skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is this not the standard everywhere?

Largely because election officials are also not computer security experts (or even serious amateurs). Therefore when "big corp" comes knocking with their newfangled electronic touch screen voting system that promises fast, effortless tallies and "security" (it's, right there, the box is checked on the ad brochure...) the election officials have no background with which to be skeptical of "big corp"'s products re. security. And with the promise of "effortless, instant, tallies" (vs. a long overnight counting paper manually) they see the newfangled thing as an improvement over that which they do understand (the long overnight counting paper).
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You're right. The proper statement is that radiation killed zero people, but fear of radiation did kill.
This is the problem with this covenant, anything you say personally in your own social networks will also be taken into account.
>For downmarket outlets, and for stories in places the Times, Post, and WSJ don't cover, sure. But the major papers have bureaus all over the world

Increasingly less (regional offices close all the time), and where they still do, increasingly more cheaply (in both personnel costs and quality).

E.g:

The Washington Post has 16 foreign “bureaus,” and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the newspaper’s website. The four remaining bureaus all consist of two journalists. Is the Post using the word bureau a bit loosely? One Post reporter, Sudarsan Raghavan in Nairobi, is listed as the paper’s “bureau chief in Africa.” Raghavan is the chief of a bureau of one in Kenya. For the continent of Africa.

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/loneliness_at_the_f...
>And the maintainer has historically been more cooperative with efforts to make Perl JSON modules compatible with each other.

Indeed, MLEHMANN's (JSON::XS maintainer) difficult personality was one of the main reasons why Cpanel::JSON::XS was created and why it has gained so much popularity despite being almost identical functionally.
You and your sibling comment are right - it's too harsh to say that society has decided they're okay with this treatment. However, I believe people need to be more aware of the decisions they make daily.

Rather than passively supporting Amazon because it's the most convenient or cheapest option, investigate why they might be able to offer their service at a rate other companies in their space can't.

I don't believe it's right to assume or enforce that companies disclose all of their business practices to their customers. Those practices should be audited by a regulatory body to assess whether they're humane or ethical.

> I have a lot of confidence that many of Amazon's labor practices would be banned if they were put up for a straight-up national referendum.

On this, I'm sure you're right. Which leads me to an interesting question:

Assuming:
1) There are companies engaging in activity the majority of their potential customers would find immoral
2) One of these companies is able to provide a superior product or service at a reduced rate to their competitors
3) Information about these immoral practices is available to those customers (though they have to seek it out)

Why do people still support the company?
Shouldn't people suspect something is fishy with that company's offering?

My assumption to begin with is that consumers were turning a blind eye in order to keep using the service.
That may not be the case.

Maybe it's that they don't have the time or capacity to evaluate this for themselves (especially for the number of businesses we all depend on daily).
Maybe it's a tragedy of the commons.

How can we fix this?
> "You" being the distributor, not the final consumer. I don't see why the distributor (or other middlemen) wouldn't simply pocket the price difference themselves. What would force them to pass it on to consumers?

This would only work if the distributor had a monopoly on food sales in the US, or a monopsony on food imports to the US.

Thankfully, this is not the case for anything except for specialty imports.
you are insane

get out of the usa

you have no idea how life works

you have no idea how democracy works
> people, for whatever reason, just don't use the repairmen. They're out there. They're everywhere,

The reason they're everwhere is that people do take their phones in for repair. Mostly battery replacement and cracked screens. The town I live in manages to support three repair shops that I know of.
build more apartments. There's no reason there shouldn't be enough housing for way, way more people other than that it's the policy of local government and the preference of many voters.

Where, exactly? Central Park?
Yes, I think that is what it was called
Care to back that claim up?
>we throw the so called "law" of supply and demand into the garbage bin

This is like throwing away the law of conservation of energy because you found a perpetual motion machine instead of checking inside the machine for batteries.

For example, are we considering how the impact of workers too scared or financially unstable to leave their current job impacts supply? Or how outsourcing jobs, hiring people who can't legally work, and other such changes impact supply?
If the web is an unnecessary part of the text adventure experience, then other options include frotz, a simple command-line adventure interpreter, and Son of Hunky Punk, a nice android app that includes some of the classics.
Ok, but would you agree that we should also expect to not overdo cleanup efforts by several orders of magnitude without reasonable evidence that low-dose radiation is dangerous after collecting multiple decades of data. I don't think infinite-duration irrationality in the face of data is necessary.
"Stop Bezos Act"...are you kidding me? If you support a bill dedicated to targeting a single company...please get out of government.
Tyler Florence says that “recipes are dead” and the future of cooking is modular
Full automation is likely impossible. Ask Elon Musk about his problems with trying to fully automate Tesla production.
> This sounds an easily defeatable measure. If I'm a politician and encourage the economy to dump all kinds of cheap, low-quality crap onto the market, I will, on paper, have greatly boosted the buying power of low-income households

That isn't what "purchasing power" means.

