skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also a good datapoint to counter concerns about the weather.

That statistic only observes a change in behaviour. It doesn't explain why it changed.

So, I think that claim can/should be falsified:

If there's an increase in bike usage, that's not because people feel the weather - in it's own regard - is less of an impediment to prefer biking over public transport. It's because people choose enduring changing weather conditions over accepting serious risk to their health for the sake of convenience.

> It's interesting that there's an effect going on here that's somewhat close to a Giffen good

According to Wikipedia [1]

> There are three necessary preconditions for this situation to arise:[citation needed]
> the good in question must be an inferior good,
> there must be a lack of close substitute goods, and
> the goods must constitute a substantial percentage of the buyer's income, but not such > a substantial percentage of the buyer's income that none of the associated normal
> goods are consumed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

So, if the only other close alternate to bicycling was public transportation, and other options (car) are because their costs outweigh the benefits, then biking would be a Giffen good.

This can be explained either because the perceived costs of the alternative - public transportation - became prohibitively expensive in terms of an increased health risk and the potentially associated costs that come with that risk (death, disabilities, healthcare costs, income loss,...). Or because people are now more willing to accept changing weather conditions (per your claim).

Of course the only way to confirm this is to actually do a survey and gauge the motivations that prompted a population to change their behaviour.

As an anecdotal aside: I was a heavy user of public transportation. I switched to going on foot, or taking my bike to get around exactly because of the pandemic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727714 : “I am now crawling URLs of all videos uploaded to Parler” (twitter.com/donk_enby)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620 : Parler Databases Disclosed (twitter.com/bitburner) (96 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726603 : Massive Parler User Data Breach (reddit.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726466 : All Parler user data was downloaded by hackers (reddit.com) (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268 : [flagged] Parler user data exposed and exfiltrated (facebook.com) (37 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727741 : Parler's user data may have been breached (twitter.com/thejeremyvine) (33 comments)
Like Mint failed to fork Ubuntu? Or Ubuntu failed to fork Debian? Or LibreOffice failed to fork OpenOffice? MariaDB MySQL?
I’m of the opposite opinion. I like the two-column structure and there’s just enough space to sketch in the margins.

Also, if you can get a whole set I highly recommend it. It’s pretty convenient having so many great works in one place and when coupled with the syntopicon it really is a treasure.
You're still failing the civics test, as you don't seem to be aware that the entire point of the poll tests was never to actually test anything, but rather to serve as a pretext to deny people their constitutionally guaranteed voting rights. You can't "fix" this problem by offering remediation measures that would be immediately coopted by exactly the same actors to exactly the same goal. All the continuing education would be is a waste of time and money for the targeted people going through it, as some excuse would still be found to deny their voting rights at the end of it. Do not underestimate the lengths that people will go to for voter suppression. You can't design a program that won't be intentionally warped and abused to serve this ulterior motive, especially considering that you won't be running it; they will be.

We have hundreds of historic examples here of how allowing the denial of voting rights for any reason is an incredibly slippery slope, and it is rightfully banned except in a tiny number of instances (felons) that still need to be rectified. And yes, the war on drugs is itself a successful voter suppression effort -- make enough things illegal, and convict enough people of felonies, and you can meaningfully alter the make-up of the electorate. This has actually happened.
Funny I thought you meant when Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19B.
So long as you expand the acronym in the first use, no one reasonable cares.
As a programmer, I find it comforting to hear that people are prepared to terraform in order to cancel out my bugs.
> If my illusions were broken - even for a second - I would certainly die of shame.

Its hard to think about such dreadful things when you're on your yacht or golf course.
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NPS stands for Net Promoter Score. It's supposed to get a sense of % favorable - % unfavorable and leaving out the middle.

I've seen this at many companies and its one of my biggest pet peeves. Almost nobody uses it correctly. They don't net anything. They take the average. It's not clear at all why it's any different from any other score. I think most people think its some sort of collection or measurement thing rather than a calculation on the data. I hate it. Reeks of innumeracy.

Not that it really matters if you use average vs. nps...
The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
Can't wait for them to attach one of those Samsung autonomous sentry guns to the back of Spot and start patrolling the DMZ with it.
Rust drops official support for Windows XP
How to configure WebPack is worth more than how to compute a Z transform, apparently.
EU commissioner: Capitol siege heralds tougher social media curbs
I think people underestimate how hard it is to acquire talent when you're an operation like Parler. The average person is not going to want to work for them.

You can't even say it's a principled free speech stand because Parler does ban people for less egregious things than organizing an insurrection (i.e. posting poop pictures).
Because DARPA invests in high-risk research! They pour lots of money into lots of failures. It’s the nature of research.

