skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only solution to this problem is public-only funding of campaigns.

I fail to see how that addresses any of the issues we have "earned media" from the cable "news" propaganda (I'm not using that word lightly here) networks or the "Citizen's United" style documentary production which would not likely be curtailed by the change you propose. All you do is shift the money from being thrown at the 16 minutes per hour of advertisement blocks to the 44 minutes per hour where we don't notice we are being advertised to.
So are these basically remnants of jets?
Pacific Yurts is the only company that declined to complete the company questionnaire that I created. Maybe if enough people email them, they'll change their mind :)
In Argentina everyone has a national identity card. It cost about US$5, and you can ask for an exception if you don't have the money. And I swear this is not the more organized and efficient country in the word.

To get one, you have to ask for a date about 2 or 3 weeks in advance, and you go to one of the official buildings. The process takes like 15 minutes and they send the ID to your home 2 or 3 weeks later.

Sometimes the government puts a truck with a mobile office in some parks. Sometimes you can get one also in some big shopping malls without a previous date. And if you wish, you can pay more to get the ID in the next day. Also, you can make your passport in the same office.

If we can, you can.
if i had to guess I would say that some usage data was piped through the billing system twice. Given how may people are experiencing this I hope this will be fixed in a timely manner.
What government is elected by the people? A few high level people - legislators, governors, presidents, mayors. I don't get to vote on the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, or the local Code Enforcement Officer, or the Chief of Police. Those are the more relevant officials, and they're shielded from responsibility for their actions by layers of bureaucracy.

If you want me to believe government is accountable, make all government positions subject to popular vote and recall.
Why reduce it to terms of bad or good of relation, there is also an element of a union of contractors gaining greater degree self determination instead of management being in a stronger position to dictate terms of employment.
For sure. But we're pretty far off axis, so I doubt that we'll get heavily irradiated.
Yeah, firing you so you can't pay rent and don't have health care isn't much power at all, is it?

And withholding a reference for their next job hunt certainly doesn't do anything either.
> "render a large area uninhabitable for a century".

I've never really understood this argument. Even if we set aside 1000 square miles of land for waste disposal, that's a rounding error in the amount of uninhabitable land on the planet. It's probably even a rounding error in land that has been made uninhabitable by humans for similarly long time spans.
This isn’t a hill I am trying to die on. And I would be happy to hear dissenting opinions. From my perspective, a contractor!= to an employee and there are trade offs associated with this difference. If you want benefits and more(again theoretical most of the time) job security then you go the FTE route. I’m not going to use examples of bad unions to argue my point and I even think in some cases they could make sense. I even think employees at google in a union make sense. But contractor? It is a low drag way to get people in and out the door without a bunch of red tape. Unionizing would make this not the case and likely just prevent contractors from being used.

This is a case by case scenario and I think a lot of start ups are using contractors as employees just to try and make their business viable.

Again I would love to hear a different view on this, I don’t know that I’m an expert on this but seeing things from the perspective of being an employee/contractor/business owner is what has informed my point of view here.
End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
The government is elected by about a quarter of the populace, and even the winning quarter is often dissatisfied at the lack of control it exerts over its representatives.

Democratic representation is one of the leakiest abstractions ever devised.
Malloc was forbidden in a AAA title I worked on. Interestingly enough we also had two (!!!) embedded garbage collected scripting languages that could only allocate in small (32MB, 16 MB) arenas and would assert if they over allocated.
> those with drive and real desire to win are rarely egalitarian.

Could this be breed out of people?
To state the obvious, Bernie raises 10x what Tulsi does[1]. It's probably partly in how the campaign harvests new pledges from prior pledgers (even if it's aggressive).

I'm under no allusions that she has the same name recognition that he has.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/us/politics/d...
Hmm, now I want a notification when the ISS will pass in front of the Moon from my location.

Edit: Of course http://i2.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/t...
If you mashed together the movies Wolf of Wall Street and Zoolander, you’d get WeWork.
The common solution when little documentation exists is to apply ink at voting booths. Something that comes off in a few days, but otherwise bonds to the top layer of people’s skin. That’s plenty for one person one vote. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink

As to having non residents vote, vastly more eligible voters don’t vote than people ineligible to vote. Honestly, as much hoopla as this gets it’s clear from recent elections it’s a non issue. Look for actual examples of this happening and your coming up empty.
Right, that's what I'm saying should be legislated to be optional. I don't think citizens should be forced to make that choice. Frankly, I think it might even be best to forbid a third party from collecting a borrower's personal information as a condition of a lender providing a personal financial product.

