skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Informat... they do not fund “Political campaigns and legislative lobbying efforts”

As to reasons, why, I am not sure but I imagine there is a pragmatic angle to it in addition to reputation and other considerations. Investing in politics increases the risk that the funds get wasted if the political climate changes.
Interesting also because 2018 had an unusually long winter and likely more snow than usual. I would have expected it to be the year when glaciers would get bigger for a change.
Considering people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average and the cost of a toilet is much less than the cost of an electrical bidet... It is not a great idea.
async/await makes it pretty easy to take an async library and use it in a synchronous context.
Calling something crap doesn't encourage constructive discourse if you're looking to actually gain something from a discussion. But I can ignore that.

The ballots are proposed as labeled "no support" to "most support".

It isn't entirely unlike Amazon, it's like Amazon if your standard for what's a 5, like "the best book" is "the best of THESE candidates". All people need to do to get the system is care about their impact on the outcome of the election in order to realize that 5 doesn't mean "love" or some other semantic thing, it just means the top of the options.

And if people just use it like Amazon and some give no candidate a 5, the system doesn't fall apart, it works pretty well anyway.
You don't think there is a place for giving vendors time to fix the exploit before handing it over to everyone who can use it maliciously?
This makes me realize how freaking stupid we are as a nation/group-of-nations:

There are issues/problems that are common to all. Especially common to ALL governments, societies, etc.

Given a population of X and an infrastructure level of Y with purpose Z that are impacts ABC...N

A=Cost
B=Scale
C=[whatever]
N=...

So - when you look at the cost of a nation, we assume that we have an infrastructure maturity/development level of X

What does it cost to implpement, upgrade-to, maintain that level.

What is the standard.

etc...

=============

So, when we talk about "saving $X for reinventing Y thing" -- this is a reactionary (albeit valuable) effort...

What if we restart rebuilding our societies from ground zero.

Lets build a preplanned city (yeah yeah brazilia etc) and first model it out ala simcity.

with AI running it over and over again until it outspits a detailed plan, it thinks is ideal and then a big committee of meat-bags review it and fuck it up.

Any Gates-level-ish people want to try to build something.

Fuck Mars. Earth First.
GraphQL shifts complexity to the server instead of the client. That can be an advantage when there's multiple clients or just one client iterating faster than the underlying logic. There's certainly a short term cost to GraphQL compared to REST, but there's a lot of use cases with positive ROI outside FANGs.

When read and write becomes real time sync, though, I've always thought Firebase was under appreciated.
Listening and respecting someone's opinion doesn't have to equate to treating that person as an authority. Shouldn't we still listen by default?
You should read the article. The concern is less over them taking in girls, but in doing so and assuming the name "scout". Sending fliers to young families with "join the scouts" and not being honest that they are joining a different organization than the Girl Scounts is... slimy. At best.

Your history just adds to the feel that this is being done entirely as a somewhat "below the water" way to up the BSA membership. They got a tarnished name for a while, so now it looks like they are trying to wash some of their garbage with the reputation of the Girl Scouts.
I agree.

I'm always thankful that I had a really hard time in high school and college (and spent a majority of my high school and college years working.)

I felt that when I graduated from college, I had a much easier time hunting for work than my peers. I also adjusted easily to startup hours, because they were still much less severe than the combined hours I had to put in for school on top of work to pay rent in college.
You put it way more elegantly than I was going to. Marijuana possession can land you a felony, and whether or not you actually receive a felony during court proceedings is going to be heavily influenced by the colour of your skin.
In Australia, it's also just the Scout Association. I was a Cub Scout, Scout, Venturer and Rover (all the age brackets), and we had girls involved every step of the way. In fact it used to come up quite often in discussion about how stupid it was that its still called 'Boy scouts' in America.

Also it came up in discussion frequently that the Guides were rubbish, lol.
I have no idea how to change the spark plug on my car, but the fact that it's possible means that I can I can either pay someone else to, ask a friend to or learn how to do it myself. User freedom is transferable.
That's a bit racist to call a place a slum
> Let’s say I’m range voting out of 10 and I give four candidates 1, 3, 8 and 10 points respectively. But the candidate I rated 3 wins, with the candidate I rated 8 a close second. Damn it! If I’d known that was going to happen, I would have voted 1, 1, 10, 10.

This is the EXACT reason STAR voting was invented. Unlike plain score, STAR has a runoff where it compares your preference of the top two and puts your full vote to your preference.

So, this is like an exact case study of why STAR is worthwhile. STAR proposes 0-5, but we can stick with 1-10 for this case. You vote 1, 3, 8, 10 and the top two candidates are the ones you voted 3 and 8. With STAR, it doesn't matter that your 3 candidate got a total score higher than your 8 candidate, your vote in the runoff goes to your 8 because that's rated higher. If more voters rated that candidate higher, they win even if their plain score total was lower.

