skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They touch on how true bipartisan laws like the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act just don't get passed anymore, but legislation tends to get passed based on which party has the majority of reps at that time. (Then they immediately digress into a long discussion about Trump, unfortunately).

This, to me, is a much more interesting issue than assessing the different ways of counting ballots like ranked choice or approval voting, which seem more like a dry mathematical exercise in tweaking some technical process that we don't fully understand to begin with.

There was this interview I heard on C-Span with Sue Myrick where they asked her about this lack of bipartisanship in Washington. She said that it's simply because politicians no longer relocate there, but just fly in on Monday and fly back out on Friday. So their spouses don't get together anymore for social events, and their kids don't play on the same baseball teams anymore. They don't socialize in any meaningful way with the other representatives.

If representatives are anything like normal people, then I'd wager the revocation of the Fairness Doctrine in 1985 had something to do with it, too. The news media does a pretty good job conditioning people into hating the other party.
One time cost paid over 10 years, IIRC
The reason Facebook has to police content, is that they want to be a platform where you can reach 'the world' and 'go viral', not just a platform where you can reach two or three degrees of separation.

If Facebooks algorithms prioritised content from people I actually interact with, instead of showing the clickfarm-content that some high school classmate of mine liked, I suspect many of their problems would actually dissapear.
Perhaps the citizens should object, I hear one of their congress critters is shitposting on twitter to that end. If the locals don't want their lives upended by gentrification, Berlin has shown a good example of how to block uninvited expansion by tech giants: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45971538
This is amazing to see - completely unpotted AGC! I've been following Curiousmarc's channel for a while and it's great to see this. Anyone interested in AGC stuff might also want to check out this video from the 34th Chaos Communication Congress that exhaustively explains how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ
Given how customer unfriendly google seems it is not surprising. If you are running a service and google shuts it down or just closes your account with no explanation it might be hard for you.
Do you have a preferred term for the people I am trying to refer to? Specifically, the people who live in public spaces and visit mayhem upon the surrounding community? I am asking honestly. Such a term would be very useful in furthering the discussion around the “homeless”. That was my intention in using the term “street people”.

Also, “street people” is a class that is defined by behavior. They are people who live in public spaces.
Rust is getting some traction, and much web infrastructure has moved away from C/C++ to C# or Go or Java. After decades of little progress, we're seeing forward motion.
The argument isn't that you can't search phones/computers its that they are not a special case. The accused does not lose existing rights because it would be convenient for law enforcement. The issue would not come up with a car because the door could merely be jimmied.
Parent didn’t say the opposition was uninformed. Rather, the media and the broader electorate was.
I can confirm this is true with my son (24), his GF, and most of their peers. Facebook interaction is limited to occasional sharing of photos with older relatives, usually via Instagram.

This is mostly true of my younger employees, who are a similar age as my son.
It implies only negative, doesn't it also has a lot of positive to it, like economic growth?
Parsing the AST is something I would love to apply to a site like 4clojure.com, to get a histogram of the "shape" of all of the submitted solutions.
Warren Buffet would like a word with your investment strategy.
I don't really get some of these ratings. They give a thumbs-down to fitbit and other gps watches because they track location and speed, etc. Yes that is the entire purpose of buying those products, so I don't really get the presenting of that as a negative feature. It's like rating an email app poorly because it processes your emails.
On the flip side, if such an embarrassing exploit is found in the first hour, maybe it’s the equivalent to making the student read their note out to the entire class as punishment?
The primary oath of doctors is "do no harm". Maybe you should get payed as a doctor too since that's your rule as well. You haven't killed anyone due to medical error either so you also deserve that raise.
The Stablecoin Thread
I love Front End Masters and think their courses are some of the most indepth, especially Kyle Simpson (Getify). But I wouldn't call it cheap, relative to other products out there. Still recommend though if you've got extra money.
> to say that they are being irresponsible when dispatching officers and teams is making light of the issues

Are you implying that I said that? I said no such thing, anyway.

I will say, again, that "police cannot (responsibly) put themselves in completely unknown situations and then start shooting to kill at the slightest suggestion of danger."

Speaking of things I never said... I also didn't say streamer whitelists would completely fix this problem. It's a good start, and should help officers to go into these situations with more information. That makes everybody safer.

Overall you've put a lot of words in my mouth and you seem to be implying this false dichotomy in which officers either "aren't taking the call seriously" or are justified in pulling the trigger on someone with zero direct evidence that they're actually in any danger. That dichotomy is bullshit.
I guess it would be more comparable if they split out IaaS/PaaS/SaaS although probably no company wants to do that.
The techlogical change here wasn’t iterative, it was an immediate Big Bang shock to the existing system.

I’m surprised the school board even proposed it after seeing it. It sounds like they completely ignored their own knowledge of political realities and tried to rely on saying “the machine told us so” would insulate them from criticism.

