skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making it easier to vote has a big affect on how many people vote.

I think OP meant "efficient" as in "efficient for the people doing the counting." In this case, efficient is not the same as easy. It's efficient to count a bunch of ballots by having people enter their choices directly into a bunch of counting computers that are networked to a central counting computer.

It's easy to vote by getting a ballot (by mail or in person), marking it, and dropping it into a box. But counting those votes is not efficient, or at least not fast.

I'm with you; I want the latter, not the former.
Is your hypothesis that there is nothing they could do that would both be not too far from what they have now, plus valuable?
Nandor Ludvig follow up comment:

> I did watch this presentation for an hour -- but it was so painful for me to experience this scene of incompetence and mockery of neuroscience getting worldwide attention simply because of Musk's money (while true scientists lose their jobs because of the lack of NIH or NSF grants for their quality research) that I add some sentences here and just leave. They did not show how their robot-controlled microelectrodes actually penetrate into the cortex and find cells -- because, as every single-cell recording expert knows, this is the difficulty: not just to move each microelectrode close enough to the targeted neuron but to make sure they can be kept there for long periods while not damaging the cell either. To do this, as claimed by Musk with 1,000 microelectrodes within an hour with "surgery without anesthesia", in the pulsing brain with no neurosurgeon present is not just impossible but even its proposal is an outright embarrassment for people with more education than the Twitter-audience encouraged to send their questions. Enough. Carl Sagan's prophetic 1996 book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" predicted an America sinking in "superstition and darkness". This time has arrived. -- ---Nandor Ludvig, MD, PhD

I must say, it does feel like history repeating itself. It seems that anyone who is an expert in a field that Musk enters ALWAYS bets against Musk.

And then, in the fullness of time, they are often proven to be wrong because Musk finds another way they couldn't imagine - probably because he works as a multi domain expert and from a viewpoint of first priciples.

It will be interesting to see if that is how this one plays out.
I think OP was not contesting those acts on China were riots, but rather ironically implying that the acts by BLM/Antifa are riots - despite certain media mostly referring to them as 'peaceful protests'.
10 years ago LLVM was a baby and GCC was still on version 4. Intel probably have an advantage in areas where people pay them for it but GCC and LLVM are excellent compilers today.

Anecdotally, (ignoring that I'm still not sure whether to trust it or not) Intel stopped developing IACA and suggested (but not recommended) LLVM's MCA - which does suggest a changing of the guard in some way.
I've read countless articles on IPOs. This is the first time I appreciated the mechanics and economics. Excellent article.
I agree with you, but I also wonder if balance is somewhat of an anti-pattern. By changing the balance of the game, they're influencing the meta builds and play styles, which keeps things interesting. So in a way, creating imbalances is a feature to keep the game fresh. All of this within reason of course.
No DST is definitely something I love about living in Phoenix.
In determining whether a competitor possesses monopoly power in a relevant market, courts typically begin by looking at the firm's market share.(18) Although the courts "have not yet identified a precise level at which monopoly power will be inferred,"(19) they have demanded a dominant market share. Discussions of the requisite market share for monopoly power commonly begin with Judge Hand's statement in United States v. Aluminum Co. of America that a market share of ninety percent "is enough to constitute a monopoly; it is doubtful whether sixty or sixty-four percent would be enough; and certainly thirty-three per cent is not."(20) The Supreme Court quickly endorsed Judge Hand's approach in American Tobacco Co. v. United States.(21)

Following Alcoa and American Tobacco, courts typically have required a dominant market share before inferring the existence of monopoly power. The Fifth Circuit observed that "monopolization is rarely found when the defendant's share of the relevant market is below 70%."(22) Similarly, the Tenth Circuit noted that to establish "monopoly power, lower courts generally require a minimum market share of between 70% and 80%."(23) Likewise, the Third Circuit stated that "a share significantly larger than 55% has been required to establish prima facie market power"(24) and held that a market share between seventy-five percent and eighty percent of sales is "more than adequate to establish a prima facie case of power."(25)

It is also important to consider the share levels that have been held insufficient to allow courts to conclude that a defendant possesses monopoly power. The Eleventh Circuit held that a "market share at or less than 50% is inadequate as a matter of law to constitute monopoly power."(26) The Seventh Circuit observed that "[f]ifty percent is below any accepted benchmark for inferring monopoly power from market share."(27) A treatise agrees, contending that "it would be rare indeed to find that a firm with half of a market could individually control price over any significant period."(28)

Some courts have stated that it is possible for a defendant to possess monopoly power with a market share of less than fifty percent.(29) These courts provide for the possibility of establishing monopoly power through non-market-share evidence, such as direct evidence of an ability profitably to raise price or exclude competitors. The Department is not aware, however, of any court that has found that a defendant possessed monopoly power when its market share was less than fifty percent.(30) Thus, as a practical matter, a market share of greater than fifty percent has been necessary for courts to find the existence of monopoly power.(31)

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...
I like more divisions. I'm sure it fails large subsets of the population, but for many of us time is told to us by an always internet-connected device. NOBODY claims to be 3 minutes late because their watch was off anymore - we all see the same time to the second.

