skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what people mean when they say “fake news” in many cases. Not that the facts of a story are technically incorrect, but the way things are presented (or not presented) is intentionally designed to shift the readers perspective in a certain direction.
I completely agree. The design of a hammer hasn't changed much in centuries because it's already designed well for its purpose. Same thing with sharks, I don't hear biologists say "there hasn't been much innovation in sharks for millions of years."
Sounds like ICU capacity is roughly appropriate for normal-times peak demand to me.

The average occupancy you quote is consistent with the “2 months ago” capacity quoted by GP.
You’re ignoring that you getting vaccinated is not about you, but about protecting others. As long as the R value is above 1, every person vaccinated is protecting others more than themselves. Even at 90% effectiveness herd immunity is critical to stopping the pandemic.

I fully support people’s right to opt out of social goods like the vaccine, but I’m afraid you should be refused access to many social services your presence would threaten: schools, transit, libraries, etc.

We accept that we have to get a license to legally drive a car on public streets, why not accept a vaccine to access public spaces during a pandemic?

Societies already compel a number of behaviors for unrestricted participation, I don’t see vaccines during a pandemic as being particularly onerous.

> no longer have faith in my country

I don’t know what country you live in, but many countries have the same assessment of many vaccines. Even if you distrust one country there are likely many more positive assessments you can turn to.
USA is a union of states. Governors have quite a bit of power as well and plenty of governors endorsed this move by YouTube.
Sweeping opinions you don't like under the rug doesn't make them go away

I think we need to look at that carefully - especially, how much of youtube hate is well-considered, articulated positions and how much is people just "swept into the propaganda." That's a complicated question but think the medium of video tends to be worst form for well-considered opinions and the form most likely to just be a carrier of irrational-emotional/progandistic messages. It's real time stream of imagines/words quality makes it hard to consider the logic of an argument and easier to get swept up in the emotions of a claim as well as easier to think that, say, an image of a scientist gives legitimacy to a claim,etc. I think this quality was demonstrated back in the days of TV as mass medium.
So sad for the Texans, but they had better not relocate to the Ozarks...
"No tracking"?

I get the lack of personalized tracking, makes sense. I don't want that. But do they at least track, for a given query, which results are clicked or not (not attributed to a person, just a query string) for relevance evaluation and optimization? For most search engines, this is usually foundational.

I'd be genuinely curious if they use a different method for this sort of thing.
Ah nice, sounds like they're doing quite well, then! Looks like Model 3s are significantly more expensive in Europe than in the US (the base model in France is 51k Euros/61k USD vs $38k USD in the US, before tax rebates, which can knock off a significant chunk of it). Which is also part of why the quoted prices for the ID.3 seem so expensive to us in the US (49k Euros/59k USD for the 340 mile version in France). That's a lot to pay for either of those cars.
I look forward to the signature audits.

Witness affidavits suggest some counties in some states did not follow their own laws.

Now, unfortunately, there is no legal remedy because in most cases the irregular ballots cannot be separate from the regular ballots once they are pooled together.

A lot of election laws define the rules, but few define the remedy if they are broken.
I don't think the person who submitted it is the original writer.
It depends on what you did. Photoshop wasn’t fully recompiled at first but they did get key performance tasks written to a PPC plug-in running inside 68k emulated Photoshop.

And it screamed. Faster than anything before it.

The fact that emulated 68k code could call native PPC was nuts to me but it was how most of the classic OS worked on PPC, with native parts being slowly rewritten over time.
We have bankruptcy laws, where you don't have to wait for the broader jubilee to declare the reset.

Of course it is different in that it follows you around for a while, but there also isn't a weird enforced lending cycle (and carrying lots of debts into a jubilee might not officially follow you around, but it would follow you around).
It's not even that expensive, so it's a much easier product to recommend.

Compare to the 2012 MBPr, a similarly innovative Apple laptop. The 2012 was $2,199 in 2012 dollars (nearly $2,500 today). This is that kind of leap, and more. $999 (sometimes $899) is a bargain.
I use it regularly, mostly to reading articles on news websites which are getting more and more cluttered with heavy video-based ads and all sorts of garbage.

But I used to use it more often. Some years ago I worked mostly on a terminal window and by using lynx, I could browse the internet while everybody thought I was doing some serious work on the server (folks over there respected people working on black text-based screens)
The raw construction materials that make up your home are worth more than can be afforded in 36 payments, so I doubt that's a likely outcome.
>If a state can't have an interest that the constitution is followed, what point is there in even having a union? What did the states actually agree on?

Among other things, that each state is responsible for it's own elections and just as Texas can't set Tennessee's tax regime or state penal code, they also can't tell PA, MI, GA and WI how to run their elections.

