skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone wants to invest a quarter million in whatever I'm doing with no strings attached (aka donate) the last thing I'm gonna be doing is asking questions

haha why are you proud of this? That's essentially the quintessential spirit of corruption representing everything wrong with this country and world.
On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon
Find me a "neutral journalist". I'm guessing that is someone so apathetic, they don't even care about accurate reporting.
Due to rapidly changing demographics, Texas will soon be in play. (I certainly hope people don't move for fear the new state may not vote their candidate of choice.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143897 and PG's reply captures the problem well:

> Basically, Milner is a crook, and if there was any justice in the world he and Usmanov would be in jail for what they have done. But there isn't, and there are people in the Valley who are willing to overlook ethics if you have enough money. The fact that Milner is now working with YC is a sad testament to that fact.

PG: VCs are not so high minded that they're offended by who his LPs are, believe me.

> Actually, it would seem to be just as simple as he implies. VCs in the valley care only about money and don't give a hoot about morality. You haven't debated the fact that Milner is linked to the looting of state resources; you've simply said that anyone else would also take his money if they could.

PG: even if Yuri's money was tainted in some way, it was being used as a counterweight to another bad thing.

This is the ultimate problem and it has nothing to do with US-Russia relations but rather with dealing with known seedy characters
Naive question: if time-series data is presumably immutable, shouldn't it be easy to just arbitrarily replicate chunks proportionate to load?
Yeah, seems like he already knew about Epstein's past, but accepted money anyway.
All states get at least one House member.

Should some states have zero?
He was literally told by his colleague (who today quit) that he should not associate with Epstein:

https://medium.com/@EthanZ/on-me-and-the-media-lab-715bfc707...
A Google search normally doesn't pull up boring criminal records. It will pull up extremely lurid reporting on a life-destroying case that later ends in acquittal.

Epstein is the exception--he was a level 3 offender and could have been pulled for a felony for not checking in with the police. He shouldn't even have been walking around.
A government has sovreign rights only because other countries agree that government is legitimate and independent of all othet governments.

If you disagree maybe you should start countries and refuse to ackllnowledge legitimacy of governments you dislike?
How much would it cost to cover 100 acres with LEDs?
I disagree.

If you're doing any modern architecture with microservices using containers, you're primarily doing stateless things (even if it's your web frontend) and pushing the state off to somewhere like Redis/memcached/database.

You basically implied that web frontends don't run in a load-balanced multi-replica set up, which is not true.

Similarly from what you said one might think people don't deploy web frontends to Kubernetes (where containers come and go all the time as they're ephemeral, due to events like crashes, autoscaling), which is also not true.

If you’re writing anything that scales (i.e. has multiple replicas), then you actually store any significant state wrt logins/sessions on your app and you push it out to an external storage. Most web frameworks offer libraries or middleware that let you persist this "state" in external storage.
Definitely, for the Senate, I don't mind unlimited in the house since they are up for reelection every two years.
Good. Then partisanship shouldn't matter when it comes to the merit of this proposal.
In most states, if the election is within a certain degree of closeness (like half a percent), it triggers an automatic recount. And that will catch mismatches between the machine counts and the contents of their ballot boxes, unless you also carefully rig the manual recount - at scale.

And altering the count more than a percent or so is a LOT of alteration.
I understand pre-industrial revolution why we needed to make sure rural voters got a little boost. Back then 50%+ of the population was agrarian. Now it's 0.3%. You can go to wal-mart anywhere. The main difference in your lifestyle across regions is determined by local politics, not national ones.

Since almost everyone lives in a quasi-suburbia in america now, who exactly needs protecting? Why does someone in North Dakota deserve more of a say than someone in california these days?
It really doesn't appear for me. Really really. I've once again invoked the special:

if (username == "js2") {
return;
}

Clause in the code base. Not a case of PEBKAC. Promise. I appreciate the pointer though.

- https://ibb.co/X28zXGR

- https://ibb.co/tm8nzrF

- https://ibb.co/dk3j7m0
Any after tax yield is going to be an estimate. i no longer have access to a bloomberg login, but does it give its methodology? @ 104.54, YTM would be -0.44 not taking other factors into account. There could also be technical reasons such as collateral requirements or other banking/trading requirements.

> I'm not sure what bank you are referring to in the first sentence. These are bonds issued by the country.

The purchasing institutions, not the issuing. These mostly banks aren't just giving money away, and they don't really have costs associated with carrying base money since they can just ship cash back to the central bank for reserve credit, i assume under most conditions.

