skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome list! I feel like what a lot of these groups just starting out need is:

- A starting grant ideally, maybe help them find local grants for worker owned cooperatives or create a non-profit to get donations for this purpose (for instance, the first six months rent for a new coffee shop). That stoop.cp looks pretty much like what I am thinking of. It's hard to stress how important $10k can be to people starting a low-margin business who likely can't get a business loan for this.

- Moral support that while this is a risk they have a support network at least online to mutually bitch with and get advice on little stuff like dealing with the city. Or heck, make a platform so that people can directly donate money to other cooperatives to help them out when they run into trouble. I've definitely supported coops on gofundme and the like to help them get their seed money to start their whatever. Can this be more communal? A successful cooperative can offer a heck of a lot more than just money to a brand new one.

- Help with internal management. Being your own boss is hard. No one knows how to do it, meaning how to set goals and make a clear coherent plan and bring people on board to help you without using management authority. How do you solve disputes between equals both legally and practically? How do you mentally switch from a command and control management style to a collaborative management style? Should you go into business with your friends? How should you evaluate your partners and understand the risk that their personalities bring to the table?

But this list is awesome! I'm sure there's a subreddit for this right? Definitely feeling optimistic that these things exist!
I'm looking for collaborators who like the idea of gamifying self-education; this project is being built as a collectively owned digital asset with no "founders" in the traditional sense, and where any surplus income is distributed back to members every month: www.karma.fm ; eve@karma.fm
Just yesterday I got invited to interview at AgriTask [1].

> An AG-management platform that turns agriculture data into smart tools for planning and decision making.

I don’t know much about them aside from this line from one of their recruiters; check them out if you want.

By the way, they are hiring a couple of remote workers if anyone is interested.

[1] https://www.agritask.com/
https://pycno.co - soil sensors and IoT stuff
Don't most companies that have access to your data have the ability to screen it (at least theoretically, if not practically.) E.g., Google for Gmail, Microsoft for Outlook etc.
I think the first step is to develop a skeptics mindset. As a scientist, your job isn't to believe, its to address evidence and evaluate whether or to it supports or conflicts with a given hypothesis. A profound influence on my development in the sciences was a older (he was 55+ at the time), physical chemist I shared an office with,'John'. Arguably, he was one of the greatest critical thinkers I had ever had the privilege of working with. Many other people at that office would avoid him entirely when discussing their work because if John heard about what they were doing, he would always 'challenge' (politely and professionally) them on what they were doing: how they had decided to set up their experiment; how they had decided to sample; how they intended to analyse their data; how they (physically and literally) planned on getting their data.

John did this because on his own work, he was constantly challenging his own assumptions. The result of this was that John 'appeared' to be far less productive; however, the results of his work were orders of magnitude more robust than our other colleagues at that time.

By incorporating a skeptics mindset, less becomes much more. A skeptic doesn't believe the internal error rates produced as a result of a model run, they take a long time to become convinced that a 'thing' is the truth. Don't believe, measure.
Just curious, what was the reason that Haskell developer left?

I know 1 company where this happened, but there Haskell developers left because management decided to move to python (without them even knowing its under consideration).
This is a commercial, privately owned, satellite network. It will probably be available world wide, at least that seems to be the plan. You could compare it to Microsoft, with many critical infrastructure worldwide depending on Windows. Also, a lot of the fiber used for the internet is provided by private companies, a very important network being owned by an Indian company.

Then, there are already multiple satellite networks for positioning (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS). Then there are a bunch of spy satellites.

So I don't really understand the problem for non-Americans, which I am too.
I get your concerns, but this IS an instance where I think progress over perfection is key.

The mere idea of changing a voting process is a big hurdle, and if it is shown that "yeah, we can do that" and that FPTP is not the only voting system in history, we have achieved a victory.

And as others have said, IRV is a huge win by allowing people to vote "FOR" something, rather than strategically vote against something.

So, even if the third parties rarely break out, it would more accurately poll the public's sympathies.
Not tech for tech's sake, but the only thing that is going to matter soon enough is climate change mitigation. So of course there will lots of tech involved.

Perhaps something that touches all of it and could be lucrative is data collection and analysis tools.
The claim is that, by the evidence, moths had ultrasonic hearing 28 million years before bats' own echolocation developed; and that some moths in environments without bats have since adapted to lower ranges. We must presume paleontologists can recognize the frequency range sensitivity of these structures from their preserved physical shape.

