skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As pointed out by samstave in a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 :

You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make things easy for.

One look at the homepage of this service shows all the email addresses used by the users to post. Since the service also claims (in another comment here) that spoofed email addresses won’t work, users must use a non-personal address and name if they don’t wish to expose their information publicly.
Sell order flow to HFT?
Nice to see you on here, big fan of Passiv!
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I will just speak for Australia... but Elimination was not the initial goal. It was just to ensure the hospitals could cope. It is true that Australia never entertained the idea of herd-immunity. I think some of the state governments later moved towards an elimination idea when it appeared possible.
I think that is not likely going to be possible now, since people were beginning not to accept the lock down like they had in the past. When you have a small number of cases in the hundreds for the whole of Australia, people had already started to change their behavior even before lock down restrictions had began to be lifted.
As someone who enjoys driving fast on a racetrack and occasionally watching racing, this comment is entirely nonsensical to me. How is "deliberately making it a game of human skill" in any way "taking the fun out of it?"

Every sport ends up with its elite participants taking it very seriously and eking out tiny gains to win. That's just the nature of competition. This is orthogonal to it being fun.
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What the wikipedia criticism doesn't mention issue flooding/packing. Quadratic voting works, on paper, when applied to set piece issues. It doesn't address the reality of legislatures, that "issues" are not fixed pieces on a chessboard. Issues can be split across multiple referendums. Whoever is in control can use splits to dilute votes, causing voters to spend their votes repeatedly winning a minor issue until their are depleted. Then those who 'lost' the first rounds now have the votes to win the last round. Giving everyone equal footing on every vote stops this.
I'm the same way, I remember getting that feeling of sudden understanding right at the end of writing an essay in school. But I no longer had any time left to actually present my new found understanding.
Thanks for the response. I was hoping for API access. It is a pity that companies don't expand here when they open an AU branch. That said, I don't blame them as our regulators are very inflexible, I used to love ipredict until it was shutdown.
Mirror: http://archive.is/OvIZB
Kafka for events
Flink for continous sql against topic events
Kudu for event storage. Databases for data storage and queries
I would argue its not similar at all. Finding those reputable sellers can be more difficult whereas this would be similar to the same target item showing up four or six different times on the shelf intermixed and tagged multiple times. No?
Then he sold four hair dryers and was all even stevens the next day.
I've been using "covid". Don't know if it will catch on, but I feel it's important for efficiency's sake to try to save one letter.
the best part about iex is that they give you milisecond historical data but on the other hand the data is only limited to their exchange so it clearly doesn't represent every exchange.
How much longer can anyone be expected to keep it together at this point? A majority of us toil away day in and day out for little reward while the ones at the top play around with many lifetimes worth of wealth like its a game.

Money is printed and given away to companies "in need" while we watch the hordes or mentally ill starve and freeze to death in the streets.
My main FUD with alpaca.markets is the ability to transfer assets in/out. It doesn't look like they offer ACATS transfers (although there's not much info on this!).

Using them for anything beyond entertainment budget is very scary - you may incur substantial tax liability if e.g. they ever go out of business or you choose to use a different brokerage.

Any insight here? Am I missing something? Is there any way to transfer holdings out without incurring the cap gains?
Yeah, simply put New Zealand is far too small of an addressable market to really warrant much attention.
As somebody who manages some family land, I wholeheartedly agree. Going back to 1830, there are only three other families we have trusted to lease our land. Some generations we lease their land. Other generations they lease ours. I’ve seen a cousin’s land destroyed for years by outside farmers. I know I could make some good money by leasing to an outsider for a few seasons, but they will use and abandon it, and it will take several seasons to recover. What’s the point in that?
Is there really a copyright issue? Mimicry artists and tribute bands have duplicated original voices without a problem. Technically, you are not reproducing any recording owned by anyone. It's brand new synthesis! It would be interesting to see if any courts rules this is not the case. You can own your spoken speech, but can you really own spectrogram of wave patterns?
>> when their combined wealth is in the trillions, and their assets keep growing.

Because capital gains, ironically, do not apply to gains in capital assets. They have to "realize" the gains as "income", usually by selling the asset. So a millionaire (stockholder) can become a billionaire without ever paying a cent in capital gains tax. Only when they sell the stock is it subject to taxation.

