skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First preferences are summable and it is usually clear, on the night of the election, who has won the majority in Parliament. This is called the "indicative count".

As for chain of custody, again, Australia has solved this problem. Every box is numbered, every seal on the box is numbered. All of them are signed out by electoral officials, witnessed by at least two scrutineers from different candidates. When the boxes are opened this process is repeated.

Do you know how many times ballot boxes have gone missing in an Australian election? Once. In a century. Once. For which the High Court voided the election because there was a minute but non-zero chance that the outcome would've been affected. It was re-run from scratch.
He does say This:

“Last point, I wrote the book in a kind of modern Kerouac's style such that you can download it once and continue reading it offline. Initial loading may be slow though.”

I do think the entire book is on a single HTML page
That's literally less than a 30 seconds read to figure out how this service is different from that tool.
Search continues for the Alabama sturgeon, one of the rarest fish on earth
oh, yes, please, give people back their scrollbars!
Basis of the article is questionable. Humans slow down on traffic to avoid accidents. Ants don’t have that constraint. Neither will ants cause a stampede and can suffocate to death.
Recyclable house is built from cork blocks
I bet Hobby Lobby hires someone to steal this.
Yes. I've also used Google Apps and had it file e-mails from our own users as spam despite settings that's supposed to bypass it.

Meanwhile some Gmail addresses I have rarely have this problem, so it's not even consistent across accounts or domains.

The most annoying bit (and probably the first untangling from Gmail I'll be doing) is that I have my own domain hosted on Google Apps, but since my main Gmail mailbox is a different one, it's set to forward everything. It's meant to bypass all filtering and just forward. Or so the settings and support claims. It doesn't. I have to regularly log in for the sole purpose of marking things not spam.
You can forward a local ssh server port on a target host with ssh -R, then from the target host back to your localhost, then the other party just needs to ssh on the target host, without an NAT or firewall modification needed.
I'm a spatial thinker, and I got a similar problem, I see all answers as correct. Eg. which one follows this sequence, and I can find a pattern to all alternatives. And I have to figure out which option the test author think is correct.
I switched to Android around the time iPhone 5 came out.

Whenever I touch one now, I feel like a idiot and dinosaur. It can take me minutes to figure out the most basic things, and often I end up searching on the web.

In the pursuit of a "clean" UI, iOS has become completely unintuitive and confusing.
This looks to be a good alternative except it does not have HIPAA support.

Even though I have shut down my practice for the near future, I will still need to have information protected for several years to the Health Department's requirements for psychological records.

Email providers who lack this support will have difficulty gaining traction in the health world.
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I can't help to think that it's entirely so the Amish elites/aristocrats keep themselves in power by limiting access to Media.

But interesting take, they would survive in things like Solar storms/electrical grid collapsed.
I think the idolizing of "underground" themes in the hacker subculture had a lot to do with the surrounding American culture, of that era and even further back to its origins. The entertainment industry, like Hollywood films, glorify the outlaw, the rebels, from Star Wars to the Wild West, the "counter-culture", rock music, punk, heavy metal.. That climate influenced generations of adolescents, many of whom never grew out of it, carrying these values into adulthood. It spread around the world too.

This influence can clearly be seen in the startup scene, at least in earlier days: jock/locker-room culture, rebellious and "disruptive", seeing a company as a gang of pirates.. It's very American - as one of them myself, I love this attitude in some ways, but, having lived in a few other cultures, I also understand that it has aspects of teenagers' mentality and behavior.
Well, WeWork is not even tech. So, there's that.
So if it's not such a huge barrier for a foreign programmer to program in an English-centric computer programming language, surely the same can be said about non-Arabic speakers who might want, or have to deal with this language?
The way I see it, if its creator made software with it, then it's a bona fide tool for programming. The fact it hasn't yet spread to more developers than those involved in the project doesn't negate its "fide"s or "tool"-ness.

If you made a parser for a scripting language for content for your application, or a DSL for your colleagues to use, would you claim they weren't "bona fide"?
Sorry, I was thinking about pages even though I said websites. Native language interference (typically, we use the same term for pages and websites in my language).

Anyway, my point is not a matter of quantity. The way they're doing it, they have 750 GB of data, but they have exactly zero data that talks about bastards, fecal transplants, etc. So they may have a hard time answering questions about those specific subjects.
I think companies that over raised too soon are facing a reckoning.
Digital Ocean Postgres is 60% slower on average than AWS RDS
Good callout of usability. Does it need to be presented so dramatically?

"she couldn't figure out how to share photos, so I called her"

Could this not wait until later?
I think that the root issue here isn't as scary as it sounds (yes I know the OP is being ironic, but this is still a real concern that people have). One could easily write a tool that translates a foreign languages codebase into something english-readable. The plus here is that the bad google translations would probably yield descriptive names that are no worse than what we are already accustomed to.
Would you mind explaining what this means? I appear to be out of the loop.
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I thought you were kidding with the name of the startup, given its situation.

