skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote dril:

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
I didn't say that the dating scene was bad. I said that I didn't know what it was like. Realistically, it's probably a lot better than Silicon Valley.
What are you going to do with the errors once you have collected them?

What is the point of sorting or grouping them?
I'm not making a value judgement.

edit: I'll also challenge you to find a policy around voting that is supported by a party that simultaneously hurts that party, just because they're principled.
“Your SQL is not like my SQL”​
It shares party affiliation and is kind enough to label your contacts with Rs and Ds. That way you can easily de-person those with non mainstream opinions.
It seems like the FBI should investigate this company for foreign ties. If so, this is pretty much hacking the election.
I had no idea what I was getting into when I read The Stand back in high school. I thought Stephen King was a "horror" author, and the only thing I knew about him was that he wrote IT. The Stand remains one of the best books I have ever read.
Why are you more bothered by some abstract notion of "tribalism" than the real harms only happening to real people today because younger people don't come out to vote as much?
Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware.

I searched about this and found:
https://www.aclutx.org/en/know-you-rights/abortion-in-texas

It does seem they have some fairly detailed restrictions.
The only way you can think VoterID laws prevent democracy is if you think illegal aliens have a right to vote.
No. This is hyperbole. There can be a formal difference, e.g. in terms of transparency about the rules that are upholded and the instances where they have been applied.
Cuomo isn't a progressive.
Having 19 percent of the smartphone market isn't dominating. The Samsung s8 and pixel 2 xl pretty much beat the iPhone x on most features at a lower price point. Higher ppi, battery size. And I think it doesn't even have USB c.
How many Ubers and air bnbs could we have for one SpaceX?

(/sarcasm)
The point is it is impossible to talk about politics purely at a meta level without evaluating the stances themselves. It is bad that you are not making a value judgement there. Start making some.

To respond to your edit, it is not a coincidence that the party supporting expanded voting rights is the party that's more inclusive in other respects as well.
But microsoft was also doing almost everything they could to screw over competitors. It was not that the government made up a bunch of stuff. They made many clever anti-competitive agreements that did things like strongly incentivizing dell to only sell windows and not linux. They tied things together, the worked hard to make internet web pages only display "properly" on windows ie 3. They deserved to get shellacked. They had to change, and I say that as a microsoft employee at the time.
Also, GFD, there's yet another policy that has to be set to force things to be configured correctly since it literally doesn't ask (or even warn me that it's defaulting to assuming hardware encryption is desired)...

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\BitLocker Drive Encryption

Configure use of hardware-based encryption for fixed data drives

Disabled
Applying systems thinking to analyze and learn from events
Not a no-fapper myself, but my friends who do it seem to do so out of a belief in an effect on hormone levels/motivation rather than a sense of shame.
But nowhere near as good as a decent city like LA.
I think you're deluding yourself that a war between major powers won't end in a nuclear exchange. If it's a total war anyway. If is just a skirmish then likely not.
>reek of Microsoft.

What does this even mean?
Mandatory state issues IDs are a cultural red flag for many Americans. This leads to practical absurdities like having the driver's license double as a de facto ID card. As a European, this seems byzantine and unnecessarily inconvenient to me, but such are cultural differences.
One of the biggest benefits of locating in NYC is access to colleges.

Besides, weather, why has California been so successful. An outstanding UC educational system. The same is true of the NorthEast with several excellent colleges spread throughout the region.

Of course, Boston would have been a strong candidate just because of that, but NYC gives you access to a bunch of ivy leagues, and a bunch of some of the best colleges in the country, while also giving you access to large successful public institutions like Rutgers, CUNY and SUNY.

In addition to that NYC is also an easier gateway to Europe and pretty much the rest of the US.

If Amazon is offering a job to a kid out of college in a place that is not considered exciting, and Google is offering the same kid a job in a place that is, why would they take the Amazon one.
>I only know that because I sometimes read screenplays, for movies that interest me. It's fun and doesn't take as much time as it does to watch the movie.

I don't know why I find this as hilarious as I do, but thanks for sharing.

Personally, I haven't read many screenplays, though I did read the original one for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and it bears very little resemblance to the final film. There's a whole section about buying pet ants from Harrods.
I see it more to be case of palate: people without wine training prefer cheaper wines, because they are build around primary aromas and might include some sugar or sweet tanins. It is like giving people tea with sugar or not. Most will prefer sugared version, producers of those cheap wines are aware of it and create their wines this way.

Expensive wine are usually more complicated and don't give you those basic pleasures, especially true for Old World Wines. It takes a while to people to build appreciation of those wines as there is huge culture component behind it.