In what way would hearing not sensitive to frequencies that appear in the environment be adaptive? The existence of hearing adapted to ultrasonics implies the existence of something to produce ultrasonics. It doesn't tell you what those producers were, just that detecting them was important to successful moth reproduction.

One possibility would be the moths themselves making sounds. But why would they lose such a capacity?

It is possible they had to evolve to stop making the sounds to avoid attracting the interest of bats, but thousands of species all dropping it, even in places where there are no bats, is not plausible.

The best alternative consistent with what we know is that the original insectivorous producers of ultrasonic noise are now extinct, and that bats later evolved into a similar niche.

There are other possibilities that must be eliminated, through careful research, before we can be confident of late-Cretaceous echolocating insectivores.
If you use similar feature sets rust compiles significantly slower.
My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. The more I hear about shit like this, the more I think that should be this generation's first computer, too. Something they can't hurt themselves with.

Bring back Apple IIs in the classrooms. And the TV/VCR combo on the wheeled cart.
I've been conflicted about RPA because my view is that if there's an API, you should use that rather than comparatively brittle screen-based "integration". What's extremely compelling about this approach though is that you can cut through all of the friction of API's - even end users understand how to use the UI so they're really empowered to build their own automation in a way that they haven't been previously.
Instant Runoff Voting is essentially STV in the degenerate case of single seat constituencies rather than multi-member ones. So you're both right! It is in some sense the same system, but it plays very differently in that the results are majoritarian rather than proportional.
Indeed. Too bad it doesn't redirect to pizza.hut.fi

(which was a host at the Helsinki University of Technology, I think it was a Sun box).
So SoftBank is loading up We with huge amounts of debt to give it cash (vs a normal capital investment)? This smells like a leveraged buyout PE move.

The whole side deal on bailing out Adam on his mega personal loans with the banks is interesting. Reporting suggests he effectively defaulted on those loans based on previous developments with We but banks gave him some time to sort things out before calling in the loans.

This whole thing is going to make for an interesting book when the dust settles.
They have a page that gives you a full breakdown of how it's being used[1]

[1] https://one.google.com/
There is an extension that does roughly this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/total-suspend...

(Not to say that it wouldn't be good if Firefox was better at it, but for those using Firefox, it might still be interesting until then.)
You mean PS3? It had the CBE.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Examples are UI Path and Blue Prism.

It's finicky technology that is hard to make sustainable, but a lot of companies are really interested in it because of the amount of work that could be cut out like you said.
I don't think Borda count is an acceptable alternative. It's vulnerable to the teaming problem; elections would turn into contests of which party can nominate the most candidates.

The simplest alternative you can actually get people behind and that doesn't have serious problems is probably approval voting. (For those unfamiliar: Just vote for any number of candidates, most votes wins.) It's simple, it works well, it doesn't really have glaring flaws like vote-splitting or teaming. There are various ways it's still not ideal, but if you want something for people to rally behind, I think its simplicity makes it the best candidate for that.
Based on this part of the article:
The decision to use mechanical compression instead of commissioning a compressed-width variant...

it appears that "mechanical compression" refers to rendering the text in the standard font, and then reducing the horizontal width of the rendered text after-the-fact.
How to Get a Remote Job: Advice from Remote Company Managers
A high performance topological machine learning toolbox in Python
Operation Ghost: The Dukes Never Left
Great assist. Just wanted to say that I am interested in free Postmark credits.
A quick Google lookup for the definition of “consumer”

a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

And definition of “customer”

a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.

In both cases the consumer or customer is the person paying. Who is paying and what is the “product”?

I hate to go back to the tired saying but, the people who search on Google are the “product” that Google is selling to the customer - the advertiser.

Why would anyone expect Google to optimize for anyone else except for the paying customer/consumer?
define "niche".

the construction industry will benefit hugely from AR.
Me too, although it bugs me that he says Snow Crash "describes a future where Americans excel at only two things: writing software and delivering pizza in less than 30 minutes".

The book clearly states that Americans excel at four things:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery
I did for golang. Assuming you know how to program in general it's a very basic task.
Clustered randomized controlled evaluation of immunization campaigns in India
On the other hand, I think user time is more valuable than developer time and when building complex/efficient software expecting lightning builds isn't just unwarranted, it's selfish.
Proportional Representation doesn't work for a single office election
Yes, it can now import logins/passwords from Chrome/Chromium on macOS, Windows support already existed for some years.