My mom spent a little time on this issue (bus schedules) in high school. Our district officials were extremely aware of the pushback they would get to almost any significant change in busing and school start times, no matter what direction. People don’t like their cheese moved.
This is such a great deal for NYC

As the article says, they give up $1.5B over 10 years, but then get "Projected incremental tax revenue of more than $10 billion over 20 years."

I dont know where that comes from but the payroll and property taxes paid by 25k employees dwarves the incentives.

The most important part is it cements NYC as the main tech center on the East Coast. That is invaluable.

EDIT: I wonder if NYC with tax incentives, Amazon would still pay more tax than regular tax rates in FL, TX.
in this case, `redacted` itself is the tld. the company that owns `.redacted` (Redacted, Inc) has chosen to serve A records for it, which is rather uncommon.

For a while, the owners of `.ai` had a similar arrangement, but it seems to have been since taken down.
> 1 trillion chances per planet

Not meaning to be condescending, that's not how probability works or is expressed.

Also, the fact that the ocean "is a large place" says nothing about how probable or not the events to create and sustain life are.

I understand most people have this gut feeling that because the universe is vast and ancient there must be something out there (and I have it too), but we just don't know.

We just have no idea exactly how hard life is to develop and be sustained. We just started having theories (a handful at that) about how we transcended from chemistry to biology. The prevalent theory for example is that the moon's unusually big size and proximity was the catalyst for that to happen. How many planets have extremely big moons in such close proximity? How many million other factors played a role assuming the tide theory is even close to accurate?

It's just an infinitely complex problem and we just don't know.
FPTP with the electoral college makes my vote count for nothing voting in a solid red or blue state. I despise this fact. Elections only really focus on swing states and thus swing states have undue influence.
And likely lifeless without liquid water, hmmm...
This again raises the issue of speech vs absence of speech. What if a cloud provider has applications that confirm deletions that are initiated by the user? A secret warrant prohibits disclosure of the warrant’s existence, but now we’re talking about a requirement to actively lie to users. I really don’t think that this hair-splitting.
>unix-like

>microkernel based

Aren't these two contradictory? Unix-like would be a classic monolithic design.
Radiolab just did a similar podcast "Tweak the Vote" about new voting variations. It digs into some real examples in Ireland, San Francisco and Maine.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/tweak-vote
The UI is, um, lets say, very unconventional for non-windows folks. It is extremely sluggish compared to AWS or GCP. As in, each page takes several seconds+ to fully load vs AWS/GCP. Maybe this is just for me, or an IE vs Chrome issue or something, I'm not sure. The horizontal panning in the UI is pretty strange for the uninitiated too. Everyone else, the entire internet pretty much scrolls up/down on a web page but in Azure it's up/down + side-to-side + expanding panels with scroll. I'm not even sure where to look for things (scroll down or to the side). As far as the tech is concerned, I'm not sure but the first impression of the UI coming from another cloud provider just seems off. Typically, I use the UI to get the lay of the land before hitting the API or something. But, I suspect I'm not the target market since I've spent my entire career on the linux side of things.
In economics, "price" is pretty inclusive. Price is usually considered in terms of opportunity cost, and dollars (or other currency) are a nice proxy to use.

But, the thing you think is a confounder here "prohibition makes a product hard to get in desired volume" is pretty much equivalent to an economist as saying "the price went up". There is no really meaningful difference. I have to expend more - either currency (to some bootlegger or intermediary, to cover their risk), time/effort (to find and get to a seller), or risk (I might get caught and go to jail - we can put a price on imprisonment).
> How about sending a "while(true) { }"

Running ps shows the timeout command as PID 1, and evidently an infinite loop gets killed after some point. In fact, there aren't any other processes besides sh, node, and the Python interpreter, and I'm not familiar with containers to know how this is possibly implemented (because obviously, timeout cannot be PID 1, so ps is wrong here).
I was hoping for an answer that explains how it is possible to pass a course on Duolingo (i.e. answer the exercises correctly) without actually learning enough of the language to apply it to new situations. If the problem is just that you can memorize the answer to each question and regurgitate it when you see the same question again, that'd be fixable by creating many more questions. But if the problem is something else, it might not be so simple.
Looks like it is implemented in python(2) with use of the stdlib sqlite3 module. https://github.com/harelba/q/blob/master/bin/q
This doesn't necessarily sound terrible? If most of the jobs are going to be 6-figures, their tax rates will be reasonably high + they'll be contributing to the local economy in terms of buying goods and services. Am I missing something?
I've used all 3 major providers, and I am going to have to strongly disagree. Out of UI, Azure is far and above superior with AWS and GCS which are both confusing messes. That is literally the worst complaint I can even think of in regards to Azure.
More than a quarter of Americans, and half of young people, report having deleted the flagship Facebook app from their phones in the wake of these scandals. (https://www.recode.net/2018/9/5/17824116/delete-facebook-mar...) The losses are offset in their topline numbers by growth in the developing world, but that's a lagging indicator, and those are much less lucrative user eyeballs.

