skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s extremely difficult to model what people actually want. Stated policy preferences change dramatically when you go from the general to the specific and ask people to make specific trade-offs. For example: https://reason.com/2014/07/10/millennials-prefer-small-gover...

> At first glance millennials appear to prefer a "larger government providing more services" (54%) over a "smaller government providing few services" (43%). However, once tax rates are mentioned support for large government flips. Instead 57 percent favor "smaller government, providing fewer services, with low taxes" and 41 percent want "larger government providing more services, with high taxes." We also find that the race/ethnicity gap on the size of government disappears among Hispanic, Asian, and white millennials once tax rates are explicit.

Most policy polls are useless, because they don’t ask voters what they’d be willing to pay or give up in another area for that particular policy. For example, support for universal healthcare plummets when you mention taxes and losing private insurance:

> But the more revealing part of the survey, I think, comes from the questions focused on the costs of single payer, all of which caused support for Medicare for All to drop below 40 percent. Told that it would eliminate private health insurance and require people to pay more in taxes, for example, support fell to 37 percent. Told that it would cause some medical treatments and tests to be delayed, support dropped even further, to 26 percent.

It’s also the case that in a Republican form of government, politicians are specifically charged with implementing specific policies that reflect the public’s hierarchy of preferences. Poll after poll shows the economy as the dominant concern of most voters. (Apart from this year when covid because a main concern.) People might, in the abstract say they favor taxing the wealthy and corporations more heavily. But when Election Day rolls around, they reward politicians (especially at the state and local level) who convinced a big corporation to move to their area and punish politicians who caused corporations to leave.
You're awfully confident for someone who has provided no additional evidence.

The OP claims the high CPU usage went after uninstalling chrome and rebooting their machine.

Rebooting their machine.

The thing we tell everyone to as the absolute first step in trying to solve any problem with a computer, "have you tried turning it off and on again?".

This isn't proof that chrome or keystone or anything at all caused the problem. We have nothing to determine the root cause.
Credit market has risk of default all for a chance of earning 0.75% for 5 years

The shareholders are down because of the perceived risk of conversion which dilutes the shares, not really because of the exposure to bitcoin - which is a factor - but the market is weighing the conversion more heavily.
The difference to sex is that comments are unnecessary if the project is in good shape otherwise. Yes, no code is really self-documenting, but requirements documents, handbooks, documentation comments, VCS logs and tests should make it possible to elucidate weird code parts.

Bad comments are detrimental: some are outdated comments that were forgotten to remove or to update, and others were wrong or misleading to begin with. Some are just redundant (they might state the obvious) and might become misleading later on. Their existence is of historical interest in the best case.
This makes very little sense to me. Are you proposing to make your own router or switch with this stack in it, or add it onto an Arista or something?

What problem is this solving? Normally things like transit don’t have encryption because it occurs at a higher level.

To me it seems advantageous to keep the pipes dumb, curious of the rational behind this.
In the UK you should only flash your high beams to alert other drivers to your presence.

Using them as you describe could lead to a £1000 fine. I understand that people using them to warn drivers is also illegal, but two wrongs won't make this right. Why put yourself at risk for no benefit?

Honestly you should reconsider. There's enough bad driving on the roads without you adding to it.
You could translate these as "faltendes neuronales Netzwerk", "Zurückübertragung", "Verlustfunktion", "Rauschkontrastlernen" and "generative Gegnernetze".

Of course most people don't do that, because they learned the terminology in English and there's no particular reason to invent a completely parallel set of made-up terms. But if there were such a reason (e.g. if English literacy were uncommon among German computer scientists) it could be done.
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> Holders of bonds would be absolutely wrecked.

That's a lot of institutions and wealthy individuals.
That's also a lot of people with 401k's, college savings for their kids, pension funds, and non-profit endowments.

I have a feeling that most wealthy individuals and institutions will be just fine, it's the little guy and middle class families that will feel the pain, as usual.
This is actually very cool.

Dissatisfied with how slow and clunky Goodreads is I actually thought about making my own (albeit much simpler) version of Goodreads to keep track of my reading habits. I often dig through Goodreads to find books or authors I can't remember the names of -- and Goodreads isn't great for that.

Open Library actually provides the missing piece. The fact that they offer bulk downloads also makes it easier to be a good internet citizen and not send tons of API traffic their way.

Looks like I'll have to set up a monthly donation. I'd really like see openlibrary succeed.
“Taking charge of your fertility” is basically about how to gather and analyze data about your body’s functioning, in order to achieve a desired health outcome (specifically, pregnancy).
> I wonder if the word blockchain is on their home page. YES!

