skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent a lot of time on exactly this sort of thing over the years, with very strong support from the math department. There are an enormous number of rules (laid out at Executive Orders like this: http://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/PO/EO57.html), and the university works within the framework of all of those rules. So even if everybody agrees that it would be far make the most sense to do X, if the rules explicitly say "you can't do X", then you don't get to do X. It's very different than how things work in a small company (say), or maybe a smaller private university. UW is a massive (and old) state university, and isn't so flexible. For example, when I asked about being appointed at less than 50% time, we discovered here (https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/academic-titles-ranks/professo...) "Must be appointed at a minimum of 50%.", and that's that.
This guy missed an excuse to build a Lego sorting machine....
The simulation needn't use the same math. It does, however, help validate the assumptions -- that bags are filled randomly.

But to write his simulation, he just needs to fill virtual bags with random colors and count them, no math needed.
I have an extensive checklist for trips. I’ve also got a daily one, which is partially for helping me get the day started off right by checking off a bunch of easy tasks, and partially just to make sure I don’t miss something critical. Ever forget about a meeting you needed to prepare for until you got the meeting reminder? I have a daily checklist item to give my calendar a quick glance to make sure there’s nothing I need to prepare for. It only catches something maybe a few times a year, but that’s worth it for the 10 seconds it takes me every day.

Pretty much anything I have to do more than once, that involves more than a few steps, I make a checklist for. I take pictures sometimes, semi-professionally. I have a checklist for what to do before I take pictures (pack the bag, charge the batteries, clear the memory cards), and after (brighten teeth in pictures, remove lint/spots from clothes, pick photos to put in my portfolio). At work I have checklists for design tasks, some of which are things to do, some of which are things to consider (does this need a review from security? does this need additional monitoring?).

There are people that can keep all this stuff in their head. I’m not one of them and I know it. Having checklists reduces my anxiety levels by an order of magnitude.
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Those things are happening though. The GDPR has only recently come in and the average person is starting to realize how data collection affects them in ways like manipulating elections and data leaks. Until recently these privacy intrusions have only been a theoretical risk and most people don't care about theoretical risks until they become real risks.
The quality of this seems high, from the frontend on the dev instance. All actions are effectively instantaneous.

Good work!
My impression is, they need to make so many pieces per day, and each piece needs to be a certain length, so they make that many pieces whether they really have anything to say or not.
Empirically, you should (~85% of the time) be seeing a streak of about 3-6; anything 8 or larger has a probability of about 1 in 20.
It’s very strange to see this downvoted. It’s completely factual and on topic. The CIA got thousands of innocent people crippled or killed just to track down one man. Quite possibly millions, depending on how long it goes on and how widespread it becomes again.
I'm running the Chrome browser on iOS (yes, I know it's a wrapper... I prefer the UI). Latest production versions of each.
> The point of socializing healthcare is making other people pay.

Yes. Especially you personally. Honestly, I don't even care about socialized healthcare as long as your tax rate is > 90%. Think of it as a "stupid libertarian tax".

I think most people will be in support of this measure, as hopefully it will force you to work so hard you don't have time to make inane internet comments.
Hard to imagine that process would be trivial especially since as he noted in the article he had to have criteria on when to count a skittle such as if it were too small, appeared unedible and other such characteristics. But after completing the manual way would be interesting to running programs on it to see how close they are from the actual numbers.
Cancer is worrying though.
It works really well and looks great.

Very nice work!
> NVidia has nothing to gain by becoming part of Intel.

Who said they did? I'm saying Intel could gain by acquiring Nvidia and focusing their engineers on CPUs and chipsets.
I understand your point and I agree that individuals need to value privacy, but I also think it's important to recognize that the average individual on HN is much more technologically literate than most. I would posit that most people do care about their privacy, but that most people aren't aware how exposed they really are. You could make the argument that being aware about what information you're exposing is the threshold for caring about your privacy, but the reality is that it's impossible to cover all of your bases and tech companies, and now NYT, are fully exploiting that to their advantage. The average individual isn't aware of how much specific information is collected when they use a credit card, when they connect to a cellular network, when they open a webpage with trackers, etc. Hell, Mr. Sulzberger in [1] admitted himself that NYT isn't even fully aware of what happens to the reader information they sell and whether it ends up in responsible hands.

