skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the ultimate crony partnership: all people within the borders are required to use the services of our government-appointed cartel (the banks), or else we'll fine you and jail you. Because obviously, if you care about privacy, you must be a terrorist ... or something.

These experiments are the terminal phase of the fiat money disease.
Their backend is printing out PDFs for the county election workers to count. You still have to trust someone, you'll always have to trust someone.
Internet advertising to grow at slowest rate since 2001 dotcom bust
Author here, would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Are there any specific features that you'd like to see? Would you consider using a tool like this? What features would be required for you to do so?

I appreciate your time and Thank you

Danny

- https://medium.com/@dm03514/valuestream-devops-metrics-obser...

- https://medium.com/dm03514-tech-blog/debugging-devops-using-...
> Do you know how high the psychopath rate amongst managers is?

What I've always wanted to know is: do psychopaths make better managers? Do they somehow gravitate towards management positions in some other way? Or is it the management position that brings out the psychopath in people?
What are the motivations for putting things like Apple Secure Boot in there? It makes me wonder if they someday want to be able to say "this dongle is not Apple approved".
Frankly, you are jumping to conclusions. I don't drive a car, despite being a former “petrol head”. I am stating a hard truth, but apparently hard truths are hard to swallow on either side. If anything, you should chance your attitude.
The collapse of Easter Island was mostly likely due to Europeans introducing disease to the island in their first visits, kidnapping the islanders for slavery aboard ships, then nearby Chile doing the same sort of thing, followed by more disease when some islanders were returned later.

Early reports of visits to the island noted how friendly the islanders were. Then just a couple of years later they were aggressive towards visiting ships. I wonder why? On the first visit some islanders were killed "by accident" (shot one! oops!).

The "stupid natives cut down their trees" story is mostly propaganda to cover the real tragedy caused by external forces destroying the island life.
I didn’t say there was no effect. The change in outcome from IQ is statistically significant, just modest.
Have you thought about adding old school modems to that list? We've come a long way from telephone couplers, BBSes and Compuserve in terms of how we get online and communicate.

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>The article also says “Millennials buying their first home today are likely to pay 39% more than baby boomers who bought their first home in the 1980s”.

Interest rates were much much higher in the 1980s. So it's probably a wash and/or even less now.
Your net share is a lot less than 16 grand. That 1T is money that would be collected and spent in country, creating tens of thousands of jobs with its accompanying spinoffs. And since the economy is a giant circle, much of that 16 grand would indirectly come back to you.
What other states are experimenting with memes?
The shocking obesity epidemic?
The optical system in Minnesota is great.

I fill out the paper ballot, so no matter what I've voted. It is really clear how to use the system, and I'm not waiting on technology no matter what happens next.

Then I roll it into the machine itself and it goes into a locked box attached to the machine.

There is always a paper record.

The machines and votes are tied together so auditing is straightforward.
Even though cpp11 has been around a while, there is a ton of code that isn't using smart pointers everywhere. This makes exception handling messy, especially with partially constructed objects.
Sure. You can put results in an "output" queue (which is backed by Redis) that is read by the main application.

Incidentally this is how you do a notification on your UI .
I honestly can't imagine sleeping in the same bed as someone, personally. For a bunch of various reasons...

1) I need to be very cold to sleep and don't want to be disrupted by someone else's warmth

2) I'd be woken up when the other person shifts around, and vice versa

3) What if my partner snores, has sleep apnea, mutters in their sleep?

4) What if we just have different circadian rhythms? I like to be up at 6am, which means bedding at 10pm. But my partner(s) have historically been night owls.
I don’t think that it would have been different if someone else was the president. Pre-Trump I had a vacation in Cuba and since I knew that the internet is a luxury there I made Spanish available offline on Google Translate. Works great, then I made the mistake to launch the app when I hade one hour access to the internet in Havana and puff translate is gone. I’m not allowed to use it there. That surely destroyed the communists.
Types or Tests: Why Not Both?
To be honest, I don't really remember how long the exposistion times were. I assume we used less than hour, more than minute and I wonder if I can found our old lab-notes :)

Photograms-idea sound really fun as well, and probably a bit easier than trying to get the exposition time correctly.
We need a moral change more than anything else. Otherwise nobody will be motivated enough. Not all the information in the world will convince someone who doesn't care.

I used to be a bit baffled how people could say "fake news" at obvious facts and data and science. Then I read something Fulton Sheen said: never think too much about what someone says, but why they say it. He made this point about atheists, saying that they only choose not to believe in God so they can continue living an evil life. The same can be said of people who deny climate change and the seriousness of the matter, or any clear and demonstrable truth really.
Postgrest?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that this is not something that "both sides" are equally responsible for. In Canada/US, conservatives/Republicans generally refuse to implement a carbon tax; whereas the center-left and left parties generally do. Additionally in the US, the Republicans don't even believe in climate-change.

