skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are attempting to make the point that the UK is not an equivalent democracy?

The house of lords can not create bills nor stop them. They can look over the elected parliament's shoulders and whine, that's it. It is a vestigial leaving of the monarchy system that, like the Monarchs themselves, the UK keeps because it's cute.

While in the US, un-elected corporations do very much the same thing, except when they whine, they get their way.
I've got a System 76 laptop, and it's the best laptop I've owned so far out of the Windows, Mac, and Linux laptops I've had. But it still won't wake up from sleeping sometimes, maybe once a month.

Had a Dell XPS before that, it was way worse on the same issue. With MacBooks, I didn't have that issue as much with personal machines, but I mostly used them for travel. I've had pretty bad issues with work MacBooks.

Love my System 76, but there's still work to be done there.
I personally think we need to value the idea of that body of knowledge, as a culture. Then, we can start to compare and contrast styles, etc.

The whole tiger mom/dad routine is so horrible for children. The lack of autonomy can have dire consequences later in life, and I think we're just starting to see that.

I know my tendency is to treat this like a problem, which needs data and analysis, refinement and tuning. But, if we were 10 generations into that process, I feel we'd have something to show for it. As is, every generation starts from zero (I think most people generally wing it).
The salary you can get working on something is almost entirely independent of whether it's a decent technology or not.
The self-employment tax is exactly the same as the employment tax your employer pays "for you" in payroll taxes. The numbers may look different to you as in individual because you don't see the taxes the business is paying for the privileged of employing you, but the tax impact is exactly the same and economically it's a wash.
>Because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that ‘Guitar Hero’ is the same as a real guitar.”

For me, this was the signal that this as a "if only people used computers like I personally think they should" pieces. I know lots of people who play guitar hero, lots of people who play real guitars, and some who play both (me for one, mediocrely in both cases). I have met zero people who think guitar hero = guitar. They are different things that serve different needs.

I use a cli to compute all day, every day. Can't imagine using computers without one. I have no empirical proof of this, but I would be willing to wager the deed to my house that the vast majority of users, having been explained what a cli is, the benefits of it, and how to use it, would chose to never use a CLI again. It's not what they want, it's what other people want and it's a myopic view of what computing is.
I think his letters should always be taken with a grain of salt. He was probably just building his own myth, the article discusses that:

> As with most Zodiac writings, it sounds more like myth-building than sincerely held beliefs. Zodiac plagiarized often from pop culture, stealing ideas and lines from movies, operas and short stories. His letters, even more than his actual murders, were carefully constructed to present himself as the ultimate supervillain.
sure, but i don’t see how this could make it “worse”. as the vaccine is more widely understood this fact re pfizer vaccine will be messaged to the public.

the people first vaccinated will be in health care, and
anecdata (most of my extended family and friends across social backgrounds and regions of the country work in the field) indicates these people are, in the general case, diligent about social hygiene practices. a vaccinated person who is still wearing a mask when inside in poorly ventilated public spaces when not with their family unit in their home is no more dangerous to the public than someone doing all of that who is unvaccinated.

vaccinated people have immunity ~10 days after vaccination. assuming vaccination of the population proceeds steadily, and everyone practices diligent social hygiene, eventually the pool of vaccinated people sink the R value below 1.

it is at this point that we will be turning the corner.

i will note that all of this applies to pfizer because their study design did not test asymptomatic trial participants. this means we know the pfizer vaccine helps people not get sick. however, i believe moderna did test all trial participants periodically even when asymptomatic and their measurements of effectiveness were on par.
> Being bundled with something popular is not a guaranty of success. IE is a very good example of that.

Not sure what the example of IE would entail. IE was insanely popular during its prime of 2006-2008. Even today, Chrome has not captured as much of the market as IE6 did at that time.

It was only years of neglect (i.e nearly the entire IE6 team was reassigned to other projects), and governmental intervention that allowed other browsers to even have a significant plurality.

So yes, you can win merely by being bundled for free with another popular product.

If Slack for instance just came preinstalled on iOS/OSX, then people would have standardized on it so long as it was also available on Windows.
I was both agreeing and disagreeing. In MN they have an "anti-zoning housing movement" but in CA we still have an "anti-housing zoning movement".
This is basically what Steve Jobs was talking about, with sales/marketing gaining traction in an established company and driving it into the ground:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1WrHH-WtaA
I also had that experience at apple. For two weeks. Then was moved into a shitty shared cubicle. Don’t miss working there.
Maybe if that copy-cat's page has more google ads it will pop before yours, they just want users to see more ads.
Obviously, YouTube has the right to do whatever they want with their servers. My point wasn't that YouTube's policy was the end of democracy, but that the ethos espoused by the parent commenter, if shared by a majority of the electorate and leaders, results in the end of democracy.

