skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A donation to a Christian charity would have been fine. There are thousands of them in the US and around the world.

No, Eich specifically made a donation to a political campaign for CA's Prop 8 that used blood-libel-level lies to cast homosexuals as pedophiles and sexual predators and use that as a justification to deny them the right to marry.

And this was the state of the Prop 8 campaign at the time he made the donation. He knew what they were about, and he donated to them anyway.

So, yeah, he had it coming to him.
> Let's not forget that Enron, Theranos and WeWork propagated a form of corporate fraud

What aspect of WeWork was/is fraudulent?
What system(s) do you recommend for single-winner elections? What about Coombs' method or Condorcet systems?

I'm quite fond of IRV, partly because it isn't plurality voting and it's what you get when you reduce the number of winners to one under STV. Maybe the Schulze method and Schulze STV are the optimal choices.
In the UK in recent years there has been a big increase in lease-to-buy deals where the consumer can return the car and walk away. The car finance companies seem to be in the riskiest position.
Calculating the True Value of a Library That Is Free
Anything that reduces last mile shipping time. Drones route planning planning platforms, personnel allocation software, Smart fridges/locks. Big retailers are racing to <1 day shipping and buying fairly untested tools to try to get there.
How do you switch from the primary to the backup?
CAPTCHA isn't just a matter of protecting your site. One of the most evil attacks nowadays is "Distributed Spam Distraction", where you spam your victim with thousands of emails per second so an important email (e.g., fraudulent purchases) gets lost in the noise.

How do you do this in a world with decent spam filters? By using the victim's email to sign up for real services so they get hit with a welcome email. Because these are real services, spam filter won't catch it. This can only be done with services that have sign up forms that are easily automated.

The most evil thing here is your email is crippled even after the attack is over because these real companies will keep sending you newsletter and it's impossible to unsubscribe to them all.
We manually updated our `/etc/hosts` file with the static ip for our S3 bucket(s) and that fixed the issue temporarily.
A very fair point.
I don't think they'd really have to worry about survival:

> it’s extremely unlikely that any individual stars will collide because of the sheer amount of empty space in galaxies.
This is missing the perspective of just how much a disaster Obama inherited in 2008.

Also I get that it's Wikipedia, but the comparison to Bush is ridiculous. The Enron story is a long one. Here's Gray Davis's perspective on exactly what it means that the Bush DoJ "sought criminal charges:"

> "I inherited the energy deregulation scheme which put us all at the mercy of the big energy producers. We got no help from the Federal government. In fact, when I was fighting Enron and the other energy companies, these same companies were sitting down with Vice President Cheney to draft a national energy strategy."

Furthermore the whole reason Holder is using the term "collateral consequences" instead of "collateral damage" is because that term was used by Dick Cheney and the press to describe why he does not care about civilian deaths in Afghanistan and later Iraq. It would be a stretch, but surely the lack of investigations into no-bid war contracts like Halliburton's had as much to do with their "collateral consequences" on military operations as it would on their paychecks.

Obama inherited multiple quagmires due to disregard of the consequences of criminal justice policy.

Normal people will never be on the wrong side of a banking fraud, except if their bank goes out of business. What is justice there?

So while I believe bad people should go to jail, I sympathize with Holder's point of view.
A deadline is useful only if there are tangible incentives attached to it, and it's rare that you can self-impose these kinds of incentives in a way that isn't self-flagellating. My advice is to let go of timeboxing and let your sense of wonder, exploration, and discovery guide your progress.
I’m not sure a single example of a C wrapper not idiomatically designed is a good example of the potential of a language. It’s like pointing to the source for any given STL implementation as quintessentially C++ coding style. RefCells tend to be considered an anti-pattern AFAIK since they leave invariant checking to run-time. It's meant as a hack/patch if you can't actually design it idiomatically for some reason, such as in this case, FFI to a C programming model.
Thanks for the feedback! One thing that is not clear from the demo (and something we should fix) is that you can click on the path CAPTCHA to grant it focus. After that, you can use the arrow keys (although WASD currently does not work).
Optimizations are not turned on for debug builds and never have been. The issue is that LLVM is still pretty heavyweight even when not optimizing. An entirely separate backend is needed.

As Steve mentioned, there is a global build cache already.

We have an incremental compiler. It's not as incremental as it could be, however.

We already have an extensive system, crater, that can measure build time improvements.
SoftBank takes control of WeWork as Adam Neumann pockets $1.7bn exit package
Staged slapstick doesn't have the same appeal to a generation accustomed to people recording others doing stupid things with their cell phone, which is the new physical comedy (even though many of those viral clips are staged too).

