skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but what good is selective, technically correct information for someone who would generally use this as part of making their travel plans. If you are going to end up checking official sources anyway, then you are better off with them.
The problem is that most journalists are innumerate. As Matt Yglesias notes, "many reporters and editors don't really understand what they're doing. Reputable colleges hand out degrees to people who have almost no understanding of quantitative methods." [1] These journalists see the numbers as garnishes on a narrative point. They're not trying to put the numbers in some sort of mathematical context to draw sound conclusions. They may not even realize that there is a difference between using numbers for garnish and deriving meaning from numbers.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/12/innumer....
This isn't that dissimilar from lots of industries.

Every airline that takes a loan to buy a plane is banking on future demand for air travel, for example.

Or take Amazon Web Services, which is building data centers to lease out on a short term basis.

Yes, there are tremendous risks involved, depending on the lease terms. But it's not at all unusual.
Do they also block 4G tethering?
One of the key components of voting is not being able to tell who voted for someone. That requirement doesn't exist in these other sectors that are online.
I am in Europe and use Deliveroo from time to time. There are several of these companies here, indeed. This does not mean that any of any of them are doing OK in terms of bottom line.

According to figures from end of last year Deliveroo lost £185m while making £277m in sale... Any 'normal' business would have collapsed even before getting there.

These companies are like Uber and Lyft: The business case is very shaky and they are facing employment law pressures at the same time. So we'll see...
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I also don't think China has anywhere near the general aviation community as their airspace is controlled by the military.
I think that's the point isn't it? To provide extra-safe assets for people who need it.
i'd pay extra for a version with large pixels and much longer battery life
Their business is structured in such a way that the leases they signed on their locations aren't really enforceable against WeWork itself, but rather against "special purpose vehicles", I'm guessing one per lease?[1] It costs a bit in insurance but substantially limits their liability. So, in a downturn, even if "short termers are done", they can shed properties too, basically with impunity.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2019/the-wework-ipo/
That's correct but I worry that all this will result in banning e-cigs (in my state at least), based on the idea that cigarettes (and many other things) wouldn't have been legal/popular if they appeared today but we tolerate them because they are already a thing. The last thing I want is for my SO to go back to smoking real cigs because e-cigs become unavailable here :(
Depends on what you mean by voter ID.
WOW that was too much to read. Can someone TLDR when we'll be able to get rid of Electron using this for me?
Since it's related, a little self-plug here : I've started and have been running the project Skynet Today (https://www.skynettoday.com/) to try and make present day AI more understandable for non AI researchers. Always could use more help! https://www.skynettoday.com/contribute
The ramifications of a single critical bug are way higher than in fintech. Who would you trust to write that code?
The ECB charges for deposits as well. The deposit rate is -0.4%

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
I love this. Such a perfect web presentation for a man who has both experimented with cutting-edge technology (e.g. drum machine, vocoder and synclavier in 1981, the ill-fated Pono player) and been a near-luddite in his approach to digital music. Skeumorphism is due for its return!

Probably everyone reading HN in the last 8 years has seen the excellent video by Monty / xiph.org specifically addressing Neil Young and sample rates/bit rates (for delivery, 44.1kHz/16-bit is really truly all you need), but one thing very appreciated with this website’s audio streaming is the option of uncompressed audio, which is much more significant than any high-sample-rate file would be. And they even have a 320kbps fallback! Finally even Neil Young can see the benefit of being 12x more data efficient for 99.98% of the perceived quality.
Maybe systematic hiring preferences that may hire less qualified female assistant professors contribute to less of them becoming full professors.
Did you scroll all the way down that page looking for the option? It’s hidden below the fold
I think there are laws stating that certain kinds of German institutions must buy German bonds, but I'm not sure.
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So, they reduced the battery for the third time in a row? This what I call a "Product Manager Curse:"

Just from having around somebody whose work function implies "a duty to extract value" in between the technical decisions, and optimising the product to death, you get products becoming worse with each generation, and not better.

See, a first reduction from ~64Wh to 62Wh might've not been even visible and been a valid "product management" decision, and not impacted the sales.

A second cut from 62 to 56 might've only deterred few power users, and could also be validated from the same standpoint, if evaluated without knowledge of the context.

But the third cut from 56 to 52 will blow up, despite the rest of the product getting the biggest year on year improvement ever.
In retrospect I also wonder why we didn't just do a bulk update. I think the problem was that we discovered the geocoding problem and started correcting for it before we understood where the problem was actually coming from. By the time we discovered it was a simple constant offset, we'd already damaged our own data with the one-off fixes.

