skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The even bigger difference is that those representatives then go and vote on far more issues than they did when the system was originally devised, which increases the dilution of individual voices, by bringing more important issues to the level where their vote is at it most diluted - as opposed to state level. Of course it's going to be overwhelmed.

Part of the reason the issue has gotten out of hand is the relative weakness of states to enforce the cost of negative externalities on business. As soon as one state passes regulations, it’s too easy for many companies to pack up and leave for ‘greener’ pastures where the politicians would rather tout economic improvement at the expense of those negative externalities. As a result, problems like this often end up hoisted to the next level of government to solve issues in a more equal manner.

Just look at the ways cities were tripping over themselves to look attractive to Amazon for HQ2 to see this phenomenon in action.
There are states outlawing atheists from holding state offices, but the oath of office for US president does not contain religious references. It is specified in the Constitution.

Oaths of office for other federal positions do contain the phrase "so help me God," but so far as I know there has never been a problem omitting it; I had several friends in Federal service do so.
Medium? Ha ha.
Blocking comments only solves the direct contact between predators and children.

As I said, some of these children will make 50 videos with no viewers, but then they create a gymnastics or yoga video that goes viral with predators.

Even if the comments are disabled, these children realize what subject matter grows their subscribers and view count the fastest, so they keep producing more of those videos. Then another kid sees their channel, and notices their yoga video got one million views, so now they try making yoga videos to replicate it. To their surprise, they also gain traction, and the cycle continues.

So, even without a single comment, you still end up with thousands of children making tutorials on how to do the splits, while they cannot begin to comprehend what is taking place and how they're being exploited.
> Our rights are so unassailable that I need to repeatedly pay a non-negligible amount of money to the government bear arms and get the approval of my local police chief if I want said arms to be reasonably modern.

Well-regulated militia. Not sure if you would qualify as a militia, but the regulation part seems to be working, right? :)
for the example above, you could chunk-rotate, change the rot-degree you use as obfuscation or have other variants of your algorithm.

there's a point somewhere a bit faster than monthly-expiration where I would consider using a store and random gen in situations where i would otherwise not. really depends on you, what it's for, and what risks you need to care about the most.
You can't be serious. Internet = Highway? Then most of us would be dead. Do you realize that most of us have been on the internet "unsupervised" much younger than 16? Your kid has a far greater chance of running into a pedo at school or getting on their way to school than on the internet.

I hope people like you don't have kids because I can't imagine the type of stunted and poorly adjusted children you'd raise. Sure warn the kids of the dangers of the internet, but my god who the hell equates children on the internet with children on the highway.
“Almost never sell” doesnt mean he never sells. Most people read this quite literally. Giving it more weight than the actual investor. This guy by his own admission sells off when is loss 25% or more. So those positions that you mentioned would have been sold off for tax harvesting reasons. He might have acquired a new position in the same stock if he believed in the company and his investment thesis.
Sad caners of the pancreas, lung, liver, esophasgus, stomach and brain are still pretty deadly.
Swift/Win32 Programming
It would sterilize water passing through the system, but not maintain ambient antipathogenicity. Typically, a diatomaceous pool filter, pool sweeper (like the old Polaris... the pool Roomba from the 1980's), chlorination and chemistry monitoring are needed.
Not sure, but here's some data from Matt Miller at MSFT:

Fellow data nerds: here's a snapshot of the vulnerability root cause trends for Microsoft Remote Code Execution (RCE) CVEs, 2006 through 2017. A few callouts: heap corruption, type confusion, and uninit increased in 2017. Use after free steady y/y but proportionally declined.
https://twitter.com/epakskape/status/984481101937651713
FDA warning brings young-blood transfusion company to a halt
5G: Compelling Evidence for Great Harm Caused by EMF, (2018) [pdf]
I can't speak for you but the term "battle with <disease>" is frightfully common. Copy and paste both your example quotes into google and see for yourself.
Apple: Our Approach to Automated Driving System Safety [pdf]
Want a Glimpse of Facebook’s Soul in 2019? Look at Its Internal Propaganda Lab
The thing about this narrative is ... networks are physical, there's a lot of labour, trucks, people, access rights ... they take time to deploy and install.

Greenfield places are obviously easier.

The advantages of such things as 'temporary VPN's etc' are really not hugely apparent. They don't imply some kind of economic boon really - surely good for telco's but there's no huge economic impetus.

Also consider that so many other companies, equipment, services, business processes need to be put in place to leverage all of this.

I believe that the lack of true power of 5G relative to others, and the fact it will take quite a long time for this to roll out ... changes the nature of this situation.
It is not a meme. It is the very definition of American courts. Brits dont even have a constitution and have a very different system from that of USA. Other than appearance there is no similarity between British and American courts.

