skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, currently it seems that any “popular vote” measure that takes away power from small states (like this one, or changing the senate or house) would disadvantage republicans, so it’s probably a nonstarter.

This isn't actually true, for a couple reasons:

1. Small states are already ignored in Presidential elections because most of them are solidly red or blue (see [0] and note how many small states have no visits at all). Pretty much the only small state that swings in elections is New Hampshire, so I suppose New Hampshire loses a bit by transition to a popular vote, but no other state really does. I'm prepared to bite that bullet.

2. Right now there are tons of suburban and rural Republicans in California and New York whose votes essentially don't count at all in the current system, but would in a popular vote.

People who have studied the potential effects of abandoning the Electoral College have found that it doesn't actually provide an unbalanced benefit to either party, though I concede that as long as Republicans think it would hurt Republicans, it won't happen.

[0]: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/campaign-events-2016
The post includes a link to a Colab where you can achieve the same for free.

Warning though - it took me ~2 months of training (on and off) to get it there.
As Operators Move to 5G, Video and Speed Improvements Kick In
I know someone who built a Model 1 clone in the 70s.. to get the ROM he went to a Radio Shack store and ran a little BASIC program that printed it.

(This guy worked at HP, on their calculator chips).
Right, always easy to see the good sides of other systems, but much harder to anticipate their failure modes. Besides the one you mention (of politicians being pawns of a party boss -- they owe their local seat only to their place on his list) proportional systems also have a habit of handing undue power to small, often extreme, parties when they have a tie-breaking vote.
Side topic: Any idea how sequence diagram in page [0] is created? It is not an image but text over-layed with some background images and I think it looks and feels awesome.

[0] https://paul.copplest.one/gists/secrets-management-sops.html...
Somersault Problems
Turning a product failure into a business success
Even with an abstraction layer like kubernetes you still have a lot of duplicate work if you're multi-cloud. Services need to be exposed with load balancers, and those will have different configurations to be setup. Same with any Volumes. And then you have platform updates on both sides, bugs, quirks.
plus the maintenance and upkeep of two clouds - two bills to inspect, two account managers to deal with, two sets of permissions and overall account configuration to setup, maintain and audit.
Multi-cloud is really a set of requirements that changes the whole game in terms of operational overhead. And we limited our example to kubernetes. I imagine any non-fictional-for-the-sake-of-example company would want to make use of other platform specific tools as you mention.
Data Management should be like driving a car from A to B point
>Turn the liver into a factory for making a bioscavenger enzyme. Led by biochemist Nageswararao Chilukuri, they used a harmless virus called an adeno-associated virus to ferry DNA instructions into the liver cells of mice. The result was the mice’s liver cells cranking out a potent version of PON1.

>Mice injected with the DNA-ferrying virus soon had high blood levels of the synthetic PON1 enzyme, which remained stable for the 5-month study. The rodents survived nine normally lethal injections of nerve agents over 6 weeks

now imagine that that virus and/or enzyme finds its way into cockroaches and the likes - the acquired resistance against the organophosphates (the nerve gases were a result of research into insecticides) would make them into super-cockroaches able to resist the humans' weapons of mass cockroach destruction, ie. insecticides.
HN doesn't delete comments, AFAIK (if you browse with showdead on you'll see far worse than this)
I do the same and together they work the best I find. Ad-blockers act at a different level than DNS blockers so can catch things that the DNS didn't (DNS only had domain, while ad-blockers have the full path)
Digital voting is a short term win and a long term catastrophe. Maybe we get better representation for a few cycles but all the voter fraud tactics that exist in regular paper ballot voting will creep into the process and be greatly amplified by the fact it is digital.

Countries with political leaders willing to stoop to the tactics of dictators will have a field day.
On the other hand, one could make the argument that, if Somalia had nuclear weapons, the world community would be incentivized to establish and maintain a secure government there. Not sure if I buy this argument, but I think it's worth considering.
Ending war means changing human nature.

Good luck with that!
> There's no possibility to keep going around until you figure out where you want to go.

I assume that traffic on the loops always has the right of way over traffic trying to enter the loops?

In that case, why can't you keep going around? At the place where the northbound inner loop becomes the southbound outer loop, it crosses the start of the southbound inner loop. The cars coming from the south trying to enter the southbound inner loop have to yield to the cars on the northbound loop, so it should be perfect safe for those cars to turn onto the southbound inner loop.

Note that allowing this maneuver is necessary if you want to allow eastbound or westbound travelers to make U-turns. If it is not allowed, then only northbound or southbound travelers can make a U-turn on this.
Somewhat relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law ; It’s an observation about why e.g. Whole Foods and Trader Joe would have branched next to each other, but also explains why in a two party system, parties end up having very similar platforms in practice with respect to most ”sliding scale” issues, like war. (And then there’s the polarizing no-middle all-or-nothing issues like abortion or immigration that are not addressed by this explanation)
The UK had a Alternative Vote referendum in 2011 that voted strongly for the current system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2011_United_Kin...