This allows them to pay tax selectively. Even if they want a chunk of money all at once, they can take a loan against their capital assets. There is no income realized when taking a loan. They then selectively sell stock to pay down the loan, preferably in years when they are taking a loss in some other area, nullifying the taxable gain on the asset sale. Such tricks are why, for billionaires, paying capital gains tax is basically voluntary.
Facebook has a ton of hidden/private groups selling things. I know of several local to me, and I’m in a fairly rural area. All of them violate Facebook policy, and some are outright illegal. It’s interesting to watch!
Like it or not, people are eating mass amounts of home-cooked zero-inspection food every day. Letting a little bit of that get sold for profit isn't a major risk.

> Rice is one of the worst foods. Your choice is to keep it super hot or in a flat tray and chilled.

These laws generally apply to shelf-stable foods. So not rice.

> Soap is another it's incredible how many kitchens have no soap. The inspector arrives and then there is a scramble to find some soap. But it makes you think how many people had a crap and just went back to work without washing their hands with soap.

Isn't that the exact kind of problem that would be less likely in a home environment?
Indeed. I've had the privilege (see what I did there) of getting off easy when I got caught going 101mph on US-101 in central coast CA (where it was a 55 limit). The cop pulled me over and said "you know I could take you to jail for this, right?" I kept my hands on the wheel, used "yes, ma'am" / "no, ma'am" type answers, and was let go with a very pricy ticket rather than having my life turned upside down or getting shot.
This site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice.

What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.
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If you like this, you'll probably be interested in STAR[0]. It has a really high voter satisfaction efficiency[1]. Pretty much it is the best if you want to account for strategic voting[2] (Condorcet methods don't handle these as well, but do have a higher VSE when it isn't accounted for, but we're talking pretty close anyways).

So why Cardinal systems? They are a lot easier than ranked systems. You like two people equally? You hate two people equally? No worries, just give them the same number. You basically have all the advantages in this case (I'll mention that Gibbard's[3] is an extension of Arrow's and it applies here). But why we would want this system is because it makes for the best of both worlds between the "we need parties" and "fuck parties" groups.

Let's take an example: Pick your favorite outside candidate: Bernie, Tulsi, Warren, Yang. If the general election was using STAR it wouldn't matter who the Dems pushed. You could still vote for these candidates and it wouldn't help you're candidate win. So I'd imagine a HN ballot could look something like this

Biden: 5

Gabbard: 7

Sanders: 10

Trump: 3

Warren: 9

Yang: 8

If Bernie, Tulsi, Warren, and Yang did not get enough votes to win, it would still be like the same election where we are choosing Biden v Trump, even though Biden wasn't your first choice. This means you can vote honestly (i.e. which candidate is closest to your opinion and not which candidate you think can win). It entirely removes the "electibility" question.

Why cardinal over ranked? One simple answer is that when cardinal breaks down it turns into approval voting. Approval voting is "I like this candidate" vs "I dislike this candidate". It is essentially the way we pick where to eat with friends. Everyone says "I don't know". So you start listing off places and once enough people say "sure", you pick that. It doesn't get you the best place to eat, but no one is really unhappy either. What STAR does is basically give you the options: "Hate it", "no", "ehhh", "I guess", "fine", "yes", "hell fucking yeah" (that'd be STAR06).

STAR is simple to understand, leads to high voter satisfaction, removes the electibility issue, let's parties exist without parties dominating (i.e. other parties can actually compete), easy to pick a winner, and more qualities we like in voting systems (if you're trying to make a fair system where people get representatives that represent their ideals). Of course, this does not fix the issues of money in politics, people lying, and all that.

This is just one component, but I think an essential component that will have huge effects on any democratically elected system and I think it is something that we really should fight for. It is also easy to sell the idea because everyone wants a more fair voting system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

[1]https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSE/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_voting

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%27s_theorem
(Disclaimer that I'm working on an open source FIX engine in Lisp.)

This is a really cool project! But alas I couldn't use it as I'm not in the US, and I don't trade with Alpaca. And I feel like this plays into a negative trend I'm seeing.

The retail brokerage market right now is treading on similar 'mistakes' in institutional markets 15ish years ago. Proprietary APIs were prolific, and therefore increased switching costs and lock-in (looking at you, Reuters and Bloomberg).

