skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is exactly the reason why absentee voting should be an exception. Every single person who takes an absentee ballot purely out of convenience is hurting democracy, even if only very slightly. And it's not just plain out vote buying, there are also various forms of soft, even unintended coercion that encroach on a voter who votes outside of the enforced privacy of a booth. If it was possible to run statistics on this I'm quite sure that there would be statistical evidence of spouses voting more alike when voting at home than when voting alone in the booth.
If you do any gaming, Linux is surely better than hackintosh these days. Though MS can still be viewed as hostile towards it.
How’d you deal with continuously training with Google Colab? I’ve noticed there’s sometimes I/O errors when loading data from large directories and runtime disconnects after a few hours that force me to reauthorize Drive access manually.
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Because the aviation industry has powerful regulators and an absolute culture of safety first. Every mishap is dissected until a root cause is found, and steps are taken to ensure that root cause never happens again. After a major incident, it's almost impossible for the same incident to occur the same way again.

Nothing like this exists in the medical industry. In fact surgeons and doctors are notoriously anti-process, anti-statistics, and basically don't want anyone scrutinising how they work. I'm not sure how they've been able to get away with it for so long.
For 1, Body shape/bone estimations and gait can't be easily masks.
I explained myself poorly. My argument was that:

1. IF the government comes to rely heavily on the security of signal, THEN the government will want to make signal as secure as possible.

2. The approach the government may take to make signal stronger could be to regulate signal. For instance the government might require background checks on everyone authorized to push out signal updates.

3. Such regulation is likely to have the unintended effect of making signal less secure by causing the designers of signal to abandon the project.

Now this is a pessimistic take. An optimistic take could be that the tool the US government uses to strengthen signal is to fund developers and give out grants for security research on signal. As another poster pointed out the US government funds TOR.
Url changed from https://www.enterpriseai.news/2020/01/22/mit-says-its-foreca..., which points to this.
Postman's Law.
I did a little web [0] to keep track of the Doomsday Clock history, or at least visualize it better.

[0]: https://fdelmazo.github.io/doomsday-clock/
Basic concepts != random vague theories
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emacs as a binary editor: useful. Any other uses: counter-productive. I've (painfully) watched some amazingly gifted researchers/engineers using it, and saw them waste about 50% of their attention trying to use it.
Emacs is not an editor, it is an OS with non-obvious semantics.
Yes, though I'd describe it more as a fully-customizable popup menu that appears when you type a certain keystroke. Once the menu appears you can type more keystrokes to perform an action or bring up another custom menu.

Also, it's possible to configure it so that there's a delay between the time you type a keystroke and the menu appears, so that if you remember the key-sequence you need to type to perform a certain action and you type it fast enough, then the menu won't pop-up, but if you forget the full sequence then you can type just the first keystroke and then wait a bit and the menu will pop up and remind you of what needs to be typed to execute the action you want.

It's super handy, and is one of my all-time-favorite emacs packages.
Time series methods have been applied to economic data since time immemorial. There is nothing particularly newsworthy here beyond the fact that another wannabe mathematician is trying to find a way to make a quick buck off of unsuspecting investors in the markets.
"Outperformance" is an hackneyed phrase that has long lost any real meaning when uttered by an MBA; there are just too many ways to cook the books in order to produce the desired outcome.

Surprised not to see Andrew Lo's name associated this "groundbreaking research." It would be totally within his "working style" to trot out some fancy-sounding mathematics that pretends to solve some impossibly messy financial problem, and brag about it in some journal that real scientists (who sometimes collaborate with him in hopes of landing a job on Wall Street after their academic career starts to flounder) do not take all that seriously.

On a more serious note, the former deputy dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management (Gabriel Bitran) is currently serving time in a federal penitentiary with his son for a similar sort of chicanery (fancy mathematical pricing formulas that were complete bullshit according to SEC indictment) in order to screw his investors out of millions of dollars.

This was not long after Bitran narrowly escaped charges for sexually assaulting one of his secretaries at the same institution. In which case, I guess there may be some truth after all to the old saying about a man not "getting lucky" twice :)
Yeah, that has never actually happened.
I think there's lots of blame to go on companies like Cambridge analytica.

CA literally didn’t do anything that FB itself didn’t do, and was praised for doing in the previous election cycle. They just did it for the “wrong” side.
To be fair, it's generally much easier to find someone who understands what one particular form of injustice looks like than it is to find someone who knows what actual justice looks like.
Are you sure? The motivation for this could be interpreted as pro-Islamic too, in the sense that old religious symbols (in this case Christian) are removed from public places as the proportion of muslims in the population grows. This is happening in Nordic countries and my feeling is that we are paradoxically moving away from secularism at this point.
How much does the "bypass filter" cost?
It seems like it covers other kinds of catastrophe than just nuclear war.
Seems like same thing is happening with facial recognition.
They pay you salary, but IIUC not bonus, which, depending on your role, could be more than half of your usual compensation. That's a big price to pay over 12 months just to change employers.
You're correct, I never have.