Actually, it goes even further than that. The US Constitution (ratified by all fifty states when they joined the union states (Article II, Clause II):

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

In each state, sole authority for selecting electors is vested in the legislature of that state.

In fact[0], the Constitution provides that the settlement of presidential election disputes first happens within the state legal system under powers granted by Article 2, Section 1. In a 2016 analysis of presidential election disputes, the Congressional Research Service said that “under the United States Constitution, these elections for presidential electors are administered and regulated in the first instance by the states, and state laws have established the procedures for ballot security, tallying the votes, challenging the vote count, recounts, and election contests within their respective jurisdictions.”

[0] https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-constitution-and-con...
This is the new Datasette project website - the open source project is three years old now but I launched this website yesterday. Up until now there's just been the GitHub repo at https://github.com/simonw/datasette and the project documentation at https://docs.datasette.io/

The https://datasette.io/ site is running on Datasette itself, with a bunch of custom templates. If you're interested in seeing how it works the source code (and the GitHub Actions that build and deploy the underlying database) can be found here: https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io
Can’t access article.
It would have made more sense for either of the two to buy the other, or some kind of merger tbh.
Gawker certainly was held accountable. Facebook blames it's users if similar content is posted. But it also censors and suppresses content. I'm just saying it should pick a lane. Be a carrier or have editorial control.
Random trivia: many of the old film cinema projectors are running with a flicker rate of 48Hz (showing each frame twice) or 72Hz (showing each frame three times).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_projector#Shutter
This happening, right now, is a consequence of the US election.

In a matter of months, Taiwan might go down like Crimea.
Exactly, this just seems like a great way of accelerating polarization. Make sure that everyone who has at least one opposing view is driven away to a place where they will rapidly be exposed to every opposing view.
That's also common in meatspace.
Film projectors also actually show the same frame 2-3 times in a row to reduce percepted flicker (effectively giving you 48 or 72 Hz)
PAL TVs ran at 25hz. They most likely could find a monitor that would have looked fine. Its hard to say what they actually did just from what you see in the film.

Filming monitors and TVs was and is a very common thing. You can probably get away with filming a 30 fps monitor if your shutter speed is tight enough and you're ok with a few pulldown frames sneaking in.

>Remember that when film plays back the projector shows you the same image for most of the 1/24 of the time before switching to the next frame

Is this true? Isn't it 50/50 or so? Take a look at a rotary disk shutter. Film is pretty delicate and you can't pull it through that fast.
For me, it is 70% I have to use Google.

Even for not-that-obscure bands, all DDG needs to do is return the wikipedia page and it fails to do that.
Thank you for sharing! I tried this one year on one challenge, but was barely familiar with writing COBOL programs, so I didn't continue with it. But after seeing your repo, I might go back and try this alongside the Lisp and Python I've been doing this year.
I'm thinking about ways to improve the metadata mechanism at the moment - currently it supports a license, source and "about" field.

I'm reading up on https://www.doi.org/ now - it looks like it could be a great fit for the project, so thanks for the suggestion!
I'm still rocking the same pair of Sony mdr-v6 studio headphones that I bought nearly 20 years ago. The rubberized foam on the cups has completely worn away but if anything it actually makes them even more comfortable.
Those two had severe pre-existing allergies (to the point where they carry epi pens), and had non-fatal reactions to the vaccine.

If you’re in the 0.1% of the population with severe allergies, you should skip most vaccines. Herd immunity is a thing, and (most — probably these) vaccines will protect you by making the people around you stop spreading it.

If you’re in this category, you’d have already been told so by your doctor.
> Think about whenever you travel to Austin for conferences, it's oppressively hot and you basically travel from one air conditioned building to the next.

Commentary from someone who only visits Texas in the summer is bound to be one-dimensional.

> To me this spells the end of Oracle's supremacy in anything other than selling smaller and smaller volumes of mainframes.

True because average regional temperature has always been a solid predictor of company success, which is why companies like 3M, Cirrus Logic, Dell, Indeed, National Instruments, and Silicon Labs all collapsed after establishing their headquarters in Austin due to talented employees leaving en masse for the beauty of other regions /s
I played EV nova on a friends mac till I could get it years later on PC.

There are so many nova like games out there, but none have the depth of story line that Ambrosia crammed into their world.

I'm happy to have lost so much time in it.
There could be a market for modern 3D printed mini-itx cases in the Snow White design language.

Just saying.
The are US laws like the Electronic Communication Act that addressed some of these issues for phone companies and ISPs.

