skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That speaks to something very, very wrong in how that data was being collected

The problem was mostly with how it was analyzed, not how it was collected. Some publications were making bad assumptions that state by state polling errors would end up being independent. 538, who didn't make that assumption, gave trump close to 1/3 chance of winning.

Trump won by less than 80k votes in 3 states. Even the state polls weren't that far off--unlikely events happen.
Gentoo? I don't think it is quite good comparision.
How about the cost for the nozzle, the pump, and all the safety equipment you need to stop an oopsie from turning into a kaboom?
Sound waves are a form of antigravity because they have negative mass
Why would a power utility allow customers to perform time-of-day arbitrage when they could do that themselves without upgrading all the meters?
> They didn't even actually have the workload to justify those hours. They spent that much time in the office just cause.

This is just insane.
Copyright is more or less what it says in the name - the right to legally control the making of copies. The ability to divide making a copy from distributing it is, to my understanding, mostly not relevant to copyright law. Distributing requires making copies, and copying involves distribution of sorts.
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I think the core of your idea would work well in theory; a much simpler example would be heating water, which both residential and commercial buildings do quite a lot. Once you have hot water, you can keep hold of it for quite a long time in a properly insulated tank.

Or at a higher level of abstraction, instead of us trying to figure out which "energy dense step" is the right one to target, instead the grid can provide a real-time price signal that flexible loads can use to get a cheaper overall rate by selectively turning on when the demand is lower.

This stuff is pretty well discussed under the umbrella of "smart grid" technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid#Market-enabling
Ah yes - empower politicians with regulatory powers, and expect them to not use it to their advantage while in power. Lest we forget, everything from gerrymandering to supposedly non-partisan agencies like the FCC have taken giant craps on the general public, and sided with the party in power.

Hopefully, this never becomes law
Can someone compare Instapaper to Pocket for me? I'm just wondering how they're different.
Yeah I don't want to be hosting data I have not vetted either. I think being aware of the content any device you own is serving on the net is a good thing, even if it reduces the amount of people willing to do it for others.

TBQH if small companies cannot host user data that is good too. It should be very difficult for companies of any size to house data they are not willing to defend legally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

Face2Face would defeat this: anyone with enough images of the victim (and copy of ID) could impersonate them in this scheme.
> But pretending to be someone else for remote voting is already a weak point

It's kinda' not, because of practicality. There's enormous risk and time involved to get that one erroneous vote. Who's going to do that for a vote that has a smaller chance of swinging an election than you have of winning the lottery?

If you have a stray actor doing that on election day they maybe vote 10 times if they're a logistical genius doing an Ocean's 11 of voter fraud. That's enormous risk of actual jail for still almost zero chance of actually swaying an election. That's why no one does that.

And the idea that you're going to coordinate that effort? You've increased the odds of possibly being statistically significant a tiny iota but have exponentially increased the chances of being caught.

This is why voter fraud arguments are complete bullshit and just cover for voter suppression.
It just doesn't provide enough value over Flow or TypeScript for most people. I'd love to use Flutter, but the tools I want to build I need to be desktop apps. Not everybody is focused on the app store gold rush.
They can't magically make national grid grade batteries overnight.

So, yes, at the moment it's a crazy idea. The whole point of the trials in Australia and places is to get it to work at the scale needed.

You can't just plug in 1,000,000 rechargeable batteries and hope it works.
I joined a team because of the eagerness to adopt a modern devops workflow. Having a nice environment to work in as a Dev almost makes working on shit you don't care about worthwhile. I'd much rather be working in clean energy, education, or healthcare. I tell myself I'll get to those industries when I have more experience...
And it also ceases to address the fact that many of the Confederate statues were put up specifically to honor those who fought because the people who put up the statues didn't believe blacks should have civil rights and that the erections happened well after the civil war.
Keep in mind as always that if you aren’t paying, you are the product.
Squid supports MITMing TLS so that option is still on the table.
Thanks YC!
I've always wanted something like the (inter)Nets of Ender's Game... minus that particular US government.
What kind of work are you doing? If you don't mind my asking...
No but there are many many laws restricting their ability to do so as part of regulating their natural monopolies. I'm not sure the network effects of Facebook, Youtube, etc. rise to requiring the same protections vs the monopolies of power companies.
Mobike is the same model as ofo. The differences are market specific demand, geography, population density, and taxes and regulation. Of is leaving Dallas, but active in other cities. Of is also leaving Seattle while other companies are staying, so it maybe ofo specifically is having trouble running their business.
If something is popular, problems tend to become apparent. It can be an unknown with a new chemical, but for something like chlorine which has had massive public exposure for a very long time, it’s fairly safe to say that it doesn’t have much in the way of negative effects at low levels of exposure.
It can likely carry nearly 3-4 times that but you’ll burn out your engines, but on a short one way trip that is not a concern.

