skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually started a newsletter [0] on growing as a T-shaped developer after I didn't find anything similar online that scratched my itch. I try to do one or two small explorations a week in different areas of tech that I wouldn't normally come across in my day job as a front-end engineer, and I decided to send them out to others too!

I like the metaphor of a T-shaped developer, which is why I mention it on the site. I decided on "Breadth First Growth" as a cute way to convey the focus on growing sideways (and reference the search of course). It's mostly geared towards junior developers and those without a solid CS foundation, so although I might not recommend it for the average HN reader, I've heard good things about it from other junior devs and bootcamp grads. It's been great to make and share!

[0] https://breadthfirstgrowth.com
You nailed it. I support cletus for president.
You are only legally compelled by the government to fill out tax paperwork if you experience a taxable event in that year which would require you to fill out the form. If you do not have a taxable event (i.e., no income) you are not required to send any information to the government in relation to taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled_speech

EDIT: IANAL, please do not cite this as any legal justification in a court if you fail to file any form with a government.
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> I wonder if Pad Thai, bulgogi, or stretchy Turkish ice-cream will be considered everyday foods in another 50 years.

I guess it would depend on the individual definition of "everyday." Personally, I eat more pad thai than I do cheeseburgers. I don't eat much Korean BBQ anymore but my wife and I do stop by a Korean place pretty often to have Galbi-tang and sometimes Dolsot Bibimbap. I haven't had In-N-Out in probably 7 or 8 weeks, though, which would make it more of a rarity in my own life than: Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, and Thai food.
GDP is an interesting metric.

It's not like all that reported "production" is distributed evenly. The costs surely will be, though.

So yeah, let's divide by the number of people who actually benefit.
Nice, but is a waste of time
2. Preferential voting...Of course, none of this
will actually happen.

Why not? There's a ranked choice ballot initiative here in Seattle working to collect signatures to put this on a future ballot. No reason to think this won't succeed, or that it cannot be replicated across the country. Instead of cynical disengagement, why not call up your city council members or state legislators and start demanding that they go to work on this? Or, even better, start organizing a ballot initiative to force the issue?

https://fairvotewa.org
Even if you are open to being a Ponzi, it is illegal in the U.S.

As another user says, the only legal Lottery is the one that is run by the State.

Isn't it interesting.
Building seq-to-seq models in TensorFlow (and training them quickly)
> More people would vote if Election Day were a holiday.

That's the premise. Do we know it's true?

If people are going to work, they're at least mobile that day. Give people a free day off and some percentage won't even put pants on that day.

There should be enough companies that already give a holiday for election day that the numbers on how it affects voter turnout should be available. But I didn't see that anywhere on the page.

My gut says that giving paid time to vote, rather than the whole day off, would be better for turnout. But that's just a guess. Show me the numbers.
I remember my mum giving me onion juice to drink as a remedy for sore throat when I was a kid...I think the sheer thought of having to have the treatment repeated cured my throat :)
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Wonderful. Now I just need to land a job as an actual programmer :(
That's also extremely common in the US. It's called early voting and in my jurisdiction runs for 17 days before the election. Ease of voting is not a factor in turnout.
Nah. The only reason why this article exists is because of the upcoming CD Projekt RED Cyberpunk 2077 video game.
Google wants to monopolize, not democratize, AI.

I wonder if Google tests for Doublethink skills before you can get hired there now.
The thing is that those values would have needed to be repatriated at some point anyways (with the added benefits for everyone). So if the repatriation tax would never have been lowered, at some point cooperations would have had to deal with it and pay. But as everyone knew that at some point in history the GOP would come in power and lower the tax, there was no incentive the repatriate with the higher burden as it was monetarily advantageous to wait. So in the end, those benefits would have happened at some point in any case, just only like this with lowered public benefit.
So the network is not password protected, DNS (or ICMP) works normally, but somehow using it in a particular way is not permitted? Then why does it work at all?
One of the better arguments here. I had problems with a blanket mill that supplies refugees being compared to good will shops.

Also another HN'er commented that recycled denim is used in insulation. Linus Tech Tips outfitted their server room with fireproofed denim insulation.
> 1. Mandatory voting. I'm talking a small fine if you don't show up to a polling place and get your name checked off;

Do you really want all Americans voting? Most Americans I talk to don't know much about the different candidates let alone the one they're voting for. We need a better education system then we can have better politicians.
Think of it this way... we’re going to end up spending about $7 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan having accomplished essentially nothing good.

