skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have the numbers to assert that one way or the other, since the ballot is secret.

In Virginia, more people voted for Biden in 2020 than Clinton in 2016, and for Trump in 2020 than Trump in 2016. Clearly higher turnout mattered, but whether the individual votes were switch-voters, new voters, voters who sat out 2016 showing up in 2020, voters who sat out in 2016 (but had a past history of voting one way) showing up for the other party's candidate in 2020 is much harder to assert.
I think those of us who try to anticipate problems and prepare for them are often easily dismissed and or ridiculed. It's true nobody really needed their cold-war bomb shelters, and the TV shows about people doing bug-out drills to their fortified heavily armed wilderness compounds paint a picture that's hard to relate to. But the two problems I'm concerned about right now are way bigger than me. No matter how hard I try to avert disaster, we are going to continue to see increasing effects of climate change and oil supply depletions. It's hard to predict exactly when, but I expect either or both to be quite significant in my lifetime, and I'm not a child. As such I am trying to arrange my life so that said effects do not constitute a disaster for me. And if I'm completely wrong, and GE develops a clean Mr. Fusion reactor next week, and the Gates foundation figures out an easy way to remove 2-3 trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, well then I'll enjoy my gardens and my hobbies and never think of it again. But just because I'm preparing for problems in the future doesn't mean I want them to happen. Don't worry about that.
Few things, maybe the way to farm trees is naive and can be done in better ways. Just entice companies to have different ways of working (even if they raise the price a little afterwards)

Also petroleum being a big factor in CO2 levels it's hard to not put it first isn't it ?
Ah, the days when deploying code meant dragging files from your desktop to server via ftp. While terrible in retrospect, it was surprisingly the most accessible way I have ever deployed. Now how those files were actually turned into a website was still magic to me at the time.
Welcome to the libertarian/small government world view!
This process doesn't use glue. It relies on compressing wood and removal of ligand.
What do you mean the vaccine mandates are not coercive? Isn't that the entire selling point of the mandates?
Why 4 billion? Why is that the right number? Why not 2? Or 1? Or 8?

And, why Africa and West Asia? Why not, you know, everybody?

And what are you going to do if they decline to be planned according to your idea of how they should be planned? (Which I suspect they hare very likely to do...)
It's arbitrary. The article shows an implementation that returns 10 (ASCII '\n'). But the spec says it doesn't matter, so you should only be using it to test >0 for success.
Certain dolphins have larger prefrontal cortices with more neurons, are highly intelligent with the ability to predict and long term memory yet seem to lack what we think is a unique human capacity for first person introspective meta-cognition. Which is essentially what most and this article mean when talking about the hard problem or qualia.

We can also look at chimpanzees. They have a prefrontal cortex, future prediction and long term memory. While their prefrontal cortex is smaller, it is also the most human like. Yet, they too seemingly lack capacity for that human style of conscious being. There is alas, something more your definition has failed to touch upon.
Relations often realize themselves as physical interactions.
"Obvious only in hindsight" ~= "Obvious only once known"

Neither of those things mean "obvious" (aka "self-evident") the way we usually mean it in colloquial English. Which is why your project requires some refinement in messaging.

I'm not arguing the benefit you claim isn't there, just that your statement about benefits being "numerous and obvious but only in hindsight" is not the selling point you think.
If a company is spreading lies about you then there is no reason to continue working with that company. I'm not saying Roku did that, but if they did then why would Google stay with them and try to argue instead of just leaving them?

Edit: I am specifically referring to the fact that Google claims Roku did this:

> Roku has once again chosen to make unproductive and baseless claims rather than try to work constructively with us. Since we haven’t been able to continue our conversations in good faith, our partnership for all new Roku devices will unfortunately end on December 9.
If Jerome Powell was greedy he would simply get a job in the private sector.

Anyone who is capable of getting the job as Fed Chairman will have no problem making a lot, easily and legally.

Believe it or not, some people go into public service with the desire to serve the public. Sometimes there are people who have already achieved tremendous financial success.
It may be that along the course of asking why 10 different times from different people she was able to identify the answer. It sounds like she got quite a few fragments of answers first.
China already has Africa covered
Singapore does a good job of matching public servant pay to private sector pay for that exact reason. They go so far as to index government pay scales to private sector pay.

The entire intent is to attract very talented people that want to do a good job. Having access to the levers of power is much less of an incentive as a (theoretical) result.
More along the lines of a client-side and end-user controllable way to prevent data (or specific categories) from being collected in the first place.