DARPA gave up on Boston Dynamics in 2015 - BigDog and it’s like were just too noisy and finicky for use in a combat situation. I believe all the BD robots they purchased are in storage. And it’s not like Boston Dynamics was ever an extension of DARPA. The DARPA collaboration (along with the rise of YouTube!) made Boston Dynamics famous around 2007-2008, but the company has been around since the 90s and always had other projects and clients.

In general, robotics technology does not belong to the US, and as Boston Dynamics’s technology has applications in medicine, manufacturing, and humanitarian aid, this nativist greed is particularly inappropriate.
Robot sharks?
This was during the first Trump is crazy, must remove him using the 25th phase. It wasn't just commentary, as this seemed to necessitate multiple days of coverage. I would say it falls closer to the malicious category because they have their agenda, like Fox news does too.
They have their own defense subsidiaries such as WIA.

http://en.hyundai-wia.com/business/defense_business.asp
there are controlled studies supporting this idea the function parameters not having types slows down productivity
Things have value for different reasons - Home Depot has value for its stores and employees: even though it is relatively conceptually simple to build retail outlets and hire people to staff them it still is a major undertaking that takes time. A place like BD is mainly valuable for the knowledge and capabilities of the existing employees/technology.

Being bought for the users (as with Salesforce buying Slack) vs being bought for the knowledge and tooling (many of Apple’s acquihires come to mind).
It is worth pointing out that Ontario solar generation is only 1% of the power supply mix.

https://ieso.ca/en/Learn/Ontario-Supply-Mix/Ontario-Energy-C...
Chinese regulators to push tech giants to share consumer credit data
I've recently had an interesting conversation, and this question is intended to explore some of the issues that arose from it. I can't say too much without spoiling the point, but I'd really appreciate it if people could take 30 seconds to answer the questions.

And unlike some polls, it really should take rather less than 30 seconds.

Thanks in advance, and apologies in advance if you think this doesn't belong here. There is a field on the form that you can complete if you want to ask me what this is about.
the C++ 20 version can be simplified a bit to:

Numeric auto twice(Numeric auto x)
{ return x + x; }
There really is something seriously fishy with how "Voter ID" is being fought against and dismissed. Here you have a nearly 100% effective method of silencing the complaints of the "not accepting the fair election result" Republicans, and yet no one wants to explore it. Not only that, but it might even serve to promote participation and ease of voting, yet still... we get nebulous and down-right dismissive reasons why it can't be put in place.
That shows you the most recent app used, but he needed the most recent one installed.
So, Common Lisp and Smalltalk?

Any others?
No company or individual should have to carry rhetoric inciting violence until a court of law engages. Responsibility is not solely on the courts - corporations and people can make decisions on what is right without courts.

Especially when the person is obviously saying it -“behead Fauci”.

Bannon has a way to get his message out - he has his own media organization.

Many people don’t feel like what Bannon is doing is right and don’t need a court of law to tell them. Courts of law defended slavery - people made decisions prior to the courts interference to change that.

Small government requires the ability of private groups to choose their own moral stances.
I am all for high test coverage. One should not underestimate the effort in that, though. Some time ago I covered some two thousand lines of code completely in tests. As in, all code paths, checking all side effects. Kind of an effort in the spirit of "dealing effectivly with legacy code" by Michael Feathers. They were quite non-trivial and it took me about two months. Doing such a thing may not always be feasible. Also if code is written by others they may have covered fewer code paths in tests than one would have liked. A type checker will check all code paths but the tests that your predecessor failed to write are not checking anything.
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In this particular case XFCE isn't any better than GNOME. Even though it does have thumbnails, they are so small that they are not usable.
One of my long term thoughts on this was to think and mentally design a system suitable for one 250 Watt solar panel.

Assuming an average of 6 hours of sunlight, a 250 W solar panel can collect about 1.2 kWh of energy, or about 5 x 10^6 Joules.

In terms of potential energy that is

5000 kg x 9.8 x 100 meters.

Pretty huge for one solar panel.

I have been thinking about storing energy in underground storage tanks, with compressed air, but roundtrip efficiency does not work out.

Alternative method is to heat any material and use that heat later. Like, molten salt. But these systems are not suitable for domestic use.

Now I am exploring chemical methods to convert carbon to fuels using solar panels.
First of all, it was not "not covered", but censored. The Hunter story is valid, simply because it's valid. The same media that decided not to cover the story before the election, confirmed its validity since then and decided that it was in fact news-worthy. Also the FBI launched the investigation into this.

