skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you...." -- Banksy
Sure you should be required ID to vote but only if it is way, way easier to get ID.

I think you may underestimate just how hard it is to obtain ID in most of America. First, you have to locate the 5+ forms: birth certificate, multiple bills in your name at your address, previous id if any, etc. Many people (homeless people come to mind) would never be able to obtain all these records.
Trying to obtain a drivers license at age 18 was a massive undertaking and myself and my family and had lived in the exact same house for my entire life!

Now imagine. You're poor. You're working multiple jobs, taking care of your children, etc. Even if you manage to come into the DMV on the first try with all the forms perfectly ready and in order - something the DMV makes nearly impossible - you will still probably going to wait 2+ hours to even get up to the window to start the process. When you add up traveling to the DMV, being there, and coming back, you could be missing the vast majority of a day of work, something that can get many minimum-wage workers fired.

In the abstract, requiring stringent ID to vote seems like something everyone should get behind. In practice in the United States, these laws are only enacted by Republicans that are threatened by shifting demographics. If all poor people in major population centers were voting, the Republican party would all but evaporate, or have to severely alter its message
Could it be that this morphine blocker is blocking endorphins?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorphin
Vote by mail! My wife and I spent 45 minutes at the kitchen counter figuring out which of the more obscure local candidates we liked, then mailed it back in the morning.
I'd rather say that ads "work" in the sense that you don't have to intently watch or listen to an ad for it to affect your brain, just seeing or hearing it is enough.

Now, if "working" means you actually buy something, then yes I have to agree, most ads are not very effective.
Voting algorithms for higher employee diversity
https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Actually read the report, or at least skim it starting from page 254. What you're saying is just not true.
It seems to me that any measure that makes it too easy to vote will just make campaigns even more reliant on advertising spending.

An uninformed voter would have nothing else to go off of after all, and with average turn out rates of near 60% currently, it would have a dramatic effect on elections.
You can use the unstable sand pile analogy to describe the state of Europe at the time. The assassination was the last grain of sand that triggered the collapse of the sand pile.
> It sounds to me like the 40% who the placebo helps for have a different, mainly mental, problem than the 60% for whom it doesn't.

It's likelier that the 60% not helped are those who have a different, mainly mental, problem that the 40% for whom it does work.

If the cure comes from strength of mind, then it probably isn't correct to say that those with weaker minds and wills are healthier mentally.
I appreciate where you're coming from, and accept you're sincere in not desiring to base pricing on content, but users can't know that conclusively. I wouldn't want, and couldn't accept, my drafts being technically subject to subpoena. Regardless, there is value in your offering, however the lack of verifiable privacy reduces the scope of what I could submit and thus reduces the value I can get from it.

I would pay for this as a personal advantage, while refraining from mentioning use of it to my colleagues. We all ask others for review and assistance in composing written or prepared remarks, especially when the stakes are high, but we are reticent to openly acknowledge receiving help in order to avoid causing the audience to feel we're insincere. To varying degrees this is true from spell checkers to speech writers.
I learned high speed touch typing in the eighties, with included heavy use of the caps-lock.

There is nothing wasteful about it when you've been trained that way.
It was painful. I'm mostly referring to legacy apps like online bill payment and stuff, especially ones that also wanted to do ACH transactions. You had to sign up with some sort of "payment gateway". Usually they had an api spec of XML or other legacy web services, file formats for interchange, etc that filled a whole binder. Since many people didn't want the compliance hassle of storing credit card & ach info, this was still 'easier' to implement.

Stripe pretty much came along and crapped on all of that ( in a good way ). And lowered the barrier to entry so indie dev shops could accept CC payments seamlessly as the other big megacorps.
>The most famous illustration of that is the Pepsi paradox: in blind tastings, Pepsi is quasi-systematically preferred, but Coke continues to be the absolute bestseller. It’s the triumph of branding over taste, as the mere presence of brand labels leads people to switch their opinion.

This isn't entirely due to branding.
Pepsi is preferred during sip tests but Coke is preferred when drinking a whole can[0].

