skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karma is mostly an indication of how much time people have spent posting to the site.

I agree with you about some of those examples and have reset the score on them; we do that routinely when we see good comments unfairly downvoted. So do a lot of users, while the upvote window is still open. The corrective upvote is a standard practice here. And yes, that still leaves some good comments in negative space. Voting is a big messy statistical cloud. I don't think there's a way to make it precise. Maybe it's worth noting that the examples you cited are already months old? There have been about a million comments posted to HN since those. It's inevitable that a sample that large will contain some shitty outliers, i.e. really unjust cases. Comments tend to fluctuate up and down in score; some are going to end up in the red just stochastically. Perhaps we should be more open to experimenting with the voting system, but years of looking closely at that data has diminished my sense of what's possible. I think the two biggest factors are human nature and randomness, and we can't do much about either. There could still be better mechanisms for channeling them, though.
Note that a big reason for cash use in Germany is privacy (no trace of your purchases) and thriftiness (stores avoiding card payment fees).

But yes, Germany is quite slow to adopt new technology.
Ask HN: How to set better deadlines for side projects?
Hi HN,

I'm working on a lot of side projects but when estimating time and setting a deadline for side projects I often miss them despite being on time with regular work.

I noticed that my side project work often involves a lot more learning and using skills that I don't already have so it becomes difficult for me to plan ahead and be able to estimate how long creating something using a new skill will take me (for example creating something using a library that I need to learn). This isn't necessarily an issue except when I keep missing my own self imposed deadline a project that I only wanted to spend a month on blows up to a year as I keep going down a rabbit hole to learn new things.

How can I better set deadlines and goals in side projects?
This is what Zapier and IFTTT and others are doing.
I didn't even find Google Captcha to be effective, I still got a ton of spam coming through my web contact forms - often advertising software tools to bypass Captcha.

In the end I wrote my own rule based spam filters and that has been significantly more effective without tracking or annoying users.
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"but it points out that other museums could too"

That's the bias right there. There is a broader problem here, but that's not indicated in the headline. Hobby Lobby was specifically targeted in the headline to create emotional engagement. Not the end of the world. Not a vast conspiracy - they need to sell clicks and paper. But not totally honest either.
Of course. You still spent several hours on site getting to the work area, breaking to eat lunch, etc. I had it a lot better than the guys that didn't feel like wearing the respirators, but PPE isn't perfect.

Think of it like wearing shoes at the beach. Yeah, they protect you from most of the sand as you're walking around, but enough gets past that you still have to dump them out when you leave.
I don't see how co-operatives have anything to do with a hegelian dialectic. I just like localism.

>next stage of capitalism

That does sound super cringe, yes lol.
It is ... glorious!

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And if you put it in, say, Protonmail, they can just hack it, so you're not necessarily gaining security.
The way email was used when gmail was launched in 2004 meant that the 1GB (at that time) limit would not be reached by normal email users. Large attachments became a thing later.

About the initial 1GB limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_deve...
Did I ask you for an amateur shrink evaluation?

Aspersions aside you have a point about the risk for confirmation bias, but that goes for conserving overly credulous attitudes as well.
Everyone can make up their own minds about how to fill the blanks in how Google really handles this data but the track record isn't great for straightforward honesty there.
Baudot code?
To be fair, CoreAnimation was first released a year before FireFox 1.0.
Anything for a least objectionable candidate winning majority of support.

See the stupidity of the result of Maine Governor election of 2010. How can a person with a mere 37% win?!?!?!
> Isn't there a better way to fight bots?

Don't?

I mean, what are you trying to protect? If it's account registrations, shouldn't an email confirmation be enough?
thanks for sharing, v valuable to know heavyset_go knows one of the people responsible for the patches and jumped right on it
I'm seeing the same thing, my report doesn't have a ton of data (~10 blocks a day on average), and the only other blocker I have is uBlock.
My problem with Google Captcha is that I have to solve the "select all" window every time I check the checkbox, even when I'm logged in to Google. Maybe it's because I use Safari, but it's getting really annoying. What's the benefit of Google Captcha if you have to solve the captcha every time?
strongly disagree

1. you _won't_ be happier running a fast food joint - the work is gruelling, and it's so easy to go bust. And you won't bring home six figures

2a. people who _actually_ can code are scarce, even in the tech industry. Source: conducted over 300 interviews

2b. quite logically, your coding skill will be most appreciated and compensated at a Big Tech Co, not at a government department where they will be simply unable to see the difference
Is there a problem with charge, like in MOSFETs?
They're entry level positions usually so figuring out their processes is typically not that difficult. Often I will not work directly with them vs. having a big sheet of instructions delivered with a ton of bullet points. I also get a ton of process diagrams as well.