I will in advance disagree with the objection that this would make it impossible for the lending industry to operate. I have run a lending business before, and in the industry FICO score is much less valuable than a lot of other information available to lenders (demographic, income, assets). For asset-based lending (car loans, mortgages, etc), FICO is even more irrelevant compared to factors like loan-to-value.
Don’t have a backyard pool? Swimply, the Airbnb of pools, might be your answer
There is something called the "cost explorer" which I can't use yet, because apparently it takes 24 hours to set up (?), and it's not even clear that it will include my historical activity when it's ready...

Cost Explorer itself also charges per use. I'm not kidding:

https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
I hate graphs like the first one in this post. What is the graphical representation of value? The area of the box or the width?
Protest is not a technology problem
What if, I know i know this is crazy, but it isn't a zero sum game?

What if both could benefit? What could a modern union look like today?

We think in terms of unions = bad, but union is simply employees organizing and negotiating as a group.
Interesting point. These days 99% of my reading is on a screen. I don't have kids to be influenced by this but it makes modern reading pretty much invisible to young kids.
I believe ‘spending money on a grant’ is ‘giving away money’.

The foundation distributed $4bn through grants in 2018. See https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informati...
FANNG?
This actually started in Louisiana:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/louisiana-town-moves-to-high...
....inspired by https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg -- thanks!
If you are using a "free" e.g. credit karma, Mint, credit monitoring service, you are paying via giving away your information, its not free.

You're the product being sold.
The IRS has done this exact thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
A lot of places won't treat you at all if you don't have insurance, unless you have an immediately life-threatening medical condition.

The insurance card is your access ticket to urgent but non-emergency medical care.
Actually, no, it isn't. Many conservative organizations were targeted by the IRS under the previous administration.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...
It does exist though. Our brains are information processing mechanisms which have figured out some of the laws of the universe - and they continue to question it. They do exist and reality does 'exist.' I suppose you're questioning the validity of nature> If so - then yes, I would say it doesn't really 'exist.' Mathematical fields are really what exists...but hey, who's here to argue certainties! So what by your definition - or whom meets the criteria of 'existing' then?
tufte is the acknowledged reference
Second this. Being a good developer means lots of reading. In the old days that was usually manuals, these days it's far more likely to be whatever Google coughs up, but I'd sure be a lot slower if I couldn't see what others said about whatever unfamiliar territory I'm trying to navigate.
Why would anyone do that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
"In January 2014, James Comey, who at the time was the FBI director, told Fox News that its investigation had found no evidence so far warranting the filing of federal criminal charges in connection with the controversy, as it had not found any evidence of "enemy hunting", and that the investigation continued. On October 23, 2015, the Justice Department declared that no criminal charges would be filed. On September 8, 2017, the Trump Justice Department declined to reopen the criminal investigation into Lois Lerner, a central figure in the controversy."
You make it seem much more reasonable than it is. Your statement is also really a lie of omission.

To summarize, the government (mostly state/local & mostly conservative) makes it harder to vote if you're poor and/or young.

The first and most obvious example is a national voting holiday. Only about 56% of Americans eligible vote in the presidential election. Also, lots of games are played with registration especially after redistricting.

Nothing done explicitly stops anyone from voting but they nonetheless shrink the electorate.
Sounds too much like a social credit system.
They probably have cost explorer data in a different system and need to index your history before it can be used.
Trump revoking security clearances for nakedly partisan purposes. That isn’t a use of the OPM data, but what it enables. It is easy to imagine a future administration blacklisting political opponents from obtaining mortgages.
Yeah. When you get good at composing SQLa code it is really nice. You can functionally build your queries and DB interactions. It just fit well with my way of coding. ActiveRecord had a lot of magic to my taste, but you could still drop down with it. Agree SQLa can be tedious at first. No tool is perfect :)
I bet you’re fun at parties.
The main goal of restricting a governments power isn’t to stop corruption, but to prevent tyranny of the majority [1]. A government elected by the populace is little comfort to minorities.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
On an uplifting note, we will all go together when we go (this year is the 60th anniversary of the song recording):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Nice. Here's another: https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
Because even if you don't use it directly, you might use some code that uses it. And even then, it might not ever be called given the way you are reusing the code, so...a dynamic check is the best way to ensure it never actually gets used.
>Every 'appropriately funded' govt service I've used has been miles away better than the equivalent private service...

