skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious to see what comes of this from a product perspective... any speculation as to what they might be able to pull off in practice as a joint entity?
The Electoral college exists because of slavery.

The original idea going into the Constitutional Convention was to have Congress pick the president. A majority of delegates going into the Convention supported this, but discarded it after debates established it would violate the separation of powers.

The popular vote wasn't an option, however, because it would mean the southern states with their large, non-voting slave populations would have vastly reduced influence. The southern delegates would have never supported a popular vote. Thus, the electoral college.

Madison wrote about it here: http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llfr/002/0000/00610057.tif
I was wondering if we should put "seller unique rfids" on everything so the trash can be sorted and returned to the seller. Then we just add the cost of recycling to the cost of the product. Alternatively, add a "recycler unique rfid" and every seller has to partner with a recycler in order to sell a product.
Because of primary campaign dynamics where those are literally the only stayed voting at the time, and underperforming there means you have no money, no positive news coverage and no reason to campaign anywhere else. So all energy goes into them at a certain point in the nomination campaign. (As a rough approximation.)

Totally different dynamic than general elections, which happen all at once rather than different dates in different states.
I wouldn’t call Uber especially high tech but it’s ok to consider it “tech”. While WeWork is literally just a landlord with no technical value ad. The closest it is to “tech” is its customers.
I’ve been using C and C++ (sorry Rust), like, forever, and I think should hate them with all fibers of my soul. A high-level programming language is “supposed” to let me forget, for the higher being’s sake, all machine-specific details and focus on the logic of the problem at hand. (Hello FORTRAN.)
Ironically, "no trivial crates" is almost exactly the opposite of what the article seems to want, which is only small crates so you're not importing lots of needless bloat. It's hard to please everyone!
I've noticed that people aren't actually fully capable of just sorting the recycling correctly. There's always stuff in the wrong bins in my building despite an ongoing education effort to fix that and helpful illustrated rules above the bins. Rules about lids and labels is a joke.
I guess it doesn't hurt that people who make too much rhetorical noise, tend to find themselves in all sorts of trouble. Hard to criticize in that circumstance! As you point out, if you are on the receiving end of "good fortune" you might have a lot of incentives at questioning that fortune.
Yeah I pretty much agree with you. It's very difficult to rule a large country as China and Chinese people generally respect that. Also like you said, the failure of those color revolutions just showed other people how important stable is.
It should be obvious by now that if that were the case, scenarios like what happened in Flint, Michigan should've ended with Rick Snyder in jail and more action taken.

And in cases like these, the federal government is needed in order to apply some culpability to times when the local government behaves negligently. Not to mention this only really works if the state government actually cares about local issues, otherwise you end up with cases such as states vying to ban gay marriage because there's a tyranny of the majority at the local state level and a tyranny of the minority at the federal level.

It's a lose-lose situation because then the rural votes dictate not only the things within their state but the things that are completely outside of their purview.
It’s a lot harder to steal millions of votes with paper ballot fraud than with software. That’s a simple fact.
"complexity analysis" ... "stuff you would learn in a computer science degree".

Does she want theory? Does she want Software Engineering skills? Does she want to be able to get a job?

Cracking the Code Interview might be a fine jumping off point. It covers a lot of topics at a very readable level. If she doesn't understand it from the books angle, then she can do research on her own until she gets there. It covers stuff like "complexity analysis" in-depth enough for most people.
All of that seems to only be “medium” secure in face of future quantum computing.

“It's been estimated that 6,681 qubits would be required to run use Grover's algorithm to break AES-256 bit encryption.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/14/quantum_encryption_...
Jetbrains is really really good and checks all of your boxes, op. Aside from having great coverage out of the box, there are plugins supporting nearly everything, especially web stuff. Bash, helm charts, docker, database tooling and all kinds of JavaScript stuff like webpack, react, eslint and prettier.

Ultimate edition is worth it if you're bouncing all over the place and has been my ide for several years after switching from sublime.

The only thing ultimate didn't cover super duper good was golang, but they have a separate edition for that which works great. Been a bit since I've done go work so ultimate may cover it well now too.

Vscode is really close behind in many places but the depth of coverage in jetbrains is unmatched in any of the free offerings I've used.
Opinions on this are a dime a dozen. You often see the reverse of it too, for example, you might have heard that "Python's standard library is where things go to die." You could just as easily call that a "terrible error." The fact that Python's standard library has an HTTP client in it, for example, doesn't stop everyone from using requests (and, consequently, urllib3) for all their HTTP client needs. So despite the fact the standard library provides a lot of the same functionality as a third party dependency, folks are still using the third party dependency.