Usually it's better for the business I'm supporting to document their own workflows before it's handed over to me for a lot of common sense reasons.
> trust that both the school and said company can keep it safe.

Safe, to be used later to build a profile of your child, and sell it to employers, insurance companies, the police, intelligence agencies, or anyone else willing to pay a few cents or send a subpoena.
Self host it if you can. I do at https://sdan.xyz/blog and https://sdan.xyz/essays and it works flawlessly regardless of visitors/staff members/etc.

Obviously by paying Ghost to host it for you is a bit pricey since they have to make a profit as well, but the amazing thing is that the whole thing is open sourced for people like us to self host (I wrote a post about how I self host a bunch of stuff including ghost: http://sdan.xyz/sd2)
Ugh, I hate it when people do things like Exhibit 4 [0] - the size and coloration of the boxes does not match the numbers for the bottom two figures (with the lower-right quadrant in both being displayed as larger than the upper-right, despite having a lower number).

Lies, damned lies, statistics and misleading figures.

0: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Financi...
Over the past 2 years or so I've become incredibly skilled at identifying crosswalks, fire hydrants, traffic lights, and bicycles.

I don't necessarily mind contributing to googles car-driving AI, but the services that I've put this captcha infront of have seen a dramatic increase in spam.

I unfortunately don't know what the solution to this problem is but I would gladly contribute to whatever someone smarter than me comes up with!
not possible because anything based off computation only wards off denial of service attacks, not bots which usually have too much profit.

the absolute best you could do is track on the site itself without google, but you still need to track user's data.

anything else you can think of can be beaten pretty easily or is going to really hurt your user experience to the point of severe loss of revenue

any CAPTCHA custom to a site will be broken very easily if your business takes off.
New Zealand uses Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting.

IMO, it's the most representative voting system, precisely because it encourages smaller parties, and essentially forces coalitions.

It's a bit complicated, but people are very used to it now.

CGP Grey has a great video on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU
Is anyone aware of a good resource to learn VBA? All the resources I've seen online are either tutorials for very quick hacks, or assume you have 0 programming knowledge. I would love a "VBA for people who are familiar with at least one other programming language".
>How am I supposed to know how quickly your yellow light changes on this street?

As a driver, you are not supposed to know this, nor should you base your driving based on this information.

It's simple: if you have enough distance to stop, you stop[1].

The yellow light is supposed to be timed so that people who don't have the distance to stop when going the speed limit would have enough time to legally pass the intersection[2].

The engineer's case (and many others) is that the lights are adjusted specifically so that this does not happen, i.e. people on a certain stretch of a road have are forced to cross on red if they don't decelerate unsafely.

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[1] Your stopping distance only depends on your speed, road conditions, and reaction time.

[2]http://redlightrobber.com/red/links_pdf/Derivation-of-the-Ye...
If you knowingly misrepresent a material fact for the purpose of inducing someone to act (E.g. give you money), then you have committed fraud. This is literally the definition of fraud.

Maybe in the your household blaming the victim when they hire a company with such a well known track-record of failing to deliver is acceptable, but many people have different values.
This just solved a huge mystery for me.

One of my first managers I had after becoming a developer used to say, "Listen, if you don't get your stuff done, you're going to be having fudge stripes and pringles for breakfast, ok!?" All of us junior devs had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

I always thought, "That doesn't sound too bad to me."

It was actually a reference to this cartoon. Thanks for solving a 10 year old mystery for me!!
The largest companies in the world - Amazon, for example - still actively use EDI.
Add to the problem the complication that you need a replacement for the captcha that is usable by users with disabilities.
Blockchain Gaming: I only saw one other crypto/blockchain comment and I suspect people are avoiding the topic because of the amount of noise from the scene compared to a lack of real world applications. It's that lack of real applications that speaks (for me) about how far out we are from feeling the real impact of any blockchain related solution. However, like so many other technologies, right now is a great time to explore, learn, and evolve the technology through gaming. My gut feeling is that blockchain gaming will do well over the next 3 to 5 years.
My general answer is "no". But the question also isn't meaningful unless you define what it is you're trying to protect.

(E.g. maybe it's reasonable to have a captcha of some sort for account creation, with fallback to a human-involved process. But if you're trying to prevent credential-stuffing on a login form, the correct approach is using the Pwned Passwords dataset and/or cooloffs.)
How about Google Photos?
IRV failing to capture voter preferences is not a "corner case". It is absolutely unclear that IRV is better at all than FPTP. See a set of voting simulations with candidates and distributions here for different voting methods:

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

Alarmingly, IRV is the worst voting system of all just by eyeballing these simulations. The charts it produces are bizarre, and it tends to select for extremists and/or candidates that do not capture the voter's preferences!

It's not just of theoretical interest either, IRV famously spoiled the 2009 Burlington mayoral election, resulting in its repeal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Burlington_mayoral_electi...

