skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, all is fair in a really healthy discussion. The reason I write what I write anyway is because I believe in them. Your point is taken and accepted.

I've slammed Google, FB and some other tech companies on certain occasions BTW, and I absolutely never felt bad about it. Thanks!
So I'm forced to regularly dig through Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google Events Search, individual sites, individual web pages, AXS, Spotify Concerts, email newsletters, etc.

I'm in a small town and it feels like "word of mouth" is the standard here. I'm wondering where one would even begin to try to aggregate any information whatsoever.
I just need to stop doing !g in my ddg searches.

None of these improvements point to helping fix that. You've got my attention, but search results need to be better.

If you just focused on "coding related" search results that would make a world of difference. Maybe just put stack overflow on top.
A meetup with Twitter users sounds like a nightmare.
Sure, but the benefits of that aren’t well distributed.

Those that are well-established in their wealth/careers get to double dip at no cost.
A better comparison is with China’s state-led expansion abroad. While it lacks the EIC’s habit of violence, modern China shares both its strategic ambition and its commercial veneer. Asia is still grappling with that awkward mix, four centuries after the EIC’s motley crew sailed from the foggy Thames

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/10/10/the-asto...
Why do people have to register to vote at all?

The state has a sort of pretty solid idea of where they live...
> What is the correct way, or convention, to specify and parse command line arguments, for example?

I often use variations of this pattern:

version=1.0.0

usage() {
cat << EOF
USAGE: $0 {{-f|--file} <filename>}

Some description.

OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display this help.

-v, --version
Display version.

-f <filepath>, --file <filepath>
Specify input file.
EOF
}

while (( $# )); do
case "$1" in
-h|--help)
usage
exit
;;

-v|--version)
printf "%s\n" "$version"
exit
;;

-f|--file)
input_file="$2"
shift
;;

*)
>&2 printf "Unknown option: %s\n" "$1"
>&2 usage
exit 1
;;
esac
shift
done

There are standard guidelines[1][2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_00...

[2] https://cli-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design/guidelines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

Coined by Lord Young, father of Toby Young.
Devil's advocate:

I read some Plato earlier this year, and I confess I was unimpressed. I had always been taught that he was a great philosopher, but apparently his philosophy was: if you don't know something, just make it up, in exquisite detail. I'm not sure what I was supposed to get out of it, except how much the ancient Greeks loved mathematical purity, and didn't have the scientific method.

What we know in modern terms from modern books is the best thoughts of the best minds filtered down through the ages. I don't need to read the rough drafts.
Restricting the harm window to ionising radiation is a red herring.

We know that magnetic fields alone have very apparent interactions with humans and other living organisms[1].

The only mitigating factor here is the TRP, but at the FCC limit of 500 watts ERP per channel, that's actually not too far off from microwave ovens. I doubt it'll hurt humans unless they happen to live in the immediate path of an eNodeB, but I don't think either one of us is qualified to speculate about what it'll do to inspects and birds that will pass much closer to it.

Your wifi router isn't cooking you because it's at a significantly lower ERP than a microwave oven, but the same is not true for a mobile cell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...
Analysis-Report “Study the Great Nation” 08.-09.2019 [pdf]
Because this is HN and you're probably young-ish: When you're older and you've set down roots the last time you updated your voter registration was probably a few decades ago. Chances are your polling place hasn't likely changed either. So you know when elections come, you go to your usual polling place, give your name, get your ballet and "pull the lever" so to speak. You're not thinking "Oh I better double-check my voter registration!" because you haven't needed to do that in ages because your address and party affiliation hasn't changed in years.

The US is strange: It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.
Ga zo door. Op naar de ton :)
I am ok with recruitment companies organising meetups. But mostly as it is in their interest to attract plenty of relevant people to the meetups over and over again.

So it is a fine balance between good talks, and how much they will advertise their recruitment business. I can stand a little, but not too much. The ones I have been to have had a good balance. LJC in London is/was organised by one and seemed to have a good balance.

But I have been a little annoyed at other companies creating rival meetups on the same topic in the same location. Especially if the original group is not oversubscribed. It just creates some confusion and people miss out on some meetups.
I'd agree with you if a voter could just instantly register at the time of voting. Ideally there wouldn't be any need for registration at all.
Thanks for recommendation, I am actually looking for a replacement (or at least a reason to get newer phone :D ).
Bitstamp moved $800M+ for the price of a cup of coffee
Harder than it is to not wrongfully remove them in the first place, which is really all that needs to be said.
It seems to only be UI improvements - the search itself is still terrible. I have DDG as my primary search engine, and I would say I have to repeat 50% of the queries in google, which has actual useful results after the first half page of ads.
When that money came out of those people's pockets they went home with a computer that they obviously valued more than the money itself. By their own judgement they walked out of a store carrying more wealth than they walked in with. Michael Dell made himself wealthy but he made his customers even more wealthy.
So, it's possible, as long as they come near death? That's good to know, though I'm not sure how applicable it is.