I think the size of the standard library is just one of possibly many contributing factors that leads to a large number of dependencies. I think a part of it is culture, but another part of it is that the tooling _enables_ it. It's so incredibly easy to write some code, push it to crates.io and let everyone else use it. That's generally a good thing, but it winds up creating this spiral where there's almost no backpressure _against_ including a dependency in a project. This means there's very little standing in the way of letting the fullest expression of DRY run wild. There are some notable examples in the NPM ecosystem where it reaches ridiculous levels. But putting the extremes aside, there's a ton of grey area and it can be pretty difficult to convince someone to write a bit more code when something else might work off the shelf. (And I mean this in the most charitable way possible. I find myself in that situation.)

I do hope we can turn the Rust ecosystem around and stop regularly having dependency trees with hundreds of crates, but it's going to be a long and difficult road. For example, not everyone even agrees with my perspective that this is actually a bad thing.
This is what annoys me most with the political system today. If you are opposed to open borders then the left calls you racist. If you talk about anthropogenic global warming, the right accuses you of spreading fake news.

Everything has become so partisan, nobody wants to cede even a millimeter of ground to the other side, so taking the most extreme position has become the norm in debate. It is strategic, (if you want to prevent government regulation on global warming, spending years debating on whether or not it even exists rather than on what the solutions will be is rather effective), but very disingenuous.
> California used to have 4 electoral votes in 1950s

California had 32 electoral votes in the 1950s. You may have meant the 1850s, when California did have only 4 electoral votes. That's because California was tiny back then, with a population of under 100,000 in 1850.

The electoral votes per capita has always been heavily skewed in favor small states. While it's true that some formerly small states have grown into large states, I don't see how that's relevant.
I think of myself as someone who cares about bloat — I define it by practical impact.

For example, I keep Facebook off my phone, and when I need to download it (for example to rsvp for an event) the app is ~100MB, which means 1> I can’t even do it unless I’m on wifi and 2> it’s slow even there.

I’m having trouble understanding the practical impact of 6MB. Many web pages are larger than that. Even on the Mac I bought in 1994, that would have been a reasonable size for an application (and it only shipped with 120MB hard drive).

But maybe I’m missing something. Some folks have mentioned CPU caches which is interesting — is that the problem?
They don't have an R&D budget which a tech company of this size should have. They are similar to Regis which is actually profitable.
no, it doesn't.

Like literally the purpose of a democracy is to establish government by norms and the establishment of those norms as laws. A democracy exists explicilty to bound law making within a set range of socially acceptable public disourse.

To expend a strawman, Jeffrey Epstein seems to think sexual acts with human beings this country views as unable to consent - that is a difference in opinion, but he ended up in jail rather than tolerated. Invite NAMBLA to your next city council meeting and see how that goes.

We don't have slaves, but the greeks and romans who had closer to a true democracy surely did. The idea of owning or not owning slaves was tolerated, and debated, in their time - it wouldn't be in our modern democracy.
Actually, or perhaps also, the electoral college exists because the founding fathers didn't trust the people to make good decisions. This is discussed at length in the letters the founding fathers wrote about their political opinions.
True, at that extreme, it's big, and I probably could state my claim more precisely.

Here's my claim: if you drew a curve of electoral votes per person by percentile, there would be a very small area that was significantly elevated, and the remaining portion would be moderately flat.

Because Wyoming's population is so small, the absolute impact isn't that big. Go up just a few spots to Hawaii and it's more like a 2:1 ratio. Yet still, substantially less than 10% of the population lives in such small states. So there's a very small minority of people who have a proportionally larger impact (but still a small impact in absolute terms).

To be clear, I think that's a bad result. So far as the democratic process can allow it, our votes should have equal weight. But it's somewhat exaggerated how systematic of an effect it has. In the same vein, I've argued that the best defense of the electoral college is that it only errs by giving the wrong result in elections that were already very close. In contrast, the Senate is thoroughly anti-democratic, unsalvagably so.

(Btw: I can't replicate your math. New York had 19,378,102 people in 2010, and 29 votes = 1.49 votes / million. Wyoming had 563,626 and 3 votes = 5.32 votes / million).
You should also ask US State Department and United Nation that question?
The only way you are going to get a competitive landscape for browsers is to get away from the paradigm of the browser containing the entire kitchen sink, i.e. its own OS.

Maybe there could be an alternative that only supports markdown. Or maybe markdown/rst and web assembly.
The first victim that started the case in Florida was 14 - are you going to try and justify that by saying it's legal in Pakistan?

He ran an interstate recruitment ring of underage girls not just for himself but for other men. There's no justifying anything with this man.
>You guys spend upwards of 2 billion dollars

What is your concern with how our country spends its own money? Where do you live, and let's scrutinize that system like you judge ours?
> I don’t think a “mom” would accidentally download an image and flash their telephones.

