skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although not witout issues, the overall trust seems to be pretty high for e-voting(and voting numbers confirm it). And when voting, papervote always triumps digital one as last resort.

I also think this is one thing that also gets more young people to vote. They are familiar with technology and so used to doing everything online. For example I would have not voted for the last couple of elections if digital voting would not have been available.
Depends on who you’re working with, and for. I think it’s extreme to say that’s universally true.

One of the core tenets of the company I’m currently working for is to acknowledge, share knowledge, and own the “what” and the “how”. This is codified in explicitly those terms, as well. It’s a large and old company in the radio technology and communications space. (Note that there’s plenty of criticism to level at it, but that area is one where they’re very good)
I buy a car once every 10 years or so, so it's not much overhead to research and negotiate that sale when you amortize it over the life of the car. For most other things, I pretty much pay the price I'm presented if I think it's acceptable.

I do my grocery shopping at one grocery store. I know I'm paying a bit more for some items (and much more for a few), but it's worth it to me because it means I don't have to make extra trips to Target and Trader Joe's, plus I don't have to remember what the prices are at all three stores so that I buy the right items at the right store. The vast majority of my spending falls into this category.

In fact, car and salary are the only two things I can think of that I actually negotiate at all. Even my house I didn't really negotiate. I made an offer slightly below asking and accepted the sellers counter in the middle.

As a non-FAANG software engineer in the bay area, I definitely don't consider myself super rich. (NB: I didn't buy a house in the bay area, but where I plan to eventually retire. For now it's just a vacation home. I'll never make enough to afford a house in the bay.)
No english subtitles?
Honestly, I know people often jump in here with technical comments on stories like these, but posting this stuff on HN always just feels like rubbernecking to me.
Yeah, the moral thing seems to be just fix the laws. I’m open to other alternatives - please suggest.
I don’t disagree, but I was pointing out that there are other reasons people wouldn’t want to license their work as CC just because it’s on Flickr other than potential future monetary gain.
I found the Programming Phoenix book to be quite nice because it similar to Hartl's Rails tutorial. Seeing where and how the two differed was very useful.
I haven't seen an internet discussion yet where, whenever a gap is identified, somebody doesn't say something like "How can these people get away with this! There should be a law..." or something similar.

So sure. Find the gap, tell the sad story, then follow enforcement folks as they find the people responsible -- with the audience voting for whomever that is and what the punishment should be.

In the end the weak and vulnerable are rewarded, the evildoers punished. It's basically every Hollywood movie you've ever seen except the audience gets to vote on the outcome and real people are involved -- the ultimate in reality TV.
I don't understand what that Wikipedia entry is supposed to describe. Are those proposed, or already predicted composite atoms, or have they been already found?
Well, he wasn't shot, assaulted, arrested or even issued a citation. You can't really ask for a better outcome.
You dodged two bullets. Consider yourself lucky.
Any more in-depth treatment on the properties of the system and how it resists various attacks?
Good. I had a neighbor that spent multiple days each fall running them. Windy day? No problem, spend 6 hours making a pile and chasing the ones that blow off. Gutters clogged? Use a ladder and a leafblower to clean their gutters. It was ear piercing even inside my home. I asked they not do that, as it wasn't even efficient, and they shrugged me off. I was left with absolutely no recourse but to wear earplugs for a few days. I wish they'd ban those awful things nationwide.
(1) How is universal care going to reduce the shortage of primary care doctors?

I don't know enough about the reason for the shortage of doctors but I'd go out on a limb and say its probably not because they don't get paid enough.

(2) How is universal care going to eliminate patents for pharma?

It won't, and it shouldn't. Patents for pharma don't preclude successful implementations of universal healthcare anywhere else. There's a perception that in Canada "drugs are cheap" -- prescription drugs administered outside of hospitals largely aren't covered by OHIP. Provinces act as bulk buying groups and negotiate prices with pharma companies. You want to partake in the market, great, let's figure something out. It works surprisingly well. Patents are your temporary monopoly on creating an invention in exchange for sharing it with the world.

(3) How is universal care going to make non-profit hospitals cheaper?

By regulating fees for services, by lowering the price of drugs via negotiation and bulk purchase agreements, by eliminating marketing budgets, by eliminating insurance billing departments and by capping executive compensation. Hospitals and doctors are public servants elsewhere in the world, not elite rockstars who can bill as they so choose. That doesn't mean they're not well compensated.

Oh, and by socializing malpractice insurance. In the US high-cost states OBGYNs pay $85-200K/yr just in medical malpractice insurance. [1] In Ontario it's around $70K CAD.

(4) How is universal care going to eliminate fee-for-service, which has the administrative costs that are the woes of care providers?

