skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the documentary and had two major issues:

- CA was said to be able to identify swing voters, and then swing them. I thought about this a bit. How would you even collect data about this? Do you just assume that people who have voted both ways are swing voters for this election? Ok, so suppose that's what a swing voter is and you somehow have a dataset of people who've done this. You have the labels, what are the features? Postcode? Age? Race? Gender? Income? (scary shit that you have this btw). But aren't those things going to tend towards well known facts already? As in old white male in the countryside, like Rep? What are you really getting that isn't already well documented? Anyway supposed you then write a nice RF or similar model that is good at finding swing voters. What do you even show them to make them swing your way? How will you ever know if that actually worked? It simply seems like a stretch to think CA provided anything useful.

- What is it about CA's methods that were so effective? Would there not be some team on the other side of both the presidential and Brexit campaigns using exactly the same methods to the same end? Wouldn't there be Hilary and Remainer people who could buy/collect the same data, identify the same voters, and then send them something to push the other way? Why didn't the journalist look for someone like that? After all someone had to do something similar for Obama.
In that case, you could pronounce the :: in IPv6 addresses ("fill with zeroes") as "zillion" if it appears at the end of the address!

(I don't know how people pronounce that operator otherwise... I just say "colon colon".)
This reasoning has certain merit, but I still get sad every time I hear it. With this kind of attitude we would have never gotten out of the caves.
Thank you! The answer to this question is why I even clicked on the link.
(A collaboration like that would be awesome, though.)
Purchased by Lithium Technologies in 2014, shuttered in 2018. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout
You are conflating agency of action with the means of action.
I'm surprised Debian and Ubuntu are not at the same level.

They ship more or less the same packages anyway.

Also, BS clickbait article. Should never have been posted on HN to begin with.
Intellectual moat: the sales team refused to acknowledge that over-selling was going to hurt them in the long run; the technical team regularly asked them to re-phrase copy on sales material that was not technically true, the sales would say yes and not do it, or change the written statement but make the false claim, verbatim, in front of cameras. Numbers in their presentations didn’t add up, they confused information and inferences, interpolation, models and individual data, etc.
This article seems to only cover the residential distribution system. I say that, because it covers the single phase, center-tapped 240V (120V-Neutral-120) that's conventional in North American residential circuits. However, in commercial buildings, I've seldom seen single phase 240/120V service from the utility. Rather, I've seen 3-phase 480/277V. If 208/120V is to be used, there's usually another transformer on premise to step down the voltages.

I wish the article covered how the secondaries for commercial distribution was done as well, but at least its coverage of residential service is informative.
I was paying a whole lot more than 8c kWh in Seattle, my rates are actually lower in Texas, and my new roommate was paying less in New Mexico.
Oh, my bad. Didn’t know that. I guess that settles it.
I wonder why the downvotes -- this was a very insightful observation.
Iowa can grow more than one crop yes? Why not subsidize not corn?
Which plugin do you use to go docstring->docs? I found it difficult out of the box to determine w/ Sphinx how to get everything to play nice.
Hacking is political. Always has been. And for many, hacking is a way of putting our politics in action quite directly - among other things, ensuring our privacy because nobody will do it for us, and building new systems that don't depend on the power structures we're forced into.

I don't know what your hacking is, but hacking to me involves protecting the rights of whistleblowers and activists under dictatorships by building technology to allow them to communicate freely, it involves protecting my friends from people who want to do them harm. It's about creating networks and connections and helping people survive. Technology is a means to creating a better world, not an end in itself.
Obligatory "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" link for those that haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Best watched on a lazy Saturday morning or train ride. It's a long (but rewarding) lecture on how sugar is somewhat like poison to our bodies in the quantities we consume. It starts out jovial and gets very scientific.
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I believe thinking of it only as a 'meat substitution' might be missing a larger trend in that a new segment is being created.
That sounds intuitively right, but that this might not be the main cause. Fried potatoes (french fries and chips) are causing obesity, which in turn causes diabetes. They also are high in carbs, though not sugar.
Yep! I was shocked when I got the data packet. I had no idea that I could get that much data on individuals.

