skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting certainly has its problems, but the alternative is given trolls and spammers free reign.

Not having any kind of selection mechanism may have worked in the past when the Internet was much smaller, and when the majority of people still cared about making quality posts. But those days are long gone. Even in its current state, I find Twitter borderline unusable, because > 95% of posts are worthless noise.
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You're making a couple implicit assumptions, here, though, such as:

1. The attacker has enough capital to load up on HTZ calls or TSLA puts.
2. The attacker has been planning this for a while.
3. The attacker is a US citizen

If any of those is not true, it changes the risk/reward considerably.

The money one is easy. Even if you get a bunch of call options for free, and if you manage to temporarily push TSLA down 10% (unlikely), then you still need $900,000 in working capital in order to exercise enough of those options to be able to dump them later for a $100,000 gain.

#2 and #3 adjust the actual risk of the operation. #2 because shoving the money around quickly gives a clearer signal for the SEC to pick up on, and #3 because triggering a whole bunch of extra KYC red tape risks getting even more hounds on your trail.

BTC does have to be turned into fiat. But I can only assume, based on how rarely people who conduct ransomware scams and the like seem to get caught, that bitcoin laundering is a solved problem.
"We" didn't do anything. The roughly 25% of people that voted for Trump and his enablers got what they asked for. The rest of us are victims of late stage democracy.
1. I like Erlang's Supervisor. If Go's goroutine has a unique ID, I think it can steal that design.

2. There was one new language that I don't remember the name, its data structures automatically turned to thread-safe upon concurrent access. That's smart. I wish all languages do that. Less data structure names people have to remember.

3. The compiler can cross-compiles to many different architectures similar to Go or Zig. This makes deployment story much simpler.

4. The compiler produces single binary by default. This also makes deployment story simpler.

5. This is year 2020. Every language must have an event loop so that they can have async I/O routines. Preferably in the form of CSP (green threads + channels).

As you can see I care about the ergonomics and tooling outside the language itself.
They will disguise it and lot of US people will deny it but this will lead to plain censorship and manipulation of data. I guess all the comments will be but China ... .
I really need to do a basic D -betterC project, just using it as a basic low level language, maybe with a dash of DbC. Probably with embracing some Oberon concepts (static imports, single return etc.)
I am not resorting to pathos. I am rationally pointing out that _blockcipher_'s solution is to unnecessarily kill a bunch (easily millions) of people. That is a murderous agenda. There is no exaggeration. Just facts. Your attempts to paint me as the irrational pathos-ridden one with a thesis built on a foundation of sand and paper-ed over with non-sequitor citations in this conversation are transparent.

I don't need any additional support when your own sources are telling you that it is highly unlikely that herd immunity kicks in at 20%. As an actual scientist, I can tell you that when someone says " a 20 percent threshold is unlikely, but not impossible", it means exactly what it says. Impossible is a very high bar (essentially unobtainable in biology), and when you invoke it you mean that whatever possibility there is is very very very very low.
CGP Grey.
Don't forget that the Democratic party has something called Super Delegates, which basically blocks any candidate they don't agree with, even if the candidate won the popular vote. If Trump ran as Democrat, he wouldn't be president today due to this.

Also, we shouldn't forget that Michael Bloomberg decided to run last-minute as a Democrat, with the Democrat party changing the applicant rules so that he could specifically run.

The whole political apparatus is entirely corrupt. I'm not sure voting helps at this point. We have a massive amount of people who are on the last of their savings, with no unemployment benefit coming their way to help out. This may be the beginning of a revolution, if people are angry enough, maybe.
But timing is essential when taking advantage of an event like this. Lots of people are trading TSLA but few are taking positions immediately before and getting out immediately after this event, as would be required to make a consistent profit from it. And unless you have an extensive history of similar risky trades (which would probably cost a lot of money to produce by itself) your data is going to stand out like a sore thumb given that timing, even among the sea of TSLA traders.
I hear you, but in this case (A) there was a ton of relevant context about aria-label, and (B) HN (HackerNews) is a technical community, and on the web, "a11y" has been in very widespread, even mainstream usage for many years, to refer to "accessibility". Notice how "a11y" looks like lowercase "ALLY", as in ally or friend, of the differently-abled.
Why embrace something you dont control, cannot trust, and can have turned off at any moment? Just because people are there? Ease of convenience outweighs accountability and control? Seems very short sighted when its just as easy to post official communication on your own media and tweet links to it?
Certainly possible but I think the bar has absolutely been passed for three-letter agency involvement.
Everyone would just make an alternate account and not apply for the checkmark on it, although I suppose that might still align with your goals.
Even semi-visible voting such as HN has creates bad incentives.

