skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sincerely hope I never hear the phrase "Russian dossier" again in my lifetime. The CIA seems to follow every place this phrase shows up.
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Definitely. One could even add NATO to that alongside OECD. I don't really expect most people to understand all of these groups, but just to avoid making sweeping statements about the continent (which already has an ambiguous definition) without understanding the groups. I guess this problem of generalizing is a concern with nearly every issue, though.
Ordinary citizens: Even in a US presidential state of the union, the Presidents (Trump included) will quote ordinary citizens about how the country is doing.
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> And you can't resize them.

You can resize them nowadays.
That keeps getting brought up as reason for Rust compiler slowness, e.g. complex language requires long compile times.

So then lets pick D, Delphi, .NET Native, Eiffel, Ada as examples of toolchains from complex languages that compile faster than rustc is currently capable of.
I remember this. It was terrible.

There was a (bug|user error) I experienced during this time which prevented me from changing the default search engine.

It was _terrible_.
> sending back the extra paycheck the company had accidentally sent.

Sorry, didn't get it....
Interesting. I can see the rationale for that: we currently exist in a liability environment and that's where we are. The CYA process means that people stick to what's already there because introducing a change means you're on the hook for the change.

What I hoped for is that I, as a startup, can beat the government on picking a security standard because the government has to cater to all but I can just beat it by being better than Big Slow Dinosaur (BSD). But because I have to integrate at some level with BSD that has to follow the government I lose that advantage.

I suppose, with a regulator capable of moving fast to respond to threats, aware of sunset periods, regulation could be superior. Somehow, I expect forums like this one to be full of software engineers complaining about "the constantly changing requirements from NIST" if that were to happen.
Wow. That's the final bit. Thank you!
It's actually not even a contracted employee actually. It was a Proton employee who in 2016 was getting payroll through another company before we had our own corporate entity. Keystore rotation is still not yet available yet in Android, so the old key (which we solely control) can't be changed or modified. Android actually also hashes with the certificate metadata so even that can't be edited separately.
Live documenting the work it takes to launch our first business
Ask the porn industry in 1-2 years.
https://www.descarteslabs.com - Satellite imagery for predictive intelligence, lots of work in agtech for things like crop yields.
I completely agree that this is better than nothing and some sort or ranking would be good, and that IRV is not great. But
Borda count is vulnerable to very bad tactical voting. People will put candidates who "can't win" above people who they like better but don't want to win. And when this goes wrong you'll have people elected who no one wants. See this chart, showing that fully tactical Borda is abysmal :http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/vse.html (from http://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/)

If we're going to do rankings we should use something that meets the Condorcet criterion, but overall I think Approval is probably the best for its simplicity.

A resource I like: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D6trAzh6DApKPhbv4/a-voting-t...
That's why I said in "American vernacular" because it's not the dictionary definition. Typically businesses/regulators distinguish between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions, the former is what you're describing, the latter is what OP is describing, and relates to any transaction between a business and an individual. it's also why we have markets like "consumer electronics" which refers to products sold to individuals, ie "consumers", and not industrial/business sectors.

I don't want to argue semantics though, since it's very clear to any native English speaker what "consumer" means in the context of regulation - it means individuals, not businesses. I get that the connotation of the word may be lost in translation, and that's what I was getting at.

In addition, "payment" isn't strictly hard currency, it's the exchange of value. Consumers are purchasing Google services with their data. They aren't the literal product that Google sells to advertisers, the data is.
Bloc is harder to categorize given it is a party mostly to promote one province's preferred policies. In general, their positions are fairly left wing because Quebec itself is quite left, but has a few oddball positions that skew right.

Platform (en francais, bien sur) is mostly leftish positions with an emphasis on making sure Quebec gets their cut: https://www.blocquebecois.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Pla...
Switching to CoreAnimation is very, very nice - however, this still doesn't feel quite at home on macOS because of a bug that's pretty old at this point.

Overflow/rubberband scrolling needs to be added here, because that is how scrolling is supposed to work on macOS. If you don't have it, you feel very alien. I'm not entirely sure why this isn't fixed after all these years, especially since Chrome managed to do it - it's not like an open source implementation doesn't exist at this point to crib the math from.
I can certainly imagine a non-persistent world -- why do you keep saying that I cannot?
It is called "restaurant". You come in and get a clean, fresh table. You sit on it and eat, and if you have leftovers, you put them in special boxes. When you leave, everything on the table that you did not put in a box disappears. Very nice and handy!

=====

So what happens in case of errors?

os ->(repaint)->window->(get state of)->document->(EXCEPTION: LIST INDEX OUT OF RANGE)

Does this result in losing the document forever?
One general theme I think is getting more and more apparent is the phenomenon of large systems breaking down.

