skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Paper ballots aren't scalable

Paper ballot operational complexity scales linearly with the size of the electorate, which makes them adequately scalable for any practical use. (There's maybe an issue with using paper ballots for some esoteric election methods, because of how operational complexity scales with number of candidates for some type of tallying, but absent a decision that use of one of those methods is desirable that's immaterial.)
Just adding to the chorus saying they’d buy a kit and/or book. For branding, play on your introduction for PGG: Portuguese Guy Gaming. Either way though, you definitely should write more posts if it’s something you’d be interested in, you definitely have an excited and willing audience.
That's a very bizarre question.
> Time spent on one is time not spent on the other.

But from the AI researcher's view, "the other" doesn't require time; someone else is advancing the hardware, which is outside of the AI researcher's area. The general method to-be-run on better hardware is known today; it doesn't have to be researched. So should the AI researcher just twiddle their thumbs, waiting for the hardware to improve?

In games like chess, it has long been known that if you have a big enough database, an optimal game can be played. For each board configuration, the entry in the database supplies the optimal move.

So according to the reasoning in this article, we shouldn't bother looking for improving chess. The hardware will eventually get enough storage that we can store all the moves, and fast enough that we can compute them all to populate the table. Then twenty lines of Javascript doing hashed lookup of chess boards with a giant Redis back end will be the grandmaster. :)
I'm working on an iOS game as well, and my plan of attack is to have a 'donate' button with different tiers ($1, $3, $5) that gets treated internally as an in-app purchase.
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Flip it around. If you are an employee partly compensated in stock, is it fair for a multi-billionaire who was one of your former bosses to flippantly trash talk the company in public after he cashes out, potentially damaging the value of your stock...? Wouldn't you want your employer to put some controls into place to prevent that kind of pointless harm to you?

You can still talk about literally anything else if you sign a non-disparagement clause or an NDA.
> You pay me. You do not control me!

That's why these things come with payment -- or for NDAs, a threat to make you pay them.
This crosses into political flamewar. Please do not use HN for that or call names in comments here, regardless of how right you are or feel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not hard to see how a business might not want their paid advertisement sitting next to pornography hosted on the platform they're paying.
In the UK, ballots are still done with pen and paper. You put a cross in one of the labelled squares and fold the paper, then drop it into the ballot box.

Also, while the guidelines say it has to be a cross, it could be any clear mark (though best not to risk it), as soneone drew a rude symbol in a square and it was counted as a vote! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32693485)
No, people don't just sue the drivers because it's driver error, they sue because they have a chance to get money. People who get t-boned by a driver running a red light get sued by the insurance company of the driver that ran the light. It can have nothing to do with who is at fault, ultimately, just who is the easiest target.

In your Kraft scenario, the store would likely be sued, as would the corporation running the store, Kraft, and potentially the packaging company.

Here's a perfect example; the Romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak happens, right. A man eats a salad at a restaurant, gets sick. Who does he sue? Everybody. Has nothing to do with who is responsible, has a lot to do with who is going to pay his bills.

Why is the liability for a $200 part lower? If the cars can't apply the brakes properly and people die in car accidents, are they any less responsible?

Trucking companies won't say no, because it's extremely unlikely that all the cars will get into accidents all the time, and they don't have to pay more because the car didn't have a driver than they would if the car was being driven by their employee. Why would their insurance rates skyrocket? It appears there will be far less accidents with automated cars.
Acton 'lost' $850m in the process. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/whatsapp-co-founder-explains...
Whats kind of funny is that Chernobyl is the newest reactor of the 3 that have failed. Both Three Mile Island and Fukushima are older reactors.
I think they want to simplify the human interaction as much as possible to eliminate things like hanging chads, misreads due to erasures etc. This also requires less importance on the other human step which is reviewing as there are hopefully fewer errors in the first place

Although I would favor a screen with physical buttons next to it (not like the garbage you see on ATMs and gas pumps though)
Thanks for this. This is the first I heard of him but I did hear about 'Arrival' :)
Reminds me of the movie Skins:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skins_(2002_film)

Statues (and sculpture generally) still have power and not always in a good way.
Please stop with the football jokes, you can point out a fallacy without trying to get referee status out of it.
I'm not saying market economics is the problem. I think that concept gets conflated with capitalism too often. I think markets are a good tool for economic organization. The problem is the system of capitalism, i.e. the centralization of power and capital in the hands of the few, and the rules of a system that incentivize and enable that. This bad system of rules, capitalism, is certainly a form of regulation (is that what you mean?). But when I use the word regulation, I mean a rule that checks the otherwise unlimited exploitative power of capital, rather than any rule at all. Maybe you think that any rule at all would cause this, and I think that's not true.
It's not just AI. Our trade's history is chockfull of valiant efforts to solve problems that were overrun by the exponential decline of computing costs by the time they really worked properly.