Worse, the offset was right there in black-and-white in the release notes that we failed to read.

By the way, I apologize for being flippant about it. Location is just one of those things -- like time -- that too many people think is simple, but actually has devilish details that bite the unwary. You are fortunate that lat/long is sufficient and I hope you remain wary.
~90% of PC gamers still play at 1080p or below according to Steam's hardware survey [1].

With Stadia offering a free 1080p tier across multiple devices I think it'll be a lot more popular than tech/gaming enthusiasts anticipate.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Correct me if I'm wrong but the last I heard from the XPS line was that they're 16:10, and while not 3:2 it is much more usable productively; and a super compelling draw for me.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14426/when-ice-matters-dell-a...
Cloud Run is a perfectly reasonable choice for hosting websites -- it's a serverless HTTP platform that uses containers as the base packaging and runtime infrastructure.

Unlike something like Fargate, it supports automatic scaling of containers based on requests, so it will run zero containers if you get no traffic, and 100 containers if you get (for example) 1500 requests per sec. The fully-managed version has a pay-per-100ms of execution model, while the GKE-hosted version uses an existing GKE cluster you provide.
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I would! I like a ton of text on my screen.
If we are so interested in fair results, why not have voter ID laws? Instead of fighting these laws, why not make it easier for everyone to get an ID?
This definitely happens on LIGO. You have hundreds of authors. My optics professor in undergrad was never a first author but he sure is an author on a lot of papers.
The really dumb problem with those is that the vote counts are stored in removable media - back in 2000 they were often referred to as "cartridges", and when mandated to do a recount, certain election officials choose to interpret it as just checking again what vote counts were reported by the cartridges. Or worse, just checking their Access database again that they put the vote count into, to re-read the vote totals there. This is some of what happened during the 2000 recounts. Ballots that were supposed to be recounted were never actually physically recounted.

Still, better than touchscreens, if you can mandate audits and that recounts actually mean counting the physical ballots themselves.
> The main advantage of writing ASCII diagrams first is that a) they work over email really well

FYI there is an ancient format for bitmap-in-email this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format

LibreOffice recognises it, incredibly. I've not tested it out in any mail client. I doubt it's supported, but it does exist as a spec.

(FYI and totally irrelevant I originally came across it here http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html)
Because those positive yields are only available if you don't hedge your FX risk. Most institutional investors have a mandate to hedge FX risk and this will take UST returns for EUR investors negative.
Are you suggesting that both sides of the climate change debate get equal time in the media?
What is a "strong voter ID"? This sounds like voter disenfranchisement or a poll tax, or both (and both are unconstitutional). Voters are not required to have ID, nor should they be. Not everyone has an ID, and many states have specifically passed laws to make it more expensive and more difficult for some people to get government-issued photo ID.

Without a massive outreach program intended to reach all voters and supply them with convenient, free of charge voter IDs, and a system that can continuously and quickly resolve errors, such a "strong voter ID" would be unconstitutional (for good reason).
Now chrome is getting credit for in private browsing and tabs? (Safari and Opera respectively. Phoenix/Firefox popularized them long before Chrome was a twinkle.)

Just for reference

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

It was available for 3 years in Safari before it became available in Chrome and four years before Firefox.
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App Engine is still GA and is still having features added.

Disclaimer: I work on both Cloud Run and App Engine at Google.
Yeah, the Edge codebase change and its resultant loss of that UWP EPUB reader was listed as one of the key factors in that much publicized case of Microsoft entirely shutting down their Ebook store.

In early Windows 8 history the UWP PDF Reader (that went on to also be the EPUB Reader) was available as a separate app in the Windows 8 Store just called "Reader", before it merged into Edge. I wish they would spin it back out into a new Reader app again, just to keep a useful extra option around for PDF and EPUB files, but it sounds like the code shares too much with the EdgeHTML Renderer they are entirely spinning down for them to do that, which is a shame.
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What if there was a remarkable amount of evidence abuse has already occurred?

https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-thousands-of-black-votes-i...

Or how about a federal district court ruling?

https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/georgia-dre-d...
Nothing is for free so benevolence is out of the question.