Strange because my experience has been the exact opposite in every case, with the exception of police - and that's only because I don't have an immediate proxy. That private industry provides alternatives to these public goods and does them better is an indictment of the competence of our government, and shouldn't be viewed as an endorsement or evidence in favor of free markets for everything. These markets emerge because of government incompetence, not because of corruption or because the market is inherently "better".
Nintendo R.O.B. is getting a new pair of goggles
Is it possible that it was due to warranted concerns that these groups were misusing the tax-exempt status?
This can already be done with voting and party affiliation records and mortgage guidelines administered by FHFA (Fannie/Freddie/HUD), but isn’t.

Government is accountable to an electorate, private businesses are not (see: Equifax).
As long as the power grid stays live. I’d hate to live that far north without a wood stove for backup.
even using a generic image, and showing the path through the horizon with a compass in a generic 3d space would help to orient yourself
THIS. schools have mandates on revenue, for T1 research place like Harvard 1/3 is from tuition and 1/3 from alum donation, so that’s wealthy kids, and incentive for their parents to donate. Overtime schools realize there are polite metric to measure for wealth and likelihood of parents donating, and use these metrics to hit their revenue mandate. Also recruiters come to Ivies looking for cultural fit, so you have to serve up a certain kind of product (people) to appease your recruiters
By this standard, Jeffrey Epstein is innocent since he died before any trial started and Nixon was innocent since he wasn’t removed from office.
Am I the only one who assumes the volume button is going to go away in order to prevent muting ads?
because of the difficulty in policing extensions, this is decidedly a good thing.

that ad blocking and privacy tracking precision suffers is not great, but with safari’s cookie policy it makes up for it.

such a content blocker method doesn’t work for chrome because ghostery and the like won’t work. with safari it doesn’t matter as much (if at all) because the core browser handles this much better.
> I fear animal shelters literally never have enough as there are just so many homeless domesticated animals.

That problem could be solved far more easily if all Americans were more responsible with researching what it takes to safely raise a pet and what responsibilities you have if you think you can't.

Similarly, if American voters were far more responsible with how often they voted, researching their {candidates/parties/platforms/issues}, and what they let their representatives do in their name, lots of these political issues would cease to exist (without a giant increase in spending or refactor in how campaigns can spend).
Google should just buy this from you and make it part of google maps for free :)
Credit reporting was a big tool for equality. Before credit reporting, you basically had loans limited to people that were known personally - if you didn't know someone with money that had a high opinion of you, you were SOL.

Now, creditworthiness is judged on more objective measures, which makes it easier to buy a house, start a business, etc. I think we should hold credit organizations meaningfully responsible for data breaches - but at the same time, let's not get rid of the benefits by tossing credit reporting out entirely.
Oh I know, I'm just clearing up some possible misconceptions, I think some people aren't aware just how bad pollution in China is right now. Even in tertiary cities there's significant smog. If their authoritarian government does one think I hope it makes fixing that a priority.
I mean this in the least pejorative way possible, but not all software engineering positions are skilled labor, especially at Google’s scale.
> Also; what the heck are the head voices people talk about?

There's an unfortunate language collision here, where "voices in one's head" are used as an analogy for both diseases like schizophrenia as well as a way of explaining one perspective that mindfulness meditation can bring.

After a few years of meditation, I think of my brain as a sort of legislature or voting assembly, and a particularly rowdy one. There's a sense in which my Brain Senate speaks with one voice when they "vote" for a thought. But there's also individual factions / parties / politicians in the legislature, which have their own agendas and goals about what I should think.

Personally, in my own brain, I have a pretty strong Social Anxiety Party. It makes speeches on the Senate floor about how we should cancel those first date plans because it'll probably not work out anyway.

This perspective helps remind me that the rest of my brain can listen politely to that speech, and then say "yeah, we've heard that speech before, we're tired of your bullshit" and then vote down the Let's Cancel That First Date Act of 2019.

Losing "votes" like this, in turn, makes the Social Anxiety Party less effective in my Brain Senate. It's not gone entirely, but it's less likely to win support for its proposals.
> Many consoles have been "jailbroken" by making buggy games load specially crafted savegames that ended up in code execution.

That's an argument for using C in gamedev, isn't it? ;)
This is the silliest argument against voter ID laws ever, and should be retired. [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14909764/study-vote...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/voter-id-study-re...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
You're trying to agree, but I think you're instead stating a different and better point.

For someone to not do basic research into buying an entire house, because they weren't interested? That gets very little sympathy from me.

But if the real problem is that they were forced to gamble to live, then that gets sympathy from me.

