skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re talking about the CNN poll on Democratic Presidential candidates, then that’s a colossal mis-statement of the facts. They definitely did have people under 50 in the poll. There was a Facebook post making the rounds that took a single chart from the methodology statement and claimed that nobody under 50 was polled, incorrectly. I encourage you to read the full polling statement, available online, to see that’s not the case.

All of that said, yes, pollsters do have to do more work to survey younger people. They have recently added cell phones to their call lists, since land line phones are going the way of the dodo.
Hmm ya that explanation sounds right to me. Thanks for the help :)
This sounds so much like my enterprise experience, where you can bring up a huge security vulnerability, have everyone senior to you explain to you that it isn’t a problem. Leaving you utterly confused.

Then when someone else finds out a few months later, suddenly alarm bells start ringing, and everyone up to the CTO is called into an emergency meeting because there is a huge security vulnerability.

Yeah, no shit.

sigh
This "bizarre policy" was software signing, which is in fact a security feature.

I don't understand what "getting their act together" means here, when you're posting it on an announcement that the problem has already been fixed. Should Firefox proactively remove all security features that risk ever posing some modicum of inconvenience to users? Because that would be... all of them.
>Part of the explanation appears to lie in their genetics, specifically a sub-variant of a gene called BHLHE41.III

How does one find out if he has the genes?
Thanks, I think it was a relevant anecdote.
I made the mistake of online ordering from Home Depot and they "conveniently" shipped from a local store. Only problem is that they apparently have a habit of reusing SKUs and sent me an older model that I didn't order.

Given a chance, brick and mortars will fuck everything up. Guaranteed.
How do you get--and keep--a job? Have friends? Make medical appointments? Order pizza?
Sorry to hear that. I think we all think of cults as something distant and weird, but the reality is if you're in one or close to one, you are not aware of it, almost by definition.
Fleets also (rightly) worry about the resale value.
> That wealth should be distributed to society at large

Ok, let's say we do that--a 100% wealth tax on any personal wealth over $999,999,999. So Bezos forks over everything he has over that, and we distribute it.

First, how do we distribute it? Let's say we just divide it up equally among all 325 million Americans. That's about $370 per person. Wow.

But second, what happens once we finish distributing? What are most people going to do with that $370? Spend it on something. How many people are going to make that $370 grow? Not many. Which means, in practice, all that wealth will just concentrate again. If most of the people spend the $370 buying something on Amazon, a lot of that wealth will just end up back in Bezos' pocket.

In other words, redistributing wealth can temporarily make things more equal, but they won't stay that way.
I agree with the memory tagging part.

Which nowadays is only available on Solaris on SPARC, iOS and eventually Android (given Google's collaboration with ARM).

And even it is still isn't 100% bullet proof, it is better than not having it at all.
Out of curiosity, how did you come to be in the US, and at what age? What is your native nationality?
That's kind of the plot of 'Ravages' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes,_Ashes) a French SF novel by Barjavel.

Electricity suddenly stops working.
You’re touching on something that may affect these companies medium/long term.

The fact that there’s a class divide among workers now naturally selects out many workers that otherwise might be incentivized to create more wealth for the company. This could have long term consequences in industries that formerly relied on innovation.
I have received a lot of these one rings from international numbers, and always wondered what they were about. I'm grateful to now know why.
>"Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a tax cut." ~Matthew Yglesias, Senior Correspondent for Vox

This tweet has since been deleted, but there are many articles citing it if you want to verify it.
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What about a loving, benevolent intelligence that was only three times as intelligent as the smartest human, never lied or cheated, didn't turn us into paperclips, and liked to write poetry more beautiful than anything we'd ever read before? Inscrutable motives are not necessary for this thought experiment if you accept the orthogonality thesis, or if you limit yourself to conceiving of intelligences so close to our own (while still superior) that their motives don't degenerate into whatever you think the motives of sufficiently advanced intelligences degenerate into.
As I understand it, they wouldn't be trained for a 737 Max without MCAS. Without MCAS it's a different plane.
On spam filtering: the public telephone network transmits almost zero data on a call - the only header is the originating number, which can be un-traceably spoofed at the originator. There is no embedded message data (that would be the call itself). So there’s literally no valid data to filter spam on, unless the spam caller is chivalrous enough to use their legit caller ID.

I would also bet that there are regulations that require phone providers to complete all calls that are presented to them.

My provider, T Mobile, does overwrite the caller ID with “Scam Likely” for what they believe to be telemarketing calls, which is probably the best they can do until we implement a standard that authenticates the origination ID of calls.
> Using that 74 figure means the universe is somewhere between 12.5 billion and 13 billion years old. That’s much younger than the established estimates of 13.6 billion to 13.8 billion.

