skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The proper solution is to vote with your ad-blocker.

That's just engaging Facebook in an arms race that they will eventually probably win. The only real solution is not to use Facebook.
This doesn’t really help. How is this amplitude different from traditional probability? How can an event have negative amplitude? What does it even mean?
Very much this. The top comment on the thread is just ignorant of the situation.
Not so clear when there’s a professional psychologist hired to convince you your ass will be clean whispering through the glory hole.
My biggest pet peeve is when cops treat the bike lane as additional parking. I've seen cops do it just to walk into 7-eleven and buy a snack.

I wonder if that will be addressed at some point.
In a perfect world, I want to be able vote from my phone/online.
The other option is to partner up with Big Cloud. They all offer marketplace programs that let customers install third-party software quickly and easily, and take care of the billing too (for a price, of course).
Money is a powerful drug.
Political TV ads should be banned too. Would make it consistent and understandable.
Americans have tried to impose their values on rest of the world in last 60 years I am not sure why China doing the same is bad at all. At least china has not ruined a dozen countries.
Bots and troll farms would be popping champagne the day it was introduced.
Really ? It is obvious if you see their track record for last few years...I mean the ceo is having private dinner with both wings
Crosswalks are the sign. Pedestrians have preference and almost all the world cars must stop when there is a pedestrian in a crosswalk. There are places where people doesn't even take the eyes from their phone while stepping in a crosswalk.
I think that when you walk up to the counter, they instantly judge you on whether you might be suckered for the insurance or not. If you can somehow demonstrate that you are an experienced, frequent renter by your demeanor then you are much less likely to get the intense pitch.

I try to do this by having my credit card and drivers license in my hand and putting in on the counter right when I walk up. I also don't ask any questions about anything and give very brief answers to all their questions.
Why should they? People can make up their own minds we don't need to restrict online advertisements. False messages appear in all other forms of advertisement, facebook or twitter is no different.
Some (but not nearly enough) intersections have split-phase rights, with a green bike light and a red vehicle turn arrow at the start of the light cycle, which then changes to a red bike light and green vehicle turn arrow towards the end of the light cycle.
Because it’s just stochastic. There’s no mechanism for systematic, guided DNA changes to mutate some genes more than others, which is exactly what I wrote in my initial comment that you took umbrage at. “It can be selected” for only through the blind process of chance, which isn’t really selection at all.
About a decade ago, a researcher demonstrated a worm that could be implanted in one machine, that over the course of months would spread to a large number of machines as election workers did routine maintenance. Since physical protection of the machines was typically weak, the initial compromise wouldn't have been that difficult for anyone able to pick a lock.
Can't speak for him but maybe both?
Tipping is a band aid for a problem no-one wants to fix.
I'm at a bit of a loss at what to tell you. I feel like we have just about overwhelming evidence that the claim the computer industry is uninterested in its own history is inaccurate. Beyond the tiny smattering of it I've mentioned, that evidence pokes us in the eye every day from the front page of HN. The person who brought this up is apparently too busy to evaluate any evidence and you are telling me the good people at your office know less about computer industry history than you do - a thing that might be as true and as nondispositive about anything ranging from Pokémon to Ming Dynasty Porcelain.
It would not make the GOP politicians happy who wield their administrative power over FB, and have a lot of political capital invested in blatantly lying to the public.
Can Chinese NGOs help companies get “social licenses” along the Belt and Road?
I strongly suspect you are correct. But notice that you had to go to witness credibility. In an American court of law, that means the assertion would survive a motion to dismiss. A jury would have to decide whether the witness was telling the truth, or lying based on ulterior motivations.

Do you think the Facebook should be making calls on things that would be “jury questions” in a legal proceeding? And if so, do you think Facebook employees are an unbiased jury on that front?
couldn't they issue you a secure private key when you vote?
While I have always been skeptical of "flat" designs, I'm not so sure that "dark mode" is a bandaid. I think it's something needed on its own, but flat designs just happen to be caught up in the mix.

White-background designs are really just a hold-over from design approaches developed for paper. Whereas white is a default color for paper, it never was on CRTs, and isn't on OLED displays either. The design choice was mostly an implicit (or habitual) emulation of paper.

There are both hardware and ocular reasons why dark backgrounds are advantageous on screens, particularly mobile OLEDs. Power consumption, eye fatigue, contrast, durability, etc. We need to make some of these changes regardless of artistic design style.
My main issue recently has been with delivery trucks. They're bigger (thus block the bike lane completely), and they tend to be in the bike lane for a much longer period of time than FHVs/taxis.
>For example, in the field I work in, we very very reliably get signal that track reward prediction errors in the striatum (e.g. BOLD response in fmri) during reward learning tasks.

