skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! It's been a decade, but the biggest thing that stuck out was to pick something that needs an SME. Fill a gap on the team, even if it's something you may not have a huge interest in. Find the interest in it, and _own it_.

But most importantly, give talks and brownbags about the technology. Understand that there's going to be someone in the room that knows more than you... but they aren't giving the talk and helping everyone else, you are. They will chime in, and that's OK. You are the one putting yourself out there educating yourself and others. This helped me so much when I gave talks at GDC... even if I'm helping ONE person, it makes the event worth it (and the talk serves as my unique perspective / take on the industry).

Pour over source materials. Bruce read the 600+ page CPU documentation front-to-back, twice over. He said the second time, he gleaned so much more insight.

The engineers didn't realize just how much knowledge they were trying to distill, so you might read a comment that says "Of course, the second parameter determines XYZ." The first read-through, you might gloss over that. The second read-through, you realize the instruction they're documenting is doing double-duty elsewhere, and the comment is an important indicator of how that interaction plays out on the die.

Good luck!!
Star voting (along with Borda) introduces intensity of preference, which introduces extra concern when we're talking about democratic elections.

For instance - in a 99-voter election, say that 50 voters prefer A, and 49 prefer B. But the A supporters are lukewarm in their support, while B supporters are really passionate. Who should win? For democratic elections, that answer always needs to be A.
> True but run of the mill languages like this always tend to culminate in codebases that are hard to maintain and necessitates an eventual rewrite due to accumulation of complexity.

I'm reluctant to believe that Haskell magically protects you from that, but let's suppose it was true. What if my run-of-the-mill gang can rewrite the project three times over before your wizards have congregated to sing their first incantation?

> Haskell is hard to learn and hard to find developers for, but the trade off is incredible safety and a type system that promotes good design and easy refactoring of inevitable design flaws.

Again, I'm reluctant to buy into that. Even if that was true, unless you're writing Haskell in a vacuum, you're going to have to interface with various other horrible pieces of technology that will throw a wrench into your beautiful pure design.

Dealing with the ugly bits while maintaining composure is what makes the difference between a really good engineer and somebody who just wants to program. That quality is invaluable, but you're likely not going to develop it by programming in a language that you enjoy.
My regional public high school offered four years of it; I don't think it's that rare.
Yes, each salary is taxed normally. Then, there are laws against non-profit executives enriching themselves[0]. The government watches this very closely.

Also, public non-profits must release regular reports on their finances. So, contributors can decide for themselves whether the funds are being used appropriately. That's the basis for sites like https://www.charitynavigator.org [1] and https://www.guidestar.org

One particularly important metric is how much the organization spends on overhead vs how much is spent directly furthering their cause.

[0] Religious organizations seem to play by a different set of rules, but thats neither here nor there.

[1] A non-profit is not necessarily a charity, but this gives you an idea of how both can be evaluated.
You were talking about 1 guy that is honest and 12 betraying him.

That's a very weird POV for showing Chinese values, but it could be correct :)

Just not the way you anticipated it.

----

Eg. How would Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan feel vs. China.

How would any foreigner feel in court if it was a Chinese vs foreigner there.

How would any neighbouring country feel vs. Their international waters occupied by China.

How do Western countries feel that, for 20 years, China is lying about one of their conditions for joining the WTO.

And how does someone feel just not agreeing with Xi, about his fellow Chinese citizen, getting doxed on social media, because of another way of thinking. Not everyone agrees though.

Ps. Yes, most are politics and Xi, but the social credit system is merging politics to citizens.

Here's a pic about some people not agreeing with your Chinese values:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dkxpoj/over_35000...

Reality vs a movie
This got me thinking about ideas for a product that would work internationally vs. just in one country and if that signal means much about the viability of a product.

In terms of work being "promising", wouldn't I want to takle a global problem, not one unique to a specific country?
Wonderful wooooooork man! Superb.
I love Vangelis vibes!
Excited about what you'll do with Bladerunner!
More electronic device use tied to more sugar and caffeine in teens
UK lawmakers vote to approve Brexit bill in an important first step for UK PM
Mining trucks are going electric. They actually make energy when loaded and going down a hill.

https://hackaday.com/2019/08/22/electric-dump-truck-produces...

Furnaces have been run off of solar (parabolic mirrors) for quite some time.
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> Is there a possibility of ...automating, this kind of automating?

Nah - I'm going to be cocky for a second so please take this with a grain of salt... Automation is the only job that's safe from automation ;)

That being said, it's prime for development of tools... I've been working on taking a lot of my workflow out of Charles Proxy and moving it onto a more "man-in-the middle" model that can replay certain web traffic... PARTS of what I do, but automating the automating is probably the most difficult problem that I've had to solve (ie: building my own tools).
Edit: https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/
See "Gmail" at the bottom:

"Google does not use keywords or messages in your inbox to show you ads. Nobody reads your email in order to show you ads."

