skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bush v. Gore was a warning, and the response was to roll out electronic voting everywhere. This solved the very specific problem that was most prominent in the 2000 election: ballots that could be ambiguously marked. Unfortunately, there are far bigger problems to worry about and this change made them far worse.
There are many problems with unions. But, every time there is no union, the company screws workers. Screws them to within an inch of common decency. This just seems to be a basic law of human interaction - those that can be exploited will be exploited. With the right legislative environment, unions can be very effective, especially for logistics industries where down time is very costly for the company.

Not sure there is an amicable solution to this. Company v union battles obviously harm productivity, but not sure how else to avoid the not-so-slow march towards inhuman exploitation of workers.
Chernobyl was terrible design, and we’ve come a long way. Fukushima would be a better example of a modern design failing, and even then there are much more fault-tolerant designs.

We certainly aren’t going to be building any more Chernobyls for commercial power generation.
My phone with a replaceable battery... every time I’d drop it or throw it on my bed, the back pops off and battery flies out. It also made things quite a bit thicker for this feature I never used, except to put the battery back in.

I’d argue that the ability to solder is still repairability, it just requires the service tech to have soldering skills. It’s not like there’s actual restrictions preventing it.

My clothes drier is repairable, but requires electrical skills. Phones are more complicated now. It stands to reason that they’re more complicated to repair.
> In the UK I never saw a taxi app that wasn't an utter heap of garbage.

Hold on now. Hailo was amazing. Pity they broke themselves trying to take on the big apple.
"Long bouts of painfully low productivity as you struggle to advance your skills yet one notch higher."

But how do you know that the skills you are acquiring are actually the right ones unless you go into a tried and true career path?
SEO attacks?
I'm a bit worried about the abuse potential here. It seems like a great way to distribute movies, warez, etc since not only is Cloudflare paying for the bandwidth but they're also caching the content so you won't be bottlenecked by IPFS itself.
False. There are people living many people in that exclusion zone right now and they are actually fine and don't drop dead of cancer like flies.

And lets remember that this was a Soviet design build as a technology to have reactor for nuclear weapons (or at least dual use).

Fukushima is the worst thing ever happened in terms of actual western civilian reactors and not a single person died from radiation.

Not a single person died in the US from civilian nuclear. It is the safest energy technology in terms of actual data.

So yes, it should be saver, but comparatively it is saver then everything else.
I dont think Google was fined billions over privacy violations, just antitrust ones and only in the EU. In the US Eric Schmidt's constant lobbying to Obama got them off the hook for the antitrust investigation even though the FTC staff investigating their violations recommended antitrust action against Google.
exactly! `==null` and `!=null` are the only reasons I use it.

For those not aware, you can specify a rule in [js/es/ts]lint to allow only these cases.
Dropbox-like site: Pastebin
First of all, the threat we're up against is global warming and air pollution which is currently killing hundreds of thousands of people, right now, per year.

Also, you're assuming a linear no-threshold radiation dose response, which is very hard to find support for at the low dose rates now present at Chernobyl. As someone else in this thread pointed out, that's like assuming hundreds of people would die per year from handshakes due to linear health response to Newton's laws.

Indeed, it appears that human presence was more detrimental to life than radiation [1].

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/060418-chernobyl...
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From the article:

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network, so there is the possibility of users sharing abusive content. This is not something we support or condone. However, just like how Cloudflare works with more traditional customers, Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway is simply a cache in front of IPFS. Cloudflare does not have the ability the modify or remove content from the IPFS network. If any abusive content is found that is served by the Cloudflare IPFS gateway, you can use the standard abuse reporting mechanism described here.
Yes, Cpanel::JSON::XS can be configured to be closer to the original Mojo::JSON behaviour. And the maintainer has historically been more cooperative with efforts to make Perl JSON modules compatible with each other.
I haven't checked in on the development of Pycket in a bit, but much of the recent work has gone into supporting linklets. Last I checked, the performance story for the Scheme and Shootout benchmarks used in the paper haven't changed much.

There are some benchmarks which evaluate Pycket's performance when applied to gradual typing [1]. Pycket does a pretty good job of optimizing the overheads of gradual typing (or at least Racket's implementation strategy), though it by no means eliminates the performance costs.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3133878
Dynamic loading, interfaces, bundles, reflection was already there in those Java versions.

The only things I can recall not being there aren't that well supported by Swift as well, regarding dynamic patching classes, missing method handling, swizzling and such.
You might encourage them to reach out to a domestic violence shelter or something. Plenty of folks would be ecstatic to have an old smartphone.
Considering I spend 99% of my time either in a terminal or a web browser, I don't think it will have too much of an affect, unless the UX of either of those two are diminished. For years I used a very barebones Linux desktop (a minimalist tiled VM) and was very happy and productive with it. The former is largely why.

