skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All good comments. My original and main point is that there is a trade-off between the high-protection for workers and unemployment levels. My own home country boasts worker's rights constitutionally but has 30% of poverty level and 50% of child poverty. 40% of the population is not covered by the "worker's protections" because they are not employed.

Highest income workers always get the benefits of workers perks first, and this is unavaoidable. Look at google, famous for giving benefits to employees like good, gym, juic etc, but buildings maintained by swathes of contractors that dont have access to these services.

The more of these you pile up, the bigger the divide.
That's a pretty good list. (Copypasta below.) I can only think of a few omissions (eg poll taxes, destroying all the evidence asap).

No one considers the USA's elections fair, transparent, accountable. Why most foreign election observers don't even bother.

And yet, American exceptionalism. Point out the emperor has no clothes and the serfs lose their minds.

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If British elections had:

Parties drawing up constituency boundaries

Polls closing at 6pm

Councils recording voters party support

Government-funded selection meetings

Returning officers standing for election

Zero regulation on election spending

Votes counted in secret

Hours-long queues to vote

Barely surmountable criteria to stand for election

No national rulebook for national election admin

Lunatic criteria for voter registration

A minimum of a dozen elections happening at once

Referendums to approve building a school

Voting machines hackable by 10 year olds

Electoral data sold to the highest bidder

Etc etc etc

Folk would go ape. But here we all are watching CNN as if this were a proper democratic election with a stats guy using a giant iPad and everything.

And that results are declared while some states are still voting
This is possible as long as precipitations are large enough. I would think this is still firmly an "if" proposition.

At first glance it does not seem obvious at all that the water cycle as we know it will be recognisable in 100 years.
IIRC, when parts of Hawaii offered online voting - participation plummeted. People want to be seen voting as they view it as virtue signaling, and nobody sees you vote online. However, this could be contraindicated by Oregon+Washington State who have mail in ballots only and have very high participation.
What is tokenomics and why is it important?
“A Guide to Working with Census Data in R” Is Now Complete
How artificial intelligence will become weaponized in future cyberattacks
They also investigated the Brexit Remain campaign. I don't think anyone has clean hands in this.
"Luckily though, since i'm the owner, I have all the stock and i get all 34 billion.

Mmm capitalism.

Note: I don't know the situation regarding stock at Red Hat, but this is in general what happens.
It's horrible. It's literally unreadable. The first "sentence":

> that's interesting news: Aleksandr Kogan refused to be interviewed by ICO Commissioner Denham's investigation. Yes, same Kogan who allegedly with his equal partner, Joseph Chancellor, harvested 80+ million Facebook records and sold tens of millions to SCL/Cambridge Analytica.

What's the ICO Commissioner's investigation? What's the ICO? Obviously I have the Google available to search, but this "Twitter as Journalism" needs to stop.
As for voting machines, I don't know, I cannot know - and, luckily, in my jurisdiction they don't exist.

I'd be happy with voting machines if all they did was keep a running tally - have them print a ballot, have the voter deposit this ballot in an urn - if the result (gotten from the voting machine as the polls close) is disputed, recount the paper ballots, end of discussion.

As for the second part, I misread your initial post -apologies.
props. humble guy. credit to the rpm guys... binary builds from clean untouched tar files sealed the deal for me back then. i still miss the box sets.
I mostly agree but how can you distinguish between unmaintained and complete software ?
> They were busy snoring when it came to 9/11. Fake WMDs, never ending wars against goat herders, snowden, not to mention 13 Russians who apparently swung an election.

Ouch. All apparently true, but ouch.

This kind of things won't change until major national security incidents cause budget cuts, not budget increases. It should be like the private sector. When you repeatedly F things up, you make less and not more.

The counter-argument will be "but you're hobbling our intelligence!" Okay, then create a competing intelligence agency to the CIA/NSA/etc. and give the budget to the one producing results.
San Francisco Passes Prop C
> how does it make sense to have November 6th as a holiday in a country where more than 50% people don't/can't vote?

The point of making it a holiday is so that people wouldn't have to work that day, to increase the percentage of people who will/can vote. I agree that <50% is too low: let's get that number up, yeah?
Red Hat was initially financed by opening 8 different credit cards and accruing $50,000 in credit cart debt before they began bring profitable. I never knew this before but really drives home how hard/risky it was to bootstrap your own business back then.
The interactive part is genius.
The so-called fluid democracy. I very like the idea, as it sounds ideal on first glance - especially that with the Internet, we can actually implement direct voting on small issues without too much hassle. But I expect there are some holes in this idea; is there a list of main issues someone could reproduce here or link to?
a Saturday or Sunday would have a much higher turnout. However, you would still be excluding a large number of lower income service workers that work on the weekend.
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Server-Side Swift: Making Canopy
I understand now, when firefighters save homeless people, the homeless people are stealing from others.

