skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup working on a secure digital voting system should be one of the top priorities here. As it currently stands, this is what the voting experience is like:

- Always on a weekday, so if you have a job and then a family to take care of after work, good luck finding time.

- Long lines, so that even those who find time are discouraged by standing around in November weather.

- The countless cases of voting locations in minority areas conveniently having broken machines or other barriers that prevent them from voting.

This environment has essentially optimized the experience for one group: retirees who have the time and energy to prioritize their day around voting. It's no surprise that legislation often favors this specific group as a result.

My high-level vision of how digital voting would look:

- A secure open source app that verifies your identity before letting you vote.

- Every candidate on the ballot would have a bio detailing their policies and views, to be filled out by them.

- A digital approach would make it easier to eventually adapt the system to involve things like ranked voting.

This would allow everyone to vote whenever and wherever they want, no relying on external factors like those mentioned above. It also provides one consistent place for every voter to see the same information about the candidates, rather than placing that task in the hands of media and their inherent bias/interests.

That's my 2 cents, I'm excited to see how startups tackle this.
Something about this reminds me of the Witch-King of Angmar.
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Great work.
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That made me chuckle. Reminds me of the temptation to upvote every comment upstream of yours so that your snarky response gets more visibility even though the whole thread should probably be downvoted and sunk to the bottom.
That should already have been improved a lot over the last few versions. Which version did you observe this with last, and if it was PG 10 or PG11, what type of query was this?
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I always wonder what proportion of that group is due to insufficient income, and what proportion is due to terrible financial literacy.
agreed, every pixel from the 3-layer foveon images is great, they have a very unique look
There’s this: https://christcathedralcalifornia.org/explore/
Im unsure of the point of this comment. The constitution restricts the taxing ability of the federal government. States of course are fully sovereign over their land and have broad discretion to levy taxes. Thus their ability to levy this tax speaks nothing about not wanting the Feds to have the same power. State income tax was also legal well before federal income tax.

Back to your point -- while property tax is a form of wealth tax, I do believe it is different. Real estate is a kind of property that one owns at the mercy of the state. It is not something that anyone -- other than sovereign governments -- really own. That being said, there is also danger in raising property taxes so i think any such tax should be met with intense scrutiny
More to the point, how do you address an issue with hundreds of contributory causes? It's so large as to be effectively intractable. It's akin to trying to cure the common cold.

Of the issues you listed, dumbass purchases is by far the most tractable. It aligns with existing incentives. It's something companies are broadly already on board with. It might even be possible to contractually hook it in with departmental compensation to boost wages with part of the funds when waste is found.

Now that sounds a lot more workable than "tackling stagnant wages". Might just be me, though.
But is it double buffering pages?
I'm not a fan of the facade, but the inside is pretty nice!
OMG, This would be an amazing 3d printable item.
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It is scary stuff as I don't think I can make a visit to a doctor for a non checkup type situation (injury) without the bill being more than $400.*

And I have "good" insurance.

*Granted that largely depends on how much I've paid YTD, so it could be more than $400, or less, but hell who knows as the plan changes every year.

To be clear I can foot the bill just fine, but it demonstrates how on the edge and out of control you are when $400 breaks the bank.
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For my own part, outside of OS and security software, which I feel should be 100% monolithic and black box, I'm fine with the idea of all text and code of every program and file being available to anyone who may wish to improve it.
Anyone has any idea how thiswill work for EU residents? Will we be paying the outrageous US 30% tax and local taxes too?
Wasn't speaking to that - only whether or not there are open source options. Being open source in and off itself seems to be a prerequisite, but it's more a matter of building a strong ecosystem (for example, imagine Ruby without Rails or node without npm), which never really materialized for CFML.
If I am pushing against you pushing the other way, and one of us stops, the other falls forward. That's what happens with a buttress without the roof and internal arches pushing the other way. Not enough to push it instantly over, but give it time or a strong wind...
>Strange that Japan isn't adopting a similar points-based system

They do use a points-based system for highly-skilled workers: http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/evaluate/index.htm...

>One would presume a Japanese immigration policy and pathway of citizenship would mandate learning the language and other ways to facilitate assimilation

It strongly does and is incredibly difficult otherwise. When applying for citizenship if you struggle at all when asked questions in Japanese you will likely, if not certainly, be rejected. There are countless anecdotal stories out there confirming the difficulties in attaining citizenship from people who already have permanent resident status.
“Among the remaining 4 in 10 adults who would have more difficulty covering such an expense, the most common approaches include carrying a balance on credit cards and borrowing from friends or family”

Having to carry a credit card balance isn’t much of a struggle. This article needs to do more work to make a better headline so it’s not actually “40% of Americans would be inconvenienced...”
> It is supposed to be a program for highly skilled people

No, it's a program for employers.

