagues and then sit at my desk, open my day planner and get started.

That was the queue to begin focusing. Of course I can try do this in my living room, but it just doesn't have the same effect for me personally.

I have meetings at awkward hours which kind of makes me feel like I'm kind of permanently attached to my work. Before hand, there was work time, and home time, work stayed at work, often including my work laptop.

Also this statement kind of bugged me: "I don't understand how someone can work longer hours unwillingly when it's entirely in your control.", if you have a job that allows you to 100% dictate your hours, never having to deal with unexpected problems, outages, personnel issues, then congratulations. It's not a reality for everyone.
Like Voat. That's where many extremist right wing groups moved to.
As someone who migrated to upstate new york from Florida, I disagree. People here are constantly repaving, repairing, and resurfacing their driveways and sidewalks. While you need an initialization crack, that can come from a host of issues other than heavy vehicles including thermal cycling and initial defects. I will note that the asphalt and concrete construction may be different in the south vs. the north, but there is much much more driveway repair up here than there was in Florida.

As a pedantic side note, this is why your batteries die, the copper leads begins to fatigue and fracture due to stresses from thermal cycling.
Yeah, thinking more you are right. The tax would be quite substantial too, and probably drive a large black market.
New Reddit interface is slow as hell for something as simple as text/images discussion board. Compare it with the speed of Hacker News, for example. They are completely incompetent.
The naive version is just O(n), right?
Whether you want to blame the CCP, WHO or the White House, the reality is that corona is highly contagious and everybody will get it, mask or not.

It was the job of the CDC to create a vaccine after SARS-1 in 2002/2003, and they failed to either fund or develop one.

There is very little any politician can do once a virus is endemic, as it is in the US, especially with 50 states.

As an example that's comparable to the US situation overall, Toronto did everything right including testing from Day One, yet they've reported 100,000 cases and are doing a hard lockdown:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/americas/toronto-lockdown-cov...
It might their bot manager product
I guess it shows how far we’ve come, as that income would have been considered rich in 1900!
It does say that for Linux now, but it didn't used to, and it doesn't on other OSes.

FreeBSD says the opposite at https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdatasync&sektion=...:

The fdatasync() system call causes all modified data of fd to be moved to
a permanent storage device. Unlike fsync(), the system call does not
guarantee that file attributes or metadata necessary to access the file
are committed to the permanent storage.

I.e. "does not guarantee that ... metadata necessary to access the file are committed".

Thus "given SQLite is written to be so portable and cautious and has been around a long time" I'm surprised.

I'm not sure if we should believe the FreeBSD documentation, as current OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris have statements that work out similar to current Linux. However, if the documentation is to be believed, SQLite's durability using fdatasync() is broken on FreeBSD after a file append.

My point really is that if I recall correctly, what FreeBSD's man page says isn't an accident, it's indicative of what used to be the understood guarantee provided by most if not all implementations. Actual guarantees were not exactly specified, and I think there may have been a vague transition in the meaning of fdatasync() from "commits the data blocks" to "commits data blocks and the metadata necessary to access them" over time because the latter is obviously much more useful.

But that transition over time is why it seems a risk to assume it in highly portable software.

That said, back in the 2.6 days Linux even fsync() wasn't durable on consumer HDDs, it was on SCSI HDDs though. Then for a while O_DSYNC (which is like fdatasync() after every write) was unreliable for data retrieval (see the Persona link in GP post) but O_SYNC worked (which is like fsync() after every write).
Spotted the "Victoria on the move" plates struggling to accelerate uphill in Queensland on a single lane road delaying the locals trip by an hour to get milk.
> Just a few visitors from other countries, and we're at it again

So just do what we do in Australia and quarantine them in hotels.

If you manage it properly it can be highly effective.