skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear: I am only stating this so anyone curious can know why people like me don't vote. I am not pushing any agenda.

I don't vote on purpose, I see that as a vote against the typical choices given,none of which I can reconcile with my views in any of the important topics. Not stating a political opinion,just telling you what I am thinking when I don't vote. I have no plan on being in politics. I know better than to think a dual party system is significantly different than a single party system. I also believe the freedom and liberties of the west are mostly a result of a strong military and abundance of resources. Right now there are so many messed up things, I cannot vote for one thing and accept a lesser evil,not only because I believe you should never accept evil of any magnitude but also because the evils of either side are too extreme for me to be involved with. I don't mind paying taxes, contributing to society and trying to be come a better social person but the duopoly of US politics is a system I must vote against by not voting at all. I don't care which bad guy wins.

I do think that the big parties should be broken up so that people actually have a voice. I like how parliamentary systems form a coalition of different parties to form a government. No confidence votes against the PM and it's never some guy running for office to rescue the country like in the US. It shouldn't be about any single person. I have no hope of any of this happening. I see the US swinginf from one extreme to the other tearing itself apart to the delight of its foes, why should I help destroy the one country keeping the balance of power in the world , so that wars break out and millions die? Will no one listen to history's plea?

That's my perspective at least, I am sure others have their reason. But to a lesser degree at least, I think many just don't agree with the choices so they choose "none of the above". Look at any site with political leanings, centrists are mocked and hated by everyone. It's not so much the government system but the people themselves that can't grapple with magnitudes of the extreme sides they are taking.
It would be a fun job to wire a mansion with Cat 6 or 6A mansion, install hubs for all wireless technology (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, WiFi, DECT, ...)

It gets difficult even to cover a 2200 sq foot or so space, such as an old farmhouse. Right now I am cutting an Ethernet cable to install my SmartThings hub close to the bedroom so it can hear the Sengled switch that controls the lightstrip in the bedroom closet that connects to the hue hub with a powerful radio

I had trouble with the lights not turning on when the switch was pressed reliably. Investigation revealed that if the distance was too great, the devices would attempt error recovery that would sometimes succeed, other times fail.

Few homeowners are that dedicated.
I live in a single party state. My vote doesn't matter.
Voting takes hours, and you are not guaranteed time off to vote.

Then there are the various state voter suppression acts that deliberately make it harder to vote (and IMO constitute an unconstitutional poll tax).

Those all make voting expensive.

Here’s what I’d want: states must be required to provide enough voting booths and facilities to keep voting lines to less than (say) 30 minutes. They must ensure that 90% (say) of the voting populace is with 30 minutes of a polling facility, and 80% within 30 minutes walking distance of such.

States with voter suppression laws must provide IDs for free, and have similar to the above facilities for applying for those free IDs. Their turn around for those IDs must be timely, and delivery of the IDs should also be free.

Note: any step that requires a citizen to pay money to get an voting ID is a poll tax, and therefore unconstitutional.
Popular vote is fine as long as there is strict voter id enforced.
I think this is rather a simplification. It assumed the only value people obtain from voting is the actually election of the candidate.

But humans get other value from voting. Social benefits, for example, by showing that you care about something. It has been shown that when you tell someone that you'll send a list of who didn't vote to their neighbors... Then it increases turn out.
I was referring to the OP in Africa about their African tribe based dictatorships etc. China is a different case, more mature chicanery involved.
Not OP. I don't have anything against Strang, I think his teaching is very good, but it's worth noting that his approach to the subject is very applied and not very general. This is totally fine if applications are what you're interested in but for somebody who wants to learn more about the theory and the underlying concepts, there are better resources.
"This work was funded by the Oxford Martin School. A full list of Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group members is provided in the appendix.

... including their travel history, location (highest resolution available and corresponding latitude and longitude), symptoms, and reported onset dates, as well as confirmation dates and basic demographics.....

We hope these data continue to be used to build evidence for planning, modelling, and epidemiological studies to better inform the public, policy makers, and international organizations and funders as to where and how to improve surveillance, response efforts, and delivery of resources, which are crucial factors in containing the COVID-19 epidemic."

The lancet data is shared in google docs at.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1itaohdPiAeniCXNlntNz...
I am curious if anyone has called Mark Millard and requested what BRK's bid quote for >$20M shares is.
my charitable take is that they don't forget, but they have a hard time explaining to customers why the next release has fewer new features. "now with fewer crashes!" isn't really a good marketing pitch.
Are we having fund yet, NPM? CTO calls for patience after devs complain
Is moving to PeerTube a viable alternative?
... or, some numbers in the PIN require being pressed some random number of times until the key graphically indicates it is accepted. 1-8-1-4-5 might need to be entered as 1-1-8-1-4-4-4-5-5 with the repeat number differing each time.