Edit: A cross-domain cookie could work for this
Yes. This is my point. Recorded music is top of funnel. Other stuff that drives people to that conversion moment where they buy the $600 ticket for the live show. An artist brand is part of that “stuff in between”.
The argument, at least to me, appears to lean heavily on a false dichotomy: You can either be smart, have good ideas, or some blend of the two. Yet he begins with a counter-example in the case of Einstein.
I wonder if driverless cars could follow that same android lath with Waymo being the alternative car OS that all the other companies have to use - but this time having to also pay google a lot more!
> most of their voters mean well

Can you give some sort of reason why you have this impression?
More people cross into California alone in a single Border Patrol district in a single night.

That said, I don't envision shoot on sight orders or the use of SM-70 directional mines on the American border. What I find particularly interesting is the complete reversal of positions from years ago. CSPAN has a video of Dianne Feinstein talking about border security with AG Janet Reno, and you could swear they were talking points cribbed from a Trump strategy session.

Increased immigration tends to lower wages which favors employers. OTOH, protectionist immigration policies tend to keep the status quo especially for low-skilled labor, whom you would think the DNC is pledged to protect. It's just interesting to see how political fashions have switched. Is it the fear of terrorists crossing the border or..?
Because it won’t look good in the trust-busting lawsuit. Monopolies kill competition like this. Is this different? Maybe. Doesn’t look good.
Country doesn't live up to the league's values. Evergrande crisis is going to eliminate the profit motive currently motivating the league to look the other way too. When that goes, the notion that U.S. basketball players can't speak their mind about any political topic goes with it.
What should you conclude about the fact all serial killers in recent memory used soap at some point in your life?
> Why would Apple want to give up their portion of the high-power desktop market to Windows?

I guess the question is, to what end?

- Apple hasn't had a good history with B2B sales. Evidenced by them getting out of the server business.

- Apple doesn't want to be a cloud infra company. Evidenced by them using other cloud providers to host iCloud.

- Maybe, Apple will one day sell servers again, or sell M1-like chips to cloud providers. However, we have no evidence of this. Apple prefers B2C products with 5-6 year refresh cycles. Their superpower is vertical integration rather than selling a single component.

- Cloudtops are becoming more and more popular, in-tandem with a powerful-enough laptop to appropriately hold local state such that the UX is responsive. Large companies that do software development, ML training, VFX, etc are already using cloudtops.

That said, small companies and individuals haven't yet started using cloudtops for intellectual property creation and a Mac Pro could still help their workflows.

With that in mind, where does Apple grow this high performance market? If there is no future for this market, why invest into any R&D? Let the Windows ecosystem continue to handle it for the few years it still exists.

Meanwhile, to help those small companies and individuals improve their current workflows, maybe Apple will release one or two more Mac Pros, but more likely than not all Mac Pro development will stop. I'm likely wrong about all of this but I feel, Apple will instead offer a "seamless compute cloud". Similar to their strategy with https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/ they will likely release a general purpose service for "cloud cores" i.e. the machine will locally have 6 high-performance cores, 2 high-efficiency cores, and ∞ remote-performance cores that are seamlessly integrated and run Apple's Universal Binary in "their cloud" (likely through AWS/Azure/GCP). Then no matter what the workflow is (e.g. photo/video/audio/game editing) you get a local preview (e.g. a low-res render locally) but in parallel the final product is built remotely and the data mirrored back to your local machine.

The only other reasons to keep building beefy machines like Mac Pro are for iCar Self Driving or to sell "cloudtops" (as I described in the paragraph earlier) but in a B2C context, i.e. the cloudtop runs in your local LAN/WAN or even as your home's Wifi router to reduce latency and accelerate all the Apple devices on the network. However, its not clear if they will invest in the software first or the hardware first for this distributed compute future.
> The argument, at least to me, appears to lean heavily on a false dichotomy: You can either be smart, have good ideas, or some blend of the two.

That’s not a dichotomy but a continuum, because of the third option.
That's answered below:

> On success, puts(3) appears to return '\n', the newline or line feed (LF) character, which has ASCII value... 10.

But note that that isn't standard behavior. The language in POSIX[1] is identical to that in the blog post. `puts` is free to return whatever positive number it wants on return.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/p...
I think there's a very big difference between asking simple questions (especially when gaining an understanding of a situation) and asking actually stupid questions (unrelated to the topic or questions that have already been answered). This article is claiming the former as the latter and saying "Even when I'm stupid I'm so smart"
Criminal charges for what exactly? The SEC exists by authority of Congress, and their purview is defined by Congress, just like every other regulatory body.
Why does Roku even need to work with YouTube to put YouTube on the device? It's a web page that can be opened in any browser.

For that reason, I have to assume that Roku wants to extract money from Google here, and as with net neutrality, they're right to not pay.
Redfin’s Reduced-Stress Week: Give It a Try
How Many Users Does Facebook Have? 32% - 56% of accounts opened by existing user
[off topic] I always wondered how '%n' is used in production code.
> Imagine a world where each nation is essentially a person...