A claymore mine can be fitted to the bottom of most drones it’s much more effective and it’s electrically triggered.
The Apple level build-quality hardware seems less consequential when it's a PC that you don't actually have to touch daily. You touch the keyboard and mouse, and you look at it through a monitor. Unlike a Macbook or iPhone where a person would physically interact with it during every normal use, and most or all input devices are built into the unit.
Technology enriches any group that uses it, it doesn't only enrich already-rich groups.
Sure, whether the ID verification tool in question is appropriate or enough of a mitigation for election purposes is arguable. In fact it could very well be that no electronic verification process would be enough, since as you say, every vote can potentially be crucial and therefore ANY margin of risk might be unacceptable.

The point I am making is that its not as simple as described to "spoof" this tool, and to give some background on its usage since it seemed to be a novel verification tool for the OP
Yep! It was not meant to be public, but unless we've got proper tutorials, please check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_pi7LYpDYw&feature=youtu.be
Here's the upstreamed patch: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2018-August/0...
Also, I am quite aware of how disruptive this ideal would be to most of our current large internet companies. I don't think it will realistically change any time soon, and am sure it would have side effects which would have to be balanced. But the direction we are headed now seems much worse to me than the alternatives.
Serious question: why is it hard to make small, anti-drone missiles? I assume it needs to only be within X distance of target and detonate to disable a drone.
If you're talking about closing prisons, then yes, there are misaligned incentives.

However, a lot of prison reform policy suggestions would result in increased costs, while making the prison system more humane.

These higher cost prison reform policies haven't been put into place, which sort of discredits the assertion that lack of prison reform is primarily driven by misaligned incentives.
Outsourcing means a country losing jobs to another country. Loss in one country, but not inevitable. It is just fair market competition.

Automation is global reduction of available jobs, which we might be doing (with agricultural mechanization mostly). But nowhere are we close to a mass change in society worldwide, not due to AI, and specially not to be given the blame of rising inequality, wages, debt, and unemployment.
This exists, https://internetbugbounty.org/

Facebook, microsoft, github, etc all pay $$ and our time into a pool that is used to incentivize the finding, vetting and fixing of security flaws in major software running the internet.
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> How do you have a discussion with someone who believes the political equivalent of a flat Earth?

How can you decide if someone is the political equivalent of a flat Earther unless you actually attempt to have a discussion with them? All I really see online is people trying to collect the most virtual points (retweets and likes) within their own echo chamber rather than actually discuss things with people.
I just allow manual hours. If I dont trust them to do the right thing why would I even get a freelancer the job?
Wow. Fuck Facebook.
I have to make extensive use of Linear Programming & Mixed-Integer Linear Programming in my day job. This all runs on CPLEX. It would be really cool to do that sort of thing in Prolog, but I doubt it could handle massive models. Anyway you could explain what combinatorial optimization is for and how it differs from the things commonly seen in operations research?
Semirelated but I run timesnapper, which is a private tracking software running only on my PC so I can check if I've forgotten to save a doc and wanted to see what it looked like 2 hours ago.
I think battery storage peaker plants are where we are going, like the one in australia that tesla built.
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RCS is the primary Revision Control System for Unix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
I guess I just don’t share your belief that strong AI is necessarily equivalent to a paperclip maximizer that will seek to assimilate all available resources into one monolithic mass.