The demise of comedy in general is a much more pertinent issue. Political correctness and outrage culture has hobbled the ability to confront hard subjects through humor.
There's a lot of setup that goes into encouraging people to leave. Management works hard to make sure that people have greener pastures to go to. The people leaving don't see that side of it. If a partner encourages a client to hire Susie, and Susie leaves for the client, Susie might not ever know that a partner helped create that opportunity.

A friend of mine who used to work in management at Ernst & Young told me a bit about how this game is played. You need a strategy for getting people out that maintains the relationship, and offering backdoor bribes to lure people away is one way they do that.
The confusion seems to be the voters choose someone other than a Democrat.
I think as they dig in to the numbers more there maybe some fraud or very shady accounting that starts to pop up.
Exactly. And (since all voting methods are flawed in some direction), the question is what do you prioritize in elections: the will of the majority, or the "acceptable" choice of even more people.

Personally, I think Borda is terrible.

Let's suppose the 2016 election was: Clinton, Trump, some milquetoast Republican like Jeb Bush, and someone everyone hated, bringing to total to 4.

Suppose 73% of the population were fanatical Clinton fans. However, they didn't want Trump to win, so they voted Jeb #2, even though they'd much rather he didn't win. The 27% of Trump voters also listed Jeb #2.

Jeb would win, in this case, even though he was a distant second choice for 73% of the population.

(100 * 3 points > 73 * 4 points).

Even worse would be if there were 5 or 6 candidates. Now every Clinton #1 vote is worth 6, and every Jeb #2 vote is worth 5. Jeb would win even if 83% of the voters were fanatical Clinton fans.

There's no way to distinguish your second vote as "this person is also great" vs "this person is the least worst alternative." The only way to not let your far-distant second choice win is to not vote for them at all, or recruit extra candidates as shields for your preferred candidate. But then we're bringing in strategic voting and all sorts of other messiness.
Whether a language is compiled or interpreted has nothing to do with its design. For instance, you can interpret C++ with Cling or compile it with Clang. You can compile Python or interpret it. Same with Rust.

Otherwise, you've conflated a bunch of things. Interepreted languages don't need to have a GC, or lifetime annotations, or anything else, really. Static typing doesn't require explicit type annotations, although it tends to have them, and neither is the domain of exclusively interpreted or compiled languages. And so on.

I also argue there's no meaningful distinction between "designed for bare metal" and "designed for application programming" other than a language that is designed to allow deployment on bare metal has a way for you to poke memory locations and at minimum turn off a GC. Everything above and beyond that is language features or libraries and by no means limits your ability to operate quickly and efficiently in either domain.
Here is my ad: Corang.info is the world first fully sustainable property development. It combines renewable energy with food production and housing. The project has 'negative emissions'.

If it works we plan to make lots of similar projects in Australia and Asia.
Security guards?
> there's no clear winner because people's preferences point around in a circle.

Is there evidence around how often such cycles actually occur in practice? Seems like a convoluted example, intuitively speaking.
Facebook Open-Sources CraftAssist Framework for AI Assistants in Minecraft
I'm living in Ireland and this is what I've wanted to do for years. There are loads of older small to medium businesses with SO many things that can be automated but I don't know how to get into it. I don't even know how to research it. What's the process for getting a client? Cold calling? Partnership with another provider?

What is the job title I should search for more information? Automator?
We’ll build a wall to keep the Andromedans out!
> I really doubt it makes sense to use electric vehicles for mining, but I could be wrong. I guess we'll be able to see in the coming years what fraction of mining vehicles are electric.

They're slow-moving, inherently massive and heavy, and travel relatively short distances per round-trip. So they don't care much about battery weight, size or limited range, and appreciate the massive torque from low RPMs.

It's kind of an ideal case for a battery-swapping BEV system. Just wait for the battery costs and energy densities to both improve and this will be a no-brainer. They can charge the drained battery on the grid from cheaper/cleaner sources while the other is busy hauling a load.

Of course if the terrain is such that the mine is on the top of a mountain ascended empty but descended full, you don't even need battery swapping, it'll recharge on the descent.

Nobody wants to spend money owning and operating those diesel engines if they don't have to. When the BEV option is available and makes business sense they'll switch immediately. They'll require little maintenance, and you don't need specially trained technicians to swap batteries and order new ones when they need replacing.
There's a tipping point where it becomes unprofitable to keep existing gas stations open. Then due to lack of available fueling options ICE vehicles rapidly decline. The same thing could happen with financing - as soon as lease payments and average electricity costs are less than monthly fuel costs, the incentive to go ICE will rapidly decline. Especially if range is similar to gas. Not quite there yet.
I'm not convinced we're done with social networks, considering how many are shutting down, how many are privacy nightmares, and how many are failing to respond to user feedback.
While I wanted to agreee it's just contrarianism, he has a point. Mine electrification is going to come very, very slowly. There are 2 principal reasons,

1) mines run on a 24/7 schedule. There is not enough down time to charge batteries in a shift and with how completely filthy machines get we need better solutions for battery swapping in mining before that becomes an option, and

2) because (like the mine I am at right now) a non-negligible number of mines are far from grids or clean power sources, a lot of battery power would come from fossil fuels burned near the mine.