[0]https://www.wideopeneats.com/difference-coke-pepsi/
*This article does refer to the branding "New coke" and "Coca Cola Classic", but the branding was to ensure adoption for an actual change to the drink they had already made.
That would work too, but most customer serving businesses are open all weekend, so moving it to the weekend would mostly help people working 9-to-5 jobs, but not the young frequently moving people you are trying to target, who are also the ones working weekends and late nights. Whereas on federal holidays like Christmas, only gas stations and hospitals are open.
thanks all, i should probably respond to each thread during the day to keep the conversation lively, but was too busy with work, i just got off work now and am doing a general thanks to all the responders. i thought i wrote some pretty good articles on building a raspberry pi scoreboard, it went over some design decisions and tradeoffs, and i also responded to some posts with, what i thought was well thought up. maybe i’m in the wrong timezone (shanghai), i think a forum is active during certain times and once that window’s past, nobody’s really looking at all the stale comments.

also, i think in general, article submissions get buried quickly, ask HN, show HN, url submissions, so you kind of either need to hit the right timing where your article is right on top of the stack and everyone happens to be looking at it or you have some mechanism to gain points by gaming the system with fake accounts that add karma, to me that’s not worth the trouble. obviously the content needs to be interesting, but i feel behind the curve here.
This is cool. Who is the main target user for this? Biotech companies? Academic researchers?
The pages seem to be sorted in alphabetical order. I saw 198, 199, 20, 200, 201 in there. I wonder how that happened...
You raise a good point, but at least in my case, I don't think that's what's happening, and here's why. Bias tends to strike and morph into "no" before it ever hits that "getting to know you" phase. There have been plenty of studies about the effect of things like "black" names or gender on the initial screening.

A big part of the hiring process, at least at big companies, is taking a pile of 100 resumes and reducing it to a pile of 10 resumes, because there's no way you're interviewing 100 candidates. So 90% are eliminated before ever meeting, and bias is huge there.

But the bias starts even before that. The pipeline itself is biased. There are more men than women, more whites than non-whites (proportional to society as a whole). This is a problem that needs to be addressed at the society level, not the interview level, but it affects the interview level, because candidates who are "different" lead to unconscious bias.

For older technical people... well, I'm one of them. I'm 53, which means a lot of my social group is the same age. I freely job-hop and don't struggle to find work. I've never felt that my age was a bias against me. What I do see, and I see this a lot, is people my age who worked at the same company for 10-20 years and then lost their job, for whatever reason (usually reorgs or dying companies). Their skill set has become largely about intra-company specialization rather than broad industry skills. I watched my spouse go through this. She lost her job of 13 years in a buyout, and it took her six months to find something else. She had gotten deep in a narrow business field (international e-commerce analyst), and there just weren't many jobs for her, even in our busy town. We didn't want to move to the Bay area or New York, and while she could do generic business analysis or project management, without industry-specific skills, she's not much better than someone barely past entry level. Eventually she found a job that suited her long-built skills, but it took a while. And this story is common as dirt, it's happened to a lot of my friends.

That's how age bias works. It's not discrimination, it's just being unprepared for the job market after too many years in one place. Keep your skills up to date and switch jobs regularly, and age is just a number.

So when you talk about monoculturing and bias at the interview point... nah, that's not the problem point. The problems of bias prevent the interview from happening in the first place.
Have you estimated the menory requirements for what you are proposing? Each brush stroke would need to store some image data for this to work. Just storing e.g. pen movement and rendering the result on the fly will likely not recreate the same result in an uodated version of the program, altering the image that the user created. Also, reopening complex files would take longer than users are willing to tolerate. The undo stack (which internally is pretty much an implementation of non-destructive editing) is about as far as you can bring the concept realistically.

Non-destructive workflows also have a huge maintenance problem: you can never again touch code that is involved in the creation of the final result after it has been released because it might break the user's files. It is not just the loading and storing part, but the whole backend can never be evolved in a reasonable way without breaking backward compatibility. After a while you sit on a pile of code for legacy operators and data models that you need to support and stops you from doing meaningful development.

I love non-destructive editing in many cases, but I also have some experiences with implementing that concept and this has shown me how constraining it is and how much effort it takes.
The only way 'blockchain' would be beneficial is if it was on a public ledger.
No one uses turn signals on them, and you never know when, where, or if someone is going to turn. It's haphazard maneuvering. 4-way stops are far more predictable and functional.
Migrating Oracle Autonomous Transactions to PostgreSQL
Unsurprisingly, I am a claustrophile(?), a minimalist and love standing in sunlight. Though I'd fancy myself as a tad bit more hygenic.

