skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am deeply concerned about the security of any online voting system for anyone. It can be done securely, but I have zero confidence in the IT ability of our government to actually achieve security. The past record of pathetic electronic voting machine security speaks to this.
>> You have to understand that even if you are on the larger side, in the top 10% of sellers, that Amazon still considers you expendable.

No. Amazon considers them a threat. Amazon itself is the largest of large sellers. Any profits made by an upstart large seller are profits that Amazon would rather be making itself.
> My suggestion is to user test your site. I agree most consumers would not like such sites (and that you'd learn that in user tests).

Are you really suggesting that Google doesn’t do user tests? Google likely has a larger headcount on UX than most tech companies have employees.
Basic value range analysis for Pythran programs
I disagree. It looks like he got this experience because of the work he did against the skinheads.
Fall in love with the process, be satisfied anytime your system is running
For me tmux isn't about new windows, it's about keeping a session open when my ssh connection dies, or my vpn resets which causes a connection to die, or any of 100 other things that can happen. Tmux keeps my stuff going while I'm not there, and I can come back to it.
GNU screen?
Dubai’s EMPG acquires Thai online retailer Kaidee
As it is with many things this is both right and wrong depending on how you look at it.

Consider something like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The first 1000 hours will surely advance your game percentage-wise way more than the 1000 hours you accomplish after you've put 10k hours in.

However, there aren't many people with 10k of bjj practice and you're no longer in the rookie world. That 1k may make you just 1% better but that 1% means a lot among the elite.
Unlocking Data-Driven Systems
UBI is a generous tax credit. The Fed is printing money by their lending operations, devaluing the dollar in the process.
Profitec Pro 500 espresso machine.

Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder.

I'd highly recommend both, they each exceeded my expectations.
Do you think the government as it is setup right now is highly responsive to the will of voters?

Do you think that adding non-citizen voters will change the answer to the above?

If non-citizen voters made the government more responsive to the will of voters, do you think the will of non-citizen residents is significantly different than the will of citizen residents? How is it different?

Do you think will be inundated by immigrants who want sharia law? Is that where you're going with this? Do you think there could be enough immigrants to enact such a thing? Do you think that's possible given the basic freedoms guaranteed by the constitution?
At least in engineering, there's quite a lot of autonomy. Senior leaders set the overall vision/objective, but in the end it is up the engineers and product managers to figure out what actually to work on.
Server-side rendering is a Thiel truth
It says right in the article:

"...noted relevant comments regarding censorship that YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki had recently made.

"Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy ... [removal] is another really important part of of our policy," Wojcicki reportedly said."
Ask HN: What do you think of Neumorphism?
As the title says, do you think is a trend that will take of like flat did some years ago?
HIPAA only covers health care providers, so does not apply to employers.
The Prepper's Guide to Love
The Police, despite their shortcomings and inspite of their over-zealousness, must be commended. They really did show up for their country at the time of utmost need.
Nothing in that article is illegal, and comparing it to Cambridge Analytica is a huge stretch.

Most of it reads like run-of-the-mill data collection.
It's odd, for sure, but perhaps he just uses Princeton as a relatable example. Most of us have never heard of George Mason.
You can't fix irrationals by changing base. But, there are other approaches.

Continued fractions give very approachable representations for common irrational numbers like e and sqrt(2). While π doesn't have a good continued fraction, it has some very well-behaved generalized continued fractions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction
This was true in the 19th century as well.
Thank you, this was very helpful. Also glad to see a link to my alma mater.
live photos are the few seconds records ?
I get that Amazon has created this "self-correcting machine" that makes sure certain constraints are met in terms of vendors and products and what not. And if a vendor is detected as violating some rule, they're "eliminated" and Amazon prefers not to have human intervention.

But does Amazon share the full details of this "machine" with the partners/vendors beforehand who are going to be subjected to it? If I'm a vendor I'd like to know the exact rules of the game, down to the last if-then-else, no matter how complex, so I can at least have all the information to decipher what may have gone wrong, or how not to overstep. Sharing this information would only make it easier for both Amazon and the vendors.
This is dangerous as it allows faking parliamentary motions and casting fake votes.
Sending ElastiCache slowlog metrics to Datadog
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number .
In theory yes. The issue is the different load conditions will mess with the voltage divider bias. Check out page 272 and onward of the HP33120A manual https://coupp-docdb.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/RetrieveFile?docid=206&...
There may be a clause in their contract (or something they had to sign) where further communications or sharing details is disallowed or conditional to actually getting the money.