And you improve these two situations in very different ways.
Looks like market highs are not hit during recessions.
Why use a scrapple computer on their intro page, why not a commodore 64, we all know the c64 was the power to the people. =))
you do think about a cigarette but you get in the moment and can observe the craving and there aren't the things there that trigger stress. it's nice and quiet.
Sounds a lot like the creepy Black Mirror shit China is doing.
I didn't make up the terminology. It was already in common use at least thirty years ago when I was actively working in that domain. To simplify, it's basically about whether a missed deadline is considered fatal or recoverable. That difference leads to very different design choices. Perhaps some kinds of video software is hard real-time by that definition, but for sure a lot of it isn't. I'd apologize, but it was never meant to be pejorative in the first place and being on one side of the line is cause for neither pride nor shame. They're just different kinds of systems.
Our elections are really a choice between communism and authoritarianism.
I think the question was why don't WE on HN link to iFixit. If Ars wants to also write an article that links to them, that's fine... but it's best to go right to the source from here.
And yet, most of us living in those two countries actually have very little say in selecting the executive who's in charge of making that decision.
Yep, came here to say essentially this with regard to the Central Banks. I have to wonder if Central Bankers are feeling more and more politicized these days, and will now employ these "creative" options without regard for any long term consequences - whatever those may be.
Because this comment chain, including your original reply, was about blacklisting critical reviewers.

Also because the article you linked is about blacklisting.
Trivia from googling:

Tartaglia comes from tartagliare, meaning to stutter.

"Tartaglia was not the family name. Tartaglia took it as a nickname, which referred to his inability to talk clearly as a result of terrible wounds to his head and jaw during the sack of Brescia in 1512"

http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/tartalia.html
I still remember the fad of "let's see how many weird things we can cram onto a cell phone". It led to some pretty cool if impractical phones. Every phone I've gotten seems to be just a step towards less and less physical buttons each time. The physical home button was the last one to go I'm pretty sure.
Today's capitalist system is lifting people out of poverty at a pace we couldn't have imagined 200 years ago.
If you really believe that quality of life for the world's poor has decreased in recent years you are living in a bubble and I urge you to leave it.
Funny coincidence, I mentioned Potemkin Villages in a lecture discussing the Rasterization pipeline for a Computer Graphics class at CMU [1]. It is very interesting to look back at Potemkin Villages, as they can be seen to be a very primitive form of "rendering." Abstractly, the designers of the villages worked with the limited materials that they had to produce the closest reproduction of a real city that they could. In this way, the final aesthetic of the Potemkin Villages is a function of the limitations of the creators.

You can draw a direct analogy to Real-time rendering today. The "limited material" that we have is the GPU. Because the GPU is great at crunching matrices and other embarrassingly parallel problems, we have converged on Rasterization as the predominant method of rendering in real time. Rasterization was chosen because it is fundamentally based on two concepts: linear coordinate transformations (model->world->view->screen space) and triangle fill algorithms. The GPU can do both of these exceptionally well.

I think it's important and instructive to keep all of this in mind, because tomorrow we may be stuck with something other than the GPU, and the paradigm could shift completely. There's nothing fundamental about Rasterization that gives it better physical footing than other methods -- it is simply the best known good that we have with current hardware.

[1] http://15462.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/lecture/opengl/slid...
Yep. Just like the FDIC was against the gun industry.
"All recessions have been preceded by an inversion of the 2-10 year, but not all inversions of the 2-10 year have preceded a recession" is the phrasiology you're looking for.
Yeah I hear you. I've been here for over 25 years. But we're getting less and less snow generally, but yeah pretty much any of it and things have to shut down because we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it. Better to just shut things down for a day or 3 a year instead of spending millions of dollars on the infrastructure to handle it.

I mentioned the flooding. The one major place that is often flooded is the connector near midtown where at the bottom of the 2 hills. There are certainly some flash floods on some streets especially when drains get clogged.

But you're right, there are issues here. I had a laptop zapped through a phone line > modem > ethernet > laptop from a lightning strike. I'd still take them over a straight up coast city's issues.
It seems possible until you realize that the IRS publicly apologized for targeting them and paid a settlement to 427 of the organizations. Four hundred twenty-seven is far beyond any random accident or mistake.
I thought it was interesting that he highlighted Haxe as being a young language. I suppose it is compared to C, but I remember reading some tutorials about Haxe game development almost a decade and a half ago.
‘Sesame Street’ Muppet Drawn into Controversy over Autism