skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an instance where imprecision in language is being weaponised for talking points. There are always many small errors and fraud in any large election. I don't think anyone would dispute this. And it is tolerable because the error is unlikely to be statistically significant.

The question is whether there is large scale, organised electoral fraud. Of that there's precisely zero evidence.

So when the “mainstream” media says “there is no fraud”, they're talking about organised fraud, not small counting errors and individual voter misconduct.
DOSBox-X 0.83.8 Released
For those who don't want to click the tweet:

> Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!
> real path to profitability

You had me up until here. This is WIDELY debatable.
> As an investor, how would you differentiate these food delivery start-ups?

https://www.doordash.com/drive/portal/discover

Probably set it up as a stripe like DAAS for businesses.
There's no way to square this statement given the coverage of Obama and Trump looking only at their policies.
Just Eat --> Eat Just is pretty brilliant.
>It makes the point that saying "you can't shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" is not a helpful contribution to the discourse around free speech.

It certainly does say that, and that's really broad and vague. And it's hard to keep track of this whole thread, but I'm pretty sure the branch we're on sprouted from a categorical claim that there are no "buts" when it comes to free speech. But your article doesn't dispute that there are exceptions, and so it's fair to invoke the fire in a crowded theater to illustrate the principle for that purpose.

For anything beyond that, the value and relevance will depend on what point is being made by whom and how well you are doing in your responsibility to interpret and respond to those charitably. But linking to a long blog post and vaguely warning that it's "bad" without doing any further work to connect that to a contention in any given comment is just confusing and unconstructive.
I moved from the Bay Area to Houston 6 months back for work. In virtually every environmental way, this is a downgrade. Worse weather (except for fire season), more pollution, less zoning, etc. However, housing is cheap because over here they just BUILD.
In the same space, there's also GNU Guix and `guix deploy`.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-...
> The Hunter Biden story was such an embarrassingly obvious piece of kompromat

The whole point of kompromat is that you keep it a secret. Once it's in the open it can no longer be used for leverage.

> he has a habit of associating himself with criminals who commit crimes

Whether or not what you're saying is true, I'd suggest reading up on the "other side" of the story for people like Flynn.

Let's make distrusting the intelligence agencies cool again.
The percentage of someone's income that they spend on property/land probably goes down as their income goes up. For someone like Elon Musk, the lower tax rate is probably more enticing than the lower property/land costs.
Decolonialisation is a tool of intra-US powerstruggle, a tool the left uses. Divide et Impera! It has nothing to do with real historical events.
I remember kids at school acting drunk because they thought someone gave them a drink.

I think it's like hypnosis - they say that just allows people to do what they want to do anyways. It's just permission to act differently and that be OK.
I know you don't control the police do this isn't directed at you, but... It seems like the police just need to actually do their job if it's causing major issues.
> The facts aligning in the Senator's favor does not make the request partisan.

Politics requesting censorship is always partisan.
I'm not very familiar with Deno but I wonder how deno compile compares to pkg when it comes to native modules.

One of my gripes with PKG (and all other node.js packaging tools) has been that it's a pain in the ass to package when your dependency includes a native module, for example SQLite.

Since Deno has a different architecture and works in different ways, thought I would ask just in case there's a solution for this on Deno, that would be great.
This has definitely also been a problem with at least Catalina. I have a 49 inch curved monitor and plugging my MBP into it after using it on the go makes everything go to the southwest corner. Not that egregious but certainly a PITA.
This year is the first year I actually started reading some papers about Computer Graphics. This old paper by Ken Perlin from 1985 "An Image Synthesizer" Inspired me a lot. It really showed me that if you have a real deep understanding of some basic principles like the sin function. you can create beautiful things.

http://www.heathershrewsbury.com/dreu2010/wp-content/uploads...
You keep saying ‘Apple is recording your location’. You haven’t provided a single link to a single piece of evidence.

‘You already agreed to that except last time, you said it was "anonymized."’

If this is true you’ll be able to find a link to where I agree that Apple records your location.

As to me saying it’s anonymized. It’s not just me. Apple states that the location data is anonymized. I’m basing my statement on their published statements.

Do you claim that Apple is lying?
Show HN: Suckless.hn
Idk, I really don't think so. shrugs
To give us context, where did you study medicine?
I assume the beef vendor doesn't have much cash on hand. So he can take the prepayment and give it directly to the cow farmer who also doesn't have a lot of cash and is happy to prioritize the preorder.
The CentOS Project Just Committed Suicide
Yes, but a 1/3 success chance doesn't not mean a 2/3 one of an explosion.
So if I understand your response to everyone in California in this thread: "Yes, but there are also bad things, and thus everything positive can be contemptuously dismissed."
No, no I'm not trying to refute anything. You were just being very, very negative, and if you read any of my other comments I have a deep passion for the southern part of California extending down into Baja, California.

