skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gah, that's comparing districts, not voters! They're saying not that poor people vote republican, but that poorer areas tend to be red. Even within those districts, poorer folks vote democrat.

It also runs afoul of the problem of using median statistics in a distribution that isn't gaussian. In fact per this quick article I found trying to check out the conclusion in your link, it's bathtub-shaped: both the poorest and wealthiest counties trend strongly blue. https://qz.com/1919592/why-joe-biden-will-win-rich-places-bu...
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think you've got that backwards: freedom of speech is a right, that a government ought to recognize. "Protected speech" makes it sound like the only speech we're allowed is what is specifically allocated to us.
According to the CEO of Parler, banks and payment vendors, law firms, text and mail services also cancelled on them. This is why Parler also motivates discussion of alternative currency. This is an expression of freedom of association by multiple parties. Google didn't need to ask Parler's lawyers or bank to quit them.

Parler became a hot potato, and whoever is the last one holding it receives a full-court press from all sides.
The borrow-checker is a big source of frustration for beginners, because it forces you to write code differently, so it takes a lot of getting used to. But I don't think I would characterize it as a source of complexity in the language. Frankly, once you get used to it, it makes the language simpler, because it means you don't need to worry about shared mutability. The complexity that does exist tends to come from the zero-cost no-copy abstractions which rust is so fond of, or `unsafe`, which exposes you to a whole world of complexity which safe rust protects you from.
While I think that having some publicly funded radio/TV is a really good thing, the idea of the UK TV license and the subsequent enforcement is not. My friends elderly mother does not have or want a TV. She is constantly harassed and threatened by UK license enforcement. Her son has invited them into her home on numerous occasions, hoping that the legal threats and visits would cease, but to this day they have not. I object to having my license fee money spent on such abuse of vulnerable people.
Indian Govt to WhatsApp: Withdraw “discriminatory policy” For Indian users
great as an academic exercise, but not useful in reality.
Shopify is a tool for “dummies” and lowered the barriers to open an electronic storefront. Kudos to them.

The first wave was making websites for dummies (before that there were geocities etc.)
Shopify made transactions and selling with your own branding easy.

No code software and solutions will continue to grow into other markets.
Android devices allow side loading, and as noted, you don't need an app to use Parler.

Server hosting is still entirely a commodity.

"Cloud Providers" are also a (smaller) commodity. Vendor tie-in (to things like AWS) is a problem for a number of businesses entirely less controversial than Parler.
The warning is probably directed more at politicians or civilians making complaints than the lawbreakers. It gives the agency something to point to when they get inquiries or complaints.
> It's borderline gatekeeping

No, it's a term-of-art. When people muddy the waters and try to undermine the standard terminology of a field, it's not some righteous struggle to liberate a term, it's just an obstacle to clear communication.

In aviation, flap is a precise term-of-art, and is never used interchangeably with aileron, despite that an aileron is plainly a kind of flap (in the colloquial sense). If you adopt your own definition of flap, to refer to both flaps and ailerons, no-one is going to sue you, but no-one is going to know what you're talking about. Your use of the term will be considered not merely different, but wrong.

Similarly, you could try telling a physicist that you consider the words power and force to be interchangeable. They're not going to sue you, but they're also not likely to entertain your deliberate misuse of standard terms.

Are pilots and physicists gatekeeping by being so insistent that you use their terms their way?
I think one can pursue software engineering with different goals in mind.

Maybe you work on a side project with new technologies to learn things - in this case the working code is not as important.

Perhaps you are trying to push a product out quickly - working code is the end goal and you may learn a few things along the way.

I find it disingenuous to say that working code is merely a side effect. As the author says, SE is a learning process and the main challenge is to understand the domain. However how the outputs of the process are ranked in importance is subjective and therefore one can rate working code higher than learning.

Although if you consistently rank working code over learning I would assume you are a poor software engineer.
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"All of a sudden some superpowers just yell freedom in your face"

This is completely false.

The Arab spring was not incited by the West.

It was well underway long before the West was even paying close attention.

In Tunisia, the West was not involved.

In Libya, the West stayed away as long as they could.

In Egypt, the West avoided until they were forced to pick a winner and Obama weighed in politically to 'support' a transfer of power (they were all looking to the US Pres. at that point).

In Syria, the West stayed out for a a long while, an when they did get involved, it was mostly against ISIS.

The grievances on the Arabs street are very real.
Uh, I thought it was obvious I was referring to to WhatsApp. Have you ever used it?
Indeed... VIMAGE and Crossbow are such great technologies for virtualizing container network stacks. Couldn't imagine life without them anymore.
If we're being fair, docx (or rather, tools that write docx files) offers a lot of tooling out of the box that is useful for proofreaders, editors, and typesetters. Revision history, suggestions, and non-printing comments are all incredibly useful.
Good question! The way it is normally used: No.