Yeah, but that's a property of how the BOLD response correlates with the task structure, not a map of what computations the brain actually does.

Yeah, ok, I'm shortening things by a lot, but neuroimaging really is quite fraught in terms of what sorts of computational-level inferences we can draw from task-based experiments.
RT @julianpopov: The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.
I don't want a private owned platform that as far as today plays a huge role in being a place for the public discourse to regulate speech.

Of course, and it pains me to have to state the obvious for fear of strawmaning, saved the applicable boundaries like distribution of child porn, terrorist groups recruiting pages and so on.

Take Twitter as an example, does an abhorrent job on that, they have no standard other than liked/disliked people.

- They have no transparency, people you follow will get banned and you won't be notified.
- People will get banned for tweeting exactly what "liked" people tweeted.
- They made the utterly stupid decision of changing the interpretation of their Verified mark from "This is the real person" which is perfect, to "we kind of support whatever this verified person says" which makes no freaking sense. Can you imagine a Bell PR guy saying at a press conference "We are sorry for what one of our landlines customers said on the phone, we turned their line off"?

It is transparent to me that any effort in making platforms like Facebook, Twitter and so on to take the role of speech regulators isn't coming from regular people, it comes to the detriment of the common folk like me and you.
In case anyone thinks the above joke is actually what the paper is doing: it is not. The work is trying to use the same techniques that neuroscientists use on neural systems on a processor. The reason is simple: we already understand processors backwards-and-forwards. The authors' hypothesis is that if the techniques we use on neural systems do not yield useful insights that match the already known-correct understanding of a processor, then we may have a problem with our current neural techniques.
> 0 points by Gibbon1

Makes my point
The modal example was implemented horribly, you obviously need a border around the dark mode modal. This is a failure in UX.
It is at the moment. Both countries recognize each others' patents, though Marco Rubio has advocated nullifying Huawei patents in the US.
Wonder Bread
> If we're really concerned about this - get rid of the network connectivity.

Iranian centrifuges had no network connectivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Trello. I find it quite useful, as I manage everything I need to do outside of my job there. Home repairs, coding projects, art and photography projects, and I keep a backlog of ideas I've had in case I even get time and energy to build out more things.
Can't people just remember what it was like to learn the things they know? They were all those newbies at one point.
If both, we would certainly appreciate the feedback about which areas are considered unclear, in order to improve things further.
I'm just saying don't sweat people seeing it when it's not done yet. That's often enough exactly what you need.

(though maybe to clarify, that's not a subtle dig. I haven't read it yet, though I'm trying to get into Elixir so I'm bookmarking)
Yup. de Blasio clearly doesn't care about this because he's not even doing it during his term. And it could all easily be canceled and not ever happen depending on who the next mayor ends up being (I'm pulling for Corey Johnson personally).

This news isn't nearly as good as it appears at first blush; de Blasio is completely abdicating his duty.
I don't understand the chain of reasoning in your claim regarding the 1st and 2nd statements, and statistics in general.

When I use the word statistics in this conversation, I mean the use of math to analyze and compare data. This can be done inappropriately, of course, but the problem doesn't lie with the principles of math (including statistics), but the agent using them inappropriately.

And medical (or biology related) statistics are used most inappropriately, due to various cognitive biases and financial incentives. But the problem is not statistics, and it's still the best tool we have unless we can find a Magic School Bus to shrink us down and go observe the chemical reactions in real time. But I know that stats are abused, so anytime I see a fantastical claim, especially in medicine, I approach it much skepticism.
I think of it as “one dollar minus some fees”. I would usually rather have one tether than one dollar minus credit card fees. Yeah if you want to use it in the fiat economy you have to exchange it out, but that isn’t too hard.
They should just categorize all political ads as "likely untruthful and misleading" and label them as such. If you're a politician and you're advertising on Facebook, your ad should be label "This ad is political and is likely untruthful or misleading. Viewer discretion advised."
If FB is required for friendship then they're not really friends.
* the sound quality is utterly rubbish compared to some alternative wireless pairs*

Compared to airpods?
A more or less open voting ledger already exists without a blockchain. You can go to your Secretary of State and buy the record of voting in your state for somewhere between 0 and a few thousand dollars. You could also buy it from a private company which aggregates and resells that data. The only information not available is how particular individuals voted.
Giveashit: Citizen Science, Poop and AI
I was writing Svelte code after an udemy class having done Vue prior to that. They aren't that different. anyone who can write react or vue code could be writing svelte code in a week.
The rebate and lack of euro currency already made the UK a special case.
Give them time, they're only now reaching proper scale.
The title says "JavaScript", but the file extension says ".ts". It doesn't look very Javascript to me.

