skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "votes" with tokens aren't votes either. Claiming that a spread of 100 votes has 10x the effect of 10 votes requires some model of the vote - you don't know that 10 votes on a single issue doesn't have an outsized effect on swinging a decision where 100 single votes just bump a number up across the board.

More than anything, the system just places power in compromise, which is nothing new - in a one-vote system, a person who is willing to vote for a centrist politician has more political power than me, a fringe voter, because their influence on the election result is better-felt.
I'm not denying that this is a type of voting system that biases towards certain outcomes. I'm saying that the bias it attempts to accomplish is not desirable as it gives more political power to people with weak opinions than people with strong opinions. I think a good voting system would allow people to express the strength of their feelings on the options, but the system shouldn't reward weak opinions over strong opinions and vice versa. Most traditional cardinal systems accomplish this just fine.
That is the command to create one, but the syntax of the definition body is what does not comply with SQL/PSM.

Looks like there is an extension but it hasn't been updated in 8 years as doesn't appear to be production ready yet[0]

[0] https://github.com/okbob/plpsm0
Alan Rusbridger’s excellent ‘Breaking News’ details the history of the Guardian, including the decisions that led to their current funding model. It’s fascinating, well written, and thoroughly recommended.

https://us.macmillan.com/breakingnews/alanrusbridger/9780374...

(Rusbridger was the Guardian’s editor for 20 years, before Viner.)
I think the assumption/result is that even though you only get one out of two candidates to choose from and there are hundreds of independent issues, in aggregate, after all forces and processes have had their effect, resulting policy in most major issues is surprisingly close to what the median voter wants.

Caveat: I'm just some guy who reads web pages, not a voting scientist.
Uber’s Success Is Far from Assured: Just Look at NYC
The Financial Times doesn't.
No - first I've heard of it. Just looked at its Wikipedia page. Color me intrigued.... Thank you!
Agreed. The search could use some love for doing exact match.

The scale at which different libraries, tools, and systems depending on hard-coded S3 urls will break by this change is insane.
1k registered aircraft, no airport: The strange case of Onalaska, Texas
DeepMind’s AI agents conquer human pros at StarCraft II
Radio Free Europe is a technical, non-violent solution to a political problem.

Viagra solved tiger poaching political problem.
DVCS focus exclusively on files rather than JSON (or whatever). They’re diff-based rather than operation based. They aren’t designed to work in a real-time manner. They require humans to fix merge conflicts. (Even many trivial ones). They store every change for all time (and require that you do so by design). And commits are a heavyweight operation. If you made a git commit for every keystroke, git would struggle. Also the network protocols aren’t published, and usually aren’t designed to work over websockets / etc for web apps.

We need something like a dvcs, but not exactly that.
Why would I ever not want the server to require a password, though? Like, if your server ain't asking for a password at all, then why even bother with the keylogger?
wow, this post was submitted 5 hours ago and has 311 points and it already fell off the front page? someone here doesn't like porn at all
In your case, you had a condition that prevented you from competing on a level playing field with other kids your age. I see your point. You're right that sports might not be for everyone, but I will argue it will do good for most. I'm suggesting that if you become a parent to an able-bodied child, that you enroll them in sports. Additionally, at that age, the difference between the best player on the team and the worst is that the best player is probably practicing with their dad a few additional times a month. As a parent, you can bond with your child and help them be the best player on the team by spending time with them and helping them practice.
Depends on what it's actually doing. Preview can do actual forms, but it can also "fill" in forms by trying to detect lines and boxes.
the horror...the horror
out of curiosity, did you account for her time in the car as any sort of expense? I assume it's downtime she can't use to do something else. (though some people enjoy driving, listening to music or podcasts, etc, so for them maybe it doesn't matter.)
TLS 1.3 was completed, published as RFC 8446 but eSNI is still a work in progress.

You need TLS 1.3 because in prior versions the certificate is transmitted plaintext, but eSNI itself is not part of TLS 1.3 and is still actively being worked on as https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/
There are other ways to construct a voting system that places power in compromise without incentivizing weak opinions over strong opinions.
Buying a used electric is clearly an exception, not the norm.