There is interest, but most of the actual use seems fairly superficial (public image boosts).
Structural insight: Lisp and interpreted programming languages
I don't think that'd be necessary, couldn't you make changes and then wait for natural reboots?
If I recall reading correctly, to protect against exchange rate fluctuations, many organizations use the forex market. Forex being futures market in different currencies. So if you are worried the markets will go one way, then you place a transaction to cover that. If it never occurs you lose the transaction cost, if it does then you get covered for it. It is a little complex and you need to be sure to manage your level of risk.
You have to include the script on every page of your site, not just the page with the form.*

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324523
Messages and notifications without intermediaries via JSON
I spent a bunch of time modelling out the unit economics for autonomous greenhouses and struggled to find any combination of technologies that could even come close to competing with the current costs of field agriculture, including labor. Do you folks need something key to change in the competitive landscape (like climate change or very different immigration laws in the US) to become profitable?

See https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr... for an example of the costs for the case of indoor vertical farms.
This article focuses wholly on the death-related or injury-related aspects of physical comedy and none of the others, for example the excellent use of a non-functional set in The Play that Goes Wrong (which The New Yorker reviews quite highly [0]).

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-play-that...
>How am I supposed to replace unmaintained/old software

You're not supposed to. The fault lies with the developers of these apps that knew the change was coming and didn't do anything about it.
This could start an ice age
In shocking reversal, Biogen to submit Alzheimer's drug for approval
An easy and secure way to receive messages and notifications (native) directly from web services to your mobile device using only JSON.

Full documentation for developers and all features: https://refl.me/docs
A big challenge with the Blue Prism world is getting the people who will lose their jobs to map the processes Robotic processes will automate. Fiddly, tricky and easy to automate a vast number of errors. Only works once extensively tested and results verified.
Ignore analyst and sales hype at your peril.
Ask HN: How do you learn new things?
I am an avid learner. And I am trying to improve the process of how I learn new skills and disciplines (programming languages, design, physics).

How does your process look like? What do you do to learn? Is there any software you use? How's the experience? Any tips?
Google also pays Apple a significant sum ($12B in 2019: https://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-en...) to be the search engine default.
Plus if your app will send email to any address someone submits without even rate limitations, your domain reputation can take a hit for sending to fake addresses.
This is remarkable, but is there a way for us to access this Trump text generator without lawsuit.org's curation? I'd love to pull back the curtain and see how many "tries" it takes to extract a convincing quote.

Edit: honest question, why are people downvoting this comment?
That’s a really short amount of time given how long life has been around. Thinking about the great filter
> I will probably be migrating to Jekyll for easier self hosting and hacking.

I was thinking of swapping to Hugo, but Ghost 3.0's static site integrations looks it means that I can just run Ghost on my local machine and upload plan HTML to the server. Seems like the best of both worlds.
Are you sure all those people wanted their 15 minutes? I think at least some of them were genuinely responding to reporters, and it was society that turned their behaviors into phenomena.
Why not just use an electrical furnace and power that with solar power?
Yes free OCR software itself is pretty simple and can run offline but if your accuracy requirements are high (for critical documents), different algorithms (typically proprietary) are needed and as well as fallbacks to contracted human labor for verification. At some level it makes sense to outsource to a cloud provider.
It won't be governments that avert climate change, it'll be individuals acting in their own self-interest.

This might be violent (everybody kills their neighbors, reducing the population and hence greenhouse emissions), or it might be economic (as fossil fuel prices rise, renewables become increasingly price-competitive, such that some people end up making a lot of money electrifying the world). Personally I'm rooting for the economic solution.
How does this apply to ML, beyond the usual train/validation/test split?
Are they actually worse than other companies? Or were they just the ones who got caught at it?
The distances are so vast, that essentially, yes. Think about two sailors in small boats, crossing an ocean in opposite directions, and how unlikely it would be that their boats collide. Now multiply that by several orders of magnitude.

One of my favorite factoids: if you fire a laser from the surface of the earth (and the beam magically stayed perfectly straight), you have a small but significant chance of hitting the sun or the moon, but anything beyond that, the scale is so enormous, the odds that your laser would ever hit a celestial body anywhere in the universe are effectively zero.
> I suspect it started out as limited technical aptitude and/or an "efficiency hack", but has since morphed into an actual stylistic decision that both makes thematic sense[1] and sets NGE apart.