OP is right - the purchasing power of the consumer is what matters, not the nominal wage. Focusing on the latter will actually be counterproductive, because it will lead to policies that decrease the former.
Thanks for the updates! I'm compiling it now...
NaN == NaN is falsy (so is NaN === NaN, for that matter).

But when I played the game, it looked to me like the game correctly claimed it is falsy. (Though I'm not 100% sure I know what the notation the game uses means.)
Natural resources and the environment don't respect borders. All countries should be watching what others do to shared natural resources.
That's more innuendo than rebuttal.
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>...people getting paid to pretend that they like something

If I remember my history correctly, this is how the very first radio sponsorships started as.
I mostly agree. We should be hand counting all ballots. But also incorporating a counting machine could help improve reliability similarly to a checksum. If the hard counted and machine results are not identical, then recount because there was a mistake somewhere.
In my experience nearly everyone who is against communism means communism as we've seen it practiced in the 20th century. Not communism as ideally described in books.
Unpopular alternative interpretation: the market is distorted by food stamps.

Imagine if the government announced it will pay for lightbulbs for workers whose workplaces don't provide lightbulbs. Inevitably, certain workplaces would stop providing lightbulbs. Would you really blame them?

This will sound unintuitive, but what if one of the requirements for welfare was that the recipient NOT work? Suddenly, companies would be forced to make jobs more desirable than welfare. In this age of automation, where it's less and less true that everyone ought to work, maybe this would be a better way to do welfare.
I don't understand this... I used that exact phrase in my original response, calling it an example of being polite, but without passive-aggressive or manipulative weasel words.
I can not access that article, can someone please submit it to archive or has some other mirror of it?
Back in college I researched history of nuclear energy in the US during the 50s and 60s

Thorium reactors were much further ahead and being funded by the government

Then one Naval officer made the case to arm subs with nukes

Funding for thorium dried up and was funneled into less safe breeder style reactors

Unless this is funding thorium reactors, I’ll be hard pressed to see this as anything but a stealthy ploy to reinvent weapons production. What with the Orange Orangutan pissing off the world, championing Space Farce, some paranoids in DC probably think we need to build more nukes to match NK and Iran.
Ability to maintain a diet is more important than the speed of weight loss.

You showed yourself that while it was fast, it was difficult to maintain. This sounds like a less effective diet.
Star Wars of all things provides a interesting vision here. Did you ever notice that for the most part the machines/robots are not networked? That AI seems to exist but is intentionally kept dumb (C3PO).

I think this is a interesting model. To as society come to the conclusion that more connection of devices, smarter AI is not the right solution. That what works best is the right amount of connection and AI
> DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine.

IIRC, DDG is a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. That means it farms your query out to other search engines and then combines the results.

I think it started by proxying Google searches to hide your metadata from Google.

> This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services.

This sound like FUD. Why would a metasearch engine send anything out to the search engines it proxies besides the query? It might not even have to make that query for your request if someone else made it recently.
> Put it another way, people think if something is illegal, punishment for that must be a felony or something

I can't imagine that anybody thinks that. We're all familiar with parking tickets, for example.
Yes, but generally this is about getting discounted service. In the case of the iMac Pro in particular, Apple wouldn't accept money to do the repair at all with a voided warranty.
Any chance you've open-sourced this solution? I've been looking for something self-hosted for ages.
So if unemployment is so low, then its time to wind back supports for those who claim they cannot find a job.

Also might be time for a minimum wage increase too.
>it is never proper for the legislature to target an individual or individual company.

In general what you are talking about is a Bill of Attainder and it is unconstitutional.

Notwithstanding the - not so clever - name of the Bill, it doesn’t exactly sound like anyone is being targeting so much as a legal framework is being proposed for recipients of corporate welfare to have to reimburse the government, based on corporate financials. Sure if it ONLY applies to Amazon there is a problem, but that isn’t likely.

Seems to me when you have employers like Walmart who rely on taxpayers to subsidize their employees benefits and simultaneously are the beneficiary of 20% (or $14B) in taxpayer funded food stamps annually there is a problem. Basically you have a single low paying employer who has dug a $14B taxpayer moat around any potential competition which would potentially drive up wages.