I gonna stop you right there, pardner.

The first objection to protectionist legislation is that it benefits certain people in our country (the producers of X) by hurting the interests of other people in our same country.

Because you've analogized an entire country as a single person, your analogy is by definition incapable of addressing this problem.
Types of Hammers
PWAs have acceptable (but not full) support on iOS 14 and 15, you just are forced to ask customers to “press the share button then press add to Home Screen” for it to install to the Home Screen like a regular app.
The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
The selling point of the mandates is to reduce spread of the virus.
> That said, whether or not people are secretly klansmen or good deep down, they still exist, and they're still humans who deserve to have their voices heard at some level.

They don't believe this of us, and this is why they win, and we lose.
Why did he recommend OPAQUE over others like SPAKE2?

Re: Green's question on why it is not more widely deployed, I assume it is since TLS already is common and PAKE would be an additional layer of encryption on this? Or is his proposal use PAKE for auth then discard keys, use TLS normally?
What microsite costs $120/yr in electricity to run?
Iron based batteries also remove cobalt and nickel requirements, making them less environmental and politically difficult.

Anything to make EVs more mainstream has my interest.
Except of course there is no unwrap in the actual definition while both application and return are sure to be there. It’s not like any of this is relevant anyway. The usual abstractions liked by Haskellers are utterly pointless as this whole discussion nicely demonstrate.
> Figure out how to get to a global population of 4 billion: ie massive family planning drive in Africa/West Asia encouraging 1/0 children

Why in those countries, when countries in the west that have already completed demographic transition aren’t even at that level and have policies that actively resist fertility rates that low.

Why not encourage development in Africa and west Asia, immigration in to western countries, and family planning in places where headwinds are much weaker (and where a shrinking labor force can be bolstered by immigration).
Time to get a new TV then. It's been time for awhile but this is gonna be the inciting incident. And definitely not getting a Roku TV as my new one.
That’s very dangerous. If they make that much money they will have even less understanding of how the average citizen lives. That’s already a big problem. I wouldn’t want to make it worse.
> For example, this thread is 50 Tweets long. Fifty. Tweets. Long!

You should check out the blog post instead, then.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/

It's weird to use Doctorow as an example for someone who should blog instead of use Twitter.
Other threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383443 [2019-10-29] (80 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880240 [2012-12-06] (100 comments)

All discussions: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/duckduckgo.com/tty/

Discussions with similar title: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/q/DuckDuckGo%20as%20a%20TTY

Archive: https://archive.md/newest/https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
BTW https://anonymousplanet.org
He's not wrong, many cities defunded their police and then quickly reversed that decision, many adding more funds to their departments.

It was a pretty big event so I know we all remember it as long as you follow current events, but it's easy to find articles mentioning it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-reverse-defunding-the-po...

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/february/minneapolis-re...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/portland-mayor-addit...
Let’s make this the rule for all politicians
DSP doesn't depend on any external networks. There are mobile receiver terminals that can receive their transmissions and relay warning to combatant commanders. There's actually a funny little national guard post that houses those doomsday trucks. Another interesting garage is at F.E. Warren (mobile STRATCOM survivable NC3).
The correct implementation is obviously to return 1 on success !
Gotta keep those crime stats high to increase the police budget!
One of the reasons I love reading about crypto algorithms is that there is a certain elegance and the pleasure of solving an intellectual puzzle when you read them.

I felt this way when I first read about RSA and public key encryption, and Shamir's secret sharing algorithm

This article gave me the same feeling with regards to OPAQUE.

I don't know that I will ever personally implement the algorithm, but just knowing about it is gives me a certain nerdy pleasure.

Thanks for the great writeup.
No, I'm saying you should still stand for women and people of color instead of acting like supporting people who support them is against your own best interests.
> Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones

These are well-known...

> and Rachel Maddow

I couldn't find any such thing in the news. Source for that one?
Does it also mean that using wood at industrial scale is bad idea? Trees need phosphorus too
The problem is that economic growth usually requires energy...
Or send them a form with a submit button that works only if both answers are filled in.
I think OP gets the joke and is just saying it is in poor taste. Is it particularly different than their example of Hitler-sort burning stuff in an oven on failure? Or Columbine-sort, where the 15 coolest numbers get shot and then the rest of the numbers can get sorted.
Drama creates views.
Maybe not, but opinions about how we should conduct our societies depend on feelings, and things that appear true but are subtly wrong can cause great harm.
Permali is a commercially available hardened wood with impressive properties, but it's based on impregnation with a resin which is not the most environmentally friendly process. A particularly interesting application of Permali is the nuts and bolts fastening the ATLAS-I Trestle (said to be the largest wooden structure in the world) together, since the nature of the facility required use of a dialectric material for the large fasteners.