I am not understanding how a fund could remain open/transparent enough to build trust with potential investors. But still maintain secrecy over the years.
Thanks for that feedback, I'll move some things around!
Rat had basically no brain–but it could still see, hear, smell and feel
Yes, there are a lot of modells designed to work okay on mobile. Though you'd typically train in the cloud and only use the trained model on the phone. Alternatively, you can train over many phones, which brings a lot of extra challenges but is definitely possible.

Google's very new Reformer[0] would likely be your best bet if you want both something truly cutting-edge and have less compute, even as little as a mobile's. As far as I know, it hasn't been used on phones yet (again, it's very new) but I bet it can be done.

0. https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transfo...
Assuming you're not being snarky, I think it generally refers to people who identify/present as women for this site (I defer to the creator tho)

Obviously it's tricky now that we are coming to terms with gender fluidity but as the population of non-binary/gender fluid people grows, there will be spaces created to address related challenges unique to the group.
I can't believe no one here has mentioned Buxfer (YC W07) yet! - https://www.buxfer.com/

I've tried a bunch of these apps and they're either too expensive, don't support multiple currencies (a deal-killer for me), or don't work well.

I highly recommend them. The founders have kept it alive and even launched a much better account syncing feature in the last few months - I happily pay for their $5/month Pro account.
Well-deserved. Such a great game
There is a similar project for .NET: https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

It makes calling C# as easy as:

import clr
import System
uri = System.Uri('http://python.org')

And also works the other way around. In both cases you have to mind GIL though.
Ironically how? Facial recognition isn't banned. Research isn't banned.

Another problem is that the risk of abuse is too great, even if the accuracy was flawless.
I thought most of this was just normal life tbh
I just bought a microwave. All the reviews I found for the Panasonic model (who apparently make the majority of microwaves) with the dial to set the time had a lot of people saying it failed after a year or two.

I never spent so much time looking for an appliance. I must have spent 6 hours looking at Amazon, Home Depot, Best Buy, etc, websites. There are so many models, sizes and types. The model that died was ~25 years old. It performed well, but the company doesn't make microwaves anymore (Sanyo)... at least I didn't see that brand when searching.
Is this surprising? Anarchists are not exactly hard to find these days.
The thing about such chinstroking under the banner of devil's advocacy is that you're advocating for the devil.

He doesn't need the help.
I posted about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22103996
For personal tiller excel with service account credentials
Good point, its been a while since I signed up and I forgot about the whole "verification" process. Thanks.
As long as you're not in 1950s US and vote for a socialist, or vote against the communist party in any eastern European country for much of the 20th century, or against Putin or the CCP, or vote conservative and have aspirations in academia [1], then yes, there is an extremely limited range of times, countries, and opinions, for which non-secret voting wouldn't be absolutely catastrophic.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majo... -- "One respondent wrote in that if department members “could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them.”"
If what Apple alleges is true, the ex-employee was particularly brazen about his competitive activity on company time and using company property. IANAL, but if you're planning a startup while employed somewhere else, have a wall of separation between the two. Don't use any resource that has any sort of relationship to the employer other than through you. That includes property, equipment, time, employees and infrastructure. You are not only better protecting yourself legally, but also showing respect to your employer by not misusing/countermanding their resources.
#5 is so critical. If you can’t enter transactions ahead of time and know where you will be, then what is the point?
I was blessed/cursed to use Radio Shack's standard cassette player/recorder with my TRS-80 Model I. You had to use the proper volume settings when loading and saving data. The settings were different for BASIC and machine code, and the volume controller was very imprecise. I enjoyed typing in programs from BASIC Computer Games but I was really happy to upgrade to a C-64 with a dedicated tape drive...

Also my dad had recently gotten into HAM radio and we had to negotiate our hobby times because of the Trash-80's RF interferance.
This allows people to communicate securely with certain people, say journalists, if you have something you want to share in private. If you don't know about this kind of app you might be fearful of doing that. I meant gateway drug as a joke but hopefully you get the point.
Check out the analysis of 200 prime-time debates done by peeing human. Republic, India TV, Zee News, ABP News, Aaj Tak, Times Now, Sudarshan News and countless regional channels are pro-govt. NDTV is the last channel standing.
> I think the subject deserves a Black Mirror episode and few startups.

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
> A French couple who were caught with 40kg (90lb) of Sardinian sand in their car

I imagined they took a tiny vial of sand as a memento. This is not that.

P.S. There's an extra ">" at the end of the URL.
That's what they get for only allowing people to pay their way into their ecosystem via a test kit.