TBH for 4.x million + continued business (12M a year at least), I'd shut right up myself. That's not just "your" money but all of your employees as well (with 200K shipments / month or however much it is they're likely operating a warehouse of their own)
In theory maybe but from a practical standpoint this is not a serious problem for the country.
Voter fraud is a serious crime and most legal and illegal immigrants are trying to avoid commiting federal crimes that are highly visible. Voting by mail creates a paper trail, making it easy to audit and detect fraud (more so than checking a piece of plastic). All the research suggests that mail in voting has a neutral partisan effect (with a potentially slight win to conservatives since it favors rural and elderly populations).
Ultimately questions of fraud detection could be framed according to the cost of false positives vs false negatives. The reason that people on the left get upset over vote ID laws is that they create a lot of false negatives, for a very small decrease in the number of false positives - this is structural to voter turnout (~40% of people don't vote, vs. <1% voter fraud (0 convictions)).
> but there's a substantial possibility

You have zero evidence of that. Anything is "substantially possible" if your bar for evidence is non-existent.
> If they didn't do this, they would be exploited

Amazon are offloading their fraud risk onto random small businesses and the nuance of their platform gives the small business no recourse. In a fair platform, you could resolve something like this pretty easily. I'm sure you agree, but it's worth noting explicitly. It's not a stretch to imagine Amazon are allowing for this "bug" in their support system to remain because it saves them money.
Seems strange given the fact that I've seen numerous academic papers shared over the last few months indicating that hot weather and high humidity do indeed have some kind of effect on the virus's transmission.
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My voter registration says "Mike Smith" and my driver's license says "Michael Smith".

Would you let me vote?

I got married and took my husband's name. I've got mix of paperwork during transition.

Would you let me vote?

I voted at the same polling location for 30 years. I've never driven a car. The only photo ID I have is my medical card from the VA.

Would you let me vote?

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For the record, what The Left demands is modernizing our voter registration infrastructure, like every other mature democracy, mooting this entire debate.

Universal automatic voter registration, issue photo ID for all voters, proper audit log for all VRDBs.

Which would also be cheaper to admin and nearly error free.
Sticky Ducky
Another web development YouTube channel – But this one is mine
That's money that wasn't in the economy before that is now. They are growing their balance sheet with bonds and other assets, and paying for it with money they make.
There's a lovely thing that used to happen on Thursdays on r/sanfrancisco[1] - a fellow by the name u/jimmyjah would set up a spot at a bar and post on Reddit offering to buy any newcomers their first drink. It lead to a really lovely little community of stranger-Redditors hanging out weekly.

I think with openness, consistency, and just a tiny little push (a free drink), you can build a marvelous community.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/search/?q=It%27s%20thu...
"If 0.999...!= 1 then there must exist a number A, such that 0.999... < A < 1."

Thanks for the reply, but I don't know how you can make the above claim, because to me the question of what we mean by 0.999... is intertwined with the claim itself. I mean to me it seems to be a matter of how you interpret the approach to infinity. I don't see why there has to be A in between, if you interpret 0.999... as the "biggest possible number below 1", as then there would be also a "difference of the smallest possible amount" between those numbers approaching 0, but not quite getting there.
But then again, if it's by some fundamental definition (limit) that 0.999... = 1, then ok.

I'm slightly embarrassed I don't know more mathematics, but I'm trying to learn some more...
That's speculation by an uninvolved person, not a YouTube statement.
The thing to recognize (or at least something I feel is under-recognized) is that Capitalism prefers monopolies or monopsonies, whichever the case may be. Capitalism talks a big game about the benefits of competition, but history tell us that it is actually their enemy. It reminds me of a Big Lie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
A lot of hate in this anti-hate post.
France postpones parliament debate on contact-tracing app
YouTube Censors Video of California Doctors Criticizing “Stay-at-Home” Order
We'll have to disagree here. I don't think that within a company changing the user's language, effectively breaking the experience, is "reasonable."

If your business units can't cooperate on something as simple as passing a language variable, then the business is broken.
Even more cynical: Amazon considers them a valuable source of business intelligence and/or ML model training data.
There isn’t a proof because it’s actually kind of arbitrary that 0.999... = 1. Fundamentally, this is true because we chose it to be true.

Now, there are good reasons we chose it to be true, and that’s what people usually use as proofs. If it’s not true then a bunch of mathematical expressions become more inconvenient. But there is no reason as such why 0.999... could not have been defined as something that was always < 1.

Fundamentally, 0.999... has no intrinsic meaning, and it’s value depends on the meaning we decide to give this representation.
Great job!

How about the integration?
Unless you turn the volume up, is this really the case?
Same here. Thanks to modern social networks and aggregators like HN, I stay connected to a lot of people who would otherwise drift out of my life, and stay in the loop about many different topics.

There's a lot of digital junk food fighting for your attention, that's for sure. But there's a lot of other options, and, unlike real-life balanced diet and fine dining, it's either free or cheap.
I think the characteristics you mention to be mostly meaningless to be honest.