This state has massive problems that do come with its massive population and economy. But it is also a truly special place with a totally unique geography, a rich, diverse culture, a robust economy, and one of the best public university systems on the planet.

I hate it when people start on the 'California is falling apart' train, because it's not. The state has massive problems. Yes, I've walked alone south of Los Angeles street recently. I've seen the used needles scattered on the Gold Line tracks. But that is just one tiny part of what is a truly magical place. For all of that, there's Joshua Tree, and Grand Central Market, and Lake Sabrina, and the quiet postwar bungalows of San Diego, and the Sutro Tower poking out of the fog, and Coronado island, and the Griffith Park Observatory, and the Broad, and Big Bear Lake, and Kelso Dunes, and Telescope Peak, and the French Laundry, and Pappy and Harriet's.

California is falling apart in some places and booming in others. It's a big 'ol nuanced tapestry. That's how it goes when you have 40 million neighbors. But, I wandered around downtown Palm Springs this morning, and lemme tell ya San Jacinto has never looked more gorgeous. I was in Oklahoma two weeks ago, and man the first thing I did when my plane landed back in California was remind myself how fortunate I am to live here.
And there was no pee-pee tape, but there are 4 years of video from MSNBC peddling that tired conspiracy theory.
Such a tricky situation, but I think what youtube is getting used for is actually the Orwellian bullshit. The power of youtube videos to convince people of untrue things is quite astounding. I have no idea what the right answers to any of this is. At he moment nearly any action is considered as dire in that it will either make America a communist state or it will bring a right wing dictator to power. Hopefully, what we are witnessing is robustness of the legal system and constitution amongst all the chaos.
That was incredible. Great job SpaceX!
I read both ebook/physical books and audiobooks, which has increased my yearly count from about 60 or 70 to where I am now. And I’m a fast reader, though I don’t “skim” or anything like that.

Your process seems almost identical to mine. Maybe I should just be OK with doing it based on mood and what I have around or on my list. It works, but could it work better?
doordash is cheap?
Wow! Good to see that that is what you
had in mind!!!

I count such statements as personality
characteristics, unpolished, maybe
gauche behavior, not welcome in country
club society unless are worth > $5
billion!

I'm really sensitive to lying, but such
statements don't even start to raise my
fur.

Gee, I was worried that you'd found some
actual lies, e.g., like we have heard
nearly daily (I won't say hourly) from the
FBI about Page, Flynn, and Manafort and
from Pelosi and Schiff about Trump. For
the mainstream media, I gave up on them
after the gang up, pile, party talking
point collection in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ab6uxg908&feature=youtu.be

That is from 1-2 years ago and fun to
watch now.

For what the next few weeks holds, I'm
finding some interesting reading in

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163215/2020...

with

In the Supreme Court of the United
States

STATE OF TEXAS,

Plaintiff,

v.

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, STATE
OF GEORGIA, STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND
STATE OF WISCONSIN,

Defendants.

On Motion for Leave to File Bill of
Complaint

BRIEF OF STATE OF MISSOURI AND

16 OTHER STATES AS AMICI CURIAE IN
SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
LEAVE TO FILE BILL OF COMPLAINT

with

Article II requires that each State
“shall appoint” its Presidential
electors “in such Manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct.” U.S.
CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 4 (emphasis
added); see also id. art. I, § 4, cl.
2 (providing that, in each State, the
“Legislature thereof” shall establish
“[t]he Times, Places and Manner of
holding Elections for Senators and
Representatives”).

Wow! I'd missed that last part about the
Senators and Representatives -- it did
occur to me that the argument for the
POTUS should also apply to other elected
national offices. Good to see that part!
Sooooo, the state legislatures ALSO get to
put their hands, fingers, fingernails,
hammers, crowbars, etc., on the when,
where, and how of elections of Senators
and Representatives in their own states
and on fair dealing in the other states.
Some smart founding fathers or amendment
writers.

Both you and Youtube might be circumspect
about betting the farm on Biden taking
office on 1/20/2021.

"It ain't over until ..." whatever that
saying was!
Most users do not have a meaningful choice of ISPs. That was true back in the days of modems, and somewhat true in the days of DSL. It is not true at all in the days of fiber and cable.
> BDDs are simple and predictable provided you know that the variable ordering that you're using will compactly encode your problem.

Sadly, variable ordering is NP-Hard. This is brutal for static analysis applications where BDDs seem like they are going to save the world but often end up crushing dreams.
Combat Zoom fatigue and add new virtual backgrounds to your async video messages
The whole point is that signature verification isn't a reliable indicator of fraud or anything.