I'm not even really sure if it's entirely correct. We've all seen believers follow cults right into death, and otherwise costing them enormous prices. Once you've bought into the necessity of the belief, even your own life can seem unimportant, especially if they can then tell you that they're offering something more valuable than life.

The way I read this, it sounds as if he'd just gotten bored. Five years without any of the apocalypses coming true don't require any logical leaps or even persuasion. They just get boring: you're not getting what you want out of the cult.
Continuous Profiling and Go
Beyond Working from Home: More Ways to Offer Your Team Flexibility
Well they are certainly trying to make it hard: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/court-upholds-ohi...
> In other big metropolitan areas (Paris, London, etc.), the cost of living is at least a bit lower, but they're still major cities and not that cheap. And there salaries for engineers are even lower.

If you want decent pay in London you go contract, not perm, and head for the finance sector. You can make the equivalent of $150k-280k depending on how good you are at landing contracts and selling yourself.

AFAICT the situation is similar in western Europe (I get feelers out sometimes at lower but comparable rates for contract work in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Belgium).

Perm workers here are being ripped off IMHO, massively. But then the technical standard of the average perm worker at the average mid sized company in the UK is terrible too. It's a vicious feedback cycle of low pay, low respect for the profession and poor results. Perm work in mainland Europe is paid peanuts AFAICT, which is probably why so many find their way to London.

Some of this difference is down to costs and rights associated with work in the EU, which are just missing in the US. And part of the reason contracting is so lucrative is that we effectively opt-out of those.
Voyage to Arcturus and most if not all of Alice Sheldon's (aka Tiptree's) stories look like they're in print, and published as ebooks (and on pirate sites if they're not stocked by your local library). Open Road and Gollancz have been publishing a bunch of older science fiction like that.

Buying out copyright for books that a publisher is selling would be much more expensive. A few million dollars wouldn't go very far if every copyright holder wanted, for instance, a modest $5k per book to buy out their copyrights. And why would they sell their copyright for pennies, particularly when they already bought out the copyright from the original publisher? They put in all the effort to re-publish the book, and marginal and up-front costs now are zero (ebooks) or low (print on demand).

It's not obvious that making obscure books available for free would be doing them any favors. With the avenues of libraries and piracy available, having a non-zero price should help boost the perceived value of the books.
Google AI Research Division to Issue PhD Degrees – Halting Problem – Medium
Meritocracy implies nothing about fairness or a level playing field. Meritocracy implies the person with the best skills gets the job. If someone with worse skills gets the job because they're the bosses son, or even just because of their gender/race, it can no longer be considered a meritocracy.

The only way to fix what you've brought up is to have all children be taken from their parents at birth and raised in an equal opportunity community akin to The Giver. Is that what you want?
Let's be real, in the real world D, go or rust are not competitors to anything.
Just take a look at http://www.modulecounts.com
to see the gap between language ecosystems.
The late 1940s and 1950s. This was due primarily due to a government program of giving people checks. I am of course, referring to the GI Bill.

https://www.marketplace.org/2009/10/06/how-gi-bill-changed-e...
And perhaps that is the real problem rather than the deregistration. Here in Canada you can register at the polling station on the day of the election.
Only 17 states have same day registration. Ohio does not.
Well, an estate tax helps level the playing field over time. You earn money in your life, you get to spend it in your life. You die, and your children get some, but will have to earn a lavish lifestyle based on their merits. Exponential decay of wealth from generation to generation will resolve the advantaged starting position in time, and the proceeds obtained can be used to raise the remaining folks up to a level of relative competitiveness.

This satisfies the idea that outsized reward should be available to those who create outsize value, but also ensures that this doesn't pass on to the idiot children.
i live right next to google / zurich main station and pay 2300chf/month for a larger flat than mentioned in the article
Sorta. There are problems with that approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_ballot

> The rates of rejection vary widely across the states, with some states counting all or nearly all provisional ballots while others reject more than half.