Thus, you don't have to exaggerate all your scores. In fact, you have an incentive not to, because if you just give ties, you risk abstaining in the runoff instead of having a say there.

I mean literally you just spelled out the most common critique of plain score voting which is itself THE argument for why we should use STAR instead.
4-H and FFA have long been gender integrated and that seems to work fine. Their operations are similar to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Not OP, but of course even 0.1% improvements are worth millions to search engines, social network feeds, financial forecasters, and self driving car companies. Also worth thousands or millions to manufacturing processes, and to small businesses, which might be using ecommerce optimization systems through providers.
> If you can't find anything fun to do in the bay area but visit SF that doesn't require sitting in traffic on the weekends because everyone else had the same idea

FTFY
HSBC bank confirms US data breach
> It is not that uncommon for humans to be uncertain about what they are looking at, but the first thing about such occurrences is that the human is usually aware of the fact that they are having a problem, and the second thing is that they take steps to resolve it

This is true, but step one is "move your head" (or in your words, "get a better view" -- but you get more value from just the fact that your head is in a different place than from the possibility of a better angle on whatever you're looking at).

That strategy doesn't work at all when you're trying to classify static images rather than physical objects.
Good summary here: https://priceonomics.com/toilets/
ncase.me is very good, but it neglects what I consider to be the elephant in the room - dictatorship of the majority.

If you have a country with 60% A, 30% B and 10% C, then you might like to a parliament roughly representative of that. (A, B, and C could be anything - attitudes to same sex marriage, daylight saving - there are always many ABC sets.) If parliament consists people elected in geographic regions, and A, B and C are uniformly distributed over the regions than all voting systems here will give you a parliament consisting only of A's.

People here seem to enjoy pointing out some perverse outcomes for IRV, but the Arrow's impossibility theorem proves (and ncase.me beautifully demonstrates) all voting systems have perverse outcomes. Yet none are as bad as electing all A's to represent a diverse country and every one of them will do that if used the wrong way, which also happens to be the most common way they are used.

Back to the topic - IRV does have its downsides, but it's not perverse outcomes. Australia tries to use IRV everywhere. The Australia Federal Senate has a voting system that does fix the dictatorship of the majority and naturally they try to use IRV there too. If you ever have the unfortunate experience of voting in an Australian Senate election you'll see why IRV isn't so good in that situation. In fact it's so bad not even the Australian's can use it in its pure form. If you are wondering why, it leads asking the public to number 100 odd boxes in strictly consecutive order, on a 1m wide ballot paper that can't lie flat in the ballot box with writing so small they had to issue magnifying glasses so you could read the candidate names. https://www.abc.net.au/news/6870332
FWIW, our new lion den has both boys and girls.
> The important difference here is that most adversarial examples for the human perception:

> (a) do not occur frequently in nature

You've never heard of walking sticks? Ever seen one of those leaf moths?

If you had seen one, would you realize you had?

Is a deer visible on that stretch of hillside, or is that just dead grass?
Techno-Social Engineering of Humans
I am strongly in favour of the argument that nuclear power is cleaner, and safer per unit watt-hour. However, what about nuclear weapons proliferation?

The popular light water reactor nuclear power stations use enriched uranium fuel, and these processes can be used to make nuclear weapons. Now it's certainly far from the truth all nations who have nuclear power will decide to build nuclear weapons, but I would think that most nations would have the potential of weapons at least partly in mind.
You should visit Korea. This is exactly what happens.

New cities are built around that new Samsung office, or that new army base, or that fake, pressured CBD.

The cities surrounding the main capital of Korea are marvellous and are all made from scratch in the last 20 years.

There is no better model of perfect city.
> Girls have always been in Boy Scouts. Now they get to earn badges, too.

Yes, and before 1920, women were frequently allowed into statehouses. They just didn't get to vote. Turns out that was a pretty important distinction.
Thanks! At least I learned something today.
Cycle-accurate simulation as a software development vehicle while you wait for the real hardware to become available. Get your software debugged now and you will be good to go when the real chips land.
> Many people "worse off" than me pay nothing and get to go to the hospital no problem...

This is terribly misconstruing the facts. They get to go to ER treatement only, no midterm care. The problem is if they don’t pay, their credit record is heavily penalized. This may seem like nothing but for someone with out money or means it spells a quick down hill slide to homelessness. No problem =/= homeless

FYI the #1 cause of home foreclosures in the US is medical bills
By definition, an unrestricted one-on-one fight is more likely than a specific subset of one-on-one fights, since the first possibility includes the second.

But neither is likely at all.

