skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do we know how many spouses are (or simply feel) compelled to vote a certain way?

I’m not saying fraud is rampant, but there’s no denying the fact that on the individual level fraud and coercion are much easier to achieve when voting is done outside the polling booth.
Paypal already refuses to allow itself to be used for sales of various legal but controversial products.
Uber plans to kick off IPO in April – sources
This is the first I've heard of ethanol being useful for reducing emissions. First off, the net effect is obviously more emissions since the fuel burned to create the ethanol is mostly diesel in farm equipment. Second the local reduction of emissions seems to be benzene, but is replaced with acetaldehyde, which sounds like a wash, or barely an improvement.

The emissions argument seems like a complete loser for ethanol.
There's the xgamestation boards that you put together yourself, that give you a helping hand in the initial steps of building your own retro console: http://www.ic0nstrux.com/products/gaming-systems/game-consol...
Blendle, perhaps?
Out of curiosity, do you get the impression other cultures do parenting advice better?
Breaking news: Google to discontinue Google Docs!
Most failures of this type end up being a cascading resource exhaustion problem propagated by an un- or mis-analyzed feedback or dependency path. It is frankly amazing it doesn't happen more often.

I'm excluding the other common type of long outage, the head-desking "failover didn't work, backups are horked, it'll take 10's of hours to restore/cold start" kind.
The Nintendo Switch's start screen has ads on it. When you turn the console on from sleep mode, it shows flashy images entitled "Featured News" on the left third of the lock screen. [1] I tried to disable it, but apparently you cannot unsubscribe from the preloaded "news" channels.

When I play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the in-game experience is mostly ad-free, but there is a side quest on my quest log that appears to be a cross-promotion with some non-Nintendo game.

It's really frustrating that Nintendo is also doing this bullshit now, even if in moderation.

[1] Representative example: http://www.bearingnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_49...
In what sense? Google exposed the information of 500,000 Google+ users and tried to conceal it.

"Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision, the people said." [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared...
Renault Clio 2020 – 2019 Geneva Auto Show – Full Review
I count 45 planned reactors and 12 reactors currently under construction in China at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors#China

Somehow the two under construction in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...) are estimated to cost $25B and are complicated by Westinghouse having declared bankruptcy. Others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Gener...) have been cancelled.

The same AP1000 reactor model was installed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station at a cost of just $6b, although they were also 4 years late in becoming operational. But it does seem like other countries are capable of getting these large projects done while they whither and drag out in the US.
This is the result of a simulated annealing cell placement algorithm. 99%+ of all modern silicon will look very similar at the same zoom level.

If your point of reference is the layout of an Intel CPU, don't forget that those are on the order of 100mm2, where this layout is around 0.1mm2.
Note that in the UK making false claims about cancer cures is a criminal offence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Act_1939
I mean virtual DOM as exemplified by virtual-dom, hyperscript, React.
Can't you take that kind of HDR H.264 video and then convert it to baseline H.264 compressing the palette intelligently so it would look not exactly like original yet still very much alike with everything significant easily distinguishable visually?
New cluster coordination layer in Elasticsearch
I suspect, now that they've started, AT&T is going to continue to build out their GPON fiber through most of their network. In a lot of areas, they do have real issues with the copper wire that's on the poles, and they've figured out how to make rewiring not too bad, at least where the residential wiring is above ground.

They've got a significant advantage over Google here. Where they run DSL, they've got a customer base, and an installer base. They already have rights to the poles. They've already got contacts in the municipalities to add their new equipment boxes. They worked out how to order the fiber spools with connectors placed for the splitters at each pole. It's just a matter of buying and placing the equipment, upgrading their existing customers, and then winning customers from cable.

For customers with underground copper wiring, it's a tougher sell. And there are clearly parts of the AT&T network that AT&T doesn't care to service; places that never got ADSL2 or VDSL (aka U-Verse) likely have pretty low customer numbers these days, and it seems like they'd probably not get upgraded either.
AFAIK one limitation is forging of the large pressure vessels, mainly the reactor itself and the steam generators. Those take a long time. Of course you can do multiple ones in parallel, but then the limit is that there's about 25 heavy forge presses on the planet, of which only a subset are doing nuclear work. So in total the capacity at the moment is maybe 50 large pressure vessels per year worldwide. If one plant requires one reactor and 4 steam generators that would then be 10 plants per year.

Of course it's possible to increase the worldwide heavy forging capacity, but again, something that takes time.