$64billion is a rounding error for our government.
you have to dig for the pdf meat.
https://www.puresec.io/resource-download
Depends on the application. I would personally use Rust for embedded applications (since it’s low-overhead and ADTs are basically a requirement for safe parsers) and Haskell for non-embedded. But if neither of those float your boat, there are other safe-by-construction parser-friendly languages available, mostly from the ML family.
1. So many forget that freedom necessitates the freedom to NOT do something. Mandatory voting infringes on free speech.

Mandatory voting produces non-representative votes for people who like any of the candidates, or who can't tell whether a candidate is better by a margin greater than the uncertainty in the preference.
Here in this nation of the United States, we claim that the state derives its power from the consent of the governed.

It's a novel concept, really.

Obviously, if you like the idea of a powerful nation-state, you can try any number of other experiments, elsewhere. Those nations do not even try to veneer their actions with the consent of their populace.
FWIW, my Virgin Mobile plan costs $60 a month and isn't slowed until 23 gigabytes. Their unlimited plans for new customers are $50 per month.

As much as Google touts the "flexibility" to theoretically pay less, using less than 6 gigabytes is pretty difficult in 2018 unless you use very few services and have no interest in video.
This is my case too. Switching 5 phones for my family over to Google Fi. So far it's been excellent. I too was checking my data in the Project Fi app. Happy to not have to do that anymore.
I mean, any lawyer less than 70 WILL be disbarred in nearly any city larger than 1,000. Yeah, there are speed trap towns in Nevada and Alabama where this isn't happening. But 99.99% of Americans have at least a C- worth of representation.
Is that a passive aggressive way of saying it requires javascript?
In Australia, voting is always on a weekend, and is compulsory. Also, there are sausages in bread for sale
Honestly for me this wont matter. I typically only spend 40$ a month $20 talk/text then $20 data. I also find the fine print interesting.

>"If you use more than 15GB of data in a month (under 1% of current fi users you'll expect slower data speeds with Bill Protection"

So with Bill Protection you get throttled, but if you pay then you don't... Interesting.
I wish that voters and leaders could’ve seen a menu of policy options when they approved this. I think they wouldn’t have gone in for such an irreversible project.

For example, electric bus technology has been getting better and cheaper and seems will continue to get better in the future. So for all the money we’ll be spending on this throughout the 2020’s, we could’ve been converting buses, where practical, to electric. And if electric buses don’t work that well (few US models have yet been in operation for a long time), we can always just upgrade many thousands of regular buses to cleaner and more comfortable modern models.

Incremental improvements are nice because they can be reversed and right-sized. It seems HSR is setting the size of its budget itself, as no one wants a half finished rail system. This wouldn’t be too bad except that there is a risk California will face pension problems in the future. The less money we tie up in debt now, the less chance there is for terrible cutbacks to critical services if a recession destroys tax revenues and pension assets.
Most democracies I hope have both: Election Day is sunday/holiday and early/absentee voting is free without any particular reason.

Why not have all of it? What’s the “cost”?
How about incentivizing? Vote and get $500 tax rebate. Best form of any tax cut.
I probably didn’t care about those parts of his comment. Why did you think I needed to address them?

Actually, looking back, which bits are you even talking about?
It's not difficult if you're on wifi for the majority of the time.
Completely agree. We also have this in Oregon, and it basically amounts to having nearly a month to 'find time' to vote. As if that were not enough time, the voting guides typically go out a few weeks before you receive the ballot, so you have something like 1.5-2 months to figure out how you want to vote and 1 month to fill in some damn bubbles and mail it in or drop it off. The process is ridiculously easy.
mandatory voting doesn't prevent you from spoiling your ballot.

But i'm with you - mandatory voting is a way to get the uninformed to vote, it doesn't force anybody to actually be informed about the issues that their vote affects, and will ultimately lead to more terrible candidates winning elections just because they have the best name recognition.
> An end to politicizing the election process.

There is no way for a democracy to make major changes to its election process without "politicizing" it. That's what democracy does; it's how democracy works.
As I understand the proposal, you are permitted to show up and not cast a vote - you just have to affirmatively show up.

I don't think mandatory voting infringes on free speech any more than mandatory jury duty does.
I rarely go over 2 GB a month. What are you doing to use so much? Or are you on a group plan?
Australia is a very different place than the US when it comes to their constitution. Australia does not have a constitutional freedom of speech.
OMG, I just realized that the point of this is to allow people to read Reddit at work while, from a distance, it still looks like they are staring at code. IOW, the point _is_ wasting time.
> the deterrent aspect (for some) of spending time with hardened criminals.

