skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't assume, but I can tell right away when someone has English as a second language like you do.

I pick up grammatical oddities as I read, and if I had to guess i'd say your first language is of Asian origin, possibly Filipino.

Of course that doesn't mean you aren't American, but I assume you are not vs are in this kind of situation.

It probably depends on how "American" the forum for discussion is vs global, I see HN more American then say, Reddit.
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Most do not.

> As of June 30, 2019, a total of 21 states plus the District of Columbia have enacted same day registration (SDR), which allows any qualified resident of the state to go to register to vote and cast a ballot all in that day.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/same-da...

And, same day isn't necessarily the best solution. For example, Oregon does vote-by-mail. This process would make it difficult to allow for same day registration. But, Oregon also has nation leading voter turnout. No polling places, no hassle, just an envelope in the mail.

* Oregon also does automatic registrations when interacting with the DMV.
Another way of seeing it is that we are all denied a decent life unless we are competent and sell our competent labor to uphold a system that keeps idiots at the top.
> Many routers are ugly, which means they get hidden in a closet or cabinet, where the signal is blocked and can be reduced by up to 50 percent.

I never understood why the Apple HomePod didn't have a network-extender functionality. I'm sure it has the necessary hardware, and it would have helped justify the high price. I'm glad to see others are putting these features (smart speaker + wifi extender) together!
Right, I think he's not doubting your strategy of not reformatting, but more pointing out that the SD cards maybe shouldn't even be considered "first level backup" because they'll probably inevitably bitrot at some point.
I don’t think you can have such a general rule. I’d argue that the essence of being a founder is to balance quality, differentiators, competition, focus on customers, etc. so as to be successful in our specific markets.
I ported a website written in 2009 from Python 2 to Python 3, which was around 20,000 lines of code. It wasn't "trivial", but it took me (a single developer) a little less than a week. Most of the difficulty wasn't code changes, but upgrading dependencies.
So basically no one from a rural area and no black people?
No problem--that's the last few years of my life, so if got any questions, I'd be happy to see if I can answer them.
I still don't think it's a coincidence that the 20,000 were in a democratic strong-hold.
> Even bureaucratic systems tend to recognize that humans make imperfect decisions -- we're susceptible to everything from bribery to exhaustion. These systems then tend to not treat first decisions as final, and they allow an opportunity to appeal.

So the problem is not automation, is lack of recourse.

Lack of recourse is a real problem that already exists today. People do go unattended by not knowing how to navigate bureaucratic structures, and not having money to pay a lawyer. It also affects the most the countries the Guardian article targets as "automating poverty".

> For some reason, it couldn't recognize your ID (and only your ID). By the "are people starving" metric, the algorithm

This is not an algorithmic issue.

If you lost your ID, you wouldn't get your benefit even if you walked into a social security branch either.
To make it more difficult for prospective voters who are perhaps not white, poorer, younger, are working multiple jobs, or are a single parent, just to name a few examples.

You can connect the dots on why groups like these are disenfranchised by the state.
Is there any hope of 5G providing internet service comparable to my current broadband offering? Competition for my home internet would be nice.
In most of the same articles - American cannot be a meritocracy, social mobility isn't 100%! The assumption that a perfect meritocracy would be shown by your income having no correlation to your parents is about as opposite true as can get. If there is any heritability to ability/"merit", that will show up as correlation between parent and child incomes.

"Meritocracy" is a poor term regardless, because I have a different definition of "merit" than you do, and so do the authors. I've yet to see an article lamenting inequality that even attempts to define "merit"
I wish Google introduced a dark theme too. Hopefully all sites on the internet become dark friendly one day without using external software to make it happen.
8chan is bad because they did nothing to prohibit people from posting the kind of crap that leads to shooters showing up on the forum....
There's a Depressing Difference Between the Sewage of Wealthy and Poor Areas
>The US is strange: It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.

Hint: the people wringing their hands and the people making it more difficult to vote are not the same groups.
I think the point is more that he's a useless failson who can just go from thing to thing wasting massive amounts of money and it doesn't matter.
I am, I promise. Lookin' at it right now. ;)
I can imagine a startup which applied to YC W20 coming waiting for pre-seed XD.
Update: Whelp, "I'll call you tomorrow" has turned into radio silence. Bummer.
Just started reading, very informative so far. Nice to see what comes out from distilling the hype.

This might help those that like to read on mobile like me:

# from their git repo we can build arbitrary formats (requires python)
git clone https://github.com/SystemsApproach/5G.git

# generate an epub file inside of *_build/epub*
make epub
On economists jazzing up numbers between peer review and the book seller's stand
Can you explain the JavaScript comment? I don't follow that world.
In most democratic countries, voters are registered automatically. Requiring a manual registration step and placing maintenance of voter rolls in the hand of political appointees is just an invitation for shenanigans.