Hence Chomsky's argument that the Republican party is the most dangerous organisation in human history: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/noam-choms...

So I agree we need carbon tax, but I find it frustrating to pretend this is a issue both sides are at fault for.
Access to 911 Recordings: Balancing Privacy and the Public’s Right to Know
That is a seriously high bar, and extremely unlikely (there are lots and lots of things on a car that break that have nothing to do with the drivetrain). I think a better first goal is to get the reliability up on par with the other domestic manufacturers, and get the repair time down to something comparable as well.

I got pretty close a few weeks ago to picking up a Model 3P but the maintenance stories spooked me. I am just not enough of an EV/Tesla enthusiast to deal with that on my commuter car.
Yes, but it is quite slow. Even 12 hours of charging might not be enough for someone's commute. For example, let's look at Honda's PHEV, the Clarity.

17kWh battery.

47 miles EV range.

Charge time @ 120V = 12 hours. It essentially can charge up to 4 miles of range per hour on a standard circuit in a US home. Cold weather? Your power needs go up, range goes down, and charge rate drops as well. 15 amps @ 120V EV charging is not practical for most EV owners, at this time, but you are correct that it is possible.
As a reliability engineer I disagree. It's nice to know that your code has few antipatterns in it by design. "Blunt knives" is a really bad way to think about it. You have plenty of very sharp knife, and they are easy to use and have clearly defined scope and purpose.

A knife that's sharp and unweildly makes me nervous even in the hands of an expert. Keep unweildly constructions out of go!
Cobalt yes, kind of. Nickel absolutely not. Every single car, globally, could be electrified without making a big dent in nickel demand. Stainless steel is FAR more demanding of nickel.

Cobalt is tricky because in most places it's a byproduct of nickel mining, and it is only mined on its own in a couple places (notably the DRC). Despite that it's fairly likely that it will scale well, and it also becomes less and less relevant as electrodes reduce the amount of cobalt they use.

Virgin spheroidal graphite is another possibly-constrained supply, as it's a very particular kind of hard coal. Luckily it can be produced artificially- batteries use a roughly 40-60 mix and it costs roughly the same. IIRC natural graphite has a slightly higher power output and synthetic graphite has higher capacity, due to the nanoscale patterning of the graphite grains. As coal mining decreases graphite will probably just become more artificially produced, since it can be made from essentially anything.
>If Tesla can establish their cars as almost never needing service...

I drive a 15 year old Volvo wagon that almost never needs service :)

Of course I exaggerate - I probably average $150/month in maintenance. Sorry, but the chances of Tesla doing the same over 15 years is zero.
I'd that they don't have any measured resources on their list, it's half inferred and half indicated. So moderate uncertainty about everything down there.
A New Programming Anthem
So a system with trusted parties? Sounds like a database, so we can ignore the blockchain bit entirely.
From my experience OpenPDF is better at formatting and layout. PDFBox is a lot lower level.

OpenPDF [1]:

document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World"));

PDFBox [2]:

contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
contentStream.drawString( "Hello World" );
contentStream.endText();

[1]: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/blob/master/pdf-toolbox/...

[2]: https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/cookbook/documentcreation.html
trivia:
all planets in our solar system are warming up. do you think our carbon emissions are affecting jupiter too?

that being said i'm confident carbon taxes will convince our sun to leave us alone.
To be fair upgrading very old libraries because you hit a fixed bug to very new libraries can be a long process... but I never have worked on a project that stayed on new libraries continuously so... not sure how it works the other way.
As other users have pointed out, the sanctions don't apply to internet services as long as they are provided for free[1]. So this is political pressure, not legal requirement.

I'm disappointed that you've chosen to give in to the political pressure. I posted about SourceHut to promote your service because I thought you were doing something better than the big guys.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
Oh yes, it's a big risk. I think this is at least one reason why policy makers are so hesitant to raise rates. Especially in places like the UK, where many home owners are highly leveraged assuming a low interest rate, yet only have 3-5 year fixed rates. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a large increase in defaults if the interest rates went up here. It would probably bring home prices down to more reasonable levels as well.
I suspect the incompetence is by design to some extent. If you like small government, cripple it and then you've got an excuse to limit its reach and continue to cut.
... or the red rum in the Overlook Hotel.
Clink – Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe
cry me a river. It happens

Docker did the same thing to me.