Their service would much more useful if they had a larger database of people, but only so many people that have already done a kit through Ancestry DNA are willing to pay for yet another DNA kit through 23andMe to get access to their database of people,a s they already have access to Ancestry's larger database.

More or less 23andMe is starting to hit saturation and need to build their database more if they want to increase usage of their service, get more time on site, and thereby draw existing users towards their current and future monetized offerings. There was one time in there history that they allowed you to import your DNA data for free from other services, but they shut that down long ago.

They are going to face more competition in their once-unique area of DNA health data, as Promethease was just acquired by MyHeritage.
> Happens I learned Node JS last year

Neat! Have you ever heard of curried functions? I only recently started using them in JS, and they've completely (and positively) revolutionized how I write Javascript (both backend and front).
It's a browser extension that monitors my purchases (like plane tickets) to compute a carbon footprint, then sells me the ability to purchase offsets, or recommends behavior changes?

Really interesting idea, I could see this doing well.

I'd personally need a ton of detail about how it collects data. If anything is sent back to a server then I'm out, the industry lost my trust by misleading about data sharing/usage. Also need a ton of data about the offset I'm buying, and what sort of cut the app takes from that purchase.
The ironic part is the military lives on regular text messaging as it is.
So then people will just use the hundred other published implementations of Moxie's encryption algo used in Signal.

God Bless Open Source.
I now use firefly-iii. I always found Mint's storing banking credentials uncomfortable. I find that inputting transactions manually increases my awareness of spending.
How does Carbn passively track carbon footprint? The website is scant on details
I tend to do it in sublime with a regex:

Find/replace all:

^(.*)$\n

with

"$1",
points for the hat tip to Watchmen
I use ledger. I wrote my own journal makefile, and reporting system using ruby. I may switch to hledger next year.
I wonder why they chose to use a clock, something that only ever moves in one direction, as their analogy.

Maybe a thermometer would be more optimistic, as that can rise and fall.
Because I'm not speaking to someone who speaks that way.

Arthur Whitney once wrote: One day I asked him, "Roger, do you do math in English or Cantonese?" He smiled at me and said, "I do it in Cantonese because it's faster and it's completely regular."
IANAL, but what does not using company time mean for salaried employees? I'm never "on the clock" vs "off the clock" in my current role, I just have target dates to hit.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22128462.
What happens in 20 years when GE stops making water filters for it? Maybe as an attempt to push people to buy a new frig.

How ecological is that?

I know of refrigerators in use today that are more than 40 years old.
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In the US, the problem is less the sea of mainstream media noise than it is the carefully crafted puddle of right-wing misinformation, anchored by Fox News and bolstered by a variety of foreign and domestic special interests operating in social media.
How long did it take you to see results? I've battled (manageable) ADHD all my life and have been meditating for around a year. I've seen many positive impacts on my life, but the ADHD is still very much a thing I still battle.
Of course people would. There's many contexts where women just don't fit in with men, like most athletics which have different leagues and groups for different genders. And more over even in a space where it's not gender specific, like DnD, some may just prefer the company of men regardless of the given activity. Just as women do...
This is an honest, detailed answer from an end user. Basically, he values simple demographic information about his visitors and doesn’t care about privacy. This is what countless other GA users have said here on HN and elsewhere.

If you want more privacy then build a better GA (from the typical end user perspective, recall the famous comment here that no one will use Dropbox because they can instead just run some Unix commands).
Fuck I do this every day. Been diagnosed with ASD and I probably have at least one sleep disorder too. The guilt is indeed the worst part about it.
Strangely enough, anyone who is against globalism/neoliberalism is now being labeled as a fascist. Even on here, if you espouse free market ideas, you are instantly downvoted. Fascism has nothing to do with populism or the free market. It is a system where the government takes control of the economy. Don’t be fooled.
It is not just "someone" picked at random from the street, the people that work those calculations don't have a political or sensationalist agenda, they don't do it for fame or Facebook likes.

More amusing than the clock itself is the reasoning behind it. I would recommend researching on the depths of their claims
> The DoD has different interests than FBI and CIA.

Mildly off-topic, but every time I read this, it makes me ill.
I was thinking it would be about people running out of easily accessible river sand for concrete.
The page does not render correctly; something to do with the logo loading. For reference, here's the brief story told:

> It’s too late to collect sand

> When I was 13, my family went to California. We walked along a beach near Mendocino. I’d never seen black sand before. I wanted to bring some home.

> So I got a ziplock bag from my mom, scooped some sand into it, and put it in my backpack.

> When I got back to Birmingham, I put it in a jar and placed it on my bookshelf. “Cool,” I thought.

> But I only had one jar. It wasn’t going to be “Really Cool” until I had a bunch of jars.

