skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you want the majority of the USA geography being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable about it?

Well, if you want to propose a system where Alaska (area 570,640.95 sq mi) gets the same representation as Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama combined (area ~525,000 sq mi),

...then I'm all ears...

* Please don't tell me "But Alaska has so few people!"
Oh god, I bet Motley Fool will be publishing an article on how great this is and their IPO picks which could net you 20000% return over the next 10 years. SMFH
In America, at least, we should consider the legacy of slavery and indentured servitude in attitudes towards working hours. Many of the expectations for economic output by American industry have been set by the productivity of people who had little or no right to question the conditions they worked under, overseen by people who cared little for their well-being beyond that productivity. If that's the basis of the American work ethic, no wonder your boss looks at you like you're crazy when you say you'd like to be able to live comfortably on 30 hours of labor a week.
A critique of pure learning and what ANNs can learn from animal brains
Sorry, you are plain wrong.

Article 12 and 19 of the UN Human Rights Charter [1]:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with
his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to
attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has
the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media
and regardless of frontiers.

Just because some countries happen do have "historical practices" of violating human rights doesn't mean they have a right to keep violating them.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
it's not only due to the work but to the solitude as well. there used to be 70% of the population, men and women farming and living in farming communities, now only 3%, mostly men, actually working and not many people around
So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary?

Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?
I'd prefer a 12-year term limit (for a 4-year period). That's 2 years to get up to speed, 8 years of working, and 2 years to pass knowledge on to the next generation. For long term projects the funds could be allocated at project start (e.g. via special-purpose bonds, just as in the early days of railway construction), so the project will be independent from political issues.
Ask HN: Which apps do a good job with GDPR consent flows?
What are some dark patterns? What works to help users understand and, at the same time, ensure it is clear?
It’ll take a few years for the data to play out, but that’s likely not the case. A CBO study found that our effective corporate tax rate before the Trump tax cut was 18.6%. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the.... France, Australia, and Canada were from 8.5-11.2%. The Trump tax cut dropped the nominal rate by about 1/3 (accounting for state corporate taxes, which didn’t change). Assuming a proportional drop in the effective rate (which is a wild ass guess), that would move us below Brazil, Germany, and India, but keep us slightly above France, Canada, And Australia.

The US media coverage of Trump’s corporate tax cuts really misrepresented how completely mainstream it was: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uplo.... While the US nominal rate of almost 40% total was around the OECD average in 1990, the rest of the OECD dropped to just over 20% by 2017. Meanwhile, the US nominal rate didn’t drop at all.
Researchers are creepily close to predicting when you’re going to die
Correction - some websites are blocked - like bbc.co.uk, but I encountered others. But it's easy to circumvent. The freedom in Vietnam is largely based on the fact that the government doesn't have the means to censor and catch all the small fish. So unless you go on a big public protest, you can basically do whatever you want. Officially, the freedoms are very much limited and yes, internet censorship is on the rise.
It was indeed intended to prevent populism; the idea is that instead of voting for the president you vote for a group of people who you trust to then choose a president. But it has never in practice worked that way.
Shoot me your contact info. I might be able to bridge some of the gap with side work.

John @ curtisdigital.com
Well they’re cancer cells, so some part of the DNA is damaged. Fix the damaged part and sure, makes sense you could get Patient Zero out of it?
What I've heard is that Chrome shipped an unfinished early version of the web components spec, and now there are sites relying on it because it works in Chrome and that's good enough. I think the spec has been more or less finalized now? I'm not sure whether it's shipping in both browsers, though. Something is (eg for firefox it's since 63), but I don't know exactly what.

I believe YouTube uses a whole framework based on the preratified spec?
Funny how a patent warmonger company like Apple tries to fight against others' patents, when they are on the bad side.

All these patents are now backing off too much the evolution
America has had so many shootings you can't really cover them all. For example the one I was never taught was the Greenwood Massacre despite its scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
Apple, Google, and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan's HTTPS Intercepting Certificate
That has not been my experience. During my dating period (about 5 years ago) I was regularly told that my full head of hair was a pre. Though there could be bias there since the ones who care obviously were more likely to seek me out.
Are you able to elaborate?
This seems closer to a gambling operation or scamming operation, than offering ordinary people appropriate investment opportunies.
> That kind of development can't be replicated in a few years, is likely out of reach for smaller nations (read anyone except India) or viable in a geographically distributed fashion.

Vietnam started a long time ago. And it doesn't have to replace China, just part of the manufacturing process.
I was curious if this was related to the Vox Earworm video that just came out on the subject. Sounds like it was a collaboration. The video is much better than this pudding.cool article IMO. https://youtu.be/qJT2h5uGAC0
That's not what the electoral college does. It's a post-hoc justification your high school teacher probably came up with on the fly, and you clearly haven't thought about it critically since.