Hate to be the person to point that out, but let's be honest with ourselves, if it was Trump Jr. who was taking pictures of him putting his dick into a pizza while smoking crack with random hookers, it would be probably retweeted by @jack himself lol.
And the other is an implicit call for murder. Are you daft?
Next year autonomous consumers with No One at home
I'm not sure what you expect can be done about that. Every desktop is going to have its own set of features and APIs that other desktops don't. That's what they mean by "platform." Should e.g. KDE developers spend less time working on their own features and start contributing more to GNOME, to make GNOME apps work better in KDE, and vice versa? Maybe, but they would have to take the initiative to do it.
In the midst of all this, one thing always bite any site when some break-up happens:

>Also, a lot of posts were deleted by Parler members after the riots on the 6th. Turned out... Parler didn't actually delete anything.. just set a bit as deleted.

The perils of soft/logical delete instead of hard/real deletion.
Apple could gain some serious acceptance in developer/hacker circles if they would allow their hardware to become open after a fuse is blown.
Running on Air: The Dearman Engine
The two previous buyers, Google and Softbank, didn't have much presence in robotics, unlike Hyundai. Hyundai recently spun off the automation business to a separate company, Hyundai Robotics, early last year.
Right, hence my 4x margin assumption for my back-of-the-envelope math.

But I still think there's a limit to what any one company can do. The insurance company Allstate could be worth $1T if they end up entering a business producing revolutionary proprietary alternative fuel technology! Obviously, I think Tesla with Musk at the helm has a better chance of creating new markets than GM, Allstate, Exxon, etc., but I realize that there's some limit to what one company can do.

Once your company's market cap gets in the trillion-dollar category, and the total market cap of the US stock market is 50 trillion, you shouldn't expect a 100-bagger.
Is that the common case? Or put another way, is uploading images with GPS-tagged EXIF data considered safe default behavior?

IMO, smartphones should ask the user at least once per site whether to include personally-identifying EXIF info with image uploads. In many cases this is tantamount to sharing location data. It’s also not obvious to non-techie users that 1) photos contain GPS-tagged EXIF data at all, and 2) this data travels with the photo when it’s uploaded via a web form.
Assembling human-algorithm collaboration to tackle 'edge cases'
I though that's what folks on Parlor were doing but I couldn't download the app to see for myself ;-). My comment was an atttempt to highlight to the huge gap between threatening rhetoric and moral atrocities in sparking natonwide infighting.
It should be "checkm8" - works on A5 to A11 (iPhone 4S to iPhone X).
Yeah but that would dramatically interfere with their resale program
I blows my mind that a company that's sold / leased a few hundred units (?) worth less than $100,000 each is valued at $1 billion.
If it's any comfort, had it been me, you'd have gotten a promotion on the spot. Toolmaking requires a delicate balance between realism, and sytemic abstraction. You have to simultaneously keep the view of system-as-world and end-tool-in-the-world firmly in mind simultaneously. Sadly, with programming, it can be very difficult to keep oneself from getting bewitched by overall system complexity in ways that end up having an adverse effect on the usability of the tool itself.
Unfortunately you don't get upvotes for being thoughtful and sensitive. You're being a "both sideser", you see. Apparently, this is bad. Pick your tribe then agree and attack, hate and defend. These are the only options that will win you attention and approval. Seeking to understand more deeply, and take a broader view? You're part of the problem!
The right to make all your slaves refine user stories for the next forty years, of course.....
You're right, I was overly hasty in submitting this, I forgot to look for a more direct link. I'm sorry.
Their point is valid, though the comment reads condescending to me. Maybe it reads condescending to me because I don't agree with it, but I believe it could have been phrased in a less adversarial way:

«Haskell does not scale to organizations of 100+ engineers. There is a trade-off between writing and reading code, which Haskell does not fare well in. Also, given the realities of the dev hiring market, steep learning curves would be very detrimental to the success of the company»

What would have been your reaction if I had replied "look up the word condescension in the dictionary" to you? It would lead to bad discussion, regardless of whether my point about condescension was right or not.
It'd be interesting to see the corresponding public transit numbers. In the US, I'm not optimistic about a bike revolution lasting past covid. We've seen some new bike infra being deployed in Boston but not much more than we'd be getting anyway.

When you say car traffic, I presume congestion and not volume of cars. I'm sure volume is down overall and I recall from discussions about congestion pricing, even a 10% decrease in volume can result in congestion completely dissipating. In normal times, Induced Demand would lead to volume going back up as transit users convert back to cars.
Most people can set goals, follow through and completion is often where they get stuck. I don't blog, but if I did, "Completing goals for 2021" would be a nice one.
There are many studies on getting to 100% renewable, eg one by the French energy efficiency agency in 2016 (in english):

https://www.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/assets/documents/re...

Study on many countries:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033221...
MitM means Man-in-the-Middle, unless otherwise specified. There's no ambiguity. You just copied that list from Wikipedia.

PitM is much more confusing because only a few weirdos use that.
By the way, even if you had been infected, you still benefit from the vaccine.
You should still get the vaccine.
Another good read:

https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...