> but is often abused to just bring in cheaper people.

That's what it is obviously designed for, within limits, and any contrary explanation requires hoping the person you selling it to doesn't understand the relation between supply, demand, and price.

> If they are really difficult spots to fill and important, them the pay should be no issue.

Pay is always an issue; importance just sets the exact level of pay at which it becomes not worth it to hire.
By your logic, with that little watch thing on your wrist you could spend all day outside in Dubai and not worry about a thing.
One could also write a sudoku solver in z3. I did this for an assignment and it was fun. I have never programmed in Lisp before but there seems to be some similarity between them.
If you have an idea for an app that will directly tackle poverty and hopelessness, I think there are a lot of people willing to listen.

This isn't an attempt to bandaid over the whole problem. It's an attempt to address a minor contributing factor that is much more tractable than hopelessness.
To try games. Since companies stopped creating demos I need to download a pirated copy of a game before deciding if I should buy it or not, even just to check if it runs decently on my hw configuration.
Meh, there's terrible smearing of details in the leaves, grass, and stone due to clumsy noise reduction. It will be interesting to see what a decent raw converter can do with files from the camera.
A big issue of reform was the switching costs. A number of countries specifically the Nordics and France, have very elaborate and somewhat successful systems for renumeration to publishers and (theoretically) authors. For these any shift to more lax rules risks upending the system in such major ways that they are opposed to it. So any EU reform faces a really uphill struggle, as the vetos are pretty much guaranteed.
dagwieers, sorry this happened man that really fucking sucks. They should have done this differently and reached out to you for communication and stuff. Pretty disappointed with them for this. Hope you keep on and find other projects that excite you to work on.
Only if the modern materials and design are done with the same eye toward longevity that marked the original designs. Part of the beauty of these ancient churches is psychological... they feel permanent and timeless in a changing world.

Modern materials, on the other hand, are designed for productivity, not permanence. They hit cost targets. They're cheap and effective and sometimes even elegant, but it's highly unusual for a modern building to be built in a way that reflects an expected lifespan of centuries or even millennia.
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> For my own part, outside of OS and security software, which I feel should be 100% monolithic and black box, I'm fine with the idea of all text and code of every program and file being available to anyone who may wish to improve it.

Curious to hear why you think OS and security software should be black boxes and not open.
Yeah there is just one problem... European companies are also getting fines when they don’t play by the rules. And in some cases very hefty fines...

The whole “US taxing” argument is produced by people who would know how ridiculous that claim is if they would look further than US borders.
Yeah there were times that even when I was making a ton of cash at a startup, living in SF, a $400 emergency could kick my ass too because I was such a financial idiot.
aka the cooling tower.

The Anglican cathedral, started in 1904 was finished later, in 1978 - was very much of the classical mould inside and out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Cathedral
Carrying a balance isn't the struggle, it's paying off the accumulation that is.
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Well if you don't have the money to pay it off right away, and it's on your credit card, then how are you supposed to find even more money to pay that off? What if another surprise bill came at that time? You'd be going down the debt spiral.
I was actually considering writing one but I have no established presence or blog. I'm a full-time attorney but I've been following USDS work with VA for years now. I am subscribed to every update in certain respositories.

In very very short terms, the tools have been designed from scratch without primary stakeholders (veterans, their advocates) for 2-3 years and they are just now considering opening up to stakeholder issues on their github. Instead, they focus on VA employees say they need to accomplish their jobs or even VA contractors.

Certain VA employees have publicly stated ownership of the USDS's work on their behalf, it's "their" software and not the public's or Veterans', and it is clearly designed as such.

I could give very specific examples all throughout the USDS VA Digital Service github account but I'll just leave this nugget[0] (which I wrote) from October 2017. They just stated their intention to begin to incorporate stakeholder ideas only a few months ago[1].

What would actually improve Veteran's claims processing starts with what Veterans and their advocates can do - to SAVE government resources doing the same thing or codifying it into complicated software on their end.

[0]https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/caseflow-e...

