skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have with this is that the score from 0 to 1 isn't tied to any strong foundation.

Suppose that I rate a candidate 0.7, and my neighbor ranks the candidate 0.6 . Does this mean that I like the candidate more than my neighbor does? What does that mean? How can we tell?

Suppose you take two people who would vote in the same way, but then you take all the scores of one of the people, and square them. These are all still scores between 0 and 1, and so a valid way to vote, and it keeps the preference order in place. But what do the difference in these scores mean? "amount of happiness"? How could we quantify this?

The way that seems to make the most sense to me is a normalized vNM utility. A person's least favorite candidate (or least favorite candidates if some tie for this position) get(s) the rating 0, and their favorite candidate(s) get(s) the score 1. All other candidates are scored as the probability r such that the voter is indifferent between that candidate, and (probability (1-r) of [least favorite candidate]) and (probability r of [most favorite candidate]).

This gives a well defined foundation for what score a voter would give a candidate, a clear definition for what a 0.6 means vs a 0.7 .

The system where you just pick the candidate with the highest average rating though, does not incentivize voting in this manner.

I have an idea for a system which I think would incentivize voting this way, and which would optimize the expected value of a weighted sum of everyone's vNM utility. (it is a weighted sum because the utilities are normalized between 0 and 1, and different people's vNM utilities are incommensurate. The weighting is in the normalization. It is I think the most neutral weighting it can be.)

However, it would probably be entirely impractical.

The idea is this:

Each person states their utility for each of the candidates listed, and the system makes sure that these utilities are normalized.

Then, each voter gets 1 (arbitrarily subdivisible) point of voting probability.

Then, a bunch of "trading" is automatically done, where say, as an example, if two people have different first picks, but would both prefer some other candidate as a close second, they could both give up some "undifferentiated" voting probability in exchange for some which is restricted in some way, based on whatever deal they made.

All the deals would probably be made automatically, because it would just be so incredibly inconvenient otherwise, and also having the result be biased towards voters who are better at trading probably wouldn't be great.

Once there are no more trades to be done, all the remaining undifferentiated voting probability goes to the voters' first choice.

Then, the winner is chosen randomly, with the probability of winning corresponding to the proportion of the voting probability that was assigned to them in the end.

Assuming an efficient market, this should optimize the expected value of a weighted sum of the voters' vNM utility (assuming rational voters).

Unfortunately, it is rather complicated, and I think it would probably be too computationally intensive to run.

Oh well.
In my opinion, you don't even need Marx for this. Even Jeff Bezos reportedly said "your margin is my opportunity". So if some product is expensive without being scarce, it is probably being "protected" by likely unethical means (like copyright?) or an oligopoly (unions?) that keeps prices artificially high.

Sorry if this missed the mark completely. Would love to learn.
Completely as an aside to the thread, if you're doing this a lot, try Kester K100 alloy, which is much lower melting than the first generation Pb-free, and behaves a lot more nicely. Not like genuine PbSn, but closer. Techni-Tool has spools of it in different diameters.
Are you even trying to compare a Disney film or similar "saccharnine contentless" media to the sheer acid trip nightmare fuel that is videos like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXjJdv5fj5k
> IMO it's only a problem if I did not give away that information. Thing is, we give away a lot of data about ourselves.

Sure, and why is it so ridiculous to expect that I might change my mind about certain types of information, when given to a corporation, and want them to delete that information? Why shouldn't I have the right to, say, tell a company with sensitive financial data about me to delete it and terminate my relationship with them? If I can't do that, then I'm at their mercy not to sell that data, be acquired and have the data used in new ways that I did not authorize by the new owner, or be compromised and have that data in the hands of parties that would misuse it.

We're not talking about censoring obviously public information, here, or even allowing people to hide when they've done something newsworthy. We're talking about controlling the flow of, and access to, private, personally-identifying information.
The money for that tape came from selling our privacy.
I'm interested in any encrypted 8th crackmes. Only Professional version and above can create them. I'm going to analyze the free version a bit tonight.
"I agree with annotations like this making it harder to reason about control flow"

That is precisely my consternation. Much, much easier to reason about abstractions in the core Java language, like methods and objects, then to discover what code is being injected by an annotation. Java has outstanding IDEs that excel at navigating, analyzing, and debugging Java code, but putting so much logic in annotations is almost like you are trying to deliberately keep much of the code secret from the IDE.
So it sounds like Android users resent Apple's tactics/platform, while Apple users don't resent Android's tactics/platform?

That is definitely interesting.
They also implicitly support their "right" to fire people at will and say "not my problem because you have your UBI" even though the proposed amounts for it are far below wages of jobs that are being eliminated.