Remember DSEE / ClearCase? They had all sorts of complicated virtual file systems to deliver tagged and branched contents of source code repositories. But drive space expanded with a Moore's-law style curve and now we have "git pull". Far simpler. System administrators don't hate our guts for adopting git.

Remember PHIGS? We needed display lists for graphics engines because host machines were too slow. Silicon Graphics took the other approach, and now we have GL.

Remember terminal concentrators like Digital's LAT? You don't? Good. I wish I didn't. (Handling 9600 baud interrupts was too big a load for a host machine. Really.)

Remember optical typesetting machines? The digital outlines / images for creating nice-looking letters used to be too big and complex to use for creating the images for actual pages. You want to use Univers or Gill Sans to set a document? Fine. Buy a Selectric typeball. Or go pay Linotype or Monotype a bundle for a little optical thingy with images of all the letters on it. Take the lid off your typesetting machine and put that thingy into it. You want to set Japanese? Too bad for you. Apple, Adobe, Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes, and Matt Carter, and Donald Knuth, decided to ride the exponential rocket and the rest is history.

The bright side: Margaret Hamilton and her team on the Apollo moonshot project used simple, reliable, radiation-hardened, and redundant computers with bugfree software to get those guys to the moon and back.

Let's be careful: Generals always fight the last war. Before starting new valiant efforts, we should carefully assess whether the appropriate technology for the planned delivery date is JMOS -- Just a Matter of Software. Sometimes it might not be the case. But most often it will be.
I know this is annoying, but I'm going to take this occasion to point out that "lightening" and "lightning" are different things (and have a different number of syllables). The former is basically "the causing of lightness". One definition is "the sensation, experienced by many women late in pregnancy when the head of the fetus enters the pelvis, of a reduction in pressure on the diaphragm, making it easier to breathe" (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lighten...). The latter is the meteorological phenomenon.

Cool observation, though.
Side note... Outline.com doesn't want to outline nytimes articles anymore...?
> We've already had a look inside his head, because he joked with his friends about how naive the people giving their information to him were for trusting, and how they were dumb fucks that he looked forward to fucking in the ear.

You're reading a lot into a (admittedly stupid) quip/jab/whatever-you-want-to-call it by a 19 year old.

I don't even disagree with your fundamental assertion here, just that this is incredibly weak evidence.
Did you try gaming with data and wifi turned off? It might help stem the tide of ads...
Thats fine but I get to decide if I want to buy a book about drinking bleach to cure autism, Amazon doesn't decide it for me.
I’m no expert whatsoever, but I’d recommend getting an Arduino (the cheap knockoffs aren’t horrible, but if you get one, be sure to donate a couple of dollars to the legit Arduino people), a couple of big breadboards, a jumper wiring kit (preferably with all of the different inch fractions so your wiring stays neat), and some basic components (resistors, capacitors, LEDs, buttons, simple ICs, etc).

Once you have all that, get the Arduino do turn on an LED when you press a button on the breadboard. Incorporate some kind of sensor, if you want. After that experience, you should be ready to tackle a bigger project. Now that you have a test bed, you can incrementally build circuits from books and the Internet and actually understand what’s going on.
That's a good goal to have.
Ah. I've seen wording like that from people trying to insinuate that the person has a racist/sexist worldview that they're either covering up or trying to intellectually rationalize. Or as a subtle dig on their intelligence. :)
This is super cool. Do you have plans to make the emulator public? If so I'd be very interested in developing software for the console.
In parts of the developing world, Facebook is used sort of like Craigslist to connect buyers and sellers, with the prospective client's friends list acting as a reputation system. Instead of this person to person bartering system, the developed world relies on advertisements and influencers for commerce. There's a Bloomberg article that goes deeper into this but I can't find it right now.
Ok but this isn't censorship related.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I run a reasonably popular non-porn, submissions-based blog and immediately after the ban was implemented, our numbers tanked. Submissions dropped from 25-35 per day to around 10-20, while the number of notes (likes+reblogs+replies) per post has dropped from 600-800 to 200-400.

Unfortunately, we still see about the same total number of spambots and fake blogs in our notes. So at least from my own anecdotal experience, the ban did nothing except drive away human users.

A lot of our followers asked if/when we would move to another platform, but unfortunately for them (and us), Tumblr is the only major blog platform we know of which supports a curated, moderated submissions-based blog. Reddit is the closest runner-up in that it allows submissions and can be moderated, but isn't curatable for all intents and purposes. I suspect if (when) Tumblr goes under, it's going to take my blog with it, which is disappointing.
It's a high stakes technical problem that is caused by not addressing technical debt - something that the many of the HN readership sees on a daily basis in other domains.