And the can always go elsewhere in the eurozone for yield, but they seem to need bunds for particular reason. not sure, i just pretty sure they aren't giving money away for no reason. they could even lay off currency risk and go for US Tsy.
Arguably, the combined cost and risk of loss when you store a pile of cash in a secured cellar is greater than 11bp.

There's also the fact that bonds can appreciate, so even if on the face of it you're taking an 11bp hit that might not be true in practice.
Ah. Those are disable-able as well: https://imgur.com/a/bLnRuOq
Look into Kirby. https://getkirby.com/
It's not an insult to not know something. Nobody is insulting you...
They do that in Russia...and they also ballot stuff in Russia. The term "ballot stuffing" is from paper ballots.
This article is from May. Oregon has since joined, becoming the 16th state to do so.
I agree with you from the other side. Before these programs people would disclose issues to the public. The company found out like everyone else. They would fix it immediately because they had to.

Now they can hide it for months(ever) allowing others to discover them and keeping the researchers quiet.
+1

This is why the US gets to invade random countries as a pre-emptive measure (e.g.:iraq)
This seems like something that could be mitigated by legislating where voter registration offices are located (based on census data perhaps) and their hours of operation and documentation requirements, including an appeals process.
The meta-process might work, Valve's process is still broken.
I wonder if social progress or change at all would halt without death as an agent of change and creation? It seems like a great sci fi premise.
> Ultimately, it's easier to influence an election by discarding legitimate voters from voter registration systems, selectively failing to notify voters of elections, and other indirect interference campaigns that have been known to happen.

Well, duh, this isn't happening in real democracies. Americans really need to get rid of their delusions regarding the form of governance they live in.

The problem with voting machines is that it makes it so much easier for a single entity to control the election. And that the people organizing the election are completely technologically illiterate as well as the huge majority of the electoral. If you can hide behind techno mumbo jumbo and plausible deniability it gets ever easier to manipulate the electorate in failing to see a problem.

They used admin as a password in voting machiens in the US, and the same company still holds contracts. The whole notion is beyond laughable.
Hasn’t that always been the case though? Peer pressure is going to be directed somewhere, maybe cigarettes, maybe marijuana, maybe heroin, ... are kids really expected to be better these days than when we were kids?
It wouldn't have taken a "deep dive" a simple Google search would have uncovered it. This was in the international news media, especially in the US and the UK.
Yep, that makes sense. I wish more of that info was in the apology — Ito makes it sound like he was just unaware.
I've only seen this happen once, and it was a guy my friend had just broken up with.

Later on I had several conversations with him about how I hoped he would not bite off any more bottle caps. I didn't see him much after that but I hope his teeth are okay.
At some point this is less of a steam issue and more of a Windows issue. An OS shouldn't allow applications to compromise eachother.

Steam should maybe be liable if they are actively thwarting disclosure that would protect users but that's a tough thing to establish legally.
What you describe (secure anonymous voting with unique ID) can be implemented online as well.
Joi Ito associated with Epstein (personally and financially) 5 years after Epstein had been convicted as a pedophile. The assertion people are making here is that he either didn't do his due diligence and in this particular instance, said lack of due diligence reflects extremely poorly on him or...he knew (probably likely) about Epstein's history and did business with him anyway (which also reflects extremely poorly on him) -- as the saying goes "money talks".
...and adjustments have been happening over many decades. That's why, say, California has many more electoral votes (55) than Montana (3). Yet it's still not completely proportional as California has about 40M people while Montana has just over 1M.
>"a man was placed on leave, must be a sex scandal!"
Is this seriously the society we live in?

- Maybe there is a precedent for this insinuation

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/essential-ceo-andy-r...

According to the article, he was already relegated to a different role in a smaller group within the company. Whichever coded version of a 'leave' or a reason you want to use, if it was either routine or trivial, there would be no need for this article containing selective information to be issued, by a respected source, no less.
> assuming women raise children is wrong, and sexist too.

I have no need to assume this because this is actually the case. This is reality today. When women stop being the primary ones raising the children then there will no longer be a need to be protections aiding them in finding part time work, but that is for some hypothetical future.
SDKMan is a thing of beauty. Completely changed the way I work with the Java ecosystem.
> Polarization is a fundamental disagreement on some issue or set of issues

I feel like "I have 1m followers and you don't" polarizes people into two separate groups?
The presence of strings attached or implied is necessarily part of how corruption and "not technically corruption but pretty damn close" behavior works.

It's a little different if you're a pro-privacy organization or climate change researcher and google or exxon starts stuffing you with money. There's a material conflict of interest in cases like that. That's the exception, not the rule. Some hypothetical summer camp has no conflict of interest taking the Koch brothers' money even if it disagrees with their politics.
I think it’s legally grey. The expectation and design of the interaction is that the channel is secure between client and server. The equipment is owned by the company, not the individual. But the license is between the user and Spotify. The company is accessing the IP without a license and only accessed it by bypassing Spotify’s encryption.

