skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stats - Incredible how anaecdotal observation and recall differs. Bias too: Perhaps I'm not viewing the site as a whole and new boards, increased linking, whatever, thanks for stats.

Old friend - Certainly. The fact the idean of anon is default (though optional) means each post can be besed on it's on value / meritocrious as it carries no internet points of the 'owner'. Anarchy, but the negative that term often brings should not be carelessly and automatically applied.
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I love the phrasing of 'barriers to anti-quality' as a way to bring attention to this particular category of (rampant) problem. It reminds me of that saying 'under extreme pressure we tend not to rise to our ideals, but fall back on what we know.'

I work on 3-12 month projects in an agency, we don't really do Scrum. It's mostly some version of waterfall, and occasionally dual-track agile. Generally the process of determining what to build is squeezed into the cracks. I just recently built about 40% of a prototype for a SaaS in a couple weeks with fractional team input, and then had to lay out the rest of the flows in a week. After that, more needs popped up (I can only imagine the shitshow that development will be). This is the worst case scenario.

In less-worse cases, it seems like this becomes an issue of how to compare a requested change's value to its cost. Without enough data, this can be really hard to actually know well enough to have a grounded position on. It seems like consensus here is to focus on the cost of the change, rather than the potential value.

It also seems like there's little faith in managers. I don't totally know what it's like out there for ya'll though.
Getting rich is a quasi zero sum game. By definition, only 1-5% of the population can be in the “financial elite.” While this advice piece might be correct, it will be useless for >95% of its readers.
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I lose. The best I can do is an Apple ][+ 48k.
I was playing around with the idea of using Tor to get around IP blocks. I played around a bit with code but the Tor binary dependency was a bit much for my use case. Curious to know if anyone else tried this?
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Ask HN: How to self-learn finance
As I invest my money, I'm constantly confused by the modern financial system. I get a lot of information from the media but I don't understand what they mean on a deeper level. Some examples: How is money created from debt? Why is interest rate so important? What exactly do banks do?

As someone who has never learned finance systematically, where should I start from the basics and gradually go deeper?
I have always wondered why the admin user is named "root". It makes sense for the "root" filesystem as filesystems are structured as a tree. But the set of users is flat. Even considering groups, there is no tree structure to group membership.
This is one of IBM's flagship customers, isn't it? They're supposed to never go down.
Exactly. I wrote a relevant comment[1] on a different thread a while ago, which I'll reproduce here for convenience:

The other day out of curiosity I was searching for basic words on ImageNet: cat, dog, man, woman.

Here is the page for "woman" http://image-net.org/search?q=woman

I was surprised to notice a couple of things:

- There are categorizations for "mistress", "slut", and "adultress". The closest analogs for "man" appear to be "playboy", "stud", and "pimp". There is also a "foolish woman" and doesn't appear to be an analog for man.

- Look at the pictures for "mistress". Many if not most of them are just women in their bathing suits or doing other normal things, like laying in a bed with a man. The same is true for "slut". Does this mean AIs using ImageNet could look at a woman on a beach and categorize her as a "slut"?

- There is a category for "honest woman", which appears to be three pictures of a woman standing next to a man.

I'm not saying anybody is at fault or that the people who put ImageNet together did this intentionally. After all, it does reflect the (unfortunate) reality of how our society often perceives images of women.

But before I poked through that dataset, it wouldn't have occurred to me how important it is that we focus on equality and non-discrimination when it comes to AI. This declaration[2] seems like an interesting step.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103921

[2] https://www.accessnow.org/the-toronto-declaration-protecting...
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Economists are famous for repeatedly making predictions that turn out to be hugely wrong, groupthink and massive political biases. Don't think so somehow.

As for scholars in political theory, laughable. What does an ivory tower academic know about what people want or need? Marx spent his entire life reading books and writing political theory and his ideas lead to disaster everywhere.

Nope. Allowing anyone to take part is a great system.
Yes very hard. It seems to take years to build up a good list of subscriptions. Reminds me of early Twitter in that sense.

I sometimes come across an account and discover it’s a part of a whole community of accounts. I pick through and subscribe to some. Sometimes my feed takes a turn for the repetitive and then I prune accounts.

The homepage is OK but the subscription feed is the only thing you can get to a worthwhile state but it takes some tending to it. Similar to RSS too in that sense.
2ch is similar, they have a very large Japanese nationalist/far right board that is popular. Doesn't stop people from using the rest of the site which is nothing like the racist political board.
But it would take a lot more races to tip the House.
I can see how one might naïvely think that, but in my experience and the experience of everyone I’ve talked to who uses julia, gradually improving the performance in your bottlenecks using only Julia is much nicer that just working in C or dropping down from python to Cython.

You can improve much more gradually as needed, retain all the full language features and have much less menta overhead, needing only to keep Julia in your head.

Julia devs make performance regressions when replacing critical central code components just like everyone else does. The advantage is that julia makes it easier to reason about and fix those regressions
Visa don't issue or distribute credit cards, banks do.

I have 3 Visa cards, only one is a credit card.
Yes. Because by definition in a presidential election there can be only one winner. In the House or Senate there is no reason to not have proportional element.
We are in luck as Julia seamlessly integrates with FORTRAN(and C)[0].
That is, if set up properly, LLVM does not care what language it is being asked to JIT compile even when they are mixed together in the same file.

I am hoping for a nice web assembly[1] emitted from Julia

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/calling-c-and-fo...

[1] https://webassembly.org/
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You forgot the media publishers and the government. The DMCA had and has a huge effect on the web.
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Trump won because he appealed to a broad group of mostly Democrats who had been overlooked by the career politicians.