It is a known fact that countries with insufficient opportunities to sell legitimate exports are the highest exporters of illicit items. When people are desperate for money and lack respectable opportunities, they lower their standards or they starve.

Edit: In response to your added sentence, so many rich people do all they can to find tax loopholes, I am not convinced that your assertion holds any water at all.
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There's ongoing work to fight against this, it just takes a very long time because the problem domain is incredibly complex.

RISC-V [0] is an open ISA that looks promising. Unfortunately, the privileged instruction set is still a draft, which is important for getting a full modern OS up and running.

lowRISC [1] is as non-profit open hardware company that has been working on a fully open RISC-V-based SoC that can run Linux. In their about page they claim it'll be ready this year.

There's also the stuff from SiFive. They have an arduino-comparible microcontroller, and have ongoing work for a 64-bit quad-core. I don't think their hardware is open, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

[1] http://www.lowrisc.org
They are paying now, in spades, for what they failed to pay for in security.
"FeedBurner is also minutes away of being sunset"

One may hope. FeedBurner is horrible. It wasn't great even when it was new, and Google's neglect of it coupled with the standard Google non-support black hole if anything breaks (as it regularly does) hasn't exactly made things better.
I guess you can have a key-per-row, or key-per-partition, and throttle and monitor access to that key. This isn't going to make operations like database indexing or joins very happy, so you're probably limited to payload-level data; hard to judge if that's okay since I don't know the requirements for the schema.

This presupposes you know what you're doing, security-wise, on your network, and with your backups, and with temporary data on servers. All of your interior traffic is encrypted, right? Right.

It doesn't sound like Equifax was even on the map.
I think an interesting question is whether kids raised on this content "barely above the spam threshold" have different cognitive functions and/or appreciation of content later in life. Maybe these kids raised on mass-produced low-quality content will care less about aesthetic integrity or NPR-type content as adults?
Upvote since I was never suspecting to see this mentioned on HN. It's not even a game I can describe to my gamer friends irl and have them understand the appeal.
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I made an interesting post on eBay business practices and it was flagged. I think it could have promoted interesting HN discussion of the dynamics driving these business practices. Why would such a post be flagged? What did I do wrong?
I have no idea how CPUs work, but MCUs do sorta work like how they describe; want to save power? You can easily tell the chip to cut power/clock to certain peripherals, change stuff like core clock speed and memory access latencies, make some peripherals run at lower or higher clock speeds than the core, etc etc.

You get really fine-grained control that allows a powerful and beefy chip to achieve really good power efficiency if the application is well-written, and a sleek ultralight 1.8V chip to devour power if it isn't.
Short answer no.

Long answer, most if not all people who go on about AI/ML/Data science etc are people who don't really understand the nuances completely. They might have done Andrew Ng's course over coursera and calling themselves AI/ML expert. So, they are the physical manifestation of the proverb - "empty vessels make more noise".
People don’t even know.

Macfilez, zelifcam, spending hours busting into rooms and convincing mass mail bots to send you email and downloading 3D studio max, maya, photoshop (100s of mb) in 1.4 mb mass mail chunks, building programs in OneClick on your Mac to write l33t text and bust into rooms, the AOL keyword “green”... those were the glory days.

It made no sense, it was amazing.
Definitely brings back memories - although I was never into the AOL or IRC scene. I was mostly into the BBS world before that, and remember groups like Razor 1911 & THG.

Would love it if someone would put together a doc like this about the BBS ANSI art scene - groups like iCE, ACiD, RELiC, etc. That was some amazing stuff, and a great community.
OMG the mad rush to get there first for libraries of revenge porn.
"without explicit injection?"

In many, many applications explicit injection works just fine and is exactly what you want. But once you say "I am going to write a Spring Boot application", you are pretty much stuck with a big part of your application logic stuck in annotations, even when there is very little benefit over explicit code.
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There are many other nation-states around the world that have been drawing heavy criticism for their politics. Even ones with different voting systems (or none at all). Such as UK, France, Netherlands, etc. Perhaps it’s not the system but some other factor influencing the current political climate. To me, the fact that political turbulence is occurring worldwide indicates that the issue is not with how one country votes, but likely from some other factor.
> You're forgetting that the courts are human and would be sympathetic in this case. If it couldn't be shown that you have access to the documents or you could show they were stolen then you would be fine.

But that's the whole problem. How are you supposed to prove that you don't have something? It's completely reasonable that someone can have stolen it from you without you being able to prove it.

They can prove that you do have it by finding it in your possession, but if they could do that then they wouldn't need you to tell them where it is. If they don't know where it is then they can't know whether you have it or not.