Some other notes about the data: you can get additional hydrations 2-4x/yr @ $50k per pull. The data can be passed via API but they expressed to me that MOST data is doing via SFTP in Excel spreadsheets. They purchase data from any and all vendors possible.

Another insane data provide is Datalogix by Oracle. They were some of the first to have a deep relationship with Facebook. They do identity merges across all the Oracle touch points. This includes POS data, auto data (including sensitive data), and their overall marketing cloud.

It's insane to me that these other guys are not front and center in this debate.
Is there any plans to expand Beyond Meat, well, beyond USA?
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Seems like a great solution if it doesn't get abused by claimants. Maybe the verification status should remain permanent, or further disputes should escalate the sum staked for the claimants.
Posting like this will get your account banned, so could you please review the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is admittedly some baked-in expectation that you understand or have background for the nuances of Java 8, 11, 12 or Hotspot, OpenJ9. The website currently expects you to understand these differences. Good feedback, noted.

But honestly, the website itself is not hard to understand. It gives you a choice of three JDK versions (8, 11, 12) which are all supported versions. And it gives you two choices for JVM (Hotspot, OpenJ9). And of course, you need to pick your platform.

If you're coming brand new to the Java world, this is most definitely a cumbersome landing page. But for most people already in the Java world, these questions are quite relevant and appropriate. And the default choice (Java 8 + Hotspot) are quite sensible for most newcomers.

Oracle's java.com website doesn't really give you the developer experience needed for Java. That's more focused on delivering the end-user JRE, not the developer JDK.
I had a friend that ran a small food shack (basically a food truck that didn't move) serving hot dogs and nachos and the like. He said the cups cost more than the soda in them.
Well, Tesla is one long stream of gambles. You dont get to school an established, global, trillion dollar industry without taking risks.

The only notable thing here is that hating on Musk is really popular these days. So the failed gambles (this, falcon doors, the initial overautomation of the Model 3 production, etc) will be highlighted and mocked, while the successful gambles will go unmentioned or incorporated as a matter-of-fact developments.

Running Tesla stories through a selection bias filter is really useful, as it'll discard most stories that pop up.
Thanks, TIL.

So given all this, how long do the original batteries last in California heart?
I have a theory that added food sugar makes people more aggressive as that what is happening in monkeys. Could sugar have the same effect in humans? Reason human and monkey dna are quite similar.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/monkeys-bann...
I don't get why Marianne Williamson gets labeled as some crazy person when she says we have a sickness problem and that we need to have a conversation on all the causes, including food, that contribute to people getting sick and thus needed to seek healthcare in the first place.

I think most rational people inherently get that, but for whatever reason talking about preventative care seems to be taboo at the national political level. That needs to change.
There's some background necessary to understand the article. Each of the big five intelligence agencies has a special type of intelligence they collect. They generally don't overlap to prevent duplicated effort, wasted money, and unhealthy competition. The CIA specializes in HUMINT, while the NSA specializes in SIGINT. So the article saying, the CIA doesn't spy on the UAE should be read as the US government doesn't collect HUMINT in the UAE, instead of reading that the US government doesn't collect any intelligence in the UAE.
You need people to eat real food, which means cooking, which means taking time to cook. That's antithetic to the US way of doing things, which is to work all the time and outsource everything else to someone else (I'm caricaturing a little here of course).
I meant that Mojave does not support Nvidia drivers [1]. Sorry, I've confused Carbon with Metal, the 3d graphics API.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2018/12/11/appl...
why not brutally enforce cut down of sugar in sweet items (including softdrinks, ice cream, chocolates, cakes, etc.) by 50%? To he11 with the taste - sugar is as bad as cocaine when it comes to addiction.