So, why can't we just have our devices just gradually shift the time by a few seconds each day? So that in our time zone noon stays roughly when the sun is overhead. We have (supposed?) benefits of switching our time, without the dangerous and disruptive discrete 1-hour events!

Not realistic, implementable, but fun and preferable to the current rough transitions.
Even if they lose, they win. "Oh you can't play Fortnite on IPhones" is a seriously bad place for Apple to be. Don't even get me started on "Oh you can't use the most popular game engine to make games for IPhone". It'll shift market share toward Android, where presumably some users will learn to sideload and save Epic some money.
The “8 kinds of fun” have been a huge help to me as a D&D DM. It’s a great framework for running adventures that players will respond to and give everyone a chance to find their fun.

It also helps answer micro, nuts and bolts like what kinds of rewards your players will respond to. For example, a player really into challenge might only care about the stats on a magic sword they find, but a player more into narrative or exploration will dig a sword with a mysterious engraving on the hilt even if it isn’t necessarily an upgrade. Real life people usually respond to multiple categories, but if you pay attention during the game you will see this at work.

I got onto this via a post at theangrygm.com, who I really recommend. He’s super opinionated, and the “angry GM” schtick gets old, but he knows what he’s talking about.
Curious, you seem pretty well informed about Ethereum, blockchain, etc. Do you work in the space?
If we want to win this fight and keep DST year round, we need to get rid of the confusing "DST" moniker. Most people are entirely unaware of which is which, and they are focused on the time change aspect.

We should phrase the battle as "Keep summer daylight" and "abolish winter early sunset".

It's imperative that we spin it this way.
Considering the rent changes around there over the last 5 years, it'd be less "modest" and more "how much ya got"
> whole space seems filled with people who hold similar views about economics: all inflation is bad

This can't be true since there are major cryptocurrencies that are inflationary, for instance Monero.
One that is advertised as not constrained to a single genre of use. Game consoles are for entertainment. Consumption. That's why I can say "game console" and you know exactly what I'm talking about. Smartphones are for anything and everything. "There's an app for that."
> that only reason Apple invested in these projects is to avoid GPLv3

So if that's the only reason, then why did Apple hire Lattner to work on llvm in 2005 (two years prior to gcc's switch to v3)?

Surely it would have been easier to just fork one of the GPLv2 releases from 2007 or earlier.
Consumer protection works both ways though.

Another function of Apple's rules is to protect the consumer from bad behavior by apps that lead the customer off-app to other payment flows for abusive services not under Apple's review.

If a company wants to do this, and the consumer wants to fall for it, that's between the company and the consumer. But if they promote it and lead the customer to it using wording and other elements situated on Apple's curated app platform, Apple becomes responsible for having allowed it, and it both hurts the consumer, so they are not protected, and taints the experience on the Apple device.

This built in consumer protection is part of why Apple has a reputation as having good user experience. By keeping the rules in place, Apple helps maintain the valuable reputation it has earned for having good user experience which includes, as a vital part, this consumer protection.
Maybe the original anecdote was about a family plan. I interpreted it as not, but then reconsidered.

Currently, in an urban area of NY state where I am, a basic family plan is ~$1600 and an individual plan is ~$550.

You may say "what about the deductible", but it looks to me like the deductible is effectively only a payment plan. Even if you have a chronic condition, and you know you will go through the deductible for sure, you don't gain anything by paying for a lower deductible. The deductible is nowhere near the difference between $1600 and $4000 anyway.
I didn't do anything fancy. I simply turned on the Developer overlay in my Apple TV 4K and played a few 4K movies (if available) in each service. The bitrates were consistent within each platform.