Google's privacy policies are written to be understandable by lay-people. Describing the specific breakdowns of what things they aren't doing can be intimidating or scary. So they don't. But the information you care about is still there, unless you're assuming some weird level of linguistic runaround.
> just annoying in parts. Especially its huge reliance on perception

I don't understand this attitude for a game that is called The Witness.
Generally, I think it's accepted that IRV is a good choice for multi-member elections. But for these kinds of US single-winner elections, that's where its flaws come out.
> "Needs to stay in the ground" says extraction must stop.

If burning it releases carbon which we can't viably recapture, which you acknowledge[0], then saying...

> That is not the case.

...is wrong. Unless you mean climate change causes by anthropogenic carbon release isn't happening.

[0] "you are correct there is currently no commercially-viable way to make it carbon-neutral" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325863)
> Third parties are not centrists

They can't be, game-theoretically, in our present voting ecosystem. The very premise is to capture voting preferences more accurately, such that broad consensus moderates become possible, and the spoiler effect is eliminated.
> One major problem with a TWR power plant is the price. It will cost about $3 billion to build a demonstration reactor. Even Bill Gates isn’t rich enough to fund it himself.

Why not? Isn't his net worth something like $90 billion!
Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon (2000)
https://www.indigoag.com
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I'd like to see this guide too, please.
I must be misunderstanding your comment. Are you advocating for the government to take a land owner’s property without any recourse? The land owner is given no choice in the matter? Seems awful.
> one of the easiest decision of my life.

Which way did you decide?
That crosses into personal attack and breaks the site guidelines. Please edit such swipes out of what you post to HN.
there's an interesting idea.
looks like windows explorer, but more cleaner interface :-)
2 passwords it's not very useful i suppose.
Absolutely. If A and B are significantly correlated, either A causes B, or B causes A or X causes both.

The article itself, citing the study, presents some possible mechanisms through which such a reduction could be explained.
Exactly. The value is in the mental model the development team has accrued through working on the code, not the code itself.[1][2] If you lose the code but retain the development team then the code can be rewritten. Lose the team but keep the code, as in this case, and you're left with a bunch of software that no one really understands how to maintain, much less improve on, without working at cross-purposes to the original design. For a new team to develop the same degree of experience and familiarity with the codebase as the original team is only marginally less work than reimplementing it from scratch. At that point the language it's written is the least of your issues.

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833278
I used to work here: https://www.greensightag.com/

They do autonomous UAVs for agricultural monitoring, using multi-spectral imaging and a computer vision pipeline to detect issues before farmers can.
HN-style site for agtech and foodtech: https://feedit.agfunder.com/

Im with Agfunder, we built this with Django, with thanks to https://github.com/nikolak/django_reddit
I just meant not paying millions to some people (especially if they do a bad job) while others get paid very marginally indeed with no chance of improving that.
And incremental compilation is more than virtually all the listed compilers can do.

I think the issue is more that not many people are using those languages in anger (except for Delphi I suppose, but Object Pascal is a comparatively simple language with no H-M inference that also does very little optimization). People don't hit the limitations.
Huge numbers of Canadians, on both "sides" of the (false) spectrum, voted for a less preferred (or even undesirable) candidate, because otherwise their vote would have been "wasted".

A vote for a preferred (but unlikely to win) candidate is effectively a vote against your 2nd-best strategic candidate (the one you'd prefer to win, if your ideal candidate can't achieve victory).

Basically, every time a voter dislikes one of the 2 leading candidates -- they are forced to not vote for their preferred candidate.

It is unacceptable and disrepectful to the voters -- but no "incumbent" party will ever propose or vote for "electoral reform" because it directly affects the likelihood that they will win re-election.
Those that are fluent in a programming language have merely become accustomed to the unpleasantness and it makes sense for them. There are people which genuinely think that complex mathematical notation can be beautiful, but that opinion's not shared by most humans.

In other words, there's beauty, and there's acquired taste and it's legitimate to point out this difference.
Mantis, Netflix Realtime OSS Project
That AirMiners site takes 30 seconds to load.
OpenBSD folks think supporting more architectures have helped them creating a better OS.
These criteria are reasonable, but it seems to me that they also need to be applied to the grandfather post. Surely, it's not OK to preemptively fling accusations of anti-Christian "bigotry" against people who would like "Christian" businessmen to take that "shalt not steal" bit more seriously?
Why not score voting instead? People can actually understand it and it gives even better results: https://ncase.me/ballot/
The privacy policy contradicts both. I assume policy would supercede a blog post if it came down to it.
I studied sustainability related topics for my Bachelor's and Master's degrees, but transitioned to full-time software development. Now I've promised myself I'll try to work exclusively for companies doing something climate positive. I must admit the intersection of sustainability and TypeScript is more narrow than I'd like! Let me know which companies you find.