Sugar is literally killing humanity as something inside of us makes us hooked to it. And some ethnic cuisines are culprit in this: The stupid practice of overloading sugar in sweets in Pakistan (I am Pakistani for record) and Middle East, weird North American sickly sweet kids cereals (and Krispy Kreme, etc.).

Not only artificial sugar but even the propaganda about stuffing our mouth with fruit needs to stop -- more than 1 fruit (e.g. banana or apple or orange) per adult is excessive in terms of sugar.

Finally, not only sugar, low sodium levels need to be enforced.

Would also be nice to charge 100% tax on deep fried items and fatty products such as cheese and white rice (in developed nations).

Frankly speaking, all unhealthy foods should be sold with a clear and bold "THIS FOOD PRODUCT IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH" type of warning -- similar to labels on cigarettes.

It is not about being a nanny state but rather than keeping our generations and humanity healthy. For far too long the greedy, unethical food corporations have been profiting off our health. This has caused untold misery for countless people around the World - not only diabetes and heart attacks but even forms of cancers are linked to unhealthy food.
I suppose the reason why PyTorch doesn't implement this boiler plate for you is due to all of these quirky edge cases :)

I think Pytorch Lightning might be worth taking a look at: https://github.com/williamFalcon/pytorch-lightning
> Really what about the SV party culture ?

What party culture? I worked at Google in Mountain View and never saw any of this, nor "brogrammers", nor endless mandated/encouraged overtime, or most of the other stereotypes that seem to perpetuate themselves.
The Presidential caucus may have something to do with it but "and several Congressional reps are from" makes it sound like they have disproportionate representation in Congress, or don't deserve representation. Iowa has 4 reps. California, for comparison, has 48. I don't think those 4 reps are the reason for these subsidies. Maybe the Caucus makes it a political third rail. I think most voters are simply ignorant of the situation, however. That ignorance could be alleviated by better reporting by large organizations like the NYT.
I'm noticing this in my peer group. Folks way too young to be having serious health issues dying or seriously sick, all diet related.
Do Unitiarians really call it a "church"? When I went to a Unitarian service they referred to the building as a "meeting house" and not a "church".
Sure, until your typical workload involves billions of them.
> I would say that unit tests impede refactoring. If your refactoring changes classes interfaces or API, you are likely to have to change your unit tests as well.

Strongly disagree. How do you modify a function or interface if you do not know what breaks when you use that function?

Personally, I do not like to have to grok the entire codebase and keep a map of it in my brain at all times. I like to concentrate on the behaviour I am currently implementing and be VERY sure that the changes I am making are not breaking elsewhere.

If changing a function breaks a bunch of tests: Good. Otherwise, all of those broken tests would have been bugs I get to find in production and explain to my boss.
I doubt audio is transcribed on each device rather than once in the cloud, but imagine for a moment... what if it was? Or if Amazon gave you access to a server to redo the transcription work in real time for each user? Would Amazon would be distributing the capability to create a derivative work rather than (what is arguably) a derivative work?

Should Apple be prevented from distributing Logic Pro audio software because it could be theoretically used to create unauthorized derivative works from music downloaded from iTunes? Should Google/Alphabet be prevented from serving search results for "youtube-dl" because it is the distributor of copyrighted music videos? Should MEGA.nz be prevented from sending data whose copyright status it has no ability to determine by design? At what point does responsibility pass to the person clicking the "transcribe" or "remix" button?

(IANAL)
I am just a cook. Just a lowly lowly cook.
Exactly the same quote came to mind when I read the headline, and kept getting louder throughout the article.
Where does that statement come from? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it's not exactly an opinion. The problem with (refined) sugar is that it's in damn near everything (processed foods anyway).
> And. Risky for sure. Elon Musk obviously doesn’t shy from risky. He sets goals that solve existential problems. In this case, our reliance on fossil fuels.