You might see wine as pleasure giving beverage, in this case you are better with some nice fruit driven bottles which are usually cheaper.
(not above commenter) I've started listening to audio books during cardio workouts.

To me, the experience is a bit less involved than reading. A good narrator can paint quite the picture with intonation, emphasis, ...

I find it is still a way more involved and active experience then, eg, watching a movie or TV show.
I still imagine the scenery in my mind, think about the characters motivations, ...

With a busy schedule, it is a great compromise, I think.
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If the algorithm is FIPS 140-2 compliant but the key-handling/checking fails best practices...
This is way to important to be done by a closed source, nontransparent party. How can this be legal? And is not voting not also a fundamental right? Imagine an app tries to mess with your right to vote instead of your right to not vote...
I understand good is relative, but I don't want to find out in a year's time that the project was just a blatant scam and ruined my own reputation (eg for this purpose Bitcoin wouldn't be considered a scam as no matter what happens in a year's time, Bitcoin developers would be highly unlikely to be called scammers from a technical perspective)
That red meat is carcinogenic was just an example for illustrating my point that externalities are hard /impossible to tax.

I could just as well have said that red meat increases risk of heart attacks, red meat increases choleserol, raising cattle for meat uses lots of fresh water in areas that don't have enough, that a lot of feed is required to produce very little meat...

It just happens that one externality (methane emissions) is easily measured, but all the other externalities of meat consumption are not, hence a tax makes sense.
Shared Base Fixture technique for unit tests
What's wrong with do nothing? What business is of the US what happens in the rest of the world? I mean as much as people criticize the role they played, I think the world is better off for it. But it's a thankless job. Turning inward and leaving the world to go as it will is a valid strategy. Perhaps even the best one for the US. Nukes are good enough for self defense.
A common suggestion is to just issue the ID free of charge. Considering the state of government invasion of liberty in America, this seems like a no-brainer step in the right direction at minimal cost.
I understand the sentiment, but somehow I feel that more people will trust Alex Jones on this than Bruce Schneier.

Actual experts aren't respected by the general population enough for this to be a net positive change is my guess.
I'm amazed how cheap that sounds. Does that mean that for a cost of a decent laptop I could get two tons of steel delivered?
Indeed, but Common Lisp doesn’t!
And my point is that a lot of that suffering did not happened to get us to thus point, but for entirely different often very wrong reasons. A lot of that suffering and hard work caused and ensured future suffering. Continuing that is not necessary virtue.

Related point is that it matters what one works hard towards and why, not just that one do.
The Last Free Generation
That's the thing - almost all voting rules in the US are decided state by state. And states will purposefully make it harder to get an ID AND make ID required. This is not conjecture, its historical fact.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/fredcampbell/2018/02/22/is-goog...

Apologies for being slightly pessimistic about the potential agenda of the largest marketing organization in the world.
Yeah the new name is really bad (as per usual with Microsoft). The previous one, Visual Studio Online bring no confusion and when very explicit about what it is. It's a bit saddening as the service is great.
Seattle startup Epik new host of Gab.com
It also means you can't prove what party you voted, the point is both protect from repercussions and avoid vote selling, but yet can still happen in the smaller municipalities, since you can theoretically* buy the town whole and detract money for every vote missing

Even in Italy however you needed to "tesserate" to vote for party primaries, so who has those archives knows at least how involved you are with this or that party because there's a certain correlation between party registration and voting patterns

*Theoretically that's also why you see percentages approaching 100% for one candidate in many small Sicilian towns
Microsoft made no political donations at the time, and was dismissive of the DoJ.
How many SpaceX could we have without a NASA and a Roscosmos?
Score and approval have inconsistent meaning for ballot markings, and are for that reasons bad mechanisms unless that is resolved (approval is ideal for choosing group activities where either voting approve is a commitment to participate if that option wins or disapprove is a binding opt-out.)
Ok so as I understand it: the issue is that some socioeconomic classes are barred from voting because they lack an ID. At the same time, people do not want mandatory state-issued ID because they are reluctant to centralization. A reluctance for which I have sympathy frankly.

But then, how about having optional state-issued IDs (like US passports) with low req to obtain?

I'm not saying it's that easy but I want to understand what makes people think it is such an insurmountable task such that they default to the "remove the requirement" strategy. I feel like there is something interesting hiding there. Or is the thesis that these roadblocks are there on purpose to suppress votes?
> An anecdotal fact which I heard many years ago was that adding a new perspective to look at something is like increasing your IQ by 10-20 points

I'd be skeptical about that. A few years ago there was this craze about increasing working memory and thus IQ using the dual-n-back game (advertised as the only game that has transference to unrelated tasks). Turned out to be a placebo. People have been dreaming about increasing their IQs and from time to time fall to various fads. Until there is strong scientific evidence, these 'IQ boosters' should not be taken seriously.
This is a ridiculous premise.

