skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I’m guessing Apple wants to use the same technique in their new phones and couldn’t come to an agreement with RED?
The "electoral college helps small states" thing isn't true. It's a convenient justification that high school teachers repeat without thinking. It makes no sense.

If the EC helps small states, then why has there never been a presidential visit to Wyoming?

The answer is that the electoral college doesn't empower small or large states, it empowers battleground states. This is dumb, undemocratic, and contrary to the framers intentions.
>The President doesn't represent "the people."

Isn't that obvious by the fact that the electors are under no legal obligation to choose the candidate they were voted to do?
Why shouldn't we just put the camera in your house? If you're not doing anything wrong, nobody has concerns...
You are wrong in your understanding as well. The human rights charter is not legally binding and it was signed by only 48 of the initial UN members.

It merely reflects the beleiefs of some UN memebers at the time. I think in the end,if national sovreignity means anything at all then human rights is defined by each nation's laws.

For example, if Germany invaded the US to liberate americans from lack of universal healthcare which they as a nation consider to be a human right for americans are they justified?

If you believe so then yes what mozilla did is alright. My argument is,for it to be a human right,you need historical precedence and universal (not a mere majority) acceptance. It is a right you attain simply for being human and nothing more.

Let me take it a step further,if a prisoner's privacy is taken away (which is the case in every prison) then is that person's human right beinf violated every day? If so,please let's talk about that because you lose privacy for being arrested even without a trial or conviction!
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That's a great quote. I've often said that fulfilling work is one of the great joys in life, but leave it to Ursula LeGuin to say it better.
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This would make it easier to spot more productive people
I hate the name, but it doesn’t really matter if the tool’s good.

Startups are sufficiently stressful, I don’t need to be reminded constantly that I could burn out any day.

Something around moonshot would sound nicer. Or mission control room. How about “Houston”?

Edit: just read the page, sounds like the tool is huge in scope, are you sure you need all that stuff before launching?
Don't know why you are downvoted but I second your opinion. The contents listed here seem to emphasize applications in CS rather than theoretical aspects (e.g., Hilbert space, tensors, spectral theory).
Because the United States invests way too much power in who is President.
If Hong Kongers really are Chinese then, on the contrary, it's thinkable.
Thats the correct way to go about it really. I will do it this way next time.
SoundCloud is barely scraping by on some low bitrate streams.

Maybe the user can afford it, but the streaming company has margins to keep.
Most of these comments are about the structural issues with the electoral college.

I’m not really concerned about that. What concerns me is this insistence that a popular vote for President in a country of 350M people is a good idea. Does anyone actually believe this? The executive branch these days has essentially become a proxy for what laws one wants passed, and you end up voting accordingly. This might be fine, if the results were restricted to being local - and by the way, the original design of this country accented on exactly that point. But we don’t live in that country anymore, I guess. Now we want more democracy, all the time.

So I find it really hard to believe that introducing more “democracy” in a nation as divided and diverse as this one is a good idea. This, I thought, was supposed to be one of the reasons that people wanted to move here ... the whole Federalism thing. Taxes can be different between states. So can Social policy. The extension of this is of course the Electoral College.

Spare me the criticism of “slippery slope” but getting rid of the Electoral College seems like we’d be on the road to a government “of the majority, by the majority, and for the majority”. That is categorically absurd, at least in my view.

The cynic in me says that the only reason we’re even talking about this is because Trump won in 2016 via the EC. Sure. He did. And Clinton won the “popular vote” because of LA, SF, and NYC.

For those in SF (or whatever proxy): do you want folks in Sioux Falls or Fargo making your economic and social policy? No? I didn’t think so. So why is it okay to institute the reverse?

The point I’m trying to make here is this country, as diverse as it is, is best run as a distributed network. And centralizing the election of the Executive into a singular popular vote will help destroy what’s left of that network.
That isn't true. The system was intended to be more democratic, the current winner-take-all norm came long after the constitution was written.
If you look at hours per worked per family, things have gotten even way worse since woman were drafted en mass into the salaried workforce post ww2, going from a 40hr week to well over 70hrs.
To be clear, I am not favoring the originalist interpretation. I don't think the founders of the constitution were god-sent. They were smart people, and we can put our own heads to work to create electoral systems congruent with our values.

PS: I like how you said "men and women" there. If we go by the founders, women wouldn't be part of the electoral college.
I didn’t like the lady either, she’s was definitely doing it for the money.
That’s exactly what the NPVIC is trying for... they’re not abolishing the electoral college, just making an agreement that 270+ of them will vote for whomever wins the entire nation’s popular vote.
Could be two reasons:

1) They just discovered this British inventor's work and thought it was worth petitioning in order to save a few dollars for Final Cut Pro.

