skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, hell, I got off with just saying "I don't remember it" an then following up with details of _recent_transactions_ not one time. This whole "personal question" scheme is useless.
Maybe IRV got an early start as a poster child of alternative voting systems, thus it's popularity. In any case, I would argue along with other commenters that IRV's run-offs would probably be far easier to understand for the general electorate than other, more complex vote-processing systems. I would very much disagree with your (xvedejas's) characterization of ranked pairs as being simpler than IRV, though range voting would indeed seem easier to explain and implement than IRV. A math major (or at least a minor) seems like a requirement for someone to understand the ranked pair system.

I was unfamiliar with the ranked pairs system, and will study it more to understand it better. It looks promising as far as technical excellence, though I'm afraid it'd still be too hard to understand for the general populace in most (or all) countries.

One thing I suspect about range voting is that it seems to require strategic voting. A voter would still need to give a very favorable score to a majority party that's kind of aligned with their views, as opposed to giving them a lower score than a minority/third party he or she would prefer. One of the strongest appeals to me from IRV is the opportunity it provides for a minority party to unseat majority parties, which is appealing given the political stagnation experienced by many countries. I had also thought that it allowed voters to avoid strategic voting and express their true, individual voting preferences.

After reading IRV's description in http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ , I realized that I had misunderstood one important detail. I had thought that the least popular candidates were eliminated first until only the top two candidates remained, and the one with most votes among them remained. I dislike that the "real" IRV (not the one that was in my head) first checks for a 50%-plus-one majority before eliminating the bottom candidates. That feels too much like the first-past-the-post system for my liking. I wonder if having successive rounds where the least-favorite first place candidate is eliminated would make most people's favorite candidates "bubble up" to the top, producing a final match between two highly-favored candidates. I wonder if such a system is closer to a Condorcet method than the real IRV...
I disagree. I do the same for certain sites. I have a gmail that I use for weird sites that I most likely won't visit again or any time soon and answer the security questions much the same. If this account gets compromised I literally lose nothing other then make a new gmail and do it again. This shows nothing about my bank or Facebook or actual gmail account security as those I do take steps to protect.
Some kids are routine like that, but others not. Mine was good sleeper, but totally irregular.

Also, advice like this underestimate how frustrating and sucking boring killing all joy strict routine can be for parents. You may decide that sleep is not worth it.

Plus there are hard to determine health issues with small ones. Sometime a kid can't sleep and then you figure it is certain food before night or something of the sort.
"An error happening in the compiler". What's that? If you mean a bug detected, then it should be handled with abort().
Because a democracy and a republic are not mutually exclusive, unless you are talking about direct democracy specifically.

China is a republic but not a democracy. Canada is a democracy and not a republic.
The other day I ran across "programming athlete".
> Is there something qualitatively different about personal meetings, and if so, where is it? Is it eye contact? Body language?

Over 50% of our communication is nonverbal language. Body language largely, and no small part olfactory plus auditory (which video conferencing interferes or blocks). This is not an open question.

> when humans have engaged in unarmed combat for millions of years and every major country has long lineages of specialized competitive martial arts

Because combat wasn't formalized then funded to be inclusive and communicated to the world. This is not an open question.

I'm sure there's more on this list, but maybe someone can update it.
I have the "Server" model which came with 2x1TB 2.5" drives. Swapped one of them out for a SSD: ample storage without having to add anything externally.
You can be serious while also being disrespectful.
Existing laser tech could be used for “porch light” to attract alien astronomers
No part of the US federal government is representative at this point. The Senate isn't by design, the house isn't because it's been capped, the presidency isn't by design.
DO has compute optimized droplets. I tried running aircrack, and I got really good performance (10k/sec on 16vCPU, vs 13k/sec on EC2 32 core dedicated).

Unfortunately, EC2 was still 8x cheaper because of spot pricing. 2 hours cost me $4 on DO but .50 on EC2 spot instances.

Interestingly, a DO sales guy emailed me, more than once, because I used a compute droplet for 2 hours. They must be hard up for leads! Strange, he didn't get back to me when I told him what I was using it for.
The Senate, and the changes to Senate balance caused by granting statehood, already was a contributing factor to one civil war. It also disenfranchises many Americans: DC has large populated areas that aren't part of any state, but Democrats insist on turning DC into a state in its own right (which would give them 2 extra Senators) while Republicans don't want the Democrats to have 2 extra senators, so the most they would agree to is retrocession to Maryland (similar to how Alexandria was retroceded to Virginia), which the Democrats won't accept because then they get 0 extra senators. (Most DC residents would prefer statehood, but then, most DC residents would also vote Democrat, and it's hard to tease out the conflicting motivations of "we want to have representation" and "we want our side to be more powerful in Congress".)

Puerto Rico also seems to want statehood, but there's no progress on getting it for them for various reasons I don't fully understand.