I forget which famous modern composer said it, but there's the wonderful observation that "the artifacts of your medium will become its defining and desired characteristic".

See how we have systems trying to emulate CRT scanlines, or Synthwave style of music that not only reproduces the limitations of early synths but applies those limitations to newer sounds.

Edit: I think it was Brian Eno, though I can't immediately find the quote
A meta-aspect:

- hot areas will attract a lot of producers, so go for the boring areas (who would have guessed analyzing logs would be such an important issue?).

- Consider the essay by Chris Dixon posted here a couple of days ago that these days most big innovations start as "toys". So if you can start with something small and easy to use you may be able to get airborne.
I love this video from "Every Frame a Painting" which also mourns the loss of physical comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag
But that's the option that they are giving.
I can upload the trained model if you are curious, but it was straightforward to do. I just used the Salesforce CTRL model and fine-tuned it on a large corpus of Trump speeches.
We have had two separate instances of Mailgun blocking our account without reaching out, forcing us to upgrade the account to have access to chat support in order to resolve the issue in a reasonable time. They seem to only respond tickets once a day at best and make their best effort to wiggle out of any effort to help you get back to sending in any haste.

The first time was a mistake on their part when they switched plan tiers and our payment was not processed correctly, they fixed it entirely on their end and did not admit to the problem in the slightest. After this event we made sure to have an intermediate queue on our end in order not to have emails sent into oblivion.

The second time one of our users mass reported a bunch of old emails at once which triggered something that instantly blocked us. Even if we have very low reporting in general (no marketing emails) a single user was able to effectively kill sending of emails to all other users without any forewarning.

After that we forced ourselves out of the platform. When we look for a transactional email sending service, we expect at least an effort on the service to keep the api working while we resolve any issues that arise in a timely manner.
Attorney General is a government position. These are government employees. They aren't going to make a personal profit off of this, unless you're saying that all 47 are corrupt in some way.
Do you mean
https://one.google.com/storage
? That gives just a general overview - photos are this much, drive this much.

How much space does this folder take? What is the largest video? How much space do old photos take? All trivial to answer on a local disk, impossible to do in Google's account.
In the future, we can make uncooked pizzas durable enough to survive that and still be edible.
Preparing for the Future with React Prereleases
What happens after the WeWork layoffs? How can you hire their talent?
There are a lot more factors in a successful and enjoyable career than salary and hours worked.

I wouldn't take a job that pays double what I make now and has half as many hours if those hours were nothing but sitting in a dark room.

You can get a lot of satisfaction from building something meaningful with a team that people enjoy using.

Not that you can't do that in a big company, but all development jobs at big Corp are not that.

I would tear my hair out if my only job every day was figuring out how to get more people to click on sidebar ads.
Humanity will have to find another start before that, because our sun will make life on Earth impossible way before 4B years from now.
I didn't really cherry pick, most everything it generates is of this quality.
British Columbia recently had a referendum on our provincial voting system.

The first time we did this, we lost, 60 to 40. 60 on the reform side btw, we needed a super majority.

We did another referendum on it it, we lost 50 50.

We did it again, this time giving a bunch of options for voting preferences, but first asked "fptp, yes or no?". We lost 60 to 40, 60 against.

I am in agreement with the lesson you're talking about. I'll take basically anything over FPTP.

I wish we had learned that lesson 10 years ago. Because at this junction, BC is sick of the question being asked, and we're basically stuck with this poisonous voting system forever.

A strange coincidence, the party that promised to reform Canada's federal election but deliberately pulled out on the results of the worlds strangest online poll, just got back in to power last day.

So not only is reform on it's own nearly impossible, it seems impossible to ask reform of people whom got in to power with FPTP.

The people debating the merits of the various voting systems really need to open their eyes to how thoroughly stuck they are with the worst choice.
One thing I've never been able to figure out is that given Crispr, why it wouldn't be possible to engineer an organism that can suck much more CO2 out of the air than any existing tree / algae could. Even more ideal if we can make a good building material out of the engineered plant to sequester Carbon.

It's easy to see how the manual selection process would work here - plant a bunch of trees, see how much O2 each produces and pick Top N and repeat. Of course, this needs thousands of years to run manually because the improvement with each generation would be minimal.

Is the issue that we don't know what gene(s) control photo-synthesis?
You get what you pay for, high quality code costs money and off shore talent will generally immigrate to first world countries if they have the talent cause of wage suppression abroad for the same skillset. My 2 cents
Eventually true usage eats all the other proxies you use for usage.
Reagan legalized big corps? Say what? There were big corps before Reagan. General Motors, say.