The only thing the electoral college does is give the voting power of local minorities to local majorities.

3 million people in the state vote for A

4 million people in the state vote for B

B gets 7 million people's worth of electoral votes, A gets nothing. Repeat 47 times.

There is no explanation for this that makes sense. It wasn't designed this way, it happened by accident. The framers tried to stop it in the 1790s and 1800s, but there was no political will: everybody wanted to exploit the antidemocratic loophole in the constitution instead of fixing it.
The President is not a legislative body.
2 minutes for a full build from scratch. Incremental builds afterwards take seconds, though unfortunately linking of big projects can still sometimes takes up to around a minute.
As I read it, this proposal only stores the keys used for signing in the blockchain. You could use DNSSEC though to archive basically the same thing.
If there was any evidence at all, the administration would have presented it.
There are plenty of good things in this world that bad people can twist to their benefit.
Unfortunately for Felix, all of his slaves were really bringing down the median happiness. But they're all dead now, and he has robots instead!

Having robots makes Felix really happy. Not as happy as having slaves, but still happier than anyone else could ever be.
Ex took it, along with the dog
I had the opposite to the commenters above. I had the best ideas when attending to the baby, middle of the nights. I also started reading serious books (like geopolitical stuff) when my baby was falling asleep on my laps. I did some of my best and most efficient coding the first 3 months with the baby (when it was sleeping). I worked less, but better. My brain definitely shifted, I had an unparalleled motivation to do things. After 10 months it started to fade away and return to “normal”.
Four Leaf Clover
Prominent MIT professor resigns in protest over lab's links to Epstein
warmonger is indeed good word for apple.
Democrats want rural Republicans in New York to have their voice heard, that's the whole point: everyone's vote should count equally and the winner should need to seek majority support.

Unlike Republicans, Democrats have these things called "principles". They are ideas that you believe in whether they benefit you or not.
Nobody has to like everything. I like cooking, I hate doing dishes and cleaning. I know people who hate cooking and enjoy dishes. It is good to have a mix of complementary skills and preferences in a household.

It's a hell of a thing when, as a cook, you can stand up from a good dinner you made and walk away from the mess knowing that your roommate Barry wants to have a quiet hour of not talking to anyone doing the dishes and tidying the kitchen because he has actually been looking forward to it and that's what gives him peace. The same peace I got from chopping vegetables and stirring pots.

I've even met someone who likes doing laundry! They wash and iron their own dress shirts despite being perfectly able to pay an inexpensive dry cleaner and describe it as "Cheaper than seeing a shrink".
Yes, DNS should be like the old phone book — published regularly, pick one up anywhere & everywhere, look things up anonymously (granted, authenticity guarantees were somewhat lacking).

My question - Sure blockchain can do this, but couldn’t a simpler DHT-based p2p system would work just as well or better? I like the distributed/anonymity/authenticity, but why is blockchain required?
I was basically useless as a programmer at 12-16 weeks. I was also basically useless at 2-4 weeks, but that was largely because of the sleep deprivation and constant need to run around doing chores. (What they don't tell new parents: newborns spend 6-7 hours/day attached to the boob and do so in shifts of about 15 minutes on + 45 minutes off, so mommy basically has a full-time job breastfeeding and daddy has a full-time job doing everything else.)

I started to get some of my old coding mojo back around 8 months and at 18 months I'm IMHO better than I've ever been, but the newborn phase is basically a complete write-off. Parental leave exists for a reason.
Data Parallelism vs. Model Parallelism in Distributed Deep Learning Training
It seems to me to be quite the assumption that in order to fight for a prize you must expect you can win.

There are plenty of examples throughout history, let alone in any of the many incidents of competition happening today - from sport all the way to war - of the opposite.
Because your brain is thinking of other tasks or responsibilities, and you feel as if you’re wasting your time, or need to rush to finish.

Additionally, if you’re not experienced, you don’t know how long something will take, and the indeterminate estimate is off-putting.

Correct?
Apple is a patent warmonger company ?

If that was remotely true they would be filing lawsuits all over the place. In fact the only time I can recall them suing anyone was Samsung who is hardly an innocent party.
>> Article IV Sec. 4

Says literally nothing about secession.
The Electoral College lets the minority choose the president against the will of the Majority. That is called tyranny of the minority. I want to know why you think that's a good thing.
Isn't that a tricky issue?

Take American Samoa. As I understand it, many American Samoans don't want to change the current legal system. Among other things that would change, should it be a US state, is that "About 90 percent of the land is communally owned" and currently "It is against the law for any person whose blood is less than one-half Samoan to own land in American Samoa" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa#Land_ownership .