Also https://www.edmunds.com/nissan/leaf/2018/cost-to-own/
I have a work friend who dislikes our company 401k plan. Every year, he rolls the money into another 401k that he likes.
Interesting I see. I thought BP was built on top of Live Sequence Charts - a visual formalism for describing specs that can also be executed.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to dive a bit more into TLA+. Even though I still don't see how the request/wait/block is implemented in TLA+... I mean you still need an even selection mechanism for it or not?
Pretty sure you get a cert error or they still use paths. Boto (what it’s build on) has an open issue for this for a few years now.
Can you give a good example of where the crimes of Trump were downplayed?
Lets get one thing straight. The Allies didn't go to war because of holocaust, they were dragged into a conflict by Hitler. In fact the only reason why the UK went to war against Hitler at the time was because Winston Churchill was determined to have another war because he was a drunken psychopath. Many of the newspapers at the time actually were against allowing Jewish Refugees into the UK. Also in the US the Nazis were popular enough that Coke Cola had adverts with the swastika on it.
To Fix Capitalism, We May Need More Capitalism
> People could still pay for them out of pocket, but without the guarantee of insurance payments the drug companies likely won’t take the risk.

this, in my opinion, points out a significant flaw in the rush to privatize just about everything:

there are many many “markets” that are either under-served or not served at all because the rate of profit would be (a) too low to “justify” or (b)none at all.

jmo but, there has to be a balance between for-profit and basic research that won’t necessarily be able to be monetized to the extent many in industry would want...
The point of the article is that the surefire way to make sure schools are properly funded and run, is to make sure the children of the wealthy and powerful attend there too, not just poor.
"We open at 4AM on Black Friday this year"

There, better?
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> Another for routine things, but as others have said, routine things shouldn't be so expensive.

But this is not an insurance.

Structuring it as an insurance - as we have done - only makes it a lot more expensive than paying for it out of pocket.
Why would they retract the story ?

They had sources whom I am sure they trusted and since it happened in 2016 before the change of the Ecuadorian government it's plausible that there was implicit support for the meeting. Assange was hardly some innocent bystander during the last US election so he definitely has form.

Fact is that when you have a situation like this we simply don't know what the truth is so who is it to say that the Guardian is wrong here.
If your previous employer had a cheaper risk pool than the general public, it makes sense that this could be the case.

Fair warning: if you’re doing this while self-employed, there are tax issues that may make getting a plan on the exchange cheaper.
Sundance Now and Shudder Accidentally Expose Data of 1.6M Subscribers
You won't trust one of these people to work on your project, will you?

The problem gets worse in unsupervised ML, e.g. cluster analysis. Whatever variables you choose, clustering will give you some results. But only an experienced person can understand what variables to choose for the clustering, how to do it, and what those clusters really mean. You can't just try different things in clustering until it "works", because it always works.
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
I would help my neighbor move some furniture for free, and I'd still do it if he offered to pay me $5. I wouldn't accept the money (because it's socially unacceptable to do so), but his offer wouldn't get in the way of me helping him. If he offered me a drink after, I wouldn't say no. It's understood that this offer is in direct response to me helping him, but I'm still motivated out of altruism. I'm simply receiving a greater reward for my altruism, and this time it's socially acceptable to take this.

The time of the people eligible for this program is worth more than $20/hr. This amount of money is never going to be a primary source of motivation for them. As the article said, "A side effect of building a company culture around OSS is that the kind of people who gravitate to work at Formidable are passionate about their open source work, and won’t stop contributing when they clock out at 5 pm." I did a bit of volunteer work in high school as part of a program, and upon graduation the program granted everyone a small, $250 "scholarship". I spent ~10 hours per week, for a year, as part of this program, thus making my "wage", if you will, about $2/hr. I can promise you, nobody participated in that program for the "scholarship". It showed that our time was appreciated, but wasn't nearly enough to incentivize the program to anyone who wasn't going to do it anyways.

I see nothing wrong with a token payment like this. It makes contributing to open source a more attractive option, but still only a viable option to those who were already motivated to contribute out of altruism. Obviously 20/hr isn't a token payment for a lot of us, but the concept itself of a token payment isn't something that necessarily invalidates altruistic intentions, in my view. I'll contribute to open source projects irregardless of whether or not they have a Bountysource, but I'll still accept a reward if it's offered. The purpose of this program is to reward people who are already motivated to contribute to open source, which in turn signals to its employees that Formidable appreciates open source contributions.
As a wannabe Assyriologist, I was really hoping there'd be an actual line by line translation; or better yet, a link to one of the online cuneiform sites offered the cuneiform, transliteration and translation.
Nothing shocking. GUI for machine learning existed for decades, for example Weka and Rapidminer. I don't see "drag and drop" in screenshots, however; it's just awful gadget journalism lingo, common for this site with reviews of gaming mouses.

ETL-style dataflow pipelines are more natural for such tasks than imperative programming, it's not just "for people who can't code". Rapidminer is dataflow-based too.

