skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something else that's interesting is the doubling of the effective tax rate from 9% to 18% yoy. Is there any explanation for that?
Not in the way you're thinking: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...
> a lack of identification requirements for elections that make certain classes of fraud difficult to detect.

Go on, because let me tell you what this looks like in practice here in NC. Here, you currently have to register and then provide your name to a poll worker, then sign that you voted. The only plausible fraud I can imagine if I wanted to vote more than once is to give the name of someone else and hope they don't show up to vote. There's no way I can imagine to do this at a significant scale without it going undetected. (You'd have to somehow get a bunch of fake names registered or figure out names of people who aren't likely to vote, then find people who are willing to commit fraud to vote under those names and get them to do so during early voting I guess.)

Beginning next year, we need to present ID to vote, but the acceptable IDs are fairly restrictive[1,2]. In particular, my college aged daughter who will be voting for the first time next year is not able to use her state college issued ID[3]. Nor can she use her expired DMV learner's permit. Now fortunately, she has a passport and she'll use that. But otherwise, she'd have to get some form of acceptable ID.

This is not well-publicized, and I guarantee there will be first time student voters next year who will be surprised to learn they can't vote with their college ID, and must instead to submit a provisional ballot.

I am certain this will suppress many many more votes than fraudulent votes, if fraudulent votes even exist.

1. https://www.ncsbe.gov/Voter-Id

2. "Of the approximately 850 universities, colleges, state and local employers, including charter schools, and tribal entities that were eligible to have their identification cards approved, 81 institutions submitted requests to the State Board of Elections. We do not in all cases know why the majority of institutions chose not to request approval, but in some cases institutions raised concerns that they believed they could not meet the current statutory requirements."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Voter%20ID/Corresponde...

3. https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Voter%20ID/Student%2C%...
"It's not ridiculous to say the urbanest area should try to set an example for other urban areas" - yet, OP says if NYC can't set an example then we can't expect other cities to have good examples either. That's false. We can expect good examples everywhere no matter what NYC does.
Same. I love the fact that games like Minesweeper or Chip's Challenge are literally just grids of button-controls with image labels.

I'd love to see "using non-behaviorally-overridden native OS UI-toolkit elements as the game's only mechanical affordances" adopted as a theme for a modern game-jam.
This is what I've been thinking. At the very least, I know that Docker interferes with the BEAM VM's default behaviour for port management, and node discovery. Docker containers require developers to select which ports containers communicate through. Isn't that right?
I am so used to working in finance that I assumed that was millions ...
This might be on your radar already, but the rendering is broken in Firefox. I'm using version 60.8.0esr, which is what I get with "apt-get install firefox".

When I open the link I see the table of contents on the left and a bunch of empty white space. Scrolling down, the content eventually comes into view, but scrolls on top of the table of contents, making it impossible to click.

I'm blocking the google fonts site, so maybe that's part of the problem.
It’s what ever active branch I’m on. I do a branch per feature / issue, then merge to master. Not really a problem.

I also have all critical stuff setup to auto deploy after tests.

I’m a one man shop, everything has to be automated or I don’t have enough time lol
How do you say, “That’s a bingo!”

Google isn’t buying Fitbit to improve Fitbit, Google is acquiring a company to gain their experience in the wearables space to compete with Apple and Samsung. I suspect Google thinks AppleWatch is helping them erode the Android market share and/or preventing switchers from moving to Pixel.
I use tmuxinator to auto open my terminals and start my services in separate panes in tmux
Some people find the details interesting. Life isn't always about processing information as quickly as possible
Nice plug in the middle of middle of the article, exactly at the right spot:

> By the way, I write an article like this every month or so, covering lessons learned from growing B2B software startups. Get an email update when the next one is published

This is the closest I got to subscribing to a newsletter.
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> I can't tell you how many times i've almost been hit, or doored, by a car.

Do you try to pass right turning vehicles on the right or left turning vehicles on the left? If you're at risk for getting doored, then you need to ride further away from parked vehicles (at least 6 feet away).
This is ultimately not very different than what you would get with any firewall or network rules in any business, and it's an issue shared by most deployments regardless of whether you get containerized or not.
> With the introduction of the US Fed, recessions became less frequent, less damaging, so much so that the period called the Great Moderation still has economists working on exactly how come the previous boom and bust cycle got so smoothed.

Well, this was the narrative up until 2008.

> From what I can find, a large majority of the world's population has access to and uses bank accounts, and the vast majority of the rest use cash to transact wages and purchases.