2) They plan to allow the iPhone/iPad to output to ProRes RAW and don't want to pay the significant royalties and so have been actively looking for prior art.
Ipfs.io can solve this easily.
...what? Almost all of that 30x is because of better technology, not the number of hours. We could switch to something like 32 hour weeks, 40 work weeks per year, and still have a truly enormous GDP.
This is exactly what the article is about, and 16 states with 194 votes have already done it. It will eventually pass 270 because most states (all non-swing states) have a lot to gain from it.
This is mind-bogglingly fallacious. Most women enjoy sex just as much as men, if not more. And plenty of them are open to and excited by casual encounters with men (certain types; honestly probably not you, based on what you’ve written). There doesn’t have to be something wrong with them for that to be the case. You’re making some really sexist assumptions premised on what appears to be an extremely Puritanical view of acceptable human behavior.
I'm pretty sure it does mean lossy codec. The

> i.e. no /percievable/ loss in quality.

would be pretty redundant otherwise.
And if you remove Texas, Hillary would have won by an even larger margin.

What is your point?
Low tech manufacturing isn't the only thing they're exporting.

Japanese IT firms have been training offshore dev teams in Vietnam/Myanmar for ages and sometimes on-shoring those entire devs team back into Japan.

Some of the larger companies even recruit directly in Vietnam.
Has there been any studies on adopting a baby? Does it yield the same results on men? If yes, then it might as well be a matter of social construct, where a new vulnerable addition to the group needs protection for example.

Another curious question, it would be interesting to see the impact of adopting a cat or a dog on men’s testosterone levels.
The only time a Republican has won the support of most Americans since 1988.
Military units are always the best protected lands.
A way to check with Pyton if another process in Windows is run as Administrator?
I can check if my script is "Run As Administrator" but is there a way with Python to check if another app on a Windows system is running with administrator privileges?

Basically, I need something like this.

if is_admin('otherapp.exe'):
print('Admin Privileges Detected')
And free software comes with backdoor? You're right in thst the reputation is mostly accurate but there are a few that offer a free and a paid tier (protonvpn for example)
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The states have the absolute right to assign their electors as they see fit.

The framers intended for them to be locally elected or proportional, like Maine and Nebraska today.
I live in Sweden and yes, absolutely, I can do that. I've seen people swear towards the police and absolutely nothing happened.

Assaulting someone by hitting them however is not a freedom, you're violating someone else's freedom of not being harmed. Which is not what the post you're responding to was mentioning.

It looks like you want to steer the discussion away from free speech, because you know the West has that and China doesn't, towards an argument that if you can't do anything you want in the West it's not really free. Which has nothing to do with China.
I believe at the height of Imperial Rome, workers almost had one day off for every day worked. The Romans did use a lot of space labor, so that may also have something to do with it.
Cut out sugar, bread, and liquids with empty calories. Eat meat, fruits, and veggies -- even frozen ones. You'll drop weight very fast switching to high meat and veg, and dump the carbs/sugars.

For those of you who are skinny and want to bulk up and don't mind eating somewhat bad food: Eat lots of sugary candy and junkfood like potatoe chips. I find it's the easiest way to get fat.
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Several attempts have been made at this in Rust in the past, but few people use them. It just adds even more dependencies that you’re not actually using.
If they enforce a policy that key-user pairs are unique per project, then they know who to blame for any push.
For me when my Daughter was born we did formula. And I took care of her for 4 weeks at night time.

Screaming at night = “my parents are bad they aren’t feeding me they should be locked up”

Kicking feet = “oh god I’m wet please change me it’s so gross”
> The consequence of continuing would have been far worse than abandoning. The fact remains that they were moving to put in place democratic reforms. Prior to the Chinese revolution HK was an economic backwater - most of its population being related to the transhipment port and military presence. Kowloon and New Territories were only added as buffer zone for the port. Growth was nearly all post Chinese revolution.

The consequences of continuing will be worse for Britain as they will not be able to milk revenue or profits from Hong Kong. By extending it until 1997 they were able to milk Hong Kong, until the very day when it was about to become a liability and lead to economic expense.

All the wealth of Hong Kong in those days from 1980's to 1997 was due to growth of China.

Hong Kong has never paid any revenue or money to China, but on the contrary Britain extracted money from Hong Kong since they set foot and continued it for 150 years. On top of it in 1997 moved all the profits to London when they left.

These all facts are part of Hong Kong history.

Probably Britain should pay reparations to Hong Kong. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
So, for one, I don't - I'm mildly in favor of direct popular votes combined with some form of runoff voting (either IRV, STV, or approval voting).