Actual links, if you want to avoid gadget news website:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/serv...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/serv...
Definitely odd title.
Sounds like just a new name for cumulative voting, which has been a thing in closely-held corporations for decades. From a (U.S.) Securities and Exchange Commission Web site:

<quote>

Cumulative voting is a type of voting system that helps strengthen the ability of minority shareholders to elect a director. This method allows shareholders to cast all of their votes for a single nominee for the board of directors when the company has multiple openings on its board. In contrast, in "regular" or "statutory" voting, shareholders may not give more than one vote per share to any single nominee.

For example, if the election is for four directors and you hold 500 shares (with one vote per share), under the regular method you could vote a maximum of 500 shares for each one candidate (giving you 2,000 votes total—500 votes per each of the four candidates).

With cumulative voting, you are afforded the 2,000 votes from the start and could choose to vote all 2,000 votes for one candidate, 1,000 each to two candidates, or otherwise divide your votes whichever way you wanted.

</quote>

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-cumulativevotehtm.h... (extra paragraphing added)

More analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting
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It’s not hard to distinguish between someone who is trying to be neutral and objective and someone who is pushing an agenda. It’s one thing to accidentally let some bias slip in and quite another to advocate openly for your worldview. Notably, the Guardian behaves as a participant in (rather than observer of) a debate, and not even a good faith participant, only misrepresenting their opponents’ views if not overtly engaging in libel. Also, when your own ideology is not dominant, you become quite aware of your own biases because you have to in order to engage productively with the dominant ideology (turns out viewpoint diversity is actually pretty important).
Their product is pretty amazing, once it gets below the cost of cow ground beef it I think many will choose it over the cow, simply because it tastes close enough (I think it tastes better) and it is cheaper. The environmental, ethical and marginally improved health benefits of it (no cholesterol) are nice-to-haves for many and the true tipping point will be cost.

And there is a ton of room to bring the cost down, no way this stuff costs more than taking a bunch of plants and feeding them to cows vs just making it out of plants (peas) to begin with.

This is going to keep soaring, I say this as someone who has been buying it since it first came out. I have made many dishes where my carnivore friends just loved it, only reason they don't switch permanently is because of cost.

Buy this stock while it's cheap, I don't think it will go down.
"Bored teens" spreading white nationalist memes is still elevating white nationalism, no matter whether it is for "the lulz". "It is just a joke" is in no way an excuse for this behavior.
> A big part of life is spreading your genes and making sure that your offspring are well set up to continue spreading your genes.

According to some. Or, you can opt out of this and enjoy your life anyway.

It's troubling to see so many people in this thread concerned with "winning" at life. In the end we all die, then it's game over. Any high score is quickly forgotten.

Life is brief, treasure it while you still draw breath.
Your daughter is more financially prudent than you think: she realized that, no matter how much of her young life she lived on ramen, she will never have much in her name as most of her income will be wasted away on rents, transportation and food. So she decides to f..k it and at least have fun. Better die poor and having lived a fruitful life than die poor and having lived on ramen the entire time.

With many of my generation spending upwards of 50%, sometimes even 70% or more, only on housing, how on earth are we expected to build savings? With six figure student loans that aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy and medical bills at similar conditions? We will be the explosion that finally shows how fucked up pension systems and wealth allocation have become, and this bubble will explode in about 40-50 years, if not earlier.

Add climate change to the mix which our politicians won't do anything for the coming 10, 20 years and which will inevitably and unpreventably explode at the same time... yes, definitely, I rather have a life now, I won't be able to make it to retirement anyway, no matter what I do.
This is sort of true. Birds are significantly more energy efficient than planes for some kinds of flight. Birds are also able to perform maneuvers that planes cannot such as landing on a branch. For transportation we just don't care about these features.

I agree that CV does not need to mimick everything about human vision but we still have a long way to go before having vision as robust and efficient as humans. Moreover there are benefits in interpretability and explainability to mimicking human vision more closely. If CV perceived the world similarly it can fail in more similar and predictable ways.
Also known as "The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior": "Under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases."
I've never felt like templated types or generics are tedious.
I’d be interested in hearing you expand on that. Why do you personally identify with your genes, which will be diluted to nothingness in just a few generations? To my mind it seem a bizarre and borderline pathological worldview- something rooted less in actual biology than in an invented teleology.
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Interesting to me though that they wouldn't let a founder be there. Point aside that Uber became pretty toxic and messed up its rep. Under Kalanick it also became what it is today, amassed a ton of capital, etc.