The only good takeaway from IRV picking up steam is that maybe it puts us on the path towards something like approval voting, which is much harder to game, and is much easier for voters to understand (I doubt more than 1 out of 10 people could explain how IRV works).
why would an email confirmation be enough? playing whack-a-mole all day with different domains is unreasonable. whitelist only of domains is awful, and botters have tons of popular email accounts.
This sounds like a perfect place for a hacker piece of art to mount to lamp posts that has air quality sensors and displays some sort of LED art signifying the pollution levels. Skull&crossbones, puking emoji, SARs mask emoji, sunshine & roses, etc.
The Talk page on the wiki has some activity from this year, so it may be up to date - ish. There are a few companies that are selling memristors [1], but, as you say, they may not be fully truthful in describing their products. I'd take a look at some of the texts that are for sale [2] to dive deeper, provided you already know a fair bit of EE. If you do not, pick up this book [3] to get a good education. I may not be the best resource on this though. I'd email Dr. Chua directly and just ask him [4] for some resources, or just go through his publications list on it [5]. If you do email him, try for breaks in semesters, as Profs tend to be less busy then. Also, he has had 25 PhD students, so you can reach out to them as well.

[1] https://knowm.org/product/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/memristor/s?k=memristor

[3] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+art+of+electronics&crid=T6LE1...

[4] chua@eecs.berkeley.edu

[5] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~chua/circuitrefs.html
Yes, the concern is that since browsers interpret the end-user code, if it has knowledge of the walls (required to enforce them), bot networks might be able to use the JavaScript code to figure out the correct solution in an automated fashion.
> We only need one set of gendered pronouns

Which set do you think would suffice?
Portable Invisibility Shield Demo'ed
What a dynamic observation!
Two weeks ago my website [0] got hit by a botnet attack. These bots were submitting 2 POST requests to /login, followed by 2 POST requests to /signup, and since there were no checks in place, they were getting in quite easily. All their requests originated from residential IP addresses (probably hacked IoT devices) so IP blocking seemed impossible. I knew I needed to do something, but didn't want to send my users' data to Google.

I settled on implementing a honeypot technique using invisible_captcha gem [1]. It uses multiple techniques to detect bot activity, such as checking if the form was submitted too fast, hidden form attribute only visible by bots but not humans, etc...

Luckily for me, these bots weren't quite sophisticated so I managed to clamp down on their activity. I still get a couple of bogus signup attempts every day.

Disclosure: I am a contributor to the invisible_captcha gem

[0] https://tryhexadecimal.com

[1] https://github.com/markets/invisible_captcha

EDIT: grammar and wording
If it turns out this was all an elaborate way to demonstrate the follies and flaws of capitalism, and he takes all his cash and puts it into founding some left-wing movement etc etc then sure maybe then I'll believe he's left wing.

But having a set of [very publicly expressed] personal beliefs that correlate strongly with left-wing positions covers a hefty chunk of the élite (hello various conservation topics, vegetarianism, etc etc). He has, now (and more than likely from now onwards, as will his family), awesome personal wealth and the attendant power that buys, he will get nice things written about him.
If you are a fan of title card sequences check out cowboy bebop.
Supposedly, but it behaves suspiciously like English in practice, perhaps because of the input data (lots of texts originally in English then translated to many languages and fed in)
Actually this is just a page on a larger website about water:
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_structure_science.html
There is already a process for it and it's called biodiesel [0]. It has its own range of problems and is not as sexy as the electric cars (that depend on rare earth metals for production of batteries with limited recyclability BTW), but could be much more sustainable long-term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
I'm not sure that's true.

From a technical perspective, from what i've seen SpaceX is planning on eventually having them communicate as a web across themselves. So your "average" communication will be something like "user>base station>sat>sat>sat>base station near destination>destination". Or if the destination is nearby, something like "user>base station>sat>base station>destination"

I haven't seen anything claiming that they are going to route all internet through the US. I've actually seen the opposite about how they are planning on using this system to do intercontinental communication at faster latency than undersea fiber can currently do. And to me that implies that they will be taking the most optimal path, which means if neither the source nor the destination is in the US, the communication wouldn't have any reason to enter the US.

From a legal/political perspective I could see where you are coming from. It's a US based company, and they comply with US laws, so if push comes to shove they are going to do what the US requires them to. But I very much doubt that SpaceX will end up being a monopoly on internet access. They aren't the only player in this game (OneWeb and Eutelsat are 2 others I know off the top of my head that are working on similar products), and even if they were to become the only "fast satellite internet" company, they aren't targeting "all the internet".

For the foreseeable future, the base stations required to communicate with Starlink are expected to be large and power hungry enough that you won't see them in cars or phones or anything super mobile. They hope to get it down to the size of a pizza-box one day. They also don't have the bandwidth to handle all the world's internet access, and likely won't ever have that much bandwidth. Fiber in the ground is still significantly cheaper, faster (unless you are talking intercontinental), and more reliable for most usecases.