Compare these two papers (published in 2010 and 2011 in conferences that docker and everyone else in the space are regular participants at, for reference Docker was announced in March 2013)

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/P...

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers...

It was then patented (patent filed in 2011, issued in November 2013)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8589947B2/en

This was also my "job talk" to IBM Research and it got me a post doc, but didn't get much traction in support of continuing to pursue / refine the ideas within IBM Research (which I find sort of ironic in retrospect with their recent strategic moves)
What about what?
Good summary of he current technologies on the market right now, Maybe adding a few ETL tools will be great, they're still important :)

I liked case of studies compilation thumps up.
This is no surprise: Finland is one of the most educated, socially responsible countries. Why and how did it happen, and can it be replicated in other countries?

A hint might be found in the article:

"The education system was also reformed to emphasize critical thinking."

I wish we had something like this implemented here in the US.
> My wife and I married after traveling together

I think everyone should spend a week (min) or two traveling with their prospective partner before committing to a lifetime together. You learn so much about people when you remove them from their daily routine.
It seems clear the person who originally asked about the purpose of the "red room" was just trolling, and boy did it work.
I don't trust someone who can't implement `__cmp__` to implement `__lt__` either.
IBM did some work in microfluidics to move heat out of the hottest parts of a chip to the surface. After that you can use more conventional cooling tech to carry the heat away.
I think it depends on how you interpret "reduced"

- Does it mean reducing the actual number of instructions in the ISA?

- Does it mean reducing the functionality of each instruction to it's absoloute minimum?

These are similar, and overlapping in places. You can also do one without the other.

I think that the base RISC-V ISA does both to a perhaps unhelpful degree. As soon as you want a RISC-V core to be competative with other peer ISAs, you need a bunch of the extensions, which minimises the value in calling it reduced in the first place. At the least, it exposes a possible dichotomy between "reduced-ness" and "usefullness".
Discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20544564
It seems as a proposal to overlap interfaces a lot.

- Interfaces gather methods. The concrete type referenced through an interface doesn't need to know about the interface. Interfaces can be used to decouple operations from the details of the thing being operated upon.

- Contracts gather methods. The concrete type referenced through a contract doesn't need to know about the contract. Contracts can be used to decouple operations from the details of the thing being operated upon.

Disjunction: Interfaces are resolved at runtime and result in indirect calls. Contracts are resolved at compile time and their contract-nature is lost in object code, they just become direct calls. Oh and contracts can do operators.

It feels to me like the risk here is not more syntax but less orthogonality. There will be two features competing to be the standard way to do the contract-like things.
From what I understand, they used to trust the FAA. They probably won't trust the FAA so much in the future.
I can't drive. So walking becomes the only cost effective transportation for me. Don't get me wrong I enjoy it, but the simple fact is where I live,as well as in much of the US,its nearly completely car dependent.

Interestingly I live in an area that's in between a middle/ upper middle class neighborhood and a much more rundown area. Of course the sidewalks only extend down the the poorer area. On top of that the road is adjacent to interstate entrances/ exits, adding more danger. Unless I want to pay for an uber, I'm generally confined to the apartment and immediate surrounding areas. There are ways to get to other parts of down, but they'd have me walking down streets notorious for crime. And don't get me started on the heat. A mile walk has me drowning in sweat.

I don't live completely in the middle of nowhere, but it is a pretty small city, and its obvious that not driving affects my quality of life significantly. Of course at this point, learning to drive and getting a car will cost about as much as to move to a walkable city, so I suppose I may do that.
What little has been described offers plenty of attack surface. The white paper has this to say about how paper copies of votes are printed out:

> When the polls close, members of each county clerk’s staff insert two cryptographically secure thumb drives into the vendor’s administrative portal laptop. Once the two thumb drives are verified, votes on the blockchain are automatically assembled as PDF files for each county. The Secretary of State’s office sends each county one PDF file containing all the marked ballots submitted by voters of that county. The clerk’s staff prints the ballots on cardstock with a ballot printer capable of printing up to 20” two-sided ballots (see Fig. 4). Each printed ballot contains the anonymous ID of the voter (see highlight in Fig. 5). Tabulation and the consolidation of results is done automatically by scanning the paper ballot into the precinct tabulator of the primary voting system (see Fig. 6).

https://sos.wv.gov/FormSearch/Elections/Informational/West-V...

How do the clerks get these thumb drives? What's the protocol for storage until used? Who has access to them? What physical security features do the drives implement?

If I were going to attack this system, the thumb drives seem like a juicy target with plenty of social engineering opportunities.
Snap Rides AR into 2019 Rebound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting

Helios does it far better, and way before all of this "blockchain" hype, no cryptocurrency required.
So why not just define `__eq__` and `__cmp__`. It just seems to make so much more sense... and only `__eq__` only if you need it different from `__cmp__ == 0`.