But I don't think the point was a 'better' desktop but an interesting or experimental one. Or simply just for fun.

We can often relearn valuable things from the past by recreating them. It's usually not enough to just look at pictures of it or hear stories. Plus many "new" UX and software problems were dealt with in the past and reappear later with new platforms, hardware, and UI concepts which start over from scratch.
> If I don’t exercise too hard, I’m inclined to come the next day or the day after.

Heavy weights 1x per week. Consistent, light and fast training is optimal (~50-60% max) via "Train Smarter with Firas Zahabi -- Consistency over intensity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR0m0Vt3JF4
> You see tons of jobs out there on websites and even "desperate" listings, but the hiring process takes forever, and these guys just don't get hired. Something seems off.

From the employer side, something seems off to me as well. Our company is really desperate to hire new workers, both skilled and unskilled. But positions are staying open for months on end, despite me interviewing decent new potential hires.... corporate HR is getting really hung up on their qualifications, and are really stingy during wage negotiations.

It seems like there's kind of a collective madness going on among corporate hiring offices, where they're still behaving as though we're recovering from the great recession. And who can blame them? After all, they've spent the last 10 years of their careers in the crash and recovery - at this point, it's an old habit to play hardball with a potential new hire.
I do not understand why paper ballot would be difficult to achieve, that is the easiest to do!

I never voted in the US, but the system seems overly complex for such a simple exercice. Here in Canada, we have a paper ballot (http://www.elections.ca/vot/yth/stu/gui/images/dxsmp1-e.jpg), which is pretty simple. The vote is done, the stub is tallied and 2 people need to verify the vote before dropping it in a sealed box. When the polls close, the votes are counted, by multiple persons, by hand. Nothing electronic.

... and there is a single vote at a time, no votes on laws when electing representative, etc. That is just non sense.
A lot of people equate success with happiness. Especially if you're company is making headlines. One does not always accompany the other and it will be difficult for many people in your life to accept that.
Flatpak on Windows
Is it weird to note the difficulties of decommissioning windmills, and then advocate for nuclear power plants?
Ask HN: Which gadget or software has made your daily life better and why?
> Lowering profits means reduced shareholder value and a lower market capitalization. Every company is interested in providing as much value to shareholders as possible.

Ultimately, it's pro-business elite politics that have created that situation. IIRC, corporations, like copyrights, exist to serve the public good. If rapacious exploitation to achieve maximum profit is against the public good, the corporations that engage in such behavior should be either reigned in or destroyed using the legal system.

Unfortunately, like copyrights, corporate law has been twisted an corrupted into something that doesn't serve the public good anymore.
I sure wish they started with the 3.
Its not just in China that you can build cost effective nuclear. There are other places as well. South Korea for example has shown itself very effective.

The problem in the US is that there is only so few builds, these large projects can only be effective if you 'mass' produce these buildings so people have done it before.

Actually it was looking good for building many new plants in 2007 but sadly it all collapsed because of cheap gas and the financial crisis.
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> "that Apple doesn't approve of and voided the warranty..."

That's how warranties work.
> You can lose considerable muscle mass

BCAA
Other court cases have shown that shareholder value is not solely profits. Shareholder value is also obtained by creating a company that will survive and thrive over time - it's why Target and Costco can both survive while paying reasonable wages to their employees.
Is having cars parked on the street out of place? I agree that bikes blocking pedestrian right of way is bad and needs to be stopped. The easiest way to do that is to replace some of the car parking with bike parking.

The concept that a bike parked on your street would be bad for your neighborhood is an opinion you should rethink - bikes are great!
> Compared to new gas plants, new nuclear plants are extremely expensive.

This was an explicit policy of the enviros to stop nuclear construction back in the 80's and 90's. The NRC had a separate license to build then operate a plant. The enviros could not stop the licensing but tied up the license to operate in endless lawsuits and killed a number of projects. It was the licensing delays, not actual construction costs, that killed nuclear in the USA. Power utility CEOs stopped ordering plants when the path to licensed operation was blocked and could add 100's of millions of unknown costs in delays and lawsuits.

I think the NRC later revised the process to stream-line licensing and minimize the risks but no private utility is willing to go first. The enviros have threatened to sue the NRC if they use the new license process and tie that up in court. There had been talk of the TVA or some other govt utility going first but I have not heard of that lately.
That uses a local list of hashes, so the URL doesn't need to be sent to Google.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
I found using Firefox console and debugger so frustrating that I had to switch back to chrome
I would quit so fast if my workplace was like that. That is not an environment where (good) software can be created.