It's mitigated to the extent those users migrate to other FB-owned properties like Instagram and WhatsApp, but there the negative media narrative increases the chance that antitrust regulators will break up FB and force it to divest those properties.
> > I seem to recall that Sanders' proposals could not be funded at current tax levels.

> The main focus was on Medicare-for-All, which could not but would also (even in analysis by hostile sources) reduce total public + private health costs.

So there's a deal available there to be done where everybody wins (except perhaps politically). Medicare-for-all without the deal could be a disaster for the government finances, though.

But Sanders also proposed free college for all, which would also have to be funded somehow. And it seems like there was another big one, but I don't remember what it was.

> Venezuela did not enact policies that cost more than it could supports, then try to raise taxes for revenue, and then turn to expropriation as a revenue measure; expropriation and high taxation were adopted deliberately as part of an overt policy of aggressive redistribution of wealth, not because revenue for social services was unavailable elsewhere but because redistribution from the rich was an independent goal.

On reflection, that's not very comforting. We are at a place politically where "redistribution from the rich" has become thinkable as an independent goal.
I feel like each Amazon employee will pay way more than that in taxes over 10 years, so this is just basic investment. Pay $48,000 over 10 years to get $30,000 a year forever. Seems smart.
I would just start toying around with these problems, there's lots of sites out there that aggregate them for you (personally I like https://reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer). Solving these kinds of problems really are different from your usual day to day on the job coding activities. I'm by no means the best at solving these things, but the more I do it the easier they are going forward. They are useful mostly just for fun or for preparing for interviews where people might do this crap to you. There's actually a yearly code challenge called Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) that is starting in December that you can try (though they can be kind of tough). You basically just have to keep doing them and do harder and harder ones and it gets easier, your bag of tricks starts to grow and you realize "Oh, this problem is pretty similar to the problem I did last month, I'll start out with the same approach"
What does Amazon offer for a cloud office suite though? I have never heard of one despite living in Seattle, where we see all kinds of failed Amazon expansions.
They elected the people that made that decision. If they don't like it, they can vote them out.

Citing an example of some Berliner NIMBYs is not really helping your argument.
Not quite, it's the opposite. We're having a hard enough time theoreticizing how self-replicating nucelotides with adequate lipid-bilayer maintaining molecular machinery occurred naturally on our volcanic, reducing-atmosphere of a planet.

Abiogenesis isn't the same as evolution, and given what limited knowledge we have of prebiotic Earth, life shouldn't have naturally occurred here. Ocean size doesn't matter in this case when the ocean isn't able to form a single self-replicating cell. The dice being rolled don't even have the number you need.
Win95 + Office, at least 50 floppies, and no FEC (forward error correction), so any one got damaged, and that's it.
That doesn't sound too terrible then. Even if the average job there paid $48,000, we're talking about 10% of the salary as a tax reduction. And the employees themselves will be paying money into the local economy, paying sales tax, and so on. It may not be a fantastic deal, but it doesn't sound like a net negative for NYC.
[disclosure - I work at Amazon, but have no internal information whatsoever.]

This is over 10 years, so ~$5k/job/yr. For reference, economic development incentives for corporate relocations are commonly $20k-75k per job, and often for jobs paying much less than Amazon is expected to pay HQ2.5 employees. Also, I believe that Amazon will receive tax rebates based on the number of jobs created over time, which is better than many packages that don't have any accountability, limits, or clawbacks.

I don't think economic development incentives are a wise use of funds, but this one is notably only for the scale and publicity. People are so mad because this the first time most people have heard of the practice.

For more information (and many much worse examples), see the book "The Great American Jobs Scam" - https://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Jobs-Scam-Corporate/dp...
Privacy is not just some vague 'great to have' value. The opposite of privacy is surveillance, which democracy by its very definition excludes, but happens to be a key feature of totalitarianism.

Everyone knows the consequences of surveillance, there is no need to wait for consequences to be concerned. The casual disregard and lack of appreciation of the values that make modern societies possible is concerning.

Hand waving away surveillance infrastructure and seeking to normalize invasive surveillance is in the interest of companies like Google who profit from it, but for citizens to be blase suggests a reckless disregard of historical record and the societies they live in.
The Bayesian Superorganism I: collective probability estimation
If you've got an ISP that considers 54gb a lot of data it's time to get a new ISP, a new country or protesting at how absurd the idea of bandwidth caps are.
"Minority" is not the opposite of "Privileged".

