skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that a solution this problem as well as many others like undo influence, too much money needed and so on, could be solved by increasing the number of representatives. I believe that the only stipulations in the constitution is that each state must have at least one and that a representative cannot represent less than 30K citizens. The number was frozen 35 in 1911 by the house, but they could change that if they wanted to without changing the constitution.

The reason I think this would help on a number of levels is as follows 1) Gerrymandering becomes more difficult if there are a lot more districts. 2) influence peddling and lobbying is diluted if there are more representatives. 3) the voter can have more influence and contact with their representative if their congress person represents a smaller sized constituency.

I think arguments around the size of the building (the capital) are silly, who cares where they meet, it can be in a stadium, or even better why bother having them all in Washington DC. it can all be done with telepresence in todays world and then you as a citizen could go down to say the court house and sit in the audience as your representatives interact via telepresence.

I get it that perhaps all this seems crazy or whatever, but none of it would require any changes to the constitution. It could be done by the House itself with no consent from the Senate or President.
It became in-game purchases. Shareware was v1 of the model, and a very blunt instrument. It's evolved into free-to-play with paid upgrades, which is very much alive.
AHHH! Yes, thank you. I knew it was familiar. I know it through my particular beef with some air-headed philosophers.

Now, not all philosophers... some of them ask very good questions and propose smart thought experiments which lead to positive change in the world.

Some of them, not so much. These talk in jargon filled circles, paint themselves into corners, shoot themselves in the feet, then drag down countless impressionable miserable children along with them into an empty revolution and drag down the collective unconscious retarding the good of civilization.
Confirmation bias is bad when others have it, but not when HN readers have it.

You haven't bothered to read the source, haven't bothered to understand what the context is, and haven't even bothered to see that there is no mention of WhatsApp in the talk.

Ducking tired of click bait and people who ducking reward it.

:face-palm:
Unfortunately, it's likely we'll never get a rigorous proof of malfeasance. Thus do you go with WhatsApp as a homosexual in Russia or Iran, or as protestor in Hong Kong against the Chinese government, given that Facebook has given us plenty of reasons to distrust them?
Forget this one, EU politicians, especially our German Interior Minister Seehofer, hate proper e2e with a passion - they want to weaken the 5g standards so that they can continue IMSI catching and snooping.

Fuck them hard.
Raised floors would be hard to keep clean in a hospital.
I bet it's mostly men too. We have to focus and get some kind of value through work of somekind if we are to have a chance of other's approval. A single man in his 40's with no wife or kids and no job is probably the lowest tier in society, and trying to avoid it is not an easy task.
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vendors like Adblock Plus are paid by Google (and others) to allow their ads to not be blocked.

It is the same company that bought the uBlock clone, including the domain name, so they can mislead people and give them the illusion of adblocking.
Yes, exactly, charisma.
How long before car manufacturers design windows that always cost $950+ to fix, so that any break-in is above the felony threshold?
The Plot That YouTube Has Made Out of Internet Explorer
edit: figured out, thanks for quick feedback!
He "published" that data by specifically leaking it to a Chinese newspaper. He was seeking asylum in Hong Kong at the time. Of course, Beijing did not want a prolonged diplomatic tussle with the US, so they could not let him stay. Their choices were to extradite to the US or to let him go somewhere else, and both options make it not their problem, so they let him (forced him to) go. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/hong-kong-edwa...
There has been a lot of other work over the last five years with a constant stream of new people talking about iteration and start up times with constant promises that it will be fixed soon.
I think the reasons for that are twofold:

1) There is a tendency to focus on the negative

2) The general trend of wealth inequality has been going in the wrong direction for many, many years and it is only getting worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Shopping with a backpack as in putting stuff in them before you leave? Or merely having them on while you shop? I've done the latter but not the former.
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Spotify's closed-sourced abondon-ware libspotify library requires the username and password. I'm not convinced by the argument that storing those details in a suitably protected text file is particularly risky but I appreciate others may have other ideas. You can actually read the password from the system keyring but we don't document that very well since it's more of a hack (if I remember correctly).
There is a way, look in Apperance - General - Status bar location.
Yes. Depending on your usage pattern, you are better off buying that cheap low-range car and paying for additional transport when needed.
I like having options but wouldn’t recommend iTerm.

Apple’s Terminal.app is more performant rendering text and more responsive to input while admittedly having somewhat less unnecessary features.

In fact, iTerm is one of the slowest terminals out there!

See: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

iTerm used to have a lot of really compelling stuff that was missing from the official terminal like tabs, etc... that made straying away from the canonical terminal app worth it but most of them eventually made their way to Terminal.app so nowadays it’s mostly just fluff.
> Why not simply switch to a system where a state itself is a giant multi member district, like a parliamentary system?