Also unlikely: picking a fight with someone who weighs about the same amount you do.
If you don't want to pay then don't pay no pay. The people who pay nothing have a higher insurance deductible than you because they have all these chronic health problems and they have the expensive medications that they have to take... healthcare isn't cheap, even for the people who live in socialism
I really hope so.

Venturing Crews and Sea Scouts, both of which are part of BSA, have been co-ed for a long time. My initial research was not particularly fruitful, but I think that they've been that way since their respective inceptions. There's also no gender-specific leadership or structure.

My son just switched to Sea Scouts after attaining his Eagle Scout rank and my daughter just started Cub Scouts as a Tiger. We've been really impressed with how the Sea Scouts aren't making a big deal about the young women in the program. The only thing we run into is old men calling them "gals". I didn't know that was a pet peeve of mine, but you learn something new every day.

Comparatively, the Cub Scouts are constantly creating awkward situations in relation to the girl dens. Some of that is caused by BSA youth protection guidelines (girl dens must always have a female adult present), but other times it's about over-correcting little boys' behavior in front of little girls. It's still very new and I'm sure that everyone will adjust to something that doesn't require so much effort.

I very much hope that BSA can get out of its own way as more girls move into troops and just take notice of what's been accomplished by their existing co-ed programs.
My apologies, I was asking in the context of USA orgs (since that’s where the dispute is occurring). Every other org I’ve seen in the US is called something other than “Scouts”
Right, at Fukushima it wasn't just loss of power that was the problem, it was the loss of all the backup power sources too, _combined_ with a design that required power to operate the cooling system.

I agree that this is something we should be keeping in mind as we build new reactors. And people have in fact kept it in mind. Modern reactor designs use passive cooling systems that don't need power to operate properly.

The single best thing we could do for nuclear safety, including from extreme space weather effects, is replace decades-old plants with modern ones. Unfortunately, people tend to react to that with "we shouldn't build any new nuclear plants, even if we're replacing old and less safe ones".

Just to put this in perspective, the first ever commercial nuclear plant was opened in 1956. Fukushima construction began in 1967, finished in 1971, 40 years before the meltdown. We've learned a good bit about safety in reactor design in the 50+ years that have passed since Fukushima was designed...
The author here just blindly assumes a lot of things about VirtualBox's bug bounty program. Many, like Google, put a very strict limit, and they will release the details when that time is over. I think it's more respectful to at least give them a chance, rather than throwing a hot shit on their lap and making hundreds of people's life a living hell for a week.

The engineers in charge quickly patching this up aren't the ones who came up with the bounty program. Making them pay for it seems like a pretty shitty move.
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/visualizing-softbanks-ep...
> But why is it a big deal to anyone else besides those folks' friends, family, etc.?

It's not. Of course, neither is cancer.

Impostor syndrome affects a lot of techies. That alone makes it plenty relevant to Hacker News. You are not the only reader of HN, and complaining about topical, relevant news because it doesn't interest you personally is in poor taste.
> people keep toilets for 5-10 years per toilet on average

Do you have any data to back this up? I would have assumed it was far less often.
Pretty sure even "democratic" countries has so much difficulty with corruption. Then there is the Federal Reserve..

My true definition of democracy is direct democracy. Once you start giving power to a representative then you stop being democratic. And that includes power to survive, eat, have shelter, have vacation, have time to study and pursue creative things.

But unless we can instantly communicate like the Protoss can then no, we can't achieve 'rule by the people'. However, it's not simply a choice of Direct Democracy, 3-branch system, 1-party system. We can have system where there is way less concentrated power (again, emphasis on power including many things like education in critical thinking).

Having said that. Yes China is not a democracy. Nor any other country. It is a question of how power (again, my emphasis) is concentrated and the potential of corruption.
Chinese are racist people
Just to comment on the paid version joke. You can simply offer a carbon-copy of your app with a cost of 3.99 -- I'd personally be more than happy to pay for it to compensate you for your effort and support the software -- it's the least frictional way for me to pay you.

A bon entendeur, salut
Sounds like a great tool, I got two feature requests:

* make .gitignore logic optional, we always have the system we’re working with ignored and only include our extension but we really need autocompletion from the whole project

* Emacs plugin
Sure, but we are talking about how fast it's progressing. Given that NNs for NLP field pretty much started with Bengio's paper in 2003, I'd say it's accelerating at an amazing rate.
Yah, who the heck is turning over their toilets twice a decade? Best guess here is 25 year average service life.
Not sure how it works. It can delay you even without negative karma.
Maybe an ambulance is slower than a Lyft. What's definitely faster than a Lyft is: a car that's already on-site, driven by a co-worker tasked to take you to the hospital.