One of the side effects of globalization and the internet is that it becomes more and more apparent over time when there are opportunities for asymmetric impact. And there will always be bad actors that look to take advantage of that.

This is partly because we as consumers get used to the abuses and start accepting them. Back in the 90s, the onset of email spam was something that caused a lot of indignance and active outrage. Banner ads were a huge deal, too.

But a lot of it is just from the bad actors getting more sophisticated. Including state actors that are invested in causing the breakdown of democratic norms in other countries.

So I think there will continue to be opportunity in the decentralization realm. Tools for various forms of self-governance. That could mean publishing (activitypub), hosting (ipfs), or even actual governance (decision-making and voluntary policy compliance among groups).
I guess it depends on language and features you want. Here is a popular one in php https://polrproject.org/
With C++ I don't need to compile 3rd party dependencies from scratch.
Any advice for companies getting into this realm, specifically around making sure you get your 'valued' price?

Charging for value can sometimes feel exorbitant... i.e. saving a $100+/hr person ~20 hours a month. Sure I can calculate out it on an excel sheet the customer ROI, but still feels crazy.
Caching a 404 can make sense, however.

For example, every browser requests /favicon.ico by convention. If you don't have one, you wouldn't want every single request reaching your backend.
Some people predict that fixing stuff will become a big business. As resource and energy get more scarce, there will be more incentive to fix existing stuff.
Yep - which is a lot, if not the vast majority, of random numbers generated.

Also, I'm answering a question by someone that looks like they want precisely this type of PRNG. There is no need to make a mess with CPRNGs.
As usual, coincidences are more common than people like to think. But even if the correlation is consistent, both could stem from a common cause.

Heat waves are usually blamed for high crime rates. Do we get less pollen then too?
It's not a "fine line": it's unnecessarily offensive. Your overall point is fine, but the wording is not. Even if it's eventually delated, comments like this tear down the community that lots of us care about. Excuses that you are only doing harm because someone else caused harm first don't reduce the damage. Please continue to share your opinion, but start with the less offensive version.
I was working for a scientific journal. In the peer-review department, they had to use this proprietary software, and we had 2 employees who just mindlessly went through this proprietary software's form day-in, day-out. This form spammed scientists for reviews of science articles for our somewhat-predatory journal (we solicited authors to publish in our journal for a fee)...

First, it was a massive waste of those 2 human's intellect, entering data over and over into a generic form from a proprietary business' website, in order to spam scientists. I started a ruby project to automate out all those processes, just using selenium to enter the data onto the web form for us. Before I could get very far, I got a huge promotion elsewhere and left that under-compensating journal.

It all gave me a depressing vibe though, both the ethics of what we were doing and the waste of time/life that those employees had to endure to do it.
Yes, you pay income tax.
I'm one of the founding partners of AgFunder. You can see see a lot of startups in our annual investor report:

https://agfunder.com/research/agrifood-tech-investing-report...
How do they work without sat to sat links? Are they going to build thousands of ground stations?
Gene editing tech. CRISPR is only the beginning and the payoffs for getting all this right are potentially heroic.
This algorithmic instability isn't merely of academic interest, it was encountered in the 2009 election for Burlington's mayor [0]. Note that IRV advocates don't see this sort of discontinuity to be a problem [1]. Perhaps we need something like Star Voting [2], which seems to be an improvement over range [3] or approval [4] voting. Star Voting is rather new and could use analysis, like Ka-Ping Yee's and Nicky Case's efforts.

[0] https://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor...

[1] http://www.fairvote.org/why-the-condorcet-criterion-is-less-...

[2] https://www.starvoting.us/

[3] https://rangevoting.org/

[4] https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/
> You could compare it to Microsoft, with many critical infrastructure worldwide depending on Windows.

We can compare it to Windows, and the end result is exactly the same: not great.
> SendKeys

Holy cow why didn't I know about this 6 months ago =|

VBA is something I have had to reluctantly learn. It's a horrid/ancient language. Sorry if someone gets offended at that but to someone who uses a lot of modern development languages/tools it's just very very difficult with near-zero "nice to haves"... you just end up taking this huge lib of code around with you with functions like "inArray" etc.

> As a program, it was horrible, horrible code. As a useful tool for the business, it was incredible.

That's something that's rough for us engineers but can be hedged with great documentation, both inline and and otherwise =)
Much easier to paint a bike shed on Mars than over here.
They spent the past few years rewriting them to allow them to build on it more quickly and encourage outside contributions. They finished that a while ago and have been ramping up new features quickly, and some exciting things are coming. For example: https://gist.github.com/jasonLaster/1e220992c294a571dd9b59ab...
For all I know, you could have made all that shit up. I see no reason to believe you or trust what you wrote there. I know I got busted by set -e or else I wouldn't have brought it up. It's that simple and no amount of trolling me will change that. I don't have Alzheimer's just yet.