Or the PIN pad can be presented with a random requirement to slide between 2 or 3 sequential digits rather than lift and tap. Tap-1-Slide-8-1-4-Tap-5.
Thank you for a nuanced and very well explained set of reasons. This is a difficult subject to handle dispassionately here and you did an admirable job.
Freeing memory also isn't free - the bookkeeping necessary, both at allocation and at free time and potentially also for the allocating code has costs.

In postgres memory contexts are used extensively to manage allocations. And in quite few places we intentionally don't do individual frees, but reset the context as a whole (freeing the memory). Obviously only where the total amount of memory is limited...
Also not mentioned: prisoners and ex-cons are largely denied the right to vote. Florida lifting that on ex-cons should be interesting.

Actually in most states they can vote. Florida is an important exception, but an exception still.
Voting is pointless. People are just brainwashed into believing it's so important (I don't know how else to call it: they are repeatedly told over and over again how important democracy is, and voting is like the biggest symbol of your democratic rights). Even just saying it is going to trigger a strong emotional reaction, similar to saying that God does not exists to devoted religious person. Down-votes ensured. :D

In reality in the USA, it's much more effective to just donate $100 to some political interest group of yours, and be done with it.
It does work, but is not a particularly good approach for consumer (or even pro) software. You keep delivering yesterday's technology, tomorrow.

It's the kind of approach that you might use for space launch software, but even that can be iterated (as SpaceX is showing).
I believe Jehovah's Witnesses have an official, explicit religious teaching against voting and that their rejection of secular government authority is pretty core to their religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_and_gove...
I think you're being overly dismissive of how much work that team did.
"They know how to give feedback without hurting anyone."

Should instead be they use tact when giving constructive feedback. Too many people water feedback down--scared that they might "hurt" people--resulting in the value of the feedback being lost. We shouldn't be scared to be honest with people--even if it means they might be hurt by it. It'll be better for them in the long run to hear the truth now--even if it's tough to swallow. Giving this type of feedback needs to come from a place of love--a desire to truly help, and should never be done with the intention of hurting or trying to make them feel like they were "wrong".

It should also be added:
"They can receive feedback without being hurt"
Eh, there is a difference between the examples you've sited and Costa Rica. They're an ally of the US and a strong democracy focussed on tourism.

> The logical extreme of this is Death Note

I don't really deal with logical extremes. It leads to weird philosophies like Objectivism or Stalinism. In international relations terms, I'm a liberal with a dash of realism and constructivism. I don't live in my ideal world. My ideal world doesn't have torture or murder or war of any kind. It doesn't have extreme wealth inequality or poverty. Unless this is all merely a simulation, I live in the real world. Who has the power to kill people? Lots of people. Everyone driving a car or carrying a gun. Billions of people. It's a matter of degree and targeting and justification and blow-back and economics and ethics and so many other things that it's not really sensible to talk about it.

I'm familiar with the arguments against AI being used on the battlefield, but even though I abhor war, I'm not convinced that there should be a ban.
> Maybe 70k cases of covid-19.

This is almost certainly not the case.

From the MRC Centre, Imperial College, London:

"the team estimate only about 1 in 19 people infected with COVID-19 in Wuhan are being tested for infection and therefore being reported as confirmed cases."

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/195217/coronavirus-fatality-...
At least one conclusion from this thread is that there are camps of people with different beliefs, and you're senior to one camp, but not another. A productive engineer, or not.

Even if you take this feedback to heart, you have a limited sample set of signals. Do you average them out, or do you only care about what one particular camp said (the camp that signs your check, perhaps)? Which camps get weighted more heavily?

I don't think there are any real trends to observe yet. The field is too volatile with its labeling to really take seriously any kind of prescribed career plan to seniority that lasts beyond 3-5 years. It's also why we repeatedly test people in interviews.
For me it is great way to never remember any pin, I heavily rely on muscle memory for pins.
Perhaps they are thinking along correct mathematical lines. Their one vote will do nothing, but the time lost is very real.
> inevitably turn people in to saints or enlightened beings who love everyone and who's feathers couldn't be ruffled by anything.

I'm thinking that enlightened states are not inherently stable; they're sharp peaks with shallow troughs. It takes active work to stay in them, and that it's getting habitual at becoming enlightened that we call enlightenment.