When we speak of wanting to assist minorities this is when they are disadvantaged minorities. i.e. they are the opposite of privileged.

Please don't just play word games.
It's a good deal for NY. Can't build a bridge for 1.5B.. and this will have perpetual return on investment + auxiliary businesses will flourish.
What data do you have to support this? Just saying the UI is superior doesn't really mean anything. What is superior? Why? I'm honestly interested in knowing and not just being "that guy".
You could replace "property" with some other totally common sense and reasonable position and lo and behold, both parties agree with it! Where is the problem here?
I would argue that getting a drivers license is different then needing a car.
https://weberc2.bitbucket.io/posts/golang-docker-scratch-app...
1.2 billion over the next 10 years to receive 10 billion in tax revenue in the same time frame.
> Perhaps the citizens should object

Perhaps they like the idea?
Pretty cool.

If you're looking for ideas on what sort of information to display in the visualizations, this article is just chock full of them: https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/
Has anyone tried exercism.io for learning languages? I found it pretty efficient as it helped me learn syntax very quickly.
Breaking out of a container isn't the only security worry.

They have a "Register" button at the top right where you can enter a username and password. If you have shell access to the box (no matter how virtual the box is), there's a good chance you can alter the site's code and capture the passwords people enter. And knowing that, in the real world, people do reuse passwords, this could easily lead to compromising accounts on other sites.

They also have a privacy policy (linked at the bottom) in which they make all kinds of promises about not leaking your personal data. If someone can take over their machine, and they know it, and they don't shut it down, it seems like that would violate the promises made in that privacy policy.

Also, of course, an attacker could alter the site to exploit any vulnerabilities in the users' browsers, so it opens up an attack vector there. Obviously users need to keep browsers patched, but people expect the risk to be lower when visiting legitimate sites.
What's your point? People have driving licenses, a passport and never think twice about using credit cards or loyalty cards. But somehow an ID card is uniquely dangerous? I don't buy it. The status quo is already worse!
Privilege Escalation in GVisor, Google's Container Sandbox
Glad to see PHP moving more fully towards static typing :)

Also the monotonic clock - I wrote an extension back in 2014 for this (https://github.com/metaloha/phpTimer).
In 96', when Apatosaurus still roamed the earth and "Atari" was a thing, Israel granted Intel 600MM$ to build FAB18 in the desert. Over a decade later, an official government report concluded that the country lost some 400MM$ on the move. Bottom line, big-corps can extort states or cities and bid for ridiculous tax incentives that never pay off. I feel sorry for the residents of NY and the bad deal imposed on them.
We should send palaeontologists, not archaeologists.
I don't see the purpose of this page. It's not a guide, it's a poll. Why would I base my decisions about personal privacy on the uninformed opinions of a bunch of random people?
That $10 billion likely assumes all new staff. There are going to be many current NYC citizens who simply switch jobs to Amazon. Therefore they won't contribute any incremental tax increase. Only if their previous employer rehires their position will a net new position be created.
> They cannot win, and they're expected to monitor and censor everything in real time

Are we supposed to stop complaining about Facebook's negative impact on the world because their business model makes it impossible for them to resolve those problems?
You could also do it with existing nuclear fission technology (Project Orion). 3% speed of light seems to be quite feasible with that. If there‘d be no other way to save humanity, a generation ship with that technology would probably be built today.
I downloaded the mac app, configured a virtual device to send the system output to the "Krisp Speaker" and verified that it cuts most of the music out of what I'm listening to, leaving only the voice (at a some what degraded quality). I wish I could configure it _cancel_ ambient noise, not just remove it from the input signal.
It is possible to get politicians to make changes to things that benefit them. It's hard, it takes a lot of pressure and a lot of work, but it can be done.

Keep in mind that our system has changed a great deal already (e.g. women and non-whites being allowed to vote), the politicians at the time benefitted greatly from how things were set up before, but those changes were still accomplished. We shouldn't give up on the idea of reform just because politicians would resist it.
But wouldn’t many of those people have lived there and paid taxes anyway?
https://www.theodinproject.com/
> The WhatsApp founder quit over differences around privacy / advertising, and WhatsApp is only one part of facebook. Facebook can see everything on facebook itself, and Messenger.

The particular accusation I was referring to was the one pertaining the mob violence in India, which is a tragedy that was completely orchestrated on whatsapp AFAIK. I'm pretty sure I can find more if I look on the media, more recent also.

The founder of whatsapp quitting does not change anything in the equation.
Well, each NYC resident pays 48000 one time to get back 30000 per year for 10 years is not something that HN would upvote into the front page.
webrtc has end-to-end encryption by default built into the browser
This article is using the wrong terminology. According to the Intel site this stick is intended for inference not training. It’s for rapid prototyping with PC trained models.