It's only used for comparison to something you may be already familiar with. Why is that a problem?
Got a citation for this?
One set of rules for us, another set of rules for them.

Disappointing, but not surprising.
What’s the bigger issue: road traffic enforcement or avoiding pedestrian deaths by finding acceptable ways to remove vehicles altogether from pedestrian areas?

Road traffic enforcement or reducing infant asthma in cities by moving tailpipe emissions away from populated areas?

Road traffic enforcement or ... you get the point.
Right, but that was not the issue. The issue was a language suited for rules and relations on the one hand, and a language of humor and expressiveness on the other.

Of course, today everyone publishes in English. And of course, many English words are used in German academia.

But there is no inherent property of the English language, why it is better suited to communicating topics in machine learning.
My point was that it wasn't a perfectly valid comment.
Yes, in the sense of whether someone is a “legitimate child” of the deceased in a normal will (still absolutely repugnant that “illegitimate children” could be excluded by default, but not this judge’s fault).

However, it seems clear the judge used that definition to change the rules of the contest, which makes no sense.
Competing in a race to the bottom ought to beg the question about what alternatives and options are. Focusing on efficiency and quality are two examples that would probably be a better long-term bet, with fewer negative secondary effects.
Suicide is an solution, but it's not a very recommended one.
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Consider Elon's move from California to Texas. His energy costs are vastly reduced, expenses generally are reduced, and he can continue to hire directly in the US and draw directly on US machine shop production capacity.

There should be more machining and making in the US; everyone would like to have solid US-made hardware, but success in small-business machining and manufacturing, and scaling to large scale without off-shoring, requires a discipline and commitment to self-improvement that is difficult to cultivate.
It is simple:

Divide dead people by recovered people to assess true risk of death from COVID.

Dividing dead people by infected people represents a best case, overly optimistic risk due to the fact that cases that ran their full course to a definitive outcome are mixed together with cases in progress. Doing that biases the risk perception down below actual risk and can be dangerous.

I know one person who died, who did not have to, and they died because they made choices after having evaluated risk incorrectly.
I run Lineage without gapps or MicroG. Lots of apps throw a waning saying they don't work without GSF, but really they all do. Banking is fine. I run proprietary apps in an isolated Shelter work profile.
If the development spending happened prior to negotiating the manufacturing deals it matters (they had been working on mRNA vaccines for other viruses). The decision to spend the money on the development wasn't necessarily made with knowledge of the government purchase guarantee.
Yeah, signal is my preferred messenger app, so would be hard to go without. Might have to try this and see if they got it working. My countries Personal-ID-login app refused to open on rooted devices, and several apps for banking and public transportation relies on Google Play Services. There's a bit of way yet.
I agree, this is a deal that should be between governments, this is just an attempt of the US government to push responsibility to companies rather than actually acting against the Chinese government to end these labor camps. Whether tariffs or whatever. Few companies have the ability to follow every link of the supply chain for corruption. Most small to mid size to just find a distributer and buy what they need, they don't have the ability or authority to send in a small army of auditers, that the CCP isn't going to allow anyway.
All of the decentralization/P2P companies I have seen focus on platform before product, seemingly with the attitude of “if we build it, developers will come”. Has this worked out for any of them so far?

Regardless, the companies do great R&D, so I’m glad that people are investing in them.

Are there any companies building product first that also happen to be P2P in nature?
> To compete, you really do have to cut minimum wage. You have to loosen regulations, and importantly, you have to do massive tariffs / sanctions on China for the next decade.

No, you just have to do what China (as well as countries like Germany and Japan) do and have the government subsidize preservation of the industrial base. Screwing over workers gets you nowhere but further populous unrest and social decay.
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It’s doesn’t work with current languages. The shape of the AST needs to be the same as the shape of the source. Once you’ve done that though the program and visualization are isomorphic. Check out the toHTMLcube demo in the Sandbox, the language designer demo, or:

https://v20.ohayo.computer/?filename=ohayo.ohayo-source-code...

That’s all older stuff, but hints at some of the ideas.
It's the same in the nordics. Most jobs check for a criminal record, even in smaller IT companies.

