skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should look at and rebuild a chrome extension that I wrote for requestb.in/ that allows you to open new bins faster. It shouldn't be too difficult to add in your login system.

https://github.com/groteworld/request-tab
Bev Haris' grassroots watchdog movement Black Box Voting also has documented a lot of sketchy behavior as well, such as throwing away paper records of votes.

https://blackboxvoting.org/
I think Featmap is good and I think if you want to work on some ideas that have the potential to become startups I have some ideas in mind.
Do you want hear them?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20733878
Silicon Beach elites take a seat in the cockpit
I think this is a great idea. I've always felt that primary and secondary education should be teaching people about the work world. There's just so many specializations out there that people aren't familiar with. And it's sad to see people have to go through 6 years of school before finding out that they didn't want to go into that field.

Anyways, I created a site that's slightly related. It helps people find out what programming skills are in highest demand in their city: https://skilldime.com

Let me know if you want to partner up, maybe some kind of blog post or link exchange or something. I think either one of our audiences would appreciate knowing about the other.
Oh yeah. I meant regarding software to manage these emails. Do you forward everything to the team, use ZenDesk, or another solution?
Yes and we still don't know the long term effects of heavy use for a decade or two. Cigarettes were great and good for you for decades too.
The assignment merely takes the address of tun and adds a small value. That wouldn’t cause a crash.

The surprise is that the if (!tun) check is optimized sway because if tun is NULL the assignment causes undefined behavior which the compiler does not have to take into account.
Held individually the negative-yield bonds don't make much sense. However, they can actually improve the risk-adjusted returns of a portfolio that also holds stocks. This is because long-term bonds have, in the past decade, been negatively correlated with stocks [1,2].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/r9nCsN5

[2] https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/asset-correlations?s=y&s...
Aaron Mate had a pretty funny take on the interesting contrast in curiosity and skepticism between media coverage of the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory versus the Epstein story:

https://youtu.be/pXqSTOUwMPg?t=55

It's honestly shocking how much you can learn about what's really going on in the world from watching literal comedians compared to "trustworthy" "journalists". The news is such obvious theater, I suppose the boiled frog theory probably explains how we got to this point with almost no one noticing.
I use emacs+org on my work computer, which is Windows. It seems to work pretty well. I have not used the mobile apps in a while so I can't comment on them. The main issue on Windows is where it decides to stick your .emacs file. Your "home" directory is "C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming", which is not the most practical location. So I use this option:

(setq custom-file "fileshare-or-other-path/config.el)
(load custom-file)

All my customizations live in that config file, and having it on the network share has made it easier to move between systems.

"CR" means "Change Request", the way we term high level feature changes (additions, alterations, removals) from customers (as opposde to bugs or other things). We give them unique identifiers (usually a combination of a system identifier and unique number), but in a project we usually just refer to them either by a short description of the capability or "CR ##".

The Kanban example was more a quick demonstration of how you might use a custom workflow, it's not something I've actually used. Having to coordinate with others is not a strength of org-mode, I can't get other people to use it. So we use other project management systems at work. But for my own things, I often do have a custom workflow set up to indicate what I'm working on, or what it's status might be.

I do use one instance, the first thing my config file does is:

(server-start)

I can launch new clients and they all connect to the same server. I also make extensive use of frames, and added a quick way to cycle between them stealing the Command-` key from macOS (where it switches between windows in the same application):

(global-set-key (kbd "M-`") 'other-frame)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-`") 'other-window)

Much more convenient, for me, than the standard way. This makes switching between different sets of activities pretty easy.
Pretty sure that would only hurt HN users and Google won't give a single damn.
How Minnesota does it: Blank ballots arrive in sealed packages. Ballots, whether blank or marked, sealed or unsealed, may only be handled in the presence of election judges from at least two different political parties. Counts are kept, by those groups. And ballots, either blank or marked, are generally kept under lock and key.

Attempts to insert extra ballots will be detected by the count. Attempts to substitute ballots would have to match counts exactly, and somehow be done without being seen in a room with multiple other judges and other people.
> introduce useful, paid products that could enrich and support the Firefox ecosystem

This is where I'm wary, that it could become just a better walled garden. I trust Mozilla more than Google, but they've had hiccups in the past that tarnished that trust.

> allow people to migrate off of Gmail

My utopian dream is Mozilla spearheading open alternatives to all Google services: email, Open Street Maps, search, password manager, P2P file transfer, ad blockers, maybe even ethical ads. It gives me hope to see them already embracing some of this general direction.
https://dqydj.com/nikkei-return-calculator-dividend-reinvest...

After dividends, you broke even after inflation (-0.096% return) if you dumped your life savings into the Nikkei in Jan 1990 and never invested another dime.