[1]see very bottom of [0]
I don't see tech being a solution here. As a Canadian, this is one of the areas where Americans and Canadians differ very noticeably. The US seems to have a dogmatic / religious belief that government is bad, and that business / private enterprise is the answer to almost everything. Even among HN Silicon-Valley progressive types who are so similar to me, there's a difference in mind-set. It's like it's in your milk, air, and water growing up.
See https://voting.works
> Which of these do you think is more likely: That Google knows the specific things that will cause it to be fined and just doesn't care about tens of billions of dollars, or that they're trying to but can't figure out ahead of time what behavior will result in fines?

I'm not interested in theoretical arguments contradicting easily verifiable facts that are phrased as false dilemmas.

> Then what do those settings do?

I don't know -- Google doesn't let me access them without logging in. Nor do I care. It definitely doesn't let you turn off the data collection that Google forces you to "consent" too. The whole point of forcing someone is not giving them a choice.

> Somebody is paying for it. If you get them to stop doing that, what do you expect to follow?

The services currently funded with corporate propaganda are instead funded in a saner way. Ideally the public funds it, but even charging people individually makes more sense than ads. However, other goods and services become slightly cheaper because their producers and providers don't spend as much on advertising. This more than compensates having to pay for services since you only have to pay for the service itself, not the service and the ad companies that charge you for the service in a stealthy and horribly convoluted way.

> At which point you have the possibility of most people "voluntarily" sharing their data and the service continuing to be free, or the alternative that they don't and everybody has to pay for it directly. But the first one is basically the status quo and if you're angling for the second one then, again, why don't you just start there?

Because I'm a dirty commie who is not in the habit of donating money to multinational for-profit corporations. Is that a serious question?
Works like a charm until the money has to be repaid.
Google says Dubai is 113F in the summertime. 108F is still much too warm for me, I am afraid.
I am bit surprised by the fact that with unemployment rate that is all time low, people should eventually see that savings amount go up overall. This is almost saving like $8 per week which is close to hourly minimum wage. Personally I think either people spend way too much money or they don't follow strict discipline of saving small (%) of their income.
Ah yes, think of the poor high-rise owners who won't take on long-term tenants because they make more from tourists. How else would they afford their vacation home
How do you keep up with that?

I lost track at .se !

Weirdly I’ll sometimes get tpb links from bing searches (google doesn’t work) that work on mobile but not desktop.

Figure it’s a proxy thing.

The only thing I torrent nowadays is the skyf1 and rocadirecta is great for that and has already prevailed on court in Spain if I remember correctly so not getting to Pirate Bay isn’t as big of deal as it would have been 5 years ago.
I'd suggest that these groups are less distinguishable, or that there is more overlap of these groups, than you may think.
I wrote a program that generates all sudokus that satisfy constraints given in a partially filled grid. I thought it might be feasible to find out the distribution of 81 digit numbers that are valid Sudokus by such brute force. Since there are so many sudokus, I made the program capable of resuming an interrupted computation using a dump file. All this I did in C. It was quite a learning experience.
Here goes: (https://github.com/vyuh/sud.c)

For some fun I also translated the algorithm to Javascript (https://github.com/vyuh/sud.js) and Java (https://github.com/vyuh/sudoku-lister/blob/master/java/sudok...). The javascript code is used in a toy browser application i made (https://su-do-ku.herokuapp.com/).

Some day I might generalize the program to larger Latin Squares (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square).
The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
From time to time I drive drunk, just to see if get that DUI... Still nothing so far.
Great reply! We don't expect to be the source of solutions. We just want to help founders who are brave enough to take these challenges on.
> 18.55 septillion FPS!

intel has some room to grow I see
Yeah, even when I was younger and only had irregular, low paid work, I never had less than a few thousand dollars in cash available in case of emergency. Sure, I had to defer things I wanted to have that but it there was more than once that it kept my life from going off the rails when an emergency did arise.
I have a Yamaha Motif Rack synth, from around 2004. It has software to aid in the parameter settings if you want to make a new sound. It is a advanced synth and quite complicated. The tiny screen and knobs on the front panel is very fiddly to use so software on a computer is a better solution. But I fear that in just a few years the 2004 software will not run on any new computer and I will have to keep old computers around to program the synth.
> if they really care about their users, not just getting profits?

[citation needed]
A couple years ago there was a paper reported somewhere (it may have been here) that dealt with unsupervised learning using entropy as the only fitness function. Regardless of the task or any other factors, the researchers used maximizing entropy as the only goal. And this immediately led to the development of complex, interesting, and desirable behavior. When used for a system balancing a pole, it would learn to balance the pole upright. When given a ball where a hoop was present, it would automatically navigate the ball through the hoop. I tried to reach out to the author of the paper to get a full copy of the paper (could only find a paywalled abstract online) but never got a response. It seemed like a very interesting approach, and this sounds like doing basically the same thing. Favor moving to any state which increases the maximum likely future states. Increase entropy, 'intelligence' emerges.
Just for fun, let's pedantically parse the words and see if that's where we differ (key [words/phrases in brackets] for my parsing).