In addition, penalties are highly asymmetric. Denying an eligible voter their right to vote is virtually risk free. Casting a vote while being ineligible is subject to harsh punishments. Even with the current, political, process, government officials would think twice about illegally purging 20,000 voters if the penalty for that would be equivalent to the one for illegally casting 20,000 votes.
> I should have been clearer, with "good bread" I meant dark whole-grained bread, not white stuff like loaf and baguettes. Sorry, just my Norwegian bubble I guess.

Then I'll walk to the Eastern European deli a couple blocks from my house! Though only a small selection of their bread is freshly delivered, the better Eastern European deli near me closed quite a few years ago, they baked stuff on site.

I can get plenty of darker whole grain breads from some of the above sources I listed as well.

Though saying that French styles breads aren't good may get you in trouble with a huge swath of the world! There isn't a "quality" difference between fresh made baguettes and any other styles of bread, at that point it is down to preferences. I wouldn't call anything fresh made at a local bakery "not good bread." I may not prefer it, but that doesn't make it low quality.

Nutrition, of course, is separate discussion!

Now if you want something legit to complain about in America, talk about deli meats. Boar's Head has an almost complete monopoly over deli meats, especially on the west coast. I have to travel to, at minimum, Chicago, before the corned beef starts getting good.

Likewise with cheeses. Each major area of the country likely has a local dairy making cheese, and I used to think those cheeses were a-ok, after all, local dairy and all that. Travelling a bit made me realize how not-so-good most cheeses, outside of the artisanal ones, sold in America are.

On the flip side, ok-quality cheese also trends in price towards being dirt cheap, and "not-so-ok" quality cheese is dirt cheap.
WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com
This reminds me of how cops can just confiscate your property if they suspect you of a crime via "civil forfeiture". Kafkaesque indeed.
He wasn’t famous back then. Today would probably be a little different.
I’ve been adopting and promoting DuckDuckGo for more than 2–3 years now. I can say that the transition period was quite long actually. I was invoking !g very frequently at the beginning but I force myself to at least probe a few first items first before trying Google. After these years I rarely use Google, and every time that I actually search something on Google, before even seeing the result, Google welcomes me by the whole TOS/Privacy stuff and I close the tab and try the DDG a few more times. I think the friction of accepting their privacy policy makes me think twice.

If you like DDG, recommend it to friends and coworkers. I usually put a link in newsletter if appropriate.
This supposes that all executive leadership is incompetent. That isn't the case. There are companies that, if you replaced the competent executives with idiots, the company would fall apart.
I really don't need the EPA or the IARC to tell me that spraying a bioaccumulative nerve toxin designed specifically to kill things, into the environment, year after year on a mass scale has negative repercussions for the environment and the potential to cause damage in humans.
Comments from Solitaire's author, Bruce Schneier:

> I don't talk about it much, mostly because I made a dumb mistake that resulted in the algorithm not being reversible. Still, for the short message lengths you're likely to use a manual cipher for, it's still secure and will likely remain secure.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/more_cryptana...
There are more than enough alternatives. One could just organize meet up in Facebook group or telegram group as well. You just need a place that many people sharing the similar interests gather to spread the meet up time and location.
Elizabeth Warren swears off major donations from Facebook, Google executives
US history is why its a big deal to show your ID to vote.

Wikipedia has a great summary of the racist policies voter ID laws were made to enforce, and that voter fraud is "vanishingly rare" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_St...
Looking at Google's lowest-paid H-1Bs, I gotta wonder, why are they importing Data Center Technicians?

How does that even qualify for H-1B?
There was no "stuck pedal" thing. Not a single incident of "unintended acceleration" with Toyota was ever proven. Something like 70-80% of the incidents turned out to be intoxicated drivers, and the rest were driver error.
It's not really anonymized though, is it? Technically it's PII. From the telemetry docs[1]:

> the clientId, a UUID identifying a profile and allowing user-oriented correlation of data

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
W.r.t. the firearms registry, there does appear to be one. FFLs reported targeted and widespread harassment by the ATF as they came in and digitized purchase records onsite 2010ish to 2016ish. Some FFL holders had to threaten force to prevent the records from being removed from their premesis.

So who know what other methods are used for parallel construction.
> The US is strange: It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.

It's not strange, it's divided. One group is worried about low voter turnout. Another group is actively making it more difficult to vote. There is virtually no overlap between the two.
"It isn't perfect, but it at least gives those who don't come from money --which is by and large, most people-- a chance at a decent life."

