skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> easy to explain

I used to think this, and then I tried describing it to a room full of educated people -- some with advanced degrees -- and persuading them it was better than plurality for the system we were setting up for a nonprofit board.

It's certainly possible I was the point of failure, but everyone kept getting concerned about each person having multiple votes

"Like, what if someone cheats and gives all their votes to one person?"
"You can't do that, it's approval voting, you can cast one approval vote for each candidate"
"But that means each person can vote for multiple candidates!"
"Yes. Every person uses their ballot to indicate which candidates they find acceptable."
"But what if I like one candidate more than all the others?"
"Then you can either vote for them and everyone else you think would be OK, or just vote for them."
"But what if someone else votes for all the people I don't like."
"How is that different from people voting for a candidate you don't like now?"
"Well, they can only pick one candidate I don't like now."

I understand no voting system is perfect, but I was not expecting this one to be such a hard sell.
Set a goal and get peer feedback all in one platform
> before climate change really kicks into full gear and destroys outdoor gardens

Not sure what the case will be that you can sustain yourself on your apartment tomato while outdoors is Armageddon. Nice! Good luck with your marketing strategy!
This is completely insane. The only possible explanation I can think of is that Neumann's shares were so ridiculously impossible to get back and he was so stubborn about giving them up that SoftBank either paid this blood money or choked on WeWork running out of cash in a month. Even if that did happen, how negligent was SoftBank to get into this position in the first place?

This is why the general public, and now an increasing number of politicians, are increasingly hating SV in general - the headlines are getting almost as bad as the financial bailout ones in 2009.
> make any server

Any server you have a login to, right? So in some respects wouldn't a commercial VPN be simpler?
Does HTML video need to catch up based on the most recent keyframe?

If they don't render while backgrounded, how do they do that without being noticeable?
Tried that this morning and it solved the issue for me.
Others have sold "smart collars" for years.

Compared to a Lely robotic milking system [2], which uses "smart collars" to identify the cows, that's primitive.

[1] https://modernfarmer.com/2016/01/wearable-devices-livestock/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ozhU7h8vbE
From the article:
> Unfortunately, it is not clear what else the journalists could be expected to do in this case. After all, they just quoted directly from some values in a published, peer reviewed study.

I feel this is a bit naive or condescending to journalists.

In many professions you are required to take statistics courses. After all, they are essential to reading studies.

And reading studies is something professionals should do.

I have only a cursory knowledge of statistics, but enough that if I read the paper I can pretty easily spot the issues mentioned in the article.

If a news article mentions a study in passing without depth, it could be forgiven. But writing a whole article on a study based solely on the summary of the researcher is lazy.

I think the author of the article might be acting naive with the lack of reporting standards shown by news organizations on this type of articles.

The reality is the study came to an unpopular conclusion. News organizations, like politicians, won't touch that stuff.
Verbal agreements are very much legally binding, especially if it is in writing (e.g. over email).
I have the exact same service providers and quite frankly, I love them. Haven’t had any issues, setup and payment is a piece of cake. And their app is a proper professional email app.

It sure is interesting sitting back watching your average consumers purchase chromebooks and nexus phones only to have their subsidies be pulled.

Chrome books with the baked in eol, and cloud storage cut in half was a pretty evil moment. Curious to see what the future has for the customers who have become the product.
I don't understand this comment.

What do you mean to imply?
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That seems about right, except for Mitchell's involvement. As I remember it, it was more Brendan's call than Mitchell's. She did not ask for his resignation. At least from what I heard, he decided that the backlash was doing too much damage to Mozilla and stepped down.
You may find this useful: https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/

> At 80,000 Hours, we do research into how people can most effectively use their careers to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.

It seems their two top priority areas that attend to a "huge, neglected, and solvable" filter are:

- Positively shaping the development of artificial intelligence

- Biorisk reduction
There isn't enough film in the world to get a good take of me doing what Jackie Chan does.
> meaning I can make those literals evaluate to my own types by defining a few instances.

If you're defining instances, you're already an "expert", so why are you defining instances that are "hostile" to your beginner students?

If people in the ecosystem are defining hostile instances, you should probably just ask them to stop it...?

EDIT: Also, isn't failing to compile the almost-optimal case? It certainly doesn't fail at runtime.
Another reasonable point downvoted on HN as this comment will be too I'm sure.

Some parents will abuse this ability and there's nothing to government should do about that. Good parenting is hard and some form of tracking is important.

My daughter had a phone from the age of 10, she uses it for google and email at school (it's part of their classes), texting me when her bus is near the bus stop so I can drive to collect her and for texting her friends. She is not allowed to use her phone to install apps that can communicate with people that she does not already know and this is something I periodically check on with the view that I will check less as she gets older. I am actually super impressed that she is not addicted to her phone like you would imagine a young girl would be.