You need technical people as the cofounder/upper management level to push back hard on that stuff. Via quiet separated office areas for developers, policies on 'distractions' during certain times OR when headphones are on OR Slack status is "Do Not Disturb", etc.
You always build on the shoulders of giants. However, it was Linux that took off, not alternatives (e.g., Minix).
Love Mojo. Easy to use and fun!
> Since politicians killed Yucca Mountain and didn't come up with an alternative

Harry Reid. It's important to emphasize that this isn't a complex or bipartisan problem. It's one very powerful individual supporting his states NIMBYism, and a party (the Democratic Party) which is unwilling to stand up to it's leadership amid mixed overall opinions on nuclear.

Perhaps most painful for my sanity: the event that would be best for nuclear power in the United States would be Trump deciding he wanted to stick it to Harry Reid.
In case you missed this finer point, the Secretary of State who has certified these machines is also the candidate expected to win the election by a small margin. He has refused to recuse himself from the responsibility of ensuring a fair election.
I'm not sure how it's handled now, but what I'd like to see is after the election closes, a random method to select poll locations is used -- such as a lottery ball machine -- and those locations are then required to do a manual recount. No one has advance notice of which poll locations will do this, so there's no opportunity for cheating (eg, turning off a defeat device at the locations that will be audited).

If there are any differences in the count then additional locations are required to also do a manual count, and if more than two locations have differences, all electronic numbers are trashed and the whole election is counted manually.
It's amazing isn't it, a golfball sized material to power your life. Unfortunately, we again bump up against the problem of a single actor having too much power (literally). Sadly, someone will try to use their golfball to blow up a large city. We might have some amazing batteries otherwise. As is, I imagine we'll have to parcel out energy in small quantities to individuals.
Carnegie was very philanthropic. He also ruthlessly exploited his workers.
That's rewriting history, including a lot of hard work by a lot of people. YC disrupted the model, it didn't start it. PG repeatedly describes YC as a startup in changing how this works, so mistaking their growth with the industry misses what's happening.

The dotcom era had incubators through models like "I have access to capital but no one good idea; let me start a bunch and pick which to go". VCs regularly host EIRs (entrepreneur-in-residence). More dominant, many universities, corporates, and in gov, SBIR. Not sure how the numbers of SBIR compare to YC, but given SBIR is based on a % of each US dept's budget... ;-)

The "startup accelerator" changed the model: more $ to more varied entrepreneurs, structured program with educational eco-system, made VC capital more attractive, etc.
Only if they can restore the brand to its former household name glory. Time has been peddling awful, low-quality 'viral' content for years now. Their whole website, editorial voice and content quality need to be revamped. Hopefully it can be done. Journalism costs money to do well.
As an aside, the original source of this joke, which a lot of people associated with election tampering, was cheap resistive touch screens that were incorrectly calibrated.

You'd push a location on the screen, but due to normal wear the location that the press was recorded was wrong, this would get worse the more wear the screen had and the longer between re-calibration.

Eventually people got videos of you'd push one candidate and another candidate to the left or right/up or down would receive the vote, often in different races.

This was a scandal in the sense that the machines were not fit for purpose, overly cheap, and poorly maintained/serviced. But it wasn't a good example of election tampering (just one that fit what a lot of people expected to see when tampering was occuring).
Yes, there should've been a "your battery has degraded" alert with information on implications and how to fix it. Apple was wrong to do it silently and without warning.

They did issue a mea culpa and free replacement coverage in response to that criticism, but it took a while.
Then they are probably doing a great if slightly panicked job of pretending to be "doing something" (as in "don't just sit there, do something!!") every hour of the workday. Because their rents and ramen depend on convincing some guy who grumps at people on news.ycombinator.com that a task which will naturally have surges and lulls consists of continuous machine-like effort.
Hmm, let's precisely define what Mr. C calls as flow (or "optimal state"), as mentioned in his book:

The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action.

Obviously, the book can't be reduced to a single definition, as Mr. C talks quite eloquently about the conditions in which flow occurs, etc. (E.g. The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action.)
There needs to be a PHP version of this.
Really? How are they going to afford to do that?
But the solution is simple: 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.
> Because we live in this fantasy land of the [dead] 'American Dream', where if you work hard, absolutely bust your ass and kill yourself for 70 years, you'll get to be Jeff Bezos too.

This never has and never will be the American Dream. The American Dream isn't a rags to riches fairy tale. The American Dream is about inter-generational class mobility. If you bust your tail all your life, you can raise your children's quality of life to a higher standard than your own.