It's exhausting and impossible to care about privacy today. You can care about privacy today and still end up with all of the same information exposed as someone who couldn't care less. The responsibility doesn't fall on the individual, it falls on the companies that continuously scrape every piece of metadata possible. That's why I can't take NYT's Privacy Project seriously, because in [1] they justify their data collection methods by essentially saying "Well, everyone else is doing it, too! Look at these other publications and companies that also collect data!" instead of taking the opportunity to be transparent and setting a standard. It's disappointing and makes me question the motives behind the project.
Paywalled. Disabling JS works for now.
You still have fragmentation though, which creates surfaces for security and privacy issues that the 'wild west' of the 2000s had. OS providers could enforce standards for these 'stores' as a fix, but then they'll be accused of unfairly regulating competition.

Part of one of the antitrust suits against Google was that it required Play Services to be preinstalled by manufacturers on Android phones before the Play Store could be preinstalled - but the latter needs the former to work.
He said, "Yeah, I learned from this experiment that I don’t actually like Skittles, which is probably good, so a lot of Skittles were bagged and handed off to relatives." To learn from this experiment that he doesnt like them, that means he must have started out eating them. But yes, he didn't eat them all (thank goodness for his teeth!)
We had a similar thing happen in our town -- pachinko place went bust, and they bought it.

Next town over they bought an old local supermarket (again, with huge amounts of floor space)
http://opencv.org/

Counting the number of round colored objects on a white background is not a hard problem.

I think I've found a project for this evening...
That was the explicit justification for the Supreme Court finding that the Voting Rights Act wasn't necessary, from memory - states weren't doing the things it banned, so it wasn't necessary to ban them any more.
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Future historians don't care about who was in line in the bakery this morning etc. Data that should legitimately be obscure is about personal/small scale everyday actions that could be identifying given a small sample. I'm the first one to fall into data hoarding, but we need to repeatedly acknowledge that most of the things we do are not worth being recorded, and actively not recording them (or making them easily accessible, standardized) does have a lot of value, in terms of social structure.
> it's their distrust of scientific studies due to economic incentives.

The fallacy, of course, being the idea that only scientific studies are susceptible to perverse economic incentives, and that people pushing anti-vax narratives can't possibly be trying to sell you anything. I have a hard time ascribing this mentality to mere healthy skepticism when it smells more like anti-intellectualism disguised as anti-establishment rhetoric.
I enjoy defending capitalism; I think the principle of funneling resources to people who create more resources is sensible.

It needs to be underscored that whatever this is, it isn't capitalism. Exactly which -ism it is I know not; but it is a terrible idea.

Central banks interfering in markets can only be to raise prices long-term. They aren't going to interfere to drop prices, the political pressure is unbearable over the medium term. I'l jump to the American Fed because I know a bit more about it - they haven't been able to sustain interest rate rises in my lifetime [0], there is a very clear downtrend.

This sort of activity in turn disables all the signals used to vent incompetent companies from the system. A direct result of these policies by the BoJ will be companies that take in resource, and churn out value that is less than the inputs. It is unsustainable, stupid and destructive. There are no excuses for it.

I lump the US Fed's QE programs into the same basket, but at least they muddy the waters enough that the links aren't obvious to a neutral observer. The Bank of Japan's activities are sick.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
Those that have serious real issues with vaccines are the ones that rely on herd immunity so it is quite counter-productive for them to work towards making anti-vax the norm.
Really awesome simulation of this problem. I constantly think about how traffic would be optimized once full automation is possible and this is a nice way to play around with the levers the AI would optimize.

As highway-driving AI approaches perfection I'd expect:

- Acceleration/nausea approaches zero

- Number of lane changes approaches zero

- Distance between cars approaches zero (when necessary in crowded areas)

- Maximum speed approaches physical limit

It will be satisfying to watch these happen over time.

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This is not surprising at all. Friends that work at such firms have shared stories of horrifying incompetence at every level. Most of the engineers with talent leave as soon as they realize leadership is dumb as rocks and got there by conniving politics rather than a meritocratic rise by accomplishing actual engineering tasks.

The only reason these kinds of companies continue to exist is the continuing stupidity of American Executives who will go to any lengths to not pay a decent wage for their Software operations. Fuck them, and they deserve exactly this for fucking over good quality talent.

Nobody would be surprised if a bridge built by cheapo contractors failed. Its much the same way with Software.
For the curious, the quotation is from the amazing 1999 PC game, "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri."

This game was a treasure trove of thought-provoking quotations, many of which can be found on WikiQuote. [1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
I don’t see income figures for you from this. But a general rule is your salary is only a fraction of the total cost of your position to the organization after all the overhead costs are included. We’re talking 3x-7x your yearly salary. So ask yourself whether getting 7x your income is what you’re getting from this the year after you resign. And because you’re tenured, that needs to be a long term demand that won’t go away.