The main inspirations for this are the temporary experience of enlightenment present in many psychedelic experiences, and the number of koans about "suddenly, they were enlightened" that now make more sense; they're realizing they have a habit of maintaining the enlightened state.
> We can make it milder like forgiving interest or converting it to some sort of a capped ISA.

That exists: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-d...
One TB of memory is actually quite expensive. And uses a fair bit of power.
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I am 42 and was going to vote for the first time, but my candidate (Andrew Yang) had to drop out. So I'm not voting.
> I am pretty sure if a third party became more powerful the two established parties would gang up on them quickly to make sure their nice, comfortable duopoly keeps all the power.

It's also possible that that might happen without the intentionality or explicit coordination part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

For example, the successful third party might supplant the role of one of the existing major parties, marginalizing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_system#United_States
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“a democratic system in which everyone is "required" to participate in the political process is desirable state of affairs”

Citizens of a democratic nation have one job to do.

If they’re not doing it, the question must be Why?
Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144
Nah, I was smarter than that. I already had multiple offers, and had no intention of working for a government contractor. I mostly wanted to see how this recruiter would react to my flippant statement. If he had vehemently defended his company, it would have implied that the whole government contracting wasn’t quite as disfunctional as I’d experienced. His reaction basically confirmed my suspicions. It was a “don’t talk too loud about what we all know is going on”, along with a “how dare you unmask us”. Sure, it was also a “holy hell, you can’t talk to recruiters like that”.

But, no black suits with billy clubs.

And, I’m not suggesting that anything was out of norm for any of these government contractors. They’re delivering a very specialized service with immense regulations. There are very few companies which can produce the same product, so the competition is low and the feedback loop in procurement cycles is much longer.
Check out Bitwig
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Divorces leave permanent marks unlike company partnership exits.
You mean: Someone who used to be with the organization knows, but they were let go three generations ago when the management fired the developers to move development to India, then fired that outsourcing organization to move development to China, then fired the China team and brought you in as a temp.
Linked lists are used a lot in game programming where the worst-case behaviour of std::vector and similar structures is undesirable. Linked lists may be slow for a variety of reasons but they're simple and predictable which is very nice when you're trying not to miss the 16.67ms per-frame window.
Article didn't even italicise its own use of "slide deck" which I thought was a nonsensical name for a pdf/PowerPoint when I first heard it used by some Londonian startup wallies.
And yet, it is only the folks that irrationally do vote that make the individual contributions that ultimately add up to something larger.

I think this is a failure of the philosophy of individualism and the atomization of the individual from society, instead of an understanding where people take part and do things in society that primarily benefit society instead of themselves
As far as I remember, Elm has a runtime that at the moment requires the browser api. Purescript just compiles to javascript. So you don’t have server-side Elm, but you do have server-side Purescript. Which probably makes it more like Reason than like Elm.

The main difference is, Elm is like a drastically simplified version of Haskell, while Purescript is essentially Haskell with benefits (row polymorphism).
So naive then. That's reassuring. I guess
Five years ago I worked on an app called Fiddlewax Pro (later renamed Firo); an advanced chord/drum/keyboard/looper. Unfortunately, as iOS updated, the app eventually stopped working and fell out of fashion.

Firo4 is an attempt to bring an old app (that I truly loved both making and using) back to life.

Direct link to video if you just want to see it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpXpVq30dY

Since it's a continuation of an old app (that originally sold for $20, but was made Free for its final days), launching Firo4 for Free seems like the right move for now. Still deciding where to take its revenue model, but it definitely feels good to move it out of the archived box and get it running again.

Any suggestions on what kind of pricing models are best for a situation like this?
Author here, another of my generative art projects. I'm still pretty new to the whole generative art thing.

Please note that "Low Poly" mode is on by default - it improves performance and allows you to see changes in realtime. When you are satisfied with the results, you can switch it on to download smoother image.

As you play with parameters, unique URL will be generatred for easy sharing.

Any feedback is welcome! <3
I never understood why one huge set couldn't build anything. These specialist sets that do one thing goes against what I want out of a set which is true utility and flexibility.
There is a great talk about this testing, it goes all the way to deterministic seeds and other basics. The level of determinism is admirable. https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc
Well engineers love to nitpick over stuff that we know will bite us in the ass in a few years. The most wonderfully architected set of business rules is of little help if it takes weeks to debug and it's impossible to refactor and add new features in future because no one knows how the code really works (and the guy who did it left long ago), it's untested and unreadable. Lots of great projects died slow deaths because of this.
Your vote don't matter --- in half the cases. Half the states are already decided with near certainty. California is voting for the Democratice candidate, South Carolina is voting for the Republican.

