skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an app for sharing short audiovisual clips and it’s huge because it developed in a culture of good-natured, one-upsmanship that is suited to a broad audience of Asian youth (including China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, South Asia, etc.), and in turn was fueled by adaptive feeds based on user behavior and feedback. I liked it because the content was friendly, accessible, and creative. I assume others felt the same way.
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I think what you, the parent post, and the grandparent post are showing is: When the signal indicates a high likelihood of risk involved with hiring someone convicted of nonviolent crimes,
we have a fairly significant flaw in our system.

As other threads have been discussing, if this is the signal that people are receiving, maybe the punishment based system isn’t working and we may want to investigate systems where rehabilitation based systems are seemingly showing more promise. This may help us shift what signals society is receiving.
It sure still can be. If people who would later divorce stopped getting married (for instance because it's more socially acceptable now to live together without marriage), causing a decline in marriages, divorce rate defined as a ratio of divorces to the total number of married women also gets lower.
PN-Counter is coordination-free counter, it can't be used as a method of coordination. But it's ok for global rate limiting, as it doesn't have to guarantee exact rate at any point in time, as long as it eventually averages on specified rate.
Is Blockly the next Excel? Study shows non-programmers can use it for real tasks [pdf]
I think you may be confusing BC and another jurisdiction (Ontario?)

BC held a referendum in 2005 which was on Single Transferrable Vote. 57% voted in favour, but the threshold was set at 60%, with a majority needed in at least 60% of the electoral districts.

BC held a second referendum in 2009, and the vote swung in the other direction. Only 39% voted in favour of STV.
The owner of this repo has no idea it’s trending on HN. This issue gave me a good laugh: https://github.com/drujensen/fib/issues/51
That's only possible if you sacrifice some of the stronger anonymity requirements. In theory you shouldn't be able to prove you voted a particular way to ensure you can't be intimidated into changing you vote.

Unless it's good enough to verify whether your vote was counted, that should be fairly easy to do.
Nice write up. I remember the day the money was replaced, my business was in the sweet shop next to my primary school. I liked the new coins because they were all clean and shiny. I'm sure we were ripped off when it came to penny bars.
Well, all traditions are heavy fabrications.

As far as diamond engagement rings are concerned, it's about a century old tradition at this point, so four or five generations. That's a pretty long time for the purposes of this discussion.

And this comes form someone who didn't get their fiancée a diamond ring for various reasons.
Isn't reference counting just a different style of garbage collection? I see lots of articles saying that swift both is and isn't garbage collected, and I'm curious what the proper answer is here.
Not really.

Do you need to get to the polling place? I guess all gas station workers are exempt. As is everybody working for the various transit systems.

Can you ensure nobody has a medical issue on a national holiday? Doctors, nurses, and hospital support staff are all working. This also brings on either the entire power grid, or someone in maintenance to watch the generators.

Do you eat? All restaurants are exempt. So are grocery stores. So are all the utilities related to energy needed for cooking. (though here Israel with their nobody working on the sabbath has an interesting take - in part that works there because non-jews are willing to work but it need not)

Are you going arrest foreigners the night before (which is to say no passports are valid, go home before voting day and come back afterwards - bad weather is not an excuse to plan ahead)? I guess hotels get to remain open.

You can go on. It turns out to run civilization we need a lot of people working even on holidays. Interestingly, it turns out a lot of these workers are the poorer people who you were trying to help.
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No actions by the SEC meaningfully furthers their goal of protecting investors. They extract a fine, the party in question doesn't need to admit guilt, and the cycle continues. Occasionally, they send someone to jail to prove a point (Martin Shkreli), but out of their limited enforcement actions, it is rare.

https://www.dandodiary.com/2018/05/articles/regulatory-enfor... (SEC Public Company Enforcement Action Continue Steep Decline in First Half FY 2018)

> According to the report, the SEC filed 15 new enforcement actions against public companies and their subsidiaries in the first half of FY 2018, representing a 67 percent decline from the 45 enforcement actions the SEC filed in the first half of FY 2017. The number of enforcement actions filed in the first half of 2018 is significantly below the average of 29 enforcement actions filed per half year during the period FY 2010 through FY 2017, and below the median of 26 actions per half year filed during that same time period. The 15 enforcement actions filed against public companies and their subsidiaries in the first half of 2018 is the lowest half year filing total since the first half of FY 2013, when there were 12 filings.

> The current trend toward significantly reduced numbers of enforcement actions against public companies and their subsidiaries began in the second half of 2017. In the last half of the 2017 fiscal year, the SEC filed only 17 enforcement actions against public companies and their subsidiaries, compared to 45 actions filed in the first half of FY 2017.