I remember a famous case where a British judge refused to punish a Muslim man who use to beat his wife claiming, that is how the man is cultured and beating wife is part of his religion. Such a disaster is unlikely to happen in USA.
> That’s like claiming any knowledge is a meme.

No, beliefs—whether true and justified (hence, knowledge) or otherwise—are not memes. Behaviors—including ones by which beliefs (including knowledge) are transmitted—are memes. If memes are viewed as analogous to genes (which is the whole point of the concept), beliefs (again, including knowledge) are among the features analogous to aspects of phenotype.
Ask HN: Advice for an Engineer/Designer Trying His Hand at Marketing
I started out as an engineer more than 12 years ago making video games (in C++) and transitioned into rich internet applications (when Flash & ActionScript were all the rage). Then picked up JavaScript and Python and built web apps as a full-stack engineer. Then I worked with a founder to built a startup (which was acquired by a publicly listed company) as a UX designer. See he liked the way I used data to drive my design decisions and convinced me to be his product designer for a whole three years until we got acquired.

After that I worked as a data analyst and then picked up machine learning and tried my hand at natural language processing and generation and computer vision attempting to solve problems like content moderation, deduplication, and reasoning. We (me and the founder of the previous one) built and sold another startup in four years to publicly listed company again.

I didn’t let go off design, I’ve had an active side gig leveraging my skills as an engineer/data analyst and sold human centric data driven design as a service (sorry for the buzzwords). I teamed up with an anthropologist and a marketer and operated a profitable three person freelance business for several years now. Our service was end-to-end, we did research, design, development, and infrastructure support. Small businesses loved us.

Lately I’ve been losing interest in coding and design, “perhaps I’ll give marketing a try” I thought but I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew. I’m exploring my options now.

What advice do you have for me?
Borland declined dramatically. https://www.cnet.com/news/borland-a-big-lesson/ reckons Borland peaked at a $7 billion valuation, and they did spend hundreds of millions on campuses and acquisitions in the early 90s.
Are flies killing (non-striped) zebras? Or would they make them infertile? Attract predators?

Flies would be messing with the zebras ability to pass on their genes in some for for this trait to be selected for.
No, that’s not a thing.

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

That’s it.

“So help me god” is not part of it, despite some tradition. Not all presidents have used bibles or sworn to a god.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_Presiden...
Regarding EGLStreams Support in KWin
If you control both sides of the connection, ZeroTier is probably a more efficient "NAT-busting E2E-encrypted overlay network" solution than anything Tor-based.
Just to take this a little step further

1) Purpose: to illustrate the efforts of my young children in a non-professional context, not to showcase the audio portion of the recording.

2) Nature: audio + video, with explicit permission to record from the show executive/directors (it was a rehearsal, professionals recorded the actual show) and focus on the visual and physical nature of the unique performance

3) amount: abridged songs, amateurishly cut and remixed

4) effect on potential market: There is no way this is a substitute for any of the original copyrighted audio, and I communicate this intent to youtube by requesting it remain unlisted.

It probably does pass the four factor fair use test, but fighting with the youtube contentid machine is futile, and their system doesn't care about fair use.
I have to agree. The rules can seem a little ridiculous and somewhat arbitrary seeming here sometimes, but i have to admit, HN probably has the highest level of discourse on most articles I read here, sometimes better than the articles themselves, than most other sites i tend to browse. I read with showdead on and i find sometimes it's somewhat insightful to read a dead comment and figure out why. Sometimes they're completely infactual, spammy or rude but other times it's hard to figure out why.

Above all though, I learn things here all the time. There's some really knowlegeable people here and the range of topics that gets covered is more diverse than you might think.

I can't remember exactly when, a few weeks ago at least, i remember seeing an article about brewing tea or something on here and there was an extremely in depth discussion on the subtlties of tea and effects of brewing. There was some chemistry thrown in there and some oddly specific knowledge. It was great. I don't think i've ever learned so much from a discussion on tea before.

Also, just some of the personal anectodes and life stories i've read here really blow me away sometimes.

I've browsed a lot of different sites, the community of people here seem to be unlike most other sites, even similar ones.

There's a fairly high level of snobbishness and disconnect from some oddly ordinary aspects of life...and honestly sometimes I worry this site is full of sociopaths....

But, it's a pretty cool community of people that reminds me of the days of the old internet in ways that a lot of other sites don't. I never really feel like I'm wasting time even reading comments here, because the amount of accumulated knowledge and experience just seems to be a lot higher than pretty much anywhere else I browse regularly.
Here's why We're Entering the Golden Age of Podcasts, in 10 graphs
I submit that on sunny calm days with no wind at all, an outdoor pool will still get more air ventilation than the vast majority of indoor pools because, despite the absence of wind, you'll still get convection currents in the immediate area of the pool (particularly because the deck will usually get quite hot as it bakes in the sun.)
California Lawmaker Makes Aggressive Push Against Local Development Restrictions
Correlated != caused. As candidates gain popularity they always bring in more money.
Ask HN: Map of YC Companies?
Sam recently tweeted "I think 2017 was around when it stopped being an obviously good idea for startups to be in the bay area.."