Edit-I don’t see any of the above in your product/write up. Further, I used the high end of the coverage range as professor positions usually have good benefits. Stuff is expensive individually.
FWIW, I think the title for your piece is doing you no favors. Titles are hard, so that's not intended as some zinger. I think it just set up a lot of people to think "Must be some flake that he would ask the internet to decide this hugely important personal thing for him!"

I only skimmed the article to try to determine if you were, in fact, asking the internet to help you decide. I got to the announcement that you had decisively decided and went "Meh, could use a better title."

Best of luck in your future endeavors, from an internet stranger who had never heard of you before today.
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Personally (and I think many others do) consider "Availability" as being uptime * bytes, not uptime. Any true distributed system is going to have partial availability all the time (small ranges of data which cannot be fetched within a reasonable latency limit, or somebody's ISP being down). Google accepts tiny ranges of data unavailibility for limited times to not be a real service outage, while the service being hard down for 25+% of users to be a service outage.

It doesn't even really make sense to compare. And since we're dealing with cloud services where the large players have billions of users increasingly providing these services to everybody from small shops (I work for a startup and we use gSuite) to enterprises (many large companies host all their email on one of 2-3 major email providers).

Nothing I said above has anything to do with user experience as you describe it- that's a non sequitur.
Say what? The global vaccine market was over 30 Billion dollars in 2018. This is the most lucrative pharma market because you are medicating the whole population including healthy people, no other medication can top that.

Not only that, but in the US the pharmaceuticals are shielded from liability for vaccines in stark contrast to any other medication type. How's that not a profit center?
Wouldn't it be faster if Python was transpiled into JavaScript? Or convert it to SpiderMonkey bytecode?
Actually I'm with you. I had to google the definition of "necessarily" and it does imply that I could believe it. Maybe I'm culturally programmed to use the word even if I don't understand it's full meaning when I'm using it?

Anyway, I would reword the entire post to remove the word necessarily but I'll leave it in case anyone else reads it and might make the same
Mistake.
> From the anti-vaxers I've talked to, it's not so much the fear mongering, it's their distrust of scientific studies due to economic incentives.

I would call that the equivalent of fear mongering because pharma companies don't make much or any on vaccines, and the US government had to even pass a special liability law in order to keep vaccines being made.
The CDC and health department are specifically prevented from disclosing what institutions have had outbreaks. That seems like “suppression”
If Zuckerberg has a long-term vision that he is driving FB towards, what is it?
No. They argued that small businesses would have to pay it and could not afford this cost. Some of them even tried to suggest that it would be a reasonable idea if it would only apply to larger businesses.

Also, you don't have to be stupid to not know that, just uninformed. I suppose it depends on the definition of stupidity.
The problem isn't the insurance, but the fact that your insurance is tied to your employer. There's reason health insurance should be treated like car, life, and home insurance. You shop for what you want and switch whenever you find something better. Unfortunately the current system is so ridiculous that most people think private insurance itself is the problem.
I'm so glad to see there are people who think like me. I have spent thousands of hours doing various projects like this.

The only difference is, I normally spend my time automating the process with computer vision (a skittle sorter/counter wouldn't be that hard to build; opening the bag is harder than identifying colors). And then I never really finish the project.
Interesting idea, but the cases are pretty much impossible to investigate.

For example in "Strong Alibi" the story never mentions color at all and the solution requires figuring out the color reported was wrong because the witnesses were both colorblind
I'm sorry but taking a 'both sides' stance here is remarkably disingenuous and ignores the current reason why anti-vaxxers exist.

We, as a society, already make exceptions for people who cannot have vaccines. I would know, as I went through an incredibly bad allergic reaction to vaccines as a child. You can ask anyone advocating for vaccinations and they will tell you that yes, vaccines can have side effects and people can have adverse reactions.

The root cause of the anti-vaxx movement isn't those people. It's people who take a purely ideological stance against vaccines, ignoring the scientific fact that vaccines in general are safe in favor of believing that vaccines cause autism or any number of bullshit things created by quacks. People are abusing exceptions to vaccinations and in turn are directly threatening people like myself who may not have an actual choice in the matter. So I'd appreciate it if you didn't use people like me as a smokescreen for those that threaten my well-being.
We all collectively benefit when children get a good education, when everyone has fast and safe transportation, when everyone has enough nutritious food, and when healthcare is available to all.

These collective goods must be paid for collectively, or the free-rider problem guarantees failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem

I will gladly pay my share to secure these social goods, but I won't shoulder the entire burden by myself.

When I see most people free riding, I'm much less likely to step up and be the chump who contributes.
It really is one of the worst examples of a retailer anywhere. Shelf after shelf of semi-disposable, plastic tat, destined for landfill. Crap, processed food. Knock off cosmetics. Crowded, uncomfortable, unfriendly.

