skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked as a poll inspector.

Typically, there are ballot accountability reports. eg 100 ballots printed for election day. 50 ballots issued, 49 ballots cast, 1 ballot spoiled, 50 unused ballots. 100 ballots returned to election HQ (central count).

Adding or removing ballots from poll site based elections would be noticed.

I can't speak to (all) other jurisdictions, so YMMV.
Interfaces should be simple but functionality behind that interface should be non-trivial, otherwise it is not a net value add. John Ousterhout speaks about this much better than I could.
This is awesome! I remember when these first came out and meeting Eben and Liz at the Bay Area Makerfaire. Fun folks! They’ve started something really special.
What actually survived the 90s and what was actually considered hits in the 90s are actually really different. The Billboard #1 song in 1992 Boyz 2 Men - End of the Road which is less culturally relevant today than "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (which came in at 32)

Take a look at Billboards Top 100 for the 80s and 90s and see how much you recognize. The bar wasn't very high at all.
The one running my son’s insulin pump.
Trump's Plan to Keep America First in AI
Ouch. Sounds like your product manager and business manager are indeed not doing much more than warming their seats :)
The very next sentence after that quote is:

> This per-passenger profit is roughly double what airlines around the world make per passenger, according to the International Air Transport Association
Datashader: turns even the largest data into images, accurately
Any network protocol implementation.
me Japanese use "huh?" with anger when i cant understand his word of meaning
Bernard Peuto Computer Architect Has Died
But it should go down per device significantly when shipping multiple. A one per customer policy and charging for shipping is usually a sneaky way to make money on the shipping.
Maximizing profit is not the ultimate goal of capitalism. Maximizing executive compensation is the observable ultimate goal of capitalism. As an example, when Hostess declared bankruptcy they got permission from the court to loot the pension fund to pay 7 figure executive bonuses and shareholders also got dunked on.
An "Education Facilitator" should do basic proofreading before publishing.
Shipping 10 together is not even nearly as expensive as shipping one 10 times. Free shipping and constant per item shipping costs are a lie that ends up with higher costs.
Custom Porsche 964 / 911 ‘Apple edition’ is lit MotorKH
You don't have to be so elegiac about the title.
Nobody is selling to for $5. Adafruit sells it for $10 excluding shipping, ebay sellers have it listed for about $15/10 GBP with free shipping.

The price really is a lie for consumers. Maybe $5 refers to the price they sell to distributors, who need to mark it up.
The article doesn't say it's a universal sound, only a universal concept (but even then, it only takes one example to disprove a theory like this, and linguistics is littered with examples of "universal" things only to be disproven by some obscure language somewhere)
Mergers often cause a great deal of distraction for the involved companies, and carry a significant amount of risk for the combined company. If the combined company doesn't manage to combine its product lines, it may not save any costs. If the customers don't like the combined lines, they may switch to a competitor. If the combined company spends too much time figuring out what to do, competitors may win over their customers.
Bernard Peuto (1943-2019) was the architect at Zilog for the Z8000 and Z8 processors and went on to a long productive and creative career. He was a friend and will be missed.
Because it's not possible to buy it without shipping. (Fry's had them in physical stores, briefly, but quickly sold out and never got anymore.)

It would be fine if you were allowed to buy more than one, because then the cost of shipping per unit would be negligible, but you're not, you can only buy one.

So it's totally fair to include the shipping cost, because there's no alternative.
Journal 2019.6 – spec
I know some of these words.
This sounds Bad.
Why underground? Could it work in above ground pipes? How big would be the packages and robotic vehicles?

Packages, grocery, and food bring different requirements in terms of delivery speed and size, which could lead to different solutions--some easier to address than others. What is the pain point and most desperate customers for each?
This is a great point-

I reviewed with team and created https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3301 to track this (folks are welcome to give it thumbs up). The fix for this should be something we can deliver in our next product release (0.60.x - 9 days from now)

edit: issue is now fixed! https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/1633

I also captured feedback on being able to customize/opt-out of this functionality with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/3302 (thumbs up and comments appreciated!)
Given Google's tendency to kill products and shift priorities rapidly, I think building a product or service dependent on a supply of their hardware is probably a pretty risky choice.

I definitely have been shocked how fast Intel maker boards have come and gone though. It feels like Intel has written them off before anyone's tried to build a project using one. I have one sitting around here somewhere that's never so much as been powered on.
Note that these chips only support TFLite, which is still pretty spartan atm.
Without the causal link is this really groundbreaking or interesting data? Rich people have cars more often than poor people, and in a city where cars are a necessity only the most destitute don't have a car.
Sorry I lost you. I understood you believe titles rarely align with skill and companies disingenuously use "leader" to justify a ratio of employees to managers. A company is as likely to promote on the basis of "hire somebody sexy" as anything else.