> Passwords can now be imported from Chrome on macOS in addition to existing support for Windows

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/
It won't hurt, but the article pointed out the main performance fail was coming from all the increased strain that retina displays were causing on memory and cache. Since retina displays have 4x as many pixels, Firefox was doing 4x as much work for its inefficient compositing engine doing large full-scene copies on every frame, and this was pushing the limits of what typical integrated graphics was able to smoothly pump through bandwidth-wise.
Since after repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring our explanations and requests to stop, you keep bringing personal attacks and ideological flamewar into the threads, we've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break the HN guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very common when you do tech work in a non-tech industry. Comes up a lot with coding-inclined mechanical engineers. Zed Shaw's words are really true:

> Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but you could make about the same money and be happier running a fast food joint. You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession. People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines.

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/advice.html
It's possible to benefit from things that will make later generations suffer, yes.
> It is amazing to be able to deduce the past existence of creatures that left no physical trace.

Well, unless they didn't have a past existence

Try not to pat yourself on the back too hard
There is an organisation 80000hours.org devoted to discovering careers related to future high-impact areas, it has a list of perspective career paths and reviews on them, including the obvious ones, like Machine Learning PhD, and not so obvious, like China specialist.

https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/
That link doesn't seem to work, btw.
Ask HN: How do small startups handle their finances?
How do you manage your monthly cashflow and outgoing payments when you're just starting out as a company and no one in your founding team is a finance pro?

Other founders I asked set up their own Excel sheet or referred me to one of the different cash flow management/accounting softwares which are out there, but it's really hard for me to decide which one to go for or to rather stick with Excel.

I'm looking for strong preferences for handling company finances a certain way (particular software vs. spreadsheet vs. something else..)?
I've been spending less and less time out during rush hour in my city, and it's gotten to the point that just standing near a car with it's engine running for a few minutes can really make me feel... "off".

Not sick or anything, just a kind of "my body knows that breathing these fumes is not a good thing".

It makes me wonder how I didn't even notice it for so many decades.

But absolutely, we need to get smog out of the places where people spend the majority of their days, if only for an improved quality of life.
Almost any change to first-past-the-post will be an improvement. To really give it teeth, we need a binding none-of-the-above-are-acceptable (NOTA) option. Anyone who loses to NOTA is not eligible for the runoff.
80000 Hours: How to make a difference with your career
Awesome how active your team is!
This is incorrect AFAIK. The sync toggle for a data type is for the whole account, not per-device.
A Study on the Prevalence of WebAssembly in the Wild [pdf]
Dude, come on. They have 15,000 employees. Most of them are going to lose their jobs. Those are the victims.

I agree I don’t weep for Soft Bank or the Saudis, but plenty of people took jobs not just on the promise of IPO riches. And laying off a company of WeWork and its subsidiaries size is more than just a handful of people entering the job market — a market that isn’t as good in every city, which is something to consider since We has quite a distributed workforce.

Edited: it is 15,000 people — not 12. And most of them will end up losing their jobs. That’s a lot of people.
The duopoly parties are both right wing parties, and increasingly extremely so. Third-parties tend to be more centrist or leftist.
I found it good value until they removed local syncing of Google Photos from their Gdrive client. That was where most of my data was. Making it only accessible via a web form download was a huge product downgrade that I don't think a more customer-responsive company would have risked. So I cancelled my subs & won't be going back (I'm sure they're quaking in their billionaire boots).
Danish lighthouse wheeled away from eroding coastline
It was a flip, lighthearted comment and I thought that was pretty self-evident. But fine, I’ve deleted it.
They referred to such schemas like "FlightReservation"[1] for flights, "EventReservation"[2] commonly used for movie tickets, or "LodgingReservation" used for hotel bookings. The specific supporting website encodes your reservation in these formats inside the confirmation email, and Gmail picks up on that. (IIRC it used to scrape emails for that data, but most of it if not all is done via schemas nowadays)

[1] https://schema.org/FlightReservation

[2] https://schema.org/EventReservation

[3] https://schema.org/LodgingReservation
> I avoided doing so because I don't really want the internet to know what credit cards I have.

And that is one of the reasons why we are allowed to have multiple accounts on this site, as long as they aren't all throwaways.

I bet you are aware of this already, so I'm mentioning this mostly for the benefit of those who haven't wasted half a decade (or more in my case here.)
this will never happen.

your example isn't very good. you still have to ship the raw materials and -- much worse -- deal with unit volumes of waste.
It's more of a 3-2 split, no?

Afaict, the Bloc are a right-leaning party. (Not familiar with Quebecois politics, so I could definitely be wrong)
Thanks for your comment! I just built it under an hour to showcase the capability of Serverless computing :-) I'll take care of sanitizing the inputs now.
Oh fantastic, I hadn't realized Nicky Case did a post on this too!