To think Amazon doesn't have internal politics doesn't sound too believable.

I think Amazon had a very good business strategy and that has foremost been expansion at any cost, extending reach even at a loss by having multiple revenue streams. They leveraged the tendency for convenience in a fast world where everyone works hard, not just at Amazon. Solid business strategy, but the factors about incentives sound exotic to me.

> Not just dismiss them as some relentless and heartless evil empire.

This sentence could be straight from the middle of the last century and probably the cradle of literature. I am sure you will find many comparable quotes.

<Some "relentless and heartless" decisions need to be made, John>.
That's fair.

What makes it so insane is they still get exploited on both the buyer and seller fronts. Really though the crux of the problem if they want to do this type of enforcement is they just need a better internal policy of expedited processing of reviews for accounts > some age && > amount of held funds.

If they ramped up this current type of "enforcement" to deter fraud it's going to come with a PR cost.
Interestingly enough, for each anecdote I head about the awe-inspiring internal build system, I hear a story from one of my ex-Amazon friends or coworkers about one time when they had to respond to a page about service for which they lost the source code.
You expect them to go through 30-year old records on their creditors? Have you ever gotten a loan that required interviews with the people you went to high-school with?!?!
What I’ve started to do is put everything in c:\src\<git-repo>, which limits the overhead to 3 characters instead of the 42 or whatever for your users folder.
Haven't had the morning coffee yet, was just going down the list and writing it down.
$1M/month with low margins won’t get you a $4.5m LOC in the best of times let alone a pandemic.
> "Interestingly enough, a significant majority of Republican Voters (~65%) actually do support mail in ballots."

What people want is sadly irrelevant as long as they keep voting blindly for the same people.
You are 1 in infinite Universe, so you are 1/∞, so you are 0.
Soft deletion violates the GDPR.

Read article 17:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

And previous HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16366050
Pentagon releases 3 videos of UFOs spotted by Navy aircraft
We also don't know it's not true.

That's why we require evidence before we reject someone's claims.
Sure you don't have cyberwarfare, but you do have old-fashioned vote selling and coercion. Postal voting denies many women a free vote.
Having both an MS and been in industry a long time, I'd say counting an MS as one year of experience is quite generous.
I've gone through your recommendations and adopted most of them. This one feels really strange though. In the recommendation you say:

> If you have truly complex async workflows that involve things like cancelation, debouncing, running logic after a given action was dispatched, or "background-thread"-type behavior, then consider adding more powerful async middleware like Redux-Saga or Redux-Observable.

Aren't these kind of things necessary for really robust applications? For instance, let's say my app fetches some "posts" list and shows it as a table. I have so many "posts" that I'll do server-side pagination. With a naive thunk, if the user clicks on "page 2" and then quickly on "page 3" it is perfectly possible that she ends in "page 2" (because that request happened to complete after the one for "page 3").

How are we supposed to deal with these things with thunks?
Promoting a post about a resolved issue that doesn't prominently show that the issue is resolved is misleading. It would be better to promote critical non-misleading posts.
All the FAANGT's desperately need MORE competition
I don't think partisan politics have anything to do with it - it's just always going to be much easier to decide things behind closed doors. The '94 Republican Revolution didn't really make these things more transparent - just more theatrical.
That is a misinterpretation of my comment. To reframe it using your language "It doesn't work now and is actively hurting us during times of emergency, so does removing this requirement make it worse?" No one here has yet to put together a convincing argument on the real world ramifications of debate on the Senate floor. I am open to changing my position on this, but I need to hear a stronger argument than someone proving Godwin's law.
Likely some sort of NDA
Elon Musk appears to like what they said as well: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12544950502282608...
One of the comments made in the video (referenced in the article as well) is

"We always have between 37,000 and 60,000 deaths in the United States, every single year. No pandemic talk. No shelter in place. No shutting down businesses."

Since early Feb we've seen ~54K deaths from Coronavirus alone (excluding influenza deaths) [0]. The argument that this is just part of the normal flu cycle doesn't make any sense.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
> Both of you were just throwing at one-liners with no substance

Welcome to HN - the new Reddit.
Yea that's really the question I have in the other reply I just left.

Does it save them money? Maybe in the short term. Maybe even in the long term if the PR cost doesn't hit them at all.

I think as people this is a reason where we need to hold them accountable by pushing our businesses back to platforms where we have more control, and pushing our selling habits back to those same platforms.

I don't think Shopify is ideal, but I do think it's better for both sellers and buyers than Amazon.
>it lit a fire under my butt and I was highly motivated to start sharpening my computer industry skills, doing side projects, etc. in case it didn't work out and I had to find a "real job" (and it didn't work out).