And I'm not your "bro". Are you in need of an older brother so badly?
OP overstated his case, but the fact is that the Mozilla Foundation does derive the majority of its revenue from deals with advertising based companies. Whether or not it would exist (or if it existed, in what form?) without these deals is a critical but unanswered question. Critical in the sense that it goes to the heart of whether we can be both ad-free and have free stuff like Firefox.
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There are a number of companies already starting on this. One in particular that comes to mind is Reliq Tech, which does remote monitoring for patients. Currently they have pilots with native reserves, where doctors are hundreds of kilometres away from their patients.
It does well on Windows, but I still look forward to VS mixed mode debugging like .NET/Java and C++ IDEs are capable of, and being as productive as C++/WinRT to write COM/UWP components.
All, too, well aware. After Facebook bought Instagram was the last time I saw Kevin and Mikey (IG's co-founders). You're right to point this out, but I'm very ambivalent: a tool that I value from a company that does reprehensible things.
None of which do anywhere near the level of optimization that LLVM does. They also don't do H-M type inference or borrow checking.
As someone who did some academic research on the subject, I second this. Approval voting is the one which makes most sense, as it is a method which lies on the pareto curve of "optimal" voting methods. On top of that, it is also easy to be understood by the laypeople and easy to perform the counting (so we do not need to resort to "SPOF" machinal counting).
I can't quite get a read on Anno. Sometimes he'll answer a question like who's his favorite character almost flippantly with "Asuka, because she's cute" and sometimes he'll describe Eva as being almost autobiographical and diagnosing himself as stuck at the Fruedian oral stage and fundamentally disliking living things.

He's also described Eva as like a puzzle, and not wanting to give answers and instead let people come up with their own interpretations.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I both wouldn't be surprised if he did pull much of the visual symbolism out of a hat, or if he did come across it while exploring western philosophy and decided to incorporate it.

There's some great bits in Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno, like him talking about disliking the parts of what he makes he sees himself in or sleeping through a fire in his apartment.

https://youtu.be/rGJ_Kq8qifQ?t=429
I worked in the Automated Guided Vehicles industry, and so I want to extend your suggestion: any automation that can replace employees.

Those systems are easy to sell with "This system will pay itself back in 2,5 years, taking into account your current labour cost".

Given all the AI/deep learning possibilities, lots can be automated still.
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It is in all the ways that matter.
* Low-code/No-Code platforms that lets rapid application development by non-tech/citizens.

Gartner has a category after this field called LCAP.
Congress.gov . Yes it is.
2004, a perl script pizza_party is published allowing to buy pizza from the command line. I think it was even in some distros' package managers for a while.

Slashdot discussion: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/05/07/138238/piz...

Archive of project homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20040508090713/http://www.beiger...
> The economy needs to shift away from giant companies with pay ratios of a thousand to one between CEOs and average employees and employees need control over their workplace to move to the next stage of capitalism.

Needs? Citation needed. That's just a simplistic and Marxist view of the world, but not everyone buys into that. Actually, hardly anyone buys into that.
http://picktrace.com/ (YCS15) was in our batch. Both the founders grew up on a farm and build tools for people to use out in the field like how to accurately keep track the number of baskets of strawberries a worker picked so they get paid the right amount when there's no WiFi or cellular connection.

I always thought it was interesting.
> But also it gives voters the option to actually vote for whom they want to vote for instead of who they think will win.

You already have the option to vote for who you want to vote for in "first past the post", you just might get an outcome you don't like very much...

IRV and every other voting system is the same way: you can vote your heart, but you'll get an outcome you prefer more often if you vote tactically. There's even a theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard–Satterthwaite_theorem

For the specific case of IRV, consider an election like:

* 32% of people: Clinton, Sanders, Trump

* 33% of people: Sanders, Trump, Clinton

* 35% of people: Trump, Clinton, Sanders

Now, this is a terrible election and there's no clear winner because people's preferences point around in a circle. Under traditional voting Trump wins, while under IRV Clinton is eliminated and Sanders wins. But if a few people preferring Trump > Clinton > Sanders had instead voted just Clinton > Trump > Sanders we could have had:

* 32% of people: Clinton, Sanders, Trump

* 33% of people: Sanders, Trump, Clinton

* 32% of people: Trump, Clinton, Sanders

* 3% of people: Clinton, Trump, Sanders

Then Trump would have been eliminated first, with only 32% of the first place votes, and his second place votes would have gone to Clinton, making her win. So by voting for a candidate they liked less, these voters got an outcome they liked more.
Not tangential at all. On the one hand, I can see AR that's extremely powerful and useful given wearable hardware, sophisticated software, image recognition, connectivity, etc.