Not really defending TK here, but I think it's pretty lame that the guy who made the company what it is doesn't get to be part of what's essentially a "we made it" ceremony.
There is no hvac in France in people's houses. According to this website, http://www.climatisations.net/marche.html, 5% of houses and 25% of businesses have hvac.
The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
Switzerland only has 0.05 as a minimum denomination too, might be the one you were thinking about.
You appear to suggest that programmers with “rudimentary knowledge of transactions” should prefer lower isolation levels which sacrifice correctness for performance. If anything is “grossly irresponsible” here, it’s that.

Such isolation levels are notoriously difficult to reason about—even for experienced practitioners—and their misuse can and does introduce persistent data anomalies that can be costly to remediate.

Generally speaking, performance issues are significantly easier to diagnose and resolve than data anomalies, and they may be address in a targeted fashion as the need arises.

There’s no substitute for thinking. But if I had to prescribe general advice, it’d be this:

(1) When given the choice, select a modern database system which supports scalable and efficient serializable and snapshot transaction isolation levels.

(2) Use serializable isolation, by default, for all transactions.

(3) In the event that your transactions are not sufficiently performant, stop and investigate. Profile the system to identify the bottleneck.

(4) If the bottleneck is contention due to the transaction isolation level, stop. Assess whether the contention is inherent or whether it is incidental to the implementation or data model.

(5a) If the contention is incidental, do not lower the isolation level. Instead, refactor to eliminate the contention point. Congratulations; you are now done.

(5b) Otherwise, lower the isolation level—only for one or more of the transaction(s) in question—by a single step. Carefully assess the anomalies you have now introduced and the ramifications on the system as a whole. Look for other transactions which could intersect concurrently in time and space. Implement compensatory controls as necessary to accommodate the new behavior.

(6) Repeat only as necessary to achieve satisfaction.
I'd be horrified about this Formidable company (What a name.) trying to claim ownership over anything I did in my free time that I was paid $20.00 for.

>More recently, we’ve expanded the definition of contributing to include any social impact work within the field of technology

Well, without clarification on my concerns, this would lead me to simply billing time around things such as answering questions in project IRC channels or helping to organize things, all activities that can't be later claimed, and not use this for programming at all.
That one was our first TV set, but from a different brand, it was german I remember.
One big reason to me: cookie security

Currently all buckets share a domain and therefore share cookies. I've seen attacks (search for cookie bomb + fallback manifest) that leverage shared cookies to allow an attacker to exfiltrate data from other buckets
> It follows that using your logic, a husband cannot rape his wife, no matter the circumstances, which is not only sexist but incredibly stupid logic

That does not follow, but it does mean that in a case of one persons word against another, the subsequent behaviour of the accuser can make their accusation less or more believable.

>>the accusations were made after the alleged victims consulted with each other at the police station
>Why does that matter?

Because when two people independently accuse someone of a something, it lends credibility. But if the two people in fact colluded in stating the accusation, they are not independent, and are less credible.

> Interpol is not just for terrorists

Sweden currently has 17 Interpol “red notices” and all of them are for murder and/or organised crime. I do not see any cases along similar lines to Assange, suggesting that the Swedish authorities were giving this case special treatment.
Someone posted an article on HN recently partly about a woman in Germany who makes fabric pillows shaped like cuts of meat and whose shop looks like a butchery. It's not hard to make pillows shaped like meat, but it's a fun quirky business and I enjoyed reading it.

I would have just as enjoyed reading about a white kid in the UK who made the same sort of scale bulldozers.
But that just makes it blurry, I like the crispiness.

I guess a good supersizing algo would be interesting.
I think that’s true regarding where value will be produced, but Microsoft can sell way more subscriptions if it’s point and click and presumably wrong. I will say though that they recently added suggested chart types in excel and they don’t seem half bad.
It's not. Good article from former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook:

HSBC and the sham of Guardian's Scott Trust

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-s...

The following is quoted in the piece:

> The Guardian is not owned by a trust at all. In 2008, “the trust was replaced with a limited company” that was accordingly re-named “The Scott Trust Limited.” Though not a trust at all, but simply a profit-making company, it is still referred to frequently as ‘The Scott Trust,’ promulgating the widely-held but mistaken belief in the Guardian’s inherently benign ownership structure. … The problem, of course, is that the Guardian functions under the same sort of corporate structure as any other major media company.
So "improving customer experience" is really Amazon speak for "saving us money"
>Ideally, I would be able to set up an all-you-can-eat subscription to a number of well-regarded international newspapers for languages that I am proficient in and access them at will from both a single portal (like Blendle, but absolutely not paying per article) and the newspapers own websites.

What are your thoughts on Apple News+?