I think getting rid of this is one of the biggest benefits of these alternative schemes. It is otherwise phrased as "the deterrent aspect of being put in a situation where you (believe?) you are likely to get raped and otherwise abused". It's cruel, unethical, and has no place in modern society.
I think you’re taking my acknowledgement of reality to be an endorsement of it. You can’t hope to change anything if you’re living in a fantasy. The reality is that the government of “this here nation” can roll over you like you never existed. Want that to change? I do.
> allowing the police to bypass examination of the evidence by threatening an extreme punishment

Police can threaten any punishment they want. Police only get to assign punishment for a crime if they choose to end your life on the spot.

The District/State Attorney (and their assistants) are the ones that have to prosecute and are the proxy for the state that choose the opening bid for punishment.
My favorite quote from that paper is "I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."

As others have pointed out, one thing left out of the paper is not updating the software. qmail doesn't support SPF or other security extensions, which makes it useless these days without patches.
I'm not sure I understand the implication. Can you be a bit more explicit?
It's always easier to steal other people's property, especially if you have them by the short-hairs. In other contexts, this would be called extortion.

There's something I profoundly don't understand about someone who would seriously advocate for things like eminent domain or estate taxes.
Yup, because

> On the horizon are more difficult segments, such as the long underground passage through the Tehachapi and San Gabriel Mountains and the route into the urban San Francisco Bay Area.

Especially the latter segment. I live along the assumed route to SF and let me tell ya, there are any number of wealthy NIMBYs who are ready to fight any attempt at building a noisy, unsightly, and potentially dangerous rail line past their houses in any way possible.
The point is that the government can compel speech without endangering the first amendment. The IRS could decide tomorrow to mandate a form for those below the taxable level without running afoul of compulsion.

If your income is subject to taxation, you can't refuse to fill out the paperwork on the grounds that doing so lends legitimacy to an institution you don't support. The same should be the case for voting.
These are more feasible if people stop trying to make it happen Federal First. Work in your city or state.

I agree with 2/3/5, 6 is fixed in some instances by having multi-member districts, 4 could be more auditable over time, and 1 is not a great idea.
It isn't the voters' incentives you need to worry about, it's the politicians.

Trump ran some pretty effective campaign adverts just before election designed to drive down voter participation - targeting blacks and replaying that message about superpredators, for instance.

Lack of voter participation also allows politicians to completely screw certain blocs of the population with relative impunity.

It works well enough in Australia.
For most people the benefit of a train system is self evident.
Mostly in the South where easy absentee ballots would interfere with the black voter suppression systems.

https://www.vote.org/absentee-voting-rules/
How? I like it. Like, when did flagging submissions become more important than ignoring things you don't like.
This is a nice, concise guide. I use LetsEncrypt for one of my sites running on a DigitalOcean box, they have some excellent documentation there as well.

An alternative to LetsEncrypt is to sign up for Cloudflare's free tier. You get free SSL (using their shared certificate) and a bunch of other goodies. I have a couple of sites hosted on GitHub Pages using Cloudflare, so I have SSL and hosting at zero cost. Hard to beat that price!
The article mainly presents the tools the author uses to measure WSS and while I can see a few possibilities I'm curious if anyone can give some more examples of where measuring WSS would be useful?
I claim that once I have completed whatever processes are required to claim the land as mine, it remains mine until I consent otherwise.

If I have to put up fences, pay down a mortgage, file a deed at a title company, etc. then those requirements are disclosed beforehand.

After that the land is mine, I will defend it as mine. Various states have discovered how difficult eminent domain is to fully enforce. The "little old lady" is often tougher than anybody.

(I will ignore any arguments that start with "property taxes," because it distracts from the point.)
I think the only objection is that you don't have much of a secrecy guarantee. Votes could, in theory, be compelled.

That said, I love voting by mail. Super easy.
Google Maps everyday and streaming music and sometimes video. That's enough to cross 2GB trivially unless you are on something like T-Mobile that does not consider major audio-video streaming sites against their data cap.
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Well, no hot dogs at UK polling stations, but there are regular dogs. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gallery/2017/jun/08/dog...
> It also makes elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences

The main preference this may reveal is a preference to avoid being fined.
We need a high speed train connection. But the Federal government should be building such infrastructure, considering we pay 35% of our taxes to the Fed. In most countries, the central governments builds infrastructure at this scale.
You can already do that with mail in voting. The problem with electronic voting is that it can be hacked at scale.
This is so great. I just showed everyone at the office. I can look like I'm working while I'm reading Reddit.
It is not a charity. It is someone stealing the clothes and selling them.
It's about making sure voters are picking the politicians, not politicians picking their voters. What you see in a lot of situations in the US right now is the use of tools like Gerrymandering, challenging voter rolls, voter ID etc, are used in areas where the political party in charge knows they would lose if everyone voted.
I do not think that the media is really the problem, its just somehow the topic does not get all the traction it needs to succeed politically. 'Collateral murder' was all over the media but still nothing happened. The NSA affair was all over the media and nothing happened. Maybe at this point politics does not really care anymore as long as its not to their own political benefit.
that said, i average around 1 gig a month, so i suspect some of this is usage patterns - I am in wifi the vast majority of the time.
Agreed, that was always weird. I suppose the point was to allow for data usage alert push notifications so you don't end up with a surprise large bill at the end of the billing cycle.
The argument I've heard to counter this is the idea that economic markets are efficient even when many participants are irrational because the irrational participants cancel each other out, amounting to random noise.

A market can find efficiency even when there are a significant number of irrational participants because the rational minority are in agreement, and the irrational minority step on each other's toes.

Similarly, if 44% of a democracy has an irrational preference to always vote for Team Blue, and 44% of a democracy has an irrational preference to always votes for Team Red, then the remaining 12% actually decide which team wins.
being unable to afford where you live is not a virtue. This is incredible. It's like people will make up any excuse, twist themselves into any pretzel, to defend California.

If you heard the same thing about a red state, "people can't afford to live in texas so they move" Would you praise that.
They do this in some countries like Singapore or the Middle East, where they whip or cane criminals for minor offenses.

I don't like the idea, because it's violent and we can't claim the upper moral hand. The beauty of solitary confinement is that it's completely non-violent but it's very harsh mentally. You can make the case that it's mental torture but it's just an edge case of regular prisons, where the number of prisoners N = 1, and the prison is the size of a cell.
I was expecting a new TOR client
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>Is it our responsibility to listen to songs multiple times, or is it simply the goal of an artist to make songs that we would listen to multiple times?

Ours obviously. Only trivial pop can be dismissed (or ear-worm its way) on a single listen. And the best works, the ones with the most depth, take multiple listenings to even begin to fully appreciate.

One might not care about all this, and drop stuff they bought/downloaded to listen summarily in one listening. It's a free country, and nobody says they should be forced to do otherwise.

But then -- and that's my argument, that person is not that different than people amassing tons of music and not hearing most of it even once. They might be slightly more involved, but not much more.

>What any object is "meant for" shouldn't dictate how you use it

Well, that's one viewpoint, a modern consumerist, where it's all about the individual and their whims, where their taste, consumption habits, and choices shouldn't be questioned.

I opt for another, older viewpoint, where the individual should raise themselves to appreciate culture (music, books, movies, etc) and their choices can always be questioned and improved, and they can (and should) always strive to be better educated on them. In other words, a master work of art, does very much dictate how people use it, and if they're ever gonna get it, they should follow that path.
I'm sort of skeptical of the rationale behind this - without implying that any of this is your personal worldview, it's very close to the worldviews that got us "Only landowners should vote" or "Only men should vote" or "Only the dominant race should vote" or "Only people who can afford this fee should vote" or "Only people who have never committed crimes should vote."
The question wasn't specific about the number of miners stopping operations.
At 0 miners indeed transactions will halt and only resume when somebody starts mining again.
As the number of miners reaches zero it will become trivial to perform a >50% attack. It will be much simpler to replace the 'legitimate' block chain with an own one as nobody will be there to check it.
I up voted your answer.
The only downside that I'm aware of is that it makes certain kinds of systematic voter fraud possible. Specifically, selling your ballot becomes a trivial thing.

Currently, that practice is limited by in-person voting for a couple of reasons; first that you have to show up at the polling place and sign in the book, second is that there is no way for a third party to verifiably see that you have voted the correct way, much less fill out the ballot on your behalf.

While both of these can be worked around, it is at much higher cost in terms of the possibility of being caught.

How concerned we should be about this is a matter of opinion; there's not really a practical way to measure whether it makes a difference, since the fraud is so undetectable.

The other thing is that this does not solve the voter turnout problem -- Washington, Oregon, and Colorado all do well for voter turnout, but don't lead the pack compared to other states with in-person voting.
Be careful about going along with a secular government and giving your consent to it with a vote, for we are not to call anyone leader except the Messiah - see Matt 23:10 in the Aramaic. What you think is freedom from the creator's life-giving ways is a deceptive illusion from the Adversary. Reject it and vote for the Messiah by living righteously.
> "you are permitted to show up and not cast a vote"

Well it shouldn't be called "mandatory voting" if you are permitted to not actually cast a vote.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Going through their about page, I'm still not sure I understand the monetization model but from a technical perspective, the infrastructure solution is fascinating.