It never has been, and should never have been relied on. The ballots and the envelopes and the protection of them is the key.
At around 1:49:46 (https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6586) (T+1:34) one of the engines shuts off, and things seems to move a bunch. Some equipment covered in some kind of tarp really close to the engines ends up burning up. What is behind these loose coverings? Why are these things so close to the engines?
> Node is almost perfectly matched to the "Oops, well, too late now" design ethos of JavaScript itself.

Anything even remotely successful has to commit to its previous choices, even when they were unfortunate (did anybody say C++?).

One of the reasons why Node had the impact it had was that it used plain JS and committed to supporting the standard language.

I myself prefer writing in statically-typed languages, but the JS direction is frankly commendable; ES6 looks nothing like OG JS, and the fact you can run basically the same code on the browser and on node is a massive bonus.

With that said, I hope Deno succeeds as well, having more choices is a good problem to have!
I don't understand how "bad faith" applies here.
>> You could actually reduce this by excluding elements as you insert. You don't need to fill your search space with with anything that has a "b" for example, eliminating inserts.

I'm not sure that works. Suppose "abab" and "abao" are words. Note the problem spec says "after replacing a b with an o", i.e. after replacing _one_ b in a word with an o. If you exclude all words with a "b" and replace one b with an o in "abab" you will get "abao" which you have excluded, so you will think it's not a word. I think at best you can ignore only words with a single b.
Elon Musk tweeted this a few weeks ago:

> Goals are to test 3 engine ascent, body flaps, transition from main to header tanks & landing flip.

Considering they achieved all their goals, I would say it was a success.
Deno is a JavaScript runtime much like Node. For the reasons on why creating Deno I recommend "10 Things I Regret About Node" by Deno's author [1]

Deno is different than Node in several aspects; most notably:

- Deno supports only ES modules, there's no built-in support for CommonJS modules

- Deno's APIs are all promised based

- Deno does not use NPM, instead it can pull code from any URL, much like browsers do

- Deno has built-in permission system that by default runs your code in full sandbox allowing to opt-in into breaking out of sandbox (eg. to read a file from disk)

- As you've mention Deno can run .ts files without explicit build step

- Deno comes with a full toolchain in a single binary (formatter, linter, test runner, bundler, doc generator)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
You know, the principle is hard to justify in some ways, but thinking back, some of the fastest and best innovation I've seen came about when the people making interoperable software were ahead of the companies trying to shut it down.
HN user's have an interesting mix of free-speech absolutism and progressive/liberal lean. It's unfortunate that partisan invective seems to have overwhelmed more nuanced arguments of platform moderation...

I think it will be interesting to see how higher degrees of intervention and moderation break some of the assumptions of the network effect. Services may not be winner take all if there are big ideological wedges that companies can serve.

And just as a personal note on US politics, I would encourage more GOP-leaning folks to consider one important difference between a 2016-Russia and 2020-Fraud comparison. For 2016, Hillary conceded after two days, Obama welcomed Trump, there was no widespread opinion of a stolen election by the Democratic Executive or voiced by Dem US House/Senate members. The smoke focusing on "personal collusion with Russia by Trump" was by the media after the fact. The Mueller investigation was appointed by the DoJ from a bipartisan committee to investigate specifically Russian interference.

For 2020, the sitting President is loudly pushing a narrative of voter fraud and deep-state conspiracy from views he has always held. Paraphrasing: "I would have won the 2016 popular vote if 5 million people didn't vote illegally". He called the 2020 election rigged multiple times before it even happened! Like the word slippery slope gets tossed around a lot, but this really is an instance of a slope that's very slippery.
...based on reporting of crime; reporting which is directly affected by the very proposition that completely reclassifies criminal acts, and in reality makes many of them go unpoliced and unreported.
First stable version of Cyca (FOSS tool to manage bookmarks and feeds) released
I love sive.rs/book but I’m mostly through everything with high recommendation numbers. I do check back periodically to see what’s new though
It is the flight back that they need data for, not landing.
> Ironically, if YouTube really wanted to help, they could just stop trying to "engage" users based on their political preferences. As if that would ever happen.

Yeah, that ain't happening. We need some FCC laws around targeted content to audience (spawning echo chambers) to optimize engagement.
> > Property rights inherently derive from the state.

> This is not true, property rights are the human incarnation of territoriality which is exhibited by many species.

Do you have proof for that? I mean that is a pretty sweeping statement, and I can think of a lot of counter examples.

> > Unless you subscribe to "might makes right", the idea of property rights is inherently a social construct which the state is a formalization of.

> The state is a formalization of a particular social construct that is not identical to property rights.

Sure but that isn't a contradiction to what the OP said. He did not say the state is identical to property rights.

> > Limitations on rights is precisely the foundation of any society.

> Do you have any support for this statement? It seems to contradict your earlier assertions and despite that I'm not sure how it would be true on its own.