By having a single table of rates that apply to everyone. Ideally with a single payer. This makes billing much, much easier.

(5) How is universal care going to reduce healthcare spending?

Everything I indicated above put together. If you want a concrete example Medicare does most of the above (they can't negotiate drug prices, and they're not single payer, and they haven't socialized malpractice insurance) but they're substantially more efficient. Medicare spends 2-5% of the budget on administrative, where private plans spend 12-18%. That's without recognizing some of the other savings I pointed out. [2]

[1] https://equotemd.com/blog/obgyn-medical-malpractice-insuranc...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/...
Right now, we have a legislation (this one existed since 2012) that requires to ban certain IP addresses. All ISP's are being monitored by the authority called Roscomnadzor and allowing access to a banned IP will lead to fines.
Unfortunately, this doesn't really work because people here learned how to use VPN's, proxies and Tor. Moreover, with cloud providers you can easily switch IP addresses.
Telegram messenger was banned here but it still works. I guess that they frequently change IP addresses and use multiple cloud providers.
When Roscomnadzor tried to ban the messenger, they added significant number of IP subnetworks (I think that the largest blocked subnet was 52.192.0.0/11 used by AWS). This lead to all sorts of different problems because it turned out that some banks and large companies were paralysed for months as their websites were blocked.

After a year of of trying to block the messenger, they just decided to pass this law. All ISPs that handle inter-counties exchange must install a government backdoor that could shut down all outgoing and incoming connections outside from Russia.

Also, some websites now are blocked by their DNS record, not by their IP. This lead to other problems.
Imagine there was a website X that was blocked in Russia. The X company decides to change the domain and abandon X. Now, someone else buys the banned domain and adds any IP addresses to the DNS (like, government authorities websites). Whoala! These websites are banned in Russia as well. This happened multiple times and lead to Google, YouTube and other websites being inaccessible here.

The legislation proposes a separate national DNS system that differs from the ICANN one. Similarly to how North Korea does this in their country. This way no-one could buy an abandoned blocked website and add a bunch of valuable and valid IPs there.

They claim that this will increase the stability of the Russian Internet. People in our government believe that the Internet was designed in the US to control the world. They also believe that they could shut down the Internet in any country at this point of time. They say that this has already happened in Syria once and we need to prepare for this.

They don't actually explain that the thing that happened to Syria was possible only because they had a single ISP. And their centralised system was hacked.

I believe that if we decide to install a backdoor to all of our ISPs, then someone else from the outside could pull the switch.
It depends on who you're speaking to. Old vs new money, etc.
The pilot had 8k+ hours of flight.
Multiple Dispatch / Multimethods (I think?)
Wait, what. This is about the yard crew and their hand tools. Everyone has electric at home, and the power cord has been invented.
“The brain has simply changed in an orderly way that now allows us to sing the song or recite the poem under certain conditions. When called on to perform, neither the song nor the poem is in any sense ‘retrieved’ from anywhere in the brain, any more than my finger movements are ‘retrieved’ when I tap my finger on my desk. We simply sing or recite – no retrieval necessary.”

I actually like this as an idea that our tools for understanding brain functions are still too primitive and the traditional comment base compute models are lacking.
"Eu say tomatoe, Eu say tomatoe"

Okay it's supposed to be tomato or tomatoes. Am I missing an extra level to this joke?
Wow.

This story is worth reading all the way to the end, where some of the traditional navigation techniques are briefly described. It's mind-blowing.
> it’s why the suburban ground in California looks — and acts — like concrete.

Look, I am as fanatical about soil biome issues as anyone that you are going to find, but your assertion is overly simplistic. If you look at a soil type map for large parts of Sili Valley, you will see big chunks labeled "Adobe". As in clay. As in it doesn't percolate. As in naturally sparse in organic matter. As in gardening contractors in Milpitas own not rent jackhammers, and it has nothing to do with the long term effects of leaf blowers.
theses high Flights numbers seems to be incoherent with the fact that Max is a new plane with small number delivered, it is surely a mistake with the 737NG (next gen) introduced in 1997
The problem with Tesla’s pricing shenanigans is that it makes me not trust them at face value on the issue of pricing. The other day Tesla plainly tweeted Model 3 pricing and explicitly noted that the pricing was “before incentives” but I still had to wonder, “But is that the actual price or not?” because of their history of and reputation for bizarre communication when it comes to what the actual price of their cars are.
> The first part just seems like a forced MITM situation whilst the second makes some sense - in a cyber warfare scenario; however, that runs under the assumption that the DNS servers and/or entries didn't get poisoned before they're "cut-off" from foreign infrastructure.