I have seen some personal examples of the Diogenes and Alexander story, where (at least from appearances), the person with a balanced life and not many accolades appeared to crack a smile, a lot more often than the every ambitious over-achiever stuck in the rat race. (though, typical anecdotal caveats apply)

Some people don't let where they sit on the "unfairness" scale, affect their happiness. Along those lines, I am a big fan of the $70k study [1]

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[1] Kahneman, D., & Deaton, A. (2010). High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 107(38), 16489-16493. doi:10.1073/pnas.1011492107
Whole Body Dynamic Motion Experiment with Real Time Master-Slave Humanoid Robot
I feel like the failure mode for electronics is "randomly catches on fire" which can be just as devastating, if not moreso. Nobody has ever died because their toilet backed up. Their house burning down in the middle of the night is a different story.
>>Truth is, it will be used for purposes other than related to terrorism or serious crime. It’s alarming how democratic countries are invading the privacy of their own citizens, creating mass surveillance machinery that could become uncontrollably detrimental to the very institutions and structures that they claim to value and protect. Among the FIVE EYES countries, Australia seems to be doing a lot more (comparatively) on mass surveillance and having the legislative backing for it.

It's easy to show an example scenario that almost always causes a system to like this to abuse privacy. Take the system, FR in this case, and insert the use case "Politician XYZ's 3-year old daughter has been abducted, and the FR system we promised not to use for this purpose could identify their captor!". Works every time. Once you do it that first time, the seal is broken for future abuse.
The "well known poor outcomes that all democracies suffer from" that just happen to be better than the well known poor outcomes that all the other systems suffer from.

(Well, all the systems that have been tried. The systems that have not been tried do not yet suffer from well known poor outcomes.)
Slitherin – Solving the Classic Game of Snake with AI (Part 3/3)
No it wasn't. Define "serious". What makes one computer user more "serious" than another. The point of the no true Scottsman is that the term is never defined by the statement and so it's completely subjective.
This suggestion is not likely to go very far. The reason Nov. 11 is Veteran's Day is that it is in honor of the armistice with Germany that formally ended World War I:

"major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day

So any attempt to 'move' Veteran's Day will likely meet resistance due to this connection. This is also why this day is a fixed calendar day (at least in the US) rather than a "first/second/third Monday of the month" type holiday like most of the other official federal holidays. It shares the same connection with specific exact calendar dates as does the 4th of July, Christmas, and New Year's day.
Depending on the app, that's problematic. For a low cost thing like 1Password, you can do that and even benefit as customers who are price sensitive will buy Apple gift cards at a 10-20% discount.

A company like Abobe has high value software and large customers who will not accept a single source fulfillment vendor for software. A school district, for example, is usually required to get competitive bids on a state or other contract from multiple resellers. Usually companies drive revenue by bundling, so putting product A with Apple and product B with the channel is complex and doesn't add value, particularly when Apple wants 4-6x more dollars to do that fulfillment.
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This looks amazing. Just one question: what are the privacy guarantees? Will images, metadata, etc. always stay local and never be sent to another machine?
My "throwaway" account is 5 years old and has 2500+ karma.

Your link confirms my statement. In 64 pages there is one section about Remain with the mild statement, "We are still looking at how the Remain side of the referendum campaign handled personal data, including the electoral roll, and will be considering whether there are any breaches of data protection or electoral law requiring further action."... That is a very mild statement, and the rest of the 98% of the document is about much more serious Leave investigations.

You are conflating their findings that there was a coordinated effort with law-breaking activities in the Leave campaign, with ongoing investigations and crimes, with the Remain campaign, where they are looking at whether much more minor to clean up and analyze data that was 100% legally acquired didn't violate privacy agreements.

There is no equivalence whatsoever.
Wow, I've responded cogently, earnestly and in good faith to everything you've posted.

This behaviour is pathetic. Please do not treat people like this in real life.
They are plastic though, whilst water flushed toilets, eg in pubs, are always (?) ceramic.

Seems that it could be retrofitted easily by replacing the trap if the materials aren't important.

I wonder if patent expiration is responsible for the apparent increase in use of similar systems.

Thanks for your correction.

https://www.waterless.com/how-do-waterless-urinals-work/
"Do you really think that 550 billions of dollars are spent each year on something that doesn’t work?"
...yes.
I am sure hardware startups are littered with these kinda stories, but Oculus seems to be a good example. I remember reading somewhere initial prototypes were basically duct-tape'd together

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-palmer-luckey-...
I think randomness really is a red herring. To the extent that a decision of ours is random, it is not ours. That doesn't necessarily absolve us of responsibility.