Removing `__cmp__` was a step backwards IMHO.
Yeah, I see that this raises more complex questions. On one hand, it could be solved by signing an entire torrent instead of original data, and/or builtin zipping instead of pre-packaging. On the other hand, existing torrents and packaging habits would be likely incompatible.

I also thought of a thing similar to libarchive - a format analyzer which could e.g. separate a movie from its subtitles and audio tracks for specific formats, enabling world-wide availability for heavy streams. Or sharing jpegs/mp3s with metadata changed to ones needs, but with main parts intact and thus still seedable. It’s not about really splitting a file in parts, but about detecting better block beginnings, sort of network-wide struct member alignment.
"Where a lot of them are divorced so they're maybe a little hesitant to move in together and get married?"

This is a strong implication that OP thinks this is the way to go and only because they had bad experiences in the past they are not following them.

The point that "old people dating" follows from this implication being true.

They had bad experiences => they date longer before moving in => this is an article about old people dating => boring

They aren't "dating" in the classical sense, this IS how their relationship is => this is an article about shifting relationship structure in older people => interesting
Yes, it's worth solving. Here's another suggestion - make voting day a holiday.
Yes. Anyone whining about "both sides" on almost any issue in 2019 is an idiot.
I can hear the "Hum" most of the time when in bed in my sleeping room. I have been trying to find the location, but so far without success. I know that the source is not in our house, because I disconnected the house from the electric grid for testing. My best guesses for the source of the "Hum" are:

- A transformator station located not too far away from our house.
- A nearby neighbor running some machine 24h a day, maybe for heating or cooling.
- Sounds of an machine, maybe for waste water treatment, travelling though the sewer pipes. This is my favorite theory.

If you hear the "Hum", try to simply accept that it's there and there is nothing you can do about it. This helped me tremendously get back to normal sleeping hours.
SourceHut accepts payments and will eventually become paid-only. I am a one-man operation and I don't have the legal wherewithal to stand up to the government. You can tell me how this legal fight fits into our budget, the finances are public:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q....

I have to prioritize the health of the service for everyone above the needs of a few people.
While this looks good, I don't think it's feasible for a web crawler in most cases. Crawlers want to crawl a ton of URLs and it would have to make a request to your service for each and every URL.

What's the plan here? Check for a sitemap.xml (which generally only contains crawlable URLs anyway) or crawl the index and look for all links and send a request to your service for every URL before crawling it?

I personally think it would be better suited as a library where you can pass it a robots.txt and it'll let you know if you can crawl a URL based on that.
The bandwidth of memory bus is still a limiting factor.
Shouldn't flights be divided by people for an apples to apples comparison? Passenger mile per gallon is the relevant part.
I bought mine without any subsidies, grants, etc. I have no desire to give it up, nor any good reason. There's new houses being built all the time, so no one must live in mine specifically.
If the recycling were getting sorted for free, more recycling stations would be viable businesses.
> And you can keep lower levels of warning for older, or third party code.

Maybe, but I think it’s hard to do in practice. Many C++ libraries are header only because templates, i.e. old and new stuff is mixed really well.

Differentiating warnings is possible with #pragma but they aren’t portable across compilers.
only if civil disobedience produces fewer results than "coherent actionable efforts". The US has quite a long history of effective civil discontent, the highway revolts and the civil rights movement of course being two examples.

To be honest I hear a lot of people talking about actionable efforts all the time, but if they're so actionable, why aren't they happening? Isn't that the definition of the term?
The absurdly optimistic tone of the article is just irritating. There are no businesses in the Congo because the Congo is failed state, has been the last 50 years (pretty much since it's inception) and it will be the next 50. So, there isn't any "change" either.
No. And to be honest I don't miss those one bit ;)

Edit: I don't miss the Modems. The BBS era was pure magic on a stick. I loved every second of it.
It's not as clear-cut as you would think. https://www.eac.gov/documents/2017/02/23/will-vote-by-mail-e...
Kodachrome was great but the process was horrible. Usage was declining well before digital became a thing, because C-41 and E-6 films got good enough to replace it.

I did, however, have a few rolls in the last batch Dwayne's processed.
There is no real difference between sanctions on internet service and any other thing, except things directly involved in the reasons for the sanctions (notably military material)
Is AI the next big climate-change threat? We haven’t a clue
On a tangent here but seriously, lights that highlight pimples? That is so cruel. I still remember having pimples like 25 years ago and how humiliating it felt. Now there's a light that teens need to run away from?