All of which are at the mercy of whoever is in power at the time.
In the past few years:
- 80 million turks have lost 80% of the value of their cash savings
- 40 million argentines have lost 90% of the value of their cash savings
- 30 million venezuelans have lost 99% of the value of their cash savings

Many other countries have high single digit or double digit true rates of inflation. Even the US rate of inflation is likely double what the official measures are.

You think this is good?
> For the past two weeks, the text of the letter has been publicly visible on Facebook Workplace, a software program that the Silicon Valley company uses to communicate internally.

For those who have never used Workplace, this literally just means "someone posted it to Workplace." It's not an abnormal or unique thing. It also wouldn't surprise me if "250 people signed it" means "250 people commented in agreement". I wish the reporting gave more details on who posted the petitions and what it means to "sign the petition". I understand protecting sources, but unless Workplace has added new features, anything posted has to come from someone with a profile.

That said, it's still (arguably, at least) news to cover internal divisions over a policy, but unfortunately the authors don't seem to realize how common it is at Facebook for employees to openly push back on leadership decisions while concurrently working as hard as they can to deliver impact downstream of them (it may sound odd, but it's entirely possible to disagree with a strategy and vocally advocate for your preferred course but also trust that your leadership may be better equipped to set said strategy and work to implement a strategy that is not what you would have chosen).
I don't believe I've ever been in any hardware store that sold hydrofluoric acid in any concentration. Care to expand on what you meant?

Now - hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid - both those (and some other relatively nasty chemicals) can be easily purchased at many hardware (and other) stores; the first is commonly known as "muriatic acid" (pool acid), while the second is sold (usually at auto parts stores, but there are some hardware stores that sell it too) for lead-acid battery "replenishment" (if the acid in them becomes too diluted from "topping up" with distilled water over time).

But HF? No - I certainly can't see where that would be allowed to be sold in any concentration to the ordinary public...
It's awesome that after posting in numerous places he was able to finally get some SEO juice. But, the article makes it sound like you're highly likely to get SEO juice from doing this.

My experience, from numerous projects I've started over many years is that the vast majority of time, you won't get any SEO traffic at all even though I've gotten temporary increases in traffic from posting on HN and ProductHunt, quorra and reddit.
Furthermore, Softbank didn't somehow get tightly coupled to the rest of the financial system that the Fed and/or Congress felt they had to get bailed out.

Edit: With that said, the WeWork CEO (AIUI) did get away with a lot of stuff that just shouldn't be allowed under modern practices of corporate government, like funneling money to his own businesses. That is a failing of modern finance.
That was a fantastic little run-through on your teardown and repair of the ionic.

Do you make videos/streams of your work? Would love to watch.
Oh yeah, hehe - that should have been obvious to me. 108000 seconds a month.

You calculation are bang on. Elvis getting a mere 0.05c seems fair in the case of this super user when the user needs a flat rate to consume and all the content providers need to be fairly compensated. If this doesn't seem fair then your issue is with the flat pricing per user per month. Which, without this, I'd bet the pie is much smaller.
> I think a lot of accidents where the car turns right and overlooks a bike in the blind spot can be prevented through [the separate bike signal] measure.

This can also be prevented by not trying to pass right turning vehicles on the right and only pass them on their left.
I thought it was dead/dying though? No future plans to add new features, especially sense the creator said he was done with it...
In Bitcoin, miners are the intermediaries, and they take an even larger cut. You cannot magic away the need to keep a ledger, and keeping a distributed ledger is going to be more costly than keeping a centralized ledger.
> Or take them to court?

Probably not a viable course of action considering they murdered Eric Garner just for selling loosies.
So how do you all propose to quantify, define and draw a line on "power" and where to much must be quashed, i.e. "way more power"? If you have more friends and acquaintances who respect your opinion (and so can be influenced) than I do then do you have more 'power' than me, since your vote now can count more? How can/should I counter that so we are 'equal'. Oh that wonderful term 'equal' and how some of us wish and long for all of us to be perfectly equal.
Isn't that like choosing your poison? If you have a low memory device, you need to statically guarantee safety and reject oversized inputs. Crashing your embedded device may work if your are a server with a client that knows to retry another backend, but isn't an elegant solution if it disables your car's brakes.
> This is the closest I got to subscribing to a newsletter.