I was very surprised by Apple's numbers (and HBO), so I did some Googling to confirm.
Let the federal government dictate a default time per state corresponding to longitude, as we have now. Each state can choose to operate at {-1, +0, +1} hours from baseline.
My advanced Go AI, written in Go, is now able to predict, with modest accuracy, the next line of Go code that should be bashed into the text editor:

func PredictNextCodingMove(ctx context.Context, source string, cursor int) (string, error) {
return "if err != nil {", nil
}
> it is Neuralink’s responsibility to say everything they do

When they bring a product to market, that is.
I like both methods of discovery, but I don't impulse buy digital books like I do when I wind up in Powell's and see a 40-year-old used small-press book with little or no digital profile. Just looked one such example up and the only copy on Amazon is priced at $332; I got it at Powell's for $7.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Ship-Simulation-games-no/dp/0918...
People here must think of time very differently than I do, because this sounds like a strange idea to me. Consider if daylight saving time did not exist and you wanted to do things earlier or later. Wouldn't you suggest they be done earlier or later? You would not suggest moving the hours of the day ... right?
> Epic can’t force a jury trial on anti-trust (Sherman act violations) - only the US government has standing to even file that kind of suit.

Are you sure? How do you explain these cases?

Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., 551 U.S. 877 (2007): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/551/877/

> PSKS filed suit, alleging, inter alia, that Leegin violated the antitrust laws by entering into vertical agreements with its retailers to set minimum resale prices. The District Court excluded expert testimony about Leegin’s pricing policy’s procompetitive effects on the ground that Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co., 220 U. S. 373, makes it per se illegal under §1 of the Sherman Act for a manufacturer and its distributor to agree on the minimum price the distributor can charge for the manufacturer’s goods. At trial, PSKS alleged that Leegin and its retailers had agreed to fix prices, but Leegin argued that its pricing policy was lawful under §1. The jury found for PSKS.

Copperweld v. Independence Tube, 467 U.S. 752 (1984): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/467/752/

> Thereafter, respondent filed an action in Federal District Court against petitioners and Yoder. The jury found, inter alia, that petitioners had conspired to violate § 1 of the Sherman Act, but that Yoder was not part of the conspiracy, and awarded treble damages against petitioners.

More cases are listed under "United States Supreme Court cases" in this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
Sure, the platform takes a lot of money to create, but the marginal costs of adding or subtracting an individual developer in the App Store are almost nothing.
Runtime Verification (no affiliation, just know some people who have worked with or for them) are working on tools and providing services for things like this

https://runtimeverification.com/
I'm generally in favor of keeping DST permanent, as others have said.

But if you wanted to make it more consistent and strike a balance, would it make more sense to flip the adjustments? Pull back on the nighttime daylight during summer, and add to it during winter.

In NYC during summer it would get dark around 7pm, and in winter around 5:30pm... instead of 8pm and 4:30pm like we have now.
Yes it’s one of my favorite thoughts, which is why I pinned it :)
Most online forums have an "RTFM" or FAQ approach to beginners. Reddit's LearnPython sub has a ton of "explain OOP/Recursion/debug my beginner code/restart game/etc." style questions, and while there is a FAQ, it's not enforced very hard. Almost the opposite of StackOverflow.

As a result, there are a huge number of people learning themselves by explaining to other people, practising by solving other people's problems, and answering the beginner questions over and over.

I think things like that have got to be part of the future of learning online, instead of dumping what you know into a FAQ and pulling the ladder up after you, closing the community from outsiders.
Tesla showed that electric cars can work (even if sustainable energy generation is still a huge issue), despite the oil lobby trying to monopolize cars to use only petrol engines [1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/vimeo-210171457 / https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/
All companies are evil if you let them...
> [0] - Or, if they exist, they aren't sufficiently well known outside some think tanks or some random academic papers.

Are you familiar with Judea Pearl's work regarding graphical analysis of causal problems? If not, he'd probably interest you. While he mostly falls in the category of "random academic papers" (and academic books), but he has also co-authored a very readable (and enjoyable) popular science book. A review of that book is here: http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/tim-maudlin-why-world. And a more technical overview of his graphical approach is here: https://www.timlrx.com/2018/08/09/applications-of-dags-in-ca....
> No... make daylight savings time permanent instead.

There's been plenty of research on this and Standard ("Winter") Time is best for humans. A peer-reviewed paper with plenty of footnotes if you want to dig into the details / weeds:

> Conclusion

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. The latter would exaggerate all the effects described above beyond the simple extension of DST from approximately 8 months/year to 12 months/year (depending on country) since body clocks are generally even later during winter than during the long photoperiods of summer (with DST) (Kantermann et al., 2007; Hadlow et al., 2014, 2018; Hashizaki et al., 2018). Perennial DST increases SJL prevalence even more, as described above.

[…]

> Summary

> Discrepancies and misalignments between social (local) clock time, sun clock time, and body clock time can be caused by political decisions: DST is one example. There are multiple health and safety consequences of these misalignments. Our goal is that this article’s facts and reasoning will be used to make clock choices that improve human lives.

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

They explicitly state that always-DST is worse than the current switching regime.