Not only that, you don't need a separate DNS for this. Presumably the .ru TLD is already controlled by Russia. All they would need is to operate their own root server, which wouldn't even need to return invalid data for other TLDs, just not return invalid data for the .ru TLD.
By banning 2-cycle leafblowers and encouraging people to switch to electric powered they're knocking out two problems at once--the awful noise and the ridiculous amount of nasty stuff 2-cycle motors spew all over into our environments.

The majority can still have their electric leafblowers.
Oh, I see, having a conversation here probably won't be very productive. "If you want to save people, you should just let people try any old untested medical device, procedure or supplement, and wish them the best if that's what they want." That's how you kill people. There's a reason we have an FDA approvals process and it's not because the barbershop surgeons and snake oil salesmen were doing so well that big government needed to step in and ensure we didn't save so many.
This is totally true.

See the book Vaka Moana for the real story.

Polynesians populated the pacific islands from west to east.

They probably are the best navigators on the planet.
Leaf blowers were the annoying soundtrack of Westwood near UCLA when I lived there from 1966-1983. By the time I left, they were buzzing everywhere from before dawn to dusk. I cannot even imagine what Westwood sounds like now, 36 years later....
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Yes. At some point making tiny adjustments to an overwhelmingly backwards and world-leadingly inefficient system is going to be harder than starting fresh.
..and the convergence of Data Science to Statistics continues.
I'm not sure if there's any official policy around this, but to me it seems that lists often get a less-stringent treatment than other article types on Wikipedia.

Here's a sampling of some other interesting list articles:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_w...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ballooning_accidents

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_deities_by_cultural_s...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_colors

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_bisexual_people

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_junctions_in_the_...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_websites

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_teams_nicknamed...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buns

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolves

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brand_name_condiments

And the all-time best:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

I, for one, am happy these exist, despite the editorialization, etc.
Yard crews can also carry batteries and chargers for hand tools. I know because I’ve helped setup a trailer charging system, powered by solar, for a local landscaping contractor. The only tool they use that is fossil powered is a propane riding mower (which is clean burning). I am working on building them an electric riding mower with reclaimed Tesla modules from an S.
I think that the Internet as a decentralised system doesn't require any regulation. This a self-regulatory system.

On the second question though... I don't see any future for me in Russia. Thankfully, it will be relatively easy for me to emigrate.
Any large US organization that does international business has adopted a GDPR-everywhere model because supporting different processes by GEO becomes a nightmare (effectively impossible). It only takes treating one visting EU citizen wrong in the US to create a legal disaster.

The difference is Americans can't sue, but they're already benifiting from corporate processes pounding every square process into a round hole (for better and worse).
It would be distracting and exhausting to worth with this person.
Ethiopian B38M near Bishoftu on Mar 10th 2019, impacted terrain after departure
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Intresting fallout from our bigger client. They have been slowly migrating to aws over the last year but because russia started bloking whole blocks of aws IPs, they now stopped migration and are going to keep their own infrastructure up. I havent heard yet but I am sure they are considering moving away from cloud providers, we'll see what they decide, because Russia is huge market.
Sounds like they got seed funding. Depending on the startup that money may go a decent way or be gone in 6 months. Understand the runway and the expectations as well as set reasonable deadlines for them. It is better to say 1 week and be done in 1 week, than say 2 days and be done in a week.

Other general advice:

- Expect some chaos, it doesn't mean the founders are bad, it is normal when things are this early.

- Expect things to be a bit disorganized and that they won't have processes setup and even on-boarding will not be smooth, just go with the flow and help them find places it can get better.

- Don't try to implement crazy processes and procedures when the company is so early on. Product fit/delivery is more critical than having a good CI/CD process or having deployments perfect.

- Be willing to jump in and help do whatever is needed, be a true team player and don't complain.

- Find ways you can contribute to solving the problem beyond just writing some code. Find quick ways to test ideas and to show the team results.

- Enjoy yourself, and don't forget to take time to relax and unwind away from work. Startups are fun, and hanging out with the people you work with is good bonding and has lots of positives, but make time for things away from work and separate from just work people. Otherwise you will lose your identity outside of work and that is hard to recover from mentally.

- If you have specific questions let me know, happy to share my personal experiences and what I tell new hires myself.
US patents, most specifically their status and lifecycle.
Sad. I like dogs.
Then wtf is it?
Alot of my Immediate family works for one of the largest trash pickup, dump, and recycling facilities in the Midwest you're kidding yourself if you think that recycling is keeping stuff out of the dump when they get overloaded with too much recycling which is about every 3 days everything goes to the dump most plastics go to the dump only about 10% of a really gets recycled.
I've used DTP tools before too (though it's been a number of a years), so I'm not unfamiliar with the differences.

To be fair, the use cases are rather different. Regular fiction books are not so complicated in terms of layout. Magazines are generally involve much more complicated layouts - where there are questions of getting colours right, having text wrap, and so on.