The retweets/likes culture of twitter is orders of magnitude worse, though. People start chasing the likes, tailoring them to what people want to hear rather than genuine expression of thought.
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How do you deal with confusing feelings of nervousness, excitement and fear before launch?
This works for airlines because compliments for employees are unsolicited and customers mostly have to go out of their way to give them. As a result, if one is given you can be pretty sure it's both genuine and meaningful. As soon as you apply a metric to feedback, though, the effectiveness goes out the window. For example, I spent some time in the automotive customer experience world and car dealers routinely abuse the hell out of feedback systems by pressuring customers into providing positive scores and comments.

Similar things happen when you try to use feedback systems like this as a component of internal review processes - they tend to get gamed extremely quickly.
It's wishful thinking to hope that people realize there's more in common than differences. Class/racial strife is the most effective bludgeon remaining, unlike traditional nations surrounded by enemies where suspicions can be inflamed effectively (ex: "It's the '-ists!'"). The Project Lincoln co-founder John Weaver is a registered foreign agent (Russia), a spy, endorsing a political candidate.
Yes but why is "city/rural" the only dichotomy anyone bothers to fixate on? Why not skin color? Age?

You could just as easily say "old people are trying to pass laws that make lives miserable for young people, we really ought to have fewer representatives for old people", and it would make exactly as much sense as saying the same thing about a geographic location. There are a million different ways you could slice people up into representatives, but we end up settling on geographic location because... reasons, I guess.
I’m not sure. All those things do is ensure you check lots of boxes, but they don’t necessarily increase security.
Maybe record the teachers as they teach; as a way to produce content?

There may even be a good-enough auto voice->text transcriber for Portuguese?

A double bonus would be having the teachers review the recording/transcribing -- as some teachers (if not all of us), improve after checking recordings of what we do

Blessings on your efforts

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I was sitting beside a very impressive Ecuadorean teacher today, with refugees

Sometimes larger change is need for society. Something like having older children teach younger children has been effective in recent history

My most effective technique to-date, has been to pray
> Swift changes so frequently that book authors teaching the language can't keep up

This hasn't been true for a couple years.
In terms of gaming the system, that is largely avoided by use of the Google PageRank algorithm, as I mentioned below. On a team of 100 you don't have to deal with the millions of spammers that exist on the Internet. On a team of 100, the Google PageRank algorithm works almost perfectly.

But as I also mentioned, any 360 tool should be just one tool that a manager uses, it should not replace all other tools.

I'm curious what you thought of the original article and its idea "When your coworker does great work, tell their manager". Are you opposed to that? If you are not opposed to that, then why would you be opposed to any other system of feedback, especially those that are formalized and structured?
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> Can you elaborate?

The fact that high profile accounts were posting content not from the 'owner' of those accounts.

> Fault

A fool and his money and soon parted. These people are foolish.
I've been using https://ktor.io (by Jetbrains, same company behind Kotlin) but there are others like Micronaut and Quarkus. A few more options at: https://kotlinlang.org/lp/server-side/

As far as I'm aware there's no native server side framework available at the moment, but ktor could potentially support it in the future given the ktor client libraries work on native. You could also use GraalVM native image to build a JVM-free binary of your server, Quarkus has built-in support for it.
"noted cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk" - Hmm, I wouldn't exactly describe Musk as a cryptocurrency enthusiast.
Cf. any usenet client
>- There are larger forces at work, and this was a demo for a larger client and is part of a longer play

seems unlikely, considering that the nature of the hack (compromised insider account) would most likely be cut off after detection. That's exactly what happened in this case.
You can have voting mechanisms without their results being visible. It isn't very transparent but social media is still curated and moderated by platforms regardless of "voting".
It's true peer bonuses in particular seem to be mainly reponsibly used. Probably because there's $$ and an accounting chain attached to them.

But just last week I watched the hard work of a coworker get completely bowled over by another manager's "congrats on amazing work" email chain to someone else who used the work of my coworker without recognition.
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https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/government_says_trum...

When the government itself says “our tweets are official statements”, it’s not that people are dumb for getting official news from Twitter. The government is using Twitter for exactly that purpose. Donald Trump’s Twitter account is not “unofficial sources”, it is the definition of an official source according to the president himself.
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I don't have any idea what the threshold is. No one does. Based on what it tends to be with coronaviruses in general, 65% to 80% is expected. Could be way more or way less. That is why it simply isn't worth the risk of finding out. If it is 65%, then the costs of you being wrong about all this are astronomically bad. If you were 99% likely to be correct, this would be a different conversation. But you are not 99% likely to be correct.
AFAIK, Nothing in PCI/PII/SOX would have explicitly prevented what we saw today (if the rumors are true).
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The permanent shift to Remote Work is overhyped. The Bay Area is not losing its crown because of COVID.
What was your process for investigation? Given that process, what crimes, if any, would you have found in the cases of, say, George Floyd or Breona Taylor?
Plenty of products aren't lowering in price, but are getting you more quality for the same price, e.g. a faster CPU or more RAM in your smart phone. Economists consider that a price drop for the calculation of inflation.