The chart at the bottom demonstrating the range of "Bayesian regret" caught my eye when I first started looking into all of this 3 years ago. It roughly measures aggregate societal satisfaction with respect to the result of the election versus their own preferences. Strategic ballots in approval voting reduce to FPTP -- there's not really much room for a concerted effort to sway an election one way or another, since this strategy will be shared by large swaths of each candidate's voter base and so is roughly negligible. And people will feel that "their voice is heard" which I strongly encourage as political engagement is contingent on feeling like it's worth it.
Yes, it will help, but the memory bandwidth savings decrease quadratically as DPI decreases, which is why you aren't seeing much of an impact.
Your comment crosses into personal attack. That breaks the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong or annoying another comment is.

You also can't take HN threads into religious flamewar, and we ban accounts that do that as well, so please don't do that either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I should add that there's a fine factual comment struggling to get out of what you wrote there; had you edited out the personal and flamey bits, the comment would be a good contribution to the thread. Unfortunately the guidelines violations cause more harm than the factual information adds value.
He gave money to a political campaign attempting to limit the right to marry to heterosexual couples. A little different from any old "Christian charity".
This has been used in San Francisco for city/county elections for a while now, and was recently updated to allow up to ten rankings for each office. I really wish it were used for other single-representative offices (governor, etc.).
The title is neither misleading, nor incorrect.

The professor got accused of illegally selling the documents to Hobby Lobby.
The static power dissipation might be a problem, depending on its magnitude, and would only be exacerbated by the increased density. On the other hand, the increased density allows for lower latency relative to CMOS, and latency improvements are hard to come by.
Which are leagues more imprecise than the internet alternative.
The solution to crony capitalism isn't socialism, though. It's less "crony" - less ability to profit from government connections, which means less government control (or "guidance") of the economy. The government should prevent unfair competition, regulate externalities, and not much else.
> Solar is starting to beat fossil fuel installations already, below $0.05 USD per kWh.

I read that over and over, but it's like comparing apples and oranges.
Strava Drops a Popular Feature and Drives Users Away
Flagstaff Arizona switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
A little tangential, but I hope the answer to this is a resounding "no", and that adoption is sufficient to make a lot of people really uncomfortable. Perhaps this is naive of me, but I still believe that a great contributor to tolerance of our society for massive dragnet surveillance is that it isn't very visible.
There's already an "Never for [this site|Language]" option in the translation bar
> One thing that Safari is incredibly good at (and its' engineers are proud of) is the ability to reduce resource consumption for non-active tabs and windows to nearly zero.

I understand this is rare, but I just have a very very hard time understanding what is so hard about this.

Page not visible? Just stop it. Stop the layout engine, stop the javascript VM. If there was a transfer in progress, let it finish, a page might get the callback when it's active again ...

(I know there are some tricky cases, a lot of them, but there just isn't any reason why a browser with 30 tabs should be consuming over 1 % cpu...)
Flip and lighthearted often comes across as snarky and ragey on the internet. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.

The problem isn't just one comment, it's that you've been posting like this repeatedly. We need higher-quality, more thoughtful comments on HN. It's not enough to rage at someone who got more money than you think they deserve. That sort of thing damages the container by lowering signal/noise ratio and encouraging worse from others.

I don't mean to pick on you personally at all—it's a systemic problem and lots of users unfortunately do it. But you've been here a long time and are a good user and we need people in that category to represent the values of the site.
As a casual observer, I wonder why ranked-choice captured the mind share when people who are passionate about voting systems seem to universally prefer approval. Maybe there's something about voting for multiple candidates that just doesn't sit right with people?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?platform=Li...
Not my code, but I have versions I've written for various platforms/languages that I use.
If someone hails a cab on uber, one doesn't hail a cab from a different continent...

there seems to be plenty of opportunities here, like buy or rent an old bank building with the individually lockable drawers, put your drive in the locker which has a USB cable or ethernet cable, close the locker, use some app to set the URL / hash, pay, and you get a ETA, download complete notification, and a deadline to pick it up (or else incur a fee to unlock the drawer proportional to overtime).

I guess the idea could be pitched to those operating rentable local PO boxes, using similar lockers, but with internet connectivity.
There are external financial audits to provide public information about a company's finances are accurately reported to the public. We need the same thing for security, because there's no real way of assessing that as an outsider and that knowledge is a public good, much like a corporation's finances.