But I also get the arguments of people that say that without the electoral college, there is zero incentive for politicians to campaign in or pay attention to the interests of people in lightly-populated area. And I think that is a bad thing - whenever you completely disenfranchise people you get create a potential crack for revolution, secession, or other fragmentation processes to seep in. (It's also just shitty to the people involved.) I'd rather fix that by getting rid of first-past-the-post voting systems, but I also think you can't ignore that problem.

You still haven't answered why you believe there's an excluded middle. The opposite of tyranny is representation, and it's the system we have in the U.S. You can quibble about the degree of representation, but the fact that you can quibble about it means that we don't have a tyranny.
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What's "space labor"?
0. Earplugs

1. Division-of-labor, specialization of trade... although it might not fit every feminists' "equality of outcome, share everything" political-correctness, it doesn't make combined net income much sense (or cents) to risk a $300k income with sleeplessness/low-productivity vs. an $80k one if one spouse (assuming spouse isn't a lawyer, doctor or engineer) can be at home full-time, or both as full-time parents with parental leave policies/laws or take a sabbatical. Dumping/delegating mundane tasks onto a high income earner doesn't jive with common sense. Also, automate and delegate as much minutia as possible outside to contractors and domestic workers (cooking, cleaning, construction, yard-work etc.) of one's wheelhouse to have more family, couple & work time. If you make $80-$600/hour USD, don't waste your time doing low value tasks that others could do more cheaply for you.
Yup. It’s a metonym that’s getting at the idea of “bits, not atoms.”

Plenty of companies use extremely impressive tech to manipulate atoms, but, by convention, we call the ones that manipulate bits “tech companies.”
I think security when it comes to third-party products is relative to personal value one sees into that product and to personal use case.

If your GitHub account is really that important as to use your fingerprint each time you access it, sure it is nice GitHub can support that.

But if you do not really mind and are happy with a password, that maybe unlike your finger, you can share with someone in other side of world if you really like to, then why not use a password. I would expect GitHub should not prevent that.

It is sad to see a trend to really "make sure it is you" started by Facebook and Google taking over in all mainstream online services and it is even worse, to have people believe it is the only good for them.
That's really only true is you take the parochial view that what women do at home isn't "work", when it clearly is work.

In the 1940s a woman would typically spend 62 hours a week in housework.

Nowadays women typically spend 15 hours in housework and 45 hours in paid work. So the same ballpark, really, and not a dramatic expansion.
Bitbucket allows you to use your SSH key on as many projects as you like, IIRC. I actually really like Bitbucket as a platform, I wish more people would use it.
What is the motivation behind writing tools like these in JavaScript? Not everyone is going to have Node or NPM. I don't want to first install NPM to install a utility.

But Perl/Python/Ruby are very likely to be present on more number of systems (Windows being an exception). Why aren't more of these utility tools written in Perl/Python/Ruby?
> Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?

That is a trope and is no longer true. If you say blockchain is the solution you get laughed at.
Google cloud has a free tier giving you a very low spec VM for free. I dont know if it works for a http proxy, but it certainly could work.
>And most people probably won’t care with this card either.

This isn't just another card. People will treat it like an Apple product. Which means they will have protective case or Card Protector wrap around it.

Seriously if the product itself is as exquisite as I dream of, I will surely want to learn how to take care of it.
Having worked a bit in the field (on the audio side of film) "perceptually lossless" means that in a double blind study, an audience would not be able to discern between the lossless and the lossy encoded versions. The only way to verify is by testing with real people, and due to the nature of the business, it's easier to do it with professionals who have a higher bar for perception.

There are a lot of reasons to prefer lossless over lossy, but there is always the "good enough" point with storage media. Film is not lossless, so it doesn't matter if the digital storage is. What matters is if the lossiness in encoding is good enough to work with at the same level as film.
Great comment, however:

> the central bank buys bonds with money it creates from thin air

QE generates inflation in the long run, which would by definition make these bonds less valuable over time.
Currently using this on Firefox for Android through an extension, works great: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/
It's still considered the safest form of tobacco out there, and the increased risk of mouth cancer is quite small to non existent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/business/studying-snus-a-...
is this not what https://www.namecoin.org does..?
Yup, I think that summarizes what is happening there
I'll echo others on this thread and say at 12-16 weeks your work abilities are dominated by lack of sleep/just recovering from lack of sleep.