But for technical work, it's insane to use anything not TeX-based (e.g. Scribble), even if you don't use TeX directly.
I think this might be miscategorized. "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."
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Very true, but I'd say SQlite is the one application dependency that could have a pass:

- they promise support until at least 2050 (https://sqlite.org/lts.html)

- if a promise isn't enough, SQlite is to be supported for the entire lifetime of the Airbus A350 airframe (https://mobile.twitter.com/copiousfreetime/status/6758345433...). I would assume Airbus will be paying for it.

A real problem with application dependency is that it makes it extremely hard to create a completely independent alternative. A good protocol should have multiple implementations with nothing in common otherwise you rely on specific implementation details. The infamous case of WebSQL should remind us of that.
Sound pressure levels are dependent on distance. A leaf blower might expose you to 90dB if you're using it, but someone stood 10 metres away would only be exposed to 70dB, which is well below the threshold for damage.
Especially on this website, where you can find a substantial number of people working from home in upscale developments.

Also this: the leafblower ban was voted on and passed. The majority of Washingtonians thinks that running your petrol toy in public is so rude and bothersome that the practice needs a city ordinance banning it.
Oddly this post doesn't bring up linear/logistic regressions, which are still used extremely often today despite the rise of ML/DL because the models are 100% explainable, and can therefore make business decisions as a result. Sure, it may not win you Kaggle competitions, but there are more important things in life.

Another "compromise" is using variable importance outputs from tree-based models (e.g. xgboost), which IMO is a crutch; it says which variables are important, but not whether it's a positive or negative impact.
This seems a straw man argument. Whataboutism is not necessarily to neutralize critism. It is to show that sometimes China or a particular entity is held to a unreasonably high standard. How high the standard for GDP calculation is for debate, but we should not dismiss an argument by labeling it as whataboutism.
In a similar vein, it looks like there will be a resurgence of complex systems science and explaining "emergent" properties of complex systems.
Growing Tomatoes in Space (2014)
Yes... "don't create weapons you don't want your opponents to use", is an excellent maxim. Unfortunately, governments do it all the time.
Such an uncivilized society
Not a great analogy -- animal cruelty laws are far too lenient. For example, they exempt farm animals. In fact, there are laws against things that would reveal abuse of such animals - https://www.aspca.org/animal-protection/public-policy/what-a...
Wasn't it compromised a few years ago?

[1] https://edri.org/estonian-eid-cryptography-mess-750000-cards...
Then the private insurers would be incentivized to recruit healthy patients and dump chronically ill customers into Medicare.

I know this because I’ve already heard HR complain about too many pregnancies in a year caused the company contributions to go up.
Watch Bill Nye Crash Ocasio-Cortez's Talk: “AOC Gets It.”
See parent comment, which references scooters and outboard motors
Congratulations to President McPresidentface.
"Security Analysis of Estonia's Internet Voting System" @31C3 (December 2014)

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6344_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412281... (starts at 20:26)

They failed on quite some points, I cannot believe they fixed all issues.
One more thing: leaf blower noise pollution is inversely proportional to the socioeconomic position of LA neighborhoods (except for Beverly Hills, which banned gas-powered blowers in 1976).
Yeah, the TLDR is he was a fuckhead.
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It makes sense to break up Google and Amazon. Facebook, not so much but they need to be regulated. Google needs to be regulated as well. I don't see the justification for breaking up Apple.
What steps do you take for personal branding. I'm really bad with this networking, self selling stuff.
“Every right” might be true, but that doesn’t protect them from having made a despicable decision to do it. I agree the laws should be fixed, but there’s a level of decency absent from their decision.
That's great! I'm thinking more of people hiking in to build e.g. remote huts.
>"What features in the data did the model think are most important?"

This is going to be more misleading than informative, since the feature importance hierarchy can change drastically based on what other features are included.

> "For any single prediction from a model, how did each feature in the data affect that particular prediction"

Ok, but I don't see how this will be comprehended as anything other than a black box for the typical ML model.

> "What interactions between features have the biggest effects on a model’s predictions"

If there are still big "interaction" effects that means you should have done better feature generation/selection.
4-stroke leaf blowers are readily available.
I prefer that instead of boost-like std::chrono::time_point<std::chrono::high_resolution_clock>
The sheep dogs protect the flock from predators. Non-violent drones that sound like sheep dogs will eventually be figured out by anything interested in eating the sheep.
Definitely report back if you find anything, I would be very interested.
You are somewhat uniquely qualified to do so:

> possibly the world's first or second (full-time) CUDA programmer, with 14 filed patents, and the world's fastest implementations of molecular Dynamics (CUDA ports of Folding@Home and AMBER).