skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania adopted a split-rate property tax system which penalized land more heavily than improvements. They saw improvements across the board, including in terms of crime rates, the rates of fire, etc.

https://blogs.ubc.ca/rosonluo/2013/04/08/land-value-tax-poli...
Would be nice. Even with the experimental settings turned on in about:config, I could only read input from my Yubikey, I couldn't add one. I had to install Chromium just so I could add my Yubikey to my Google account.
To a HN reader, posting the Reddit thread would have been less useful than the imgur album, because the reader would have to click through to the album.
Maybe you should edit the album and link it back to the reddit thread?
That first approximation is only valid for small total numbers of failures. If a failure repeats, the loss function is not simply A times B times C but greater, for example by loss of perceived quality of products, or by criminal investigations against the company and individuals in it.
Ok, we'll add a questionability mark above.
Democrats have been advocating for this as long as I can remember.

The Trump campaign advocated for it in their 5G-nationalization scheme that the Trump White House for some reason wasn't aware of ([0] ?) and likely wouldn't work because of the nature of 5G penetration.

The problem is "broadband for all" is it's an issue that doesn't register as much as the culture war.

[0] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/03/trump-administrati...
Even if Mark Zuckerberg ends up being "wrong" by your definition, why does that mean he lied? It's odd to assume negative intent or that you know what is going on inside other people's heads.
I remember reading about someone that built a system where you put $X in to a pot every month, and every page you visit gets $X/pages_visited. This allows you to directly monetize creators without ads.

I cannot for the life of me find it - does it ring any bells with anyone?
An EFI App in Rust – Medium
All of accidents per hour, accidents per operation, and fatality per passenger are relevant.
Are you sure the bigger issue isn’t actually the rate of fraud and chargebacks?
You might enjoy https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net

Like the Airbnb, it's StyleGAN+GPT-2 (finetuned in this case on anime plot synopses+summaries: https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE#gpt-2-anime-plot-synopses-for-gp... ).

I'm currently training an improved 'portrait' anime StyleGAN to fix up some of the faces' issues.
There are several islands already running on solar, wind, and batteries alone.

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.
A common feature request for my app: remove FB login!

These are users who didn't even use it. But just seeing the Facebook login option there next to email (it was the only OAuth) gave them the creeps. These aren't tech savvy users either, just regular small town businesses

I think Facebook has a long, long, long way to go towards brand repair before anyone can 'trust' it in any way
How did you determine that Facebook leads this space? I recently read an article about how Facebook distributes RPMs internally and it struck me as the kind of thing an insane person might have invented fifteen years ago. I mean, NFS in front of glusterfs? Also, RPMs???? Talk about bananas.
Damn shame to see the internet move backwards because Google refuses to use the standardized APIs.

Edit: Usually HN is so angry about Google not following web standards but everyone in this thread seems to be in favor of Google trampling the WebAuthn standard. Weird.
The cybersecurity mistakes companies keep making
> Do you trust them not to lie about what they’re marking on the ballot for someone?

Do we really think that a large conspiracy of translators for obscure languages is a viable attack?
My child has bypassed the lock screen on my laptop and caused a gray-screen-of-death, just by banging on the keyboard. I saw it, I am unable to replicate it. Everything should be tested by a child before it can enter production service.
https://pmarchive.com
They might have not been contractually allowed to admit fault. Many insurance policies do not allow the insured to admit fault, or they forfeit the policy.
The benchmark leaves me wondering if this was worth it.
This is something I wish I'd be able to do one day, but every time I look into getting into electronics I get overwhelmed.

Can you recommend the materials you used when learning? Books or resources etc.

This was a really interesting read, thanks for sharing.
You mean like the purple finger thing?

I've always wondered why nobody suggests doing that in the US to help prevent or ease people's concerns about potential voter fraud. It's simple, low-tech, and hard to screw up.

Unless if I'm missing something, which of course is possible. Can someone tell me what the downsides are to an idea like that?
And don't forget about internationalization. There are more than one hundred languages to support!
I don't even pay attention to them; they are just there as visual noise. I worry a lot about the world we've created and where this is all heading. I like to wrangle some of these problems, maybe create a "no ad" network. You pay into a pool and the money is doled out to various businesses based on what you spend your time doing: games, websites, etc.
Honest question here.

Isn't Telegram inherently unsafe/unsecure because all of its operations are in Russia?

When a Russian authority knocks on their doors, they would be forced to answer.

It's true that US would do the same thing. But I'd prefer US doing it over Russia or China doing it. Because, at least, transparency and justice system in US is a lot better than ones in Russia and China.
> That is probably because 767 is a plane with quite a long history without any major upgrade. And it is cargo, so no passengers.

767 is a passenger and cargo plane.

