skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stack Overflow needs a replacement because the community has become hostile to new users.

I wonder if immutable.coffee could allow the asker (or by default) publish the answer transcript as an immutable record. Then the public can upvote it, which becomes a rating system for answers and the experts who gave the answers.

The idea above might tend to only reward the experts who got there first, so that's something to think about.

I want to allow the answers and experts to be rated because eventually someone will try to exploit the honesty of the system and say "yeah just download this .exe and it will fix your problem.."
I'll chime in for Postmark as well.

As a B2B SaaS, our opportunity cost for support (and potential for lost goodwill) due to failed notifications is high, and switching to Postmark noticeably moved the needle. Time is our most valuable and scarce resource, and peer recommendation is our primary marketing device, so the price increment for switching to Postmark is easily justified. Their deliverability and support are stellar compared to Sendgrid, Mailgun, and SES.

Two thumbs up

See also: Fastmail over G suite for your mailboxes and calendaring.
I was curious to read this post from the title. Speaking truth to power (or the lack thereof) is a recurring problem at MSFT, and probably one of the most important dimensions I've observed that this culture could improve.

That said, this left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm sure this was partially biased by my own feelings on James; as I've not been impressed in personal interactions by how he lives his stated values, especially in this case; largely finding him to be a self-promoter and not a Doer, benefiting from the same culture he criticizes. (and this after spending years looking up to what he preached; truly never meet your heroes) So be encouraged to judge the OP on its own merits.

Primarily, I find this to be a lot of words that still fails to ask the key questions of Why and How We Fix It, simultaneously ignoring his own role in the status quo, while still finding time to make inflammatory deviations.(Claiming that it's a male-exclusive problem is absurd to the point of distracting from the actual cause and effect, it was a female PM who first introduced to me the principle of "promo by proximity to scott guthrie," among other more incendiary/identifiable quotes I won't state here.)

Any discussion about this topic CANNOT succeed without a focus on incentives, and how they decay at scale, otherwise the core statement buried in his essay that I _fully support_, sweeping away old guard management to leave room for new growth, can never come to pass.

All of the positive hopes at the end of the OP are moot without long-term, holistic accountability, without a way to break out of the cycle that among other things engenders hiring managers to say, quoting a team transfer process a peer of mine underwent: "we aggressively avoid hiring nonconformists like you."
In industry speak “bank” refers to institutions taking deposits and lending to a single entity — retail and commercial banks, not investment banks, etc

Side note: AIG managed to get regulatory treatment as a bank via OTS by having a tiny tiny tiny retail banking operation called AIG Bank. OTS ended up being the primary regulatory of the overall entity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Thrift_Supervision
What was measured in that study and how? I can't see it from the abstract.

Edit: also, how's that relevant? Acupuncture and sham acupuncture are the very same thing, so what's the placebo (no treatment) group here?
Yeah... Firefox is probably the biggest example of why you shouldn't reinvent the wheel in terms of cross-platform GUI. It just looks and feels so out of place, whether it's macOS or some niche setup like running it under KDE. If you're in Gnome or Windows it can look fine, but I still question much of the iconography and general layout.

Any time you bring it up, though, you get batted away and beaten over the head with privacy, browser monoculture, or open source arguments. It's really frustrating; if you want open source to succeed, you have to also want it to compete on the same level.

It's like expecting people to eat vegan food when you call it the same as the non-vegan option... and then they don't want to, because it tastes nothing like what they expect.

In fact (I can't believe I'm saying this) I almost wish they were a Qt shell.
Fiat currency is not backed by gold, in fact, it is not backed by anything.

Also, gold is not inherently valuable. It will become a regular common metal once we shift extraction to the asteroid belt.

The truth is there really isn't much with "inherent" value out there, with the notable exception of potential energy.
Earth is doing just fine, people need to stop with dramatizations and fear mongering. The weather is awesome, there's no floods, if something is burning it's not because "the Earth is too hot," etc. Incredible how socially accepted this panic and fear mongering has become. People spew such nonsense and then go back to their normal lives not giving two thoughts about the climate or weather, except for whether it's going to rain today or not.
Language-servers make the choice of IDE moot. My vim setup is just as capable with typscript as vscode.
SoftBank could end WeWork debacle with a potential B$1.7 for Adam Neumann
I've never understood why anyone would trust a serial entrepreneur. If a business is great, why would they exit? If it's not, why are they esteemed?
There's also java.awt.Robot – I've used it a lot for similar things, really neat if you already have Java/Scala code for getting the data to fill in.
Toyota to reveal solid state battery-powered prototype next year
Is it possible to share password entries with others, like it is in 1Password for example? This is a crucial use case for me, but I understand it’s not universal.
I suppose it depends a bit on what type of ownership. Lots of land has nominally passed between nations without affecting the people using there, or gone from communal to private without leaving the families of (some of) the residents.