This thread is going nowhere, you clearly value money more than the health of people less fortunate than you. Systemic poverty and sick people, who cares right.
I was so very confused! It seems like the website gathers all the tweets and turns them into an article. I was confused why the starting of the article was so odd. It’s ok to share information through twitter but don’t write an article out of the tweets please.
I said there was a study which did quantify worst maintainance practices: time to fix bugs, time to reply and several other support metrics and interestingly Oracle was not the worst, HP was.

My personal bias would also tell me Oracle is because of their business practices, but we were arguing about support practices.
If you care so little about voting that you can't be bothered to go out of your house to do it, why are you even interested in increasing participation? Either voting is important, in which case you should be willing to make a small effort, or it isn't, in which case who cares if people vote or not?
Nitpick to the analogy: biological loops are recursive, not iterative.
GLL Parsing with Flexible Combinators [pdf]
This is a fantastic series, and it's worth noting that it is free to download. Buckle in for a wild 24 hour ride...

Ghosts of the Ostfront similarly cannot be recommended enough.
Yikes, I can see a lot of our TMM's having trouble with phones. It'd be better to just invest in dedicated phones and not allow BYOD. In fact, I can see some TMM's trying to get away with voting remotely (attendance is sometimes challenging).

That said, the remotes are amazingly useful for going back and looking over the results.
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> All cities started as a blank slate.

Not at all, many cities evolved from towns, that evolved from villages, that evolved settlements, etc. That slow organic growth is different from the very accelerated "add one more tile" or "do it in one go" growth.

Imagine the difference between having a baby that grows into an adult, and having an adult from the get go.
Realtime GLSL Pathtracing (WebGL)
No worries. You and I have already crossed swords a few times before. And my writing style has been described as "aggressive". I do appreciate you setting me straight on this. I hate being wrong.
Sure, if you want to keep the 'influence' between the two systems to a minimum.

If you allow the mutation of the subset reality by a soul in the meta-heaven, then you can have it all operate in a single universe; the soul is capable of adjusting the nondeterminism of particles in the brain, thereby making decisions happen that appear random to us, but are informed by a higher system of reasoning. In the way that a programmer might adjust constants, or a video game player might choose stats.

And just want to reiterate: I'm not trying to advance this explanation! Just fun to think about.
A Bionic Mushroom That Generates Electricity
Thanks for the feedback! User privacy is definitely important to me, especially since users might be entering recruiting / product-related data into the app. The text that you analyze is not stored on any Toasted database (the most recent text you analyze is stored as a cookie so that you don't lose progress if you accidentally close the tab). Moving forward, I'll work on options to allow for anonymous payment.

I definitely wasn't planning to base pricing on what users were submitting or how frequently they were using the app. I was initially thinking of selling to businesses rather than individual consumers, and enterprise pricing is pretty variable -- based on factors like head count, which categories (e.g., 'accountants', 'doctors') would be useful, etc. Hence the flexible pricing model. If there's enough interest among individual users though -- which there seems to be -- I'd be happy to offer a basic tier that's transparent.
It worse than that, some of the flaws are actively protected by both parties because they believe they are benefiting from it.

There are differences of opinion about discarding votes, how to count votes, who is allowed to vote, etc. E.g. the debacle with the voting machines with the first Bush election had a whole circus around it involving recounts and how to count. This election was so close that every little argument mattered.

Technically, it is not that hard to come up with electronic voting systems. The hard part is making them auditable, privacy sensitive, and robust against malicious attacks. It's not impossible but it seems hard enough that this gets messed up consistently.
> We are at a crossroads. Trust and confidence in the integrity of our democratic processes risks being disrupted because the average person has little idea of what is going on behind the scenes. ... This must change.

Funny, I would have thought that it would be the integrity of our democratic processes that must change, and that trust and confidence in it were secondary effects.

Also it seems overly optimistic to think that when the average person has a better idea of what is going on behind the scenes that their trust and confidence in the process would _improve_.
Analysis of deep neural networks
It gets quite strange:

A prominent placebo researcher, Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti, was able to show just how peculiar the placebo effect really is. After inducing pain in participants for seven days whilst treating them with morphine, Benedetti secretly switched the pain medication to salt water. Luckily for him, the participants’ reports of pain went unchanged. Then things got weirder. Benedetti didn’t want to stop there, so he [secretively] gave the participants a morphine blocker and, bizarrely, the participants found that their pain returned, suggesting a form of biochemical reaction to the salt water placebo.