If you vote for or against the pre-determined candidates in these "one party" states --- your vote don't matter. The only case where your vote might matter is in a swing state.

The really amazing (and illogical) thing would be if more than 50% voted.
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Broker fees? I assume you mean the individuals entity that manages their portfolio charges a fee. Obviously when you have that much wealth you aren’t using E*Trade or Schwab $0 commissions trades.
Are these Patriots? Didn't they need a power cycle every 24 hours? Is this why?
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=history+of+voter+tests

Has been tried on society-wide scales.
You could reverse that. Pay people $20 for voting.
Hi, I'm Will, the creator of Unbounded. I co-founded the security company Cambia, later acquired by Tripwire, Inc.

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Store any JSON data with no limitations on primary key names, property names or embedded objects. Map, reduce, and receive query results to your webhooks.

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The first two medium posts on using Unbounded are live:

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Unbounded was conceived as an elegant solution to the problems introduced by managing massive contact lists for an enterprise CRM platform, while being carefully designed to reduce developer friction.

For example, one reason we use Javascript as a query language is because it's likely a language you're already familiar with, instead of forcing you to learn yet another quirky dialect of SQL.

Unbounded is more than a database, it’s a turnkey way to create a data transformation pipeline that can scale, without setting up servers, lambda functions, message queues, task processors, “Glue,” etc.

You send us Javascript, and we'll execute it against your data in parallel, writing the results back to disk or sending them to you via S3 or webhooks, while queuing and retrying any failures. At the same time, you can still execute queries directly to pull out records like you would in a DBMS.

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Fair enough. Thanks for sharing the video.
>One difference is that a license is required to practice civil engineering

The world would be a better place if developers (or the company they work for) were as much on the hook for bugs in software as en engineer is for a bug in a bridge. How programming can still be the wild west in 2020 is beyond me. I've read some good thoughts about this topic by Poul-Henning Kamp (Varnish, FreeBSD) but can't seem to find it at the moment.
That this kind of basic understanding of human behavior and interaction is no longer considered common sense, at least within the business domains he's targeting, is pretty sad. How it lost its place in the basic toolkit of dealing with people isn't clear to me, but in mentoring startups over the last several years I've certainly noticed its absence and also that some are actually resistant to such ideas (although I suspect that's due more to vanity and wish-based thinking than any intellectual reasoning).

The above is in no way intended to denigrate or disagree with Fogg's work or its usefulness. In fact I applaud him for providing such work and hope that it is successful enough that it restores such knowledge of human behavior back in the expected canon of common sense.
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It depends on who it's desirable to. You can see this electoral system manipulation quite a bit in Singapore. They introduced mandatory voting to help the PAP win an election. Their system of group constituencies was introduced to stop competing parties from focusing on one race, or to make it harder for them to get their foot in the door, depending on who you ask. The system of presidential elections, and the requirements to be a presidential candidate (which includes things like having been in charge of a big organization), was designed to limit the damage if some opposition party wins an election. Not to mention all the restrictions on speech...
It’s not... see https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestreet.com/.amp/politics...
> why one huge set couldn't build anything. These specialist sets that do one thing

Do you understand how Lego works?

Or, to put it another way: I’ve got some great news for you: what you’re asking for exists and it’s even the largest toy manufacturer in the world!
Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd was what Buffett used, since II wasn't out yet. A more difficult read as well, also seemed a bit dated when I read through it a decade ago.
To be honest, part of the problem is the field of UX design itself. Unlike “coding” (which is standardized and easier to quantify, ie. Does the program update the database or not?) user experience is a vague, lumpy, subjective mess of buzzwords with no linear pathway to proficiency.

We all know UX is extremely important to the success of any startup, but quantifying it is a different story. Designers can’t even agree on their own responsibilities and what to call themselves, with job titles and responsibilities I’ve seen at many companies having 0 correlation to the next.

Any great UX/product/service/interaction/blah blah designer I’ve worked with is a former graphic designer with great taste, who over the years learned how to build usable software by working on tons of software products and spending tons of time with users.

It’s not exactly something that lends itself to the bootcamp model. It makes much more sense in an apprentice model.

If it makes her feel any better, I’m certain 90% of schools teaching multi-year “UX” design programs would not have done a better job. At least she doesn’t have to go into debt this way.