But if you kept investing incrementally over the years, like most people do, then annual returns went to 2.5% after inflation in 1995-2000, to 6.5% in 2005 and 9.4% in 2010.
So China?

Snarkyness aside, credit scores are un-auditable algorithms runs by private corporations. They do a bad job at measuring fiscal responsibility, and do not measure any other kind of responsibility.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we have two people cross checking each other to consult 3-ring binders of registered voters for the particular district they are assigned to vote in. Your name is check-marked as part of handing you a paper ballot.

This may sound laborious and slow but it should be enough to block repeat voting, IMHO.
There's Flippa https://www.flippa.com/ and you'll find more with a bit of googling.

But those are platforms for selling "online business" not "side projects".

People who buy want ROI (Return On Investment). They buy money-making business for some multiple of monthly revenue hoping that over time they'll make more than they spent.

It might be just a careless use of terminology on your part.

Or it could be fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works.

No one buys "side projects". Don't try to sell "side projects" because you can't.

People buy businesses. A business makes money. There are people who will buy a money-making business.

Some side projects could also be money-making businesses but not all of them are.
I'm a little confused - can someone knowledgable in the area help out? In the introduction they assert:

"Once inhaled, ultrafine particles and the oxidant species located on their surface can translocate into the vascular space (13), resulting in a state of chronic vascular inflammation and oxidative stress noxious to endothelial function."

However in the conclusion they state:

"Inhaling nicotine-free electronic cigarette aerosol transiently impacted endothelial function in healthy nonsmokers"

It sounds like in the introduction they are aware of studies that concluded the aerosol inhalation causes chronic issues with endothelial function, but they concluded that it only has a transient effect. Are they refuting those claims? Did I miss something?
Is there any other technology in such widespread use with such universal condemnation from experts? Essentially every expert on computerized voting systems says, “don’t do this, it’s insane.” Imagine if every expert on aerospace engineering said that jet engines were too dangerous but everyone ignored them and kept finding more and more places to use jets.
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In India, Electronic Voting Machines(EVM) have something called Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT) linked with them[1]. When you press the button, you get to see a slip which shows the symbol of the candidate you voted for. If there's a mismatch between both, you can report it to the election official.

1. https://jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/what-is-vvpat-machine...
Because tech makes VC and big money investors salivate and throw cash down, whereas real estate is ho-hum, risky, boring, etc. WeWork desperately wants that tech label to justify their terrible balance sheet.
Less harmful than tobacco is a very low bar. Especially for non-smokers. If it was treated like methadone then cool, but seems like these days most of the vapers are young, new users. Not recovering cigarette addicts.
You have to make that ID national, free, and easily obtained with very little to no wait time. Otherwise, it's going to disenfranchise those without time and/or money.
Atari – Solving Games with AI (Part 1)
What are the rules around distributing OpenJDK as part of a commercial software/hardware product?
I've seen a lot of blurring the lines.

A company a while back was totally "blowing up the biotech space" (it was a random fairly empty article) ... I was curious and looked and they basically made a crud app... that could be used by a biotech company.

That's not to take away from whatever they were doing, but as far as I could tell they were as much in logistics as they were .. "a biotech start up".
> paper ballots are a threat to the species

What? How?
No, it fetches it - tun->sk is copied. The address calculation case would be something more like struct sock * * p=&tun->sk.
Learning or Remembering? or Classifying? lol
These are really compelling machines in general, I know some youtubers are saying the style is dated, but I disagree. The only way they get better imo is to have dedicated ethernet. But that's incredibly unlikely these days and many of you probably don't even consider it to be a loss at this point as the world has kinda moved on.

the only downside for me, as a linux user, is the "killer" wifi. My last brush with this card was not pleasant at all, reminiscent of the mid-2000's era of "not working" and "when it does it randomly drops stuff". But I suppose the card is easily replaceable. (as, I have a precision and it's basically an XPS with ECC, a Xeon and a proper intel wifi card).

Now I have to figure out how to convince my IT dept. to buy me one. :)
DOM bindings are kind of irrelevant when one has WebGL.

One example among many ramping up

https://platform.uno/
That chance always exists. Your choices are to minimize it or pretend it doesn’t exist, but there’s no way to actually eliminate it.
I like very much his addendum:

> So thank you for all the kind words about bravery. Truth is I’m privileged enough to afford to be brave. For those of you who love the Media Lab and want to see it sail through these rough waters, please take time to reach out to people who may not be able to be as visible in their next steps. Make sure they’re doing okay. Support them whether their decision is to leave or to stay. So many of my colleagues at the Media Lab right now are hurting, and they need your support and love too. Hope we can redirect some of that love folks are sharing with me to them too.
Alternate title: "Self-styled vanguard of society fails to explain the popularity of someone willing to mingle with unwashed masses."
Great idea. We will look into it!
"audit" is a euphemism for recount. Recounts get challenged in court and are not guaranteed to happen.
Maybe they found the waters they were looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(short_story)

https://www.torindoppelt.com/teaching/phil204/borgesimmortal...
Does that mean a negative yield indicates a loss of trust in banks? That institutional investors are so desperate to avoid relying on banks that they're willing to take a loss on gov't bonds?
> But Mozilla doesn't reside in Kazakhstan

Which would be relevant if there were a global sovereign and the government of Kazakhstan merely the regional administration beneath it of a particular territory, and if that sovereign made it relevant. Foreign residency alone doesn't immunize one from the rules of a sovereign either in theory or with a sufficiently capable and motivated one, in practice.