> I was missing the jar of sand from the Gulf of Mexico. I was missing the jar of sand from the Caribbean. I was missing the jar of sand from the Eastern Shore in Virginia.

> “I’ve been to so many beaches already! And I never collected sand before now.”

> So I scrapped the whole idea. What was the point in collecting jars of sand when I hadn’t started from the beginning? I’d never recover from missing the jars I could’ve already had.

> What a ridiculous thought.

> I fall for this trap repeatedly.

> “I haven’t been keeping a journal since childhood, I’m missing so much.”

> “I didn’t blog the first half of my trip, so what’s the point in the second half?”

> “I haven’t been keeping track of contacts in a CRM, I’m missing so many people!”

> “I haven’t been running, I’m so far behind.”
Yes, that's what I was thinking too. If it's normal and commonplace for someone to step out for an hour to run an errand, how is that any more "company time" than ducking into a conference room, or (safer) heading to the garage and sitting in your car to make some recruiting phone calls?
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By opposition, I didn't specifically mean Congress. I meant a political alternative that's better than what we have, hopefully citizen driven. Protests are temporary. Ultimately you need to vote for someone in elections to change the system.
> Rewriting a Linux kernel in Rust, by hand, is definitely the right thing to do as a beginner/intermediate programmer.

Absolute perfection.
In short, you can add new functionality to Emacs yourself.

And just like in the world of Lisp, after you add a new functionality, it becomes indistinguishable from what you already have. That is, it looks like it has been there all along, from the start. It doesn't look like a 3rd party plugin that you need to take special precautions to install. It just blends in nicely, and naturally.

Or, to put it another way, if you learn (Emacs) Lisp and you start to tweak Emacs to your own liking, you can transform Emacs into your own personal tool, adjusted exactly the way you like it, no questions asked.
I can see the efficiency argument, but arguing that the technology is old seems odd to me. What does it matter how old the technology is if it works?
A society that issues blanket bans on new technologies instead of specific problem behaviors is one that ends up falling behind
I disagree. I do this all the time when I know (1) someone is presenting a fact to the limit of their knowledge and are not interested in going deeper, or (2) someone is not truly interested in how things are going, and my details will fall on deaf ears, in which case I prefer to conserve energy.

The scenario is even more complex when working for govt. Your role is often that of a sponge: Absorbing all the information presented and volunteering very little, if any, of your own.

As I get older, I try to keep my sentences short and to the point. Often they are dense, layered with meaning. In my experience, folks often wax poetic and use all sorts if inaccurate analogies when they understand very little about the subject.
Muslim women are speaking out on being sexually abused by sheikhs
The press in the US is just as factional as the parties. But there's a subset who live off slander - Alex Jones eventually got sued off the air for lying about Sandy Hook. That kind of thing does far more damage than just supporting one party or the other.
Bureaucrats in the US rarely end up with full pockets. As with a great deal of government IT work, it's private companies that are raking in the money. Healthcare.gov in particular was outsourced.

I don't think the problem is "top talent". I think the problem is how people think about software, and therefore how they budget for and manage it. And I don't think the problem is unique to government. I've heard about plenty of private sector giant-project boondoggles where enormous sums were wasted in similar fashions. It's just that those don't make the newspapers, but instead get gossiped about by tech people over beers.
No one is going to pay you to tick the organ donor box, or threaten you or your family if you don't.

Both of those things have happened with voting in the past, which is why ballots are secret.
They'll use drones then. Well, they already do, in addition to fixed and mobile ground cameras.
> At the very least the US system dealt with this issue on its own.

We did?

Bush and Cheney are free men, as is the entire chain of those who advocated for torture (John Yoo still gets into the New York Times!), as are those who have carried out illegal orders to torture.

What did we do, exactly?
It is designed to be a user workstation. In some industries, such as pro audio, you often literally have a standard rack built into your desk where you can install your desktop. In these environments, it is not uncommon for your desktop computer to be rack mounted.

Since this is one of Apple's markets, it makes sense that they would cater to it. Dell also sells some desktops with rack mounting options for the same reason.
It's a good question. I don't know, and if you're curious, ask an employment lawyer.

I'm even further removed from company time: not only am I salaried non-exempt, but I mostly work remotely.

My own rule (without taking into account any legal advice I don't need, since I'm not working on my own startup) is to be very strict about the resources that belong to the company, and not mix them with anything I do for fun or personal/professional growth.
But then you want to go to sleep and your mind keeps making these things up and you can't go to sleep for hours at time until you are just so exhausted that it takes over after three hours laying in bed....

I'm coping by putting podcasts on almost audible levels when going to sleep, otherwise there would be no sleep. This helps to distract the mind just enough to pass out. But lately it's working worse and worse....