I'd love to see a map showing the geographic distribution of all live, dead (and everywhere in between) YC companies - perhaps accompanied by valuation metrics.

Does anything like this exist? If not, would be a cool thought experiment..
There's a story in the news today about a Coast Guard lieutenant with extreme political views who was planning to go on an Anders Breivik style murder spree. Your model doesn't seem to include people who have zero interest in dialogue or persuasion and are willing to simply eliminate people they find disagreeable. Regrettably, it's not hard to find people who subscribe to eliminationist ideologies, and having found them it is not difficult to figure out the content of such ideologies.

At what point do you consider the listening process sufficient for conclusions to be drawn, or any other action to be taken? If all you do is gather data and you never analyze or act upon it, what use is it?
Mac and iOS are prohibitively expensive for a large fraction of users.
Or the password recovery for lost 2fa is secret questions (this is so awful,but see it often). And chances are those secret questions/answers might also be in the vault
We must also remember that once we accept the position that SCOTUS can create new law, it can go both ways and not sure your way.

Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams both give examples of poker. Imagine a standard Poker game where everyone knows the rule, some win some lose and yet there are no fights. Change the Poker game rules such that the dealer can change the rules at his whim and we will have fights (even though the dealer might not actually affect anyone's earnings).

SCOTUS not going out of their way is good for society.
Related article:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/20/court-const...
Arguably it is itself a dystopian worldview, based on the loss of some historic or imagined utopia.
Iraq's New Battle: Fighting Youth Unemployment (With Startups)
> then again they should just register donors and extensively check them plus paying. then everybody wins.

That probably won't work. You want donors to voluntarily disqualify themselves when they become ineligible (like if they've started taking a prohibited mediation), and they're going to be less likely to do that if they're coming in to get paid. You can't monitor their lives 100% and I doubt it's practical to run screening tests for every problem.

To use a software analogy: it's defense in depth strategy. Their polices screen for honesty, and then they do technical screening as a further check. Neither's perfect, but together they're probably more effective than either alone.
No it's because the lower is legally the gun, because it has the trigger and hammer assembly in it. The whole rest of the upper half of the gun can be ordered online and shipped right to your house because it isn't legally a gun or the critical components.
Dynamic equilibrium is absolutely a thing, but it’s fiendishly hard to tell true dynamic equilibrium from dynamic metastable equilibrium. I don’t think anyone has claimed that economic equilibrium is ever anything other than metatable, and we always seem to discover new and terrible ground states.
I'm laughing at thinking about how "CrackerNews" might sound somewhat hilariously off color.
See also Firefox Send - https://send.firefox.com/

Files are encrypted and then uploaded to Mozilla servers. Links automatically expire after some time.
True. There were many serious concerns about his competence as a judge which were not even discussed and everyone focused on his sex life.
> Determining which firms "contribute the most total value to the system" is just too hard to be a useful strategy.

Yes, it is — which is why we have a free market instead of a central authority trying to determine who contributes the most. Wisdom of crowds & all that.
Had the 8th Amendment not been considered to have been incorporated before this?
Steve Keen does some interesting work modelling economies as complex dynamic systems (I think basically not really ever being in a state of equilibrium). He even got grants to create a new systems dynamics application for that purpose [1] (really ugly UI though unfortunately).

I believe he (and others) contend that the idea of an economy being in equilibrium was really only mostly a simplifying assumption that early economists made because it made things easier to calculate, but doesn't really reflect reality. It just along the way got turned into an economic "law" accidentally along the way in the history of economics.

1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/
If you don't like the recommends, then don't use it. Youtube's recommend can be great. If you search for C# or any programming video, it provides a great way to find other interesting videos.

Why is that the busybodies always want to ruin something for everyone else because they themselves don't like it?

Also, if you don't like the videos, then don't watch it. What's so difficult about that?
Online Model Viewer for Random Games(Wii, Nintendo ...)
Systemic solution to this problem: NNTP (Usenet). I can't recall the specific newsgroup, but there are Usenet "numbers stations" groups for the upload of anonymous encrypted binaries. They get store-and-forward-ed like anything else, at arbitrary times.