Then there are many reactor designs that don't use water as a coolant or moderator; those are obviously not restricted by heavy forge capacity. But those reactors are mostly on the drawing board and not available off the shelf.
Serious question - is this still a thing? I’ve only seen one, older, relative use Facebook in that way in the last few years. Do people really still use it as a distraction at work? The quality of content is so terrible I can’t stand scrolling for very long.
Sorry to be unclear. I meant just that.
Flight-hailing startup BlackBird raises $10 M to replace driving with flying
Thanks :)

The only multi-input game I have right now is Tetris for 2 players.
My girlfriend doesn't complaint while playing it (except when I win :P), so I'd say it's pretty responsive, even with the somewhat convoluted way the CPU communicates with the PPU and the double-buffering.

I think it will work for other types of games as well.
With all the hardware, firmware for the 3 microcontrollers, bootloader software, compiler toolchain and tools, I still haven't gotten around to actually make a lot of games for it.
Live Video for Selenium Tests
You'd love visiting Vermont. They banned billboards in 1968.
He might be complicit, but maybe he was trying to change the direction. Those two things should be treated separately.
This "sex censorship" includes child pornography, since the availability of it caused Tumblr's app to be banned from iOS.[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/20/18104366/tumblr-ios-app-...
Relephant xkcd in the room : https://xkcd.com/927/
People invariable ask a form of this question every time an impressive project like this is posted.

For what its worth(1), I think that "learn a bunch of stuff -> go build something cool on the first try" isn't quite the right approach. I think you have to set for yourself a series of tasks and then fight like hell to figure out how to accomplish them. Start with a single blinking led. Just google "how to blink an led" and try to do it a few different ways.

In short the only "material" you might use to get started is google, by typing in "how do I..." while chasing modest goals that look like they might be in roughly the right direction. If there is a magic book out there that will "teach you electronics", I haven't found it yet. It sounds a lot like the sort of book that might "teach you astronauting".

"Electronics" is broad enough that it might be more like learning a language than learning a skill.

(1)My own meandering opinion
Yeah, I was unclear. I was referring to lowering prices, not introducing bad copies.
This is pretty cool! I don't know much about M-Pesa and all of the other solutions. What kind of technology do you use to avoid double-spending, etc. with fully-offline ledgers? Is it something based on signatures/cryptography?
Yes, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Greek kingdom founded by Ptolemy I Soter, a companion and historian of Alexander the Great. He started the kingdom after the death of Alexander.
Well Jobs was the first that came to mind, but Google, Twitter, Dropbox, Spotify (I know, not Valley)... all have this identical cult like culture where the employees are fully indoctrinated and feel their execs are the best in the world.

Not to be rude, but this has been my universal experience in the tech industry for the past 20+ years.
Bump allocation sounds a lot like heap allocation. Is a "bump" a small heap?
You’re right. It was just a kind of loose association and it’s not related to or important for the core point of my comment.

Just as a subjective thing, the bunker doesn’t strike me well. If peter is advocating anything that has the potential to upset the global economy/global order then it should be him to stick his hand in the proverbial hole first; but apparently he’s going to let us do it while he watches from the safety of his bunker.

A bunker might help with the initial destabilization caused by AI but it would of course not help him if one of the more horrible outcomes were to transpire.
Having grown tired of graphical software back in the 90's I have little interest in graphical user interfaces and interactive use. Chrome has never made a UI change I disagreed with because I do not care about the popular graphical browsers.

I care about command line programs, less-interactive and non-interactive use. Truly, the best interface is no interface.

The whitepaper.html appears to explain how usage data is utilised in ways that help Chrome improve but does not appear to contain any restrictions on use of the data to help further Google's ad sales business, whether directly or indirectly.

It is the business model that I do not wish to support.

Producing software such as Chrome is just something the company is doing in the course of selling advertising and collecting maximal amounts of data from users, whether the data is anonymised or not.
Obviously not authorized to release more details than have already been made public, but when the book hits the real world sometimes you find new failure modes, software has bugs, or humans find creative mistakes. It's also very hard to build global scale systems with zero possibly of global failure. But every time a crack is found, you learn something and do what you can to eliminate the whole class of related failure modes.

Disclaimer. I don't work on the thing that broke here but I am in SRE. Speaking in broad generalities.
I've been looking for something just like thing for a while. Apache Che didn't do much for me. Just didn't work the way I thought it should. How's the Firefox support for this?
No way that data isn't already destroyed...
You're going to need to source that... Using a diesel powered semi truck to tote tons of corn 1000's of miles to a refinery does not make any kind of sense (in the name of efficiency), especially when the alternative (oil) can be put into a pipe line and pumped for next to nothing.
Feckn yes you mushroom heads are waking up!
Sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