MCAS was created as a way to compensate for instability caused by strapping large engines onto an aircraft not originally designed for it, as opposed to doing a redesign.
I was going to say this is the same thing as coder.com, but this is their open source repo.
A380 pushes 5000 psi into realm of the common man (2002)
Absolutely. We will be in touch shortly. In the mean time, you can check out our forum: https://forum.blockstack.org/ or hit is up on our slack.
This is very American centric. Whites in Europe are lucky to earn half that on architect positions (please don’t come up with „standard of living” and „social services and benefits”).
I think they are acting on a reasonable fear that the reputation of the brand could be tarnished by their placing of ads on the page, which could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the content.

Let’s not forget that this is not about whether to spend money or not - it’s about where to spend money. Advertisers have countless options for where and how to advertise, so it makes sense to shift money to more boring, safe platforms where the ROI is almost identical anyway.
I totally agree.
The reason I stuck to DIP ICs was because I could fit them into breadboards and I thought that was easier than any alternative.
I was incredibly lucky on how all the breadboards were functional.
And there were a few times where I would accidentally disconnect a wire and spend the next 2 hours trying to figure out what was wrong.
All this without having a logic analyser and not even an oscilloscope until much later in the build (they are not that cheap).
And yes the project sure is complex, too complex, but I guess I was lucky, and I'm glad it's working :).
I know this has been said before but this is one of the coolest things I've seen posted here on HN. My undergrad is in computer engineering and this post brought back a flood of writing VHDL and doing design in Mentor Graphics.

I'm going to read this a few more times. It's like reading a good book about my hopes and dreams.
Volkswagen is sacrificing its employeesby 2023 reason tofinance its electriccars
Mercurial uses a DAG just like git. It has facilities for embedding a branch name in each commit, or for not doing that and having anonymous branches. It also has a feature similar to git's "branches"

Two articles that might help if you really want to dig into it:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me...

https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2013/06/git-branches-are-...
I'm a huge fan of RStudio server.

I splurged on an expensive desktop, while I'm using an old laptop with an i3 processor and 4GB RAM my brother gave me.

RStudio server let me work from the same R sessions, wherever I was, while giving me (high end) desktop performance for running simulations like MCMC, wherever I was -- from R.

I did similarly with Jupyter for Julia, but I always preferred Atom/VS Code. So my work flow, away from home, was using things like remote-ftp and ssh. But I can't seamlessly continue a session I had at home from my laptop. Needless to say, I am excited about this.
It's humorous to see someone call Facebook a money making machine from the start when even after its IPO the conventional wisdom was that it would struggle to make money: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/a-look-back-in-ipo-faceboo...
Brad McQuaid who was the lead designer of EverQuest is at it again with a new MMO called Pantheon. Is development a strictly crowdfunded because he refuses to take on an investor probably based on his experience dealing with Sony.

Personally I don't have the time, energy or interest to play an MMO with the kind of time sinks that Everquest had and that Pantheon plans to repeat. But if it's an itch you want to scratch then look for that game.
My personal "record" is little above 5 full days, without sleeping even a single minute. Without going into details, I had a traumatic event and I couldn't fall asleep.

Interestingly, I didn't feel that tired. On the last day, I even exercised.

I felt mentally slower, though, for sure. Like operating at 50% intelligence.

People that don't sleep for prolonged periods of time will eventually die [0]. No way around it. It's one of the reasons that Guinness World Records banned sleep deprivation records.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia
Just announcing a diet version of news feed. That is it. Slowly routing traffic to that new facade. They don't have to something super revolutionary, just bit by bit.
The majority of businesses and governments are insisting on learning this bitter lesson anew.

In the minds of many business executives and government officials, "explainable AI" means, quite literally, "show it to me as a linear combination of a small number of features" (sometimes called "drivers" or "factors") that have monotonic relationships with measurable outcomes.

I would go further: most people are understandably scared and worried of intelligence that arises from scalable search and learning by self-play.
Relevant to this topic: trolls and bots amplify the online vaccine debate, eg https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.3045...
Great work! I wondered what resource you have used when you started learning electronics. I'd be really appreciated if you share them
This is great. It would be beneficial to also see other forms of compensation including bonus at a minimum, RSUs, etc. Sometimes a dip in salary might be explained by these other factors, so it might tell a more complete story.
Hah. I raise you https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/2222
Check out what Ted Lieu, Representative from the LA area, had to say about NDAs:

https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1105961668029358086

> @tedlieu I am authorized to make the following statement: If you feel silenced by an NDA and need help from a Congressional committee, please contact, or have your attorney contact, the House Judiciary Committee.