With statehood, such laws would be illegal under the US Constitution.

Also, the populations of Northern Mariana Islands is ~55K, of American Samoa is ~55K, of US Virgin Islands is ~105K, and of Guam is ~170K. The least populated US state is Wyoming at ~580K.

If each became a state, that's 8 Senators and 4 voting members of the House, giving those states 12/(435+108) = 2% of the votes in Congress, for 0.1% of the population.
> RED wanted to find a way to make digital compression visually lossless (i.e. no perceivable loss in quality).

What does that mean? Is it lossless like lossless webp or png, or is it lossy and well performing under some metric like PSNR? "no perceivable loss in quality" can mean anything, including a lossy codec.
I would be very glad if you could demonstrate both of these facts based on the project's app.json [0].

[0] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/acc0787b001613...
If your algorithm accounts for future states - and it'll have to, to be practical - "assigning minimal resources to the really unhappy people to let them die from neglect" is also part of the set of options.
In those days I don’t think the electoral college members were bound by law to vote for the president that state-run popular votes determine are the state’s choice. Of course the purpose isn’t being served if the men and women of the college aren’t allowed to act on their own.
> You are barking up the wrong tree.

:)
Wow, that boggles the mind. Talk about double standards.
I beg to differ. Everywhere I've worked, people have despised the waiting built into the processes they have to conform to. Many roles are constructed so that they're actually two roles: one is pure productivity, with clear goals and deadlines. The other is some sort of service role where you're at the beck and call of clients who could waltz in whenever, defined less by your productivity than by your availability (which is always meant to keep you in an workplace for 6+ hours). Switching between roles is aggravating; effectiveness at one kills the other, to some degree. Most would rather just do one at a time, and be paid for either the time sacrificed or the work completed, at a dignified rate.

But that would cut into C-suite bonuses and dividends.
It depends a lot on the country you live in...
Yes. You don't need to abolish the whole college, just do this. And states can do it on their own and immediately, no need to sign a pledge only takes effect at some possible future time.

The problem with this, and with the pledge, is that it requires the states that benefit from the current system to voluntarily decrease their own influence. Which won't happen.
There’s a lot of reasons for it on the movements official site:

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation
My experience is that women - like men - have preconceived notions of attraction that are easily circumvented, to make you more overall attractive enough.

Full head of hair is a qualifier, without it different things are needed to get yourself an in. The same logic goes for many attributes are considered qualifiers that aren't.

Yes, there are some men that expend very low energy and have women seemingly flock to them. I've seen bald men in this circumstance, and full haired men in this circumstance, I would say it is a very low weighting on anything.

Balding though seems to function different than bald.
Also, consider the possibility that a company like Facebook moves its primary office to VR in ~10 years.

Not putting a probability on that, but we’ve never seen a teleconferencing platform with eye contact and body language before. I have no idea if that’s the limiting factor, but it seems at least plausible. FB, Google, and Apple will almost certainly all be selling $500 devices that can do those two things inside of 5 years.

Is that enough to disrupt physical offices? I don’t know.

But the probability is not 0. Personally I doubt ‘p(by 2030 one tech giant allows most workers to choose to work in VR)’ is < 0.1.

I’m going to price that into any Bay Area property valuation I make. How many people are only here because their office demands it?
>Its clear from the videos of protest supporters and media outlet without China's influence like BBC, CNN, The Guardian that there was violence in the protest (not small enough to be ignored). This is just deflecting the reality to create confusion.

Only if you ignore the fact that government encouraged (and rewarded) counter-protestors were attacking them in the subways on the way to and from the initial peaceful protests.
> The Great Hack

I found the title to be self-fulfilling. That documentary was awful! It's just a tag along the journey of a smart narcissist to cover her ass.
Martian Language
Thanks for your work. I pirated it, I can't remember when, after release via a warez FTP dump, and a later version via DCC on IRC and it took forevvverrrrr to download but it was so very much worth it. I was born in '81, so having a somewhat recent encyclopedia was so very much worth the time and effort. I couldn't afford a new set of encyclopedias, and the ones we had at home were very old, with very small print. You're partly responsible for some of the beginnings of my self-education -- to you and your team, thanks.

Sorry I couldn't pay for it at the time, and didn't think to write an e-mail (yeah, I was a preteen using Waffle shell at 9, and used WFW and W 3.11 with Trumpet Winsock through my teen years, along with a shell account later). I had access, but not much of a frame of reference. Your product started giving me that frame of reference.
Don't forget about steel ("tin") cans too.

Steel can be recycled many times with virtually no degradation.
Tl;dr summary:

> I hate it, because it makes me feel defensive. PHP in their minds is much worse than it practically is. I’m tired of defending PHP, I’m tired of being set back and having to proof my competence by virtue of being a PHP programmer.

