skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(disclaimer: I wasn't one of the downvoters)

My take was that Cummings saw Farage as a useful way to draw in the anti-immigrant crowd whilst being able to wash Vote Leave's hands of hints/accusations of racism?

Interesting to see the video with Deutsch there; I wasn't aware he had publicised opinions on this. Seems like you could summarise his argument as saying that adversarial political systems are more democratic and more effective than consensus-based political systems. It seems quite odd to me in the same way that some of his work in physics is. He's taken a principle of Popper's ("Democracy is measured by how easy it is to remove a policy or government") as a seemingly absolute axiom and spread it quite thinly to the extent that FPTP is seen as more democratic simply because policies get added and removed more frequently. I can see how this attitude links in with Cummings' obsession with effectiveness.

Although FPTP probably does make it easier for some policies to be repealed, I think it makes it a lot harder for some policies to be introduced. It results in a kind of "package-deal" politics in which you can often only effectively vote for a certain policy when it's bundled up with a load of other policies which you may or may not like. Take for example cannabis decriminalisation, which over half of the UK support and most of the rest don't have any strong opinion over. The two main parties havenever paid it any attention as they see it risky, therefore it's never seriously discussed.

My previous reading about institutional differences between the UK and the EU had left me with the impression that the EU is significantly more "democratic" in the sense that the broad spread of people's attitudes and opinions is being represented and percolated up to the legislative processes. For example, although the EU Commission isn't directly elected, it is at least selected by heads of state and approved by Parliament members, is renewed every 5 years and can be scuppered in a vote of no confidence. Parliament members are by and large voted in in a proportional way, which I see as generally a positive thing. By contrast the HoL - although it does not propose legislation - wields a certain amount of influence over how legislation is passed, is effectively unelected, and many members are there for life.

There's also the fact that the EU as a political body appears to be more of a self-modifying organism than the UK's political body. For example, recent years/decades have seen significantly more power being vested in the EU Parliament. This may be to do with how young the EU is - it's still working on its method of government.

With Brexit looking quite inevitable now, it will be interesting to compare the ongoing performance of the UK and set it against that of the EU.
https://www.namesilo.com/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
One of the comments on the page points out this:

> Hong Kong life expectancy: Hong Kong is a city with no rural area. If you look at the life expectancy of just Sydney, leaving out the rest of Australia you get 86.7 years instead of 82.5. It's no secret that life expectancy in cities is generally longer, especially if they are well to do ones that don't make their money from accident prone industries.
Actually, the best way to keep people out is to convince them it is not worth it to try to get in.
https://www.tillerhq.com/
It's basically an addon for google sheets and excel online that imports transactions into some premade templates. It's paid, but directly gives you the power of sheets.
The criticisms section in the Fertility and intelligence article on Wikipedia is interesting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence#C...
Yep, people should use local grasses and clovers. I've let the clover here take over my back yard and it's been wonderful with attracting bees - plus I don't have to mow it very often.
Paul Krugman: My computer was hacked to 'download child pornography'
Had been using PocketMoney on Palm and iPhone for about 20 years, but the new developer just released a “new version” which is actually copied from another app and bears no resemblance to the original. It was a complete hostile takeover of the user-base for the app (Does this violate and Apple rules? How do you report this type of thing?).

Thinking of giving up and just using GnuCash on desktop now.
Because Apple obviously sucks. I don't understand how hard it is for all their happy customers to understand that they suck. /s
So for tools like https://www.checkbot.io/ specifically, where the tool gives you a list of problems to go and fix, it would be easy to use the tool on a commercial project and conceal that you did so.

I can see a license like yours working for a library you had to integrate though as I can't imagine any serious company would risk integrating a library in a way that violates the license.
> https://github.com/search?q=const_cast&type=Code

We must have very different notions of "virtually never": https://github.com/search?q=const_cast&type=Code

> has to be done very explicitly.

That doesn't make it visible to the caller.
Spotify will use targeted podcast ads (for all users)
The Capitol Corridor runs through the East Bay to San Jose, so it's used by a number of bay area commuters.
I think this is a more complex issue than some make it out to be.

That said, if you walk into a restaurant and start yelling about something, they can absolutely kick you out, because it's a private company, not the government.
For a single person - probably, but most people have kids. It’s much more complicated to use public transport with small kids, they require a lot of stuff to be carried around for them
No one is using the physical objects for their research. They sequenced it (at your request) and are only using the information for research...
> Microsoft counts things like Office 365 and Azure AD as “cloud.”