>>> If [[successful] people are having fewer kids] than [unsuccessful] people then haven't we created a [dysgenic] system?

>> [This view] is popular, even if in jest like "haha Idiocracy was right guise!!" but [in real life] [it] [[smacks of] [eugenics]] and the Divine Right Of The Rich.

...

> Seems like that comment is judging a narrative or a meme, and not the person who made the comment itself.

To be extra safe, let's add some context, to make sure we're using the same definitions and "facts":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgenics

Dysgenics is the study of factors producing the accumulation and perpetuation of defective or disadvantageous genes and traits in offspring of a particular population or species. The adjective "dysgenic" is the antonym of "eugenic".

"smacks of": To be a sign or symbol of something: signify, stand for, symbolize

"eugenics": Eugenics is the science of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by “breeding out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

"The heritability of IQ for adults is between 57% and 73%[6] with some more-recent estimates as high as 80%[7] and 86%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with age and reaches an asymptote at 18–20 years of age and continues at that level well into adulthood. This phenomenon is known as the Wilson Effect.[9] Recent studies suggest that family and parenting characteristics are not significant contributors to variation in IQ scores;[10] however, poor prenatal environment, malnutrition and disease can have deleterious effects.[11][12]"

To me (my interpretation):

- OP seems to be asserting that "successful" people having fewer kids is detrimental to the overall well being of society.

- The person replying implies disagreement with this popular view (narrative/meme), but then goes on to assert (again, my interpretation) that those who hold this view (when it is put forth "in real life", which is what I interpret "it" to refer to) are in support (at least implicitly) of eugenics.

Do you perhaps think OP doesn't personally hold the stated view, or the replier doesn't believe OP personally holds the stated view? Personally, when I see no language to indicate either are talking in purely theoretical/philosophical (devil's advocate, etc) terms, by default I tend to take people's statements at face value (while keeping in mind the ever-present possibility that something important was lost in translation).

I'm genuinely very curious if this is significantly different than how you view (parse the language to derive the actually intended meaning) the exchange?
And it's a JPEG. It would be interesting to see the RAW image.
While a surprising statistic, this number has actually improved in the last five years. "This is an improvement from half of adults in 2013 being ill-prepared for such an expense [$400]" - Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017 [0]

[0]https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2017-repor...
I believe that’s the point.
Regional pricing is a thing. In fact many deal sites go into how to pay less for streaming services via VPN.
Not really - there is no way to synchronise the start of framecapture that finely by that many cameras. Using a single camera but clever optics to "temporally spread a tiny image over a large sensor" to effectively create a sprite sheet is kind of your only option.
My parents were both involved in post-fire salvage operations at Notre-Dame and though I'm necessarily a bit biased towards their opinions, I wish we wouldn't share any self-branded expert's take on what went wrong or how things should be done. Some of the most qualified people in the country are working on the site and aren't being interviewed. As the article states, the man in charge of the restoration is an Architecte en chef des monuments historiques; preserving and restoring state-owned monuments is his job and he's accompanied by other architects of the same training. I fully agree with the author in that they should be the ones designing the reconstructed spire, not a worldwide art project as the president suggests. As far as the "independent report" about the stability of the building, it has not made the news here so far.
It's safer than installing a camera. Red-light cameras increase the overall number of crashes for any given intersection, especially rear-end collisions, since people tend to slam their brakes when they notice the camera in order to avoid getting a ticket.
Turn it into a mosque or something useful lol.
”It seems like this approach would require all arrays to be allocated with at least a page's worth of memory”

I don’t know whether it is done in practice, but you can postpone doing that until the array gets ‘big’, for some definition of ‘big’.
Rome prefers steel-cladding on their otherwise brutalist cathedrals now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Cathedral,_Tokyo
Perhaps instead the employment rate doesn't tell the whole story?
The joy of creation doesn't pay the bills or put food on the table.

Most people working a full time job barely have free time.
I don't think these things are necessarily mutually exclusive. A fair bit of financial literacy should enable someone to save at least some income even at minimum wage (barring catastrophes and good old fashioned bad luck). The lifestyle you'd need to save on a minimum wage is pretty unsavory, though, and not many would enjoy living that way forever.
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