At least in Sweden, the outcome of being sentenced (losing your job, making it very hard to find a new one) is factored into the sentence (that is, they decrease the prison sentence due to these factors as more punishment will be had after release).
Operated by Twitch nice. Interesting they have a “Time To Beat” field but it’s not really populated. I also use Airtable and was thinking of writing a Zapier hook to scrape HowLongToBeat.com for this info. It’s one of my favorite stats to help prioritize what game to play next. I can’t be dumping 100 hours into JRPGs back to back lol.
He ended up reversing the steady gain we've had in manufacturing jobs since 2010, albeit indirectly, because he botched the response to covid.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001
It feels deceptive to say “Get Edited for FREE” and “no credit card required” above the fold when it’s $19/mo with a 30 day trial.

Also, I assume “Standart Plan” is a typo.
Following blogs was the initial reason, but now I use it also to 1. follow top HN threads (hnbest) 2. follow GitHub releases (native support) 3. follow Twitter users (via Nitter) 4. follow YouTube users (native support) 5. follow new Reddit posts (native support)
Very cool! Works with my Sony WH-CH510 headphones. Looking forward to checking out the source.
Chinese also has an interesting sentence structure that doesn't quite fit with European languages. In addition to subject.verb(object) form, there is also a kind of topic-comment form that might be reasonable to use in some assertion-like contexts.

ensure(foo), !empty()
require(bar), open()

Chinese also has a word that can transform some kinds of statements into a question. `ma` is used to form yes-no questions. Imagine if languages with truthy values required you to use an explicit keyword/character in postfix position to take a non-boolean value and use it in boolean context.

if predicate:
pass

if non_predicate ma:
pass

To be clear, I'm not actually advocating for such constructs. The topic-comment form breaks down as soon as you want a predicate on multiple objects. The automatic truthy values concept is already falling out of favor in preference for explicit predicates like file_handle.is_open(). I don't actually want to program in "Cobol, but Chinese". But it is interesting to explore the space.
Recently wrote some code to scrape a friend's reviews and ratings from Goodreads. Maybe it'll be useful to folks here: https://gregreda.com/2020/11/17/scraping-pages-behind-login-...
A German(+Pfizer) vaccine which is still not approved in EU
(it is in UK).

Time is a bit pressing here.
Gmail. If that can guarantee support from google.
This is somewhere near the very bottom of a ranked list of US problems in this pandemic. Manufacturing takes time to significantly ramp up regardless of where it is, it’s not clear there would have been a major difference between what we did in waiting until we could buy more masks overseas vs waiting for US production to ramp up. And we had supposedly already alleviated this problem anyway with national stockpiles, except that those had not been maintained. Fixing that mistake is much easier and probably even more effective than undoing the globalization of the past few decades.

And honestly, by about April this year when China started having the virus under control and reopened their manufacturing sector at full capacity, it’s a good thing they were equipped to manufacture so many essential items. The US started running into capacity problems with some of the industries we do have like meat processing plants, if we relied more heavily on domestic manufacturing we actually would have been worse off over that period.
> Author makes some big claims without much evidence.

Is this a joke? Do you expect someone to convey a compelling case for a broken prison system in the space of a tweet?
And that would be faster than the Pascal version

But it is unsafe. Someone might mistype * * s as *s and then bad things happen.

Pascal strings are basically memory safe. With range checking enabled, you can write whatever and it can only access characters in the string.

Ofc, then people disable the range checking in release builds to make it faster
> The migration part is because Twitter is a centralized network, which has been ever more draconian with its APIs. Federated and decentralized networks shouldn't have logistic issues with exiting. Again, see Mastodon.

I think you missed the whole point of the paragraph. The reason "exit" is not easy even on "decentralized networks" like Mastodon is because of the economics of doing so. Even though it's technically more feasible than closed sourced social graphs like Facebook or Twitter, people rarely have enough incentive to fork off with their own network.

For this migration to work correctly, it should be effortless and without much cost for every user. That's not the case as the article explains clearly. No matter how federated Mastodon instances are, they are equivalent to running a city. Most people don't want to run a city just because they are sick of some policies. They have other better things to do in their real lives. OP explains that in these federated approaches or Urbit like approaches, technically you're free to fork off, but most people will choose to live a shitty life because it's too much hassle.
You’re using lynx right? It works pretty well on a lot of sites. Sometimes turning newspaper and magazine website into quick loading “boring walls of text”.

There’s some good console Reddit clients out there too.
Walking Snowflake: Planthopper Nymph from Ecuador
The article is wrong about that but not about other things. Overall is an interesting reading.

It's also interesting to see how step by step some myths are disappearing. For instance, the article recognize the importance of taxes as a main drive of giving value to a fiat currency.
> The artificial fiat manipulation that we're seeing now is setting the stage for a massive wealth transfer.