The resin process has definite downsides though... I'm curious about the chemical process involved in this proposal. Historically, chemical treatment of wood has been a significant source of environmental contamination. Although modern precautions reduce this problem, it'd be a big step forward if the chemicals involved here are pretty safe.
Absolutely, it's a big part of why they're cheaper.

I just wish I could actually get them for reasonable prices in smaller quantities. I have to pay a 3-5x premium for LiFePO4 batteries. I'd love some at a reasonable premium for my ebike :)
But Sentry can be used for the same analytics as ads. You can send events manually, it doesn't have to be an actual error, with all the info attached.

I'm a very satisfied user of Sentry, but I use it for an internal project. I also use LogRocket which is far more intrusive. For public projects, I would use Sentry but certainly understand that many people would block it. I would never use LogRocket without informing users though.
Archive link to full text of article: https://archive.md/d8V2T
> What your saying implies that the entire congress is responsible as everyone is accepting deals to look the other way… maybe you need to reevaluate what your writing?

Is that really so hard to imagine?
From beef bowls to coffee, cost surge squeezes Japan's salaryman staples
Correct, the article has zero mentions of congress
How long are those periods where it gets colder than -25℃?

Mitsubishi's heat pumps with their "Hyper-Heat" feature are able to work at 76% of their capacity down to -25℃. If those colder periods aren't too long, a heat pump combined with good insulation might be enough to get through that.
I have conservative members of my family, who I admittedly don’t talk to very often anymore, but when I do I do get a vibe that they believe what they’re saying. They genuinely think that Donald Trump really Made America Great Again, and that Joe Biden exist to destroy America.

I don’t agree with either of those statements, and I think their actions as a result of these beliefs are bad, but I do think they want things to be best for America, though I think they have a different definition of “best”

Obviously this is anecdata, but you asked why I believed this.
Factorium said that it was the population of 1974 - but didn't explain why 1974 is some kind of magical level for the population.
The evidence is actually quite dramatic. Birds that have difficulty cracking open the seeds available to them give birth to birds that have much thicker and strong beaks. Birds that have trouble extracting seeds from large flowers or other structures give birth to birds with longer and thinner beaks. Large changes to phenotype that used to be thought to evolve only slowly over long periods turn out to happen as quick changes based on environmental inputs.
I've been an Engineering Manager at a financial institution focusing on IT infrastructure automation for the past twelve months after coming from an Architect/Tech Lead type role in a much smaller organisation. I have learned a lot in this transition so far.

I love to design systems and write software, but if that's what I'm doing in this role, I'm not adding value where it's needed. The closest I get to code these days is helping with code reviews or supporting the team in making design decisions.

Most of my time is spent in meetings and this was the most confronting part of the transition. The organisation I work for is complex, with many teams responsible for different pieces of infrastructure and systems. My role here is to help set the agenda for what we're delivering and engaging with other teams/stakeholders to make sure we derive quality requirements that translate into epics and stories that my project managers can see through to delivery.

I am privileged to work with a high performing team and to maintain that, I have to support them by removing blockers and ensuring they get the right support. A lot of this goes beyond engineering work - it's about making time for one-on-ones, mentoring and essentially marketing their work to my leadership to ensure they're recognised.

Success in this role for me is when individuals on my team are receiving consistently good feedback on the value they bring to the organisation. Value meaning building infrastructure and tooling that meets requirements, is of good quality (and being clear on what that means) and thinks of the "customer".
Thank you for the very informative reply. I think that basically resolves my confusion about this.
Yeah, that all seems like a great idea. I'm sure Singapore has its issues, but sometimes I think it's funny how logically other countries seem to approach their problems. It's almost as though they actually want to solve them. In the mean time, in the US, we can't have nice things because reasons. It's sort of like how Japan has toilets with warmed seats. In the US, we don't have that because...honestly I have no idea; it's a great idea that we're simply missing out on.

P.S. To be fair, I think part of the reason Japan has this is that a lot of homes lack house-wide heating systems. They have things like kotatsus (heated tables) or space heaters. So it actually gets really cold in the winter. Having a warm toilet seat then seems like more of a necessity. But still...can't we just have warm toilet seats?
I wonder is this is intentionally set to match the top level of the GS (civil service) pay scale in the DC area.
Uber is global. No matter which city you travel to, customer support and the overall experience will be quite similar. You can always pay for your Uber electronically through the app. Good luck finding a taxi that will accept your credit card in whatever city you happen to be in.
Data never justifies anything by itself.

The article is about what they did with the data to get the conclusions.

Where do you think they went wrong?