Various societies of chronobiologists recommend getting rid of DST completely:

> The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently. Four peer reviewers provided expert critiques of the initial submission, and the SRBR Executive Board approved the revised manuscript as a Position Paper to help educate the public in their evaluation of current legislative actions to end DST.

* http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JBR-D...

* https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/

* https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...

* https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/dq2nv3/askscien...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronobiology

If we're going to go through the drama of making this change (and some of us had to live through the 'Bush' DST change), then biologically speaking, the best current research says Standard Time is the way to go.
Epic has installs on phones which paid the iPhone tax. Those can't be updated and are made worthless, causing damage to Epic. Removing an app in violation is one thing. Removing them as a developer and preventing them from updating apps which have been paid for may violate something, somewhere. I'm sure Apple's contract absolves themselves of all responsibility, but there is at least some argument there.

That's the best I can come up with. Personally I won't run an iPhone.
Strong disagree. Permanent winter time would be a huge improvement to currently. I'm not sure why people care which way it goes so much. Obviously, you're not losing total daylight either way. It's the shifting of schedules that causes problems. What difference does it make if the wall clock calls the time 7:00, 8:00, or purple:00?
Wow great demo clip!

Did you try a Sobel filter https://godoc.org/gocv.io/x/gocv#Sobel ? Curious if that could give more contiguous joined up edges than AdaptiveThreshold.

From https://github.com/Kadle11/GoFlip/blob/master/src/makeCartoo... looks like decompressed frames are all stored in an array. For larger videos or lower memory machines might be handy to process each frame through the pipeline rather than batching.
Any idea why none of these services supports queueing some movies you’d like to watch, downloading them in the middle of the night in astounding bitrates, and allowing you to watch on your TV? As far as I can tell only the mobile apps support this, not the “streaming boxes.”
> No... make daylight savings time permanent instead.

I so want this, and doubly so in winter.

Living at 41 degrees south, I spend too many weeks in a row going to work in the dark and leaving work in the dark.

Maybe the trick is to spend the middle two weeks much further north.
> And ironically Epic is mum on all those consoles that take the exact same cut that Apple does.

No, they aren't: https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/12732765485...

> The iPhone is merely another console.

Really hard for me to buy this is a good faith argument. The iPhone has never been marked nor positioned in any way similar to consoles. User & developer expectations are not remotely similar here.
Whether prices have gone down may be of importance to society, but on a personal level, being able to pay is more germane. Before the ACA, when I was unemployed and not in school, I just wasn't insured. At this point though, that's kind of a long time ago.

Also, I think you may be confusing Medicare and Medicaid. I've never been covered under either.
Was curious so I looked it up. Turns out property is really expensive so it isn't quite as conglomerated as you would think.

Because of this, there are about 100-ish large mall conglomerates. Of these, the top 4 combined take as much "mall" as the following 10 entries.

Without doing a proper analysis of the data, at a glance it looks like the sizes taper out pretty evenly so it seems like the "mall" industry has a pretty healthy and varied market.

https://www.nreionline.com/retail/2018-top-retail-owners?ful...
>Obviously a "KKK Members" app in the app store is absolutely unacceptable, or something overt like that

Why? if you want the internet to feel less "safe" and for people to simply ignore hate speech, why would this be unacceptable? It would certainly make the internet feel less safe for a lot of people, but maybe you're not one of those people, and those people can just ignore it as you said.
looks like epic themselves charge x%

https://twitter.com/darren25437616/status/129950347290827571...
Reading about people trying to accomplish things in this article is like watching the black-and-white portion of an info-mercial where seemingly basic tasks are suddenly feats of intense expertise.
How am I going to get out or work earlier?

We run Just In Time manufacturing, there's no possibility going to work earlier than I already do: 05:30 for a 10 or 12 hour day.

Never under estimate the ability of people to complain about the status quo.
Bandwidth is a huge cost for these services and if they share encoding techniques then their competitors can cut prices at the margins.
Fortunately the US legal system does not work like that, because while the issue isn't important to you, actually it turns out the issue is important to Epic.

And I think I can sympathize with them, considering 30% of my revenue is walking out the door to a company that charges both consumers for the hardware and companies for the right to send binaries to a user.
Ask HN: How are you coping with the deluge of political bot traffic?
Is it just me or doesn’t it feel like theres a huge amount of bot traffic on Instagram and Twitter pushing Trump/anti-Obama/anti-Biden content in the comments sections of large US celebrity, media and meme accounts?
Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of “Black Panther,” dies at 43
Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document.

Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time?

Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part!

example:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...
More like different countries dont enpower their people and treat them like little children.