This mindset seems corrosive. I assume you had good managers, but I cannot imagine a career in which that was the norm would result in such cynicism.

My point was only this: in my experience, healthy organizations have a better value systems.
Microsoft: Sandbox Learning Environment for RL Agents
The gold standard for election integrity is the Australian ballot (private voting, public counting), where ballots are issued & cast at poll sites, and tabulated on site when the polls close.

In my jurisdiction, trust is built on mutual distrust. Every receipt, seal, report, lock had to be handled and signed off by members of opposing parties.

Sure, it's possible to corrupt poll site based elections. But you have to corrupt many sites. You'd also have to corrupt upstream and downstream actors as well. Super unlikely to go unnoticed.
I have 2 of them, paid $10 plus tax . I visited a microcenter and they were $5 each, I and a friend of mine bought 1 each.
Moving to DataOps
Well done, Adioso was fantastic.
Microcenter sells them for 5 dollars. This is the first unit. I happen to have one close to my home so I've been able to buy a few of them, I just buy one each time i go there. I am building retropie machines for my friends so i get them for 5 bucks. you can only buy one pi zero w for 5 dollars. but you can always come back and buy more.
The bigger problem is that "Simple fix" !== "Simple ramifications". Runtime issues caused by missing very simple typing bugs can bring down critical systems in Node. I worked at a company where a payment batching system built ( not by me ) with a MongoDB database failed to work correctly because the aggregation query was checking a field was `null`, without checking if it was there in the first place... No one even noticed for several weeks until someone finally investigated the low volumes. That's a very kind example too, just because they're simple to debug when they pop up doesn't mean that they won't cause massive destruction in prod.
An analoque 3D printer
Distributed Systems in One Lesson by Tim Berglund (2017)
What's the closest thing to a C implementation currently? Some languages implement at least subsets of it.
Machine Learning Projects: Challenges and Best Practices
what do they sell??
actually I'm fed up with apple
>But from passengers' point of view, few people are willing to voluntarily accept an offer to transfer to a different flight once they are at the gate awaiting boarding, even if the offer is quite generous.

This is blatantly false. I fly all the time and I see this happen about every other time at a neighboring gate. Gate agent announced flight is oversold, makes an offer. Several people volunteer. End of story.

You don’t hear about these events because they (used to) happen hundreds of times a day all over the US with no hassle.

Then the stupidity of United and the ignorant backlash of the public ruined it. Infrequent fliers associated overselling with the United incident and completely ignored the functioning 99.9% of cases that benefited all fliers overall.

Volantio’s product is ok, but it’s not a substitute to the problem overbooking was solving, nor is it better for passengers who were flexible with last minute changes (because the offers are worse since rebooks days in advance don’t solve the last minute flex fare changes).

Ugh, sorry about the rant but this whole oversale thing is a perfect example of the outrage culture damaging a mostly functional market due to sheer ignorance.
>I'm taking issue with the idea that the wives were "disproportionally" 14-16

Isn’t the usual proportion somewhere slightly above 0%?
CryptoDungeons: New Game Announced for the Tron Arcade
Is python not a scripting language because some versions of it are compiled?
Ask HN: Alternative web UI for known sites ?
What are some third-party web interfaces you prefer to access content on services and sites on the web ? For instance, I much prefer hckrnews to the original Hacker News front page, or web.stagram on the rare occasion I check a feed over at Instagram. Back in the day there was a so-called flickriver site for Flickr. That kind of thing.
WhatsApp Might Pull Out of India If Proposed Govt Regulations Implemented
Ask HN: How do you learn a new topic/domain
Would like to hear strategies you use to:

- create a learning plan on the topic that you know nothing about.

- tools you use to synthesize the learning; like a “lab notebook”, diary or a log. What is it’s structure.

- how do you incorporate feedback loops.

- anything else
Am I missing something, or are they not only not documenting the chip, they are also not even releasing the compiler, but requiring you to use a cloud based compiler:

> You need to create a quantized TensorFlow Lite model and then compile the model for compatibility with the Edge TPU. We will provide a cloud-based compiler tool that accepts your .tflite file and returns a version that's compatible with the Edge TPU.

This seems like a new low in software freedom, and pretty risky to depend on as Google is known to shutter services pretty often and could just decide to turn off their cloud-based compiler at any time they feel like.
The sweet spot would be to not have an all or nothing proposition, but to be able to work with fluidity in the beginning, and then to harden the result later on by adding in various layers of sanity checks, of which typing could be one.