Yang talks about coming up with a more wholistic measurement than GDP to optimize on which is more in-line with how we value people culturally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2FnZPXjRyI&feature=youtu.be...
Uh no, actually virtual DOM would be a great addition to the browser. What is there is an imperative api, the big win of virtual DOM is the specification of the UI is the specification of all possible updates to the ui in an efficient manner. It would be nice for the browser to include an api method that takes VDOM data-structure, diffs it and applies the changes in native land vs implementing this in user land.
Gliheng/flutter-rs: Build beautiful desktop apps with flutter and rust
Seems like burning an orchard for a few bad apples. It's this really that large of a concern vs voter fraud?
Many tumblr users have multiple blogs, also a whole lot of blogs are spambots (who continue to post sex ads).
Yes, but then why am I buying gas with ethanol in it in the first place?
Start with an Arduino. Really simple circuits and you get to learn on a microcontroller. It's fun too. For instance learn how to turn on and off an LED then go from there

https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino/most-popular
> The number of monthly visitors per active, non-spam blog was, and remains, probably much greater.

For sure, but it doesn't seem to be stopping Tumblr from boasting that it has 461M blogs [0]. Even if we charitably assume that as many as .1% of those are run by real, actual humans, that figure makes Tumblr look like a small platform with not many users -- particularly if, as you've noted, there are still tons of porn bots on it.

[0]: http://www.tumblr.com/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393018

a few minutes earlier
I really find that the child pornography angle was a convenient lie to push through the banning of porn on tumblr. It's my view that Verizon didn't want it, so it had to go away.

Child pornography online isn't a new problem and Tumblr must have been negligent in policing it.
In fact this is almost exactly what happens with many children being prescribed Adderall.
amazing indeed, what a great read, and inspiration to go build something...
To showcase the parent's impressive efforts, it looks like this is but one of a ~70 part series on airplane crashes: https://old.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/a4ckhv/pl...
Unofficial rumors from tumblr staff say that the porn ban was already in the pipeline; the iOS ban just sped the timeline up by a month or two.
I remember using Facebook before it even had ads. So maybe not the very very beginning.
> The disgusting part is the 3-4 pages of other filthy fingers (ads-trackers) that welcome you every time you go to <insert-name>.tumblr.com

I moved 1500+ posts (drawings, own content) from Tumblr to Jekyll just to avoid that page. It seems designed to repel visitors permanently. People cannot reasonably opt out of 300+ ads-trackers each time they check a single blog. Another great missed opportunity as a competitor to WordPress, and other blogging platforms, Tumblr will follow the path of Posterous.
The question is: is it detectable and do the devs care?
And seems like they video chat with Google Classroom: https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/acvwh9/we_should...
I really shouldn't suggest this because it is definitely a bug that I enjoy exploiting, but on YouTube, if you hit the next video link then immediately hit back on the browser, the ads all clear. As in all the yellow ad markers disappear. So no annoying mid video ads at all. My default YT viewing is click link, click next, hit delete.

This is on my Macbook and all three major browsers Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

... AAAAAAND watch as this gets fixed (I'm an idiot).
To be fair, the header should be significantly easier to implement. There is a truckload of issues with formatting a date in 100 languages that don't apply.

Incredible how Hacker News figured out the workaround in 6 hours, when they couldn't in 6 years.
All of his fairly recent congressional "testimony" fills in the gaps quite nicely. He might not have used identical curse words, but, to me, the same attitude shown through quite brightly. I really don't see a change whatsoever.
Your system is stupid.
For what it's worth, I recognized this as your content immediately. Thanks for your work.
Aren't counting ballots always wrong? Like every time there is a recount the number changes...

What's wrong with electronic ballots? If we can have a secure and audit-able banking system (and every other aspect of our lifes), surely we can have the same for voting?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
Google's core business is letting people pay to be the top of search result.
I don't think it's actually connection-less. They're just using cell carrier network protocols rather than typical TCP/IP - so in a sense it's "Internet-Free", but there's still some sort of centralization required to execute the transaction.

I was thinking of the same thing you were thinking when I read the headline, but I don't think it's that.

Still super cool though.
And suddenly I have another use case for my language for specifying scientific protocols. Counting votes in a way that is scientifically verifiable. Turns out keeping verifiable lab notebooks for legal reasons is a really similar problem to keeping verifiable vote tallies, also for legal reasons (hopefully). It is telling that we have better provenance systems for far more complex processes but we still haven't managed one for person one vote ....
Postcards have a long history of disagreement with you.
It is kinda hard to be as good as Conversations ;-) But you have a point. ChatSecure [1] became usable in the last two years and Monal [2] is another young project aiming to close the iOS client gap. Nevertheless, while there are still some bugs in both clients, I am expecting that those bugs will get fixed in the next months.

[1] https://chatsecure.org

[2] https://monal.im
> There are several islands already running on solar, wind, and batteries alone.