That's technically correct, though of course does not feel like it for many people. To the average consumer, a "phone that can play today's games" is the same measurement today as it is next year, and if prices don't change, they might not consider that "quality increase".
There was oversight for PPP, but the president fired the IG over the program and replaced them with a loyalist right before the fund went live. The administration then refused to provide data on who got loans until sued. Now we know that the Sec of Transportation and husband Mitch McConnell, the new USPS head who appears to be trying to crush mail in voting internally, and many other government officials received loans for millions. If one was to condemn protesting due to looting, imaging the response to misappropriating billions in tax dollars to corporations, supporters, and corrupt officials.
Based on the very limited reading I've done about it:

1.) It only really works for certain styles, lengths, and types of hair

2.) Cheap haircut shops are presumably mostly competing with home haircuts so if you start doing 5 minute haircuts with some gadget, your customers may start going "hmm" and go off and buy the gadget to use at home.
> tyranny of the majority

I keep hearing people say this, and it baffles me. If the majority of people feel a certain way, who's to say it's not the right way? If you start picking this apart it really just comes down to "yeah but the majority can sometimes be wrong", which, I have news for you, applies to the minority as well.

At the end of the day, representative democracy exists instead of "pure" democracy because there's issues scaling the operation of government into something where everybody votes on everything. So we decide to have 1 representative for every N people. To do this, we need to break people into cohorts somehow, such that each cohort is roughly the same size. There's lots and lots of ways to do this, but we seemed to have settled on geographic locations, and sizing so that they (mostly) have similar numbers of people.

But since populations can be extremely concentrated in some areas, cohorting people by geographic location becomes less and less useful. It seems to me in an ideal world, everyone would be randomly assigned to a cohort via some sort of consistent hash, and they would be evenly distributed. Mind explaining to me why this would be inferior to cohorting on geographic location?
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I don't think it's as black-and-white as you suggest. This link seems to support the narrative that FCA has greatly improved, and it also agrees that Subaru and BMW, in spite of their high quality stereotype, statistically suffer from more than their fair share of issues: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

Anecdotal evidence is fun, but it's useless for making any kind of informed decision. We happen to have a 2008 Toyota Sienna. The general consensus for that vehicle is that its practically bulletproof. But we've had chronic issues with it since 50,000 miles. AC went out, plastic seals falling off, engine knocking, and many other issues. But I wouldn't hesitate to consider a Toyota when we replace it, because I know our experience has been an outlier.
Thanks! There are other design-to-code tools like Framer and Bit but neither of these options allow you to build the entire skeleton of a Next.js / React app. We published a medium article talking about the different options + boilerplate repos if you're interested in more of our input :)

https://medium.com/@tylersullberg/letters-from-the-dark-worl...
Come on. Who’s going to belive that Donald Trump is going to pay them more than they paid him. Even for 30 minutes.
>The test suite is down, and has been for at least a year

Yeah, that's lame. According to the Github issue it's been down since March 2019 [0]

OP wrote an unofficial Activity Streams test suite [1] to fill the gap [2].

[0] https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/337

[1] https://github.com/go-fed/testsuite

[2] https://mastodon.technology/@cj/104519578501508322

edit: link correction
It can be extremely demoralising for co-workers in all kinds of roles when they see that kind of recognition being given to someone who they feel don't deserve it.

Personally I think it's risky to acknowledge these kind of things in front of a team for that reason unless it's better quantified. I've personally as well been in situations where

I've been outright resentful because the recognition of someone I knew was doing a bad job made it clear we could not expect recognition based on merits, and so what was the point of putting in the effort?
This is my problem as well, and seeing all of the unfair behavior -- with average performers who are easy targets getting PIPed while the lowest performers who are the managers favorites get top ranks or promotions -- is really annihilating my morale.
I was diagnosed in my mid-20s with inattentive-type ADHD. I had never even considered that I had ADHD until about a year prior to seeing a doctor, because I don't "look" like I have ADHD. There's this stereotype of people with ADHD being unable to sit still, constantly bouncing off the walls, which isn't really me at all.