It's unsurprising that Airbnb—after having succeeded—find that they could have eliminated some of their current problems by making a trade-off earlier on.

A parable: a baker has a shelf of many different flours that she uses to make different kinds of bread. Being the only person in her small bakery, she relies purely on muscle memory and habit to know which flour goes where. She experiments a lot with different mixtures and kinds bread.

Later, some breads have turned out to be more popular than others, and she's doing well. She hires a couple more bakers, and now finds that she needs to label the flours, write down recipes for the successful breads, and has to establish procedures and guidelines for restocking. Different people have different habits, and muscle memory transfers poorly from person to person.

When she was starting out, she benefited from short feedback loops. The shorter, the better. Later on, the benefits of short feedback loops wouldn't be any diminished, but the need for reproducibility has become much larger than it was at first.
> Unfortunately, Chisel is built on Scala, and I have no interest in learning Scala.

That's a strange reason for not wanting to reap the benefits of Chisel. Care to explain your rationale?

There is another compile-to-HDL "language" called SpinalHDL[1], so I would actually argue that Scala's metaprogramming features seem to be a good fit for this usecase.

[1] https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL
I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power.

But to take the point you've made and work through its conclusions: Hacker News skews heavily privileged male high-income engineer, and likely wouldn't trade their lives to live as an _American_ female, much less a Detroiter, Hispanic laborer, or American prison inmate.

Living in the world's sole superpower (most of HN) has, of course, its own advantages that we don't need to enumerate.

Chinese future looks a lot brighter according to most political forecasters, economists, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Century
They thought that they couldn't compete in the future because they didn't have the fabs to do it. They thought that by throwing in with Intel they could make headway into the high end server space.
Additionally, everyone was using Sun machines to develop on (this is before the stupid-long delays with UltraSPARC). They also thought that the future was code on Windows workstations connected to HP big server iron. That was Rick Belluzo's contribution to killing HP-UX workstations. He left after awhile to go try to sell the same sauce to SGI. Finally the wound up at MSFT.

Fast-forward and now Linux is dominant and who even uses HP-UX or the other proprietary UNIXes?
I know. But no, it’s impossible to eat 4000 calories from spinach :-)

I have a problem with binge eating and I think it is emotional.
I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually faster to develop in statically typed languages once projects reach a certain size. It makes refactoring so much easier, and it's a lot easier to reason about what a functions arguments could be. I've had cases before where the easiest way to tell what a function accepted as an argument was to just run the program and print out the input. If it was statically typed, I know exactly what the arguments are, and can easily see the effects of modifying one of those arguments. With dynamic typing, I spend a lot of time just looking at how a function is used elsewhere in the code to make sure I don't break anything.
This is why after working at startups for years I decided to take a FAANG job.
That's just a description of overselling. What's unique to Air Canada about this story? Do the other airlines do this too?
The sounds like a manager or a VP.
The “bobbed-hair bandit” on the run in Brooklyn
Nitpick: If you are using another language that compiles to JS, I think an improved formulation would be "JS has the best feature set of the runtimes / ecosystems used for scripting".

(I like ClojureScript and Elm more than TypeScript for web development, and prefer Python for non-web scripting, YMMV)
CEO Dies Holding Only Passwords That Can Unlock Millions in Customer Coins
Headlines that include the word "Apple" for no reason are much cooler than headlines that don't
You don't necessarily need to early exercise all of your options.
Looking at GOL stats for example, Gnome usage grew when Ubuntu switched from Unity to Gnome (on roughly the amount of Ubuntu users). Before that, KDE had higher usage overall. So my conclusion is that Gnome's majority today can be driven by implicit Ubuntu's choices.
I don't know why you think I'm contradicting them. I was just pointing out that there are newer RFCs. They also happen to have a stronger and more complete definition of safe methods.
Intel initially didn't plan on having fast IA-32 performance. The IA-32 part of the chip was called the "IVE" which was short for the "Intel Value Engine." The thought was that it was enough for the chip to boot in IA-32 mode to be compatible and it was expected that you would set up system state and jump to 64-bit mode as fast as possible. So really it was just meant for compatibility. I imagined it was just a dusty corner of the chip using some old 486 core to take up the least amount of space.
> Happy to move to SF for YC

(or already lives in SF / Bay Area, I thought it was weird that you wrote this twice, I wonder if there is a preconception about people that already live in SF undertoning this, like already busy or already moved for some other 'change the world' trope)
If prions stick to surgical instruments "like glue" how do they come off when used for surgery in the second human being infected? (And can we use that mechanism to get them off to sterilize them?)
Is there another computer hardware store you think would be a better comparison?
My apologies, I was commenting very generally regarding attitudes typical of Javascript developers I have encountered in my professional life, rather than addressing the article directly. Also, you're right. 38% of development time is not the same as 38% of bugs, mea culpa, but there is an overall point to my statement about the productivity cost that I believe remains correct regardless.
> How does one go about luring cybersecurity reaserchers?