If this is the future, I don't want it.
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Your dashboard that shows outages doesn't seem to show OAuth. Has caused us some issues working out what's going on in our organization!
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While it may be bad for individual companies, their failure does not prevent somebody else from doing whatever it is they failed to do because of short term thinking.
> ... but there was no expectation it would ever be 100 percent

Not sure where this straw man argument came from but I'll bite.

The point isn't to get a certain number of people vaccinated and never was. The point is to eliminate preventable diseases that can be deadly or cause permanent harm (eg paralysis, infertility). To do that you need herd immunity, which is typically quoted at 95%+ immunity.

The US achieved this and "eliminated" measles in 2000 but thanks to promulgating baseless falsehoods and people losing the memory of the effects of diseases, immunization rates began to fall and diseases that were effectively eliminated returned.

While you seem to want to paint anti-vaxxers as those simply having a bad reaction, I beg to differ. Even if true, the tactics border on the truly abhorrent [1].

Some people genuinely can't get vaccines. This is also why vaccination never will be at 100% and why it's important that anyone who medically can get a vaccine should as that herd immunity protects the vulnerable.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/health/anti-vax-harassment-ep...
Talking about irreversible transactions as if they're objectively bad is intellectually dishonest. Chargebacks are a real issue for many genuine sellers and crypto offers perfect protection for them. If you don't trust the seller then use alternative methods, but this type of transaction is for a niche that needs to be filled.
It just looks like a regular Chinese bazaar store except Japanese. Do they sell pens that dries out after a few weeks? USB cables that starts glitching after two weeks? Shoes that fall apart after a few days?
To a rough approximation, 20 coin flips gives you 16 chances to get a 1/16 probability event of 5 in a row of heads or tails, so the average number of 5-streaks is 1 per student. With 32 kids a class, add 5 more to the streak length to expect to see.
> The US classification of immigration intent is not relevant to whether they are immigrants in the common sense of the word.

But it is relevant in the context of the statement the parent was replying to:

> US immigrants are required to have the MMR vaccine, among others.
This assertion contradicts the comment by you that I replied to, which asserts reasonable doubt can exist in people who aren't fundamentally nutters concerning the value of vaccines. I agree with your previous comment.
It's nice to read science like this without it being reduced to a once a year period of https://www.improbable.com/ig/ related links.
> If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables

... Because there's no evidence that consumption of multivitamins or organic vegetables has any communal or individual health benefits?
Can we please stop it with this "Organic vegetables are better than normal vegetables" nonsense? Seriously, I can't even tell you how many times I've heard that BS as an excuse for why these mother forkers out there say they can't afford to eat healthy, and I'm saying this as a poor very fit person myself.

You don't need to eat organic vegetables to eat healthy. You just need to eat vegetables, period, full stop, hold the phone, stop the presses, etc.
It's painful. After going through something similar (with UMB and ConnectYourCare/UMB), I ended up over at Lively. No fees, and you can invest with TD Ameritrade for free. I hear Fidelity is a good option as well.
They're mixing so many issues and confusing the matter. They have discovered ad fraud, which is interesting, but doesn't actually directly harm the user (right?), just the advertisers and Google. But then to make sure they are propagating fear, they bring in the completely unrelated issue of data being sent to China. And there is some confusion there too - is it only through the (unnecessary) permissions that users approve (a much different problem) or are they able to send unexpected data also without the permissions? I wish the world didn't have this sensationalism arms race to get their articles read.
Ask HN: Admins and longtimers, what keeps you engaging here?
I was thinking of an absolutely trivial UI items that could add some value, and then realized HN clearly scratches an itch for many folks.

For me, I love being in virtual proximity to the builders. I respect the craftsmanship I see going into people's side projects in showHN. I love the challenges to strong opinions and group think.

Thanks to the admins, and props to the longtimers.
I was responding to a comment that had the word "never" in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WagAKBuc_o

Yes they're quite bright but more consistent in their brightness, but any ICBM is going to detonate quite a lot higher.
Bitcoin has a $12 billion volume in just the last 24 hours. You will need to sell off quite a few million very quickly to have any significant impact on the market, even when considering the fact that much of it is being wash traded.
Honestly, pretty much. It has a better chance of working then just trying stuff though. For advanced stuff a thought out model can bring up success rate from 0.0001% to 50%. And when it fails, you will learn more from the failure.
> not "portable" in the sense that it only has an x86 backend

Yeah, that's kind of a dealbreaker.
How does distance traveled relate to willingness to pay a higher price for food?