> Right, which is why I prefaced the discussion with the situations where the police can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you posses the key/password.

That's just assuming the conclusion.

Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody knows something is next to impossible. You can have them on video entering the correct pass phrase and it only proves that they knew it when the video was made, not that they still remember it now.
*Like Google added in Android 6 but Apple had for years.
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Years ago, a friend of mine was thrilled with Sesame Street, because after watching it for a year his daughter learned most of her letters and could count to 10.

I replied that sounded like the most inefficient method of teaching ever devised. Not what he wanted to hear :-)
We used to trade overhead accounts.

Overhead accounts were subaccounts of AOL employees.

There were different levels of administrative ability with different types of OH accounts.

There was also an employee version of AOL that had special menus to perform administrative functions.

For a while I had a L3 OH which let me create sub accounts under anyone's account without their knowledge, log any screen name off with the click of a button, boot people from chat rooms and disable accounts.

Unfortunately I got cocky (I was 15 so what'd you expect) and booted a catcwatch account, which of course immediately disabled my OH account.
I disagree. To kill is natural. Basic training is just finishing school.

Just a few centuries ago beheadings, blood feuds, lynch mobs and such were commonplace.
i remember some AOL software I used at the time that had a NiN intro
Which is sort of weird, isn't it? As little as 10-15 years ago there was a huge flourishing ecosystem of IM and chat clients, many of which worked together fairly seamlessly. Individual clients like Pidgin would happily amalgamate several platforms together. Now, at least in terms of usage, it's a blasted hellscape of a one-pony show - what happened?
Really interesting. What's a "catcwatch" account?
Protecting anyone hasn't historically been a concern for terrorists at all. Islamic terrorists, in particular, hit entirely Muslim targets all the time.

And no, even then, production and delivery isn't easy. There are no pathogens which are both highly infectious and highly pathogenic, both because those traits are mutually inhibiting, and such a pathogen would already have run its course in the world. Any attempt to increase infectiousness and pathogenic potential, however, would require a very large foot print, virtually guaranteeing discovery by law enforcement.
I had a look at few of these language lately (ADA,FORTRAN) and they don't look as bad as they sound, I mean they are not worse than PL/SQL syntactically.

Ada seems to have first class support for concurrency which is important for web apps. What are the downside ADA? looks like GCC supports it. Obviously the ecosystem isn't going to match Java's. But i wonder how does it fair against Go or Rust.
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It's fairly straightforward to prove that score voting does not violate the conditions of Arrow.

For example, adding an additional candidate should not affect the average score of the rest of the candidates, hence there is no problem with "independence of irrelevant alternatives". (I leave the rest of the conditions as an exercise to the interested reader.)

That having been said, all voting systems can be vulnerable to strategic considerations. However, simulations and theory suggest it's much less the case for score voting compared to ranked choice systems. See electology.org for some pointers to research.
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> Edit: the key comes from the user, its not stored anywhere on a server. The key can optionally never leave the user's device.

Does it mean if user loses his key - he wont be able to get access to his data?
RSS was strategically killed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter and the rest of the web followed. RSS was basically the open source TiVo of content distribution.

Content not wrapped in ads, isn't good for business. Period.

The creativity unleashed by hackers with unfettered access to Twitter's RSS payload was legendary.

I loved RSS. I still do. I still use Shaun Inman's Fever RSS every day. It is really unfortunate that he has discontinued it, the guy is an artist at the highest level, but I get it.

RSS would be all but dead today if it wasn't for Wordpress's universal support of it. Major props to Matt Mullenweg and everything he stands for.

It should have become the backbone of the web and Dave Winer and Aaron Swartz more celebrated for it.

Instead it is just a footnote. A story of a time before everything digital was wrapped in glorious, money making ads and companies discovered charging for API calls as a business model.
Chip making isn't magic. The more transistors you have the more things you can do. For example you can have more cache, more decoding units, more execution units etc. All this increase in complexity has costs which other phone manufacturer may or not want to pay for. Apple has a billion more transistors to work with. Will most consumers even notice the difference? will they pay more? Apple has a high asp so they can do it. How many other manfuctuers can do that?
I was right there. I watched her try to match the signature.
> part of a traditional Western upper class education

Such reasons have actually started to become a bit compelling to me, and might lead me to learn Greek, though I might do Latin first. It places you next to others who have learnt the same things through the centuries. Joining the same learning tradition grounds you in a common language and a common literature. It helps you understand intellectual conversations from today and from past generations. So I imagine, at least; I'm still just an ἰδιώτης.
Courts have found that the franchise licenser can be held liable things done by the franchisee, especially if it was part of the franchise contract.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/09/06/32m-domin...
"You don't off an example of a tech stack you do favor so one can only guess."