What is the relevance of these platitudes? Are they intended to be a catchall explanation/excuse for every time Musk makes an objectively terrible business decision? That we have to consider Musk cares so much about ending fossil fuels and factor that into the criticism? Musk (at least based on his Twitter persona) doesn't seem to be the type to buy into the mindset of "the most important thing is that you cared", so I don't think it's ultimately respectful to him to moderate criticism based on his announced ideals.

I'll accept the premise that Elon Musk is special, that he, as you say, "sets goals that solve existential problems." What facts/assertions in the posted article reflect or are a consequence of his higher thinking? What existential-problem-solving goal does Musk have that gives us confidence him paying $5B for SolarCity and assuming $3B of debt is a shrewd, deliberate move, and not the inexplicable clusterfuck we would happily label it were it done by some other company?

The posted story focuses almost exclusively on SolarCity's solar panel production, and makes no mention of it being a "power generation and distribution company". Did the reporter deliberately omit mentioning it, because they want to focus on SolarCity's failures? I googled around for SolarCity and power generation and/or distribution, and I only skimmed the first pages of results, but I didn't see a headline post-2017 that didn't describe something negative, e.g. `Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities in 9 states`. Is it possible that SolarCity no longer meaningfully competes in power generation/distribution?
It is a bit infuriating that there is this 'boogeyman' in CA when really if you listen to any interview with Brad Parscale he says pretty clearly it is all due to them actually using everything facebook offered them.

"Parscale said he asked the Facebook “embeds” to teach staffers everything the Clinton campaign would be told about Facebook advertising “and then some”. Parscale told CBS he was told the Clinton campaign did not use Facebook employee embeds. “I had heard that they did not accept any of [Facebook’s] offers,” he said."

So really this is all due to a complete incompetence on one campaigns digital strategy while another actually put in work.
Then they'll use ASM, manual SIMD or pointers arithmetic like they would do in C and that would work. All of theses are part of the unsafe Rust (inline ASM is nightly only though, but you can still link to a ASM file even in stable).
Thanks, I was thinking of more used languages, such as c, python, java, javascript (they'd have greater need of good engineering, wouldn't they?).

I don't know Haskell or Rust well enough to appreciate their compiler engineering (and haven't heard of CompCert). But I might have a look at their source - I have a long-term project about tree transforms ATM and hadn't thought of looking at what compilers do (even though I was aware of Knuth's attribute grammars).

Yeah, nah, I think your "core operation" is a reasonable definition, both as primary function, and as the basic design (despite crafted tweaks atop).
Depends which average it refers to any of the means, or the media, or the mode can be “average” (most typically, though, it means the arithmetic mean), and it's only impossible in terms of the median.
I'm still undecided if the most shocking part of all that is how bad their data is, dedup-wise; how ancient is their tech; how unethical it all is; or how much every journalist or researcher working on AI and Ethics could not care less about this.
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They were bought for their machine learning algorithms and the purchaser ditched the rating service because they recognized it was a bad idea.
The problem is that there's evidence that YouTube was purposefully uploading and allowing copyrighted content, which means they are no longer fully protected by the safe harbour provisions of the law, and risked losing the Viacom lawsuit. ContentID came as a compromise from that.
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Replacing HFCS with cane sugar basically doesn't add any cost to the consumer. It's cheaper and more profitable to use HFCS, but the sugar calories in a serving of soda are ~$0.10 either way…
They introduced sugar taxes in the UK, and now almost the only carbonated drinks available with sugar are Coke and Pepsi. Everything else has swapped sugar for sweeteners, which for those of us who find their taste foul has been an unpleasant reduction in choice
any way I can read this without a paywall?
There's a reason B2B is distinguished from B2C.
Afaik, Oracle maintains their own distribution of the OpenJDK[1] and it requires no login.

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/
Exactly. And it's unreasonable to expect the public to be aware of the sheer amount of data that modern ML consumes, compared to how the more familiar "this call may be recorded for training purposes" is used.