In collective/national terms, Iceland and most of Tuvalu could count - genuinely uninhabited territory settled by ancestors of the people who live there now. (Tuvalu was a British Crown colony, but on some of the smaller islands that doesn't seem to have actually changed much.)

As far as "the same group continuously owned this acreage", I was sort of stunned to learn that parts of the Fort Apache Reservation probably qualify. The White Mountain Apache entered the region perhaps 100 years after the Mogollon population completely abandoned it to drought, and have apparently held it for 500+ years since without ever being removed by war or the US government. Even legally, it appears to have been held by the tribe collectively (and acknowledged as such by the USG) throughout history.
That’s not it. Here in London taxi drivers are stereotypically white, male and over-50, while bus drivers come in a wide variety of race, sex and age groups.

Nonetheless almost all cabbies are a menace to pedestrians, cyclists and each other, while most bus drivers seem to be blessed with saintly patience as well as admirable professional driving skills.
I would argue the ones lusting for blood are those who, like decision-makers at Amazon, create abusive conditions for the people who work for the companies they manage.

I'm specifically referring to the disgraceful way workers are treated at Amazon shipping facilities.

Most blood seems to be spilled by those with money wanting more.

One could argue that the arms business spills more blood than everything else put together ...
Man pulled over for drink driving was producing beer in own gut
Not physical comedy either, but Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School" is so packed with great one-liners from Rodney that it needs repeated viewings.

Flash Gordon (1980) has lots of physical comedy, but that isn't the real funny stuff. It's Ming's dry wit that is comedy gold.

"Are your men on the right pills?"
I don't get how using a VPS is any better than just going without anything? It's got the exact problem as the VPNs...just shifts the end point.

Would there be any benefit in using a number of VPS round robin style? I've got access to a handful...
When you think of "something like Google or Facebook", remember that Google and Facebook are evil, and it's a matter of time before someone is looking at something more ethical. Build a business that isn't based on ads.

Your best connection for a co-founder or investor is right here: You're on HN. If you do something super interesting, the right people see it here on HN, people will come to you. Pretty sure it's like half of why YC runs this thing.

If you want to build something that you're excited about, it's got to be a problem or a need that speaks to you. Remember that Google built an ad-powered search company that now controls everyones phones and email and web browsers. Facebook built a way to rate hot girls in college and now is everyone's social group. They got there not by starting at world domination, they started at a single product and then grew beyond it by leveraging the strengths of the technology and talent they had.
This seems to be contrary to what the EU's ag outlook report from 2018[1] is saying.

What changed in the last year? And do you have any sources (i.e. studies) that support that point?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/food-farming-fish...
AWS is not really "Too Big To Fail".

It's more like, "Too Big, Will Fail".
> RISC-V is new and sexy.

RISC-V is pretty shoddy (M mode, a separate hypervisor mode instead of proper orthogonality, CSRs), but that's exactly what I'd expect from thesis-driven development (remember that RISC-V was an academic project for a long time).

Holding their feet to the fire so that they undo some of that damage seems to be a pretty good idea to me, and if it's PowerPC what it takes to do that, that's not the worst choice IMHO.
Browser Fingerprinting is also used for fraud detection and identify verification. There is often overlap between persistent tracking and security verification services.
"unless you are on a hostile network"

Which I consider my ISP.. no, I can't just change ISP, I live under five eyes. I don't get a choice.

This article is rediculous. It's just a clickbait title and a whole bunch of ranting saying the exact opposite.
Lyft Expects to Be Profitable a Year Earlier Than Projected
I think the author is implying that you have some level of control versus none.
and there goes my productive afternoon, again. The same as it does everytime this gets posted. Fascinating
> To save you the clicks: Node 13 doesn't support top-level await.

Well, let's hope someone out there finds it useful, despite it lacking this feature that every release before has also lacked.
Are you talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_by_example ?
When the vpn company is subpoenaed because someone saw suspicious traffic coming out of their servers, regardless of the number of people, the logs and connections would point directly to you.
I’ve noticed CloudWatch Dashboards malfunctioning today (not showing any data).
Yes, because Amazon emails those questions to you directly if you've bought the product before. Sometimes the questions are very specific, thus "I don't know"
https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/
Serious question: could you cite some Accenture projects with serious brain work? They are typically in the systems integration category while MBB (McKinsey Bain BCG) get the prestigious work.
Thanks! I'm just going to quote here because the footnote was interesting:

> A summary of 37 individual studies, covering a total of 265 real-world elections, large and small, found 25 instances of a Condorcet paradox, for a total likelihood of 9.4%[14]:325 (and this may be a high estimate, since cases of the paradox are more likely to be reported on than cases without).[13]:47

> 13: ""most election results do not correspond to anything like any of DC, IC, IAC or MC ... empirical studies ... indicate that some of the most common paradoxes are relatively unlikely to be observed in actual elections. ... it is easily concluded that Condorcet’s Paradox should very rarely be observed in any real elections on a small number of candidates with large electorates, as long as voters’ preferences reflect any reasonable degree of group mutual coherence"

I think I have to file this one under "it's complicated, must dig more".
Can (2015) be added to the submission title? This hasn't been substantially updated since then.
It should be noted that these views will require long time exposure photographs.