So you give people morphine and it works (to block pain). Switch it secretly with salt water and it still works. Secretly add a real morphine blocker and it no longer works. Bizarre.
The question is what do you do when someone is found to have cheated on their campaign funding? You can fine them, throw them in jail, but what happens to the referendum result? If you don't have a do-over, people will learn there's not really a consequence. If you do, a lot of people who legitimately voted will be annoyed.
I agree. Though it's odd that the placebo effect seems to be getting stronger over the years (according to the article) - I would have thought it would have weakened as the concept spread through the public.
Unfounded, unsupported whataboutism to muddy the waters.
At least weight, BMI, pressure, temperature are measurable quantities. They don't tell the whole story, but what they do indicate is reasonably accurate and comparable and reproducible.

I don't think that can be said for characteristics of someone's personality. It's hard to even define them, much less measure them.
No, my understanding is that the MAC address is always visible, even on wifi networks in WPA/WPA2 personal or enterprise mode.

Also, I believe modern phones randomize their MACs when they scan for networks, but use their real MAC when they connect, and that's visible to anyone within listening range.

Btw, most "guest" wifi networks rely on MAC-based access control, using these same publicly visible MAC addresses.. it's an inherent weakness of the wifi standards and I think the main reason why devices can't randomize their MACs when actually connecting.
How is democracy the opposite concept to the military? Or was that just poorly phrased?
Python “while” Loops (Indefinite Iteration)
Summary of Principles (Book by Ray Dalio)
Composting toilets do not produce safe fertilizer.

Worse, almost all the mainstream designs require handling the compost while the bacterial load is still very high, because the containers need emptying long before sufficient time to break down pathogens has passed.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC93126/
Apple can update the guidelines anytime, sometimes forcing you to drop some features. Expo's iOS client had to drop QR code reading: https://blog.expo.io/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-client...
It’s arguably an advantage for users. But not necessarily for developers.
I didn't realize--I only have cub scouts.
Social media growth is over in the U.S. – which is its most valuable market
If tweets can essentially vote and they assume people have no brains and can't decide for themselves then what's the point in having democracy at all? I am so tired of the rear hurt left wing moaners. They never investigate that Russian also fund their side to stir the pot whoever wins.
> suggesting a form of biochemical reaction to the salt water placebo.

I know this was a quote from the article, but... Does it really suggest that? Isn't it possible something else is going on?
Usually companies collect it and pay it but it really doesn't matter. At the end of the day all the money the corporation has comes from consumers and chunk of it goes to taxes. The question is what you are allowed to deduct and how tax burden is distributed among various companies.
Every company will try to sell goods for as much as the customers are willing to pay. The consumer doesn't care if there is VAT, environmental tax or whatever else included. They just look at the final price.
have a look at https://lark-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

like Ohm it separates the grammar from the semantic actions
> One solution I could think of is a foreign investor investing a lot of money into the campaign of a candidate who isn't corrupt.

The opposing candidate will win in a landslide when the foreign-funded candidate is painted as an outsider, funded by “our enemies”, whether true or not.
I like test recorders (Selenium IDE). They aren't brittle if you manually enter your selectors. Plus you can hook a test recorder up to your own code to fill in any gaps. I do wish they showed mouse movement, though.

One I'd like to add is to keep it simple. When I hear the word pipeline I immediately think "oh no". I'm telling you man, some shops add a mind blowing amount of unneeded complexity with their pipelines.
No, but it seems slightly ridiculous to complain about cosmetic things, given the message behind the structure of the piece.
Languages like Prolog and Haskell represent different views on the relation between logic and computation. Prolog models computation as proof search, whereas Haskell models it as proof normalization. In the former case your program basically consists of a bunch of formulas that are used as assumptions in an attempt to answer a query at runtime. With Haskell, your program consists of terms, which correspond directly to proofs under the Curry-Howard isomorphism. From the type theory perspective, with functional programming languages like Haskell the programmer writes terms (proofs) of some given type (formula), whereas with logic programming it's the runtime that tries to answer whether a given type is inhabited (i.e., if a proof exists). I'm being a bit sloppy here in that I'm disregarding the differences between classical and intuitionistic logics, although the former as well have been studied in type theory via their double negation translations.

I think Girard's ludics, among other goals, tried to unify these two views, although I know too little about it.

Finally, note Coq, like Haskell, models computation as proof normalization, although it's design goals are very different from Haskell.
Similar to your idea is Kant's "thing-in-itself", which is just a way of saying that for any given object, there are attributes to it we're not able to observe - indeed, attributes we can't even imagine.

We're trapped in our brain, behind a wall of sensory apparatus. There's no reason to assume that our senses provide the complete totality of reality. And if there are aspects of reality we cannot sense, then there is more to reality than we can ever know. Kant called these attributes the "noumenal" world, while what we can see and observe is the "phenomenal" world. However, these are NOT separate areas - just two aspects of the same thing. Not dualism.