Because this isn't software... you can't just "switch" to a different form of government like that.
My understanding of FB's plan to E2E encrypt everything is that it would be done to dodge responsibility for content moderation. If it can't see what's being discussed, it can't be held responsible for reigning in hate speech, misinformation, etc.
I don't trust Facebook and thus I wouldn't trust WhatsApp. That has nothing to do with whether or not it matters if specific allegations against Facebook are true.
> A government has power only if it does exercise it. If all government employees sat around all day and did nothing, the government would be powerless. The more a government exercises power, the more power it takes away from others

That's bullshit. A government can't take away power from others by exercising the power it doesn't have yet.

> (like the people).

A democratic state cannot take away power from the people, the people cannot take away power from itself. And non-democratic states don't have a legitimate government anyway.
Missing a few modern genres such as Bubblegum Bass and Deconstructed Club. Would be interested to see what this site has to say about those genres.
There should be two buttons that say "Sign in with email" and "Sign in with Google" respectively, either of those will create an account for you. If they're not showing up, maybe see if you've got a browser extension blocking it?
Why Is Subscription Based Gaming Better Than In-App Purchases?
Psychoactive is a blanket term that applies to all substances that affect the brain. It primarily consists of sedatives, stimulants, and hallucinogens.
When I use the "Start Radio" function on a song in Google Music it often leads to good stuff.
Yep definitely a fair point. Our assessments are building out full projects (so it's less easy to share answers/ get one person to do one question and another person to do another).

Secondly, we do meet each candidate for a 1-hour virtual call as well just to ensure their skills in person align with those online!

We just know candidates are more comfortable completing assessments in their own environment (which is what they would be doing on the job anyway) so we don't want to dock out points for people who get anxiety for onsite tests.
> Any developer can clone an open source crypto implementation and spin up a new chat app.

And they can use it to converse only with themselves. Getting everyone else to stop using their favourite panopticon is the hard part.
Got a more specific reference? I'd like to hear that.
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I'm not saying to trust Facebook. I think it is wise not to trust them. Just because I don't trust Facebook doesn't mean that I should assume by default that every allegation against Facebook is true.
Might be a dumb question, how do you split the terminal vertically or horizontally, and hide and un-hide the split terminals on Terminal.app? Without tmux or screen.

I have tried Terminal.app multiple times, but have come back to iTerm2 every time because I've not been able to figure out how to do that.
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ah okay, yeah i'm blocking gstatic.com

related: signing up with email requires loading a google domain? that's... really unfortunate. understandably probably not a priority for you, but hopefully one day i can try this out without loading google resources
Yeah, your concern is totally valid. One thing that would hit people who cache the API is they would also be subject to fair use policies for bandwidth usage (namely serving the images used). Pretty much all CMSs have some form of this that basically requires large bandwidth users to pay for one of the higher price plans anyway so not to be losing money on customers

That said if someone wanted to get real fancy they could comb through the content and replace the image URLs with some of their own. You are right, this will have to be sorted out if this becomes a common way people use the product.

Thank you for the feedback
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It's no biggie and sure I can change it to "change this", it's just odd to me that nobody sets the subject line.
This is a really interesting thought - even having DAs spend 10% of their time on the other side of the aisle would probably help ensure less of an us-vs-them mentality. Plus being on the other side once in a while would likely make them better at prosecuting the cases that they're working on.
Interesting - can you say more?
Came here to say something like this.

Chief Justice Roberts' opinion[0] touches on the legislative evolution of the problem. The advent of districts was instituted by congress to encourage proportional representation - and it worked! Gerrymandering is actually an improvement over the older system that led to situations like GP is describing.

Gerrymandering is not the problem, it's a symptom. The problem is first-past-the-post elections. Ranked-choice voting or some other proportional system isn't a panacea either, but it's much better than judges re-drawing political districts instead of elected representatives.

[0]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/18-422_9ol1.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
Please don't—it's against the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585666 and marked it off-topic.
I see there's one more problem with thinker sculpture study, that has nothing to do how we analyze the data.
There was another study a while ago, where a dime was placed (or not placed for control group) in the public copying machine. And then researchers would ask those people who were using that copying machine a few questions, one of them was "on a scale from 0 to 10 how happy you are?"
People who found their dimes reported significantly higher happiness scores, but I don't remember by how much.
Assuming this experiment was true, and not some journalists twisting the data wihtout understanding statistics, I see there's some analogy with the sculpture study.
In particular, the conclusion I would make is that asking people questions about happiness or religion or anything whatsoever doesn't tell you much about their actual believes, since their answers are heavily affected by their mood at the moment.
I asume this statement can be turned into another study verifying its correctness, and then after we collect the results, we'd have to start arguing about Bayes vs. Fischer all over again...
Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) Surveillance Tools
Sales are slowing because they stopped innovating and give us the same exact device for four years in a row. Every once in a while the apple sheep wake up a little and stop buying until they add another camera then gobble the next device up. I’ll ativk with my X until they actually do something innovative. Maybe they can figure out how to copy notchless androids by 2025 or so?
Yeah, this dog-whistling act is getting pretty tiring.
Default end to end encryption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
I mean, though it's a variation on the "if you don't have anything to hide..." apology, you really shouldn't be having security sensitive group chats anyway.
I'm glad SF outlawed facial recognition. At least they got one law right.
Yes, I remember how badly Snowden misread it. Prism is a system that ingests data the FBI requested under court ordered wiretaps for specific accounts. The FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit is right there in the slides. https://i.imgur.com/setOJIm.jpg