Almost got you, huh? :)

I've A/B tested various locations and the inline-embed is the best, by far. This is also why many news sites now include related stories in the middle of the article, not at the end.
That is not true. See work by Andrew Neff on verifiable shuffles of secrets. It is practical to produce a proof that can be verified by the voter but not useful in proving which way the ballot has been cast to anyone else.
Yes, that too. It's a huge plus to me that the battery in this Garmin watch lasts for a week, even with light GPS usage. I wouldn't put up with a smart watch that required charging every night; it's too much extra hassle for little additional benefit.
They currently do all sorts of blocking on what content is delivered. Try and run an ad with nudity. The sorts of nudity that is routine in a European advertising context is blocked on Facebook, because they choose not to. They could easily do the same for political ads, but they don't because they choose not to.
Firewalls, for example. We have huge files containing risk levels for various IP addresses. Most of it is automated, but sometimes we have to tweak something manually. These aren't IP addresses that we control, so DNS isn't helpful. Often we're dealing with ranges as well, for which DNS is also unhelpful.
This is also a list of the stupidest names in US History. The reason nobody can figure out whether "Ashtin" is a girl's or boy's name is because it's not a name. Same for "Tristyn" and most of the rest of this brain damage.
Heh, I wish.
isn't a .onion address the hash of a self-signed cert?
Last I heard it was expanding -- and the expansion was accelerating.

When we looked at the most empty spot we could find with the best camera ever built, we saw more universe than we could even have imagined.

Earth, ok, that's somewhat finite. Yet we're literally barely scratching its surface.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/ligma/
That's the uncommon path.
Will keep this in mind for the next one, cheers.
If you don't have v6 connectivity, then by default DNS lookups will be sorted so that v4 addresses are first. I don't know what went wrong in your case, but I don't think it had anything to do with IPv6.

`getent hosts` returns v6 addresses (only, no v4) if any exist on the hostname you give it, and thus its output is useless for debugging here. You need to check `getent ahosts <hostname>`, which uses the same getaddrinfo() call that most software (including Firefox) uses for DNS lookup. If you have no v6 connectivity then the v4 addresses should be sorted first in the output of that, and v4 will be tried first by your software. Another good test is `wget <url>` which prints the IPs in sorted order (limited to the first 3 though), tries to connect to them one by one and prints any errors it encounters.

If `getent ahosts` is showing v6 addresses sorted first, I'd be happy to take a look at your config -- if you pastebin the output of `ifconfig` and /etc/gai.conf then I should be able to tell you what's up. Either you'll have a v6 address you didn't notice or you've somehow configured your system to sort them first even when you only have v4.

For some reason, there's a "I saw a colon somewhere, therefore it's IPv6's fault" trap that people keep falling into. Your posts look like an example of that.
As I understand tether allows direct conversions to fiat, you just need big enough amount. Also it is very easy to convert to bitcoin, which is very easy to convert to fiat.
I just opened Facebook and checked all of the orgs who have targeted me with ads. About 15% of them were companies that don’t sell any sort of product, and were just promoting some sort of idea. Of that, only one of them was an actual political party. That doesn’t even include ads for products that include some sort of political messaging (something that’s pretty commonplace now). What’s more, that assessment of which orgs were delivering a political message is entirely based on my own opinions. You might look at the same list and draw different conclusions. What you’re talking about simply doesn’t seem possible, and I can’t even see any reason why it would be a good idea to begin with.
Where this falls down is when you're hiring someone who has 10 or 15 years of experience and has forgotten more about day-to-day product development than the freshers have learned about algorithms. So you're asking that guy questions that the freshers have fresh in their minds because it's all they know, and it's totally unsurprising that he fails because he hasn't ever used that knowledge in a work setting. You do need to tailor your interviews to the person's experience level. If you're hiring for experience, ask that person about process and about team forming and about mentoring and leadership. You don't have to be able to write a perfect algorithm as a senior, only to help your juniors over the hurdles keeping them from doing it themselves.
Typically the car passes the bike which is riding to the right. Then the car turns right directly in front of the bike. Forgetting it was there, even though they just swerved around it.
It's pretty common at Facebook. Andrew Bosworth repeatedly writes about the importance of malcontents, and there are many employees who repeatedly push back on leadership. This takes place almost entirely on Workplace.
Yes, they are, zcash, bitcoin/ethereum mixers etc. and intense research around zero-knowledge proofs will yield first-class, easy to use anonymity relatively quickly.
I would pick Airpods over Shure, but they don't fall in the $99 category! I was replying on the basis of a specific model and made it explicitly clear that an alternative pair meant either a foray into slightly expensive pairs (still cheaper than Airpods) or go all the all way to the bottom, for the more adventurous.
Is there any word yet on when Sourcehut will move out of "alpha" status? Is it ready yet for actual day to day use?