Even if that was true, AWS also counts their parallel but far less complete services.
IIRC the Unix compatibility layer had some pretty grotty warts. Porting Unix applications virtually always required fiddling to get them working, especially the network code.

Unfortunately this meant BeOS was perpetually behind the curve on stuff like the World Wide Web. I had a native FreeBSD build of Netscape long before Be managed to get a decent browser.
Indeed; "as soon as you have to explain yourself, you've lost the argument".
I agree there is probably a solution for this, but these companies could have discussed this with the cities prior to dumping thousands of discarded scooters everywhere. It's being a bad neighbor to force the city to deal with a problem it didnt have last week because you have VC funding and dont mind littering. So yes, Id rather ban them and subsequently address the issue.
Really doubt this. Instead I would look into the connection between anti depressants/anti psychotics and suicide. There's research of strong connections, but immunity is claimed by the drug companies, "because they were already depressed/mentally unhealthy when put on the drugs". Mental health professionals and managers at large drug companies need to start going to jail for over-prescribing psychiatric drugs.

The next big culprit is other drug addiction, like fentanyl and heroin. Stemming the flow of cheap fentanyl dumped into the United States by China and throwing doctors in jail who over prescribe these drugs would do wonders for people.
> The idea being that we could write code in the human-readable imperative style and let the computer distill it down to its pure functional equivalent

Here we are, folks pulling their hairs for decades wrt how to most efficiently trans/compile higher-order FP idioms to minimal-overhead imperative --- and you want to go the other way around!

Kidding aside, the "functional sub-language" of cell-lang.net has a feature like this, functions are pure but you get the imperative sugars (loops, branches) while preserving purity guarantees like referential transparency.
Nice and creative! Milky way and earth spinning should be more presented in this way
Well America has a difficult problem to solve. And that is its workforce is insanely expensive.
Or lets say the rest of the world is insanely poor compared to the americans.

We often joked here in Eastern Europe that we would be better off leaving our current IT jobs and just go to the US to work at McDonalds.
And, you know, basic financial planning... For the vast majority of people, renting basic unsubsidized transit methods on a daily basis costs far more than owning and operating your own. Good for you if your financial situation allows you to ignore that fact, but it’s rather yuppy bubble thinking to assume that applies to everyone.
The major issue for me with biking, particularly e-biking, is that it can be very expensive if your bike is stolen. Secure bike parking is hard to come by in many places, and even secured bike parking can be broken into. In my city it's also very hilly, so I've taken a rideshare bike down the hill but not up it. Docking also solves this problem, but the problem with docks is that they have to go through whatever NIMBY-obstructed local process the municipality has for setting up docks, they have to be appropriately densely spaced together, etc. and that's a lot of work. Bike/scooter share, at least initially, tried doing the Uber model of "break rules and apologize/legalize later", but I think cities wised up after Uber did it once.
It's a nice better experience in dedicated bike lanes.
Probably, but he's lucky anyways. For a Croatian fisherman, asking for 20,000 Kuna is like asking for 30 grand in the US.
What's not legal? Requiring that a worker be at their desk at a certain time? Doubt it. Now if they're not getting paid for the time when they're setting up, I agree that's probably not legal.
>Definitely a rough environment, but it wasn't as bad as it sounded

Not as bad as hell on earth is still really really bad.
It's not weather you need, it's infrastructure. Scooters clogging sidewalks is an infrastructure problem. Scooters having to deal with car traffic is an infrastructure problem.

The solution to these infrastructure problems are to get a can of paint, make a bike lane, and a scooter parking space. Let the app geofence, and voila, a functional transit network that avoids all the annoyances everyone states ad infinitum until local council bans them.
You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds
> we underestimate as a society how damaging it is because it's so hard to measure

I'm not sure I agree with that. It has been known within public health for decades that poverty is an important predictor of life expectancy and quality of life.

The real problem in the US appears to be a deep cultural belief in self-sufficiency, and an accompanying unwillingness to vote for politicians who support implementation of said safety nets.
America’s National Climate Strategy Starts with NEPA
+1 to this.

I've got a few bookmarked, but I haven't tried them: Porkbn, Nuage, Hover, and Namesilo.
Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping
Before GPS was printing off maps from google and before that were map books that you buy at gas stations. Navigating through a big city to somewhere tricky by yourself was no joke. It was a lot of memorization ahead of time and intense concentration to make sure you didn't miss key turns. We didn't just forget how to do something, it was never easy and I don't miss those days at all. I don't remember exactly how to do long division either but I do a lot more simple calculations now to figure things out than I did before. Saving mental energy is very real.
Ricky Gervais and the Challenge of “New Hollywood”
I don't understand why this statistic matters... its private property and you have no say how they use their homes... if you want to help people get homes lower the regulations so the barrier to entry lower... oh ya and repeal dumb zoning laws :)
We may want to solve this problem so they can breed and have highly effective children.
SSRIs saved my life, I don't like such wild claims. Don't be afraid of psychiatric drugs if you are hurting.
At least in SF, you would take your own scooter to the office in the morning, and walk back in the evening. Because your scooter got stolen, and the police don't really bother chasing down a $300 item.
I guess the employee could send the video anywhere, including to themselves.
> Democracy works great when people know what they're talking about.