There are some great, mission driven urban and smart-city related companies-- Swiftly, Sidewalk Labs, Remix. The whole mobility SaaS scene like Ioki (my employer), Via, door2door. Some cool unique projects like Doconomy.

But unfortunately for me the most impactful companies will have a much more specific niche than just "sustainability", and often are more in science and engineering than software. Like the ones you've pointed out, or lab grown meat and meat substitutes, renewable energy, geospatial tech, manufacturing, etc.

So I try take this extra motivation and energy and throw it at side projects: getting https://offsetra.com off the ground, and trying to find people to use my mapping tool for citizen science and civic engagement https://canvis.app

While there isn't a lot to be optimistic about in the grand sense, we can at least feel a bit optimistic in the career sense-- sustainability and climate are more hot than ever these days (no pun intended).
Same money running a fast food joint? You're underpaid bro or you know some crazy overpaid fast food managers. People from science based fields are coming to computer science because those other fields lack job opportunities at competitive pay.
> the risk of an upstart candidate being a spoiler gives him and by extension potential voters more bargaining power.

bargaining power how? if you have a situation like this:

- 55% of people vote left
- 45% of people vote right

The left party has a clear but narrow majority. Now a third party, further to the left enters the race! Say they can pull 15% of the vote, largely from the left (quite popular!)

- 15% of people vote farther-left
- 40% of people vote center-left
- 45% of people vote right

now the election likely to be won by the right-wing party - even though 55% of voters still favour a left-of-center result. Voters feel pressured to vote for the center-left party, despite having farther-left views, because they don't want the right wing party to win. Under first-past-the-post systems, there is no bargaining power short of "I will drop out of the race if you do x" which does not seem to happen much

If they are unable to pull enough support to "spoil" the election result, they are considered a "throwaway vote" and marginalized. No power at all.
@saiya-jin: You complained about anti-china news, I asked you for something more positive - I'm still interested.
Or on a more basic level - trying to store a ref in a struct. There's plenty of ways to not do that or think about the problem in other ways, but I think it's fairly easy to accidentally run into that problem early on.
This is what Brexit really needed. There are several options, none of which really has a majority. That's why the UK is stuck.
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I noticed that effect a few times - some wording just wasn't quite right. I was terrified of the times I guessed it was a machine because the words didn't make sense and it was real. I also got 80%.
By "powerful," can I assume you mean military or economic power? Because most U.S. citizens don't share either of those things.

I'm more in interested in enjoyment, lack of stress, and hope for the future. I don't think the U.S. compares as well in those categories.
This may be too cynical, but I have to wonder if it's because of its flaws that the two parties in power are allowing RCV to gain ground. RCV eliminates the spoiler effect for non-competitive third-party candidates, but conveniently fails to do so when third parties start to become threatening.

Approval voting, on the other hand, always allows people to show support to a third-party candidate without risking throwing away their vote....
Or people who want their 15 minutes.

"They climbin' in yo windows"
"Whistle tips go woo woo"
"Ain't nobody got time for that"
"they had us the first half, I'm not gonna lie"
Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker
etc
According to your logic it should be in Chinese.
See my edit, the privacy policy doesn't contradict either. (and if memory serves, the actual Gsuide corp privacy policy is a legalese pdf somewhere, that does make these things explicit)
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Although instant run-off and other ranked or "preferential" voting models are an improvement over plurality, we should be advocating for better and simpler models such as approval voting or score voting. Approval and score voting are cardinal methods that do not require that the voter order their preferences. Preferential models such as IRV require a strict preference order be specified by the voter and are much more complicated.

My go-to resource for voting reform is the Center for Election Science [1].

Perhaps the worst feature of IRV is that it's non-monotonic, meaning that in some cases, voting your sincere preference can actually hurt your preferred candidate. See the linked part of the video in [2].

[1] https://www.electionscience.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&feature=youtu.be...
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That's an interesting angle. Though I'm not sure to what degree the average consumer draws this distinction between Apple and Google.

Apple also probably just has about as much brand permission as anyone to create a new category of consumer device and shepherd it through the first couple of versions that will doubtless have shortcomings.
Still wonder why they have multiple backdoor into their own browser and several layers of analytics included. Including when you start the browser for the first time. Feels hypocritical.
I'd argue that WhatsApp and Signal have already accomplished this, for messaging, communications, and file transfers.
It's really not middle of the road. I wrote both Objective-C and C++, and both (C++ templated code aside) are more readable than Rust.