Alice dumps an encrypted document into the NNTP network on one side of the world; Bob later downloads the entire newsgroup's contents (not just the stuff he wants—because there's no metadata to even determine that!) from his local NNTP server, and then attempts to decrypt everything he downloaded until he hits on something that works.
Flame-war detector remind me of the following short story by Scott Alexander

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Absolutely. I can only count to 1.
It was 4.2 billion not million, it probably should have been more, but that's definitely not a slap on the wrist.
HSBC allegedly laundered (not revenue, not profit, they laundered) $880 million.

They were fined $1.9 billion.

Not "fined about half"
> Blocking comments only solves the direct contact between predators and children.

I'm pretty sure the phrase I used was “predatory behavior”, not “comments”, so I'm not sure what your point is.
I'm really not sure something like ptx is really the answer.
PTX isn't really native and is JIT compiled into native by the gpu driver. In many high performance apps like games native compiled versions are included for several architectures.
One issue I've noticed which I'm surprised still exists is, on really large threads with 1000+ comments, collapsing threads becomes noticeably slow (multiple seconds long).

I was looking at the source code, and it seemed like collapsing recursively collapses all comments below it too?
I assume these deals are ultimately made by elected heads of state though? Not that it makes this a good system of course, it’s clearly a mixed bag at best, but if the EC is ultimately appointed by individual elected governments rather than by EU fiat then the problem is thornier than just unelected representatives. Then again it’s understandable that voters probably don’t place EC appointments as a major factor in their domestic elections.

It sounds like a system ripe for cronyism and abuse, opacity, and in need of reform.
Off topic, so feel free to downvote, but I have a possibly related question that may find some answers here.

I generally have a dry scalp, and dry skin around eye brows and beard. I started swimming about five months back and these drastically improved. I cracked a couple of ribs in a cycling accident and had to stop... the problems returned. Back swimming again now and they're gone again.

The only info I can find online is of people complaining that pool swimming _causes_ dry scalp problems but I seem to be experiencing the opposite.

Any reasons why this might be the case?
Microsoft Pro Intellimouse Review
Yep, https://medium.com/@CharlesYu/the-ultimate-guide-to-liquidat... is a decent overview. An oversimplified scenario might be that if a VC invests $25mm at a pre-money $100mm valuation with a 2x liquidation preference, and the company eventually sells for say $60mm (or raises money in a down round at that valuation, which doesn't bode well for a sale price much greater than that)... then the VC would get $50mm before any other investors, including founders, could split the remaining $10mm. What was once a 20% share of the company given to that VC balloons to a 5/6 share of the company. Not fun for founders and early investors.
Using that logic, does utopia result from attempting to create a dystopia?
Do you have a source for that (no pun intended)? Even if they did, it's impossible for anyone outside of microsoft to verify because, well, it's proprietary. So for those of us who trust microsoft as far as we can throw them, it doesn't really do much.
If the country is too large and heterogeneous to be governable then the obvious solution is to break it apart, not to accept horrible outcomes.
Yes, those things can pay off. My argument is not that such things do not exist, but that there are fewer instances of those at the very tails than there are of talent-based success. You need only examine the right tail of the wealth distribution to see that this is so. The very richest people in the world are there because of their own skill and insight. Gates, Buffet, Bezos, Kochs. As you step further down into the wealth distribution, you'll see some family money, like the Waltons. If Sam Walton the original was still alive, he'd be near the top...but by exactly the process I described, his children are no longer there.
No turbine -- pulsejet.

Also video from the same guy talking about pulsejets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8FSa5peEUk
I meant the overall post/link (where I quoted from), not my own comment.
This article seems to be written with the assumption that there is always a unique equilibrium. In most interesting instances, there are many. However, a set of cognitive limitations seems to cause people to focus on models with a unique equilibrium solution (e.g. Prisoners Dilemma) rather than more interesting models (e.g. Game of Chicken, coordination games etc)

In addition, people seem like to confuse the economic meaning of rationality (optimization subject to constraints) with their fantasies of what "rational" means). They like this confusion so much that more well known cases are considered worth of a Nobel.

If you are honestly interested in understanding the role equilibria play in economics, don't overload the term. Think of an equilibrium as a prediction of where behavior tends accepting the idea that which equilibrium is selected can depend on expectations. In that regard, Karl Shell's seminal work on Sunspot Equilibria is very informative.

As for rationality, ask if the following make sense: People make choices from subsets of a vector space. They can choose between any two elements of such a vector space. Given `N` elements of such a vector space, if x1 is better than x2 and x2 is better than x3 and ... x(N-1) is better than xN, then xN is NOT better than x1. Given any element X of the choice space, one can imagine another element Y which is close to X but is better than X.

By the way, the last one, local nonsatiation, is what people tend to call "greed".

If those assumptions make sense, then you don't have much of a problem with rational choice theory.

In particular, if those assumptions make sense, you accept that demand curves are downward sloping.