I made commentary without making a value judgement, and you're telling me it's impossible and that I need to.

Then you respond to my question with a value judgement rather than actually answer my question.

I don't care about your political opinions, and I don't care to state mine here now.
And here's an excellent interactive resource to better understand pros/cons of different vote systems: https://ncase.me/ballot/
In many countries, those that want to learn only industry relevant technologies go to a polytechnic school and not to an university.

Universities are for learning to learn.
10 indicators of the significance of time tracking for your team
This type of comment has no place in a professional environment.
Relevant discussion about blocked aircrafts on flightradar24 three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9730426
>"I imagine infrastructure-based incentives will be popular in New York. Large tenants make big infrastructure possible. That enables further density, which means more jobs, more municipal budget and more demand for local commerce. Turning Amazon's HQ2 into the catalyst for building out Western Brooklyn and LIC infrastructure isn't a bad trade for the city"

What infrastructure is that exactly?

Long Island City and Greenpoint/Williamsburg have already been absurdly built up by developers over the last two decades.

It's hard to believe an influx of new tens of thousands of individuals to fill vacancies at Amazon is going to produce new train tunnels under the East River or new bridges over it. NYC already has large tenants - Google, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Verizon etc, and the city's infrastructure woes have worsened despite their presence.

I would also imagine that much of the gain in the local tax coffers by the additional work force will be offset by whatever tax deals the city and states extends to Amazon.
Facebook already makes choices about what it does and does not promote on its platforms.

This is nothing like a government ordering the imprisonment of a section of its populace.
Couldn't one use, say, FLiNaK instead of FLiBe?

Sodium and potassium are pretty abundant.

That of course leaves the problem of needing relatively large amounts of 6Li, but that's something one has to live with as long as one wants DT fusion, I guess. And it seems this is more with building up the enrichment capacity rather than some fundamental geological limits.
Not really about the article - but an idea I have been pondering for some time now. How about a software business that would sell licenses for signed copies but distribute everything unsigned under GPL?
What Is Platonic Parenting?
> Enable Everyone to be Best in the World

This particular line really rubs me the wrong way.

Do the best you can... You won't be the best in the world, but you can still have a positive impact.
The popular misreading comes from people who only remember (or perhaps only ever cared about) the last stanza.

The other interpretation comes from carefully reading the whole poem.

Regardless, most humans who come across a non-trivial number of paths will eventually converge on an important truth that is revealed by either of these contrasting interpretations.

Someone who regularly rationalizes a choice between two indistinguishable paths as highly individualistic will eventually come upon a path not taken. At that point they will either fess up to their prior self-deception or carry on deluded.

Alternatively, someone who regularly avoids the beaten path will eventually be faced with indistinguishable options. At that point they will either admit to themselves that not all choices are individualistic, or they will start deceiving themselves.

Consequently, one ought to accept either reading of the poem as a reasonable starting point for a responsible adult to learn a valuable lesson about branching processes.

Finally, all responsible adults who have learned the converged truth should be wary of anyone who in casual conversation dares utter a sentence starting, "Actually, you are misreading that poem..."

I humbly offer the following canned response: "Wow, sounds like somebody is revved up like a douche."[1]

[1] Most misheard lyric from "Blinded by the Light" by Bruce Springsteen
Expensive wine are usually more complicated and don't give you those basic pleasures

But do the more expensive wines really give any more pleasure, or have people trained themselves to find it pleasing? Could someone be trained to appreciate the traits found in less expensive wines?
Did you try the service before ranting? It have been available for years for free and keeps getting new features. I don't like the new UI, but as a private git repository it is solid. We also get recently a huge extension of free build time.

Which other services there are that provide that level of quality and ease of use for free without forcing you to open your source code?
A lot of google employees might not pass the interview if he/she is going through the interview for the 2nd time.

because it all depends on the questions he/she comes across. the interview process is testing do you know what i am going to ask and that's all that matters.
To take on this challenge - Isn’t that exactly the situation with the recent Supreme Court nominations? One party break the norms and refuse to vote because they want to wait until they can nominate someone. The other party could have done the same, but didn’t, because principles.
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Is this using the [1] monaco-editor?