I assume you mean the Amazon 767 was a cargo plane [1], in which case yes it got less attention as only the pilots/cargo crew were on board. However, a 767 crashing in the US seems like it would have gotten more focus.

Other 767s are passenger planes including two infamous ones American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767-223ER) and United Airlines Flight 175 (Boeing 767-200) that were the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center tower 1 & 2 on 9/11 [2][3].

For the most part these planes don't crash and a straight nose dive is a freak occurrence. Most of the other issues that weren't crashes with 767 were landing gear, short fuel related and terrorism.

It is very strange and eerie that this 767 from Amazon crashed almost similarly to the 737 Max 8/9 in Indonesia and Ethiopia recently, with such a long history of nothing like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_11

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_175
How will the voters who are (reportedly) unable to obtain ID be able up get their prints into the verification system?

I have been informed by social scientists that requiring voter ID is racist, so it seems that fingerprint checks would also be racist via the same logic.
To be clear, none of the issues I was seeing were in any way caused by my incompetence. I had MX records, SPF records, DKIM signing, and still Google can arbitrarily decide to pass some of my mail through, and then refuse (or worse, hide) the fourth reply in an exchange with a customer.

I wanted to clarify that because the above comment makes the issue seem less important. It is important.
I worked in mobile gaming and would never work in porn (unless it was like filtering or prosecuting creators).
A coworker hard a good point to say what the people who are addicted to mobile games would be addicted/spend money on if they didn't play. It's possible they would be buying meth/booze with it.
I'm with you on this one - Amazon is approaching the status of a public utility, at which point it should be subject to higher standards.

As much as I'm pained to be standing up for these anti-vaccination nuts, it's the thin end of the wedge.
People that high in a position never says why they're leaving a company. You have to read between the lines.
Google Cloud Topples the Pi Record
Beyond 10% you run in the acid issues as well as needing a higher fuel to air mixture.
Shy did I take so long for Facebook to release the cause of the outage? If they are applying configuration changes at a large level shouldnt it be fairly easy for them to figure out what was the cause?
This is great new not just from environment perspective. This is a move that significantly reduces dirty politicians influence in India.

Guess who is awarded most of new Power Generation plants in India since private sector started building power plants? It almost entirely politicians and their family members.

Example (Owned by Member of Parliament Galla Jayadev's Family) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara_Raja_Group
Could you link the article?
Just write "LGBT+". It's 4 letters and a symbol. Not that hard to remember.
There are no subsidies for ethanol, and haven't been for years. There are crop insurance subsidies, but they cover the farmer not ethanol which has to compete on its own. You look into oil subsidies before you say more on this topic.

Farmers are behind it. They grow far more food than people eat, turning it into fuel keeps a large majority of them on the farm. If you don't like it don't buy it - right now it isn't even legal for you to buy E15 half the year. (all cars since 2001 can use E15 safely, but legally only flex fuel cars are allowed to use E15 in summer) E15 is generally cheaper than E10 by a small amount - farmers figure they can make E15 cheaper by enough to make it worth it for some drivers.
Yep, I've just been through this process on both personal and work Gsuite.

They've changed the message in Firefox to make it a little clearer this is how to do it.
More odd to assume that Zuckerberg hasn’t had any feedback about how Facebook is used, or any sway over how it has been built. He’s hardly been a passive observer.
Indeed. Freedom of information for the masses is an extremely recent phenomenon.
Are you wiring from your BofA account to TransferWise's Wellsfargo account in NY? Or are you doing ACH for amounts < $10K?

There is another explanation for BofA behavior: their AML software triggered your account.
It's the Uncanny Valley of text synthesis.
I'm surprised it was only 30%... Per Wikipedia:

> As of March 1, 2019, Tumblr hosts over 459 million blogs. As of January 2016, the website had 555 million monthly visitors.

The numbers quoted in the article are barely more charitable. Basically it's about one monthly visitor per blog... which one would assume means the blog owners periodically check what their sites look like.

Was anyone actually using Tumblr for anything but porn nowadays?
You're never going to get the popular will to remove the money from the system, because removing the money from the system means removing it from people.
I agree. But why did butterfly ballots proliferate in Florida?

Ultimately: the administrators weren't thinking about ballot issues. Palm Beach, Florida, was understaffed and underpaid, under-invested. They had other things on their mind when they deployed their machines.

They needed to move off of the punch-card system ASAP, but they couldn't afford to. They had the same issue in 1996 before the famous year 2000 issue. It was known, but not much could be done about it.

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I guess this printer methodology from DARPA might be too expensive. Or maybe the scanning machines can be owned by the state, so that poorer areas won't have to invest into the machines. Etc. etc.

There's a lot of issues aside from "use paper ballots". The entire voting system needs to be considered. I hope that DARPA's challenge will include these issues in their design process.
In theory. I haven't seen any actual implementation whereby road vehicles would be discharged onto the grid during peak demand.