The surface brightness of Andromeda and the Milky Way are both around 22 mag/arcsec2. As andromeda grows closer, the surface areas spreads out in our sky, so even as it gets closer it’s not really going to get brighter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_brightness
No Recession? Thanks, Millennials
Brexit Countdown to Halloween Expiry, Even as MPs Reject Timetable
Exactly! Short-term tactics are good for loot-and-plunder leadership, seldom for the business. And the market tends to be disproportionately interested in short term gains, so things can be antagonistically stacked against the business as an organization. After all, short-term is where the best combination of margins and flexibility lie.
Maybe logs vs definitely pipes your GETs straight to Utah.

Figure it out.
It's called an EEOC. Been around forever. Some are very very successful. Messer Construction in Cincinnati,for instance.

Then you have companies like Gore Industries that has been using a flat management model where the employees, who "own" thier work, elect reluctant leaders.

There are other companies that want to get out from under stodgy command control cultures but it is hard to turn a large ship.
Well, you now control the endpoint and have a lower probability of your traffic being snooped, as major VPN's have a concentrated stream of "interesting" traffic while random VPS's don't.
yes, but maybe we shouldn’t let perfect or better be the enemy of what is actually needed (to paraphrase alan kay)

iow, what are the actual problems we are trying to solve, and what is the election system that is actually needed to solve it

the potential problem of choosing something “a little better” is that we could get stuck in another local minima, where further reform (that is needed) doesn’t happen because the new current system is “good enough”
What about those simulations makes you prefer Borda to IRV? The weird shapes IRV produces seem to make a pretty compelling argument against it.
No, there is simply no way to measure pain. Sorry about that, deal with it and just demonstrate the "placebo effect" of something that can be measured. Hasn't happened in ~50 years of breathless reporting on it, though, has it?
I use a VPN because I want a proxy, and for e.g iOS it seems a VPN is the easiest way to set up a proxy.

The article lists several reasons to use VPNs but isn’t the biggest one these days simply to circumvent geographical content limitations for online services such as video streaming? Nearly everyone I know has used a VPN service at some point, and if you asked any of the non-technical ones what it is they might say ”a think that lets me watch the game broadcast when I’m in another country”.

People want proxies and the VPN providers provide VPNs that work like proxies. I can’t really see the downside to using the VPN as a proxy?
All of WebStorm's features are integrated into IntelliJ Ultimate, which is what I'd assume that the GP is using.
Haha. Dunno if I should smile or cry. ;)

Very interesting remark on the hiring/firing process, I do concur.

It's an approach worth keeping in mind; it may one day fit in a much more dynamic labor legal framework provided both sides find interest — closer to a frictionless market[1], yielding more productivity... I think there's a case to be made for a non-zero-sum evolution here. Maybe for the next decade, or the one after.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frictionless_market
Indeed. I'd be in favour of people who know Arrow's Theorum designing the voting system; but not because I care about tactical voting.

I rank the voting systems [Anarchy] -> [Dictatorship] -> [First Past the Post] -> [IRV] -> [Approval].

Anarchy is sort-of the base case. Dictatorship is better than anarchy because at least it is large-scale organisation and infrastructure might happen. FPTP is that and the dictatorship can't be truly unpopular (<35% general support). IRV adds in a really stabilising ability for 3rd parties to successfully build support with a slow rolling campaign - makes it really hard for major parties to move away from the centre because people have a powerful signal for what they want. Approval adds in a level of simplicity to IRV.

I like IRV for the same arguable reason you like tactical voting - a good system should really be a bit random in tight situations. 50.1% of the votes isn't really different from 49.9% and voting systems don't need to differentiate. In Australia (IRV) when we had our last really tight election a bloke got elected on a couple of hundred primary votes from the Australian Motoring Enthusiast party. His platform was basically that he liked souped-up fast cars. Nobody had ever heard of him. Dude was an excellent Senator, he read the legislation and thought about things. Big win for Australia, IMO. Better than some political swamp-creature elected on a tiny margin.

Also; my favourite voting link: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

EDIT I think the order is obvious, but I upgraded my '>' to '->' for tmporter.
Comedy is about surprise.

As culture evolves, and as new ideas grow, you can mine intellectual and verbal discourse for comedy that will continue to be surprising.

Can you do the same with physical comedy? Are there new boundaries or new frontiers to mine there?
> We may have hit a point where the concept of large-scale war is just too expensive, economically and morally.