Payment comes in many forms. When a dictator on the other side of the world needs a "democracy" shot, or a country needs some additional sanctions for national security, the fact that European countries offer support makes the difference between greed/aggression and a "righteousness".
I don't want anyone to be able to look at my vote and know who did it. That's a powerful tool for thugs and tyrants.
When the hackability of electronic voting machines first made national news during the Bush vs Kerry election of 2004, a lot of Democrats huffed and puffed and stomped their feet, vowing to get rid of electronic voting machines... until a few months passed and the news cycle rolled on to something else, after which all those outraged Democrats apparently didn't feel it was a pressing issue anymore, and up to the present day those electronic voting machines are still with us. This demonstrates that the Democrats as a whole don't care enough to make this a priority, and might even be complicit with the Republicans in undermining our democracy.
Which papers are those?
Is it really that important to define the term precisely? It doesn't seem like the term is used precisely, so what's the point in defining it precisely?
So if you have a population of humans who, for generations, have selected genes via inbreeding, would it be a thing to have transmissible cancer?

I'm thinking of the Amish population near my hometown that has definite inbreeding traits and particular disabilities associated with inbreeding in their bloodline/families.

Would it be possible for them to develop some kind of transmissible cancer?
There are a number of reasons why indoor farming with artificial light could be a necessity. Space colonization, a runaway blight or pest that we can't stop without isolation, something causing large amount of solar radiation blocking particles in the air like nuclear war, a large asteroid impact, or a super volcano.

Also crops that need very specific conditions to grow might not do well as our climate shifts, and growing in a carefully controlled indoor farm could fill demand, though at a high cost.
> I also don't see why I shouldn't be able to have an internal CA for my internal services.

Because this enables every player in the system to issue valid certificates for bankofamerica.com and rob their bank accounts?

It's easy and cheap nowadays to get regular certificates for your internal services with letsencrypt.
There's nothing particularly terrifying about "negative". What's terrifying is the delta between forecasts and actual returns.

Forecasting 8% vs actual 2% is much more terrifying that forecasting 1% vs actual -1%.
Maybe for some it was a choice. Anyway, it's not the web browser's business.

If my anyone is coercing me to do something, it's a problem between that person and me. I don't want Mozilla lecturing me on politics, I just want to use the browser.
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That's... an interesting definition of infrastructure.
Tech companies are defined by their VCs. The end.

More specifically by VCs which would invest in companies with horrible financials that can inflect at a quantifiable amount of capital and scale.
It is a real estate company to the very least.
Gerrymandering can exist with both systems. Voting machines have no benefits at all.

However, i-Voting does have the benefit of making it much harder to cause voter supression (assuming there's free ($) access to whatever provides access to voting).
That is a link to the XPS 2-in-1 which is different from the XPS 13. I believe the XPS 13 has the 16:9
bush proved paper machines can be falsified too.
> and even (running the process in reverse) a silent propulsion system for boats or submarines.

10x10m for 2kW is 2kW per 100sqm.

That's pretty much nothing, propulsion-wise. A seawolf-sized sub (108m long and 12m wide) covered in this material would produce about 85kW. That's around the powertrain of a modern compact / city car: the nissan leaf's motor is 80kW.
Would be interesting to try setting up sockpuppet accounts posing as prominent non-chinese business people who frequently travel there and post about protests, tienamen square, etc.

Would China becoming suspicious of the 1000 most economicially productive non-citizens significantly damage their economy? Seems like a cheap disinfo campaign.
As an eastern european, I see the case a bit different. Corrupt governments and cheating locals were always able to "hack" voting. I would rather trust a blockchain based -fully transparent and real-time- voting system than the actual one.
It seems like with Talar, their delivery people are literally coming into your home and stocking your pantry/fridge.

So now somehow these random delivery people all have to have keys to my apartment (including the main entrance)?

Why would I want some rando coming into my home and placing things? I have my food/ingredients spread across a few different cupboards in my apartment, how am I supposed to specify where I want things to go?

EDIT: Oh apparently it's

"Upon on signing up, your assigned House Manager will contact you to understand your buying and stocking preferences."

Yeah that really doesn't sound like something that will scale well.

And still wouldn't want some rando coming into my house and into my cupboards/fridge/etc. Really weird.
They do own meetup.com, so unless they divested it they have a web services division..
There is no elite field in ultras, only in big road races. Look at the PR-s for the elite guys here: https://www.baa.org/john-hancock-announces-2019-boston-marat... . The slowest one has a 2:13 which is below women's world record and 6 minutes faster than any of the elite women.
Well, I can already tell if users say that they have genuine 'GitHub Contributions' by searching up their email in the AUTHORS file and their patch is in there. But if there is a high concentration of commits on a empty file in a repository, then that is equivalent of padding your resume.

This is actually a justification for using Codility, Leetcode or Hackerrank!

> No one wants anybody to know that they are cheating.

So it is cheating then? Looks like I'll probably blacklist any candidate that has starred this repository then.