If true, would that mean that the observable universe is smaller than we thought? And that the distances to distant galaxies might be off as well?
It's racism to doubt that China has antigravity ships and that this is the obvious commonsense answer to these sightings?

Prior to the US having a nuclear program there were papers being published on the possibility of fusion reactions that split the atom. These papers then disappeared during the Manhattan project, signaling that research was happening which was being suppressed.

Is there evidence that China had papers on antigravity research and that such papers have recently stopped being published.
You have until September 2020 to fix it?

More seriously; it's going to be a nasty migration for anyone who needs to get rid of the dots in their domains. At minimum you need to create a new bucket, migrate all of your data and permissions, migrate all references to the bucket, ...

I mean, if Amazon wanted to create a jobs program for developers across the world, this wouldn't be a bad plan. :(
Has anybody managed to figure out how to use compile-object to produce executables?
Could also be restrictions on the suppliers. I get the impression that the Tesla part makers go a lot further to make sure they don’t supply the aftermarket too than BMW does.
Microsoft could drop newer Windows versions and instead focus on improving Windows XP.
I'm not as up on the details as you'd probably want, but my understanding is that we're running it on a virtual server with a nice chunk of RAM and CPU locally at VT. I don't think we want to be at all reliant on external servers - this is FERPA protected data. Plus, the long term goal was to find a solution that other schools could adopt without being an R1.
Why has your brand-new car had to go in for service ~12 times in 4 years? Isn't that exactly the issue being discussed? I drive a 15-year-old station wagon, and I'm averaging around half that.
Well, it's a virtual server, so I'm not sure how that plays with things. I supposed getting more servers in play would help, but that feels more like throwing hardware at a software problem. It doesn't feel like JH should have this much overhead - is the kernel really doing so much work?
Oh. Then the answer appears to be that Boeing misled the FAA into thinking that MCAS didn't have the capability to cause a catastrophic failure, by understating the degree of control authority it was capable of, and therefore AoA sensor failure (and the disagree light) wasn't tied to any airworthiness issue.

I don't think a light (rather than annunciator) can be a very serious safety feature in any case, simply because in an emergency pilots aren't going to be looking at random places throughout the cockpit to see which small lights are on. They're going to be looking at the central EICAS display, which is what they're trained to do.
“This time it will be different.”

The six most costly words in history.
Government will always be usurped by unrestrained capitalism, as that is the most competitive action. The dualistic thinking of your comment ignores this inherent flaw of having a system with basically unlimited potential concentration of wealth and power. Corporations and the wealthy become the government, because it is an advantage to do so. It's just like monopolies that naturally occur. Government just happens to be the biggest one. Corporations and the wealthy decide eventually that they do not need to pay a commensurate share into the public good, and they suck the economic vigor, health, and wellbeing out of the nations that they usurp because they are by definition those that have successfully hoarded more resources than others. Government has never been a truly separate entity from the wealth-holding class, except in cases of revolution (which all tend to return to baseline eventually).
> You don't want someone to dial directly to someone's desk at a corporation rather than front desk.

Couldn't this also be said about emails from companies? Similar to how they have the "donotreply" emails, can't they also have "donotdial" phone numbers?
Users who intentionally run beta / nightly are not normal users. How many of them run on cheap "desktop" computers they bought on sale at Target, do you think?
Birds seem to fall out of the sky a lot less often. Could be the same is true for pollen. I don’t know if I agree with the guy, but I think he’s right to encourage more science time and money spent on it.
If you are asking if Cons in general or dying, I think that's a definite no. Every conference I've been to lately has only seen tremendous growth: PyCon, PyCascades, LinuxFest NW, SeaGL, etc. However, that is just my personal experience.
I strongly suspect that the study, like many others before it, is flawed in the way it calculates the return on housing investment. In terms of capital gains, I see no evidence that like is compared with like, I suspect that a 1930s house is considered the same as a 2010s house for the purpose of capital gain calculation, and no account is made that the house may have been renovated or entirely rebuilt several times. The high cost of buying and selling a house is, I suspect, neglected.

I furthermore suspect that in calculating rental return, no account has been made of vacancy rates, agent's fees, insurances, repairs etc.

Soooo... in summary, although this report implies that housing has been a better investment than stocks... I suspect it hasn't.
Yeah having a 775 in 312/773 is great for this reason (except sometimes people assume I mean 773).
The flow-on damage of billing errors like this can be immense. Ive seen it first hand, and the people working for these companies generally have no idea how much an overdraft fee can ruin someone’s life in the short/medium term.