I think it’s similar if Safari was MITMing requests without consent from both parties.

I’m interested in a legal ruling.
Ask HN: Looking for App Store developers who have been suspended
I am a longtime HN reader who is part of a top 20 global law firm representing a major software publisher concerned about its treatment by one of the major App Store platform monopolies. We believe that significant evidence exists for deceptive business practices, anti-competitive behavior, and unlawful censorship on part of the App Store monopolies related to how they approve, remove and/or suspend apps. This should come as no surprise to the HN community, here are a few recent cases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20732338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19778355

We believe that this behavior by the App Stores is part of a broader pattern, and are trying to collect stories from other developers who have been similarly mistreated. Our firm has connected with policymakers and regulators who are now currently investigating Apple and Google to make sure that they fully grasp the severity and extent of harmful behavior in the app marketplace.

We have a short survey we've built to collect contact info and details of how you have been suspended, censored, or otherwise mistreated:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=WgDpt08qNUmx2j3n-Vv8jlpmlOr-t_5CkT1UtmUvdwhUMlZRUFc2M0dUUFFOVVVCTUNNSkREUE5XTC4u

Given the sensitivity of this topic and the potential for retaliation by the App Stores, I am not using my real HN account. We will keep all information private to our team members, and will contact you in the coming weeks once this survey is closed.
You're linking to a question about a different service (App Engine) from 3 years ago
Where does he say that? I don't see that. Edit: I'll save you the trouble: You can't, because it doesn't exist in the letter linked.
I'm somewhat surprised that MIT just took money from someone based on a notable fundraiser's nod to do so. My understanding would be that a some kind of financial department would handle an application from the donee citing a joint interest between them and the donor [0]. That department would then investigate the donor for any red flags or question marks. This news is still pretty fresh, so I think there will be an investigation as to how all of this came to be and we will find out if there was any oversight process and if so, whether or not that oversight process was short-circuited in any way.

I mean I probably had to go through more for each of my job interviews and any corresponding background checks. Furthermore, MIT probably assesses potential students more thoroughly than what happened in this account of the event.

[0] https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/donations/

> The person making the gift is called the donor and the person receiving the gift is called the donee.
What? He was on the sex offender registry in multiple states, with several high profile pieces written in various media outlets. That's not some deep dark secret you have to dig to uncover.
Wyoming gets 3 votes in the electoral college, California gets 55 - I am not sure what point you are making.

The net effect of the electoral college is that the president is effectively picked by the voters of a handful of swing states. Wyoming is not one of these swing states.

Removing the electoral college would lead to the president being picked by the voters of all states, which seems a lot better.
No, but the total number should not have been fixed in 1929 to stop continued increase (and thereby accelerate inequality in representation.)
> It's a little more realistic to expect that people who vape to do so.

Why?
H1 itself has no WONTFIX status, FYI. A bug that's not considered to be a bug by the program will either be closed N/A or informative. Ultimately, disclosures are handled and controlled by the program, not by H1; this is both a good and bad thing (and I say that as both a HackerOne employee and a hacker on the platform -- it's a complicated issue from both sides).
If trump is re-elected it may be the last time a republican wins a presidential election in the current system, due to demographic changes in key states (FL, TX, NC, etc.)

If the electoral college is abolished, it could actually end up getting another few republicans elected, since it would incentivize republican turnout in solidly democratic states like California.
Another way to look at it is California conservatives and Wyoming liberals would finally have a voice.
Also, the two chambers are not equal. The Senate is very clearly the upper chamber.
I purchased the book last night and have spent maybe an hour or two looking through it.

My assessment is that if you're a beginner to databases and database theory, you'll probably get a lot out of the book.

Having taken several courses on database design in college and having been working with Postgres almost daily for the better part of a decade now, not a terrible lot of new info.

Still, for $30 (The basic edition), probably not a bad investment. Just don't expect it to blow your mind or anything.
Of course you could take physical cash and put it in a safe or something, but that doesn't scale well. Although maybe it does suggest a lower limit on negative interest rates, where it would actually be cheaper to store large amounts of physical cash...
We bought our own house in 2009, during the crash. It was risky, because I was working a temp job and there was no telling when the recession would start to get better. IN the long run, the gamble paid off for us. (There's no way we could afford it now!) But we lived in a crummy apartment for years and saved as much as we could for a downpayment. We'd been following the Great Bubble as it inflated and became clear that it would end very, very badly, so we just held on to our cash and waited.