Google, et al, need to be roped into similar laws. They are providing a defacto public square that deserves more regulation -- one way or the other.
>As software engineers, we understand the value of code reviews. That kind of thing shouldn't be anathema.

Yet you can still release bad code. Code review is people looking at your idea/code and judging for themselves. Giving feedback.

Here we're trying to prevent that code from even being seen by others.
You don't need IPython for startup scripts... https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html
that depends, YES, if I need to travel a lot in the near future, or I WILL WAIT if I don't need to travel much.
A good 30% of the time I end up having to run my query on Google anyway.

A 70% reduction in Google sounds like a win.
I'm sorry for misattributing the comment to you.
College is for imparting foundational knowledge. It isn't vocational training. You should find capable employees and train them for your needs.
I think the idea is more like this: you have two clubhouses, one that has 10 super radical people and one that has 190 people who are less radical. If you take the most radical 20 people from the 190 and force them to go across the street and spend all of their time with the super radical people, those 20 people probably will become somewhat more radical. Now, the 10 people possibly become slightly less radical as maybe do the remaining 170, which might balance things out a bit? But the people who are saying this makes people more radical are concentrating on the idea of taking people on the verge of being super radical and saying that they now only get to hang out with each other and the people who were thrown out of the mainstream long ago... it isn't that that group will "grow" past the people handed to it, but that the people given to it will become radicalized (which might be more dangerous than accepting everyone into the same system and attempting to have them all adjust a bit towards the mean).
I completely agree. The economy will recover when the pandemic ends, and I am going to contribute to the end of the pandemic in any way I can. Then we can end the massive business closures and massive eviction crisis that we're currently seeing.

Getting the virus under control is how we help the economy. It's not a trade-off between the two, it's both or neither.
The author doesn't care about anything other than making a few cheap dollars with mendacious lies.
I jumped on the hype train and got a M1 Mac Mini with 16gb and 1TB SSD, as it felt like a steal at around £1k Ex. VAT. for something that reviews told me would be quicker than my MBP.

I've been blown away at how much faster/snappier it feels in day to day use compared to my 2018 16GB MBP. With the COVID situation I'm seated at my home office 95% of time now, rather than ~35%.

One of the biggest changes has been that instead of having a jet engine level of noise next to me most of the day now, I have something that I haven't heard a noise from once in three or four days. It takes up way less desk space as well. It's much easier to tuck away somewhere than a laptop which you always have an emotional connection to needing portability with. I've had Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Encoder running encodes, After Effects, loads of web tabs open and it still feels cold to touch. More desk space, faster, less noise, less heat. It's ticked all those boxes.
Incels and other such creeps aren't popping up in other places or real life though. Spend a week in a rural place near you and you'll find that people there legit think that "big tech"--who they know is insanely powerful and think are biased against folks like them--attempt to a.) censor people and b.) censor claims about election fraud specifically in regards to "their president" winning. Think about how that might come off to you if you were Trump supporter. You can disagree with that viewpoint but you have to admit you can see what lots of people who totally buy it would think about those actions. Those are people who aren't going to stop talking with each other either, regardless of what we in the "big tech" think.
> I was on the Google homepage today on my iPhone and was getting popups advertising Chrome (on the homepage!) and then again in the search results advertising the Google app. I changed my default to DDG right then and there.

I just switched my search engine from DDG to StartPage because I was on a DDG results page and there was a pop-up advertising their app. Why does a search engine need a phone app? Seriously!
I remember my Microbee starting up from floppy disk in substantially less time than that.
On the contrary, I'm happy that Slack chose to do one thing extremely well rather than stretch itself thin releasing half-baked an unnecessary products. There are plenty of good services for docs, storage, whiteboarding etc., and I don't need any of them shoved in my Slack client.
I've seen the original Lavarand lamps, which are currently decorating an apartment in Seattle. It was a gift from Landon Noll.
Certainly feels like that's the case. However, there are also a large number of nutty people in the US and some of them may be posting here.
> A misinformed populace acts to destroy democracy.

who is to be trusted with the authority to decide what counts as misinformation? Is it possible that a gatekeeper of information would find it easier to misinform the populace than a prominent person who had to contend with other dissenting voices?
The idea is not to sweep them under the rug, but rather to stop the uptake of new people. A lot of people go to reddit for funny pictures, and end up being exposed to some very radical ideas. Those same people might never be drawn to a more fringe site. Banning posters doesn’t stop them from holding their views, but it seems like it may stop them from spreading. It’s a gamble, but i think it’s worked in reddit’s case
I've done a lot of video calls since pandemic started, usually with our company's chosen vendor, but with some outside companies, it's on their system. It was only a couple weeks ago that I experienced my first Teams call ever, while I've had many external zoom calls, many Google, some Chime, some webex, and I've had many, many external Slack invites.