What is the wealth transfer?
Your job description of devs is very limiting. Software developers should be close to the customer problem, work to understand it, and develop for it. When you silo them away this way and expect them to be order takers you add bloat to the team and inefficiencies.
So are you also going to point out that the vast majority of other top links are actually quite credible? It's easy to declare a whole site bad over one thing isn't it? Like the author in this article did under similar circumstances?
>and so on.

Yours is a great list of stipulations. I would just add: support for open + interoperable protocols such as activitypub and RSS.
The FDA still has to approve and cutting corners will end up being when searching for approval
I disagree, it doesn't result at all in a "net increase" of lawfulness, it's just an extra person breaking the law and driving badly.

UK highway code is pretty clear on when it is acceptable or not to flash your headlights. Using them to alert others to your presence (ie, "I'm here please turn off your high beams") is fine. Doing it like the parent poster suggested could result in a £1000 fine if caught.
Both obviously happen. The “delusional” label is used (rightly) to dismiss certain claims, but then of course people use the same label incorrectly when attempting to dismiss claims they don’t like.
Well, my very first recommendation was the Bible.

So, I guess I've got that going for me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)

the ports are done by different people as well as the sound track.

Why do you want to do this all by yourself? I'd recommend to use whatever is useful, affordable and makes it more fun!
>"You can access any memory locations, and cast it in many different ways, examine the assembly to precisely understand the next steps"

This is not the exclusive domain of GDB. I have all those features in various Windows based IDEs all working in friendly manner.
>Or, you know, Apple gets the same or more kind of criticism, but since you are biased to agree with it, you are blind to it, and only see the praise/defenses.

Do you honestly believe if this post was about apple or an apple product with the exact same lack of content, it would have gotten the same number of up votes as quickly as this one did?
There are networks that let you do that. GiffGaff in the UK is one. They're even fairly generous in giving you a couple of extra GB for free if you only go over occasionally.
Sure you can. You can provide explanation of why your claim is not delusional.
>> however the big danger is still cell phone usage

There’s more than just cell phone usage. Inattention comes in many forms and none of them is better or worse than the others.

Drivers paying more attention to the radio show they’re listening to while gently zoning out to the traffic conditions around them - this is really common on long motorway journeys.

Drivers fizzing with rage at the argument they just had before getting in the car.

Etc etc
It's a prevalent attitude of successful people who are used to lower ethical standards applied to them and being given priority in their day-to-day life. An extra factor is that premium cars (irrespective of wealth) are sought after by people with negative personality traits [1].

I don't know why the difference between UK and Netherlands, maybe due to differences in income equity and judicial fairness? I imagine the behaviour is worse in countries with worse social fairness (Russia, even US?).

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijop.12642
Any progress on the rust implementation? There was a lot of activity a few months ago, but now it seems that things have stalled.
Surprised you're the only one to point this out. It's a feature, not a bug. It runs for 300 hours off 4 AAA batteries.
I use dark mode everywhere it's available - even on my cell phone. And speaking of, I found out yesterday that Github now has it. Best news all day!

I use Logic Audio on my Mac desktop a lot, but it thankfully is in "dark mode" by default. I assume they made that choice knowing that people would be staring at the screen for hours on end.

I also set my screen brightness to a comfortable level that isn't nearly full blast, and enabled the feature that lowers blue light when the sun goes down.

Another thing I do: My laptop runs Windows, so I also have Linux running in a terminal on screen pretty much at all times. I let the terminal take over half the screen, which is pretty much where Windows wants to place it.

However, with my browser (chrome), I stretched it to fill 3/4 or 2/3 (or so) of the screen so that it partly overlaps the terminal, and then set the defaults for a slightly larger font. This allows me to see web-based resources when I'm tooling around on the Linux cli. You have to be careful not to accidentally move the browser window too much that it goes full-screen, but you develop super-human placement accuracy after you've done that a few times.

Likewise, when I am watching anything that is full-screen, like YouTube for example, I set my laptop on the foot stool so that my eyes can have a different focal length for a while.

That's about it. I hope other people post some ideas, because I spend way too much time on the screen and so I'm always looking for improvements as well.
But if it includes a shell, you still need to learn the shell, don't you? It doesn't matter from where the shell was called, a real terminal or an emulation.
Some industries in China follow the 996[1] working hour system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
Neither is keeping a patient on life support when they're persistently vegetative and you need the hospital bed.

If you have a non-austerity solution that doesn't assume infinite exponential economic expansion I'm all ears.