And no, closed-sourced commits don't count as a open-source contribution as far as I'm concerned.
Google as an "American advertising company" is a good summary of the jurisdiction of their head office, and where the bulk of their income comes from.
Gig economy for picking up dog poop on other people's property. At least two of these already exist, one of which was recently featured on Product Hunt. I can't wrap my head around it.
Look at the S&P 500 index from early 2008 to say 2012. Governments will enact policies to prop up the stock and bond markets, as they always have.

Our entire civilization is held up on the promise that financial market indices go up over time, except for temporary recessionary periods. We just accept that retirees cashing out at the wrong time will be victims of 'collateral damage' during these 'market corrections'.

Everything from job growth, to the pension funds that you contribute to, to the municipal bonds governments issue to fund projects, rests on this one core assumption.
Honestly none of that looks all that bad considering he probably burned 9000 calories a day with exercise.
They're very similar, and the TFA itself says that it's 16:10.
Related: while reading this thread I got an email with a job advertisement for COBOL programmers. It starts with "SIXT is an IT company with a very large car pool". Big words for a car rental firm, but I do hope they will be a tech company.
It's also easier to clean up, i.e download a file, do something with it and then remove it. With ADD this is impossible.
I really don't understand the negativity on HN towards WeWork.

In principle, how it is different than AirBnB or Uber in regard of being a tech company? It's not like Uber or AirBnB's core compentancies are tech, I'm sure WeWork can also build a dev team making frameworks and research that some day might be used in their core business.

The article argues that the difference is that Uber, AirBnB, Yelp, Twitter is a tech company because they have "scalable virtual models that can be exponentially magnified overnight with little additional costs" but this seems to bu untrue since they did not took over the world. Maybe they are just humble but I think it's simply that their business model is "low touch high scale" and this is being mistaken with Microsoft's ability to develop technology and sell it infinite times with at no addditional cost per copy.

What stops WeWork from embracing the Uber model? Maybe you have an empty flat, you can turn it into WeWork location by furnishing the place according to the WeWork standarts and install some kind of kiosk and smart lock system. Uber makes the driver to use cars that obey certain standarts, why wouldn't WeWork do the same and "scale overnight"?
How do you prevent duplicate voting, then (i.e. me casting 100 votes for Trump)?
Chrome had the nifty break away title bar tabs before anyone else.

The first time I saw break away tabs in Safari for Windows in 2007. Before Chrome was introduced.
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I'd pay extra for a version with a taller screen. I don't understand why there's next to no market for laptops that aren't 16:9
I don't understand this criticism of the article. The point of the article is that lending standards are starting to loosen. The article provided a handful of numbers and one anecdote.

The article title and first sentence are: Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers. Strict lending requirements that were put in place after financial crisis are starting to erode. The risky mortgage is making a comeback.

Supporting facts are:

- "Borrowers took out $45 billion of these unconventional loans in 2018, the most in a decade, and origination is on track to rise again in 2019."

- "Unconventional loans are largely being extended by nonbank mortgage lenders. But big banks have found another way in ... Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earlier and the highest level since the end of 2007."

Then there's the single anecdote about a borrower with a sub-690 FICO. Is sub-690 arbitrary? Yes. Is this borrower an example of an egregious loan? No. But is this someone who could not have gotten a loan previously? Yes. It supports the article.

The article is fair in its assessment:

- "Big banks’ mortgage arms are still avoiding riskier borrowers, leaving them to nonbank lenders. Still, the increase in unconventional loans shows that lenders are looking farther afield for customers."

Let me put it another way: at what point should the WSJ write an article like this? The 2008 financial crises cratered the economy after previous lending standards became lax. We put regulations in place to prevent that from happening again. Those regulations are starting to be weakened again. I want to know that.
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Could you though? Inflationary and deflationary forces are constantly at work modifying the value of the money you have under your mattress.
Most Americans aren't climbing a mountain a day to overcome terrible eating habits.
a responsible citizens vote should not equal to a vote of a junkie. how about we take each vote and multiply it by the voters credit score and then count
The SMOTE algorithm is fairly old - isn't there something newer that may be more relevant?
I do not agree with your conclusion that your story demonstrates that "Democrats as a whole" don't care, especially given that the events took place before many of the present Democrats were even politically active, elected Democrats.

Regardless, your whataboutism doesn't matter here. Presently, the Democrats "as a whole" are united on election security, and the Republicans "as a whole" are united against it.
How do you know you have to go back and audit except by looking at the forgeable vote counting results? Those results could easily be hacked to not meet whatever the criteria are for an audit.

Hand counted paper ballots are the only way to be sure, and elections are important enough to be worth it.