Redrawing state boundaries would either be politically impossible, or could only happen with a large enough national one-party supermajority that it would basically amount to gerrymandering anyway.
(I think you've confused ARM and AMD, FWIW!)

it's surprising to see how badly they're scrambling to hit even 10nm, little lone 7nm

The feature size there is a bit misleading – "Intel 10nm" and "TSMC 7nm" are roughly equivalent, with IIRC the Intel 10nm process actually having a higher transistor density. The TSMC chips aren't really "two nodes ahead" – but it is likely that Intel will lose its process lead for maybe a year or so.

I get the impression that Intel overextended on their 10nm process, in that they were perhaps a bit more ambitious that other manufacturers and it came back to bite them when there were scaling problems. On the other hand, last I heard was that the scaling problems experienced with the 10nm node haven't held up Intel's 7nm node, which could well see them re-establish their process lead.

At the end of the day, it's great that the market is seeing some more competition, so hopefully we will all be able to enjoy the benefits from a variety of manufacturers soon!
IIUC the good part of these molecules is that the energy storage is very stable. With a flywheel the friction will stop it in a few ¿hours/days? The batteries also discharge too fast to store the energy for months. In other comment, someone else proposed to store the energy in hot water, but it's also difficult to keep the hot water for too long.
You can't build an airplane from bricks.
-- Steve McConnell, *Code Complete*
There is another major difference:

Fossil fuels contribute a lot of energy to the needs of people and organizations. Solar and wind will take time to take over the infrastructure. CFCs on the other hand could be much more easily replaced.
Yes, and it is not even that hard. But we cannot measure the future, thus we use models to predict, and those need inputs (such as emitted CFCs) which can be wrong.
He's not a new grad, he was a director of PM. He should have a feel for ballpark figures regarding infrastructure and personnel costs, which don't vary by that big a factor from company to company.

The question is perfectly reasonable (and it sounds like the interviewee was providing a reasonable answer). The issue is the way the interviewer ran the interview, not with the particular question itself.
You would think China with all that control over businesses and their population could prevent people from polluting their rivers with plastic and spewing it into the Pacific Ocean!
Good article. I think issues like the mistranslation "The bear headed man needed a hat" really show that what we need is not an "AI algorithm" but AI agents. The lack of common sense that we see in machines is very much intended, it's what makes them machines in the first place.

Humans don't make these mistakes because humans are able to create stories and place even a mundane translation in the deep context of a 'world' that must be coherent. Heads simply don't have bears on them, we wouldn't trust that translation even if we had heard it clearly, and we'd rather think we hallucinate before we'd drive on a road that goes nowhere in an impossible direction.

Algorithms that are just glorified feature extraction machines, in my opinion, can never create a coherent story, so I'm very skeptical about the claim that we will have somehow solved intelligence in the next ten years. It seems to me like we are almost nowhere closer to it than we were decades ago.
Crazy too how a former Secretary of State kept classified materials on a personal server or that a convicted pedophile had those classified materials on his personal laptop despite not having a security clearance for those materials.
They are still down $10 - $12 from where they were last month (aka 30%). I bought a lot at ~$2, but just bought more.
They all do. Major tech companies have money to burn. Name a trendy tech that BusinessWeek or WallStreetJournal says will "transform the industry" and some schmuck exec will decree they need to be using it.
Disclaimer: I am a product manager at MemSQL, so I may be biased :)

There are a variety of ways to try out MemSQL yourself such as installing on Linux, Windows, Mac, AWS, etc, and maybe I am biased since I was an engineer before I became a PM, but we optimize our product currently exactly for technical people such as IT, devops, and of course, engineers. For a list of installation guides, check this link out: https://docs.memsql.com/guides/latest/install-memsql/

Take a look at our docs (docs.memsql.com) and you will see that we all actually are just a bunch of engineers and people with a technical background. Are there certain technical topics you feel are unclear here? I'm also happy to chat privately.

If you still feel this product isn't right for you, that is fine -- MemSQL's focus on query speed may not be for everyone. However, with this release of having a free product for people to try out, we definitely optimized exactly for people that want to try the product out :). I'm actually surprised you mention our product isn't for engineers/technicalPeople, because from our field of view, we actually sometimes see MemSQL as too technical, hence why we focused on usability in this release, ha!

Hope that answers some doubts you may have -- thanks for the comment.
Played with free for a bit, 200KB is quite a bit low, didn't get any completions. Purchased the premium licence. Gotta say stripe integration is very smooth.

Overall after a couple of hours of playing with this. My mind is quite blown away. This is absolutely amazing.

Hopefully Microsoft or someone acquires this technology for a fat sum and open sources it.