In No Country for Old Men a guy flips a coin to decide if he will kill someone. He chose to flip the coin though - delegating a choice to randomness does not abrogate us of responsibility. By doing so he created the framework in which the outcome arrises, whatever that outcome is. He made it possible, even likely and bears responsibility for that by selecting the set of possible outcomes and the degree of randomness. Also he does this many times, so it wasn't a "random choice to randomly choose", it's a consistent repeated pattern of behaviour that directly emerges from his personal ongoing mental state.

I don't go around randomly killing people and that's a consistent pattern that emerges from my persistent ongoing (if evolving) mental state and it _is_ a free choice. The fact that it's pre-determined is fine, because it means it comes from me.
Is there an example of such a language?
"Advertising tries to make the person you are envy the person you could be with their product. In other words, it tries to steal your happiness, and then offers to sell it back to you."

I don't remember who said it. I wish I did, and then I'd give credit where due...
Heh. Thanks :)
well the most annoying part is the navbar stays... worst UX.
The movie has its ups and downs, but the propaganda interludes were absolutely brilliant. I believe in the context of this discussion, the most relevant one is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_5UZfwX0ss.
"You just have to avoid expecting that all INTPs or all engineers are always the same."

Why? If there's validity to the personally profile, you'll get the right result 60, 70, or 80% of the time. Probably more, if you don't care specifically about finding the differences.
> If we think that not enough people are voting, the way to solve this is NOT through get-out-the-vote efforts, voter registration drives, and tools like this to make it easier to cast a vote. These are not the bottleneck.

Are you saying that voters talking directly to candidates and the volunteers who work on their behalf and know their platforms is NOT a way to educate potential voters and get them to the polls? To me that seems like one of the most effective ways of telling people how to vote, why to vote, when to vote, and where to vote. Well, perhaps second to actually becoming a volunteer oneself.

> Today it's a big investment in time to get oneself up to speed, and so making that information more accessible and useful would lower the cost for a citizen to make an informed vote.

The generous interpretation here is that you're a software person and are just focusing on what you know, which is the potential for software to improve access to information for voters.

Even so, why are you claiming that your solution is an alternative and not a supplement to the current ways? Especially given that the current ways had an enormous measurable increase in voter turnout yesterday?

I get the urge to code something to help people, but not the urge to wholesale ignore the history of politicking in America.
> There are many people who have have informed opinions but can't afford to take off work (write-up for being late to work/take off early, lost income, transport issues).

They don't need to take off work. Every state in the US lets people mail-in votes or vote early in person.
There's also tramp mode for emacs - where you can set up a buffer in emacs to access code over ssh/whatever connection you want.
That's really not how the bias shakes out. The bias ends up being that older people who are retired vote more than working people, because it's a hassle to get to the polls.

There are all sorts of weird biases that occur due to the way voting is conducted now. Smartphone voting would be great IMO, assuming it is implemented using a secure cryptographicly verifiable protocol.
Pseudo pregnancy, where mind plays tricks, producing all pregnancy symptoms. Even transexuals get it.
99% of the 'AI' startups, because the 'AI' is usually team of humans somewhere in India. Fake it till you make it, I think?

I'm not saying this to be negative, as this will actually work to validate product-market-fit before investing in the AI development.

Most of these companies will fail though, as their pricing will be based on a 100% AI solution, which is rarely achievable.
"If that doesn't work" isn't the problem.

As a silly limiting example, imagine that you host Netflix on your dial-up connection as url A.

It works.

Oh, okay, right, let's set a timeout then, if it takes more than 1 second to load, we try url B.

That works, but now we've got a 1 second delay on everything. Okay, we'll update the default to be url B.

Conditions are changing all the time as a result of bottlenecks in the infrastructure moving about.

What I think you'd actually need to do is something like this - initially, fetch from multiple endpoints simultaneously with an early-cancel (so you don't waste bandwidth on the slower ones).

For N seconds you just use the fastest one (perhaps with an 'if it doesn't work' mechanism, sure).

Every N seconds you re-evaluate the fastest endpoint using the multi-fetch.

And so on and so forth.

There are better algorithms, this is back of the envelope stuff.
At my job, Columbus Day is officially observed on December 24.
Real Life ‘Machete:’ MS-13 Gangbangers Hacked Two Long Island Teens to Death
Sounds great! And us, the public, will have access to this as well.....right? Can we watch a live-map of police and other state-employed persons with a positive facial match as they move about? No? Why not? Well that's how we feel too.
> "... You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."