I don't know if that will fit a lot of people's idea of thriving (it's highly personal). That's really survival skills so you don't end up homeless.

Some really do thrive on chaos, uncertainty, and not being comfortable though. It becomes a real challenge for them and they feel good when they overcome the adversity.

Others don't need that, they can improve themselves for the sake of improving. Chaos and uncertainty keep them from focusing on improving. People who can sit quietly and do math or programming or whatever and just learn.
They have to know that 0.999... means you never stop writing nines.

Put 1.0 on top, 0.9 on the bottom. Start subtracting from left to right, and keep writing nines on the bottom as you go to the right. In no time you'll see that the answer is infinite zeros.
They bought only parts of HTC, and the parts the purchased didn't include their distribution as far as I can find. We don't even know how HTC achieved their distribution to begin with. Did HTC own the entire supply chain or did they offload that to a 3rd party?

Either way, HTCs supply chain is way different than Googles even with acquisition. And there is no way to know if Googles pre-existing processes would allow them to leverage HTCs distribution effectively if they own it (which I doubt).

You're comparing different things. What Nokia phone are you buying for 150 in your country? Nokia isn't a US company like Google. Nokia if Finnish. So it'd seem likely they'd have figured out EU distribution because they exist in the region and align with EU processes before NA.

Nokia has basically always produced hardware they've needed to ship. Google started as a software company that just so happens to deal in a few hardware projects. When they first bought the Motorola patents they crashed and burned hard on their hardware. And this was after their initial Nexus launch.

If you cannot get a Pixel in your country it's probably not because Google decided they can't make a profit on the phone. It's likely a restriction in shipping they don't care to get around yet, the demand for their devices aren't high enough for them to solve distribution issues, or they just don't care that much about their hardware businesses.
I think it's the same reason torrents didn't completely destroy the entertainment industry. Consumers want a fresh new thing that seems to be made for them.

I have lists upon lists of of music, library ebooks (the free way to not pay!), and video games as well as multiple lifetimes worth of free content on the internet. What today's consumer craves is for anyone to reach in, show them the next perfect thing, and promise that the barrier to entry will be worthwhile. Some fans immediately know what they want next thanks to friends, critics, or their own insatiable research, but most people* desire a buzz of encouragement to get them started.

* I use the phrase "most people" very deliberately here. The Blue Ocean Strategy theorizes that there's always a new demographic to pursue. Reduce the barrier to entry and some increase in customer retention is almost guaranteed.
Wife and I both have a mini (mine in the office, her's in the kitchen), and we haven't had the Bluetooth issue. The Google Home app is hot garbage though, I agree.
My linear teacher did a good job of this, because you're right that regurgitation isn't useful. He does open-book tests that are focused on doing proofs and conceptual questions that depend on using properties of stuff rather than just juggling numbers. Good CS teachers have done the same; rather than demanding students memorize a half-dozen sorting algorithms, they ask students to use an appropriate sort in a project. In History, students can write papers and give perspectives rather than regurgitating dates. In Econ, students can do modeling projects rather than spouting formulae and facts about AS-AD models.

The caveat to all of these is that they take more work for teachers, so many prefer not to use them.
Elimination of the price mechanism eliminates a key way to sort out who truly needs healthcare (or whatever service). Consider a safe elective knee surgery. If you knew it was paid for by the government, you would just sign yourself up for the surgery for even the slightest ache. If there was a copay, you might reconsider unless your pain was actually painful enough to warrant it. Ask any Brit about NHS waiting times and they would understand.

Is access to healthcare important? Yes, but universal healthcare eliminates market forces which makes things efficient. A better way would be a mixture of health saving accounts (and redistributive transfers to such accounts) and subsidizing hospitals (to reflect the fact that healthcare is typically underconsumed).

Further, the government lacks the necessary profit incentive to keep costs low or maintain high standards. Bureaucrats on fixed salaries have no incentive to try harder.
One of the most valuable things I did during college was to "eat" documentation wholesale. I read absolutely everything I could get my hands on, and also played around with a few toy projects.

This turned out to be more useful than 80% of what I learned in college.
Yes.

How much faster than 99.999..% the speed of light would you need to go to get as fast as the speed of light?

If your answer is 0.00..1% the speed of light, this answer is nonsensical because infinity never ends, and you never ever have the ability to add that 1 at the end. So, the only answer can be 0.00.., and 0.00.. = 0, so 99.99.. has to = 1.
That would solve a lot of problems. Senators enjoy socialized health care while preaching its dangers to the electorate. They receive all sorts of benefits that they deny to the general public.
The speeding has been happening all over the US too and it makes me sick. These people should be fined into oblivion, cars impounded, licenses revoked. Now is not the time to be creating extra problems for society.