One of her friends does have instagram and other social media, I have checked her pages out and she has many followers that are men and much older than her. I wish her parents would check her phone more often.

Regardless of what some childless anons on the Internet think, it's bloody hard to parent in the age of the iPhone. A simple solution is to not let your kids have anything but I've always believed that giving access to what everyone else has is fine as long as it's controlled with reasonable boundaries put in place.
90% of which people, the people that are enamored by "count up all first place votes, then find the person in last place, then go look at everyone's ballots and remove that person from everyone's ballots, and then count up all first place votes again, and then repeat that process until you're left with one person and then that candidate should win"?
The Limits of Science
I was hesitant to make the comment. However I decided to post it because the current political climate makes it relevant. The situation in Hong Kong, democracy, human rights abuses, it's all part of the current discussion-fabric of politics, and the treatment of Julian Assange fits perfectly as a piece in that puzzle, as does Snowden.

China are just the Eastasia of the moment, which is why that example was chosen.

Yes, the 'elite' of the world are a problem, if not THE problem. I'm trying to point out that the soft-power that 'The West' had, as a point of difference, as a rallying cry for the moral high-ground, is rapidly disappearing, and the lines separating Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are blurry at best and non-existent at worst.

I've said before, there are no good guys in the world of major political powers. It's sad, but it appears to be fairly plain fact, and potentially a human inevitability.

That's the issue at hand. The treatment of Assange is a symptom of it.
They _were_ also not disclosing that they were hacked last year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180504001844/https://8ch.net/b...

Yes, people would rather give their entire packet to a hacker than five eyes, wouldn’t they?
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Isn't that referring to publishing earnings on the company's own website or social media they control, not on independent publishers like TechCrunch?
Is it guaranteed that your host doesn’t keep connection logs? They’re the endpoint. They see everything going to you and every site you go to regardless of VPN.
It’s called Proof of Stake (as opposed to Proof of Work) and there are multiple implementations working already and Ethereum will migrate to PoS next year.

PoS is conceptually more complicated (block producing is assigned to nodes with staked currency and there are multiple validation techniques) but requires very little CPU power.
Controlled environment means pest and weed management is easier with fewer or no chemical agents.

Closer to end user means less plant engineering for transport and storage which is correlated with worse nutrition (or just less variety)
What's the problem here? I don't see it. I see family opt-in location sharing.
> There's no real package manager.

There's no "real package manager" on any of the BSDs; package managers are a Linux-ism. BSDs (like Darwin) have base-systems, developed and released as a whole; and then, separately, userlands, delivered through some kind of ports system. Critically, nothing in the base system is ever dependent on the userland; the system always works fine with zero userland ports installed.

Under such a paradigm, there's absolutely no difference between a first-party ports ecosystem and a third-party one.

> You can't upgrade your hardware. Once your HW is unsupported by Apple you're stuck with an old OS that is unsupported by third party software as well.

Personally, I like the era of disposable computers. Most computers have got hardly anything in them these days, anyway; just an SoC and a battery. What would you upgrade? It'd be like upgrading the parts in an electric toothbrush. In both cases, there's just a few parts, and they all wear out at about the same rate, such that when the device is worn out, it's all worn out. Just get a new one, and recycle the old one for scrap (i.e. what Apple does when you use their trade-in program.)
Yes you must have a login... but setting up a VPS is literally a button click these days, it's not going to be much more complicated. no need to even login to an interactive shell to configure anything (or at the most `adduser` if there are no default non roots), all you need is a user name and password, any of the generic VPS images will work no configuration beyond an ssh user.

It's almost as simple, faster, and importantly, far more obscure... vs consumer VPNs which are almost honey pots.

It's also more powerful, you can selectively route things through different servers simultaneously.
It is not outdated since it requires you to enable Do not track which makes you a target for tracking. It is bad design and they know it. They don't even respect their own disable analytics toggle.
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It's a really hard argument to refute, because once you bring "power" and the "subconscious" into arguments almost nothing is falsifiable. Nevertheless some possible contradictory evidence:

1. Look at all of the people throughout history who fought for education, e.g. blacks in America. Obviously they perceived some value in receiving an education and did not just have it imposed on them.

2. Look at the statements of educators and public education advocates throughout history. They speak broadly about the advantage to the individual and the ability to better oneself.