Who says “mom” flashed her phone?

How does “mom” know the shady place they took their phone to repair a broken screen didn’t do it? (P.S. many documented cases of this)

How does “mom” know their jealous/cheating/whatever spouse/bf/gf/whatever didn’t do it? (P.S. many documented cases of this)

How does “mom” know the phone they bought off someone didn’t do this? (P.S. many documented cases of this)

How does “mom” know their kid didn’t do this so they could install stolen games? (P.S. many documented cases of this)

The list goes on and on.
Question about redire t link in through Google
How can creat a redirect link like "https://google.com/url?...mysite.com"
The electoral college doesn't necessarily help the voting process produce a clear winner, nor does it necessarily stop each side from scrounging votes.

As you mentioned, in the 2000 election, the outcome came down to Florida, specifically two counties. The electoral college helps create situations like this. The officials and what happened that election in those two counties essentially set the pace of America for the next decade. If they did fudge the numbers, the electoral college did not do anything to make the vote safer.

The electoral college causes there to be very specific places that can be targeted to swing the entire election. Those places must be secured, but in the end, it makes more sense to take the secure voting practices and apply them everywhere, not just to the places the electoral causes the votes to matter.
The real life's Ken 10
Cost of 150 dates: maybe $10k. Cost of marrying the wrong person: unlimited, plus years of suffering.
"I can't imagine any other government could do better." Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it?
Now you've got to ship everything back to the seller, and then the seller has to ship the waste to their actual processor. Plus the added cost/waste of the RFID tag.
So "better" entirely depends on your values, right?

Ever heard of the phrase "better to die on your feet, than live on your knees?"

Not everyone shares the ethos that a full belly is happiness and goodness. There is more to life than mere material goods. What makes a life worth living even? I guess if you have a job all is good, at least as per your line of argumentation.
Who is bisqwit?

Couldn't really get anything on Google.
The internet is blocked after indonesia deploys troops to west papua
Some people are actually asking for independence and they were not getting shot.

That said, I guess it's equally difficult for people to imagine that Chinese government has been very, very generous to the Hong Kong people. But that's generally true from a Chinese' pov. Generous to the point that a lot of mainlanders are actively complaining on online forums.
Eventually the piper needs to be paid. If people are taking more measured risks in search of growth vs outlandish, then eventually we will see a gradual contraction vs sharp correction. They will expand bit by bit into risky waters, get hurt a little, but and pull back, but not so sharply.

Or maybe everyone is just fooling themselves that this time will be different
Are you really equating “incomprehension, arrogance, incredibly bad manners and the swagger of conquerors” to the mass rapes the Russians committed?
Exclusions from a bug bounty are a part of the game, but if something is excluded, you—as the entity excluding it—can't reasonably demand secrecy re: an out of scope bug. You either accept that you're going to eat a reputational hit (and likely be forced to fix the exploit anyway) or make an exception to your policy.

If Valve wanted to try and defend the structure of their bug bounty program by essentially arguing that Steam is such a mess that local privilege escalations are out of bounds, they should be forced to publicly reckon with that stance.
To be fair "Taiwan simply another province of China." is the official positive of the Taiwan government also
I'm not saying your point isn't valid, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport

Not all German infrastructure spending turns out well.
You are being downvoted because there's no evidence to corroborate what you are saying. Just edit with a link to articles/proof if your statements can be substantiated.
How do you know it's doing good when they have a reputation for censor and change narratives to suit their agenda?
Google's Nest Mini Will Reportedly Succeed the Home Mini
I'd really worry for HK if the government agrees to all five points.
I toured the Recology recycling facility a few months ago. The sorting technology is impressive, but the amount of material that they remove and send to the landfill had me questioning the efficacy of the program.

It sucks to push the packaging crimes of businesses onto consumers, but I think improving the public's understanding of what can and cannot be recycled can still have a massive impact on the effectiveness of recycling programs.

