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Re:Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:37PM (#50261780)
> [...] they cannot control for the willingness to respond to polls at all.

I believe this is not true, because at least ESS (European Social Survey) corrects for non-response, although how exactly is beyond my understanding of survey analysis. Each country reports the response rate as well. See [^1] section 3. Although ESS is much larger survey than simple opinion poll, there are political affiliation questions too (`^prtv.*$` variables).

[^1]: https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/sites/default/files/202...

Re:SpeedCrunch 1.1 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:58AM (#50231078)
I use qalculate too, although it's plotting UI/UX leave a lot to be desired, because as far as I understand it, it calls gnuplot, which opens a new window each time. UI is nice when using breeze on plasma, but it has a crude look on darwin

The greatest qalculate feature is it's integration with krunner on kde, which gives you access to a very powerful calculator / unit&currency converter with Alt+Space (by default), but it often doesn't trigger when you want to convert e.g. currency, so you need to force it by adding a prefix = to a query, like

    = 1 EUR -> PLN
Never used speedcrunch though
The page addresses it: https://keepandroidopen.org/#objections

24h delay is not all of it, there's developer verification.

Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:39PM (#49552881)
What was the deal with .org?

EDIT: seems like Ethos Capital private equity firm wanted the .org registry, and Xavier Becerra (Attorney General of California at the time) wrote a letter that played major role in transaction being rejected

> Dear Messrs. Botterman and Marby:

>

> I urge ICANN to reject the transfer of control over the .ORG registry to Ethos Capital.

> The proposed transfer raises serious concerns that cannot be overlooked.

(from https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/correspondence/becerra-to...)

Re:Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:45AM (#49346378)
I believe the complete HTML version is right below the "Download PDF" button. Also I bet you could reproduce the cheatsheet using this HTML converted to markdown and some example from how other Posit (formerly RStudio) cheatsheets are made: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/tree/main/html
Re:Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:18AM (#49045611)
Same can be said about loopback device in general. Why do you need to use networking when you are literally on the same device and can use binder/dbus and friends with native apps?

Shizuku uses Binder AFAICS[^1]. Looking deeper it seems that Shizuku does not connect to the device itself per se, but rather it has a privileged server launched manually through adb. Never used Shizuku, so can't say for sure.

[1]: https://github.com/rikkaapps/shizuku#how-does-shizuku-work

Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:00AM (#48920962)
Arguably PCIe lanes the thunderbolt exposes are a differentiating factor, not the maxed-out specs that "plain" usb-c cables can have. Although to be fair, I've never used the PCIe lanes on thunderbolt ports.
Re:Plotnine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:01AM (#48642236)
And it comes with tidyverse-like cheatsheet[1] that I confused with ggplot2 when first discovered plotnine

[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/plotnine.pd...

Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:27PM (#48572760)
Sort of, there're more posts about graphene in the year 2026 & they get much more attention. Aggregated some data and plotted it with my agent: https://boop.icu/Pr.png
Re:Apple's CUPS repo was archived on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#48556481)
That's what I wondered as well, whether it is a new implementation, or perhaps they still use their version of cups? Or maybe they use the forked openprinting cups? Would be nice if somebody knowledgeable with a mac device told whether the cups is still used
Re:Apple's CUPS repo was archived on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:29AM (#48555896)
The repo got archived in march, I wonder whether it means that Apple uses something other than CUPS on their devices? Quick search suggests they still use CUPS, but why would they archive the project then?
Re:Coreutils for Windows on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:33PM (#48375090)
On nixos they're not, there's a single executable in /bin -- /bin/sh, and a single executable in /usr/bin -- /usr/bin/env
Both are non-deterministic, both have some metric to optimise, one is specific and efficient, the other is too broad and very expensive
Re:Opaque Types in Python on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:16PM (#48283574)
Much older? Wikipedia says[^1][^2] java appeared in 1995 (started in 1991), while python appeared in 1991 (started in late 1980s). 4 years doesn't seem too far apart, considering both language are >30 years old now.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:12AM (#48218984)
He doesn't have a role at Facebook anymore AFAIK, although I can't find the source now. I remember hearing it was mostly due to filtering engine at Facebook being rewritten in Hack, so they don't have the need for Haskell people anymore.
Re:Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE on Saturday May 09, 2026 @03:52AM (#48072906)
Secure boot ensures the image you boot was not tampered with. You can't install keylogger without tampering with the image. If you wanted to install physical keylogger, you would need to open the device up, and at least my laptop provides detection of bottom cover removal, meaning the system will ask you for a bios password if the laptop was opened up.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with color blindness? on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:36AM (#48050003)
> you don't have a colourblind person's 'profile'

Why not? As far as my understanding of color blindness goes, you just need to find a precise transformation matrix and offsets to be able to correct any type of deficiency (except for achromatopsia, I guess).

> When I use them I find the colour profile I am used to in the wider world flipped, and the semantic meanings given to colours, or their hierarchies, completely changed.

I think the correction applied to digital content is a positive thing. At once you can perceive color the way it was intended to be perceived. May be wrong here because I don't have daltonism.

> You can try to make a perfect system for every variation but the end user won't see it as precisely as you intend.

My goal is not cover every case, but to create exactly one profile (and perhaps create a usable correction workflow for someone else)

Thanks for an elaborate response :)

Ask HN: How do you deal with color blindness?

Hello, I am interested in how do technical folks deal with color blindness problems when using screens? Especially those of you who have rarer variations of it.There are some color correction options in OSes and games, but they do not cover the full spectrum of color blindness.One current solution I am investigating is using ICC profiles to perform correction, perhaps you can tell me whether...

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Re:A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:20PM (#47904255)
There should still be privacy concerns, especially with their demo which sends a POST on "Generate". The author suggests the model is 85kB of weights, which could run perfectly well in browser.

> But with this software - the tolerances are looser, so the clothing becomes more manufacturable.

Does it? How do looser measurements help? I assume manufacturer would always take the upper bound of dimensions. Suppose model also predicted your dimensions are higher then they really are, so these two in combination give you an oversized piece of clothing.

I personally like marimo[^1], the developers rely heavily on AI tools afaict

[^1]: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo

Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:58AM (#47715771)
Just a reminder that even if you managed to amend those commits and force-push, the commits would still exist and will be addressable given the hash is known.
Re:Dataframe 1.0.0.0 on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:37AM (#47488060)
Hackage recommends using Haskell's PVP[^1], but does not enforce it. That's why many haskell packages are a four-places versions: 3 required and fourth optional (but popular) that represents "other" changes, like documentation.

[^1]: https://pvp.haskell.org/

Mostly true, but I personally have it turned of for duckduckgo and it shows me some ads with [ad] label. Actually if you wanted to disable ads there, you wouldn't even need an ad blocker, there's toggle in the settings
It will be easy to check with devtools when the update is released

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