> That Kazakhstan can make a rule that has zero real-world effect because they can't enforce it, and because nobody can make them change their rule, they are therefore sovereign?

Close, but not quite. Rather, Kazakhstan, being sovereign, can make whatever rules it wants and is limited in applying them only by practical constraints, mostly those applied by other sovereigns. It may or may not be able to effectively apply it's laws to some conduct beyond it's borders; certainly other sovereign entities have done quite a bit of that.
3rd Edition of Emergent Communication Workshop at NeurIPS'19 (EmeCom)
No matter how small? What about one in a million? One in ten million? This is literally what statistics is for - randomness is a powerful tool against fraud, not some weak cop-out.
Anecdotally, I hear many friends say they are harmless. Surprisingly a nurse friend of mine vapes Juuls and isn't worried about the health impacts. I think plenty of people actually take it that since they are not cigarettes and are "just nicotine" they don't worry about their safety.
Much of what makes Electron Electron are the APIs it provides. The blog post here is a way to describe and work with APIs, not actual new APIs.

We're working on APIs too, in WASI, but there's a lot of work to do to build everything you'd need to build Electron-like apps.
I don't think that's true. The case against vaping is that it draws in people younger and ones that wouldn't otherwise smoke. In that case, the marginal harm from vaping might outweigh the marginal gain for smokers. Particular, since it's worse than quitting entirely, and you'd have to see how many people do not quit nicotine products because vaping is available.
What did they compare it to? All aircrews of all aircraft types? B-17 crews in Europe? Something else?
It's not just the vote itself we need to worry about.

In the 2016 Presidential election, a lot of people in North Carolina had trouble due to problems with the electronic poll books they used to keep track of who registered and who already voted.

People would show up at their polling place and either be told, incorrectly, that they had never registered, or be told, incorrectly, that they had already voted.

Oddly, they only had trouble with these systems in Durham County, a heavily blue county, and these same devices in other states are known to have been targeted by foreign hackers--but it wasn't until this year that DHS finally agreed to actually do a proper forensic examination of the equipment to see if anything shady was going on [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729920147/federal-government-...
Incorrect, You don't just "get put into" the SP500, you need to meet the qualifications first. I doubt WeWork will reach positive earnings and a market cap of 5.3 bln anytime soon.

--It must be a U.S. company.

--The market cap must be $5.3 billion or more.

--The public float must consist of at least 50% of outstanding shares.

--It must have positive reported earnings in the most recent quarter, as well as over the four most recent quarters.

--The stock must have an active market and must trade for a reasonable share price.

https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/what-is-the-sp-500.asp...
Simple solution: each voter is given a receipt of their choices and a unique signature for it, and an online website where they can check that their signature was taken into account in the final tally.

With that a fraudsters model have to deal with random checks by any voter.
There are actors, who were involved in that election, who see discord, chaos, and a weakened US as a bonus, no matter who the winner.
Weirdest bugs that caused datacenter outages
The underlying data is continuous, and you want to give a qualitative impression. Why is that a bad idea?
So people should be forced to invest their money even if they don't think any of the ventures are worthwhile? And physical cash shouldn't exist either?
A few billion sheets of paper?
I use Spark to have all my mails in 1 place. I could do it with Apple Mail as well but for some reason I like Spark more. It also contains a build in calendar.
And thanks to it's syncing feature whenever I'm on a new device I just need to log in with 1 email and everything is synced.

As for my todo's I use Things. I tried to make as much use of Area's and Projects as I can to split up my todo list in a logical sense.

For notes I use the Bear Notes app. Thanks to it's # tag style structure I can easily flesh out my own dir structure on it.

Last but not least: paper + pen. Nothing beats that when I'm working on a feature and I need to keep track of todo's that still need done. All of these todo's are done by the end of the feature off course. Nothing long term on paper.
I work in publishing, and we don't use _any_ tech. My job just involves standing out in a field yelling at clouds.
Maybe the duration of the study is too short to definitively conclude a chronic effect, even though they suspect it is there.
If someone starts selling nicotine-laced steaks, I'll be the first to advocate for an FDA crackdown on it.
> I cant find any official public info, but suffice it to say subs run closer to 2MWs than 2KWs

Depends on the sub class. Midget subs are in the (tens of) kW range.