Energy policy has been widely discussed in Germany for three decades. There was even a party founded which had this as one of their main political topics. That party has been relatively stable and has been in the federal government for a few years.

> Stuttgart 21; Berlin Brandenburg Airport; Elbphilarmonie ... that's an easier sell because they look fancy

None of these decisions were particular popular.

> Nuclear research of any kind has a massive stigma associated to the label

Rightly so. But worse is nuclear deployment in the form of large scale nuclear power plants in densely populated countries.
Ask HN: What is the real value of a “Day of mourning”?
Let cooler heads prevail, this too shall pass....

My question is does somber reflection result in any benifit other than enabling the spin doctors to come up with a concensus as to the lies that will be told?
The market can be easily scared by the thought of random employees spying on them. I'd easily pay $50 for that peace of mind.
I don’t think there are local income taxes (at least visible to the employee) but they are IMO a part of the community, pay taxes indirectly (property taxes where they work, sales taxes, etc.) and should have a say because of that.
you supposed to maintain per-minute log of work that you are doing and they install on computer special software to keep track of what you are doing exactly.
of course, this is only in order to help you be more productive and improve your time management skills (quote)
> We had to be in Avail status at the exact start of our shift or be counted late. For example, if I was scheduled to be in at 10am, I had to be in Avail at 10am. Meaning I had to take care of booting up computer, etc. before then.

Reminds me of the work I did for a major car company in sub-manufacturing.

We had to be at our stations by the time our shift-start buzzer went, with the machine running. Machine status was logged and visible on displays from every corner of the plant so there was no slipping in a minute late. A second late meant 15 minutes docked pay. Keeping in mind the trip from the locker room to many of the stations in my department took several minutes to walk.

Similarly for breaks—the machine had to run until the break buzzer, then you had to lock everything down for safety, record your numbers, then walk to the break room if you wanted a snack, a smoke—whatever. You also had to be back, machine spun up and running by the time the buzzer went for the end of the break. The breaks were 10 minutes long, and lunch was 20. In reality, if you were quick, you got about five minutes of your break and about 10-15 of your lunch. (Also keeping in mind the work was dirty and potentially poisonous so you had to be sure to wash thoroughly before eating anything).

These stringent rules resulted in many shouting matches between some of the management and a few staff members. It also resulted in a big campaign by the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers union) which in turn resulted in a propaganda campaign by the company and threats of shutting down to move. This plant also paid a good $10 an hour less than their unionized counterparts and competitors. Thankfully, we did have good supportive supervisors—the smallest of buffers.

Don't get me started on the quotas and their arbitrary increases to beyond the machine's production capacity...

FWIW: The larger company has a good reputation—their subsidiaries, however, were different.
it might as well be - "gig" work is not bound by min wage laws.

ask an instacart worker how that's worked out for them.
Usually easier to slightly raise/lower your furniture.

A surprising amount of furniture already comes with levelers (1) that no one ever adjusts. Raise them up 1/4" and it can then pass under. If not, tacking on some small furniture glides are usually enough (2).

1) https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImage/A27C_1_201906171218...
2) https://i.etsystatic.com/17715291/r/il/b873a3/1550855907/il_...

These have the advantage of allowing it to clean under the furniture as well. Every time ours got stuck I'd adjust the height a bit and haven't had a problem in over a year.
Of course you can dump the current executable from memory (with varying effort depending on anti-tamper tech), but the point is that you can't examine them ahead of time. They're pulled & applied right before a match starts and the relevant code is used immediately.
The minimum wage should be livable - sincerely any good person
As the article states, these anti-vax pamphlets suggest parents buy the advertisers natural remedy products instead.
We built a video security assistant that's completely autonomous. Hoping to start selling direct in a month or so.
They were a freenode sponsor.
Does anyone have access to the paper? Raising the minimum wage means less jobs will be available, as employers cut costs and perform layoffs. My assumption is the paper neglects to factors this into their analysis, but if they do, I'd love to read it.

edit: paper shared below!
Only if the momentum wasn't transferred to the mirror.