Citigroup fraud cost investors hundred of millions of dollars. The SEC fined them $10 million. The SEC seems...less than effective in encouraging above board behavior by public companies. The fine is simply a cost of doing business.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-155-0 (Citigroup to Pay More Than $10 Million for Books and Records Violations and Inadequate Controls)

> The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citigroup has agreed to pay $10.5 million in penalties to settle two enforcement actions involving its books and records, internal accounting controls, and trader supervision. The charges stem from $81 million of losses due to trader mismarking and unauthorized proprietary trading and $475 million of losses due to fraudulently-induced loans made by a Mexican subsidiary.
Seems exactly, somewhat, afaict, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prismatic_(app)
of course, happy to
The sad truth is that endless money will not be able to buy or create a perfect world or significantly improve it unless their is an infrastructure and government in place. I would say it would make a lot more sense to use part of that 2 billion dollars on getting some good people into congress. Most elections sadly are simply decided by who has more campaign funding.
If you mail it do you get a confirmation that it was received and processed? How does one know that it wasn't destroyed while en route? Does the ballot come with a tracking number that you can punch in on website to see if your vote was processed correctly?
That's a great take on the question (and relevant to anyone trying to generate hype for their start ups or projects)... I'm reasonably interested in space, and am regularly excited to watch the launches etc - but the way this story played out I ended up seeing a few photographs, going "wow, that's amazingly cool... ok, next story..." There was nothing to explore, nothing to be swept up along with.

It is amazingly cool though.
I prefer a physical thing that somebody has to physically steal, hide, replace, destroy. Something that can be signed for, locked up, and monitored with cameras for years after an election.

Computers are about convenience. Elections are important enough to do things the hard way.

Paper gives you natural decentralization. Computers will tend to be purchased from and serviced by a small number of companies.

Paper please.
I still don't understand why people bother with template metaprogramming. And I genuinely mean it. Other languages have much simpler and nicer constructs and seem to work just fine. And even within C++ you can often solve the problem with more verbose, but simpler code. Every time I read an article or watch a talk on it I have the impression that people use it because they can, not because there's some huge upside in using them. Did I miss the magic "aha" moment?
Isn't the chairman position just part of the board of directors? I think he would have still been CEO with the agreement. If the SEC wins now, he won't be able to serve as CEO.
If you have your test code unified, and have multiple CI pipelines, it should show up immediately on your build servers.
Per local German coverage on reported crime statistics, many crimes go unreported, and a number of crimes that would be included in US crime statistics are exempted from German reporting.

Also, now that Germany has...diversity...the crime rate went up pretty significantly.

So I would say, all in all, that homogenous populations are the greatest deterrence, followed by the magnitude of punishment being significantly more important at a societal level, though the risk of getting caught dominates the thought process for regulatory/low-punishment crimes.
Also, this quote gave me a good chuckle.

> Imagine Usain Bolt looking back as he runs the 100 meter dash and seeing you covered in sweat, screaming up behind him. Imagine the look on his face. That’s my face when I saw this page went from total obscurity to top ranking for “g2a discount code” in one month and generating an estimate 30,000+ visitors to that one page.

Really effective use of imagery. I love how he directs your attention to think about Bolt’s face, which is easy to imagine.
Having the SEC file against you is far, far worse.
Worth mentioning: Wasn't just a random person, it was Egor Homakov who has a history of finding pretty interesting exploits particularly wrt Rails and Github.
It’s amazing to see the implications lay out first hand of a single manufacturing defect.

Big tech is in the kind of business where the 3rd, 4th, or 5th item in the chain of Toyota's "Five Whys" can have such far reaching effects. In a way, this is nothing new. The auto industry has been in that kind of business for a very long time now. This is why Toyota's "Five Whys" exists.

I don't think the root of the problem here is technical, however. I suspect it's ultimately cultural. Didn't Andrew Grove say, "Only the paranoid survive?" How hard would it be to maintain a culture of paranoia at an industry leading company with huge margins? That's the kind of position that fosters overconfidence, not paranoia.