Attack subs are going to be in the MW to tens of MW at the shaft (though it can be lower for special cases e.g. Gotland's AIP is 2x75kW, the sub crawls at 5kn on AIP though).
Cheap Vanguard funds like VFIAX (S&P500) or VTSAX(Total US stock market). No need for managed funds that charge over 5 basis points, you're just wasting money. Then sock away cash in a no fee online high yield banking account like Ally or Marcus.
> Nearly every demonstration of voting machine hacking has required unrestricted physical access to the machine and tools/keys.

For that to be any consolation, we’d have to unconditionally trust those who have physical access to the machine and tools/keys.

Such trust is not necessary with paper ballots because they can always be hand-counted with supervision from both sides of a disputed election.

A vote count given by an electronic machine has no such auditability.

> Paper ballot boxes are just as hackable at scale with those requirements.

“Hacking” a stack of paper, e.g. ballot stuffing or destroying ballots, is something people can see happen. It’s not impossible, but it is very difficult to do out in the open with security cameras and the public there to watch. Not to say it doesn’t happen, but you tend to make a much bigger mess doing it.
> Can customer choose a new house of their dream and Arrived will buy it? Or will customer just can choose from Arrived house list?

Both options are possible. We have a set of available homes and we continue to buy homes as we grow. Residents are part of the process for new homes we buy into the network.

> Does customer have to sign the contract and make initial investment before Arrived buys the house?

Our Residents go under contract once we've acquired the property, not before.

> Customer cannot buy the house in the end so how come does this platform makes customers feel like their own home? They're still paying monthly rent anyways

The model is a way to build investment exposure to real estate for individuals who want to own, but choose to rent for the flexibility to move over time. At the end of any lease term, Residents can decide to "cash out" their investment and buy a home if their lifestyle changes.

> And last but not least, how does Arrived calculate the amount of appreciation for the initial investment of customers? like how many percents?

We calculate appreciation through periodic third-party appraisals of our properties.
As someone who has been "diagnosed" with mental illness, I've found that the farther away from the reach of those quacks I am, the happier and more successful my life has been. YMMV
A better title would be security flaws caused by relying on undefined behavior.
The primary difference is the marginal cost of an additional customer. The definition of a tech company (at least for investors) isn't really about technology, it's about a near $0 marginal cost of adding an additional customer.

A great example of this is Facebook. For someone to sign up and start using Facebook, it really doesn't cost Facebook anything. Facebook probably only thinks about scaling in terms of orders of magnitudes.

Uber/AirBnb and other double-sided marketplaces debatably meet this definition. For these types of companies, the marginal cost of a new customer is $0. But these types of companies also have to onboard providers. Much of this is onboarding is automated but it can still require human intervention. Still, it's very cheap to onboard, there's not really any sort of capital expenditure that goes into scaling the provider side.

WeWork obviously has a giant marginal customer cost. This is the fundamental criticism of their business model. Lots of successful businesses like Amazon can do this but it appears like WeWork doesn't have any sort of scales of economy. For Amazon, you can put more products in the same warehouse, you can build warehouses closer to customers for faster shipping. WeWork pretty much can just open new locations with the same model.

Note that WeWork is trying to expand into other markets like gyms to get some of these benefits but whether or not this is a scalable business model is debatable. So far, it hasn't worked and there's not a great indication it will.

You mention that WeWork could change its business model to get better scalability. Of course they could change it but so could a well-funded startup. So could AirBnb. Frankly, it's a hypothetical that isn't proven out. Basing a valuation on a what-if that isn't a natural extension of what they're already doing is extremely risky. To do what you're saying, WeWork would basically have to start from 0, maybe with some expertise about what customers want. AirBnb could immediately launch the same service with 10,000 locations by leveraging their existing hosts.

How they got a $50B valuation seems deceitful and ridiculous. They conflate using technology and modern appeal with technology business models. Currently, WeWork does not have any business model that could be considered $0 margin customer cost. Maybe one day they could find one. Probably not.
There's an interesting and compelling take on the complexity of finance here (2011): https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html
Why is everyone responding to the question under the same misinterpretation, that it means "cash" as in "physical banknotes" rather than "electronic Euros"? I know the principle of charity is hard sometimes, but come on.
I understand why it seems that nominally objective measures would be better. But I don't think cross-field, non-gameable objective measures of research quality are practically possible

I also don't think it's a problem that different groups have different interests, etc. As I say elsewhere, I think that diversity is the solution.
He likely is worried about the printed paper and tree cut down. I don’t agree that should be a worry here but I think that is what he is getting at.
Pretty sure this would be a good application for blockchain technology, which would work better than pen and paper and open to the public!