Which is, in fact, what happens. Solar sails exploit this fact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
That's like any technology, it appears then you regulate bad behavior. Parking enforcement didn't appear before cars were invented and were suddenly parking on every free surface with no order or logic, getting in the way of pedestrians.
I do all of those things, but I am finding the NMN to be quite costly. I take almost the same amount as Dr. Sinclair, which means going through a bottle of pills every three to five days. I really hope someone makes a less expensive version soon. I do feel the difference and can probably attribute it to higher ATP production. I have no idea if it's helping my cardio vascular system.
It's always interesting to read about these things. It's amazing to me how hard it is to find a bug like this.

Also interesting, zerodium would pay up to $2million for something like this, and even more now on Android.
Seems like overkill, and potentially harmful (if someone gets their eye in the way of the beam, or even a pretty good reflection of the beam).
As an optimisation, you can override += separately from +. A pretty well known oddity related to this is:

>>> a = ([0],) # a tuple (immutable) containing a list (mutable)
>>> a[0] = a[0] + [1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
>>> a
([0],)
>>> a[0] += [1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
>>> a
([0, 1],)

Though to be fair, technically nothing prevents "+" from mutating either operator (it'd just get you tarred and feathered).
Maybe the real story here is that Facebook is barely functional at most things but managed to get their crap enough together to focus on being a #1 social network. Like if you went out all night, got drunk, woke up with a severe hangover and still managed to get to work and skate through the day? That's X company doing anything other than that one thing they exist to do.

The manager responsible for this moderation then can only hold it enough together to focus on X metrics, and happiness isn't one of them. Add one more metric and this person would probably fall apart and get thrown onto the pavement.

Engineers don't get treated like this because there's actual competition in hiring the best talent.

The workers need to organize to present their own metrics. Or figure out a way to make employee happiness a metric to focus on. Or somehow find the super person who can figure this all out (but then this person would get elevated to a more important part of the business.) Maybe it would be best to outsource this part of the business and then have the contractors compete on creating and delivering on these metrics. Or maybe create competing teams internally which can do the same, but rewarded with better pay?
What would increased minimum wage due to small business (<$50m/yr in revenue)? Wouldn't it force them to cut shifts/hours/consolidate positions?
This seems pretty reductionist. Every event isn’t attributable to economics.
Re/ medicare for all ... Canada has universal health care yet a very similar suicide rate to the USA.[1] Canada doesn't have a livable minimum wage either. Each province sets its own. There is talk of UBI experiments.

[1] https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-vs-can...
Are you still on them?
> The whole model of needing to own your own transportation devices is flawed.

99% of all our family journeys begin and end at our home. Happily we own two (ICE) vehicles, they're sitting outside the house right now ready to be used tomorrow.

(As an aside) I've just booked a flight for Sunday (o/w flight $46 including all taxes and fees). I'm flying the best part of 600mi, so I've booked a rental car at the destination airport. It's going to cost me $72 for three days rental, including all taxes and fees.

None of this stuff is new...
Facebook is investing billions of dollars in the psychology of engagement (aka addiction). It's not an individuals fault.
> The hardware to do this locally isn't that expensive

Wyze cams do "edge detection" AI in-camera, and those cameras are only $20-25. It seems to work pretty well to me. Although, the company that developed the AI is pulling out of the contract with Wyze. Nonetheless, it shows that it can be done cheap.
BeOS did not use a microkernel, it was a straight-up up boring monolithic kernel.
I avoid the ones that require an account to sign in or rely heavily on cloud services.

This is the best IoT advice I can give anyone. I've had at least a dozen "smart" lightbulbs orphaned by two different companies. One went out of business, the other just decided not to support them anymore.

The amazing thing is with the first group of bulbs, the IoT company actually pushed out a software update bricking the controller box before it went out of business. This was a box that could have functioned forever because there were several tinkerers who had reverse-engineered the protocol and seemed close to releasing open source integrations.

Naturally, there was no notice. The only way I found out was when the bulbs wouldn't respond anymore and I went to the company's web site where there was a notice.

You know what doesn't always work? Smart light bulbs.

You know what always works? Dumb light bulbs.
... who would never work for 0 themselves, even though their own work arguably provides little tangible value.
> They're a governmental agency for crying out loud.

Actually, the MTA is a Public Interest Corporation. There is a difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_...
Morning or mourning?
This isn't either a known library or framework or an Auth-as-a -Service. But I've enjoyed it in the past (if you like TypeScript/Node) and don't want to use passportjs for everything: https://github.com/accounts-js/accounts