If the refund isn’t fast enough it also leads to missed rent and bills, all of which have fees for being late, plus possible debt collector issues as most utility companies will send a single missed bill directly to collections these days.

Not to mention inability to buy food, gas/transport to work, etc.
Taobao is ecommerce with Chinese characteristics (i.e. clown-world style) and I say this as someone who has been using Taobao multiple times a week for years.

There's having to get on AliWangWang and chat up sellers to make sure they actually have stock of the items they're listing for sale. If you optimistically order without spending ten minutes going back and forth with them beforehand, your purchases may not ship because one of the items is out of stock or no longer available in that size/color (despite it being listed w/claimed inventory of 9898998 pieces in stock) and when you do get on WangWang, you've got to waste more time haggling over individual item cancellations, substitutions, etc.

And even if everything you want is in stock, you're lucky enough to be ordering when the seller isn't away from their phone/computer because they're asleep/eating/whatever and so is available to confirm this, they're as likely as not to wait until a bit later to confirm your shipping address. If you're not on WangWang to respond to the shipping address confirmation query, then your order sits around unshipped until you do (and until they read your confirmation).

When you do receive your purchases, you can expect them to be cellophane-envelope wrapped or rolled up in clingfilm, which is usually sheathed in a layer of Mainland grit and grime (hence the cellophane/clingfilm) and this in turn is often packed in crumpled Chinese newspapers or scores of the foam webbing collars one sees used around individual apples, pears, etc. in supermarkets here.

If you live in China or HK/Macao, then you'll probably use Taobao much more than Amazon, but only because of the shipping costs. Actually enjoying using Taobao after having used Amazon, though, would require a strong masochistic streak.
Why can't I lose weight even though I run every day?
If you want a browser that never changes anything, doesn't know what its users use it for, and has no opinions on what kinds of plugins you install...

Might I interest you in Internet Explorer 6?
Ah yes, those evil professors, non-profit employees, and pharma employees -- providing their professional services for a modest wage.

If professors are responsible for ballooning higher ed costs then why have their numbers decreased (replaced by ad juncts) and their pay remained flat? How, exactly, are they siphoning off that money? Because it sure as hell isn't coming from their salaries or job prospects. Consider for example CS professors, who make only 1/3rd of what they would make in the private sector.

Blaming non-profit employees for breakdowns in for-profit employment is just confusing. How, exactly, is this mechanism supposed to work?

I suppose you blame nurses for ballooning healthcare costs?

And in your mind, who isn't rent seeking?

Are landlords and other real estate owners rent seekers?

What about owners of valuable real estate (real or virtual) who sell ad space?

What about owners of stocks and bonds who don't actually work in those companies or contribute to those communities?

Or only the teachers and pharma researchers and non-profit employees?

To be frank, it's hard for me to take a rant about rent seeking seriously when it complains by name about teachers and pharma scientists -- people who do actual labor -- but not about literal rent seekers such as people who own large amounts of stock or real estate.
AXS has an incorrigible treatment of VPNs built into every step of their checkout process. Some highlights:

- expect 5-6 pages of captchas during the process. Each will require multiple steps of attempts

- page loads are articially delayed 30+ seconds per page

- the payment form CATEGORICALLY REJECTS payments from known VPN ips claiming the payment was rejected from your bank

I’ve learned these lessons the hard way using AXS as they have a vicegrip on the Denver concert scene. While they used to be a refreshing alternative to Ticketmaster their newfound approach to privacy is absurd. Instead you spend minutes identifying sidewalks and street lights only to discover it was all a ruse and your were literally incapable of purchasing tickets in the first place. This is using a denver vpn to purchase tickets to small local shows.

Convenience indeed.
I am located in Canada and I received about 15 - 20 spam phone calls each week. Most of them would even spoof the phone number to my area code (sometimes my own phone number lol). So I don't think it's a US only problem.
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> they can't laugh off other EV's like they did with the Leaf.

As of January the Leaf was still the best selling electric car model in history.

edit: Source from February with data through 2018. If ~200,000 more Model 3s than Leafs have been delivered this year, then it is the new leader. https://qz.com/1552840/the-most-successful-ev-model-to-date-...
Thanks for your work on Heimdall btw. It the only reason my samsung s5 is still running fine years after it came out.
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This assumes you can get the wrench close enough to the admin. If they are in another country, one that is outside of your jurisdiction you'll have a hard time applying your wrench.
Yes really.

First, for a number of positions, salary can make up less than 70% of total compensation. Things like healthcare, stock options, bonuses, PTO, etc. are worth quite a lot of money. To make up for that you need a good multiplier on salary.