San Francisco has a great website to help you figure out what goes in which bin: https://sfrecycles.org/

(Note that you can recycle fabrics -- this isn't possible through most recycling programs!)
I tried to listen to his podcast for a while after his Joe Rogan appearance, not because any of his views resonated with me, but because he's (unintentionally) hilarious. I couldn't keep listening because it's so full of ads. Like, it's absolutely ridiculous the ratio of ads to content. And when Alex does speak, he's so repetitive. It gets boring. He's better in occasional short bursts.
There are sibling comments discussing MAOIs, and I've heard about them before in relation to smoking. It makes me wonder if MAOIs alone would be better for smoking cessation. I don't think I'm all that addicted to the nicotine itself. There are plenty of other supposedly-addictive stimulants that I can take or leave at will and with no feelings of withdrawal, and nicotine does nothing to alleviate cigarette withdrawal for me, so I'm not sure it's even a necessary component. There are some NIH studies about MAOIs and smoking, but I'm not going to link them because I find them incomprehensibly dense.
> It has become evident that the federalist experiment has failed

Not so much failed, but massively misaligned after the civil war. The nation made many compromises at every level for slave power, and should have renegotiated everything afterwards.
Of course it depends on my own values. Aren't you the same? I'm sorry I don't accept your values, but I'm OK if you don't accept mine.
> The popular vote wasn't an option, however, because it would mean the southern states with their large, non-voting slave populations would have vastly reduced influence.

I'm not saying you're wrong, bc clearly you've done at least some research and I've done none. But didn't most states not have anything resembling a "popular" vote at first?

In the first presidential election 43,782 cast a ballot. (Population nearly 4 million in 1790.. so about 1% got a vote.)

When many states didn't even HAVE a popular vote at the state level, is it really true that they were considering using a popular vote rather than state electors based on populations?
Ask HN: Is Leanplum solid or headed for liquidation?
We are trying to select a platform for messaging and retention. Technically Leanplum looks great, but their fundraising trail looks like it is in bad shape.

I can understand if they blew too much on product development without enough on sales and now they are super lean. But if they are about to close up, we would rather not have to switch providers in 3 months.
Not sure if I'm going to express an unpopular opinion on that matter but I'm pretty sure that ot was already said somewhere in the comments in some different form. Not sure if my opinion even counts to people like ones who authored this strange piece of text since I'm from the mischievous and sinister kind of people collectively called "straight white male", and thus I may not have the fitting amount of oppression points to be heard. But I'll try anyway.

I think that the article itself revolves heavily about some prestige or whatever. So here comes the first question: does the person who cares about prestige more than science possess the amount of dedication and discipline to get to the higher ranks? In my opinion, the answer is strong "no" at the very least. To be proficient and productive, to be useful, you have to dedicate all your hard work towards your chosen discipline. Apparently you must be interested very much in it. It doesn't just fall down upon the "privileged cast", it's a competitive field, and outcome of that, if any, depends on dedication and the ability to act smart without relying on anyone or anything else too much.

The second question will be: do you actually know better than the people who make their own life choices? I mean, they do things or don't do them for a reason. Sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's good, but if we talk about education and science, it's nothing close to sexism in the vast majority of cases.

The third part is simpler. What will happen if we enforce/regulate/implement quotas? The amount of useful output will decline. You can't force people into being effective and they will not be effective by "getting there" just by regulations and quotas.

And for the last one, some personal part. Last couple of years I study quite complex math (abstract algebra mostly) on my own out of pure interest in it. I don't have any mentorship, and I don't suffer from it. My dedication compensates for it. It's a bit anecdotal but I believe that you can achieve a lot just by being dedicated and interested. You will not get even close by being placed there and babysat until you're "big enough".

Think about it. Cheers!
Finding a spouse with just 12-18 in-person dates doesn't sound too bad, but yeah, the beginning of that funnel sounds brutal.
This sounds like http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/welcome.html
The electoral college most certainly favors small states but I agree with you it also creates battleground states and I agree that is the more important effect.

It’s not a matter of whether battleground states deserve special protection, it’s a matter of whether or not the battleground states in any given election serve as a good representation of the nation as a whole? Are they a better representation than a popular vote which would consistently favor coastal urban centers?
So, most of the world sees the protests as obviously about freedom, and freedom from Chinese rule.

That you cannot see that... well... who is more likely to be wrong here?

Perhaps you have been incentivized not to learn how to think critically about social and governmental affairs, second and third order effects and consequences?
China is a one-party state where even the army belongs to the party. It's possible to imagine something worse; we've had plenty of examples, unfortunately.

It's easy to imagine something better.
A heavyweight candidate for dark matter
> You could see how most states used to be fairly split between both parties and how they frequently swung from party to party between elections.

That was a short-term artifact of political realignments starting in the 1930s (New Deal Coalition) and—before that one had fully stabilized—1960s (Civil Rights).

Those overlapping realignments settled down into s new relatively stable alignment by the late 1980s; before the realignments most states were much stronger one-party states than the solid-red or solid-blue states today, and sometimes the second state party, if it existed at all, wasn't even the other major national party (Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is a remnant of that: prior to the New Deal coalition, which it became part of and eventually joined the Democratic Party, the party competing with the dominant Republican Party in Minnesota was the Farmer-Labor Party, which was not associated with the Democrats.)