However, 2.4GHz and 5Ghz are in the frequencies alloted to licensed Hams so many do set up WiFi networks that can transmit stronger signals than off the shelf consumer wifi devices where this would certainly apply.

tldr; No, if you aren't using an external antenna or firmware that would cause your WiFi device to change from being considered a Part 15 device to a Part 97 device under the FCC.
I'm sorry to hear that. Is there any way to ask if she'd like you to fly out (assuming that is practical/allowed. In the UK everything is locked down)
On the good side it seems like all this controversy is good advertising for Elasticsearch as a product and as a useful code base.
Users don't generally care that the source is available for the purposes of reading it, or even modifying it. They care that the source is available because its a signal of their freedom to use the software how they wish; whether that's hosting with Elastic, hosting with AWS, or hosting it themselves.

Any license which restricts a user's ability to use the software how they wish is no open source license. And the OSI has so far supported this; the SSPL is not an OSI approved license, despite being submitted for approval by MongoDB then retracted a year later.
> You know a better tool that does the work?

Yep, KIT Scenarist.[0]

[0] https://github.com/dimkanovikov/KITScenarist
> Amazon illegally uses the ElasticSearch trademark. Amazon illegally uses and distributes proprietary Elastic's code.

Those are interesting and specific accusations. Got any proof?
Nope, code is still available as before and you can make changes and run the code at home/work whatever.

That isn't sufficient to be "Open Source". That's more of "Source Available" or "Shared Source" or something.
It definitely has had that effect for some, and I think that the promise of vaccines is probably exacerbating things since there's now the feeling of "I _could_ be out of this if only…".

What's helped me to stay in a positive space and productive during lockdown:

1. Daily exercise. I never worked out with weights before covid, but I bought a kettlebell and the book Simple & Sinister and started doing that routine along with cardio. Makes a huge difference.

2. Any kind of mindfulness. I've read a bunch of books on happiness during lockdown. Most all of them say the same things and suggest the same sorts of mindful practices, so I chose to do some practices based on stoicism and cognitive behavioral therapy. (Recommended reading: Why Buddhism is True, Everything is F*cked [starts good, gets bad], How to be a Stoic, A Handbook for New Stoics, Full Catastrophe Living. Choose any/all and see what you like.)

3. Not reading the news or doom scrolling. I get a covid newsletter each day (https://paulbart.substack.com) and don't read any other covid news. I also got off social media and don't read much about politics/the general shitshow. Basically, things that are beyond my control I pay limited attention to. When I violated this, obsessively seeking out streams & tweets from the storming of the capitol, I wound up having to take the next day off because I was so out of sorts.

4. Connecting directly with friends. I deleted my social media accts this year and started reaching out to old friends directly. First with a bulk email then zooms/phone calls with folks who wrote back. It's been great to reconnect and everyone is happy to chat!

5. Putting strict limits on work. I don't touch it outside of what I've determined to be "work hours". Period.

Good luck. Things can get better.
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize those were Rumsfeld's remarks - my fault, I didn't bother to re-read the transcript after recognizing the {known, unknown} X {knowns, unknowns} thing, which I studied in the past. That said, this doesn't change my response to it.

There's a pattern of confusing/faulty reasoning that I've noticed, which I highlighted in my previous comment. I don't have a name for it yet - but it boils down to noticing a thing or possibility exists and arguing just from it, without bothering to ask how much of it there is / how likely it is. It's reasoning in an unnecessary fog of war, kind of similar to arguing from point statistics (e.g. average and stdev) instead of looking at the actual distributions.
Show HN: Create your own personalized web search index
What are some specific requirements? Aren't most formatting done by the publisher anyway?
Ether, second-biggest cryptocurrency, is closing in on an all-time high
The NASA Engineer Who’s a Mathematician at Heart
The protests in Tunisia started because an unemployed young man burned himself to death. In Syria it was because the secret police abducted a few teenagers for making some graffiti, and tore out their fingernails. In both cases, ordinary people were fed up. These things happen in corrupt and oppressive regimes, but blaming the west is really condescending. The people over there made their own choices for their own reasons.
Do you mean something like the radios prominently displayed on the tactical gear of the SF larpers shown in many of the vidoes of the insurrection?
Twitch stream in the background sounds... like a nightmare to me. I'm only commenting to ask you -- do you think this is long term healthy? Do you think this is something you'd like to continue long term?