Can anyone clarify?
I address this in the article. Unfortunately (for the startup) being in one of the Big Cloud partner programs does not prevent them from launching directly competitive products.
This is definitely not true on the multi-lane avenues. You're thinking of the single-lane streets.

One good solution for the avenues would be to time their rolling green waves for an average of 15 mph. They just recently started doing this in Brooklyn on a particularly dangerous road.
You can do complicated things with Svelte stores, but in my experience most of the time you only need something like this using a writable store:

<script>
import {writable} from 'svelte/store';
const person = writable({name: 'Mark', zip: 63304});

function handleChange(event) {
const name = event.target.value;
person.set({...$person, name});
}

</script>

<input on:input={handleChange} value={$person.name} />

<div>
Hello, {$person.name} at {$person.zip}!
</div>

Of course if person is only used inside this component, you would not use a store. If it is used in other components, you would typically define and export the store in another .js file and import it everywhere it is needed.

My point is that this is a very simple way to share state between components and nowhere near as complex as the page you shared might indicate. That's because you do not need to use derived stores or custom stores. The simple writable store works in most cases.
I'm pretty sure that the government is in on it. Every elected member of government is probably just thinking to themselves "I better be really nice to Facebook if I want to get myself re-elected".
There are plenty of walkable cities that manage monsoon rains in Japan and Korean. It's completely possible for people to get around without having to move five thousand pounds of metal with them.
Negative, the good majority of the deaths are not people on e-bikes.
> US does not have paper ballots and won't by the next national election

This isn't true universally, in fact, fair to say it is rarely true [1]. Often the vote is tabulated electronically, but there is always a bipartisan committee overseeing random re-tabulations and recounts as a matter of course. In the process of rolling up results, there are cross-checks with voter rolls that make certain types of ballot stuffing infeasible (that is, an attack would have to be a read/modify/write).

There are also state departments that are tasked with overseeing the general quality of elections that will spot outliers and investigate. It's always possible that corruption or partisan efforts will bypass scrutiny (and there have been several iffy cases of precincts in previous election cycles) but that has been a problem even pre-electronic equipment.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

EDIT: the parent post has been modified to be slightly less aggressive in its claims, including limiting the scope to "some states". Also added "And even if they did (as many do), few states have a uniform system of random vote audits", but can easily be refuted [2].

[2] http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/post-el...
Without exaggerating much, I don't know a single person, technical or not, who ever read a single help file for any Windows software. There's even less sense in these files now as opposed to keeping all documentation online.

So I have to say I don't see a point in this product... though I suspect there is actually a market for it.
Anyone have a recommended cloudless alternative?
It’s woefully under-representing what a ket can be, and the data structure isn’t amenable to extension to a broader set of states. A one qubit state lives in a Hilbert space just as a one element list is still a list.
> nobody has the power to generate more time that they can spend doing things that make them happy

If can effectively recoup time if you have money; the relationship is symmetrical.
The browser literally highlights the selection so that seems like a solved problem.

I'm in favor of two-tier system where rich applications require permission for enhanced clipboard events but the average site will just copy what is selected without modification.
Becoming familiar with a system makes you forget what was and what was not obvious. I experience this with myself. Once I've learned something well, then I can find it hard to explain it to someone else. I find it best if I write down assumptions that got corrected or unclear things as I encounter them.
For something as important and simple as voting, I'd think we could develop an unhackable, fully open-source, formally verified voting system...?
Yes, people do lie, but there are plenty of regulations for commercial speech. There are laws against fraud, and so on. Acceptable ads policies may be implemented by private companies, but few people would say they aren't needed or aren't in the public interest.

Furthermore, you've bought into some libertarian assumptions about how markets work that aren't actually true. Some trust is necessary to make buying convenient, and the organizations running marketplaces have incentive to regulate who can sell there.
I’d be okay with facebook just not running political ads, tbh.
To see off piranha this fish has strong armour
Chinese companies pay a very large amount of licensing fees to American companies. Huawei itself has paid $6 billion in licensing fees since 2001, with 80% of the fees going to US companies.

1. https://www.zdnet.com/article/over-6b-in-ip-royalties-paid-b...
Hey. Clara.io is fantastic.

What's the current state of play with it?
Sorry, that just sounds naive. It’s all well and good until the echo chamber you live in meets a different echo chamber, which has a different idea of what’s true. The resulting conflict would instantly devolve into furious tribal warfare with people using the ‘like’ and ‘truth’ buttons as synonyms. Except with the worse feature that a popular post would seem to be additionally endorsed by Facebook as true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_eversion
This video explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNY
It doesn't matter whether most people's use cases are "truly" anonymous or not, because not everyone who makes an anonymous payment is the kingpin of a human trafficking ring who will actually have large amounts of resources brought to bear on them.