Objective-C in particular was verbose, but the symbols made sense and their meaning could be understood from the context. In Rust you either know what the symbols mean, or you do not understand the code.
If google tag manager doesn't load, the links on your site do nothing.
Softbank was the Pets.com of 2000. Their market cap dropped from $200B to $2B. Masayoshi Son was "worth more" than Bill Gates for 3 days.

It's their playbook. Although they left the dotcom crash losing 99% of their value, they walked out with a stake in Alibaba now worth over $100B.
I agree, and re-reading my post, I don't see where I implied otherwise. In fact, I actually specifically said it would apply to the legislative houses. Just posting this as confirmation in case anyone else got the impression you did.
Actually, generating heavy to process 404s is a fairly common attack, for some kinds of site.
one thing I think about a lot is that Australia has the sort of voting system that voting system nerds here in the US dream about. yet their political situation seems to be about as dysfunctional as ours.

of course first past the post is a pretty bad system and it would be good to replace it, but I don’t think it will make a huge difference to the overall political climate.
Until it's no longer more profitable to cheat and pay the tolls than it is to play by the rules, we'll continue to be exploited ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

So what are our options? I see two:

1) Stay the same: Continue depending on the enforcers who are incentivized with profits to suddenly change their behavior and attack the systems that generate profits (see: definition of insanity)

2) Change: Somehow raise the cost of exploitation with robust new systems that address the root causes / vulnerabilities of the old systems
Fun with 1D vector fields (System Dynamics)
Wonderful, can't wait to test it out. This is one of the main reasons I still use Chrome. I can't watch videos on my laptop without hearing my fans go crazy when using FF
The article doesn't call Trotsky an intellectual. Here's the paragraph:

> In Mexico, President Lázaro Cárdenas — one of the most popular leaders in twentieth-century history — had turned his country into a haven for persecuted intellectuals: after the fall of the Spanish Republic, he offered political asylum to thousands of refugees, and Mexico received a massive influx of artists, poets, academics, and philosophers who played a crucial role in postwar culture. In a world threatened by the rise of fascism, Cárdenas opened his nation’s doors to socialists and fellow travelers of all kinds. Leon Trotsky accepted Cárdenas’s invitation and settled in Mexico City in 1937.

It says that Cárdenas did two things: firstly, after the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939, he took in "artists, poets, academics, and philosophers", and secondly, in the face of fascism, he took in "socialists and fellow travelers", including Trotsky, who arrived in 1937. It's the artists, poets, academics, and philosophers fleeing Franco who were the persecuted intellectuals.

As a result, your comment and the subthread hanging off it are null and void.
"Doctors know that the price of the most effective treatments may not sustain their profession."

This is not really a fair assessment. The most cost effective treatments can be self administered. But if you are coming in to see me because of persistent knee pain, more often that not you have already tried tylenol and over the counter nsaids (ibuprofen, etc.), and your pain has been persistent. The next set of treatment options, aside from maybe some physical therapy, are more expensive, because they involve using drugs that are more expensive or treatment measures that are more expensive.
With re: PRP, it is not covered by insurance, since the benefits of it over a placebo are still not entirely clear. Many doctors offer it however, and to insure accuracy of needle placement, they usually perform it under ultrasound guidance- not something most people would be able to do on their own, at least not yet. As more and more physicians offer it, and if it remains uncovered, market forces will drive the prices down (like Lasik), although I'm doubtful PRP is considered an effective treatment option in the future.

I don't disagree with the notion that healthcare remains quite expensive in general. I see telemedicine, for certain conditions, reducing costs and maybe Direct Primary Care - bundling care into one package instead of serving it piecemeal could be a good way to go forward.
Eyeballing the last 365 days Firefox does very well. If you look at previous year, not so much. Firefox has overall pulled ahead I'd say.
How do you view them? I'm on Mac, and have found the photo viewing experience much worse than it was on windows.

Generally slower to browse and open previews.
Books? Who uses books anymore? My kids have had laptops for school since the 2nd grade, they are in 5th and 8th grade now. Syllabus & courses, homework, communication, research all on their laptops. Everything is interactive, videos and classroom lectures recorded. No paper, they never miss a thing, can move ahead in assignments or review old.
STAR has a 2-phase mechanism. The 1st phase, by intensity, is used to determine the finalists. In the 2nd phase -- the actual vote -- it is one person one vote, regardless of intensity. By your example, STAR poses no problem -- both A & B would be the finalists by intensity. Then, A would be chosen by majority. Anyway, it's examples like this that could use some analysis & help visualization.

addendum: if a candidate has broad, but shallow support, they'd not make it in FPTP nor in RCV. Even so, it'd be great if we could have visualization tools /w STAR voting included so that we could point to specific examples and have fun arguments about them. Perhaps there are some very weird discontinuities in STAR voting as well.