I think annotations are used many times in Java where abstractions like first class functions would be used in other languages.

I also find Lisp macros easier to reason about. "This compile time source code expands to this run time source code, which executes like so."

Perhaps surprisingly, I even find Ruby magic easier to reason about. "This method causes these three other methods to be defined to do x, y, z." It can get confusing, and final behavior highly dependent on the order in which the code executes, but I still feel like I have a mental model of how everything executes.

With annotations, depends on the code processing the annotations. You could have different code doing different thing with the exact same annotations. Your IDE can take you to the annotation declaration, but not directly to the code the annotation causes to execute. In the debugger, you can see the code in the call stack that was generated, but no link back to what annotation caused it to be generated.

It all just feels more like memorizing spells at Hogwarts, and less like an engineering process.
I hate this model. I'm old fashioned, in that anything I rely on day to day, I want to own. My tools, my games, my pots and pans. Every service license you agree to adds another layer of external control to your life.
The solution is to hash it locally and send the hash to Facebook without saving a local copy. Simple as that. Sure, someone could still do a lot of work to intercept or reverse engineer it and make an app to circumvent the hashing. But even if such an app existed, it would be obscure and people trying to upload unauthorized pics wouldn't bother or even know it exists.

If you've got pics you don't want on the internet, the first rule is to not upload them to anywhere on the internet. Actually the real first rule is not to take them. Flash people your bits in person instead.
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Samsung could make a faster chip, but they pretty much have to put a qcom chip in us phones due to the qcom tax. So having a s8 with wildly different preformance doesn't make sense. For example the exynos chips can do 4k60 but Samsung limits camera app to 4k30 to keep it in line with us phones.
The robots are because they don't want large-scale immigration of low-skill workers to take care of their aging population. On the other hand, they welcome professionals and high-skill workers.
It's a cool idea, but isn't this pretty easily defeated by an adversarial attack, or just altering the image in any simple way?

E.g. as the perpetrator, open the image of your ex in MS Paint, add a stripe across the bottom in such a manner as to not obscure the primary content at all, ta-dah, upload, image will not have a matching hash.
> I wonder if in practice range voting tends to collapse into first-past-the-post

Of course it will. The fundamental problem is selecting only one representative per voting district. However fancy and complicated voting algorithm you make, it will most probably collapse anyway. It's the size of the voting districts that leads to a two-party system, not the voting mechanics.

But then: Just pool nearest 20 voting districts [x] into one large voting district, from which you elect 20 representatives, and any kind of simple proportional voting mechanics [xx] will do. If you elect 20 representatives, any party that manages to get at least 5% of the voes will get their representative to the Parliament. New political parties start to appear, and a multi-party system emerges on its own.

[x] Or 15, or 30 or whatever.

[xx] Such as the D'Hondt method, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
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I used NetNewsWire and my easy solution was to simply “Mark All as Read” at the end of each day (other than a selected few feeds, such as those related to college classes and some chosen feeds where I did not want to miss anything and had manageable number of posts such as daringfireball when I was still a huge Machead).
That amphetamine use is covered extensively in the history book "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany" by Norman Ohler.

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Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679210
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I mostly agree with you, but I think it's worth considering defense in depth. Assuming only friendly requests could make your service a great pivot point.
" people voting tactically to maximize the chances of a popular candidate winning (instead of voting for the candidate they most prefer)"

I'm not sure I understand your comment. There is no "instead" -- you can vote honestly for both your preferred candidate and the popular candidate.
That's what Dennis Kucinich wanted to call it, though not so much in a newspeak way as just to reinforce a pacifist foreign policy.
Let's avoid making the same mistakes the right always makes, namely assuming the worst of people

This made me chuckle. You're basically telling people to not do what you just did.
As stated in the article, the first two seasons are really not interesting most of the time.

When it was broadcasted in France, there were a TNG episode then a DS9 episode. So, you know, you're in front of tv and stays. But geez were we Star Trek fans to stay to watch it.

And then, after two boring seasons, it takes off. And, honestly, for me it's the best ST show.

The article is very good.
The main different between this and say the "Road Runner" series is Road Runner is somewhat better quality. But either way you've a series of exploding cartoon figures - what age wasn't Road Runner appropriate for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JbWb5xVEU
Tangentially related since the article describes the underlying Temple of Mithras -- the newly reconstructed London Mithraeum opens free to the public (tickets required) on Nov 14. Check it out if you're in London!

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This is just lazy. A string of bits that only need to be accessed behind closed doors isn't like any of those other things. What's more, that secret room can be secured arbitrarily well.