On the one hand, retail brokers need to support popular programming languages and paradigms to gain traction. So, they are releasing http-based APIs, or popular language-specific libraries/bindings for their proprietary APIs. But, they are doing this instead of pushing well-publicised battle-tested standards such as FIX[1], that would normalise the playing field across brokers. So my gut feel is that they are banking on users coding against their APIs and having some lock-in effects. Notable exception is that any broker that supports cTrader will have a FIX API, because cTrader provides that for them.

The problem is: if I write a bunch of code to work against Alpaca, TD Ameritrade, or whoever, that code will likely need to be revisited for some other broker like Robinhood. Granted, market connectivity code _should_ be well abstracted from my model if I'm following good design principles. But at least with FIX, the core concepts, fields, and messages remain the same across most FIX endpoints (NOS, ExecRpt, etc), allowing for a more uniform code holistically.

[1] https://www.fixtrading.org
Contact tracing doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be enough to kick the replication factor down from >1 to <1. I would be surprised if the factors you mention would reduce the effectiveness of contact tracing by more than, say, 5%.
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I use LEMP stack because the rss one needs PHP and MySQL, while the main site built with Hugo. All use LetsEncrypt.

Some of my subdomains hosted on netlify, because I won’t bother myself installing node.js on my server.
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’
Is there any mobile web HTML editor that doesn't suck?
It seems like they are probably out there searching for ways to get cash to survive, so maybe figure out if you can make either of these statements work:

"Our chatbot will help you find people who want to buy your toilet paper, raw ingredients, and cleaning supplies"

"We will pay you a signing bonus if you commit to doing X, Y, and Z"

Naturally, this is only a speculation, I've never run a brick and mortar chatbot business.
Well, people who develop apps for casual users are exploring GitHub.
> Under various sets of conditions, quadratic voting has been shown to be much more efficient than one-person-one-vote in aligning collective decisions with doing the most good for the most people.

That's a severe misunderstanding. We don't have elections to make collective decisions that yield "the most good for the most people". We have elections because the alternatives to not having elections are worse.

Moreover, "the most good for the most people" is subjective -- any objective measures of that that you come up with will be subjectively chosen. Some will say that maximizing the health of the environment does the most good for the most people, while others will say that maximizing GDP per-capita does -- if those two are in conflict, who's right? Elections sidestep the matter: it's not about being right, but about what people want.

Sometimes people want things they really really shouldn't, and they may try to get their way via elections. For that we have institutions (e.g., constitutions, courts, separation of powers, etc.) that keep them from getting those things for some time. The alternative to all that is absolute monarchy, caudillos, dictatorship, war, anarchy (for a while until you get a strongman) -- all bad things.

If you manage to impose a technocracy not headed by a strongman, soon it will be, and either way may well lead to revolt, possibly civil war.

I too would like a better system, because "democracy is the worst system of governance, except for all the others", but like Churchill, I'm skeptical that there is something better than a constitutional, democratic republican form of government.

Utopia peddling seems very commonplace nowadays. That's a bit worrisome.
Without walls (dikes), I’m not sure the Netherlands would even exist...
Here’s a version of Game if Life I wrote in ruby ages ago that was inspired by APL in a, uh, different way: https://gist.github.com/burke/1428424
> Both were early to restrict international arrivals. The UK lagged behind.

This was a big factor. When Australia started closing its borders (on Feb 2), it was being condemned by the WHO and China for doing so [1]:

"WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva that despite the emergency declaration, there is "no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade"."

I was tracking conferences in the UK at the time (I run a website with conference listings), and one of the UK conferences kept quoting that WHO statement as a reason to insist their conference was still happening and people should fly to the UK for it... for another six weeks, right up until the UK lockdown. Meanwhile conferences in the rest of the world were cancelling themselves "out of an abundance of caution". The UK was one of the countries that took the longest for their conferences to cancel (Germany was the other).

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-02/coronavirus-china-sla...
I don't follow how this could be possible. I'd think most people in the US either would be getting health insurance from the government (Medicare, Medicaid), from an "Obamacare" exchange and subsidized, or from an employer where they don't pay cash.

So where would the discrepancy in accounting between that and Canada come from? It seems unlikely that the Chinese government would assume that even Americans buy health insurance retail.
This is very weak argument. Once these restrictions are embedded in language, it cannot be removed by anyone. On the other hand, same thing can be accomplished by using company-wise style enforcers. If you think that is harder, I'd say forcing every project in big company to use same language is even more harder.