Do the humans have any say in this, any control? If not, how/why are they being kept alive? Again, even if the AI is so myopic that it won’t spare any resources to expand into other systems, the humans will still want to.
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Separating variable declaration and reassignment at a glance makes code more clear. Indenting loop bodys makes code more clear, and the curly braces won't suddenly break. Keeping lines short makes it nicer to work with in various editor setups.
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The couple of things that spring to mind is accusing one of the cave rescuers recently of being a pedophile for no particular reason and without any proof, and a fairly well shared article by his first wife on his behavior.

From what I've seen/read of him as a person, he sounds like someone i would actively avoid in a social setting.
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It seemed too simple of an idea not to already be done. Hopefully it conceals your IP.

Arg. Nope. It does not. It leaves it up to the client to decide how best to request the content, and by default that almost certainly guarantees no privacy.
Power companies should really be petitioning the federal government to continue EV subsidies and help market them to create more demand.

Generally this seems like a temporary phenomenon until EVs start to come online in en masse.
That's a frighteningly cavalier attitude about the integrity of elections.
Disclaimer: I was working as a freelancer/subcontractor for most of my career, am now a CTO with all sorts of employees & (a few) freelancers in my team.

The biggest difference between a freelancer and an employee is one of expectations on both sides. The freelancer doesn't/shouldn't expect the company to provide him with a career path, personal growth opportunities and job security.

He expects to be paid for services rendered, a service he in many cases only can provide because of the specific freedoms he enjoys that allowed him to develop himself into a position that is particular valuable and not present at the contracting company.

An employee on the other hand is a completely different beast and can and should expect the aforementioned things and more of the company, at least in Germany where our company is based and which labor laws & and history influences our/my attitude towards these things.

To your question: An employee planning the company picnic is actually doing his job, discussing their spot in the company fantasy football league could be seen as "enjoying, participating and nourishing workplace culture".

A freelancer doing the same would be out of place, simply because he isn't awarded those privileges one gains with employment.
It's not part of the contract, neither the physical one, nor the social one. Some companies blur the lines between freelancers & employees to foster more cooperation and give their employees access to more outside viewpoints, but this is largely a factor of company style.

Netflix for instance in their famous Company Culture Deck [1] even mentioned in the very beginning that "Our hourly salaried employees are important, but have more structure job roles".

From this point of view, "to micromanage the keystrokes" is basically just an extension of that, more structure, less freedom in the way the service is rendered and more transparency for all involved.

As a former freelancer it bothered the heck out of me seeing freelancers that I knew negotiated higher rates just slacking of and parading my work around. The only recourse was talking to managers of the customer and working on being viewed as a better "friendly problem solver" then the other freelancer.
Any structured way to ensure there was some kind of fair measurement of productivity would have been a giant boon back then.

[1] https://de.slideshare.net/BarbaraGill3/netflix-culture-deck
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Everyone in the world used to be a farmer. Now, only 1% of the population in developed countries farm. This time it's different?

Actually, I can agree that there had been reduction in global jobs as world gets slowly automated. But there won't be a sudden takeover of all jobs by some super sentient AI leading to mass unemployment. And neither are the current problems of inequality, debt, low wages a result of an increasing productivity, but rather increasing globalization.
(1) Yes (2) Tight feedback loops are key in keeping momentum, so even if you're bootstrapping you don't want to go too slow
The simpler solution most people miss is to just buy a hackintosh-able laptop, like the Lenovo ThinkPad X220.

Updates up until 10.13.6 worked seamlessly, only "hack" you had to do was change out the WiFi card.
This is a hyperbolic analogy and not useful. Sale of electricity and of general purpose computers are wildly less direct than providing a purpose-built platform for speech dissemination. Now, I don't think that banishment from those platforms for anything they define as "hate-speech" is guaranteed to be right for all definitions of "right", and it deserves real scrutiny, but your argument doesn't illuminate anything.
Yeah, so body shops aren't going to pay that great. The placement companies typically use Indian labor in call centers, and negotiating can be pretty painful. Two companies will routinely call me about the same position, but have wildly varying pay. Usually the company using the Indian call centers pay around 20% less, and they're very unwilling to negotiate pay.

Large corporations will typically use trusted vendors to find people. Unfortunately that is where a good chunk of the money/jobs are. But you're not likely to get $200/hr there.

Currently $120/hr is much more likely through a body shop than $200/hr, but keep in mind the body shop is going to get $180/hr. The body shop carries insurance, and has to recruit new people for a contract, and they have to pay their recruiters, etc.