I wonder if Microsoft's Teams numbers were pumped up by it being freely included in O365 subs. "Oh you're a paying O365 customer; we'll just go ahead and count your included Teams sub as a Teams sub."
There is a Mahindra dealership in Cumming, GA (exurb north of Atlanta). I noticed it over Thanksgiving on a drive up to the mountains. I've eyed their jeep in the past.

That said, lots of Kubota around these parts with KMA and KIE in the greater metro area.
Voted yes, get the flu shot annually.
My employer provides PPO insurance for out of CA employees. HMO is CA only.
Maybe they should watch the models more and learn some things.
That’s interesting considering all the articles I’ve read on this thing indicate the exact opposite. Uncontended atomics are basically free and a huge reason why Swift and ObjC code gets such a huge boost (ARC cost is down significantly).

Traditional POSIX mutexes in MacOS weren’t heavily optimized. When I worked at Apple ~5 years ago they still didn’t have a good futex implementation (not sure if that’s changed since). Generally the OS team doesn’t care because you should be using libdispatch.

Anyway I’d love to read up on where you encountered this claim so I can better understand the countours of how this thing works.
Regardless of the morality, I suspect that it will prove to be quite efficacious. Banning this kind of nonsense from mainstream platforms will certainly not reduce the toxicity of the existing radicals, but it will curtail their ability to spread their message and recruit.

These movements did not materialise out of a vacuum. Their growth and replenishment of strength is largely contingent on permissive mainstream platforms on which to set up shop.

I think platforms like Youtube and Facebook have shown the dangers of democratised mass-broadcasting. There were dreams at the dawn of the internet that enhanced access to information would create a better informed citizenry, but rather it has just exacerbated our worst traits as a society.

I don't know what the solution is really. The current situation is untenable in America, but how does one unpick it without resorting to totalitarianism? I'm somewhat partial to ending anonymity on social media posts, so at least people must stand publicly by their positions and can't create sock puppets to inflate their message.
I see these reddit bans referenced every now and then as evidence that censorship works. I think it's important to emphasize these bans are not evidence they shutting down communities changed participants' minds about anything. Further, the paper states that "The empirical work in this paper suggests
that when narrowly applied to small, specific groups, banning deviant hate groups can work to reduce and contain the behavior." Trump supporters are not a small group of people and they don't have a single 'meeting point' on the internet that can be banned to break them up.

Let's just be careful about comparing strategies used to target niche internet hate groups with tens of millions of Trump supporters.
There's a plugin called datasette-render-markdown which can be configured to render specific database records: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-render-markdown

You can see a demo of that on the https://datasette.io/ site here - it's rendering the release notes from the different plugin releases: https://datasette.io/content/recent_releases
> bang--for-your-buck

Testing for randomness is impossible in the YES/NO sense, so the best we have is statistical test batteries like NIST's 800-22, DieHarder and TestU01.

I own a Truerng and a Onerng, both are under $50. They performed better on Dieharder than my computer's Intel RNG. Not by a huge margin, but still. All 3 passed the minimum requirements of course.
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It's actually a legitimate phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663
https://archive.md/1E9yF
You can build node for the M1.
maybe more people will starting writing twice as many tests!
I believe it is your civic duty to not go around infecting people. There is more than one way to achieve that.
Where is the line though? If I disagree with what you say am I allowed to call you an idiot? Am I allowed to no longer associate with you? Those could both be considered retaliation or sanction.

And am I required to publish your words even though I disagree with them? That would seem to infringe my freedom of speech.
Yes - all of my grandparents are immunocompromised so I want to be very careful around them.
Not to mention it will probably be a requirement on college campuses once it becomes generally available.
It would be nice if this could be mentioned a bit clearer in the blog post and/or README; it's not really that obvious at all and I had to go to the source to check, and loads of people here seem confused about it since it more or less implies "we looked at all open source projects".
Depends what you mean by decent. I've got a 200 dollar router that can get 800 with essentially line of sight. 600 in the new room.

But I have to rely on wireline to connect the other half of my apartment.

And I'm probably still in the top 10% of networked homes.
So do emails themselves. It's in the name: it's "electronic mail". The underlying implementation has modified its behavior to fit the physical properties of how letters usually work to some degree. You think an email is something different than a text message, or a Slack message, or even a website or a video, when it is information that reached you by electrons moving a certain way in a wire. Or multiple wires. Or electromagnetic fields in space. Or photons in strands of glas or plastic.

It's all abstract, it's all metaphors.
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