Obviously, past results don't necessarily predict future returns, but it is starting to feel a little like 2005-2006 again.
To reinforce this idea, my city has 3x the population of Wyoming.

I grew up rural, but I long ago moved to an urban life. Politicians — and to be honest rural folk themselves — often try to enforce the idea that rural life is somehow more genuine. You’ll hear this as “Real America”, or how city folks don’t understand how “the Real World works”, or are some how “out of touch”. Which is fundamentally a completely bizarre idea when the majority of Americans (and I believe the world in general now) live an urban life. While there are unique and legitimate concerns that may need to be addressed for rural life, they are not mainstream concerns. Similarly, allowing rural politics and social mores to dominate national politics is as absurd as saying the Sentinelese[0] should dominate world culture because they’re more in touch with the land or something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
Yeah, but it's supposed to. Inhaling something and then your BP goes up means you should not inhale that thing, eh?
"But the House hasn't reapportioned representation by population in a century."

Not sure where you live, but since 1914 in Colorado:

1914 - four representatives

1973 - five representatives

1983 - six representatives

2003 - seven representatives

So clearly seats are added as population changes in a state.

See also:
https://www.insightsassociation.org/article/states-expected-...
The point is, Wyoming and many other less populated states, would then have very, very limited say in who becomes the head of the executive branch, and therefore holds the veto power over whatever the legislative branch is able to put together whenever they feel like actually doing any work. That's the whole idea: no matter how sparsely populated, each state has at least _some_ say when electing the dude (or dudette) who runs the country, and that say is deliberately disproportionate to its population. Were it up to me, I'd let the smaller states have a larger number of representatives as well. E pluribus unum and all that.
I don't understand how you can have all electors voting for the national popular winner, and also somehow not have first-past-the-post?
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> He doesn't get to keep the boat,

He doesn't keep the title, but otherwise he keeps the boat. It's in his slip, it's maintained by his crew (well a company he pays to crew it). That's how it is, today. You can see this in harbors around the US.

The public is in the EXACT same denial about the politicians reading the laws they pass. It's fantasy to think that the corruption isn't blatant.
If they have the ability,they can invade the US and force mozilla to trust the CA.

This applies to mozilla because it explicitly interfered against the legitimate practices of the Kazakhistan government. Their reasoning and intent is not simply a violation of rules but rather to protect citizens of Kazakhistan against their own govenment. For that reason,this is a violation and interference against a sovreign nation's internal affairs.
This is worse than virtue signaling imo. It's more like public image disaster response. The only reason this apology is going out is because Media Lab/Epstein relationship is getting mentioned publicly and in the press.

This apology would've meant something had it happened a month ago. Or if had any substance beyond vague usage of the words apology and sorry.
I vilify the argument that voter fraud of the kind which would be addressed by voter ID exists at any meaningful scale in the US. It is putrid. Used as an justification for mass disenfranchisement, it is repugnant.
It’s crazy, commonly practiced, and made crazier by expensive, insecure practices like corporate MITM.

If this was a real problem, traffic should just be blocked. Not snooped.
Five votes is very low. 15-20 is common.
Its possible Ito didn't know initially, but its pretty implausible someone didn't tell him about it once he started introducing Epstein around the lab.

I think that's the problem with the apology, he doesn't actually say what he's apologizing for. It's pretty clear that he's apologizing for taking money for someone he new was a sex-offender, but he doesn't actually say it, nevermind apologize for it.
>On Tuesday, Nevada became the latest state to pass a bill that would grant its electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote across the country, not just in Nevada. The movement is the brainchild of John Koza, a co-founder of National Popular Vote, an organization that is working to eliminate the influence of the Electoral College.

I don't think this will survive constitutional challenge, because it is not the voters of the state who are deciding how the state's electors are decided. For example, would it be allowed for a swing state such as Florida which now has a Republican governor and state legislature, to pass a law stating that their state's electors would be allocated based on how Alabama votes? That way, even if the Democratic candidate won a majority of votes in Florida, the electors would still go to the Republican candidate if the Republican candidate wins in Alabama.
Then there would be time enough for love.
Interesting. Does it mean that people who don't own a car, have to take driver's education courses just to be able to buy alcohol?
The ECB printing money is a factor in stabilizing rates but it in itself does not create conditions where governments are able to borrow for 30 years at negative rates. For example, if the deposit rate was at 3.00% instead of -0.40%, governments would not be able to issue at negative yields; QE or no QE. Additionally, the ECB stopped net QE purchases at the beginning of the year and negative rates are still a thing.