And even expectations can vary wildly. I would think that at $200/hr, you should save me from having to pay 3 people $66/hr (about $133k/yr). Then you're a bargain, comparatively.
I really wish they used version numbers rather than names so i can tell there’s a new version of android. I thought this was a just a distro for raspberry pis.

It’s pretty clear in the article though, no sweat :)
>the source code remained online for a long period of time before it was removed. I5xx’s commit history shows eighteen commits, all occurring between May 23 and 24, and pertaining to the same repository.

I wonder what those commits were. It brings me joy to think someone may have made some improvements to the code in the short time it was up.
> I think it's about time we build a "bad people" list, which companies can consult before providing service. And if any company doesn't respect it, we can social media mob them into compliance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s_execution_list_of_J...
One thing that I agree with isn't enough to get me to drop my morals and vote in favor of endless wars, low wages, unaffordable healthcare, unaffordable college, keeping marijuana illegal, privatization of our schools, more oil drilling & fracking, more income inequality, more anti-union rhetoric, doing the favors of Wall St., surveillance state, etc.

I voted for Obama in 2012, and even though his public image was fantastic, I feel as if the blood from everything that was kept out of public view is on my hands. I won't make that mistake again.
I think that a better comparison to power companies is ISPs. Your ISP is a utility and natural monopoly, much like the power company. They shouldn’t be allowed to boot you for this (nor for alleged infringements by copyright groups but that’s a different matter)

Unless we want to start considering platforms like Facebook public spaces subject to all generalised government regulations for those spaces.
That's a pyramid scheme. I think that SpaceX is also not a pyramid scheme.
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"And credit/debit cards aren’t decentralized."

Doesn't matter. That's what the majority of people are using; so if you want the marketplace to actually be able to serve people, and get them to actually buy stuff, you need to support them.
Automated missiles at every public building, gathering, and billionaire's motorcade? What could possibly go wrong?
But power companies can refuse you service. So what is your point? In the US, it's pretty well established that the corporation has a right of free-speech too, which usually translates into the right to not to business with someone.

See recent supreme court rulings.
In fact, the US is listed on Wikipedia under the Labor Camp article alongside Russian gulags [1] and has a whole index of its forced-labor camps [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_camp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm
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Richard Reynolds, who managed the Darbys’ Ketley
ironworks, near Coalbrookdale, in the 1760s, introduced
cast-iron plates and then cast-iron rails to protect the
wooden rails from wear and tear or to replace them. He
had another reason as well for using iron: as an
ingenious storage system. A depression following the end
of the Seven Years’ War in 1764 reduced demand for iron
products. Prices fell. Reynolds wanted to keep his
furnaces going and his employees at work. Rather than
warehouse the excess production, Reynolds used it for
rails. Then, if iron prices went back up, he could have
the rails removed and sold. Reynolds “tried it at first
with great caution,” his granddaughter recalled, “but
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railways were made with iron.”
The demographic that would currently buy an electric car in California can easily pay for $1K for a changing station. If you're going to spend $30K on a Leaf or plug-in Prius or $50K on a Model 3 (vs. $18K for a Corolla or Fit), $1K is a drop in the bucket. It's also a tiny fraction of rent in Northern California, roughly 12 days worth.
There are some other lessons too, especially regarding Haskell. Basically the sad truth is that if you do not benchmark literally every single line, you can suddenly get MUCH worse performance than expected. Sometimes GHC's strictness analysis does not discover that it can unbox some things and you land in a boxing-unboxing loop or you hit some of optimization bugs (during the work on performance we've reported over 10 GHC bugs and even implemented our custom graph memory manager). So one of the biggest problems that we encountered earlier was that actually the GHC performance is MUCH harder to predict than you think and you have to take extra care of it while building your software. Of course using Haskell pays off in other areas, but performance is tricky.
Yeah, if I was gonna build a desalination plant built to use <$0 cost electricity, I would essentially build a giant (distillation) still. I'm not a process expert in flash desalination, but it looks similar to (maybe identical to) a still.

Just a big resistor in a big tank (or pond), a big fume hood and coil to another tank. Capital cost can probably be minimized a whole lot.