If things start to look like they could possibly end up at a total monopoly by SpaceX as "the internet company", i'd be right there with you about how this could be a nightmare. But i just don't see that happening, and until it does this is just another ISP.
Pretty cool, I think the rub will be how well they can control the PN boundary and hence the switching thresholds.

The simpler NOR gate was pretty cool too, so their next step should be to build a RAM chip (either a 2 gate equivalent dynamic cell or 4 gate equivalent static cells) If they can do that, then they can show that the process can be controlled well enough for reliable gate fabrication.

Then the step after that might be mixed mode analog/digital circuit paths. Process control gets even harder when you're doing analog as non-linearity propagates and you can't ever get rid of it.

A typical zener[1] has a variance of >100mV for its breakdown voltage. The "easy" analog circuits in my radio need better than 40 dB of dynamic range which is more like 1 mV so 100 times better than a zener. I'll have to read up more on the device physics to see if getting that level of precision or better is really practical.

[1] http://www.vishay.com/docs/84830/plzseries.pdf
Who did you switch to?
the major difference is that countries cannot die, no matter how poorly ran
Gambling was a big deal when currencies like ethereum came out but the inability for true randomness, without an external oracle, really killed it. IMO.
Python Autocomplete: Kite vs. Jedi
Dude... In the two cases you list the least objectionable candidate won.
What is your problem? Do you not understand how you rank your options?
> Clicking a link actually opens a new tab

I don't have that enabled, even ctrl-clicking something opens in the same container for me. Not perfect in terms of privacy paranoia (my HN container gets cookies from sites I go from HN to, unless I take the effort to explicitly open in a different container) but it has never annoyed me.
> I doubt Assange would have been aware of that sort of technicality

Wait, elsewhere, and repeatedly, it's been noted just how intelligent Assange is, and (hence) how out of character the disheveled, slow person who appeared in court is. And I have zero doubt - he has repeatedly showed in interviews that for whatever potential personality flaws he may have, or personal opinion of him, he is, indeed, very well educated, intelligent, and smart.

So this? Fails the smell test. Fails the reasonable person test.

Someone as intelligent that - you believe it is "doubt[ful]" that he would be aware that aiding an active US military personnel in cracking passwords for accounts on classified systems, and encouraging them to use/try other credentials for covering tracks on the access of classified documents and their removal from external systems... it's doubtful that he would realize that that was possibly going to be viewed as a serious crime by the US?

I don't buy _that_ for a moment - throughout those chat logs there is multiple references to covering tracks, to covering bases on how to act, react, what to say or do when questioned, etc. - that is not someone who is blissfully unaware of the crime which they are (allegedly) committing, or aiding and abetting.
IRV does reduce the problem of vote splitting: if a candidate would win, but is then split into two or more “clones” such that all voters rank these clones in adjacent positions, then a clone still wins the election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_clones_criteri...
Buy Carhartt. They make their clothing to last. Heavier materials, better stitching. You'll be lucky to wear one out in 3 years.
It loads so fast!
> Incident. This check fails if there’s a relevant incident open on the Heroku status site.

Curious, what's a relevant incident in this context? (given you are using the PaaS you are developing) Like what if you are deploying an emergency fix to a service that is in the middle of an incident?

> GitHub. The deployer will only promote changes which are present on the master branch.

I've always preferred the pattern Github uses internally of deploying feature branches and merging when deployment succeeds. Otherwise, there's weird behavior that requires manual intervention to fix in some edge cases, since deployments can fail, and it ends up cluttering the git log with operational noise.
How much machine learning have you been able to pick up and did you learn formally (in school) or just on your own? It's a broad subject, so where would you recommend one begin, assuming I have a decent undergrad math background? Thanks!
These "privacy vs features" questions of new technologies keep coming up. Over and over, people seem to shrug their shoulders over the privacy violations while they eat up the new features.
Oh, that's why we are up in Taos.
Amazon joins Facebook and Microsoft to fight deepfakes
Opinion around pager culture in software industry
I abhor VBA as much as any sane person but this sounds so useful.
Why would gravity cause a collision? I don’t recall the moon recently colliding with earth.
Don't weather reports include pollen measurements? I wonder if there is just less people outside on those days. Criminals might also have pollen allergies?
Storing 50M events per second in Elasticsearch
Learn More -> No link to bills, or sponsorship?
> Justice is now escapable because it's been deemed "too difficult to pursue"

Only for entities which are wealthy enough to effectively defend themselves against the awesome power of federal prosecution!
Coral Moves Out of Beta
> If it's account registrations, shouldn't an email confirmation be enough?

This won't stop someone with enough sophistication.