I would expect maliciously executed voter purges to be accompanied by malicious rules on provisional ballots.
Introduction to the Story of Us
For those who don't know, the last day you can register to vote before a general election is October 7

https://www.sos.state.oh.us/elections/voters/register/
def a91a15d7(x):

Jesus. I didn't read much farther than this, but it does not surprise me that this codebase is difficult to work on.
Just a data point as I can’t read the article right now. Franklin County is the largest county in the state and represents 11% of the population.
I couldn't get past the paywall, but are there any independent watchdogs with real political sway about this, or do we need to rely on journalism and rights groups? The issue I have is that journalism could be intensely valid and yet also considered so politically biased that anyone on 'the other side' would dismiss legitimate corruption because of the source. And if a 'same side' media doesn't cover it, it could look like a complete fabrication because what someone understands to be legitimate news sources don't cover the corruption...
Only 21 states[1] offer same-day registration. It's far less common in the south and midwest regions of the US.

[1] http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/same-da...
Yeah, see you're part of the problem.
For that we have symlinks.
Maybe PG even gets kickbacks as a feature. Who knows!
Use Firefox mobile and install any of the paywall bypass plugins that work on the desktop version.
> She went online and discovered that her name had also been flagged as an inactive voter. The state was in the process of removing her from its voter rolls.

> “I voted three times last year,” said Ms. Miller.

I am still baffled at the election system in this country. Every state does its own thing. One state uses paper, other uses some machines which can be easily hacked, some use both. Somehow voter ID is controversial, but India, with more people, poverty and issues seems to have managed it. Why can't they issue free IDs and track every voter in a database and call it a day?

> The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 voters it planned to purge from voter rolls in September [...] voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people

But that means 200k some thousand should have been purged. If they died, and a death certificate was issued, doesn't some government database know about it and say, "yeah, person is dead purge their voter record". It's 2020 almost, we flew people to the moon, there is a Tesla roadster in Sun's orbit, self driving cars, but somehow managing a few hundred million voter records is an impossible task and I don't understand why.
Nope, deadline was a week ago yesterday.

https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/election-date...
According to the article, moderate Republicans in Ohio insisted on transparency for purging voter rolls. They sent out the proposed list to various voter advocacy groups across the political spectrum, which reviewed the proposed changes and flagged mistakes. 80% were purged correctly. 20% were not.

Rather than condemning Ohio, they should be praised for bringing transparency to the process (as long as the mistakes are corrected).
$1M angel funds for technical founders
One hopes a system where it is possible for everyone to achieve a basically acceptable standard of living, even if that means a cap on what is possible to achieve for the most advantaged (whether that be in connections, social skills, intelligence, or something else).
Thanks for trying and for your honest feedback! I find it quite hard to translate something I find incredibly useful to something that might be useful for others, and then make it intuitive to use. I'll have to work harder improving that.

I added a clip to the homepage to show how I designed it to work, I hope that helps a little.
I guess you could use the OpenJDK VM for new projects even if legacy projects are reliant on the Oracle VM.
There doesn't appear to be an explanation for the purges. I can understand the need to purge the voter lists of "dead" (literally or otherwise) entries, but surely it would be best if the state provided an explanation for each removal?
Only 17 states allow this. Only a subset of them have registration at the polls.
Guess what the Republicans eliminated in Ohio a few years ago: Same-day voter registration.
Note: Amazon employee, but opinions are mine.

Amazon did not replace Oracle with MySQL. You seems to talk a lot given your knowledge of how Amazon operates internally and how licensing works is... blatantly false.

All of those DB's that could "pursue" a lawsuit are built on open source licenses which Amazon is not violating.

But the most important point here: The idea that you have to write a database to be happy to be off Oracle is insane. Amazon moved to an alternative that doesn't have a deep license designed to financially screw their clients as much as possible. That's a win.
There are multiple in-person interviews, your resume has to be pretty balanced (you can't just be a math wiz), you need to show a track record of performing well on the job for 3-5 years prior to your MBA, usually in the form of multiple promotions, which signals you're not terrible to work with. Also helps to have a broad range of interests (including things you like doing for fun) because admission committees don't want to exclusively admit kids who just like to golf and play poker (though many of those do get admitted).

TL;DR Admissions for top MBAs are very holistic, and schools will try their best to create diverse classes made up of well-rounded individuals. Some schools do this better than others, but then again each school is trying to solve for a different outcome and just like hiring, admitting students isn't an exact science.
More people go to college now than during GI Bill era.
Tombstone (Typography)
No, and looking for tools (or Portals as they are groaningly called) is where the Web went wrong. We need strongly aggregatable data, not a tool. In fact this data format already exists in schema.org, which is an open, community-driven effort by Google, Bing, Yandex and others. https://schema.org/Event

schema.org is used by about a third of web sites to allow them to be self contained but make their information discoverable and reusable in a precise way, and it is the skeleton of the much-promised semantic web. The main factors working against it are Facebook and Amazon, who have enough mass and selfishness to want to be self-contained worlds.