The EV drivers I've talked to, every one of them, are simply not open to the idea of discharging their vehicles back onto the grid. It isn't about money. They don't want the hassle of a discharged car, nor the wear on their batteries. The potential money involved (a few dollars at most) is totally irrelevant to them. Dedicated deep-cycle bats, lead acid cells, are the better option for grid tied storage.
But once your competitors demonstrate feasibility, it should be no problem to spin up your own offering, no? You'll be behind by X months, but unless the competitors get an absolute smash hit, thats probably not a big deal.
Nice derailing.
Viewer ratings and sites like Metacritic? This isn't hard.
I'm a happy Google Fiber customer (Austin), and my neighborhood was deep-trenched. The results have been excellent, with near-zero reliability issues and a clean look on the street.

Unfortunately, not everyone is having the same experience. The perception here is that they are operating a shell of what the previous ambitions were. Service has been active in my area for close to 3 years now, but I have neighbors who have been on waitlists for months or years to get their house on the network, still being told to call back every few months.

It seems like any houses that missed the initial sign-up (now many years ago) are a crapshoot to ever receive service in a timely manner. Some streets that didn't receive enough sign-ups were never trenched, while adjacent streets were. Sometimes fiber is installed all the way to the house with months-long delays connecting to the network (splicing issues, conduit clog, etc). I've loved my service and it's been rock-solid, but there are certainly a lot of obstacles compared with traditional telecom providers.
Have you got any links. The research I've done suggests Starbucks are the slowest [1].

I haven't been able to find any figures excluding queuing, but these figures would seem to cast doubt. Unless Dunkin Donuts are doing the same orders in <30s.
Note that deliverability problems are difficult to notice. Few people report or investigate, it is generally assumed that E-mail is unreliable, and that people often do not reply to E-mails.

The only reason I noticed is because I really cared about talking to customers and because I run my own server and can look in the logs to see if the E-mail was accepted by Google.
It's probably a greater % than those who buy an EV expecting to be able to charge it in a parking lot.

His scenario is highly unusual but it highlights a weakness of EVs. There are numerous scenarios where an ICE can bring extra fuel with it or for multiple vehicles.

While his scenario might me a boundary condition, the comment he was responding to listed a similarly unlikely scenario outside of dense Urban environments.

The reality is we should be heavily promoting/supporting or even requiring EVs where they make sense like dense Urban areas with access to charging and suburban commuters. At the same time we should also recognize that there are many scenarios today where EVs don't make sense and ensure we don't penalize people who need to remain ICE bound. Eventually the EV tech will supplant most or all use cases.
"destroy the skynet"
john connor
How many years do you think it is before someone pays to put ads on the Blackhawks and Humvees?

(I think this was a throwaway idea in Snow Crash)
Many facebook buttons are trackers. I can understand people's nervousness.
Telegram moved out of Russia and has since been banned in the country.

That aside, as an American, I feel like maybe there's some advantage to it being Russia rather than the US, as it's not your own country or an ally. Probably not enough of a reason to prefer Russia, but there is something to think about there. :)
Try-it on mybinder.org, w/o login or signup (in Jupyter): https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/betatim/vscode-binder/master?urlp... Ephemeral machine. enjoy.
Flattr? Brave?
Presumably, someone has found 459 million other uses for it.
On the JVM, Beanshell has been around since the late 1990's so that's also over 2 decades. In fact, Apache Groovy was pretty much a clone of Beanshell, but with closures added, in its day.
The problem with hosting adult content is that it's pretty hard to monetize it.

Advertisers want to be excluded from placements next to adult content, to the point that there's entirely separate ad networks and payment processors that are exclusive to adult content.

I'm guessing that this is the first step of a monetization overhaul for Tumblr, this traffic was only costing them money and they don't see it as a loss of users, more of a good riddance.
Excuse me for being short, but common sense analysis by a technically inclined person results in the nearly undeniable conclusion that fb exceeded reasonable monopolistic boundaries long ago, and presumed itself to be, under Zuck’s leadership, to be so important as to be responsible, e.g. for “maintaining integrity of elections”. It’s no exaggeration that he fancies himself the leader of a sovereign nation, backed by an army of lawyers and special interest connections private and government.

In public testimony, imo Zuck came across as a smug mob boss intent on accumulating power without bound. The recent pivoting, conspiracy theory rumors that shall remain nameless accusing Zuck of rogue cia cooperation, news releases about criminal shenanigans surrounding data sharing coinciding with the excessive global downtime yesterday, and now his consligere departing, all look suspicious.

At the least, it’s an obvious monopoly controlling a significant cultural aspect of a global social graph. Now they are moving to undo the messaging unification. Last week they wanted gossipers to have more privacy so they can gossip and get away with it better.