The way you worded it: "As for isolation..."
Do you think a Twitch stream... makes you... un-isolated?
There were times when being in an intimate relationship with someone of the same gender was a crime, and a lot of sex work is still criminalized, so I'm actually quite bothered by (particularly) the prohibition against using encryption. Obviously I have no sympathy for white nationalists, but "crimes" in general tends to cover both things that are bad and things that aren't.
That's right in the article.
So the phone Purism advertises in the article should suit you well. It's a desktop GNU/Linux, so you can install everything as you wish.
The past 9 months have been the best ones of my working life. No more long commutes, no more inane meetings, no more rude interruptions to talk about sports or GoT or whatever.

Online meetings have become very efficient as nobody tries to talk over each other. There are way fewer "immediate" deadlines as everybody accepts that e-mail replies will not be immediate.

I hope this becomes the norm for me for the rest of my career.
I find both the geometric and algebraic definitions quoted here unsatisfying. What is a “volume” spanned by a vector space of polynomials or co-tangent functionals?

*A* determinate function (not the) is simply a skew symmetric n-linear map into the underlying field.

Done. Now we get the volume interpretation when it’s appropriate, the wedge product interpretation, and the generalization to finitely generated projective modules (if a determinate function exists, there are additional conditions needed for the existence.)
I didn't dive that deep into WebRTC configuration yet. But I think it can be achieved with some sophisticated SDP transform configurations.

I have an idea how to make it more usable with with current setup.

There is a new feature in electron comming in future releases:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/23923
they claim that it will make possible to run desktopCapturer
without a mouse pointer.

So I was thinking when it will be released, we can make two separate streams: one for entire desktop with really high quality, and second streem just with a tiny fraction of desktopCapturer mouse with its position. Then merging these streams together and delivering to client web browser.

This is basiclly how astropad works. They are delivering high quality picture of entire desktop, but the fast mouse pointer movement in its own small box, you can see it when watching videos, the pointer has a slight bounding box around it when you are watching some Forza Horizon videos and hovering a mouse above it.

Hope that one day we can do it in Deskreen :)

Cheers
> One kilogramme of the new material generates enough drinking water to meet a household's daily need, and does not require any external power source

First the density of an aerogel is very low, so 1kg is like 50 liters (13 gallons). To absorb humidity from the air, it can't be a big cube. If we use a 1cm (1/2 inch) wide sheet, the size must be 5m^2 (54 feet^2). That slightly smaller than the size of a wall of a room, and you need also a good airflow and enough sunlight to provide the power.

Also it produces 17 litters (4.5gallons) per day. A typical family use 300 litters (80 gallons) per day. So it's enough water to drink, but not enough water to live.

And the 17 litters per day are measured in a humid environment. The details are not very clear, but in most humid environments it rains and you have some system to collect the water or extract it from a nearby river. The problem are the dry environments.
When your only tool is a search engine, what kind of problems can you solve?
Five times and no comments on anything. I wonder why such a trove isn't worthy of discussion?

I suspect because if people watched those videos, they'd come away with a very different perspective. Pretty much all you see is people standing around waving signs and chanting -- literally textbook non-violent protesting. Once you see them enter the Capital, you still don't see waves of violence and destruction. There are a couple-dozen aggressive/violent people at most (and those people should definitely be arrested and charged).

In contrast, I've seen hundreds of videos of other riots throughout the year where you get hundreds of videos of the violence (along with the videos of people getting chased down and beaten up for violating the "no cameras rule" because they don't want to be filmed doing horrible things. Most of those didn't have large groups just standing around waving signs and chanting -- almost everyone was involved in the violence and destruction. There was an interesting article I read that the riots this year caused more property damage than any in US history by property insurance claims. That's not including people hurt/killed, all the property damages under 10-20k per building where it costs more to file than to pay out of pocket, vehicles totaled, government buildings ruined (that the people's taxes have to pay to repair), etc.

As I said before, I have zero tolerance for the violent people at the Capital. I also have zero tolerance for those beating up and hospitalizing thousands (probably tens of thousands) throughout the summer. This is in stark contrast to most news organizations and even prominent politicians who stated that the massive violent protest was a necessary and acceptable idea while then decrying the couple dozen violent protestors at the Capital as the basest kind of evil when all of it was evil political violence and was all wrong.
> We actually have a lot of insight in that Intel still doesn't have a good grasp on the problem. Their 10nm was supposed to enter volume production in mid 2018, and they still haven't truly entered volume production today. Additionally Intel announced in July 2020 that their 7nm is delayed by at least a year which means they figured out their node delay problem.