This was well-known and commented on at the time Greenwald's articles were being published, with the NYT reporting on the program correctly the very next day by interviewing people actually involved in the program (verifying claims like real journalists — why didn't The Guardian think of that instead of taking the paranoid rants of a barely literate high school dropout at face value?).

https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...

https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/how-to-talk-about-prism-and-...

https://medium.com/prism-truth/the-prism-details-matter-82a1...

> And China/PRC != Hong Kong, whatever Beijing would have you believe.

Too bad for Snowden. He immediately leaked intelligence valuable to PRC, thinking that they could help him stay in Hong Kong. If only he had known "PRC != Hong Kong."

> Why are you posting propaganda

Why are you spreading well-known lies, and why are you calling the truth "propaganda?"
The one serious MacBook Pro security flaw that nobody is talking about (2018)
wow, I'm surprised that mobile makes up that much traffic!

it would be interesting to see what sort of UA visit your site... I'm assuming Chrome is the dominant mobile browser (which unfortunately doesn't support ad-blocking)
Firefox already blocks remote code execution in extensions and nobody's complaining about that. There would be nothing controversial about Chrome doing the same thing.
No, he's being downvoted for dog-whistle homophobia.
The Great Escape: Something Has Just Been Kicked Out of Supermassive Black Hole
Neat! Some questions on the "WhatApp" feature:

1) What do you mean by "a select set of integrated apps"?
2) Can the user tailor which app names are shared vs. those they prefer to keep private?
3) Did earlier prototypes try a generic approach for ID, e.g. capturing hWND of the focused window and querying
it's class, title, executable name, etc? Do Mac/Linux have analogous facilities for window identification?
4) Was it a challenge to distinguish browser-based apps? (e.g. Chrome, vs. Docs)
5) Is there any attempt to consolidate contexts that involve switching between multiple apps? (e.g. while I'm
coding VS Code, I jump to a browser to search docs for an API).
6) Is there some lag/hysteresis, so if you switch briefly to a different app and back, it doesn't generate noise?

I like the feedback-for-use model, it sure beats advertising. What is long-term pricing, and can I join without having to link to a Slack or Google account?
Not at all - you can easily balance your usage of Builder and your own code as much as you like. You can put Builder content within your code components, and you can easily use your code components within the Builder content.

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> when in many ways it's a shining example of how to do things right

US prosperity is largely a function of imperialism and military might, not some magical economic formula.

For instance, in South America:

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

The US government overthrew a democratically elected government for the prosperity of a _fruit company_.

> all it seems anyone talks about is how to fundamentally change the systems that made it that way.

Many of the people are fighting the systems that have heavily exploited poor countries around the world for the last ~100 years because they see it as fundamentally immoral. The US doesn't _deserve_ the standard of living it has achieved, and it's built on the blood of dead South Americans and Middle Eastern people.

It's honestly pathetic that poor Americans aren't provided for given the absolute spoils of war the elite have enjoyed.
Kudos to Mr. Nachman on continuing to develop a terrific piece of macOS software!

I've been running the 3.3 betas for a while and some of the new functionality is really great. Exporting a recording of a terminal session from the "Instant Replay" panel is very handy!
Linux Permissions 101
Surprised nobody mentioned that the whole fund and its future returns have been promised away already as future pension for the people working for the government (far too many). This is due to politicians and a too large part of the population that mistake "feeling good" as "being smart", and failure to recognize that the economic model that has worked for as long as the oil revenues kept flowing in, will stop working once the oil revenues start declining. There is no frugality, and all the traditional parties on the right/conservative side would be characterized as socialist in most other developed countries. And as the government overspending keeps growing, so do the taxes...
The war for the soul of open source (video, OSCON keynote)
Anyone using Hyper? I played with it but pretty quickly reverted back to iTerm2. In fact iTerm2 is basically the first thing I install on a new system along with ZSH/Oh my ZSH.
What is RCS?
FWIW, Siri is default off. When you first start up a new iPhone or Mac, it asks you, "Do you want to enable Siri?" and you can say "Skip" or "Do This Later" (infuriating language when you mean "NO").
> My bigger question is when the political split is more like 80/20 case should the 20 be guaranteed representation?

Yes they should. They should get around 20% of the representatives.
yeah, sorry about that. I use firebase for authentication since it's the quickest-to-set-up auth solution I'm aware of. But later on I'll see what I can do.
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