I could go on, but the reality is that you can always argue that something fundamentally comes down to "power." It's such a vague concept and so ever-present in the relations of social animals like humans that it isn't really separable from anything we do. You could argue basically every idea we have is just a collective illusion to foster social cohesion. That's the thesis of the book "Sapiens," for example. I think comparing public schools to "you are the product" things like Facebook is sort of facile and silly though.
Most Wayland compositors track damage obsessively. If you turn on the paint debug overlay in Weston or something wlroots-based and start typing in e.g. gnome-terminal (with blinking cursor turned off), you'll see that only a single character is painted at a time.

Here's a good post: https://emersion.fr/blog/2019/intro-to-damage-tracking/

To do this with EGL, you need to eglSwapBuffersWithDamage(KHR|EXT) instead of just eglSwapBuffers: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/blob/23d01c67a... (isn't it nice to have a GL API that's not terrible? :D)

I think I know how to do it, going to try soon. Bugzilled: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590586
It's all a big ball of time-wimey, wibbly-wobbly... stuff.
In the case of the female lawyer, the government is deciding that it is better for the embryo to be implanted in a genetically unrelated woman because she has a partner, rather than the mother of the embryo herself. If you believe that an embryo should be treated as an individual, how is this different than forcing a single mother to give up custody of her child to be raised by strangers? What has the mother done to lose the right to raise her own child? Should single mothers lose custody of their children, since being raised by two parents is preferable? If not, why is okay for her to lose custody of her embryo?

In the case of the West Point cadet, they took his sperm and created an embryo after he died. He didn't explicitly consent to an embryo being created at all.
Range voting is an abomination. It's the perfect example of a system ranked as good by Arrow Theorem logic which horribly fails most actual requirements for a voting system - unlike Approval Voting, which despite the tactical voting non-issue is practically reasonable.

[Some practical requirements for/questions about a voting method:

* Does it always have a winner?

* Can the resulting winner always enjoy public legitimacy?

* Is the voting system simple enough for the public to understand?

* Can it map to useful public choices?

* Is it susceptible to cheating?

* Does it bias towards the center or not? (Note that some people might prefer biasing and some not).

* Can voters signal to politicians they must change course?
]
We had a big increase in the money supply after the financial crisis, and yet inflation remains stubbornly low. At some point one needs to recognize that there is more in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy.
"healthcare tech never pans out" -> BRB while I check my heart rate and take an electrocardiogram reading on my watch... Looks like the [10000 steps] I've been averaging per day are improving my resting heart rate and I see my daily weight scale shows I've lost [5lbs]! :)

Yeah, that's kinda-surface-level stuff, but these kind of health metrics are already extremely commonplace and helping open the door to further tech<->healthcare integration.
You'd also think that LA would be up there.
Can all MJML mail be routed to the "bulk" folder?
I’ve downloaded games over Steam at full speed over my VPN...
What Is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
sailor: captain! there's a hole in the ship, if we don't do something quick we'll sink!

captain: there's only one solution ... make the hole so big we can no longer call it a hole.

sailor: aye aye captain, i'll go get the explosives.
What kind of legal tech?
Did you model the cost of transportation and logistics to grow things in the opposite hemisphere out of the local growing season or months of cold storage?
What makes you think that a 360 day year would be 12 months of 30 days each? We'll probably do something weird, like take all 5 out of February.
Right, but regardless of the factuality of these claims, remind me how we continue to sidestep the issue of consent from those that are tracked? “Privacy nuts” such as myself do not struggle to see upsides to say a global DNA database with perfect coverage, it is the fact that we are very much aware of the terrible potential downsides of a world where privacy and consent is largely ignored that makes us concerned.
>what happens with that $5,000,000 of business generated revenue?

You operate it like a normal business and pay competitive salaries? I don't get why people working at non-profit should work for free. $5M/6 years is roughly 7 people making 120k/yr.
They do this already. Similar to Github’s Cameo service for proxying readme images.
Reposting the last response I gave when this article came up.

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> Your IP address is a largely irrelevant metric in modern tracking systems.

I don't believe this for one second.

Your IP address on its own is not sufficient to identify you. That doesn't mean your IP address is not helpful in identifying you.

If you have Javascript disabled, it is a heck of a lot easier to identify you with a combination of an IP address, user agent, and OS than it is to identify you without the IP address cutting down the pool of potential visitors.

On top of that, if you're targeting me and do a geo-location of my IP address, it will get you within 5 miles of my house. That's close enough that you'll know which county I'm in, which with a few other easily-obtained pieces of information will let you pull up my voter registration, which will give you my exact street address.

Of course, you could mitigate this by setting up your own VPN on something like Linode, but unless you're regularly rotating IP addresses, you've just traded a pseudo-identifier that multiple people/devices share for a persistent identifier.

This argument comes up all the time, and I have never heard anyone explain it in a way that passes my sniff test. If you want me to stop using a VPN, you need to do a lot better than just claiming that IP addresses don't matter -- you need to show some kind of evidence to back that up.