Given the overwhelmingly male demographic of people who describe themselves as "cybersecurity researchers", probably with $2000 escorts and hotel rooms rigged with cameras.

It's not rocket science, literally one of the oldest espionage compromat tricks in the book.
Cambridge native here - the store is super cool.

The look and feel is very Apple store so that probably is the fairest comparison - but they’ve managed to retain the good bits without it feeling like the chaotic jumble sale that Apple Store’s have become.

Dotted around the store are live demo machines showing Python code running on Pis powering sensors etc, and tutorials showing you how to run it etc.

Was really interesting and heartening to see the number of young 11/12yos in there, boys and girls, either experimenting with the Pis or playing Minecraft etc.
Thanks! Added browsers as an example.
You don't bury survivors (2007)
Take a walk through Akihabara or DenDen Town in Tokyo/Osaka respectively and you'll find many stores that used to trade in 10 year old computers are now full of ARM based systems and paraphernalia. It was great to get a couple of new cases that I could touch before handing over my money.
I am always confused about who qualifies as a millennial? Does a 14 or 16 yo today qualify as a millennial?

Is it 18-35 year olds? Is the people who grew up around the millennium? That group must be ageing by now. Then why millennials’ habits matter so much?
This is right, but only with a very limited interpretation for "support for threads", which does not include actual parallel computation. Not only is there a problem with the GIL, the only "threading" that ruby and python support natively is the spawn-another-process-and-find-a-way-to-coordinate kind (ala multiprocessing[0] in python).

Also, the async IO support via libraries are there for ruby and python, but that brought along with it significant fragmentation (at the very least in the python case, I know less about ruby) -- no one was 100% sure whether to use tornado, twisted, gevent/eventlet for a very long time.

A quote from another comment I wrote[1]:

>> If we really want to get in the weeds, we could talk about python 2.x's floundering around async IO -- IIRC Twisted/Tornado/Gevent/Eventlet were all close to equally good options (and thus mindshare was split) while node had it built in, with a virtualenv-by-default packaging system. Also there's WSGI -- the interoperability it provides is cool, but also means more moving parts than a simple node+express setup.

[EDIT] - It's a little unfair of me to decry the fact that multiple good solutions existed as a bad thing when I'd say it was a strength of the ecosystem. I do think it's valid to discuss the issues with packages that weren't compatible across interface boundaries between these async io libraries though.

> (I guess Perl does too, but I haven't used Perl for 10 years)

Same here, it's been a similar duration since I've used Perl for anything but even back then, the major difference between perl and the others was extremely good native regex support and the ability to spawn system threads that actually ran in parallel without coordinating another process.

> I admit the promise pattern may be simpler to understand, but if you need to build a heavily evented system Node doesn't provide anything unique that can't be achieved in other ecosystems.

My point was about the ease of achieving it... In the last ~3 years I've seen a wave of articles in the python blogosphere about how to properly use asyncio and all these new async-enabled libraries pop up (the old ones that relied on twisted/eventlet/whatever else are still around of course and perfectly good) -- what I'm saying is that JS has had this since the get go, and it's been thrashing python/ruby on benchmarks that favor the usecase for the same amount of time, especially if someone doesn't use one of the appropriate libraries.

NodeJS's async io story is "batteries included", and that's huge in this day and age. Whether node has the right interface or if they made it ergonomic enough is a whole 'nother thing though...

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18756083
TL;DR: no one has any idea of how big Apple watch's market will be.
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I don't know if a lot of academics/researchers would be able to explain even the basic concepts of "MICE" if asked. They're a soft target.
There's no similar word in Thai.
Absolutely not, but horses for courses.
I use all of these dynamically typed languages regularly and I enjoy programming in them too, but choosing the right tool for the job should take precedence over personal preferences.
Ask HN: Leave Product Management?
After 2+ years in product management, I feel it isn’t the right career path for me. In general, it’s a nebulous career option that is very different across companies and there’s an inherent political game you must play given the cross functional nature of the role that I just am not very good at playing. Anyone else have a similar story? What did you after?
Java is easily decompiled if you really want to know.
Intel? USB, PCIE, DP, type-c, ACPI, UEFI, AHCI, NVME, nic offloading standardisation...