That is the only reasonable way to "decentralize" this data so anyone can use it. Add your recognized sites once (or perhaps have a recurring crawl) and anyone can have their own feed of events, just like RSS. It's just that developers and startups don't like the boring work of following standards, they'd rather build a tool.

[edited to add details about schema.org]
I wasn't born yet ^_^'
We never had it, so it isn't there to replace. You might consider what it would take to approximate the ideals of meritocracy, but paradoxically you may find that calling anything real a meritocracy gets in the way of that goal.
Does Medium pay the authors?
The Secretary of State is Republican, and surprise, the GOP pursues policies that restrict the ballot in a way that benefits them and disadvantages Democrats.

Ohio is a state where the GOP holds 75% of federal House seats despite winning only 50% of the vote. Similar effect holds for the state legislative offices
It would hardly matter because such users are probably still, and always were, an absolute minority of Firefox users and, more importantly, data-driven design often assumes equality of users unless somebody has gone out of their way to justify violating that assumption. And the easiest/most common way to violate the assumption of user equality is to point at other data, such as "only 1% use that feature but 50% of those that do are whales who account for 90% of our income."

But when the matter is less concrete because the value of one particular minority demographic is hard to pin down in the collected data (from what in the mozilla's telemetry data can you persuasively derive the value of power users who tell their friends and family to use firefox? Uncovering those relationships would certainly violate users' privacy..) then "data driven" decision processes will by default assume all users have equal worth.
Oracle owns Java. Amazon just builds its own version.
this is social media, so you're not fully clean yet...
"How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there"

"From what she says it's a massive pain in the ass."

This statement is true, but geting citizenship is not required to stay in Switzerland basicly vor ever as long as u have work
Just to add a few data points: in my area it’s normal to pay less than 3k CHF for more than 100sq. m. (Buildings are 3 years old). 10 minutes to the city center of Zurich.

Unless you want to live exactly in the center of Zurich, I have never seen such expensive apartments as mentioned in the article.
> Meritocracy implies nothing about fairness or a level playing field. Meritocracy implies the person with the best skills gets the job.

This only works if you completely disregard the entire process through which someone attains skills. If this is indeed what Meritocracy is then it's even less adequate as a system than I previously believed.

> The only way to fix what you've brought up is to have all children be taken from their parents at birth and raised in an equal opportunity community akin to The Giver. Is that what you want?

False dichotomy. There is no possibility of a system between totalitarian child rearing by the state and a system rigged entirely and completely for the wealthy? Spare me.
The websocket-monitor extension for Firefox was actually better for me than Chrome's baseline, since it could inspect websocket connections that started before I opened the inspector window.

(To be clear, I'm not asking it to save past connections/frames. I just want to see the new frames that arrive/depart after I open it...)
Especially annoying since this article is really a retelling of another article [1], which is itself a retelling of a forum thread [2].

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/376037/tesla-mcu-emmc-memory-issu...

[2] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/likely-mcu-failure.1...
I update my voter registration sometimes twice a year to match the party I most like at the time, It's always been online - easy peasy. I expect to get downvoted to hell but I also don't get why showing an ID to vote is such a big deal. After all, I have to look up the numbers in my drivers license to vote.

Also, how is it hard to vote? Absentee ballots are totally easy to get. If I was blind, I might have to plan ahead to get the help to do it. Otherwise, no biggie.
I think the answer to the question "should I apply X refactoring technique to this function Y?" obviously has to depend on both X and Y. There's clearly a trade-off here. If I have a free function foo(x) that I want to work differently depending if x is type A or type B, splitting that means breaking up foo, sure, but because I can only ever call foo with an x of type A or type B (unless I'm converting some As to Bs halfway through foo or something awful like that) it might be useful to see all of the "A" logic in one place and all of the "B" logic in another place.
Don't look at salaries, look at day rates.

UK salaries are a joke, but you can make good money contracting and consulting.
When is it out of Beta?
I honestly don't know, the idea that merit specifically might be a sham is brand new to me. But why does it need to be replaced, and what is the goal? We know that social advantage is hugely inherited, evidence for that abounds. Since, according to some, merit is a way to justify the riches of the rich as being deserving, then replacing merit for them means using a different rationalization to justify being rich. Maybe for people who aren't rich, the idea of replacing meritocracy with something else doesn't even seem like a good idea.
I think remote work could be picking up even faster if it wasn’t for these 3 issues:

- People tend to conflate remote work with async work. Most companies, managers and also developers don’t actually want to work async though.

- The tooling isn’t there yet.

- People expect that being remote means being undistracted and invisible which feels good but harms social cohesion