> > To claim otherwise is just the semantic game of "oh, I don't mean those rights".

> Well, I don't think its a meaningless semantic argument for people to discuss what specifically is referred to by "rights." If you think people have a right to steal food out of other people's homes then I can see why you would think the government was a necessary limitation on that "right." But I think its a reasonable response to say "there is no right to steal food from other people" and then we can discuss what is and is not a right, which is much closer to a necessary conversation than a game (when conducted by sincere interlocutors).

But you don't specify what a right is either. In fact you earlier said it's incarnation of territoriality. How can that be a right? I mean maybe a desire, but a desire is very different to a right.
Hack for you: add all the books you want to read in blinkist, listen to the summary (2-10m in 2-3x mode), then you can classify them as:

A) Not interested --> nice, you saved yourself some time
B) Interesting, but feel like the summary is more than good enough, so no need to read the book
C) Interesting and you want to learn more because it just scratched the surface --> Read the book!

You can test this framework by listening to the summary of books you've already read that fit into these buckets.
Bye bye first amendment
That's something entirely different, though. Test to destruction/failure is done to check or verify the limits of a systems.

This test on the other hand was a test with a low change of complete success and thus failure was an expected and acceptable - but not the intended - outcome.
Yes! I thought most of their funding came from DARPA. Now, a company funded with taxpayer money is becoming part of a foreign megacorp. Of course, this is nothing new under the sun, but is it fair to the US taxpayer?
The parent said "most of the products" and that is 100% correct.
+1 for the books recommended on HN. The books recommended here have been top notch.

There's even a website that aggregates books recommended on HN[0]. I have found good books from there on multiple occasions.

[0]. https://hackernewsbooks.com/
I have anectada... basically everyone in my contact list has whatsapp... even all the iphone users. Mostly for the group chats.

iMessage no worky for groups because you'd be excluding the Android users. Group SMS... I don't think anyone over here is even aware that's an option. I only know about it from Americans on HN saying they use it.
> Even if another company decides to try to replicate what SpaceX is doing, they're now at least a decade behind.

There is one entity that can and will rapidly close that gap. In fact, they're the only one that can: China. Everyone else will continue on their slow path, more or less adopting everything SpaceX figures out a decade after the fact. The other competition operates permanently by hand-me-downs. China will invest huge sums of money and labor into doing the same thing and the difference between them and eg the Europeans, is the Chinese will and can move with ridiculous speed by comparison. The other competition won't adjust their speed, so they'll generally continue to lag SpaceX perpetually, whereas China can move at a far greater pace (aerospace, as with a few other big segments like semiconductors, is of course a core logical focus point for China, which means they will catch up no matter the cost; they'll borrow from SpaceX better than anyone else and faster than anyone else, right up to the point of copying everything). And to be clear, I don't fault China at all for that approach, it will work very well; they can leapfrog everyone not named SpaceX that way.
> Rights are a social fiction that arises from mutual cooperation

aka, the state. The formalization of the social fiction.
Can you expend on how the process works in Australia. Genuinely curious.

The 0.02% or the more recent 0.06% rejection rate is very low.
Think of it this way. Out of 1000 people taking a test that needed two signatures, that matched. Only 2-6 did not not match. Thats an extremely low number.

This is why teachers are always reminding students not to forget to sign their test, in a class of 30, and that only requires one signature.

If you worked with the general public, and you asked them to tie their shoes, I honestly believe you would have a higher failure rate than 0.02%
Ask HN: Software Development to High School Teacher
Hey HN,

So I've been developing for a long time, professionally for almost a decade and am becoming disillusioned by the industry, however I still love coding. I actually developed the love in high school when I took the AP Computer Science classes, those were by far my favorite.

I've been flirting with the idea of getting a teaching degree and becoming a HS Computer Science teacher but don't know anybody whose made the transition from industry to education.

Can anybody shed some light on their transition experience or any research to that end that you can share with me? Thanks!
> For 5 years now they are trying their best to make Trump and his supporters into bigger idiots than they actually are.

Has it occurred to you that perhaps Trump, his brand of populism and his supporters are worthy of that caricature?

> Why was the Russia election collusion story in the spotlight for years despite flimsy evidence?

The only people who think that the evidence was flimsy are those willing to ignore the fact that there was a level of obstruction from the administration that would make Nixon blush.

> Why are Trump supporters on the other hand not allowed even a few weeks to investigate their doubts about this election without being ridiculed for doing so?

My guess: because this is playing with fire. You might not be privy to it, but the calls for violence in their various echochambers if the crapshoot for overturning the election doesn't pan out(hint: it won't) are reaching audiences well armed and with nothing better to do than to engage in stochastic terrorism.
How the ML community can make progress by looking to economics
What would cause the fuel pressure to be too low?