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Broadcasting your IP address to every website you've ever visited is a completely valid concern that gets hand-waved out the wazoo whenever this subject comes up.

I've sent bug reports to sites that publicly tied IP addresses to comments/accounts so anyone could track your movement patterns over time. Yes, that info can be useful to an attacker trying to deanonomyze you. Yes, that info can be used to link users together. Yes, that info can be used to narrow the pool of potential visitors so other fingerprinting techniques are more powerful.

It is blanketly ridiculous to claim that an approximate county-level geolocation isn't a useful data-point to attackers. If IP addresses weren't useful, the Tor project wouldn't be going to such lengths to hide them.
It means "until the third-party developers in the OS's application ecosystem have changed their definition of 'state of the art' to include the use of enough new layers of bloat that old devices can no longer run the newest [versions of] apps."

An obsolete laptop is the same as an obsolete phone: it's one where it chugs when opening Spotify, or Slack, or any other "nobody ever bothered to optimize this" app that everyone uses anyway.

Or, to put that another way: you can certainly retouch photos in GIMP, or even in Paint Shop Pro 7 on Windows XP. But what if you want to use seam-carving in your photo-retouching? PSP7 ain't got that. Once you know that your use-case dictates a modern version of some memory-hogging software, well, that constraint dictates what kind of computer is "obsolete" or not for you.
Gen IV nuclear energy is clean, efficient and plentiful – why the fear?
I agree the evil maid attack is a misfeature.

I assume many people use it without that aspect.
I caught on when I realized this just wouldn't be happening anywhere else.

Microsoft has, singly-handedly, got two generations of people used to computers working badly, convinced that it's not just unavoidable, but normal. If cars worked as badly, we would all see multiple explosions every day (and think it was awesome).
Congress shall make no law...
Kids are dumbasses and require supervision. This includes surveillance because they will inevitably try to hide important things from you.
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> Parents and kids need to be able to trust each other.

Absolutely this. However, there's a caveat. If a minor gets in certain troubles, the parent is held responsible. So, if a parent knows their child has a tendency towards stuff that will get the parent in trouble, I'm a lot less against the parent using tech to keep the child in line.
It would be nice if there were an independent auditing organization that could confirm an ISP's claims.
Nothing, for TC.

For Snap? A fine and a binding agreement not to do this again or else to designate TC as one of their preferred methods of disclosing financial information (like Elon's twitter is for Tesla).

Shareholders on the wrong sides of trades today can also sue Snap and have a good chance of recovering any putative losses. This is actually the bigger concern for Snap since this is likely a much bigger amount than any potential SEC fine.
This is beyond comprehension and unfair. In a perfectly logical world, SoftBank should give Elizabeth Holmes $5B.
I’m a little surprised about the two word display specifiers (e.g. display: inline flex). Specifically they say they are the only browser to support it but I feel like I saw this somewhere (maybe in a nightly release of some browser) at least two years ago.

Maybe I just saw a spec or maybe I’m just wrong
Sounds like a good business opportunity if someone's looking for it.

call it gHosting
Surveilling your kids is not the answer. Full stop.

I generally agree. But the solution here isn't lecturing people on the internet. The solution is helping parents find better parenting methods.

I was a full-time wife and mom for a lot of years. I've tried to write about it and one piece I wrote got more than 60k page views.

But it didn't make me any money. And I'm quite open about being dirt poor and wanting to develop an earned income.

On the one hand, I would like to see the world be a better place with better solutions. Poor parenting has larger consequences, including higher incarceration rates down the line.

On the other hand, one of the things wrong with this world is the shitty way women get treated. Part of that is an expectation that they don't deserve an earned income for so-called "soft skills" (oft called emotional labor). They are expected to do caring type things out of the goodness of their heart.

I've literally been helpful to people with big personal problems -- because I'm quite good at that -- while I was homeless and been told, more or less, "Fuck you. My needs matter. Yours don't. Quit panhandling the internet."

So I'm at a point where I kind of feel like "No, fuck you. I don't owe you anything, you asshole."

I stopped giving away so much of my time and expertise for free via the Internet to ungrateful assholes who think I don't deserve anything in return.

I don't know how we make a better world. But I'm quite clear that volunteering to be a victim for the benefit of other people isn't it. All that does is teach them their abusive bullshit is totes fine.

So if you want a solution here, find some way to help parents be better parents that doesn't involve them crapping on someone else in the process.

I don't know how you do that because actual parenting experience fails to have the cache that college degrees have. So I don't know how you find someone with answers that actually work that the world will actually respect as a bona fide expert. College degrees don't necessarily confer genuine expertise in this domain, but it's the kind of thing audiences will pay for.