Second, unemployment benefits and the possibility of severance offer increased stability that many find both useful and comforting, this is another multiplier on the salary number.

Third, and I think most importantly, the person I'm responding is looking at contractors who want to be employees. We can even set aside the fact that such people, in my experience, rarely set up corporations are do the research to find the tax savings you achieve (kudos on that). If you're an in-demand professional there are people who will hire you on terms you like. Every really good software developer I know with over 4 years of experience never spends more than a couple weeks on the market and are flooded with offers, why bother with some contracting "test" when they could have a good job today? The people I'm acquainted with would only subject themselves to that for giant gobs of money.
First off, Jeff Bezos is not the only billionaire, so your $370 number is off. Second off, there's more that the government can do other than cash payments to individuals, they can invest in infrastructure (like education, housing, public transit, etc.) which pays long-term dividends to society. The wealth from this tax could be used to fund a public bank, which re-invests it and pays dividends back to the community. I'm not advocating for a specific policy proposal -- there exist many -- I'm defending the general principle that concentration of wealth is unethical and ought to be redistributed. Once you agree with that principle, you can work out exactly how best to do it, but that principle is necessarily an ideological one -- one that says that money and capital should serve the needs of the people, not the wealthiest corporations.
Property is theft. :)
No. Read the methodology statement carefully. They have 1000 respondents to the entire poll. When they refer to the data by a stratified group, they only present it if the number of people in that group is 125 or greater.

For the poll questions that specifically say. “For voters registered as Democrats or democrat-leaning independents”, the response Pool is cut down to something like 450 (the exact number is listed in the description). If they then divide that into four age groups, then it would actually be reasonable for NONE of them to exceed 125 respondents.

If you look at other breakdowns in the survey, it is clear that all of the age groups and demographics are covered.

Also note that polls results are almost always corrected after the fact for sampling error - so if they get a low response rate from 20-30 year olds, then they weight those responses more heavily so that they represent the expected proportion of the overall population.
I guess it depends how you define prosperity.

Personally I wouldn't say we're getting more prosperous. Household debt is skyrocketing, savings are plummeting, income has been stagnant for decades. Most women can't afford to be a homemaker even if they want to. And the gap between rich and poor keeps growing.
The introduction mentions "view propagation", which does borrow checking without annotations. Is this documented anywhere?

Also, I wish more languages had homepages like the Go one[0]. It takes a lot of reading to get to the point where you can see some non-trivial code[1], which is frustrating.

[0]: https://golang.org

[1]: https://scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#a-mild...
I came to US as a refugee left Somalia during war around 1992 I was young I'm 30 years old now.
I really think it's the worldview, with the caveat that this particular worldview, "x doesn't feel," allows people to exploit x without remorse. If everybody suddenly believed that x experiences love and pain, factory farming would make a lot of them feel really bad. I say this as somebody who thinks x does feel, still hunts x, and still eats x even when it's factory farmed. If I felt like my individual actions affected the market place enough to prevent a single individual from species x from being factory farmed, I wouldn't buy x from the grocery store, but I would still hunt it in the wild. Having spent half a decade as a vegan before ever hunting x, I'm pretty certain of my convictions there. I've grappled with this conundrum, and come to terms with it. I know an avid hunter who also grapples with this conundrum, and hasn't come to terms with it; he doesn't eat factory farmed meat on principle, loves hunting animals, and gets simultaneously really happy and really sad when he successfully kills one. "I acquired this duck," he says with a smile, "but it had to die," he says with a frown.

Edit: I'll add this quote from Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
I too tried to like Bitwarden but have been disappointed. In the meantime I've made a basic linux CLI for read-only access, seems to be sufficient for the time being: https://github.com/vinc3m1/1pa
I would imagine that money spent modifying the asset comes into the calculation somehow. Is that not the case? No adjustments to capital gains tax for renovation costs, etc.?

Edit: I did a quick Google. It looks like qualifying home improvements can be added to the cost basis. However, maintenance expenses cannot.
> Name any other automaker that faces the same scrutiny.

Name any other automaker that makes claims like these about their automatic cruise control: "the person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself."[1]

[1] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/05/23/49...
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This should be illegal, or at the very least, Google should be required to reimburse any fees incurred as a result of this misstep. When you hand over your bank account to an organization, especially one as legitimate as Google, you are doing so with the implicit trust that they will charge you what you expect them to charge you for. Breaching this trust should have consequences, just like individuals failing to pay their rent has consequences.
This is "crime against humanity" level of corporate bullshit. I think, they saved a lot of money by neglecting thorough testing. Also, like in all large corporates, they have n number of departments with terrible infighting and consequentially poor communication.