Knowing something happened is not the same as knowing "why" it happened. That's the point of my comment. We don't know why they were not able to achieve volume production on 10 nm earlier.
I think its mostly people with Baofengs operating on MURS and GRMS bands. The prepper and tactical larper forums all talk about how to setup a Baofeng for unlicensed use at these bands. I hope all hams out there do their best to help monitor our airwaves and report any abuse.
I know a lot of Americans don't like Monarchies, I don't love entitled rich families either but the alternative is really having a second parliament, and I've learned having a parliament + Monarch works a lot more smoothly than President + 2 houses.

eg Western Monarchies: Canada, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Norway
Similarly, my Baofeng has no problem on the many repeaters in the Northern Nevada area. Definitely YMMV.
That's the core of the question, isn't it? When does the map become the landscape?
During the early days of sports streaming (sometimes still) you'd find a stream with a live feed of the stadium broadcast without the ads. During the commercial breaks you'd be able to watch what was on the megatron (camera panning crowd, in-stadium entertainment).

I would pay a massive premium to have access to that feed for every sports broadcast. Gabe Newell said it best about piracy offering the best experience.
I am not sacrificing much. Project was fully open for a while, bot no coauthor emerged. I only get minor patches. Contributions are happening outside core project, some people build pretty awesome stuff on my library, I also get connectors etc...

I would say this approach fits great for one-men projects.
Lots of people here suggesting the main benefit of PowerShell is its object model and indeed that is very useful, but there are other great features as well. First and foremost, PowerShell basically has a command line parameter framework built in. You also have a runtime backed by one of the best standard libraries out there (.NET) - one in which you can easily reach into anywhere in your PowerShell scripts. It also has a module ecosystem supporting development in either PowerShell or C# proper. And now with PowerShell core it's cross platform. PowerShell also supports pipelines, but I mention this last because it's obviously not a distinguisher for it with bash. It's really not even a contest, PowerShell is way more... well, powerful than bash. Since I've become proficient I would never go back to bash.
Auctions. There are any number of online auctioneers selling off machine shop tooling (going out of business, upgrading and getting rid of old stuff, etc.).

I haven't bought CNC machinery that way, but I've gotten tooling, measuring equipment, etc. for pennies on the dollar buying from auctions.

And like jacquesm said, EBay.
I think there's a lot more substance to that thread, that includes things like looking up company registrations (and not finding them), discussions of salary costs, etc.

To compare it to "George Soros is paying hundreds of thousands of crisis actors to show up at BLM protests" is begging the question, with respect to what a conspiracy theory actually is.
Cruise and GM team up with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles
I see you hate the Unix philosophy....for conversions use pandoc. A Song of Ice and Fire was not written with Word.
I have iPad Pro 2017 and Apple already thinks it is too old to run a SideCar on it. Such an incredible world we live in :)
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is exactly correct. "Open Source" doesn't (just) mean "You have access to the source code." It's actually a pretty specific thing.

And before anybody says it - yes, we all know that OSI doesn't have a registered trademark on "Open Source." Doesn't matter. We're talking about a de-facto definition, not de-jure. And among people who actually care about the definition of "Open Source" the OSD is the de-facto definition.
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Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up
This article has a pretty good overview of the situation and other metrics that actually track progress: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/a-better-wa...
Again, private companies really need to remain smaller. The size of the companies are completely out of control. So do they have too much control? Of course.

With that said, they are only doing what they know the masses want. So in a way, they're just doing the people's bidding. If Google thought the majority wanted Parler and hate speech, they'd certainly have kept it up.
> And in that planning the fact that TSMC’s foundries — and Samsung’s — are within easy reach of Chinese missiles is a major issue.

Are processor fabs analagous to auto factories and shipyards in World War II? Is the United States military's plan for a nuclear exchange with China dependent on a steady supply of cutting edge semiconductors? Even if it is, is that strategy really going to help?

This article is mostly concerened with Intel's stock price. Why bring this into it? Let's say Intel gets its mojo back and is producing cutting edge silicon at a level to compete with TSMC and supplying the Pentagon with all sorts of goodies... and then China nukes Taiwan? And now we cash in our Intel options just in time to see the flash and be projected as ash particles on a brick wall?

"The U.S. needs cutting edge fabs on U.S. soil" is true only if you believe the falied assumptions of the blue team during the Millenium Challenge, that electronic superiority is directly related to battlefield superiority. If semiconductors are the key to winning a war, why hasn't the U.S. won one lately?

And what does any of this have to do with Intel? Why are we dreaming up Dr. Strangelove scenarios? Is it just that some people are only comfortable with Keynesian stimulus if it's in the context of war procurement?
also Wouxun

https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-fr...
The fourth bullet point is also a non-starter. I'm sorry, but it's not, nor was it ever, good advice for programmers to write code both at work and at home. We don't expect this of other careers, we shouldn't expect it of developers, either.

Feel free to write code after work if you like, but to consider it anywhere close to a requirement, even to just help with burnout, is perpetuating a rather toxic view of this particular industry's workers.