Mind you - we do have proportional representation for the Scottish Government and although it is rumoured that this was part of a design to ensure that the wrong party didn't get power the people of Scotland keep voting for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament#Elections
Three Chinese cities on lockdown, travel disrupted amid coronavirus outbreak
This was an accident, they meant to buy 2 blades for more SAN ports and they ordered the wrong parts.

They did this with a few database servers as well, they were supposed to order 8 core processors, but they ordered 10 core instead (it was a typo), they had 4 processors per machine it was a $40k extra mess not including the extra Oracle licenses needed to buy since Oracle licenses by cores (8 extra cores per machine and 3 machines).

But i do understand the spend it or lose it, which is another reason no one tries to be efficient.
Considering the price, this can probably retrofitted into a Chromebook. It looks like that it has a better build quality than most Chromebooks in that price range.
From your summary, I would understand VC to be a case of fractal finance.

It used to exist to fund research-heavy startups, that maybe governments would otherwise have to fund but maybe where governments shouldn't be sticking their paws in (in democratic countries anyway). But now it has become an industry of its own. Just like finance at large.
If you look at the source you'll find out that it is actually a SVG. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG
I bought one of these PLBs after spending 12h down a canyon with a broken ankle and no cell reception. Friends had to hike back out of the canyon and hike then drive for hours to get help. Never again.

Since then I got a sailboat and it's pretty standard in that field to have EPIRB, PLBs and the likes. There's life-vests that come with mini-PLBs in them. It's a bit pricey but it's essential in my opinion. I was lucky to be with friends and within reasonable distance of help when I got my accident. If something happens at sea, you need these NOAA satellites.
This is not the full explanation. The key problem here is that C++ runs on nearly everything, from your garden variety x86 to bizarre DSP architectures. The many, many template parameters are there so you can simultaneously say “you don’t pay for what you don’t use” and provide a library that works on weird systems.
There are plenty of alternative solutions:

Piwik, GoatCounter, GoAccess, Open Web Analytics, clicky, Snowplow, Gauges, etc.

The correct solution is to self-host all analytics involving data that can be used to identify, track, or analyze individuals.
The federal government cannot compete with private industry salaries and benefits for rare technical talent because of caps on federal salaries. Federal salaries are capped because attacking "government waste" and "lazy overpaid government workers" is popular with politicians and the electorate.

So instead the government outsources technical projects to private contractors... which means ultimately the government is paying those big salaries, and the profit margin on top of them.

One of many many "penny wise / pound foolish" problems with the way we do government services.
Apple: Losing Lightning port will create waste
Where international communities cluster
That's what I want to know. I would assume the article is talking about monitoring which IP's request which domains, but the overwhelming majority of requests that a registry sees have to be from downstream resolvers, right? In which case they don't know who's using the site, they only know that "somebody who uses this resolver" is using the site.

In most cases there are probably multiple levels of resolvers, so it might even be as coarse as "somebody on the west coast of the US is using this site," which isn't terribly useful.
I could just as easily start a system right now where I'll send you $15 to get a absentee ballot, vote how I want, and take a picture of it with some kind of unique identifier (post it note with your username on it, for example) before mailing it in.

It's possible that a much lower price would even work too, since if you were going to vote my way anyway, you'd do it for free. So I only have to convince the voters on the other side (and hope the electoral college doesn't override my proxy votes).
If they leveraged cloud scale computing DoD would just wreak more havoc why would anyone want them to increase in efficiency? They're NEVER giving back our billions so the only gain from efficiency is greater net misery.
Money is not their problem.
Would caffeine lead to early graying then?
> Of course there is major security risks, and problems that have to be solved, but it is MASSIVELY outweighed by the fact that mobile voting would mean almost 100% voter turn out overnight if done on a national level

Why not just allow everyone to vote online, with no registration? Just type in your full name and select a candidate, no email or password required. It'd guarantee 100% turnout - maybe even >100% turnout, if enough bots join the fun!

The problem with digital voting is that it cannot be made sufficiently secure. It's not a matter of "there are problems we haven't solved yet", but rather "there are problems that we provably cannot solve".
As someone living in a multi-party system, I'd say the difference is probably negligible. Having several smaller parties usually means the forming of two political blocs, within which the different parties must get along reasonably well while still trying to keep their constituents, which usually leads to compromises nobody is really fond of.
If that were really the case I would imagine PMCs like Blackwater would face a lot more consequences for war crimes than they actually have.
Anti-Data-Leak Pattern for Web Services
Airbnb competitor? Golightly home rental site is just for women
Im failing to see how the privacy and pricing pages stand in any kind of contrast to each other.