EDIT Which is awesome, and surely beats running diesel generators!

Which presumably don't have large, dense cities nor heavy industry?

> If every six months the rate at which a million EVs are sold, how much battery storage is that over the next decade? My math says tens of GWs.

Battery costs are orders of magnitude too high to make sense for anything but very short term storage. Yes, they are fantastic for some ancillary services like frequency control. And with lots of solar and air conditioning, might allow you to get past the duck curve hump in the evenings.

Providing energy for a couple weeks when a high pressure system has parked on your country and wind produces 0? Forget it.
Come on, have people not read COMP.RISKS? Computing history is full of high-uptime systems wrecked by a single critically misplaced typo.
Coca-Cola reveals how much plastic it uses
Yeah, pretty much. It might continue to work fine with very minor changes, but as we know how to design and build them today deep neural networks are often very sensitive to minor changes in the input distribution. The key insight here though is not about deep nets, but about our true progress towards AGI. These systems don't hypothesize about the best strategy to take, think about different approaches, formulate alternatives, etc. They basically memorize paths that have worked based on random exploration. We have what seems like a long way to go (nobody can know whether we are 1 or 100 key ideas away) before an AI already trained to play 5 Atari games can be turned towards a new game and play very well based on its experience with related genres. Today they are trained from scratch for each game, so although the model might be the same the AI is not able to transfer theories and strategies from one domain to another.
Claiming an airline pilot lacks "any kind of management experience" displays a significant lack of understanding of the job of an airline pilot.
Lawsuit says Johnson and Johnson was opioid “kingpin”
I think the current state of affairs in this country don't really need proof. I mean do you really think a person who has studied science will elect this guy as the Chief Minister? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Adityanath)
id say amazon not carrying an item is a application of free speech.

publisher is saying "this is how you cure autism" and amazon is saying "no, that isn't"

for amazon to leave it up would be to not use their freedom, which is bad because using free speech is good.
Now if only they would introduce something like Single Transferable Vote (entertaining CGPGrey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI), or another more effective voting system.

Probably won't happen though, as it would seriously shake up politics as we know it.
So, there are two ways of looking at Zuckerberg's idealistic positioning of Facebook as a force for good, which is how he pitched to me when I was recruited as a PM there in 2007 (and offered a job which I ultimately declined due to a counter offer, much to the detriment of my current net worth, but that is irrelevant to the current discussion):

1. Either this reflected a sincere belief by Zuck to build a different kind of product/corporate entity governed more by ethics than by money and power, or

2. This utopian positioning was a calculated recruiting strategy to attract the best and brightest recent grads from Stanford and other elite universities, who were extremely attracted by the idea of getting paid six figures to work on a fascinating product without having to sell our soul, like our friends in finance etc.

Or it could be some combination of those two.

My point is that if the underlying motivation were truly to do good, Facebook would have done something differently over the last 5+ years as the capacity for its product to cause harm became abundantly evident.

Instead, at every crisis/opportunity to fix the underlying issues, Facebook chose to brush problems under the rug in the pursuit of growth.

From my perspective, as someone who drank the Facebook kool-aid more than just about anyone in the early days, this represents a painful betrayal. I feel like one of the "dumb fucks" who trusted Zuckerberg's pitch to me back in the day.
> I have a negative opinion of Signal because they have not dealt with this for years and have been stubborn on that point.

Why? It's their time and I doubt you're their boss.

> But this particular issue, introduced and imposed by the Signal team, is a deal breaker.

It seems like you just fundamentally disagree with their priorities, which is kind of a poor reason for having a negative opinion of them. It seems like they want to create the maximally secure yet reasonably usable chat app, and you want a maximally convenient yet reasonably secure chat app.

IMHO, Signal's priorities are far more unique and innovative, and that's why they have my support. Literally every other app out there decides to make the opposite trade offs.
Planes need ejection seats with parachutes.
Video: C64 Robot Guitar Playing Jingle Bells via Arduino
It's easy to believe the bullshit when that money machine is funding your six figure salary, free meals, unlimited vacation, recreational and health services, and 401K and Roth. That's why there are engineers at Google right now working on a censorship machine at the directive of the Chinese government. I find it highly doubtful that they would still believe the project is a net good on the world and not motivated by pure greed if they weren't getting paid so well. Similarly at Facebook.

Human morality is cheap and SV has showed that.
On the other hand, cherrypicked excerpts can be terrifyingly convincing: "What is the best way to login to my Ruby application in a browser via Perl?"

We've all been asked a question like that and had a cold dread creep over us as we try to formulate a response...
Tether: The Fictional Trading Reserve
Burins around the edge of a screen is also what a fair few plane cockpits do, it’s a common and proven design.