Solar follow exponential cheaper trajectory with no signs of slowing down. Virtually all forecast underestimated the trend.

In less than a decade solar will be way cheaper than operating cost of gas or coal plants. It make sense to overprovision capacity and shut down pretty much anything that could be shut down during the day.

Plus cheap spurious electricity opens a lot of new frontiers.
Elon Musk Donated to Signal
"Antifa riots" is a somewhat vague descriptor, but may well be yes, depending on which incident or incidents you're referring to.

Are you sure you haven't heard anyone describe anti-fascist actions as terrorism? I believe Trump himself said as much, several times last year, to wide news coverage.
> I don't want this to sound wrong, but I perceive most of the people complaining about censorship to be hypocrites. They'd be the first to censor if they were in charge of these platforms. They are some of the first to ban in moderated communities like reddit.

Based on what? I and many people I'm close to in real life are constantly concerned about these escalating erosions of expression and all prefer the less-moderated corners of the internet. None of us have ever sought out control and grew up consistently annoyed at one-sided media outlets, even if they represented the perspective we happened to agree with at the time. If we still use reddit (most of us are falling off), it tends to be a small subset of niche communities that don't focus on meta-politics or have auto-banning protocols. These are the people I see complaining about this around me. Is it just because I'm not on twitter?
From what I get, this is focussed on SMART, which is good. For goals like the ones that are mentioned in the article ("Workout 3-5 times a week") what I found though, and what did wonders for me, was additionally considering the results of research in habit forming. Especially binding the activity to a trigger instead of a certain date and time was really effective.
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many with Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived
Is language use not inherently shaped by the real world?

The site you tried is a tweet generator, not a question answering site. I prompted GPT-3 with "Bears and beards are different because" and got...

"Bears and beards are different because they are not the same thing.

Bears are animals. Beards are facial hair.

Bears are dangerous. Beards are not.

Bears live in the woods. Beards live on your face.

Bears eat people. Beards do not."

But my original point was mainly that this field is moving fast and the the old school NLG companies (I created one back in the day!) are toast.
Congrats! Saw a demo of the "Cheetah" in Cambridge about a year and a half ago and it drew a massive, captivated audience. Even if they simply seek to dominate the live robotics sports & entertainment market with their dancing androids the acquisition would be worth many multiples. But I suspect their vision goes beyond Hollywood, or even post-Covid automat style restaurants ;)

Interesting that it was Hyundai and not a domestic partner. Still has to pass trade scrutiny. But the subtext here is that American Manufacturing is slow to adopt robotics vs Asia. This could be a wake up call to a sea change in the culture

Manufacturing in America - A View From The Field

https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2...
> IDK anything about the pentagon, but as for why Pence's call would have more gravity than Senators is fairly obvious

No, what happened was the Senators called Maryland Gov Larry Hogan who has command of the MD National Guard. He mobilized his troops but he needed permission from the Pentagon to move them into DC. He didn't receive authorization for over an hour while the Capitol was being overrun.

This is a separate issue from Mike Pence. This isn't about Pence vs. Senators; the question there is why wasn't Trump the one to make the call? Where was he in all of this in defending the Capitol. Reports are that he was reveling in the chaos, and making calls to Republican senators to lobby them to take more time and raise objections to the electoral certificates.
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Poor internationalization support.
Parler hacked and 70tb of data leaked
I had an attack that kept the Malware after a factory reset, and I contacted Lenovo about it. They confirmed it was indeed still intact.

We even did a low-level reset (a representative guided me through it) but to his own surprise the malware was still there.

I was out of warranty and I had to pay a sum to get it fixed, which was more expensive than buying a new tablet.
> Even GPT-3 knows nothing about the real world; it's merely trained to repeat the words that most often followed the prompt in its training data.

I don't know why that would imply that it knows nothing about the real world, unless the data corpus it is trained on likewise bears no relation to reality...
Samsung SGR-1 is an interesting product, compared to their usual TVs and phones.
Ha, very interesting. I am on the boat of offering my services for MVP building.

As previous entrepreneur with some failed startups and heavy software experience, I've realised my skills are well needed in the market.

I think hardest part here is that clients for MVP has very high expectations and very little money for it. And the whole balance part falls apart.

Besides that - I really enjoy it. It's amazing to work on different ideas constantly.
As far as I understand, that would make the cables near-unusable for actual charging as without the ability to negotiate power settings (over the data lines) they have to default to an extremely low charging rate. So instead of a physical switch it would have to be a smart device with logic that allows for the charging "handshake" but kills other data transfer.
If everything were priced at its actual value, SV would collapse like a house of cards. The whole industry is based on obtaining for bargain basement prices engineering or research work which coukd be worth billions.
How would anyone expect to verify their compliance? It's not like they'll let you check Cheyenne mountain for any unaccounted-for stargates.