What are the chances at a decent life anyways? Is the chance a good one? What is the worth of a meritocracy if you do all the right things and stull only get a probability of a right life?
Surprised it took this long given the way the US economy is being yanked left and right on a moment's notice. Just think about how much money you could make if you could affect the DJIA with a tweet.
For even small communities within a large city, word of mouth is still huge. Very few people show up to the events I go to because they found it online. It's 95%+ word of mouth. ("oh yeah, my friend Bob told me about it")

It's no different for me. I rarely go to events I've seen only online. I also use word of mouth as a source.

I'm going to an event this weekend because a coworker broadcasted they're speaking at it. I won't be able to see their talk due to a prior commitment but I'm going to see plenty of others thanks to knowing about it.
It highly depends on which Toyota you pick.

RAV4 for instance is plagued with faults while my 2013 Avensis ran quite ok the first 90000 kilometres I drove it before getting a tesla.

It did have to change brakes, a spring in one of the keys failed and the open/close window button on the passenger side broke. It also rusted under the chrome strips..

But compared to other cars I think it did quite well :)
There would be an uproar if we regulated voting the same way we regulated guns. Imagine if everyone who smoked weed and voted was committing a felony (to name but one example). Imagine if states had laws saying you need to take a class, pay a hundred bucks and get the police chief's permission before you could vote. Imagine if there was a federal agency that could unilaterally make rules about voting. Imagine if polling places were required to keep records of who voted for what when. Imagine if certain cities and states all but required extensive political connections to get a voting license. Trust me, you really don't want to regulate voting the way we regulate guns. There's a reason people like to compare various gun laws to poll taxes.

Edit: The down vote to reply ratio indicates that what I am saying is factually correct yet inconvenient.
I appreciate your comment. It reminded me of a quote I heard once (probably on this board) that shed light on my childhood experience and helped me better understand myself:

>When a child is dealing with anxiety/anxious behavior, it's better to treat the parents than to take the kid into therapy.

Something along these lines. It helped me realize or reinforce that, while my father has had and has anxiety/depression for most of his life, his legacy might not be as much genetically imprinted on me insofar that it's of learned behavior.

In other words, I recalled a rather generic memory (which means it probably happened multiple times): I was at home, minding my own business, when it became clear that someone was expected at the house - perhaps the cable guy, a plumber, or someone like that - and I remember watching my father _wait_ for this person. Like, he would be sitting on the couch, watching TV, but would go put on his shoes, then take them off, then pace around the living room, then open and shut the door, pace a little more, and sit down for a few moments, and repeat. And I recall wondering what was bothering him. And I think this was him dealing with his general anxiety and I notice this sort of behavior in myself (or at least the nagging urge to _do something_ in order to feel more comfortable somehow). So now I think I know why I get certain thoughts at certain times (and realize I don't have to respond to them in the way I think my father would).

This is probably the healthy sort of realization people try to discover in therapy. I have had the fortune of seeing a handful of decent-to-great therapists throughout my life, and I have tried to mentally stash away the best gleanings, so as to justify all the time, money, and energy spent talking to these people.

>BTW, what's a SWE?

I thought this was the acronym people used for "software engineer". Maybe I won't use it anymore. What I was trying to express was my, well, feelings of inferiority /slash/sour grapes due to my perceived lack of career/professional success at age 30, a sense which seems to get worse and more bitter as I get older, which I would _really_ like to nip in the bud, because every time I let it take hold, it always leads to bad/negative thinking, prejudice, poor self-image, envy of others, and those sorts of things. Maybe it's Perpetual Late Bloomer Syndrome?

Thanks again for your comments.
There was a presentation at this year's Gophercon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDXEX4zQKoo) where a user demonstrated a (very alpha) Prometheus implementation of this concept.
The technical aspect of creating an event list an way to manage RSVPs isn’t hard to compete with but it’s meetup’s community that made it a destination for new organizers. That, is hard to compete with.
Except Harvard has limited slots and the failsons of the rich buying in takes away a spot from someone who is actually competent and driven.
>Regardless of the fact if it's even possible to read that quickly, what about retaining and revising what you learnt? Especially important if you're reading non-fiction.

Exactly this. # of books as a goal seems like a poor choice of metric. But perhaps readers new to books have to start somewhere that's easy to measure, even if it's not a great metric.
I would love a good coding search engine that would not try to change my query with layman auto-correct suggestions.

I know this search was weird...but no I was not trying to type an order for chicken wings.
Your premise is not unquestionable. On what is your value claim based?
They should be both praised for bringing more transparency, AND condemned for purging nearly 50k eligible voters.
That's a great initiative. I was hoping IPFS would be the de facto way to publish uncensorable websites, but I have grown more and more disappointed in it, as it fails a lot for me in its most basic purpose (fetching files). Hopefully one of the other competitors will do better, but IPFS got a bunch of theoretical stuff right, in my opinion (mainly immutability of objects).
> It was Dec. 2014. I’d found my dream job. Some days, I would be there, sitting at my dream job, and I would think, “My god what if I’m still here in 40 years? I don’t want to die like this…”

Far be it for me to tell anyone how to analyze their own life, but if this is your reaction to your "dream job", isn't it possible it's not actually your dream job?