Can we agree that, even if an ambulance isn't the best choice, it's amazingly callous to make a person with a severed finger sit around and wait for a fucking taxi rather than pull someone else off the line?
Details of the transaction were not given. But investors benefit in proportion to their equity holdings, but their efforts may not be in proportion to their equity holding. Is this a small equity holder who is putting in an outsized effort to bring this exit while other investors are free riding?
It depends, the GraphQL spec isn't all that opinionated on caching. There's a little bit of guidance on the matter but not much. [1] The implementation of GraphQL that you choose might be more "batteries included" though.

[1] https://graphql.org/learn/caching/
Ask HN: What's your posture like/how do you avoid slouching as the day goes on?
Actually, you can donate here: https://www.wireguard.com/donations/ -- hopefully with similarly low friction.
It's called exaggerated sarcasm. But it is absolutely fair of the products they build. They are complete garbage. It's like Adobe and Oracle have a side bet on who can introduce the most vulnerabilities. That is how terrible of a track record they have. I will be extreme here and say all of their products, especially Java, flash, and acrobat should outright be banned from a corporate network. It should be considered a liability and insurance companies should actually build it into their models.
5-10 years? Is that the life expectancy of the average modern toilet?

From personal experience that seems off by a few decades.
No one has yet managed to solve n=6 completely, so I think solving n=7 is a long way off.

On the other hand, I think we will soon have an improved lower bound that is strong enough to refute this formula.
certainly shouldn’t be okay with it, but if arbitrary people in a 100km radius were effected rather than just miners, yes that would be worse, because their “decision” to remain in the area is further removed from the problem than the decision to remain a miner
Wow, solid link. Hopefully some clever entrepreneur will make it happen, someday
Not necessarily. The reviewers may get upset if two apps are too similar.
This puts ~1.5 million voters back on the voter rolls in Florida. Will make for an interesting election next time around!
VirtualBox Zero-Day Published with POC Exploits
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a book by Niklaus Wirth.
This so-called "contract" uses the language of compromise: different interests each making about equal concessions in order to achieve some collective greater good.

Yet the substance isn't there. One party gets away with only the sort of instructions a toddler usually hears: go out and have fun, be the best you can be!

Yeah, that's the category of users/citizen. I'm sure even the vacuous promises asked of users will find plenty of outrage here, because for some reason "respecting civil discourse and human dignity" is taken as a scandalous attack on the real victims of everything that happened since enlightenment, namely young white men who just want enrich the marketplace of ideas with innovative new anti-semitic memes and HRC rape fantasies.

But in any case it's a meaningless promise because there's no way to nudge those opposing such notions of decency towards compliance. The real world has the old neighbour's stern look of disapproval as a low-intensity intervention to corral people into what's considered manners, or decency, or legal. That, plus mechanisms of reputation, and the difficulty of choosing one's company as freely as one does online has traditionally ensured norms of behaviour. None of those mechanisms has managed the jump online.

To suggest something that would actually make for a substantial contribution by users, here's an idea that you will hate, which sort-of proofs my point: users should, at least in principle, be willing to tolerate some advertisement. As in: not animated, not obscuring content, with tracking limited to maybe some broad categories, and not consuming more bandwidth than appropriate. "willing to accept" should include, for example, some efforts by ad blockers to automatically categorise ads and selectively block harmful and annoying ads.

I'm somewhat certain that ads follow the 80/20 rule, and blocking just 20% could give users all they actually want while preserving at least the theoretical chance for ad-financed journalism.

This would seem to be rather meaningful, considering societies life and die with the quality and availability of information. And contrary to some utopian fantasies in the mold of the Cluetrain Manifesto, the web has not actually lead to the emergence of a suitable replacement for a paid journalist to schlepp to city council every morning.

I know many regard ad blocking as an act of self-defense. And I agree, at least in principle, maybe not quite with the overly dramatic testimonials of grievous personal harm. Adtech has just gone too far, and thereby provoked this sort of arms race in the first place.

To find a better equilibrium, those two sides would need to find a way to deescalate, which would require some sort of tacit agreement, or a sequence of tit-for-tat disarmament. But that's quite hard to pull of for two amorphous group with no relevant mechanisms or structures for coordination.

I dunno... Maybe some sort of contract?
> This is terribly misconstruing the facts

When you're broke, you're broke. Just because you have health insurance doesn't mean you can afford to use it. I had better healthcare as a homeless person than as a massively indebted recent college grad with a health plan through work.
How do you decide promotions, raises, and bonuses then? I'd think of that as the main purpose of performance reviews.
Buy an fpga ;)
I read the headline and thought, "That's weird, Gates isn't really interested in things that just save money these days." And sure enough, from the article:

> "...may help end almost 500,000 infant deaths and save $233 billion annually in costs linked to diarrhea, cholera and other diseases..."

So I guess that's Bloomberg for you. 233 billion dollars is a way more interesting lede than a mere half a million lives.
That would seem to probably be good enough? The users probably mostly just need their systems to just go on working with no alterations.