Democracy requires trusting people to not be complete morons. Unfortunately, the polarized nature of political discourse in the US has caused people to think that the 50% of the country that doesn't think like them is too stupid to be trusted with speech and videos.

Despite the fact that my brother has been sucked into the world of Alex Jones, I don't think most Americans are too stupid to resist dumb conspiracy theories. In decades past, this brother was a radical leftist, regularly arrested for trespassing in the late 80's at nuclear power plant protests, and later a radical in Greenpeace in the early 90's. This was long before the internet. He didn't believe the moon landing was real, and always believed in dumb ass conspiracy theories. (He's 11 years older than me, and by the time I was 11, I knew he was a moron.)
My other 4 siblings aren't like him.

His new shift was, honestly, not that weird. He happened to shift to the right, but it's a horseshoe as you know, and crazy is crazy.

There have been, and always will be, highly illogical people looking to indulge their desperate desire to have symmetrical, orderly views of the universe that aren't real. The big, disastrous outcomes must always have been carefully plotted, large, grand plans (like 9/11 being a false flag operation, which my brother also believed then). My brother is one of these people, but most people aren't like that.

This huge drive for censorship didn't occur when a large portion of the American left thought that 9/11 was an inside job, because the normal people on the left knew that it was a large, but still fringe, group within their own sphere. The problem is that the same normal people on the left don't know normal people on the right. Why? Because they don't know ANY people on the right. They are in bubbles now. So they are unable to draw the same conclusion that people like my brother are a fringe on the right. To them, voting for Donald Trump is evidence of a massively delusional person, rather than the grim reality that the vast majority of Trump's voters don't like him, and simply chose a lesser of two evils in their worldview, due to a corrupt, oligarchical class at the top of both major political parties resulting in highly polarized policy positions that force them to do this.
The above two comments are why I hate this website.

People with very narrow views of the world making vast generalizations.

No wonder Silicon Valley's ability to innovate has faded. We've taken people with mediocre intelligence, and told them they're the smartest in the world. yuck.
Its a 1br, but I couldn’t agree more. Getting out soon.
Let apple make the process of enabling another app store on iphones as convoluted as possible. Require connecting to a computer and throw big scary messages about how it might end up in all the polar bears to eat all the penguins in the world. It would still be ok.
Consumers should have a choice. Apple doesn't have to make it convenient.
On other OS designs:
“ They are navigationally cumbersome, asking users to go to the "other end of town" to pick up their email from the Post Office”
Made me laugh, it seems silly now, but that’s a pretty creative way of describing what’s going on.
Thanks for the info. I'm a little confused why the killers would think their victims happen to be their enemies for the relationship towards norse mythology to be true? I could see the connection if there was a personal relationship between the killer and the victim, but not when the killers are targeting random strangers they know nothing about personally.
I don't think that saying anti-American is the same as saying un-American.

Plenty of people say un-Australian, and I imagine other English-speaking countries say the same thing (e.g. un-Canadian). It's a way of trying to portray a certain set of values as intrinsic to a particular national identity. In the context of free speech, it makes sense to frame something which some might consider to be a restriction on free speech to be un-American, given that the American constitution explicitly protects free speech. Calling it anti-American would be a different sentiment.
The "Las Vegas Strip" is in Paradise, NV

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada
Spiders in space–orb-web-related behaviour in zero gravity
Whenever the other side tries something like this, they just end up with something resembling Voat.
Yep. The state-to-state flow tables for 2019 are at:

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/geograp... [an XLS file]
> No offence, but parsing (in a compiler, not in general) is probably the most boring part of a compiler.

Not if you're writing an IDE. Writing a batch mode parser that takes an entire correct source file and produces an AST is easy. Writing a parser that instaneously handle producing an updating AST while the user is typing in the middle of the program while still allowing semantic analysis to occur and without vomiting out a pile of extraneous errors or giving up entirely is a lot harder.
They're not really going to investigate. Then as now, people say what they have to, and then wait for it to go down the memory hole.
ugh, no programmer is making $700k a MONTH from programming alone
Fuzzing American Fuzzy Lop
Would it be possible to configure AFL to fuzz AFL fuzzing AFL? There would be two instances, the first fuzzes the second fuzzing the first.

AFL <-> AFL
For anecdata, I'm right-leaning and I too voted for Biden because he isn't trump.
You don't have a "right" to a spot on their platform but you sure as hell have a right to complain about it and speak up against it when appropriate - which is what this piece is attempting to do.
Is it legal in the US to encourage people to jump in front of a train?

If the answer is no then telling people to drink rat poison is illegal. The legal system has the power to punish the uploader, and youtube can remove it just as it do with copyright infringements.