However, I think the implication is that these changes stick around. After we finally hit our "parenting rhythm" around 6 months to a year, I did find that many of the soft skills were coming easier to me than they had before I was a parent. I found was getting better at doing presentations, reading emotions/intention, doing mentoring, and organizing others to accomplish goals, Now correlation is not causation, it could also be I was just transitioning into a more senior role anyway, and I've got a sample size of 1, but I'd like to propose a mechanism: constantly practicing my public speaking by reading "The Napping House" to a miniature tyrant who communicates only through facial expressions and screaming, is your responsibility to teach everything to including successfully eating food, and requires a logistics train on par with an Army brigade just to leave the house changed my brain and resultded in transferable skills.
There is no chance a driver would leave their camera running while doing something wrong. And if they did, they would delete the evidence after as it's not feasible for driver's to upload video live from their device to Lyft during all trips.
There are libraries that are maintained by the project itself, but are not part of the standard library, yes.
That's not really true. Once you exclude people who died in childhood the average life expectancy shoots up.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...

In England and Wales around 1850 the life expectancy overall was around 40 because a lot of people died as children and dragged down the average.

For someone that made it to 5 years old their life expectancy goes us 15 years to 55.

People now definitely have a higher life expectancy but the difference isn't as vast as some might assume.
> I can code, I can design, I can talk, I can sell, I can lead.

Sorry but no, you can’t do all these things. As a professional developer, I know I can do some design but nowhere close to a professional designer. And I can’t sell like a professional salesman. But I do know that designers are generally not good programmers.

Tech needs a lot of management consulting. So what don’t you do that in tech?
Cool! Now, can we just always use postgresql: scheme URIs for connection information? Also, no passwords on the command-line please -- use a password file, or prompt. Also, please add GSS-API support and such when you can -- or wait till this is popular and others do it for you.
I am sure the author means well. However, this makes little sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Although humans have evolved far more than most animals on this planet, the basic idea of evolutionary biology remains the same. In the wild, males have to hunt (provide food), protect the new born(s) and their mate(s) from threats. Therefore having the same level or higher levels of Testosterone is a biological imperative. Testosterone makes the male stronger and more aggressive. Both are very useful traits from an evolutionary standpoint. I cannot imagine human males diverging too much from this basic framework.

Coming to today's workplace, after childbirth there is a drop in productivity of male employees as they adjust to their new reality. However, I have observed men become more diligent and aggressive at their jobs. I only imagine thats because they have a stronger sense of responsibility to provide for their partner & offspring. Whether or not Testosterone levels change is a different matter.
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> I've never understood how Asian regional free trade agreements and China providing loans to developing countries is really a threat to the west.

It’s a threat from the US perspective, in the US national interest. Currently, the US is the top dog internationally, both economically and politically. As China increases its influence especially in the Asia and Africa region via economic investment and, potentially, demonstration of military prowess, it necessarily means US influence in said region decreases. This decrease in soft power of US means it is more difficult for the US to push for US-friendly policy in said region/country, which is detrimental to the US national interest.
Re: 1 - would you stand to the same words if the 300k income would be the woman‘s?
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I’m sure some will. I have one. It’s a really heavy and sleek card. Like most things Apple, they did away with almost everything they could. No signature line, no fine print, no customer service phone number. (Remember when Apple was able to get rid of the FCC stuff on their phones?)

But all that said, I’m not going to add hassle to my life by treating it any different. That just seems too Patrick Bateman. 2 years from now, I expect it’ll be worn and rough looking.
> ...but the newborn phase is basically a complete write-off.

Good for you. The FANG (you can guess) company I worked for stack-ranked me at the bottom of the tar pit in my write-off year with zero increase in comp, followed by another quarter of intense improvement program after which they decided I still wasn't good enough. Disagreements ensued for three more quarters and then that was that. The result... unemployment.
All of what you said is why poverty is usally seen as a relative value — it is relative to the perceived average of the wealth of the society you live in.

A society that continuosly sustains high degrees of poverty under that definition, usually needs a narrative for why the poor people deserve to be poor and why the rich people deserve to be rich. Centuries ago (depending on the place) this might have been still been religion: you have been born into a poor life and those in the lead have been born as leaders and there is nothing you can/ought to do about it.

Today individualism takes that function: you are responsible for beeing poor, even if you have been born into it. But you can become a billionaire if you want — it is just very hard. This means also those who are billionaires must have worked very very hard and so deserve their wealth.

Rich people usually inherit their wealth tho, which makes a fool of the whole narrative and suggests who profits from it.

Beeing poor means to struggle to make ends meet every day and despite optimization efforts fail to do exactly that every now and then. You can have a hundred times the absolute wealth of someone in a different society and still be poorer than them in that you struggle for survival, while they do okay for the society thwy are in.
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