When someone says their partner is the man/woman of their dreams, they never follow it up with "My god, what if we're still together in 40 years? I don't want to die with them..."
This is super cool. I would like to seem some performance benchmarks to see if it still holds the speed of LuaJit.
> Any one is sufficient on its own, but all are interesting.

You use technical terms like "sufficient" and "replicated", as though you actually understood how science worked, but then link to a pile of crap scholarship published in third-rate journals by cranks and racists. It's annoying. And dangerous. Worse, you appear to be completely unaware of the distinction between correlation and causation, and what policy implications that has. Kindly get a clue.
> myth that the American economic system greatly rewards "merit", how many poor white rural people become CEOs?

Um... does anyone actually believe that “myth”? Last American election was a trust fund kid vs wife of former president... so anyone who still thinks it’s “all meritocracy 100% of the time” is beyond stupid.

But that doesn’t make it a bad ideal. In fact, I’d say that, if anything, that would be an argument that we need more meritocracy (again, just like equality and freedom).
You (or your employer) have Cisco Umbrella, which is MITMing your network connection. You can read about Cisco's Umbrella product by Googling for it. You should comply with your employer's rules about non-work browsing. You could try asking IT support to "fix" the problem if you want, although if what you're doing is against policy they probably won't.

Or - very much less likely - a bad guy is attempting to MITM you and they've decided to imitate Cisco Umbrella so that people aren't interested in helping you because they assume you're just at work goofing off on someone else's network.
Her adulating tone frankly undercuts her claims, namely that the Louvre is not questioning the attribution.
Modified about:config settings appear in bold, though. It's good for a quick glance, but yeah not much after that.
>> I have yet to find one that matches the ease of ise and power of old VB

Delphi and Lazarus (open source)?
In Germany we do not have this problem (neither voter suppression nor voter fraud), for a multitude of reasons:

1) everyone has a government-provided ID document: a passport, for German nationals the ID card Personalausweis also works, and for EU nationals (who can vote in municipal and EU elections) their country's ID document

2) the legal requirement to register at the city/region office ("Meldebehörde") where you live, and you have to prove this with a copy of your rent contract or property deed

3) everyone getting a document ("Wahlschein") by mail a couple of weeks prior to election date. If you don't get one but should have gotten, you can contact the election authority to investigate, and if you lose/misplace it you can easily look up where your voting place is, go there and have them locate you on the voter roll.

4) if any piece of official mail goes returned by the post as "undeliverable", the Meldebehörde will investigate and de-register you (thus also removing you from the voter roll)

The only real vote fraud in the last years was from a politician who had seasonal workers register at a company and apply for mail-voting, but that's it.
Which other languages?

My C89 code, C++98 code and Fortran 77 code all still compile on a modern Ubuntu, and none of these are expected to break any time soon. The compilers just support multiple versions.
I'm not sure I agree with "real world" being the number of publicly available packages. Better metric is companies using those languages:

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users

and we know plenty are using Go in prod, including Slack, Google (heavily for YouTube's database layer), and many others.
This is simply regression towards the mean. Same reason why children of two tall parents, while taller than general population, will on average be shorter than their parents.
As an aside, what is Mike Pall working on these days?
Not really. You can easily move without informing the new state.

Millions of college students do it every year. The last move I made was in September so I hadn't changed licenses or filed income taxes yet, so they had no awareness of me yet.

Luckily I'm in a fairly permissive state and was able to register with a couple utility bills without any hassle.

Some sort of voter registration is a necessity when you can move 3000 miles in a weekend. Unfortunately it's often used to disenfranchise voters, but a significant subset of the population does not have up-to-date records. Registration is a way to fix that.
Maybe a bit tangential, but I have been having a difficult time using Google Sheets lately in Firefox (like starting about 2-3 months ago). I keep track of my expenses (like groceries) in Google Sheets and always use Firefox to do data entry. Nowadays, Firefox browser freezes for a minute or two when I load/modify cells in Google Sheets.

I only have one extension, 'muBlockOrigin', installed in Firefox and have been using that for many years, so I'm sure the extension is not getting in the way of loading Google Sheets. So that leads me to believe that Google is probably supporting less and less of Firefox.
Another pen-and-paper cipher:

* https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/lc4_another_p...

* http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2018/05/14/the...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586257 (previously)
What's "a few years"?

$275/month is $3300pa, so you're already at a minimum of $6600 for a near 20 year old car, which doesn't sound particularly cheap.

I'm on a lower monthly cost of ownership for 3 years ownership of a 6 year old car.