If the answer is yes then I would suggest to change the law. Pushing people to drink rat poison sound awful close to harassment, which is just the kind of speech which the 1st amendment do not protect.
0.25% IFR is for very young countries (why Africa is mostly spared). The situation is a lot direr with older populations...

"In contrast, in a typical high income country, with a greater concentration of elderly individuals, we estimate the overall IFR to be 1.15%" from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...
> The US has sales tax

Something like 25-30% of the US (by area) does not have any sales tax at all [1].

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/states-without-a-sales-tax-319330...
Not the parent, but it's far too easy for your IT department to totally fuck teams up.

Our Teams instance has the calendar disables making it a pain to join meetings if you don't have easy access to your outlook calendar. They've also disabled any sort of api access which really limits what can be done in terms of integrating it into our other workflows.

In terms of general usability the app is lacking in information density. I routinely miss messages in team channels I've collapsed.
"...we're talking about avoiding things over their historical implementations even if other implementations are possible."

Well that's not at all what has been discussed. If that's what you think this thread is about, then you are very off-topic. If we are truly doing that, then we need to avoid all institutions and policies since they all have some bigoted background, and there's no path forward because everyone can just unsupportively call anything racist.

"Are you implying that it happening has had nothing to do with the inflammation of racial tensions by elites and media organizations?"

You have been stating that subjecting everyone to the citizen test is racist and said that we shouldn't do it because the racist policy will lead to parties fighting each other so the elites are left alone.

I'm saying that's already happening, so you don't have any premise for why not to do this. And quite frankly, you have derailed the actual topic of thread and failed to provide any logical reasoning for your stances (paraphrased, because all past policies have been racist this one must be racist and shouldn't be implemented).
Eeyup. I've seen a few companies with a prototype built on ROS and they universally struggle to get it from a basic demonstrator to a production system until they ditch ROS because it's just so poorly engineered. Everything you gain in the short term from having a nicely integrated system with a bunch of existing libraries gets more than offset by how buggy, difficult to debug, slow, and incomplete each part of it is, relative to basically any other alternative. Especially because it defaults to a distributed system which basically takes your existing problem and makes many new and exciting ones to go along with it (and neither ROS nor most of its users/developers are well equipped to solve distributed problems reliably).
Not every HN comment subtree is an argument that you need to “win”.

If you write a comment you think is good, once is enough.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
these are not non-engineering jobs to be done, these are internal and external products to build.
My county has less than 15% ICU bed availability.
Author here. Also you can read the whole book online for free: http://craftinginterpreters.com/
Yes as soon as it is available. The positive of being immunized greatly outweighs the hypothetical risks of taking the vaccine.
Thank effing god this nightmare of sore losing is over. It's tough to say if America can recover from Trump, but the first step is removing the problem from your life.
You sure about Bezos here? or was he Larry Page?
I know Musk is friends with Page. Source - Musk's biography
What would be great, and unless I missed it, would be to be able to reference/cite a particular dataset with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). It is a key feature of Zenodo for example.
sudo is such a clumsy way of 'being root' on the command-line.

IMO it's better to be actual root temporarily via the use of 'su -'.

With Ubuntu/Mint and related distros, it just becomes a matter of giving root a proper password.
Controversial South Korean director Kim Ki-duk dies of Covid aged 59
One thing that comes to mind in all this relocation commotion is that California isn't just a bureaucratic hassle but its actual physical environment is becoming a health hazard
Are we really going to compare someone making self-driving electric cars to someone who masturbates on camera?
> At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore.

Ooof, and here we are, 25 years later, with an intervening opportunity to completely redefine HCI (smartphones), and it's still basically all WIMP.
> People are rational most of the times, and act based on the well of knowledge they have at the time.

I'm of the opinion that people are not rational most of the time, but operate on habit and reason by use of heuristics. My evidence for this is that rational thought is costly and in psychology they teach this (that people aren't usually rational, merely motivated and economical with their attention).

> Human brains are hackable, more so if you can control their inputs. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, they all found the attack vector.

This is a good reason why gatekeeping information is so dangerous.

> So democracy and truth are more related to each other than democracy and speech. We tend to think that speech is truth, but it is not, and people over time have voted themselves out into dictatorships over and over.

Unfortunately there is no test for truth. However if you control people's sources of information you can keep them from figuring out that they have been lied to.

How are we to ensure that the gatekeepers of information are honest and wise?
I am the OP, I should've mentioned when I originally posted that I _am_ using a Lenovo ThinkPad, X1 Extreme Gen 2 to be precise.

I love the laptop a lot, but the sleeping isn't as dependable as my Mac was.