>We’re not taken as seriously, and we’re being paid less. The 2016 StackOverflow Survey puts PHP developers as the least paid. Hilariously that position is shared with “LAMP” and “Wordpress”, both of which are also PHP. We’re also among the “most dreaded”.
Pakistan Became First Country to Launch 5G Services in South Asia
Are you saying this because lesser people know Outsystems than the usual tech stack like react, and it makes them look vaulable?
Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
Some people have wondered whether candidates might concentrate on big cities or ignore rural areas in an election in which the winner is the candidate receiving the most popular votes.

If there were any such tendency, it would be evident from the way real-world presidential candidates campaign today inside battleground states. Every battleground state contains big cities and rural areas. Presidential candidates—advised by the country’s most astute political strategists—necessarily allocate their candidate’s limited time and money between different parts of battleground states. The facts are that, inside battleground states, candidates campaign everywhere—big cities, medium-sized cities, and rural areas. Far from concentrating on big cities or ignoring rural areas, they hew very closely to population in allocating campaign events.
Yes, it’s not new to manipulate people, the low cost for high efficiency is new. Clinton had almost 3M more votes than Trump.
It would be much more expensive to manipulate 3M (1% us population, 1.2% voters), rather than 70k (0.02% pop, 0.028% voters).
If winning the election is about properly manipulating 0.04% of the voters, that’s very scary and not working as initially designed.

Edit:math
Motivation for attacking large problem, programming or real world
I divide the 10kg sack into a bunch of mason jars and avoid the pests.
The whole container safety story has been a mess/cluster/bag-of-tricks since the very beginning. Unlike BSD jails, security was never number one priority for containers. Just take a look at what GCE/AWS use respectively. The former built an entire syscall proxy with Gvisor while the latter uses a hypervisor based solution with Firecracker (think mini-VMs). Anything in production that touches foriegn code can't really use generic out-of-the-box container systems like Docker. There is a whole bunch of tech such as Hyper Container, Kata, Runq etc. all so that you can run them on a hypervisor and get proper sandboxing. All in all quite disappointing to be honest.

(The main downside of hypervisors is that they are difficult to run on low-cost commodity cloud like Digital Ocean. You are forced to use bare metal stuff like Hetzner, AWS, Paket Cloud etc. The whole point of cloud is that the hardware/infrastructure is mostly abstracted away. If I have to run my own hypervisor just to ensure the container doesn't get broken out of, what's the point even calling it cloud?)
Just look at their security track record. Nothing beats webmin. It's just the worst. I would never install that crap anywhere.

https://www.google.com/search?q=webmin+exploit+perl
I always took off 3 months from work per baby. There's no point coding when you're always sleep deprived. Last year the company agreed to about half the salary, so I'd work from home on some things, or come in half the week or half a day as needed.

Then again I did notice I was very good at understanding baby talk.

Taking from some old notes of my 5 month old baby:

"eh eh eh", but no crying at 6 AM = "I need a diaper change" or "I'm hungry"

rapid kicking = excited

wide open arms while lying down = "pick me up"

"uh huh/mmm" with slight head inclining = yes.

when mother is saying something, baby laughs, turns head towards me, "uh huh/mmm" with inclined head = "mother is right" or "I told you so"

laughing and turning away = "I like that"

licking lips = "I want to eat whatever you're eating"

"aaaaaaaaaaa" = conversation or song

long, drawn out, angry crying = "I'm tired and I don't know how to sleep"
Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]
42 hours in Switzerland is IMHO a lie. I’ve seen and experienced tech and pharma setting expectations so high that people have to work at least 50-60 hours.
I invite you to visit us in Africa where a dose of real poverty will dis abuse you of your silly notion that relative poverty is a real thing.
My guess is because some crypto provider wants to manage it and charge you to publish to it.
You've never worked crunch or a holiday period?
A lot of blockchain projects coordinate "seed nodes" by storing collections of IP addresses within the DNS records of websites that community members run, because it is an already decentralized enough record

This is going full circle
I think that is brilliant. Just extend existing labeling rules to add a couple extra figures.
Nigeria is corrupt but over the past few years, the country has seen a lot investments from Chinese industrialist. Usually small and medium sized one trying to get ahead of the curve. I believe the Chinese can deal with the local corruption in Nigeria. Maybe even thrive in it in the short term
I was hoping this would explain my weight gain but I suppose I have to accept that replacing daily workouts with 3 bowls of ice cream and magic shell may be the culprit.
It was a common mindset, historian friends tell me that also shopkeepers in villages would work on a need-money-soon basis.

I think that historically the first job with the work ethic of more is better was the merchant.