My main quip with Go is that its rather more of the same but more poorly done in the name of minimalism. Extreme minimalism is as bad as extreme richness. The entire art of language design is achieving just the right balance for a specific audience and set of goals.
or trip on a curb, or take up any sports, or get old
That's really nice of you, and I'm sure not only she but everyone reading this will feel a bit better for it.
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Slightly offtopic, but it bothers me that the tech community has remained silent or supportive for contact tracing technology, when there were massive outcries for the past several years regarding other kinds of surveillance-enabling technology like face recognition. In general I would prefer that contact tracing technology not exist.
The population density of the Australian East Coast between Melbourne and Brisbane is comparable to the UK.

For example, the greater Sydney area has 400 people/km^2 while the UK is 259/km^2.
That's essentially the solution to this problem. Or you can think of it another way. Every person gets x votes (we'll say 100, but it should probably change dependent upon the ballot, which can get confusing but we'll ignore that). You can go all in on one candidate and designate all 100 votes to that one, but you forfeit voting elsewhere. Like on the general election ballot you will have the president, senators, congressional rep (what's the preferred gender neutral term?), governor, etc. You can assign all 100 votes in the presidential race and forfeit voting in the other races.

Of course, this brings a difficult problem on a national scale. Often many seats are run uncontested, even in large areas. So if we had a minimum of 1 vote per candidate, that would give certain areas and certain elections more power. You could then "hack" the election simply by running extra candidates and make it seem more contested. While I like cardinal systems, I think quadratic gets extremely complicated as soon as you try to expand it outside of a localized election and maybe it isn't worth it.
There's a black box optimizer for databases, which is designed to take the user away from having to find and tweak all the hundreds of possible tunables in the database, https://github.com/cmu-db/ottertune / https://ottertune.cs.cmu.edu/

I keep wanting the same for JVM. It's probably nice that there are so many ways to adjust the JVM to best suit a very wide range of workloads, but from a practical perspective I rarely have spare time to go diving through the guts to experiment. Let me point something at a one-box, and it can tweak parameters to its hearts content, so I can export and apply to the rest of the fleet.
This is swooping so low for a journalist. The guy donated 800k. Why do you always have to look at it as a percentage of this wealth? Not just look at the absolute number and appreciate it? You dont have anything better to report on?
Thanks for the extremely insightful context.

With so much first-hand knowledge of this situation, I’m having a hard time processing how you don’t have an opinion on it. It seems that this is exceedingly detrimental to the well being of literally everyone and everything involved except for those that profit from it.
Smearing shit on a wall is also art.
It's both: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296

(The inimitable DonHopkins provided the perfect gloss)
That is a terrible idea. The JVM basically never returns RAM to the OS, and in my experience, if you run a java process long enough, the max heap size ends up being the used heap size.
"sure: it is totally their fault for deploying something without carefully reading your code to figure out that it was a bit shitty beforehand"

Yes you must read and understand everything or have trust in the publisher. Relying on the package name is going to get you in trouble. Sounds like a great exploit opportunity.
I think what they mean is it results in outcomes that better align with the preferences of the voters than other voting schemes.
Most password managers don't even let you generate passwords longer than 50-100 characters anyway.

So long as you're using a password manager that generates unique passwords for every site you visit, there's no real reason to have those generated passwords be particularly long. Ten random characters (with enforced complexity rules) is more than ample for any normal, plausible scenario. If you're a high value individual, you might want to eliminate any doubt and use 12–15 characters. Exceeding that is security masturbation—but also lacks any downside so long as you never have to transcribe it.

Or if you fear worldwide retribution, 20 characters is enough to withstand all compute power on earth suddenly dedicated to the task of cracking your Spotify password.

The only scenario I can imagine where the length of random+unique passwords matters AT ALL is if (1) the website uses a very weak/naive password hash implementation (2) a hacker manages to acquire a copy of your hashed password and (3) the account is of sufficiently high value to justify a large investment in computing resources to brute force the hash. Hitting that trifecta is very unlikely indeed.
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Tech companies’ work from home policies have some workers ready to flee SV
Also, still plenty of wild space around here even with a mowed park
> cost of health insurance in California as a "tax"

My company would happily hand our insurance premiums over to California in return for not having to deal with sleazy insurance dickwads.
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