Schopenhauer took this to the next step and said that there are aspects to ourselves we can't observe, so part of our selves exists in the noumenal world. The phenomenal world is deterministic, but if we have free will, it must exist as part of the noumenal world.
Other people will be annoyed if you don't, there is no solution that pleases everybody or even a majority.
Previously my team and I mostly used Ruby for everything. This gem (https://github.com/sethdeckard/m3u8) was really useful and it suits our need perfectly fine.
Now we would like to move to Golang. As far as I've searched, https://github.com/grafov/m3u8 is the best m3u8 package for Golang. I've tried to implement some simple features with that package and it does not have the flexibility that we want. Hence I've ported the Ruby gem to a go package.
Please let me know your thoughts. Comments/ contributions are much appricated.
Tbh I’ll need more details:

* where are you in the world?
* what do you need $2000/m for?
* how much are you earning now?
* do you have savings?
* do you have friends?
* do you have family?
* whats your education level?
* what is your background?
* what are you interested in doing?
Thanks for answering. I really appreciate that you took the time to explain this.
At this point I wonder how loathe Adobe would be to lose the promotional channel direct to their users that their current model offers. Half the time when the Adobe installer raises an alert it’s to say “hey check out this webinar” instead of “software update time” and I hate it.

I will certainly agree that their stuff is gonna need a lot of work before it can live in nice tight little packages. It sprawls everywhere, it needs places to put plugins and their files, changing this is a big enough task that it probably qualifies as a major feature for a new release and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it be unstable around some edge cases for months
IMO the power of the mind and attitude is really key to how people perceive and function with pain. I don't think that we adequately understand it.

We see that all of the time... I recall working in a bakery in the mall in high school and chatting with a Vietnam veteran with chronic pain from a lung issue and a missing leg who would walk 8-10 miles on crutches every day at 5AM and sometimes do push-ups in our cafe area. He was the most positive person that I have ever met, which was striking when you'd see other folks with very minor issues grouse and complain and be visibly ill.

My mom was taught "therapeutic touch" in the 1960s in nursing school, which I believe isn't considered pseudoscience today. For certain types of patients, it was helpful, but the technique was mostly placebo.

Fundamentally, changing how people think is ethically problematic if it becomes manipulative, but it's a key factor for our well being as well.
He could have done this just as fast using GIT + CI. VSCode would have likely slowed him down with indexing, and he already knows where all his files are so there wouldn't be any gains from hopping around function declarations with the click of a mouse

Although you didn't pinpoint a single process that was inferior, knowing when to break processes is part of the experience.
What if both sides were funded? Do you think people can't think for themselves?
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The truth is not a vote.
Being fair, I don't think most of it is intentional. Just if they see us out, they ask if they know the boy scouts allow girls to join.

If they just ask if they know the "scouts" allow girls, it just confuses them. Of course there girl scouts allow girls to join.
why the "back then" modifier? it's still hard/risky now.
This is the textbook definition, yes. At least in France's political jargon.
>Wow. What if someone is informed but disagrees with you?

ig·no·rant
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adjective

lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
>Would you be more inclined to educate yourself on the candidates and the issues on the ballot?

Yes, definitely.

>Voting is basically a solved problem

Not sure what's your definition of "solved problem," but, as far as I'm concerned, it's not solved if it fails people who would be inclined to vote and educate themselves on voting if it were easier to vote.

>open more polling places, hire more people to staff them.

That would be an alternative, especially if they could open polling place at each workplace and near each home with infinite staff. Alternatively, technology and automation could be used to scale UX, but, as you mentioned, current tech does not appear to be fit for this, which makes voting not a solved problem.
Well storyboards are declarative if you view the source but they're burdened with a ton of legacy. If a view is constrained by auto layouts the frame values should disappear but they don't, leading to a ton of false positives when committing changes. You only have cryptic ID's not real names as references. Also making a mistake in the XML format tends to crash the parser without giving a usable clue to what went wrong.

Last problem is that everything in Interface Builder still lives apart from the code. I think in Android everything gets compiled and is safe to use from there, with IBOutlets you're always either taking the risk (!) or dealing with optionals everywhere (?)
In case anyone would prefer to look at it the original format: https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1059758943474454528
Not at all.

> They have the information to know whether that getting out would be good or bad for you, whether you'd like that information to be disclosed.

Nowhere did I state that they will necessarily act benevolently. The fact is that they have a choice.

At a large scale that decision making process doesn't exist. Your actions become 'data'.

You can move away from bad roommates or out of your village. You can't move out of the world.
Has the remain campaign been referred to the police for breaking the law?
It seems hard to vote electronically in a way that can't be hacked and is fully private but for those that are not too bothered by privacy it seems ok. I mean I voted Labour in the last thing and aren't bothered if someone finds out. You could still go do the paper ballot thing if worried.