There's so much more to ADHD than that though. I'm smart enough that I never struggled academically, and wasn't hyperactive enough to cause significant enough disruption in the classroom, so externally it was never picked up that I might have ADHD. But now that I'm aware of it, I've come to realise how significant of an impact it's had in my life, all the self-destructive and self-sabotaging behaviour, the instability of my relationships, the abuse of drugs and alcohol, the lack of internal motivation, emotional hypersensitivity, a lack of emotional and object permanence, and more. I could go on for days (and have) about the less obvious effects and symptoms of ADHD.
It seems that the most harm is done when the voting system is used to accumulate clout/fame/social capital both on and off platform.

Democratized voting systems on pseudonymous platforms can have a content curation effect while limiting this accumulation of social capital, as seen on Hacker News and Reddit. You don't see quite the same level of brands and people building their clout on say Reddit the way they do on Twitter. Conventional cultural leaders like politicians and celebrities don't dominate discourse on these platforms to the degree they do on Facebook and Twitter.
You need to set the directors' budgets somehow. But hopefully there's not so many directors, and company leadership can figure that out. Then let the directors do whatever within that, with light supervision (company CYA of course, but also to make sure things are fair enough within the overall company, etc).
That page looks nothing like the kind of security measures you're talking about. It's for people who care about good opsec, who carry around hardware keys, and think 2FA isn't just a good idea, it's a necessity. But what you really need is someone to stop the takeover of high-profile accounts run by people who pick the worst possible passwords: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/11/17964848/kanye-west...
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Thanks! I might look into trying that mindset.
Trading the stock directly would probably not maximize gains. I'm saying you could buy short expiry call options and make far more money (or puts if you're trying to move the price the other way). Part of the reason people trade options is because you can make (and lose) far more money with less capital than you can by just trading the underlying security. In many cases it's higher risk, higher reward.

Here's a scenario demonstrating the idea:

Let's say I spend $92,300 to buy 61 shares of TSLA at its current price of $1,512.18. Then I post my Tweet causing TSLA to jump to $1600.00 on the same day and sell my 61 for $97,600. My total profit is only $5,300.

But what if instead I buy $92,300 of 7/17 TSLA call options at $1600? They cost only $9.23 per contract for 10,000 contracts. Now the same price movement to $1,600.00 today causes the value of my options to increase to $39.16 per contact. I can sell them for $391,600 netting me a total of $299,300 for the same starting capital. If you have access to margin then you're talking millions in profit with even a small price movement (though at that point you probably have to start worrying about the SEC).
Costco has such leader boards and keeps a separate board for part timers vs full time cashiers. I asked my friend who works there why the part time cashiers have a much higher (upwards of 2x) items per minute rate than the full time employees. Costco only schedules part time cashiers during busy hours where the lines are long and there are assistants getting the carts ready.
One section of CS3210 Design of Operating Systems at Georgia Tech in the Spring was experimentally using Rust[0]. I'd never used it before, but by that point I had a decent amount of experience with C from previous classes. I personally didn't struggle with the borrow checker too much, because I did have some experience with what happens when there isn't ownership. I took another C and C++ heavy course at the same time (CS4290) and wished I could use Rust, since most of my trouble with projects came down to debugging pointers not being in the right place. I'm in the Systems concentration though, so I don't know how people only experienced in, for lack of a better term, higher-level languages would fare. Still, I think that students interested in taking a Rust class would have enough experience with other systems languages to be able to see what ownership can do for you.

Maybe the professor for this class could assign a non-trivial project in C at the start of the semester then the same project again at the end of the semester except in Rust.

[0] https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/
Speaking as someone who frequently digs themselves into holes when they discover they’re wrong, I would recommend stopping while the hole is only extremely deep.

The federal government of the United States conducts official foreign policy over Twitter. End of story, straight from the horse’s mouth. That has national security implications when Twitter gets hacked.
You may not have read the article. It says to tell the coworker first. There is no question of a manager acting as an intermediary.

The point of telling the manager is to help the coworker get their next raise or promotion, not for the manager to be the one to tell them.
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Or imagine they flagged videos showing how face masks help contain Covid-19 as fake news back when the official US government recommendation was still to not buy and wear masks because they are useless? That'd have pissed people off too.
It also works in the reverse, you click one video but ignore the rest and it doesn't suggest you more. Meaning that one video doesn't usually throw it entirely out of whack.
> You shouldn't be able to get away with something like that

An account on a private service was deleted. Not a brilliant move. But not something that merits more than being fired and possibly pursued for money damages.
I have a theory that half the population struggles with reading. They can read to get by but they find reading an article or blog post to be a struggle and certainly not entertaining.
And yet...it's because of that theory that public key crypto is known to be more vulnerable to quantum computing attacks. Quantum computers can't break modern symmetric crypto.

http://www.pqcrypto.org/www.springer.com/cda/content/documen...