Shouldn’t lawmakers be able to look at employers as a whole and say...wow certain companies are really taking advantage and benefiting from corporate welfare and we need to take action to close the unwanted and unforeseen loopholes? I don’t think anyone is looking at Bezos and the Waltons and saying how do we target these rich people, they are saying these welfare programs are not fulfilling their intended purpose and the program needs to be re-evaluated.
I've been using DDG for a while now.

It's taken some time, but I am now finding that DDG is giving me more relevant results than Google. The only time it doesn't is for breaking news, which is something I rarely search for.

Occasionally if I can't find something I'll put !g before it and get Google's results, it's getting very rare now that Google has a better result. Earlier today I started to reflex type ! into Google and then realised there was nowhere to search and google doesn't even have bangs for other sites.

Honestly if I was banned from Google Search I wouldn't miss it now. Couldn't say that 6 months ago.
China has scaled back its plans for nuclear plants, in part perhaps because even in China the cost and risk profile of nuclear vs renewables seems to demand a reexamination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
> Airbnb, like Uber, took advantage of regulatory inefficiencies instead of market inefficiencies.

How quickly we forget... There were huge inefficiencies and Uber was an order of magnitude better than what we had.

Getting a taxi was difficult and unreliable. Ask anyone who used to use them in SF. Uber was like magic in comparison.
I think we should switch to a six-day week (just drop Wednesday). Two day weekend, four day week:

http://calendars.wikia.com/wiki/60-Week_Calendar
appreciably different?!? Not sure I follow. Both are hideous to behold and look very similar. Is there a joke here I am missing?
It would be funny if we flipped the script and us "normal" people wrote...I have been demonstrating consistently my inability to contribute anything significant to better humanity for my entire career. I'm sorry and I hope I can correct this behavior in the future. I'll be taking some time off now to gather and regroup.

That would be a lot of apologies if that was supposed to be the norm.
> As long as everybody who voted takes their receipt

Voters strictly can't take a record of their receipt; this opens up a whole other level of voter intimidation, where, if you voted for the wrong person you lose your job, lose benefits, get beat up, get killed.
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An obvious viable alternative is to avoid consuming the news in cases when you detect that the information has a high likelihood of being manipulative or not containing accurate information.

If you happen to be an expert in a certain topic, you’ll reliably detect this for news items of that topic.

The OP is meant to talk about extending that experience into a general prior belief that such mistakes also occur in areas of the news about which you are not an expert.

Even if you only have one potential modality for consuming news information (i.e. consumer media), you still have the option to try to mentally model the uncertainty within that modality, and either adjust your general skepticism of all news upward, or adjust your consumption of news downward. Either of which could be policies that cause you to become more informed by consuming / believing the news less, depending on your personal parameters for the optimization policy.
Also the Dylan team at Apple even though they already knew about their death sentence, went ahead and finalized their NewtonOS implementation ahead of the team redoing it in C++.

There was a comment from one of their team members a couple of years ago here in HN.

I think Julia and Swift both have a bit of Dylan on their souls. :)

EDIT: Found the Dylan post with comments from the Newton team. Search for entries from wrs and
mikelevins.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106802
NY's system is pretty good.

Something you don't mention but is another nice bit is they have poll observers from each major party watching at each elction site.

One thing they don't have but I wish for is that, after the machine-count totals are in, each party represented should be able to name a small number of precincts for an audit/hand recount. Parties at this point have pretty good modelling of expected results at a precinct level. That would give a cheap way to get lots of certainty against tampering of the machine vote counting.
False voting is a severely overrated problem. It doesn't scale. One person might be able to make a fake vote/registration, or even a few of them. But enough to materially affect the outcome of an election? That requires an organized effort with likely thousands of people involved. Such conspiracies are impossible to keep secret.

Don't let something that feels wrong steer you away from much more severe and likely problems.
240/4 is not globally reachable, so you can certainly use it in your org if you are not already using it for any multicast applications. [1]

This could vary wildly from company to company so there is not a universally correct answer here.

[1] - https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/...
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The cost of the status quo where we mostly burn dead dinosaurs for electricity costs a lot more and is not getting any less costly.

Given the choice of waiting for wind/solar to become more worthwhile as oil extraction slowly becomes more expensive and prices slowly rise (aka the status quo) or pulling the trigger on nuclear now it shouldn't even be a choice.
That’s just a jab with zero informational content.

It is reasonable to be skeptical if TFA is an advert for the author’s book on low-wage jobs. Since the whole article reduces to an anecdote, doubly so.

I really want trustworthy primary source reporting on conditions in the warehouses, but it’s really hard to find a neutral source who doesn’t either have a job they want to keep or an axe to grind.