That's all its ever been and its alive and well today.
Blog posts should be submitted without the 'Show HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Facing a banking meltdown, no one's mind is fixed on what the political winds might turn into, after the seams burst, and the clean-up effort hoses off the sidewalks and sweeps the remains into the gutter.

It's survival mode, not even women and children first. So before the dust settles, or even earlier when the economy is clearly imbalanced, unstable and listing off to one side, they expect people to think about the extremists this is going to bake over the next half decade. Never going to happen.

Business people, accountants, financial operators, their minds do not work this way.

But there's easily multiple folds or layers that all add together to produce such an effect. And part of it is age brackets. If this is a fifteen year cycle, it's partly generational, and as much about the ritual of hand-off as it is about who is actually landing in the driver's seat.

But the roughest part is the polluter's mindset of those who set up the meltdown. They're definitely there to say: not my problem; so long, suckers!

Immediately prior to that there's probably some mild discussion about incentives driving performance. Why perform at all, if not to reap rewards? And immediately prior to that, there's probably a period with a good record of following the rules, aging out and retiring uneventfully.

So, if the process seems to havea natural rhythm, it's probably because human mortality means good teams eventually kick the bucket, and upstarts fill their shoes with less integrity. The faces change, but the story doesn't.
Is a subscription-based internet a good idea?
What if the internet was like Spotify: you pay a monthly membership fee to your ISP (maybe) and you get a 'premium' internet without ads or trackers.

In this world, the ISP is responsible for distributing the money to the content providers that we accessed.

I realize this implies that your ISP has to track you, but that is not news, it just puts more responsibility on it. I also realize that there are some logistical nightmares as well: e.g. if you go to a friends' house that spends all his money on toy cars, you will have to enjoy diner over some nice soothing music and ads for cholesterol medicine. But this can be solved if you implement a RADIUS-like framework across the internet, where you authenticate to your bling-bling account from everywhere (like eduroam).

This is an idea and I would like for us to try to attack it from every side and see if it stands :)
Rest of your suggestions are quite thoughtful, but

> They can license feeds to specific clients only

this is a bad idea.
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Just recently trying to get into Perl (trying to bone up for a specific position that requires it) and Mojolicious has been an incredible discovery: the "lightweight" Rails/Django replacement (somewhere between Rails and Sinatra in terms of ceremony and structure) I've always wanted.
Study: people tend to cluster into four distinct personality “types”
> Surely if its terrible and no one will work there they will have to improve or pay more? Or am i misunderstanding basic economics?

Your mistake was assuming that this is something that could be understood solely with "basic economics."

"Basic economics" is a horribly limited intellectual tool-set that will mislead you if you rely on it too heavily.
Making Bellwoods, a Generative Art Game in 13 Kb
Massive floods as Nigeria rivers overflow, $8.2m relief approved
FOMO in China is a $7B industry
I wonder if the direct nod to Bezos is an attempt to gain favor with a wing of the President's base who already have a target on the Amazon CEO, a long shot to combine forces from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.
Kris Kobach had the same arrangement in Kansas recently, he ran the election and was a candidate. He won very narrowly and many people suspect he stole the election.
The cheap CPC and cpm is why Google and Facebook would never consider doing that. Especially Google I've noticed recently that they try to be as misleading as possible to new advertisers to get them to pay a lot of money for crap as targettng. For instance they call what are effectively as interactions as clicks and refer to the cost as CPC even though in all of Google's other as types CPC refers to click to website. But in Gmail campaigns it means ad interactions which convert to almost an order of magnitude fewer clicks to website but the advertisers pay at best only half the cost of regular clicks.
They will hire anyone. That’s why. If you need a job and you will show up on time all the time and perform to the standard they ask you’ll keep the job too. It’s a crap job but for a lot of people it beats being unemployed.
Without a knowledge graph infobox?
That is the theory. The reality is that at these scales a great many laws target only a single company. To target the leader in a given industry all a legislature need do is put a lower cap on enforcement: only companies beyond X number of employees need comply. At the other end, local governments certainly provide special legal treatment to individual companies (zoning/tax incentives etc). So while I agree it isn't a good idea, I'm not naive enough to say that every law targeting a specific company is delusional.
Trust in media has been dropping:
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/226472/sides-aisle-ag...
> iFixIt aren't a good argument for why Apple's devices are easily repairable...

No one is arguing that Apple's devices are easily reparable; they arguing that they're not as hard to repair as it is being suggested.
Politicians cannot and will never fix the economy by going against the business cycle. It's all just hype, lies. Polarization will happen whenever people are discontent and facing hardship. They will look for someone to blame.