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
Wenn das der anFührer wüsste...
There is not a voter fraud problem in the US. Estimates of the rate of voter fraud in the US put the rate at about 0.0003% or lower, far less than what would ever swing an election. Regardless of whether national IDs make sense for other reasons, there is no issue with voter fraud that needs addressing.

And yet, in the last decade, at least 11 states have passed laws adding new voter ID requirements. Because of the lack of a voter fraud problem, the disparate impact is clearly the main objective of the laws, which proponents of the laws are frequently quite clear about. The idea that they might be used to theoretically avoid fraud is basically a convenient justification that just might pass constitutional muster.

It's not that Democrats hate national ID cards because freedom and Republicans like them because safety. It's that Republicans like requiring voter ID cards because adding barriers to voting benefits Republicans, and Democrats dislike them because adding barriers to voting hurts Democrats. If it weren't voter ID cards, it'd be something else. Previous obvious attempts included poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests. When those fail, you just make sure the lines to vote in the wrong party's districts are going to be much longer than the lines to vote in the right party's districts.
Would you fire the nukes if a non-mainland territory like Guam or Puerto Rico was invaded?

What if the invaders are non-nuclear armed?

There is a wide range of responses between nothing and total nuclear annihilation, even without world police status.
Illegal aliens are only relevant to a discussion of voter ID laws if those aliens have successfully registered to vote. Preventing illegal aliens from registering to vote is just as effective as requiring ID on election day, but doesn't have as many negative side effects.

Plus, exploiting a lack of voter ID requirements by impersonating a registered voter on election day has pretty much the worst risk vs reward balance of any form of election fraud. It's hard to identify large numbers of registered voters who are unlikely to actually vote, it's hard to gather enough individuals to impersonate them, and it's pretty easy for any large-scale effort like this to be exposed.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/librari...

Code Access Security and Security Transparency aren't supported on .NET Framework either
It's a bad idea. I got guilt tripped by my friends a year for not voting in the parliament election (not from US).

“I don’t want this to come off like we’re shaming our friends into voting,” said Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of OutVote, a start-up in Boston. But, he said, “I think a lot of people might vote just because they’re frankly worried that their friends will find out if they didn’t.” It's incredible to me how some people can make a bad idea look nice by using words.

"Political science research has shown that people turn out to vote in higher numbers when they think their family and neighbors are observing their civic behavior. The VoteWithMe and OutVote apps simply automate that surveillance and social pressure." It is because of fear and the bad thing is that it's harder to fight against these ideas that use nice words like "research", "strengthen democracy" because you come off like being anti democracy, anti science etc. In communist Romania there were elections and if you didn't participate there where bad consequences and because of that there were 99.9% turnout but I would not consider that a victory for democracy.

Some people say that if you voted or not is public record. Yes it is public but there is a difference between 1 click and jumping through some bureaucracy to find that information.
Did you forget the sarcasm tag, or do you really equate free markets with the made up "freedom" of polluting the environment and give cancer to everyone who in turn will have to pay for health care or just die? That is not what free markets means...
Cal OSHA subsequently launched a new investigation a few weeks ago, on the basis of undisclosed issues that came to light after the completion of the second (summer) inspection.

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-regulators-open-a...

The thing about inspections is that it's quite possible for a company to put on their best face during an inspection, only to resort to their unsafe practices after the inspection concludes. This is, for example, why restaurant inspections are conducted without notice.

The fact that Tesla has survived two inspections doesn't mean anything--companies are expected to pass inspection. However, the fact that they have had 3 inspections in a single year... That is a matter for concern, since CalOSHA generally doesn't inspect a workplace more than once every few years. If they felt that multiple inspections were warranted--especially a new one so soon after finishing a thorough, months-long inspection, that means they have serious concerns about Tesla's safety practices. Given the relative lack of issues pointed out so far by CalOSHA, it's likely that they don't trust management to adhere to safe practices or that they feel that Tesla is changing work practices while inspectors are present.
> maybe it will lead to an implosion of the party system and a shift to independent voters.

It won't happen for the same reason why parties emerged to dominate the American politics to begin with. Our electoral system is pretty much entirely first-past-the-post, and that means that whoever can consolidate votes better, wins.
Airbnb isn't banned in New York, it can be operated legally. The city is asking for a full list of all operators, including hosts abiding by regulation.

If continuing the (poor) Facebook analogy, this is akin to asking for a full list of their users, even the ones abiding by the law.
This is incorrect. The Republicans did it to Merrick Garland, and could, because they controlled enough Senate seats.

The Democrats would have done the same to Brett Kavanaugh, but couldn't, because they didn't control enough Senate seats. They instead tried numerous other tactics that I would not call "principled" to stop the nomination, and failed.