In 1913, "less than a year before the Great War broke out, the Economist reassured its readers with an editorial titled “War Becomes Impossible in Civilized World.”

“The powerful bonds of commercial interest between ourselves and Germany,” the Economist insisted, “have been immensely strengthened in recent years … removing Germany from the list of our possible foes.”"

http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...

> can't currently even justify a Vietnam-scale conflict, much less a WWII-scale one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/doomsday-clock-risk-of-globa...

"Doomsday Clock timekeepers say risk of global annihilation remains at Cold War highs"
Republican Splits Will Hand the Democrats the Presidency in 2020
So, your argument is that because this system has a feature that allows it to revert back to exactly what we have now, but also gives options so that more informed voters can better indicate their preference, and is otherwise strictly better, we shouldn't do it and stick with what we have?

Arguments against IRV do not apply to SV/RV or AV. IRV and FPTP fall prey to shenanigans via Arrow's Impossibility Theorem because they require candidates to be ranked relative to one another (or you just pick the best one as in FPTP). Once they do not need to be ranked (as in two candidates can get the same vote from a given voter), then none of the Arrow problems apply.

SV and AV are also simple to explain, work well and can be hand-counted. And they don't have the huge problem that IRV and other ranked voting mechanisms have.
Dont worry, the internet was designed to circumvent nuclear attacks like these
The primary reason people use VPN services, which articles like this always fail to address, is best illustrated at this URL: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/
Or using it to tunnel to a more torrenting-friendly region.
That hypothesis made sense in 1947, after the most destructive war the world had ever seen. The 72 years since have been the most peaceful and prosperous in recorded history.
They don't completely. They help a ton, but certain IDEs are designed holistically with certain use-cases in mind and have very specific features that lend themselves to those use-cases on top of the basic error/autocomplete language support.

For example, the Rust extension in VSCode gives me an inline button next to any function that's annotated as a test, which I can click to run that test. That's really useful and really specific to Rust. Whereas other IDEs (or other IDE extensions) might just do a bare-bones language server hookup to show errors and that's it.
Introducing the Slack App Toolkit
I've never heard of these apps and it's really alarming and at the same time not surprising at all. I can only imagine how widespread this is... I'm tempted to print out flyers with that NNEDV graphic to put up in public
This is tough for us too - we were even thinking of buying two iPads connected to their Cloud account, just so whenever they locked themselves out, we could mail them the one we have while they mail us the broken one.

The biggest problem for iPads is every time there's a software update, it asks you to set a keypad password. They set one, thinking they are guessing one they've already set, they don't remember it, and they get locked out every time.
I'm puzzled by this take. Just because we don't have daredevils like Buster Keaton letting houses fall on top of them doesn't mean physical comedy is dead.
Someone in the thread has already pointed out Kaitlin Olson's excellent work on IASIP and I'd second her with a recommendation for The Mick. Similarly, there's the wonderful Inside No. 9, which often features great physical performances (not all episodes are comedy though.)
Just because we don't see it as often doesn't mean it's dead. The trends ebb and flow but good physical comedy still exists.
Proxy is securely leaving the network. There is no real difference in the principle of operation besides the protocol(SOCKS vs OpenVPN, etc.)
The article is paywalled to me, so I googled another article about the same trial. It says: "The industry had the science 30 years ago and knew what was going to happen but made no warning so that preemptive steps could have been taken." [1] Seems like they're just looking for convenient scapegoats. We had public, publicly funded, published science already 40 years ago [2,3].

[1] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042018/climate-change-f...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jule_Gregory_Charney#Charney_R...

[3] https://phys.org/news/2019-07-charney-years-scientists-accur...
Jeremy Clarkson mentioned a study on Top Gear years ago that showed (as I recall it) that a new Jeep Wrangler would, all things considered, have lower lifetime environmental cost than a new Toyota Prius, the gist of it being that all the high-tech and advanced materials in the Prius had a massive environmental cost that far outweighed its lifetime hydrocarbon frugality when compared to a car as simple to manufacture and being made of basic materials like the Wrangler.

For some reason, people are particularly hostile to countervailing evidence when it contradicts previously swallowed feelgood propaganda.

Edit: 'Using the average CO2 output of the European electricity network, Ernst concluded that an electric car using a 60kWh battery made in Europe would have to travel some 700,000 kilometres (435,000 miles) before it is “greener than an average petrol car”. However, Ernst also says that a fully renewable European grid would reduce the EV’s CO2 lag to just 30,000km (18,640 miles). '

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/analysis-just-ho...
Not the parent, but I did an undergrad maths/physics degree some time back and found https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning to be good as an introduction, unfortunately a new job [unrelated] has prevented my finishing the course but I hope to pick it up again later in the Winter.

I would be interested in thoughts from anyone with ML experience who has reviewed said course's materials?