AMD's Epyc Master plan: (Or how AMD let Intel paint itself into a corner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMQermB9wQ
Sourcemap: Slick App for Tracking the Supply Chain for Your Laptop, Etc.
While I agree with this (the SEC filing is very straightforward to read), I think the author of this piece does add a lot, especially being more familiar with how the SEC works. The details around the settlement that Musk backed out of I think is very important, because it does set the stage then that the harshest penalties (officer and director ban) do seem oriented more toward getting Musk to settle than actually banning him.
I mean it makes sense. If he can get account access or remote execution, that's a lot of money. Unless the hacker is already pretty well off and doesn't need it, it's probably not worth the publicity stunt.
It’s very hard to read these articles when dynamic ads are injected and then removed 30 secs later causing me to lose my place. Terrible.
The rules of society can be absolutely abhorrent. A savage act that is legal doesnt become anymore civilized by being the majority opinion of society.
Surprising since it advertises itself as "It is the extremely compatible Python compiler."
If the UK doesn't put up a border then it is the EU that is causing a problem. There doesn't have to be a hard border, but EU insists that there should be.
How often is this an issue? Sounds like a made up scenario for the US.
Similarly, I get in at 10 and leave at 5. I'm a generic swe.
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The complaint of one party in a lawsuit is not the best primary source. The whole purpose of it is leaving you with the impression that the defendant brazenly committed all the charges.
It's funny because the only reason I know of Nautilus on Ubuntu is from installing Dropbox. To use the Dropbox daemon on Ubuntu you have to install it and then restart Nautilus.
Making head or tail of a galactic landscape
Earth From Space (2012)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2149708/?ref=m_nv_sr_1

This documents Earth by combining imagery and data from many different satellites, to model the Earth in a way never before seen before. It shows how different systems of the Earth interact with each other that is absolutely mind-blowing.

For example, you see how a stirring of dust in the desert creates a daily migration of minerals into the Amazon rainforest which allows the rainforest to survive and thrive.

It shows daily, and weekly, and Millennial long cycles that power the planet and really changes how you see the Earth.

And it's gorgeous.
like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom.

Or Arthur rising and reinstating Camelot in England's hour of need.

Or Nessie being discovered, then rampaging south to destroy London in a Gozilla inspired attack, wiping out the entirety of the Square Mile.

Or the entire human population suddenly realising that the borders were only in their heads all along and finally living together in peace and harmony.
Style Wars "The Original Hip-hop Documentary"
http://www.stylewars.com/site/

Amazing, gritty portrait of NYC in the 80s.
not the top link in any of the demo'd searches, so clearly the title is false. technically. still it's fascinating.

> Seth Kravitz is the CEO of PHLEARN, the world’s #1 Photoshop & Lightroom training company online

wow. i guess CEOs of any online company have to have deep deep understanding of SEO these days. and what better SEO than blogging about things unrelated to your company! as we just saw a few days ago from 3byte.
Templates make for the most abusively ugly code, at a glance. The syntax interpetaion to translate to natural problem-domain thought is so brutal.
The training accuracy won't match. Here's an excerpt from a presentation on FP16 training to give you an idea of the loss in accuracy:

Mode | Top1 accuracy, % | Top5 accuracy, %
-------------------------+------------------+---------------------
Fp32 | 58.62 | 81.25
Mixed precision training | 58.12 | 80.71
FP16 training | 54.89 | 78.12

[1] http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2017/presentation/s7218...
Intel has been beaten technologically before. AMD did it years ago. Intel responded by lowering prices, and removing profits from AMD's technological triumph.

The problem is that AMD's current technical attack directly undermines Intel's margins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMQermB9wQ

That said, such a tactical advantage is only temporary.
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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
how is this social engineering? genuine question.
Sure, that's a totally different scenario than tricky-looking urls.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18093989.
Ask HN: How do you estimate projects?
I'm a freelance developer. I've noticed that despite my best intentions, almost all non-trivial projects I've estimated have ended up going over the time budget.

Sometimes this is due to unknown-unknowns, sometimes it's due to underestimating the complexity of certain features, sometimes it due to client interference, sometimes it's due to slow progress etc. Whatever the reason, there has to be a better way to create estimate to factor in these issues?

I'm not necessarily looking for advice specific to software development, but just general planning tips from people with similar experience (or who work in larger organisations). What questions do you ask yourself? What processes do you follow? How do you mitigate overrunning your estimates?
Does GDPR stop Facebook from re-purposing the phone numbers that they already collect? It seems to me that everything is GDPR compliant, even if it's a scummy thing to do.
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You have been living under a rock, although it’s not your fault. There is depressingly little information exchanged between east and west, other than reports on fringe stuff that emphasizes our otherness. If you knew anyone under age 20 living in nearly any Asian country (maybe India, Pakistan, Bangladesh excluded), they could tell you about Douyin/TikTok.
I'm sure their friendly neighborhood community organizer will charter a bus for them to get their ID cards. If they're citizens, there will be somebody who wants their vote badly enough to walk them through that process and even buy them a sandwich for their trouble.

Let's join the rest of the world and make sure that the people voting in our elections are citizens. Community organizers have proven to be extremely effective at getting voters to the polls. If a preliminary step is for them to get them their card, I'm sure they won't flinch from that duty.
Or indeed in the country: the “smartest” (sleaziest) thing the leave campaign did was to refuse to actually lay out any specific kind of brexit - knowing there was no unity on the brexit side.
That would have created a legitimacy problem for the EU. Brussels is hard set on pushing for "an ever closer union" and London has had a policy of ratifying new EU treaties without a referendum.