I admit to being biased, but given my direct research on how data moves around the Facebook world whether a member or not, whether you have blacklisted any fb domains using little snitch etc, disable all remote js, doesn’t matter, they keep tabs on you somehow. they are essentially their own intelligence community with unchecked power and reach

The accusation from Voldemort is they had or have secret deals with telcom etc which if true is beyond insidious. Ianal but common sense wise if that’s true, they should be broken up and not simply by undoing messaging unification.
Yup. The neuroimaging folks are really good about sharing data. If you want to look at MRI/MEG/EEG data, https://openneuro.org might be a good place to start.

CRCNS (https://crcns.org/data-sets) has some neurophysiology data (i.e., from implanted or inserted electrodes). This sort of data is shared a little less often, in part because it's often acquired and stored in weird, homebrew formats, though that's slowly changing.

ModelDB (https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ModelDB/) has a large collection of computational models. These are mostly biophysical models, though there's some other stuff in there too.

Depending on what you're looking for, there are other more specialized repositories. NDCT (https://data-archive.nimh.nih.gov/ndct) has mental-health related clinical trial data, though you'll have to do some paperwork if you want subject-level data, which is fairly common for clinical data. MIT has a collection of eye movement data sets: http://saliency.mit.edu/datasets.html

As for the best methods, this comment box is far too small to contain all my thoughts on that :-) It depends on your question and experiment. Sometimes, all you really need is a t-test (or the randomized version), but that requires getting the experiment just right. Other times, you might need a morass of signal processing and dimensionality reduction, fed into some giant multi-level Bayesian model in a vain attempt controls for all the stuff you neglected when you designed the damn experiment. Happy to send you some pointers if you have something specific in mind though!

Physics has historically had a huge leg up on the other sciences because they had real models that made testable, quantitative predictions. We're finally starting to learn enough about the brain that we can do this for neural data too, and I'm really excited about that!
To everyone jumping to conclusions, remember that the words "server" and "configuration" can mean a whole host of things. It doesn't necessarily mean they mistyped their nginx config.
Most computers don't know how to adjust the air-fuel ratio for higher levels of ethanol. It isn't impossible to do that but it is additional effort to put in those mappings.

There are a lot of stations in Iowa that offer E15. Few other states even have one. Even in Iowa a lot of stations have said they won't sell it because of the legal issues.
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I rechecked my methodology for those estimates after your comment and have now retracted them for being inaccurate. Thank you for the reality check. Based on an unscientific site-limited Google search of each publication, it looks like all 3 have published ~2,000 articles directly on Facebook within the past 2 years (since March 2017). Many of the WSJ articles are with respect to its business prospects while both the NYT and WAPO feature many anti-FB columns and opinion pieces.

I still maintain that NYT in particular has a strong editorial bias against FB and an underlying agenda, but I should definitely do a deeper analysis to support my claim.
So this is how I originally thought Brave was going to work, but it’s unclear to me now if that’s actually the case:

https://brave.com/faq/#do-i-have-to-pay
I have issues using French costings because I can't read the primary sources, and there are a lot of stupid environmentalists out there who misrepresent the costs. I'm going to commit the same sin and point out that people are willing to claim 'renewables in Germany are pulling down wholesale prices!' and ignore the fact that their retail prices are amongst the highest in Europe because they are charging a massive renewable-support tariff.

The experience in Australia is nobody has considered nuclear because one political party (labour) has historically had a policy of banning the technology. The economics of the costs have never been tested because of the hysterical response to radiation risk. I suspect if it was regulated to the same safety standards as solar it would be very cost-competitive indeed.
A man who taught Warren Buffett how to manage a company
> that one bill wouldn't make it through congress anyway

To be fair to Lessig, if the single issue "pass this bill" candidate was actually elected President, congress would feel a lot of pressure to comply.
+1 from me. I am a lot interested in getting into hands on electronics and most of the times I end up falling a little too short as there is no support around where I live and I never really got a start. Would definitely love some inputs from people who are good at this.
Keep in mind that most of those 459 million blogs were either inactive, or spambots. The number of monthly visitors per active, non-spam blog was, and remains, probably much greater.

Funnily enough, the Great Tiddy Ban of 2018 doesn't seem to have actually cut the flood of pornbots by much.
In a similar vein. Anti-adblock measures will pretty much guarantee I never come back. I'd love to be able to filter them from my search results. Plenty of domains I would blacklist.
I'd love a citation on that. Not to prove you right/wrong, I'd just love to see the definitive etymology of "Application" to describe software. I'm trying to remember what 'software' was called in the mainframe docs I looked at back then.

Wikipedia says: `The first modern theory of software was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem).[2]`, but I think that was being used as a verb, not noun.