I strongly suspect the working conditions are much harsher than they should be, but I also strongly suspect this is becoming a meme and people are dog-piling or even virtue signaling to some extent.
I am a subscriber of Lessons of hn but do not stand to benefit in any other way. The peraon behind LHN does not work on a schedule.

Rather he/she seems to send only when there is something genuinely worthwhile. Consequently it is never spammy and is one of the newsletters I truly look forward to.

Also it helps that, each newsletter is one plain hn comment. So it is not stuffed with fillers, while also being extremely insightful and relevant.
ZFS snapshots on FreeBSD can help with the Time Machine functionality if not the GUI experience.
I’ll second that. DDG is good for regular searches, but can stumble upon rare particular queries and/or what one calls ‘deep googling’. Otoh, it is good that I can hide everything except few queries from google, so it wastes its money on irrelevant ads that I block anyway.
There have been a lot of great comments hear. I call the problem, "The True Believer Problem". True believers are those who are bought in to the product and vision, and ultimately are personally invested in the company's success, regardless of compensation. However, they are hard to distinguish from the opportunist, who can spot true believers, and their success, and then latch on. They often reflect back to key executive / founders, the values / language / signs of being a true believer, but their investment in the company's success is directly tied to their financial upside. Oftentimes these folks work very hard to market themselves, and their company, but mostly themselves. It can also cause cultural rifts because non-executive true believers spot this behavior and have very little recourse. The culture starts to suffer, little by little.

Startup boards can be highly problematic. Some board members are great, but many can't differentiate the best interest of the company from their own best interest. They can be highly-biased and interested in a getting a good return / new investments opportunities / using the company to leverage their professional network. This often comes into play when your board is only a combination of founders & investors. Who's bringing the industry experience w/o pressures of an exit? Who's sitting on the board because they care?

Many very important things don't matter early. There's a mindset that Compliance / Security / Legal / HR are things that big companies worry about. That they just slow down agile startups. The reality is that the reason that the perception is that those things will slow companies down is two-fold. One, most founders that never worked in leadership roles at legacy or non-startups don't know anything about them. Secondly, boards don't really care about this stuff until they need to be in place for an IPO. They don't even really matter if your plan is to be acquired. This leads to some very toxic environments.
But keeping price high and salaries low when you are so rich that you can give away 2 billion is a zero sum game. Every dollar you pull out of customer's pocket and put in yours instead of your employee's makes them poorer nominally by exactly the same it makes you richer. And relatively ... They get way more poorer than you get richer ...

Taking money from people and keeping it is only ok if you have good idea what to do with it.

I'm not saying Bezos is wrong there. Taxing customers and employees to help the homeless is perfectly fine in my book.
Well, they did, in the software update notes for the version that introduced this change. I do agree that they could (and should) have been quite a bit more prominent though.
You can use any gateway with your custom domain name? Potentially you could but I don't know of any that let you do this.

My impression of the public gateways was that the end user would need to know the content hash of your website which makes for a poor user experience.

This announcement claims the end user just uses the website as they normally would by visiting example.com but behind the scenes there is no central web server because the content is pulled from IPFS.

DNS was the missing piece :)

https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...
I agree with you. However life gets in the way sometimes and those little quick things get delayed until later. Enough of those build up and that's when I run into those.

The tabs are all things I've sent to my phone/home computer via pushbullet because they were articles I was interested in actually digging into and maybe doing more research on the topic later so they do takes some actual time or at least mental energy.

The wall painting and cleaning stuff is all quick time wise but there are other potential costs that accompany it. Painting brings the possibility of spilling the paint or getting it on my clothes or something. I also need to clean up the paint brush thoroughly which takes some time. Same with re-potting plants. What if I spill the soil and it goes everywhere? Big clean up. Yes unlikely but if I've only got 20 minutes on a Tuesday before I head out to do something else I don't want to risk it.

I am the most happy or at least the most focused when I finish all of these things thus the clean up day. It almost feels like there is a part of my brain that is dedicated to these tasks even if they are just sitting on my computer or around the place to be accomplished. It's great to finish them.
We should also have ICE on hand to prevent any foreign interference with the election! Russian agents can't interfere if everyone is checked for citizenship at the polling place.
I had a 300 baud modem and text wouldn't even download close to reading speed. I need to see if this will work on my old C64 machine. Would be fun to go through a few BBS that are still around.
I think you need more time. If a company offered me a years full pay leave after 5 years to study full time, with fees covered I would valued that a LOT more than all of the other workplace perks available.