There has to be a word for that kind of irony?
A jury or pardon could conceivably provide the first, but the latter would require a movement away from the rule of law. Outside of a jury or prosecutor, who has claim to make the call that what he did was for the greater good?
I see. Iirc, Access was too much developer-oriented last time I checked it around 20 years ago. As a developer you can just step up and try to take control, but users have no such courage. If excel merged parts of access later into a single product, suggesting, but not forcing users to maintain at least a partial scheme, then maybe. Sort of in-place gradual migration without “work here or go back” next morning ultimatums.
Thanks, I hate it!

It's like how every function in Excel is translated as well. `=SUMMEWENNS(…`

Complete nonsense, it makes my eyes bleed.
> Google's customers are the problem, not Google itself.

Kind-of?

Ultimately, Google's customers are relying on Google's own filtering methodology. That's normally reasonable -- for the vast majority of people the spam filter works (from the recipient's perspective) so often that the spam folder is rarely even checked for false positives.

However, Google has a scaling problem as noted by Brad Long later in the linked thread: linear scaling of human effort is too costly for them. That ultimately means that Google's services are offered on a like-it-or-leave-it basis, but leaving is made harder by the integration across the whole "Google ecosystem."
In reality data can't become private again, after being available. You may try to contact all users to delete their copy, but they may not respect that.
If you ever need connections with people in FinTech in Africa (Nigeria specifically) I can intro you to people as I know a lot of people in the ecosystem. Also keen to learn more about what you're building.
Absolutely astonishing work!
My favorite unintuitive iOS feature is “shake to undo”
Interesting; it seems that the dust in mines is actually conductive, and makes for a challenge with high-powered appliances.
Is this supposed to be sarcasm?

People it's clearly an unpopular opinion, and those bigger screens literally fly off the shelves...
It's the n-th startup backed by SoftBank.
I still see the majority of Mac owners as owning it as a status symbol rather than for the fact it has Unix. Most Mac users are not techies.
There are so many nice build tools for C, but unfortunately very few users will be happy to install and learn yet another tool.

And no matter which build system you choose, you'll find users who think your choice is awful and you should have picked their one true build system.
> I would argue in this narrow case - I would not point to nefarious undercurrents.

There are so many such 'narrow' cases, and they all just happen to work in Google's favor.
Reminds me of this tweet, essentially doing the same for English: https://twitter.com/MattAndersonNYT/status/77200275722200268...
Yes. For years I used a trivial brainpower challenge to prevent automated scrapers from getting it ("My first name @kalzumeus.com"), but I added the actual string last year and have no perceptible increase in spam as a result net of Google Apps filtering.
If there are hundreds of ants all carrying food home it's not important that one individual comes home quick.

If I want to get home I don't have much to gain from 10 other people coming home first.
If it has a TED talk it's pretty much guaranteed to be vaporware
Back when I took the 'C# certification' (70-483 I think?) there were multiple questions in the style 'which of the following answers will make the program compile', where all four answers had a syntax error, or the program had a syntax error at a different line that would cause an issue regardless of your answer.

I tried the dispute process but it's basically impossible to dispute / report broken questions unless you have a photographic memory.
Pre ww2 that's what you did in Chemistry and to a lesser extent Physics
The idea is to understand why it's better to change, not to introduce a new problem.
With the power of c preprocessor, you can program in any natural languages. /s
First, the answer to whether or not an alien would understand the lambda calculus is no different than whether a dog or a dolphin can understand the lambda calculus. It depends on the wiring of their brain. The lambda calculus is recursive; perhaps then self-awareness/self-reference is a prerequisite to understanding.

Second, the claim that the lambda calculus was discovered but all programming languages are invented does not take into account LISP, which was both discovered and invented (cf. Paul Graham's "Roots of Lisp" (https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/jmc.ps?t=1564708198&).
I don't run any spam filters at all, with widely published mail addresses.

I'm getting about 2 spams per day, which doesn't really bother me.
The problem with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as an argument against academic knowledge is it may be true for the general population, however, the entire purpose of STEM academia is to subvert the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Teaching a kid quantum mechanics or calculus inherently has little to do with the general population's belief in religion or astrology or virtue signalling, for example.

The average Joe_6_Pack Arrival movie heptapod might culturally have an easier or harder time learning lambda calculus; its certain that the only people (well, heptapods) who would matter, the CS academics, would be quite familiar with lambda calculus.