Plus, the latter actually warns you about it every time you are recorded, not somewhere beforehand buried in a TOS. And the experience of "just talking to a computer" (not a person) makes people likely to share all sorts of private stuff.
Which I paid for by buying the audiobook.

I'm asking the reverse, who is getting left out of collecting money when I purchase the audiobook and then want a digital copy for whispersync?
Only in a deal to furnish sats and rockets with solar panels forever. Vertical integration more or less.
It doesn't necessarily mean cooking though. That's the solution right now because the market is stuck in this minima.

It means no junk food.

There's nothing at all stopping McDonalds or whoever from making the hotpot I just cooked up from fresh vegetables without adding 1 billion bollocks preservatives or whatever else. Scaled up the labour costs become trivial.

But that's not the world we live in. I go outside and I want non-shit food and there's nothing there, so yeah, the option is eat shit or don't eat.
Which does not compile in C++ or C# :)
What e-commerce platform are they on? For example on Shopify, you can install a wide range of apps to get access to different functionality (like Klaviyo for sending out newsletters).

You mentioned they need to track inventory! Are they looking to do that across multiple sales channels?

I built Trunk[1] which would centralize their inventory and sync it in real-time across everywhere they sell (e.g. Etsy, Shopify, Faire, eBay, Amazon, Square, Squarespace, etc.). If they also need to track their bundles/kits, Trunk can do that too.

Feel free to visit the website and chat with me (bottom right icon)!

1. https://www.trunkinventory.com
Simply because people love bikeshedding naming conventions. At this point, naming is just an engineering meme.
Eating healthy is pretty simple: A plant based whole foods diet will do it. The 4 major food groups are as follows: Beans, Grains, Fruits and Veggies with maybe a little bit of nuts, and meat maybe once a week.
That's an interesting point about using a different plug and socket. Perhaps this would be a good time to deploy IEC 60083 Type G plugs, which were carefully designed for safety at higher voltages? They already see some use, so there is an existing supply chain for plugs, sockets, adapters, etc.
Hmm.. has anyone ever been sued for adding captions? I don't see how they would.. as far as the end user is concerned, the captions are embedded into the video, are not a separate performance or a product. Not exactly analogous to audiobook vs ebook.
> SV recruiters blackball candidates/potential employees (often for no reason than petty vindictiveness);

How do you know about this blacklist? How is it shared and maintained.
I don't even mind the expense so much. It's the experience. I'd happily pay more just to have TV watching be a pleasure. This whole app experience where you have to pull out your phone and log into some site over and over again when it "forgets", learn multiple UIs, have commercials that mess with you (Choose a commercial to "interact" with for 3 commercials, or choose to watch 6 commercials!)

It's just awful. It makes me miss CRTs with rabbit ears and a VHF and UHF dial.
I don't think the Oracle bundling of Ask.com adware has been part of the distribution for a long time now. Like 5-7 years or so? Can't remember exactly.

But to your point, the whole fiasco of including ask.com sure gave Java a black eye. This was the worst thing that Oracle could have ever done for the adoption of Java. So dumb.

But anyway, all downloads of Java regardless of source (to my knowledge) are free from that adware now. Definitely all the OpenJDK distributions are, which you should likely be using anyway.
He's not the only doctor to suggest that the average person eat less sugar, but he does it in a way that oversimplifies it and makes people susceptible to fad diets with excessive meat consumption. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/is-sugar-rea...
Well let's see what do Czech people do when they encounter English names. It seems like they learn about how to pronounce them in English. So why should the vice-versa be any different?
This is a side effect of having onerous copyright laws. It takes quite a bit of engineering effort that could have been spent on other projects. This means economic loss and frustration for consumers.

As an aside, without copyright, we could have both Disney and Sony Spiderman movies. The consumer wins, and there's more than enough money to go around for competing studios.
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