This business model is like literally every other SaaS platform that has a free tier. Would you trust them more if they had no free tier?
FICO Credit Score Adjustments Could Hurt Consumers with Growing Debt
Ask HN: Hiring managers – what do you want to see in a candidate's portfolio?
I'm going to start looking for a new full-stack developer job in a few weeks and I thought it would be a good idea to get a portfolio together. I'd love to hear from hiring managers (and recruiters) what they want from a candidate's portfolio in terms of what should and shouldn't be on there?

A little spiel about me and a showcase of my projects of course is important. How important is the design? Highlights of code samples? Detailed case studies? I'm not sure what I should prioritise beyond the basics.
I hope they do. And in the process do the same for Android.
> Just the fact that StackOverflow have been accused of not being inclusive at all.

Can you clarify this? Anyone can sign up with an account and the whole thing is meritocratic.
> Women Make is here to promote women, and on a moderation level, I will always make sure women are being put at the forefront.

This is exactly what I don't get. What does this mean? The moderation team will be all female? Biased towards females? Because to me it just seems like all you need is for everyone to be decent to each other. I don't see the women centric angle here.
The US has nukes. Nobody's ever going to attack it directly. Why do you need overwhelming military dominance in conventional forces then? I suspect it has something to do with being able to force point of view by having big stick available to back it up.
> If they mean that there is a public URL you go to, and then on the site only have to enter you birhdate and name to log in, and then you can vote--that can't be right. There's gotta be more than that.

Of course there is. You also need a User-Agent that says you're a phone. And you can't set the evil bit. ;D
How much does one of those go for if you don't mind me asking.

From the article...
>By law, beacon owners are required to register their devices online with NOAA. The registration information helps provide better and faster assistance to people in distress, and can guard against false alarms.

What does that registration process look like exactly?
It says "joining here to empower women", so presumably it's fine if you want to empower everyone in your daily life, so long as your purpose for joining this community is to empower women.
Man, I feel like it's the 75th of January already. Does this month ever end?
That's interesting...

We had to verify everything was approved through DADSM (potentially navy specific), but other than that as long as we had a legal license to run we were good.

This is what forced me into using centos for our deployed infrastructure, and mIRC as our chat client of choice.
Spot the Robot Dog Trots into the Big, Bad World
Not really, as HTTPS doesn't currently encrypt the HTTP host header. It might someday, but even that wouldn't be foolproof.
This "admission" isn't worth anything. Suspended by the wrists tiptoeing into my own shit for days? Sure I would tell them I was operating an al-quaeda safe house, that I was a driver/messenger and that my mother was the queen of England.
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My view is that Amazon did help write the requirements, and then lost the contract thinking it was in the bag. So now they are taking it to court because they were shocked their in the bag contract wasn't rewarded.
Theranos wasn't really VC funded. There were angels (whales if you prefer) and corporate but not much VC and certainly no major funds (DFJ being an exception).

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos#section-fun...

A16Z as a firm took pains to say that it didn't invest and that Sand Hill VCs couldn't diligence Theranos.

https://a16z.com/2020/01/11/16-bio-myths-misconceptions/

But Marc Andreessen himself was a big Holmes fan.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/05/theranos-silicon-val...
Crybullies just want to control, harass and abuse people. Other people give them power when they don't tell them to "just fuck off." Don't give them power and don't let them into positions of power, and then they won't be ruining the world because their own lives are so small and miserable.
Boston Dynamics Grows Spot Developer Toolkit
but isn't that exactly how reddit works?

Model S owners need to populate something like /r/TeslaModelS and then your issues are solved.
Presumably Amazon performs some sort of cost/benefit analysis before suing the federal government.
uber's model is/was essentially putting their competition (taxis) out of business with VC subsidized rides.
Specific example I came across (may have even been a scientific study). Memory is a bit hazy, but roughly:

Dentists routinely recommended the more-expensive ceramic teeth replacements for teeth in the back, even though ceramic is less durable than the metal counterparts. Even though you basically can never see the hind teeth, so cosmetic reasons shouldn't have applied as they do for front teeth.
Co-Founding Snappa: From Idea to Product Market Fit
GPU Monitor: Fun thing to watch GPU usage on cluster
Seattle has long ago decided that advantages of remote voting outweigh the disadvantages. If your boss doesn't give you time off to go vote you are essentially being coerced not to vote anyway.

The only difference here is whether the post office or a TLS connection are more trustworthy to deliver your vote.
Maybe it's best if we don't go off topic into that. HN has had massive discussions about it and this wouldn't be a great place for another.
We need greater democratic oversight of AI
My code is compiling ;)

No, really, I'm waiting for an O(n^4) algorithm to finish processing a full HD frame to confirm that it works before I put in the effort of building a GPU version.
Might be a mermaid graph, I think.

https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
Many newspapers with paywalls also do this.
Ask HN: Printing Hardcover Notes
I just thought it would be useful to print some of my notes in hardcover format.