Overall the laptop has performed well running Linux, although I must say, the Nvidia GPU is a massive let down from a driver / support perspective. I'll never buy a Laptop with an Nvidia GPU again so long as I run Linux or probably ever because they treat open source like crap.

In the interest of giving a fair review, I'll explain why this laptop falls short with an Nvidia GPU (in my view), it might even explain why the sleep issues:

Basically the USB-C ports are hardwired directly to the Nvidia GPU, this is so the GPU drives external monitors. Which is fine, but what's not fine is that the GPU must be on an enabled permanently to use an external monitor.

If I turn off the GPU, the external monitors can't be used.

I can turn off the GPU by changing modes (dramatically improving battery time and life), but this means I need to go change my X configuration, login and log out. So either having good battery life, or working at my desk is a compromise, because it's highly inconvenient to change settings and reboot.

It basically lets the entire machine down when it comes to functioning as a Laptop. Apparently there is talk the drivers might support the offloading behaviour one might expect in the future. To be able to drive external monitors just using the integrated graphics.

The HDMI port might not be hardwired, but I'm not really interested in using that as I like the USB-C port because I use my monitor as a USB Hub / docking station.
Reason is explicitly libertarian, not right wing. (Though if you are on the left they are still to your right).
You make it sound like it's a very limited list. I count 225 ad networks under amp-ad [0] and 80 analytics vendors in the very link you sent.

[0] https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-ad/

That should cover basically every user, but it's also open source so you can contribute any you think is missing.

Also, how many choices for analytics and ad networks do you have when you put content on Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok? The latter didn't even have an creator program until very recently, so you were literally posting your content for free.
Almost no areas are seeing above-average utilization of hospital or ICU beds. It’s a media narrative that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

ICUs routinely run at 90% capacity during the winter. Right now, most states are below this.
One of the most powerful benefits from being there since the start is the complete confidence in ripping out and deleting obsolete code later. Even good developers new to the project are afraid to do this, and they should be since it's very risky without the full context.

The natural trajectory for a project is to keep adding features until it collapses from its own weight. Only the long tenure developer can fight this and revitalize a project by removing the useless excess.
Tower of human skulls reveals grisly scale to archaeologists in Mexico City
A full half of the compilers course I took in undergrad was about {LA,S,}LR; I think "parsing is over-emphasized" is alive and well... That said, it didn't cover non-table-based parsing much. (On the other hand, I'm unaware of a non-table-based parsing algorithm that can statically warn you about problems with the grammar (ambiguities etc).)
Antitrust Suits Challenging Facebook’s Acquisitions Are a Welcome Sight
pretty harsh to blame austin dying on richard linklater!
I can't reply to your other comments as they are flagged but be aware that posting supporting links to a disreputable UK tabloid with a history of deceptive journalism probably won't create a great impression among your intended audience.
Maybe. There are two ways this goes:

1) 3.4% of people who catch it die every year, and life changes

2) It mutates, and gets worse. Unlikely, but not impossible. Or it leads to long-term disability which we don't know about yet (not unlikely). Etc.

3) Kids get it early, acquire partial immunity as it passes, and it becomes another variant of the common cold/flu.

Most of the time, #3 is the outcome. It's worth taking seriously because #1 and #2 will eventually happen if we ignore these, but....
It's nice to believe this, but having a flu jab is only proven to protect yourself. It's not sterilising immunity so you can still become infected, shed virus, and infect others while asymptomatic.

It's quite dangerous if a lot people don't get that the covid vaccines also aren't proved (and are unlikely) to contain transmission. Risk is folks think that we will not longer need to care about hygiene, masks, isolation, quarantine and tracing once most people have been vaccinated.
On the contrary, I think this goes to the root of the matter. Can you trust people or not? That's a fundamental question that decides whether you can have real democracy, or only a sham. Because any kind of democracy where people are only allowed to make "safe" choices, decided on by someone else (e.g. the censors), is a sham. And that's true even if the censors themselves are directly or indirectly democratically appointed. Iran is a good example of such system taken to its logical conclusion.
Some of the numbers seem to not make sense. For example, model A has 4k subscribers and $0 estimated MMR, while model B has 1.5k subscribers and $17k estimated MMR.
Trump and pro-Trump litigants have barely been able to articulate English sentences, let alone arguments. The complaints were laughably full of typos, errors, and just plain old falsehoods.

It was an embarrassment on the world stage for Trump but at least he's finally going to be gone.
Ankane should stop building non-sense, half-assed open source tools that serve no good purpose..
Yes, my comment may be on the optimistic side. Although I'm not sure if there are significant signs of mutations right now: AFAIK, the virus from 10 months ago is the pretty much the same virus the vaccine targets today.