I've thought about code completion smarts for a long time. You actually executed and delivered a product. Kudos! Take my money!
GraphQL also demands a certain data model. Just that it is not standardized. And no, RDF/XML is not the only representation for SPARQL. It can deal also with JSON.
Ask HN: What if Open Source community builds voting machines/system?
What would it take to build a voting machine/system that is truly open source and can be deployed on large scale with security as primary focus?
> Even if we had no experience of senses and minds leading to erroneous perceptions and thoughts, we would still have no way to prove that our minds are reliable

This is pure mental masturbation. It's gratifying for some, but not terribly interesting for others. Yes I could be a brain in a vat and there's no way for me to know, but that line of reasoning doesn't get us anywhere in a practical sense.

> If you want to take it as an axiom that your mind is reliable, that's fine for you, but it isn't something that's necessarily true.

Sure, there is a chance that I am actually in a vegetative state and that I'm making you and reality up... but how is that a useful starting point for practical science?

They're fun mental exercises, and lots of good has come of philosophy (i'm not discounting it at all), but at some point people want to send space probes to Mars, getting bogged down in questions like: what if I am a brain in a vat? would kind of get in the way of that.
No, that would be party-list proportional representation.
Before writing what off?
They aren't mutually inclusive aside from the fact that nobody does it, for several good reasons.

The investment mandate is written on paper and has nothing to do with the fund's structure. Nobody makes investment mandates with funds that are structured that way, except Softbank. Shrug emoji.

Typically an investment into a fund is done with shares which bear no interest. This means that no money is being pulled away from the fund while it invests in things which cannot be liquidated.

Softbank is investing in things which cannot be liquidated, all while money is flowing out of the fund to a large portion of shareholders at 7% a year.
AFAIK there's a single 10nm Intel processor available – the Core i3-8121U. Performance is sub-14nm though.
Israeli composite airplane will be powered solely by electricity
What's the absolute worst that could happen if you crack my free account on some cooking website?

Maybe you favorite a bunch of recipes with lima beans (which I hate). Instead, you discover that I was really into lentil dishes for a while, but have been more interested in dumplings this fall. Maybe this could be used in some sort of elaborate social engineering scheme that nets you more valuable information, but I'm not seeing how....
Blurry vision in babies may guide brain development
Maybe because it IS a query language? From the website: "GraphQL is a query language for your API"... just that it is _not_ a standardized API, so we won't take advantage of HATEOAS.
The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (1999)
Approval voting has the same problem as any other scheme which doesn't force an exhaustive enumeration of preferences: political parties can and will turn them into de facto first-past-the-post systems.

How?

"Just vote one". Or "just mark one". Or "100 points for us and 0 for anyone else". Etc etc. Enough voters will comply -- especially in voluntary systems which magnify the power of fringe voters -- that any advantages of non-ranking voting schemes will be neutralised.

Voting systems like approval voting, range voting and so on work if the options or candidates are prepared to behave uprightly. Outside of situations like a local club or professional organisation, they won't. They will meta-game. It happened in Queensland when they introduced "optional preferential" voting.
Having worked at both an IBM and an Oracle acquisition, once you hit year 2 they'll wish it had been the other way around. A kind of nice thing about Oracle is they don't really want you to become an "Oracle shop" after acquisition. They bought you because you were doing something right, and they want you to keep doing that... just fill out these 10 obscure webforms at each step of the way.
The name doesn't make it so. It defines a syntax and a single operator (nesting), but nothing else. You can't use it to "query" arbitrary data sources in the sense that other query languages such as SQL do, since there are no operators, functions, subqueries/arbitrary joins etc. It's an alternative to REST, not SQL.
Spoken like a true German. Read Varoufakis Adults in the Room, and then maybe you'll be less likely to parrot banking sector propaganda.
From the website: "GraphQL is a query language for your API"
MFi covers Apple's proprietary connectors, as well as certain Apple wireless protocols. It does not cover generic USB.

If you want more proof, every since the iPad came out Apple has actually sold a USB-A port for the iPad, called a "Camera Adapter" (e.g. Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter[1]). It's called this because the primary use-case is connecting your camera to your iPad in order to transfer photos off of it (similar to connecting an SD card), but it works with other USB accessories such as card readers, MIDI interfaces, ethernet adapters, etc. In fact, I'd assume that it works with precisely the same set of accessories that can plug directly into the USB-C port on the new iPad (well, except for being USB-A instead of USB-C).

None of these USB accessories are part of the MFi program. Because they don't need to be. Because they're generic USB accessories, rather than accessories that use Lightning or 30-pin connectors.

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-us...
I don't get the jump from "didn't get any completions" to buying the premium license. Can you explain?
New York state has farmland, yes. What are you getting at?
Here's a great one from Pico project:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/papers/2012-BonneauHerOorSta-...

Other publications that might interest you:

http://pico.cl.cam.ac.uk/technical/

Ross Anderson's blog, LightBlueTouchpaper, has writeups on this in authentication category.
> I dislike that the "real" IRV first checks for a 50%-plus-one majority before eliminating the bottom candidates.