So a majority vote for Brexit that fell short of a prescribed threshold would create huge problems for future EU treaties.
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> It imposes design constraints that in the end work out for the better.

I feel the jury is still out on this. It does impose design constraints that remove a certain subclass of errors, whether this correlates to actually causing better designed programs in the sense of readability, maintainability, etc. I'm unsure. I understand the desire for this to be true and I feel that some of the fanaticism around the language is the belief that this is true. Developers like to have the 'one true way' to solve problems. Go's popularity I feel is in part because of this as well but achieved it by having a bare bones language with less options instead of a restrictive compiler. If you take the 'restrictive compiler' argument to its logical conclusion for a program that accepts input x and produces output y there would only be one valid way to code this program. This would be good in the sense that presumably the compiler has proven that your program works and is correct. On the other hand though I have no inclination to believe that this program would be the most understandable, modifiable way to get from x -> y.
Hi HN, developer here. Here's a quick rundown of the idea behind the site :

- Like reddit, there are topics (subreddits)

- each subreddit has a chat room and a forum

- code is open source (warning : it's a little rough) [0]

- there is currently no support for community moderation, but when I build the moderation features, I plan to make the moderation logs public

- I plan to explore ways to prevent abuse of mod status : have some of sort of community re-approval of mod status every n months, so any mod that the community feels is not operating in good faith/too harsh etc can be removed.

- there's currently a single chat room for each topic, but I plan to add support for mod created chat rooms

- the forum uses a dumbed down HN like sorting algorithm [1]

- I also plan to build an api for bots and maybe host them myself on aws lambda since expecting users to host their own bots might be too much to ask. Since no other major site seems to host users' bots, it might encourage users to build creative bots and not worry about hosting fees. All bots will be opt in, so users have to explicitly subscribe to bots to view the messages in the chat and forum.

This was actually one of my abandoned side projects that I decided to try and bring back to life. You can read a little about the 1st version and the fun experience with 4chan trolls here [2].

A little about the plans to grow the site :

- I'm thinking about focusing on cryptocurrency communities to start with, since they might appreciate the open mod logs + accessible chat and forum accessed through a web browser.

- SEO traffic seems to be picking up slowly, 30-50 hits per day and 3-4 signups, but I'll need to learn more about SEO to try and increase SEO traffic. Any tips?

Would love to hear your thoughts on my sideproject.

[0] https://github.com/ploggingdev/hackerschat

[1] https://github.com/ploggingdev/hackerschat/blob/master/maina...

[2] https://www.ploggingdev.com/2018/01/the-strange-launch-of-ha...
What you're saying is horrific. If you think population control is important, birth control, sex education, economic opportunities, and women's rights are the answers. Letting other people die in misery (that you'll conveniently never have to witness) due to some half thought out idea about what might happen in hundreds of years is literally evil.
Fuck, im done :/
I agree with you, but if there is no evidence that something is psychosomatic, the doctor shouldn't give the diagnosis that it is. If a doctor is keen on dismissing the patients I think that should be investigated and that person barred from working in the field.
Different machine and superior algorithm, where are you aiming with this?
Exactly.

Most home buyers take out a mortgage. Most people also look at monthly payments as a proxy for affordability. Monthly payments raise when interest rates rise.

Therefore, sellers need to ask for lower prices when rates are high in order to attract buyers. A $150,000 mortgage at 12% interest has monthly payments of $1,543, at 5% interest its $805.
Used to be finding a busted up Craftsman tool, like in the gutter and run over a few times, was a windfall. You could walk into any Sears and get a free replacement no questions asked.
Is there an API method that can list existing/matching keys in a namespace with a glob or prefix or similar?

Like, "show me all keys that match xyz∗ in this namespace"
When they looked into high-end real-estate in 2016, up to 30% of all deals were suspicious of being money laundering. [1] They looked just primarily at New York, Miami, Los Angeles and other big markets.

> The rules cover properties purchased for more than $3 million in Manhattan, properties over $1 million in the southern Florida locations, over $2 million in the California locations and more than $3 million in the Hawaii locations.

> Treasury said that among the transactions covered by the rules over the past year "about 30 percent... involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report."

It makes you wonder how much the real estate market is inflated due to money laundering and foreign funds flowing in for washing or investments, keeping real customers out of the market.

Fact is money laundering is a problem in real-estate, art, crypto, political campaigns [2] (with Citizens United) and more.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/a-third-of-luxe-real-estate-...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/citizens-united-foreign-...