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For topics of societal and national concern, House subpoenas could be a good way to force disclosure — of things companies are trying to hide, via paying off employees in exchange for NDAs.
Show HN: Orbital Index
>I think it's a large scale astroturfing effort by the nuclear industry

Just to be clear, you think that the nuclear industry is paying people to go on line and say positive things about nuclear power? Can I get some kind of source for this claim?
The gist I got from the article is that those companies would also get benefits, like cheaper access to resources or monopolies in their areas of operation.
"Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook as a good thing for the world was a lie" - That is such a broad generalization. In the developing world where I live Facebook gives me the opportunity to maintain contact with my family who live on the other side of the world, as I walk the streets of São Paulo, for free. There are hundreds of millions of others like me who keep in contact with their family because of Facebook (and the companies they own). The alternative (cel phone calls and sms) is literally an inch away on our smartphone, but it is such bad quality and so expensive its unusable. For all of us, Facebook is definitely a good thing.
You're presupposing sex-based brain differences, which is also taboo.
Funny my wife is a photographer too and I follow lots of photogs and see growth over the past year.

BLS [0] is forecasting -6% drop from 2016 to 2016, but 12% growth in self employed photographers.

So yeah, it’s not doing so well in general. But it’s gangbusters in her segment (all digital experience photography)

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/mobile/photo...
I'd be interested to know how many of those vets end up getting a job after they graduate though, other retraining programs measure job retention as opposed to program completion.
> Are there going to be gobs of new solar panel installation jobs in their hometowns where the coal mine closed?

Maybe if everyone's, say, getting a $1000/mo UBI...
How about Spotify also start paying a better cut to all creators? Are you guys not sick of corporarions pretending like they are good citizens?
At an interpersonal level yes, but if you publish the same bad advice in a book you're fine.
Krita is a amazing tool. Hands down my favorite 2D image tool. HDR support will make it even better! (Though I can't take advantage of it yet in my environment!)

One feature I love is its coloring tool, which you only need to make a stroke or two on a part to specify how you want color it.

I've colored this in about 5 minutes...

https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_i...
Should modern aircraft be required to live stream voice and data recordings?
Is there some technical reason that cockpit voice and flight data recorders could not or should not be used to transmit a live, ongoing stream of their data?

It would allow supervision by multiple sources and simultaneous cloud recording and we could end the search for "black boxes."

Airlines and manufactures could also use this telemetry data in flights that don't crash to further improve safety and performance.
So Google don't test for load? They should ;)
The phone number requirement pissed me off a bit.
Compactions do NOT reduce disk usage. On the contrary, they rewrite the data, so they generate new and presumably smaller SSTables. Which means more disk usage. It's the garbage collector on the master that removes files. You can combine the two, but that requires some tooling that compacts a section of the table, then triggers (or waits for, I can't recall) the garbage collector.
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Actually, I found evidence on my own that the overlap is bigger than the difference.

Want to know the absolutely delicious irony, here? I saw it in James Damore's memo.
> You can still talk about literally anything else if you sign a non-disparagement clause or an NDA.

Why does this matter? It reminds me of the joke about how in America we value free speech so much that we can badmouth our leaders in public, but so what, in Soviet Russia they can badmouth the American leaders in public too. The question of how free your speech is, is determined by what you can't say, or can't get away with saying, without paying some hefty consequence (a punch, a fine, losing your job, imprisonment, forfeiting RSUs...).
Show HN: Using the Packagr CLI
Maybe he thinks if the executive issues an order, that is an executive order? There’s a chance I believe that with this administration.
I mean, yeah, this is true, but who cares?[1]

It's far too late to actually change any of this; the dream of the computer as a thought amplifier, or of the Internet as a freedom amplifier, are long since dead. The switch to SaaS/SaaSS/whatever sucks, but it's clearly the future, and it's much too profitable relative to the decrease in theoretical value to hope to fight against. The computer of the future is a netbook with a closed-off app store, a dumb terminal attached to someone else's mainframe.

The future is rentseeking, forever. You can either rage fruitlessly against it before eventually giving, turn into a software hermit like Stallman, or get ahead of the game and just start paying your subscription fees already.

[1] Besides Stallman, obviously.
I've heard the same thing about Canada.
Why would anyone want to work for Facebook these days? When you are maintaining the largest advertising stream since TV while actively destroying society's discourse, I'm not sure what redeeming qualities it has. I think the most important thing any of us can do is get away from Facebook and move towards pursuits that fix problems, including the ones Facebook helped create.
If I remember correctly, the maps aren't auto-updated by default; you do get notifications, but those are too easy to ignore (esp. since Maps is chatty in general).

And then for someone on an expensive metered or slow connection - which is a lot of people in the developing countries - they might not want auto-update at all. So if they didn't notice expiration, they'll find out that their maps aren't there next time they try to navigate offline.