I did a quick search and found articles on printing hardcover books for mass distribution. There are all sorts of costs involved with this.

I really just want to print my notes for personal reference.

Can you suggest a low cost service to print hardcover versions of notes that you have used or know about?
I missed that as well. Glad you found it!
Related question that has crossed my mind: what is this risk exposure of a linux server that is accessible via the internet that has port 22 enabled, and only has users with --disabled-password set (requiring ssh connection)?

As a follow up, what is increased benefit (if any) if port 22 is only accessible by a certain IP address (e.g. my home address)?
> How much does one of those go for if you don't mind me asking.

They cost a few hundred dollars.

Which is well worth it if you've broken your ankle at the bottom of a canyon imho.
THEY are using news of seventies-era computer clones to hack your PC and ruin your life. You know... them.
What could us men do to improve the support they give on sites other than Women Make? I'm always afraid that my attempt at a supportive gesture will feel like I'm patronising or mansplaining.
Surprisingly they also have a history channel, with the real stories behind many of their songs.
> The private system in the US however seems a poster child for excessive cost.

The US system is very far from a free market.
So many websites are completely broken with JavaScript disabled. With or without, even printing a webpage to PDF is becoming a challenge. I sincerely wonder how disabled people use the web nowadays.
Google FixMatch: SOTA Performance on Semi-Supervised Learning Benchmarks
This. The thing about "get out the vote" campaigns is, they're intended to draw out the least-involved, least-informed members of the electorate. Which in my book is a bad thing.

Voting is not the only civic duty - educating yourself on the issues at hand is also part of that civic duty. If someone doesn't want to vote because taking the legally-mandated time off to go to the polls or fill out their mail-in ballot is "too much work," I'm not sure they're living up to their end of the bargain as a citizen.

Exercising your right to vote doesn't mean you value it. Shouldn't we be asking how we can get people to value their vote enough to be engaged?

Irrespective of that, haven't we already witnessed the mass security issues that come with making voting machines digital? Do we really want to subject that flawed scenario to even more flaws by putting it out on the web? Do we never learn?
The actual How of doing it is not an issue. The question is whether you have the leverage to do it and still get funded.

Any decent lawyer can setup voting and non voting stock, giving founders guarantees of control even if they lose a majority of ownership. Similarly you can award yourself stock at each round. But VCs are not fools. Either your product is amazing and they really believe in you (and will accept no control and possible dilution). Or they don't and you will have to cede at least some control to get funding.
Doesn’t this contradict the other article that was upvoted on how procrastination is more emotional than anything else?

To say it is ADHD is to suggest it is neurological e.g. some chemical imbalance in the brain, but if it’s really an emotional response then saying you have ADHD is more like pointing out the symptom rather than the cause here.
Because now that some already have WMD, none of them is likely to give them up. The only option is for others to have them.
“The ideal timeframe to use for the reward function”

One can punt on this. One can live for today under the constraint of no heroin, etc. Actually I think devs have a lot of exp with these types of problems as managing tech debt is a very similar problem---weighing (mutually interactive) actions at different timescales.
This the easiest and most realistic step in my opinion; the people lobbying heavily to preserve the current Senate system would just be entrenched local tyrants. I think the vast bulk of Americans would be swayed by the idea of having at least one Senator who almost completely shares their politics.

If the result is that the Senate becomes the most interesting and representative body, gradually shift the bulk of power there on whatever issues it's best at. If the result is that the Senate becomes a disaster, abolish the entire body.
The HN community wouldn't like it (to put it mildly) if we deleted things based on what we consider unnecessary. They're a curious bunch who want to be able to see everything and decide for themselves. On the other hand, most users don't actually want to wade through the dreck; they just want the option.

The solution is: we don't delete comments outright unless the author asks us to. The most we'll do is kill them, which means they get marked as [dead] and are visible to users with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile.
Try a mobile Chrome UA, such as the one for a recent Galaxy Tab.
What If Competition Isn’t as “Natural” as We Think?
My Intune instance does not have these checkboxes yet, I wish they'd make the changes before they push the new Office, or there'll be heck to pay.
It is an aberration.
Q: "Is it Worth Getting an Annual Physical Exam?"

A: "No"

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it-worth-getting-an-annu...
Thank you for making this, what you’re doing is so important. I was wondering if your site is inclusive toward trans women? I didn’t see any mention of it on your About page so I thought I would ask. Looks great by the way and I’m excited to see it grow!
>A year later, Walnut Tree Farm was bought by a couple, Jasmin and Titus Rowlandson, who have maintained his commitment to ungentrified country living...it is warmed by an Aga stove.

There's not much more gentric than an Aga