Have to say this project is looking really promising. I think we need an open alternative to the Github/Gitlab duoply that de-emphasises creeping social media type features.
Sure the questions need to be legitimate questions that people need the answers too. But, if the questions are legit, then what's the problem with answering that question with a product? as long as it's relevant and solves your problem, then you should be greatful someone took the time to respond to your question (whether you wrote it or not), and even gave you a solution
Dns resolver
Internal IPs
It's not clear to me that one could always decide what constitutes a political ad in the first place. Sure, there is the obvious, vote for candidate X.

But what about issue advocacy ads? Are ads from an industry advocate group political? Say it was funded by the Koch brothers defending fossil fuels? Or what about an ad from the Southern Poverty Law Center to fight for disenfranchised voters? Or what about an anti-vax group looking to mobilize their base?

I don't see how its that clear cut.
Honestly, I don't think they did nail it, specifically regarding customising the pizza visually. Sure, some sites let you do this but noone cares really. I think the main draw is you don't to talk to anyone. Not having to have a social interaction with a stranger is a major selling point. Also, doesn't apply to pizza, but for other things the main advantage is you don't need to order during business hours.
Economically it'd be both. Capital flight increases the supply of loanable funds available for foreign investments. Unwillingness to take on foreign investors decreases the demand for this. High supply + low demand = a poor price.
I can simply demand your private key in exchange for a reward or avoidance of punishment. "Hand me your phone and I will cast this vote"
Just fine. I haven't noticed anything in my sleep data that could be construed as the sensor going haywire.
Then you may be surprised to find out that most ads being discussed are allowed on TV: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...
HiDPI screen alone can completely change performance characteristics of a website.
I had the same exact thought!

Bunch of screenshots here in case anyone is interested: http://armchairgeneral.com/harpoon-ultimate-edition-pc-game-...
Anyone can experience hardship. Resilience is a powerful force to overcome it. It doesn’t solve all problems obviously, however a growth mindset[1] is still invaluable.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth
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Even if thats true, crypto could still be huge. It is still peanuts compared to mainstream finance.
I agree with you. WeWork doesn't have strong network effects and the business model is easy to copy. There are real estate companies that each owns tens of millions of square feet of office space. If WeWork really were worth $40 billion, the companies who own office buildings could just create their own coworking spaces and rake in the billions instead.
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> our interactions with the world are still built around the same structure of hypothesis (based on prior beliefs), induction, evidence, and revision.

This is called abductive reasoning, and in terms of formal, professional methodology it's most commonly associated with medicine (process of diagnosing an illness) and the law (procedural rules of evidence can be trivially formalized in terms abductive logic[1]). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

It's also quite obviously at the core of the scientific method, though the scientific method implies additional processes (peer review) and rules (emphasizes disproving the hypothesis; in the law it's primarily the defense tasked with disproving the hypothesis).

[1] See Terence Anderson, David Schum, and William Twining, "Analysis Of Evidence". The fact that common law rules of evidence organically evolved into a system that adheres so rigorously to a formal logical system is itself fascinating. And while arguing that the scientific method acts like a virus is a little... out there... suffice it to say there's definitely something to the notion that methodological systems reflecting abductive logic are natural and inevitable. I had the good fortune to take Dr. Schum's class at GMU Law School, though I spent most of my time futzing around with scripts for building my evidence graphs. Some of the rules of evidence are designed to keep the evidence graph acyclic, which is not something you learn in law school (outside Schum's and GMU's elective class), but is obvious to a computer programmer, such as myself, or anyone else with math or engineering experience. Dr. Schum was professor emeritus of the engineering school, but designed and taught his class on evidence at the law school.

Alas, it seems Dr. Schum passed away last year: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/571991
Hi, is the app you are building in your bio? Vidhug?
The big short is a very different situation from crypto exchanges. Banks are highly levered and exposed directly to the assets they are trading. Crypto exchanges do not have this same problem. Secondly, you can use leverage to make these trades, and you can make them on many different exchanges, diversifying your risk considerably. The counterparty risk argument does not imply that the current price should be 1:1 under the assumption that insolvency is obvious.
Yes, just UK at the moment.
What I don’t understand is how we got into this situation in the first place.

We know how powerful the US intelligence agencies are. The fact that the CIA has been able to install leaders in previously hostile governments shows their competence. Aside from Iran, most of their operations were successful. Even in their missteps, they were able to limit its influence in the region.

So how did it come to this? Why does it feel like the CIA dropped the ball on China?
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Advertisements that are false, in many cases, are legally required to be aired on TV or in newspapers, for precisely the reason that there is a public interest in avoiding media outlets becoming arbiters of truth and restricting access to political speech. Those media outlets are free to fact check and run articles or programs challenging the content of the ads.