STEM has a dependency chain such that its hard to do quantum mechanics without something like statistical thermodynamics and basic probability theory. Thus, cultures without statistical thermodynamics, like Ancient Rome or non-European cultures in general never developed quantum mechanics, therefore no nifty MOSFET transistors therefore no electric cars or industrial VFDs therefore no solar non-petrochemical energy industry therefore they die out or are replaced with more advanced cultures before interstellar travel is reached.

We don't know the dependency chain for interstellar travel but the more complicated things are, the more fragile they are, always, so its HIGHLY likely any two interstellar cultures would have identical dependency chains to pass various gates along the path. You can play games with early steam engines burning lignite or peat and it won't matter terribly much at the time or in the long run, but it seems there's only one way, using metal catalysts, to "invent" your first organic chemistry hydrogenation process, for example. You can make steel in a low tech medieval blacksmiths shop, but transistors have tighter constraints. Most of advanced civilization is a mask over fragile, complicated, and delicate dependency chains.

We'd like to think we're on the path to interstellar travel rather than self destruction, so obviously all interstellar aliens would have lambda calculus much like ourselves, because the gates we have to pass thru only pyramid and narrow as the task gets more complicated. And interstellar travel seems likely to be complicated.
media lab has a motto "demo or die", i don't think that's conducive to research in any way
Still true today in certain fields. E.g. if you’re an algebraic geometer (algebraic geometry is an important branch of mathematics), you pretty much have to learn French in order to study the foundational work of Grothendieck. To be fair, only a small subset of French is necessary.
Even a lot of “popular” site stuff ends up in spam. I basically have to regularly check my spam box, which previously I would look at a few times a year when a password reset or something didn’t show up.

Anti-trust regulators should specifically look at situations where Google began directly competing with other companies and those other companies gmail messages are being put in spam while Google’s messages are not. Whether or not it is intentional, it is a problem if Google is whitelisting their own stuff but not competitors.

Ultimately what is going on here is Google is using more deep learning for spam detection. Your friend’s email ending up in spam may be a false positive. It may also be a test, to see if you notice it.
What a great resource, I am learning opengl right now and also working on a scientific visualization project. Very much looking forward to rendering meshes.

Right now I'm trying to convert a ROOT based 3D event display to a blender plugin using python. Very curious to hear about the work and resources of others also doing sciviz work.
What worker's paradise do you live in that people get notice or feedback they're getting fired?

In every professional job I've had, if they like you they give slightly negative performance reviews and never mention what you do right, to encourage you to focus on their weaknesses and to encourage a healthy skepticism in your own abilities to keep you from having the confidence to look around.

If they want to get rid of you, they'll give glowing reviews. The business has judged you'll never get better, so no harm in letting you have excessive confidence. Also, when the shot comes, it comes like a bolt from the blue, so everyone else (who had worse reviews) knows the sword of Damocles is hanging over their head, and there's cause to can even the top performers at any time.

To the OP: if you're considering the person to be at all more important than a shop machine or raw materials, you're doing good, and I laud your compassion.
Glorified landlord?
Sounds too ambitious.

There are people working at 900kw chargers at BYD, and they say that cabling for it is already so stiff and heavy that it's bordering on the limit of what is humanly possible to handle.

Under spec electronic components are exploding in split second. Imagine a bank of DC-DC converters operating at 600A, and where few stages go out of sync. 10% of 600A is still 60A that turns into heat, in addition to heat already generated by normal operation.
But, I can well imagine an art assisting program that I can feed my doodle to that can return a photographic (or other artistic) rendering of a person in that pose, even such that I can rotate the image, alter the pose, perhaps even animate it.

I still perhaps wouldn't understand why I should have chosen other poses, or why the lighting doesn't work, or why my material choice for the clothing fabrics hampers the expression I was seeking ... but it seems like an artist could come and touch up those elements.

Surely a similar level of thing could be done for programs (eventually)?

I'm a non-programmer in a new work environment where I'm feeling like I want to modify all the programs and add some functionality. In particular I've a lex-parse process I'd like to automate, relatively easy to describe sufficient to do it (with time I'll probably do it myself in PHP/python). But, doing that "doodle it" routine for such a simplistic app would be really useful.
I meant to re-think on the problem you are solving. Will it be used as a pain killer or a supplement.

Often, people ignore supplements, cannot ignore the pain killer.

Eg: Yelp (pain killer) solved the pain by putting all restaurants together. I built a (vitamin) plugin (lemony - chrome extension), to display restaurant's FDA ratings - while you can't completely ignore FDA ratings but easy to overlook.
Personally I hate the big phones, but I would prefer to have a dumb phone with physical buttons if I didn't need all the two factor apps, public transportation ticket apps, car apps and whatnot.

Right now I am looking at the Sony Xperia 1 as it seems to be the best "smallish" phone now a days.