Suppose that a candidate has a majority at the beginning. Then this continues to be the case as other candidates are eliminated. Thus, this majority candidate will be elected at the end. So this extra "if-clause" only speeds up computation, it does not change the voting rule.
The wild Zuckerberg quote aside, I don't believe many people expect this current wave of AI to approach general intelligence. I would be surprised if we weren't all mostly in agreement with the author.
Can you elaborate why SPARQL is the wrong tech?
That's the key part. What CPC case teaches us, is that if we could find a good alternative to Fossil fuels, we could likely eliminate their use.
The ability of youthful indiscretions being forgotten is a thing of the past. I think that contributes to this issue.

Imagine the entire Internet landing on you instead of just your classmates ?
My father-in-law firmly believes that the hole in the ozone was caused by space shuttle reentry, and that's why it's patching now, and also that CFCs couldn't possibly make the hole because they are heavier than air. Does anyone have the data to refute these claims?
I agree that is worthy of a "woah".

Thinking about it more, I wonder how useful that type of autocompletion is for those who can type fast. I wonder how much time it takes my brain to context switch away from "code authoring and typing mode" to recognize the " = len(bar)" in the autocomplete options list. It seems like it would be faster to just type out the " = len(bar)" for those who type a solid 60+ words a minute?
Solution. Just be "Scouts".
I think Approval voting would solve a lot of the first-past-the-post voting while also being much easier to explain to non-math nerd voters than IRV or Condorcet voting: just give every candidate a thumbs up or down. :)

Oakland switched their mayoral election to IRV (maybe ten years ago?) and it was so misunderstood that even one of the candidates recommended that his supporters vote for him in every IRV rank position! (Or perhaps he just didn't want to recommend his supporters even think about the other candidates names?)
Based on numbers here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/2789035-s-and-p-500-index-r...

1940-1950: 9.3%/y

1950-1960: 20.0%/y

1960-1970: 7.7%/y

1970-1980: 5.9%/y

1980-1990: 17.2%/y

1990-2000: 18.2%/y

2000-2010: -1.0%/y

So only decade with negative growth.

Add in the depression and you'll probably see a bunch more...
Dr. Margaret Thatcher

EDIT I must apologise to my parent, and to HN in general. Her thesis was undergraduate:

> ... four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree, specialising in X-ray crystallography under the supervision of Dorothy Hodgkin. Her dissertation was on the structure of the antibiotic gramicidin.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Most people shouldn't be using k8s anyway, because most people don't need that level of complexity. OTOH, Heptio was building some core functionality for enterprises using k8s. There's a ton of crap that k8s doesn't do right now, this was a smart move to build products they can then sell to k8s users.
Triplebyte is supposed to be resume-neutral, so it is reasonable they would try to ask you about it. Surprising they didn't take your word for "I know nothing about embedded systems or C" though... Maybe the interviewer has to go through the motions of asking you everything so that Triplebyte has a complete profile on everyone's performance on every question for their internal data analyses.
Does he have data to back up those claims?
That's not especially ironic. The Fukushima reactors that failed were designed by General Electric, Toshiba, and Hitachi in the early 1960s. Westinghouse was not involved.

Nuclear power continues to demonstrate a very low risk to human life per TWh of electricity generated, including Chernobyl and Fukushima. That said, it's probably best for nuclear advocates to acknowledge that sufficiently incompetent/malicious humans and/or exceptional natural disasters can lead to large unplanned releases of fission products from any reactor. And then to re-emphasize that the actual risks to human health are still lower for nuclear power than for any fossil-based power system.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-...
On the other hand, I've been using my ProtonMail account for a little over a year and while my mailbox has gotten pretty out of hand I'm only using 87MB out of my 5GB (+500MB) storage limit. Your mileage may vary but I have all my emails funneling in :)
> Does anyone have the data to refute these claims?

I firmly believe that gravity is caused by a bunch of invisible garden gnomes that hold you down. Does anyone have the data to refute these claims?
I think I would refine that like this: among companies that train workers against social engineering, ones that pay workers peanuts are going to still be more susceptible than the others simply because of the don't-care factor.

Other than that, anyone is susceptible to social engineering, regardless of pay. Social engineering is crafted to suit demographics.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18395996.
Just to be clear, the discussion about 7nm vs. 10nm is not junk, though it's hard to get concrete sources – WikiChip has some useful data (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/10_nm_lithography_process)

Basically it seems like Intel kind of over-extended on their 10nm process by trying to introduce a bunch of new techniques, and they had trouble scaling this to volume production. But I think it's generally accepted that the Intel 10nm process and other manufacturers' 7nm processes were broadly equivalent, and it seems unfair to accuse people of being shills for thinking so!