People use burner phones to get drugs for nights out. Theoretically none of this is really anonymous, you're pinging cell towers, you're probably on CCTV, etc etc. But realistically that doesn't matter and it works as a system.

Even something like Monero which might have claim to be truly untraceable really isn't because you're on like, an Intel ME machine and the NSA likely has backdoors in the Linux kernel and ... blah blah blah ...

But it's good enough.

Imagine if Hacker News required ID-verified real name front and center on every post. Throwaway accounts are impossible. They were never perfect anyway, but now they don't exist.

The discourse would change. Perhaps an individual might see it as being better, or worse, but it'd definitely be different.

The traditional banking system is that ID-verified world. Cryptocurrencies are the release valve.

FWIW I think Tether is bollocks.
Yes. They're all "own your Ops process, deploy on fridays" etc.
I so 100% agree!! I need more friends like you :-)

I want to help people become more independent from control systems using technology to empower them.

Increasing click-through rates for advertising behemoth like google or facebook? Just no. I like money on the table but I would rather starve than do that. It is the polar opposite of all my beliefs.

Nerds used to be pro freedom. Unfortunately at some point we became the minority.
Deaths are a huge political liability even if they weren't a financial one, and would still effect change. I'm part of Transportation Alternatives, who has been advocating/lobbying/protesting very effectively for increased safety infrastructure in the wake of all these cyclist deaths. No financial liabilities involved.
What you say has a kernel of truth -- we all need to be critical of everything we see and hear -- I think you take it too far.

> The validity of information should be vetted by those consuming it, not an entity who is in any kind of power.

This would not lead to a place that would be good for anybody. Most people don't have the time or skills needed to do this, and telling everyone that they have to fact-check everything for themselves can only result in some combination of two bad outcomes:

1) People will simply accept everything they read that confirms their own preexisting beliefs.

2) People will simply reject everything they read that goes against their own preexisting beliefs.

Both things encourage the continued decline of public debate as well as the continued increase of overall balkanization and the demonization of our neighbors.

Also, both will lead to a dramatically increased amount of lying.
With DevOps you monitor [at least] four metrics: lead time for changes, deployment frequency, mean time to recover/restore service, and change failure rate. These indicators show if you're improving, stagnating, or straining. You can also track more specific service level indicators, the amount of toil to project work, and tech debt versus feature backlogs.

The "everything's on fire" metaphor also has a larger context. Sure, when people are getting woken up in the middle of the night because the site is down, shit's on fire. But also "we're constantly missing our deadlines" is shit's on fire, "our customers are not satisfied" is shit's on fire, "our overhead is way too high for what we're delivering" is shit's on fire. If you're out on the water and building a new boat because yours is on fire, it's a little late.
We sure do like prices that are artificially low and defer externalities.

- Cost of employment removed from the price, added later as a tip

- Taxes not baked into prices, added at checkout

- Various service fees often added at the end

- Things like pollution and water use not accounted for
>Similar to Bitcoin, with the promise of less price swings due to the capability for redemptions and the promised reserve.

If you read the article, got to this point and didn't already know what the rest of the article was going to say... well, good luck in future financial endeavors! :)
It’s unfortunate that the batteries in these things wear out so quickly. And the battery is glued inside, making them $200+ disposable headphones.

But even so, AirPods are one of my favorite products I’ve bought in years.
Domain Controller-Level Access at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
I should also add that managing a team that has several senior, married people is NOT the same as managing a team of young, unmarried folks.

An almost guaranteed way to lose people with families, is to insist that they must ignore their family to work the job.

This means that things like offsites and travel need to take into account things like school schedules, childcare and time off. I would often let people travel on Sunday to Japan, taking the heat for them not being there for a Monday meeting (which usually was just a "set the agenda" meeting anyway). That was my job.

It doesn't mean that someone going through a divorce, or caring for a sick family member, can take a ton of time off when a project is melting down, but it does mean that I would work with them, to ensure that their families get cared for, and that they can leave the job where it belongs, so that they are 100% for their families.

If you do things like this, you end up with a team that will take a bullet for you, and will do things like travel to Japan for two weeks to work on an emergency integration.

It's absolutely shocking how many managers don't get that.
* Noise cancelling earphones really do cancel the noise before you hear it - when they're fast enough.*

No. They can only start cancel ing it after they build the predictive model of it, and only if the model is accurate. Basically this only works for repetitive regular types of noise (e.g. engine hum).
So, Twitter?