Yes, I know I am in the minority.
> It highlights the one weakness of text based code formats

This is why I program exclusively in Piet
Thanks. I put it on my todo list to send you an e-mail when I read and think through the book; about sharing it with the wider world, we'll see then.
It's promising to see some other areas more than the cars trying to use electric vehicles. I hope we can reach a 100% electric (and clean generation) before it's too late...
Grumpy Website deserves to be mentioned here: https://grumpy.website/
My complaints are that the OS seems slow. Maybe it's the animations, but it feels slow.

Or when podcasts are buffering, instead of giving an indication, the play button stays on pause. Confused me until someone on the internet told me.

The UI is unintuitive, but for work purposes it was fine.

Found the near daily updates I had to "sign in" AND enter passcode for annoying. Especially when I was in work crisis mode.

Not sure why Android doesn't have these problems, but I don't understand why anyone would get an iPhone, they feel years outdated.
It's much harder to understand an existing source code if you don't understand its function and variable names.
That Hotmail branding survived long after the purchase; in the last few years it's the same interface as their 365 business offering now, and under outlook.com branding.
>8 year old laptop valued at $3000

One has to wonder, how much did it cost new?
This is valid python3, try it out.

數字 = 23
運行 = True
假 = False
整數=int
輸入=input
印出=print
while 運行:
猜測 = 整數(輸入('輸入一個數字: '))

if 猜測 == 數字:
印出('恭喜, 你猜對了.')
運行 = 假 # 這會讓循環語句結束
elif 猜測 < 數字:
印出('錯了, 數字再大一點.')
else:
印出('錯了, 數字再小一點.')
else:
印出('循環語句結束')
印出('結束')

See:

http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/11/21/chinese-python-translat...
In a mining situation, why would you think they’d be handled by humans? I would expect it to be a machine driven coupler. Completely unrealistic in a consumer situation due to potential damage and liability. But in a mine? Nobody is going to care about a scratched body panel.
Why not just run multiple chargers in parallel?
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I've been using focusmate for four months. It's been absolutely revolutionary for me. (I work remote at home, so YMMV.)

Here are some of the ways:

(1) I’ve been getting a ton more done and feeling better about it.

(2) It really does help me focus. I hardly ever get distracted from the task at hand. I used to get distracted a lot.

The focus does not come from being watched, but because I’m "working together" with someone else, and I don’t want to let them or myself down. And because of the built-in break/recovery schedule. It's like a hack for my brain.

(3) I schedule back-to-back sessions, so I have 50 minutes of 100% focus and then 10 minutes between. In the 10 minutes I use the bathroom, get coffee, clear my head, walk around, or stretch. These things I’m sure help enable the 100% focus for the 50 minutes. I don’t feel as worn out at the end of the day (and I get more done).

(3) Declaring my goal for the session at the beginning and then reporting on it at the end has caused me to become much more realistic about how long things take.

(4) Being more realistic about how long things take has made it possible to plan out my week. I’m now planning my day and week in "focusmate session sized blocks" of work. I do have to adjust the plan, but making the plan has been a huge help.

(5) Setting a focusmate appointment in the morning causes me me to get started at a constant time — for the first time in my life. Knowing that someone else is relying on me to be at the session makes me show up.

(6) The little bit of social connection helps working at home to not feel lonley.
According to my own distinction, Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer is unpossible:

A user is someone who asks why a software is not working (and even in the 21st century this is still far more common than it should be).

A programmer is someone who asks why and how a software is working. Eventually this also includes failure modes, so the user's question above will not stay unanswered forever.
Sounds like Linux excuses "you just aren't using it right"
Thx. Maybe I missed it but I'm looking for a column: "Has proven in court they don't log."
I tried out Postgraphile Realtime and it's pretty cool.

For anyone who wants something similar that's not GraphQL, then I'm in the early stages of developing a Phoenix (Elixir) implementation which broadcasts changes over websockets: https://github.com/supabase/realtime

See comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354039
If it's completely impossible to work on something that uses a foreign language, then it must be pretty important for people to be able to program with the language they already know.
Matrix, perhaps, since it's still evolving and is a decentralized solution focusing on privacy and security without the need for a phone number? [1]

[1]: https://shop.matrix.org/
It’s incredibly hard to make a great user experience look great.

Lots of people can’t tell the difference between something looking awesome and working well.
This would be the best idea. The robot judges all.
What's the point of an OAuth provider if it doesn't authenticate the user? I don't mean to be snarky, but this is something that's widely confused on the internet and by making a parallel statement I think this is most clearly indicated.

The fact is that authentication is required for both. My point is that "authentication" isn't a particular of OpenID 2, and focusing on that when explaining it is what's confusing.

For my part I was very confused when researching the two until I learned to mentally flag answers/posts that focused on this as noise.
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I had exactly the same experience. It really is not obvious that additional buttons lurk just offscreen in that dialog.