Those people had been unrepresented and taken for granted, and a major factor of their motivation in voting for Trump was to signal their anger to DC.

In the long run, it's beneficial to society that this group has gotten recognition and some of their issues are being addressed.

Career politicians tend to have a support structure that identifies their preferred base and caters to them. Simple majority voting would mean that our politics would be dominated by major population areas.

Neither of those things are so bad in the short run, but in the long run you would have significant groups who would never have their concerns and interests addressed.

That our system makes it possible for a minority to win over the majority at times is a real strength.
Spotify has a great feature that shows you concerts in your area by artists that you've saved. It's how I find out who's playing way early. You can do that on Facebook too but you'd have to actually tell Facebook which artists you like, follow them, etc..
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I don't like those attempts. Tor is easily detectable and those attempts just make Tor network banned from website, hurting legitimate Tor users.
In the UK they do
Does anybody know if this affects the iPhone's Face ID in any way?
It does do that, actually.

I’ll check this on the weekend; very curious what‘s causing this. Will fix & let you know.

Thanks for your feedback and suggestion!
I prefer net approval voting over straight approval voting. I also think House districts should seat the top two candidates rather than the top one.
Everyone else has the same idea which is why it often makes sense to block Tor outright.
Can the acceleration curve be adjusted to be more in line with bicycles? Or is it feasible to rapidly toggle the throttle to slow acceleration without making the ride too jerky?
Tor is slow because every packet has to be routed through several random servers distributed all over the world with multiple layers of crypto at every pass. Even with plenty of top-of-the-line inner and exit nodes you will still see substantially more latency than just sending packets directly.
This is a great start, but there's room for improvement. What if we could scale it up to roughly one representative per 10K constituents AND have each constituent represented by someone whose views closely resemble their own?

This is possible if you eliminate congressional districts altogether and have people "subscribe" to a representative. It removes the problem of a single congressman "trying" to represent constituents with widely disparate views equally, and abolishes gerrymandering in the process.
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All somewhat true, but there are a few key areas where America does attend mass events that can help spread diseases quickly. The top three examples in my mind are the trifecta of public schools, large office complexes, and churches (esp mega-churches).

These all feed and overlap each other. Something can spread through the public school system's children quickly into parents, who take it into large shared office building environments (think typical complex of skyscrapers full of tenant companies sharing hallways, elevators, sidewalks, lunch spots, etc), and once a week completely different insersectional sets of these adults and children then gather up in a large church and disperse into the trifecta.

Hospitals themselves are another factor. Those with family ties end up randomly visiting hospitals a few times a year on average for their eldery relatives' or childrens' sakes, where they pick up a ton of chances at diseases.
Yes, but not on the architecture/design of it.
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I was thinking they need to start recording and widely publicizing exit polls using the approval system so that people can get a sense of what the alternative 'feels' like. The big problem is that it'd take at least ~three election cycles for most people to appreciate the difference it'd make.

E.g., in the first cycle, extreme candidate A wins the actual election while the moderate, B, is shown to be widely tolerated under the approval system. Nearly half the voters--those who voted for the opposite extreme, C, end up loathing the results of the actual election and wishing in retrospect that the approval system had been in place. Perhaps in the second election cycle, candidate A wins re-election because they're a known-quantity/incumbent.

Finally, in the third cycle, history starts repeating itself and people get tired of A's party. E.g., the Overton window slides back towards C's perspectives leading to C being seated. This time the people who still prefer A are disgusted with the outcome and prefer the outcome of the approval system.

At this point, half the voters have long argued that the approval system makes more sense and the other half has also come around to thinking maybe it could bolster their position as well. It'd only remain for less partisan activists to e.g., get a petition going towards a referendum.
The iPhone does not create the same issues with the law from what I understand so, no.
For those of you in the UK, I wrote the following post a year ago (June 2017) about the UK's antiquated, undemocratic method of voting:

https://medium.com/@dontvoteconservativeuk/uk-general-electi...
Tor is not that slow these days. Sometimes you get a bad circuit but you can reroute and expect speeds comparable to mobile phone networks.
This is the world we live in. Why can’t I access websites over ipv6 even though they’re hosted on cloud providers with ipv6 support? Because just getting people to change their configuration without an immediate benefit to themselves is arguably the hardest problem for the Internet right now.
My perspective (21/M/Black Canadian): the people who say we can just ignore it are right. That’s because you pretty much have to learn to deal with it as an avid internet user (even on more ‘vanilla’ sites like YouTube).

The part that affects me isn’t the word itself, and I don’t personally feel offended by a stranger using it. It’s just over time when you see so much vitriol directed towards your race even in places where it should be irrelevant (like gaming), I noticed I began to think that pretty much all white people were consumed by a hatred of blacks (why else would I see the n word being used so often?). It's hard to remind yourself about how big the internet is, maybe it's just the particular communities you visit, etc.

Edit: since this a throwaway anyway, I did develop a distaste for associating with white people for a period of time. In my mind, they were two faced and probably wouldn't hesitate to call people like me n*gger online.
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You must really hate 4chan (or, at least, the racist boards there) if you expect this level of nuance and understanding in discussion. It's certainly not within a million miles of what /b/ or /pol/ extend to anyone else.
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I would say it depends a bit of the usage of the system, and what is the worse case scenario of a failure (patient data corrupted, life sustaining devices switched off), in which case you might need to add another mitigation (CRC check, manual procedure) independent of your Yocto box.
A photo provides a "scan of hand or face geometry" so that seems directly relevant.