On the other hand, that would clearly be a step beyond today's smartphones to, as you suggest, potentially always on video and audio that's constantly communicating with and being analyzed by databases.

By contrast, VR seems to me to be a niche.
You could look up the US Guano Islands Act.
From the Wall Street Journal front page:

>"As part of the deal, SoftBank, which already owns about a third of the company, is to buy nearly $1 billion of stock in WeWork’s parent from Mr. Neumann, who was forced out as chief executive after pushback from prospective investors scuttled the IPO. The Japanese conglomerate will also extend him roughly $500 million in credit to help repay a loan facility of the same amount led by JPMorgan, and also pay Mr. Neumann a $185 million consulting fee, the people said."[1]

A $185 million dollar consulting fee?

To put some perspective on this level of greed:

All of this is on top of the $700 million that Adan Neumann cashed out back in July ahead of the IPO announcement.[2]

The credit line not withstanding Adam Neumann now has $2 billion dollars in cash in his pocket while WeWork's valuation is now $8 billion and in need of emergency financing.

Adam Neumann has spent 90 million dollars on 6 properties 4 of them are in New York, 2 of them are actually short walking distance from each other in Manhattan.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wew...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-co-founder-has-cashed-ou...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-founder-adam-neumanns-tr...
The House should have more seats anyway. We only have 435 because of the Apportionment Act; the Constitution allows for no more than one Rep per 30,000 people.
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One more mitigation idea: set non-trivial expiration times and "prime" your caches. When you update a resource, hit all your CDN endpoints (at least ones which don't follow spec and are known to be exploitable) to force them to download and cache the good copy. Bake it into your CI deployment process.
Calling a CIO “the IT guy” is ridiculous.
Do you find it difficult to sell the idea of automating the work of "entry-level data employees"? Middle management generally thrives by building kingdom of such minions.
Dereliction of duty is an offence under the UCMJ. Civilians working civilian jobs for civilian companies are not subject to the UCMJ.
They're buying competing booksellers, which is by definition anti-competitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
I work on the backend so I have a de facto boycott. On the front end I'd probably be forced to use it until something better came along.
These are insulated gate transistors so you don't need base current. It might not be too bad actually.
Agreed. Let’s not allow perfect to be the enemy of the better.

After not making any significant changes to voting in over 200 years (besides expanding it to more people, thank goodness) in the USA, taking one step towards a better future is gigantic. Once we take that first step, future steps will be easier (even if they’ll still be difficult at first).

I can’t wait for RCV, any flavor, to come to more cities and states.

P.S. if you’re in Massachusetts and feel strongly about ranked choice voting, come join me helping out https://voterchoice2020.org/
Yes, once you sort out the industrial process the price of manufactured gasoline would be driven by the local price of electricity at the production site.

Thermodynamics isn't the only thing to consider. There are parts of the world where spot electricity rates routinely go negative, because it's cheaper to pay a consumer to absorb excess electricity than it is to shut off a power plant. A process like this could absorb excess electricity when there's an excess of electricity.

You don't need to talk about fusion or thorium reactors when the cost of solar is low and falling, and we haven't _nearly_ saturated the planets capacity for generating electricity through solar. A combined facility that generated electricity through solar, then either sold electricity or manufactured gasoline (whichever is better in the moment)
This is absolutely incredible, I can't wait to see what foundries adopt the process.
Maybe it takes time for people to adjust. In SF it’s netted dissatisfaction in many voters in my neighborhood.

People are treating it like a trifecta rather than most favorite to least favorite of top three. So you end up with people few people had as their main favorite. And do it’s very underwhelming, at least first go round.
This sort of decision confounds me. Without being a fly on the wall at Strava HQ it's impossible to know why they would do such a thing (any press releases taken at face value).

This change won't affect most serious users, but it is still a core part of their offering. Sadly it seems that each update just makes the UI less useful and more "share-y".

But without a good alternative, I'll be sticking with Strava for the indefinite future. Hopefully they get back on track and start fixing the long list of bugs that are meaningful to their super-users.
Nice, don't reply to the point on security and shift goal posts. So you admit that "disk encryption" doesn't work ? Year of the Linux Desktop wohoooo. Also did you see Windows announcement about a cloud based OS :) sounds familiar ? But sure hate a Google product. It's the fad these days.
I wish I could address everything that's wrong with this comment.

The biggest thing is you seem extremely willing to take risks without understanding the gravity of what you're doing. Sure, you CAN give yourself PRP injections and LIKELY will have little to no side effects. Healthcare providers need extreme confidence that (a) a procedure will be effective (b) the risks are appropriate.