skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they'll focus their services on people who pay them money?

If you were using the service for free for all these years, you were a cost to them. Not a benefit.
Why do we constantly see this comment popping up here, as well as the "vote with your wallet" one? Yes, market forces can drive change, but they don't at all guarantee ethical behaviour of corporations. That's what we need regulation for, by a government that was elected by a population where everyone has an equal vote. Unlike in a "vote with your wallet" or "just start your own competitor" mindset where rich actors have more weight than poorer ones. Market forces are by definition undemocratic and therefore unsuitable for the task of enforcing ethics. And sure, democracy isn't a perfect guarantee for it neither, but at least it is designed for this purpose, and has been proven.
Sorry this is a little off topic but I think there's some things we can do now to prepare yourselves for eventual self driving cars.

Our phones should SUGGEST slight changes to our driving to improve efficiency. For example there's a jam ahead. Google/Apple know our phone's speed and the speed of those around us already.

A lot of backups are due to a lack of information transfer. The wave of stopping/slowing is the propagation of that information. If our phones informed us beforehand to slow slightly we could smooth the way out much faster.

I know it's a privacy nightmare right now but it's doable and everyone that's driving would potentially benefit.
No, because those are laws, and those regulations exist for a reason. Sometimes the rule of law exists to create a norm. What is being argued for here is the removal of a norm—the ability of a private business to be associated with speech it doesn’t support—just because of the differences between the internet and the physical world.
Re-reading the IDFG big game regulations[1] on page 78, a wolf hunting tag has a limit of 15, and a wolf trapping tag also has a limit of 15.

[1] https://idfg.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/seasons-rules-big...
Cloud Firestore scales just fine, like any database, you have to know how to work with it. You switched from a nosql database to a sql database... two totally different performance profiles.
Pedestrians "assuming" certain things (aka acting irresponsibly) is the worst.

I often see people cross the street halfway to only stop at the last second when a car is about to pass them. For people driving at 50km/h this is terrifying because they have to trust that the pedestrian is fully aware of his dangerous position. If you maintain your speed there is a good almost 100% chance that you will pass the pedestrian before he even reaches your lane but if you slow down then there is a non zero risk that the pedestrian didn't see you and you are about to run him over. So nope, defensive driving is not the answer and can actually increase accident risk in this specific scenario. It was all up to the pedestrians to follow safety basic rules and they broke them to cross the street a few seconds faster.
Question: I've not tried steam on linux. Is it bad, usable or nice? Is the GPU support ok?
Why do we make it the pedestrian's job? You want the pedestrian to walk a little further, you want the pedestrian to wait a little longer. Why don't we turn it around and say the car has to wait a little longer if someone wants to cross in front of them?
Not OP, but if you've lately found yourself trying to hire devs or technical folks in general, you will be inundated with resumes from current students and new grads that will illustrate the point.
Why is star voting (where you award each candidate 0-5 stars) better then ranked choice voting?
> It's pretty clear that desktop-usability was not high on IFTTT's design priorities.

While I think this is true, it's also frustrating that desktop is the only way to edit filter code. So I find myself wanting to use both interfaces for different purposes.
It doesn't eliminate the spoiler effect. Here's a simple example of what can happen under RCV:

Pretend Bernie Sanders in 2016 ran under the Green Party after dropping out of the Democratic Primary. RCV claims to eliminate the spoiler effect, so it is "safe" for all the people who want Bernie as their first choice to actually express that. Assume everyone who likes Bernie the best follows that: they put Bernie as their first choice and either Trump or Clinton as their second choice. Presumably more will have Clinton as their second choice than Trump since Clinton is more centrist than Trump who is on the right.

Say the "first choice" votes go as follows:

- 45% top choice Trump

- 35% top choice Bernie

- 20% top choice Hillary

Hillary gets eliminated and the people who put Hillary as their first choice now have their second choices distributed among the remaining candidates. Say that split goes (within the 20%):

- 6% 2nd choice Trump

- 14% 2nd choice Bernie

Trump wins, even if all the Bernie voters had Hillary as their 2nd choice, because their second choices didn't count for anything. So the claim that it was "safe" to express their true preferences and put Bernie as their first choice completely backfired.

summary: among three choices, under Ranked Choice Voting, you only get your votes moved to your 2nd choice in Ranked Choice if you do not come in 2nd place overall. If your candidate comes in 2nd, your votes are worthless.

A system that fixes this and other issues is STAR Voting, and it's what people should be pushing for:

https://www.equal.vote/

https://www.starvoting.us/
I came here to post that link. This is by far the best introduction to the topic that I've ever seen, and makes a complex issue with plenty of subtle, non-obvious consequences very accessible.
"MicroStrategy could have gotten rid of its excess cash by paying a big dividend or buying back a ton of stock. Instead, the company made a big digital currency bet."

I love that we live in a world excess income by a company is just expected to go to buybacks and not towards expanding operations and R&D.
So to get this straight, free speech laws only apply online to open public forums that are not using private platforms?

We're in quite a situation then. Let's look at the options for forums with protected speech.

* If only publicly funded communication channels have protections of freedom of speech. Can you tell me where I can find a public social network with free speech protections?

* Private media doesn't owe anyone almost anything lately. They publish whatever they want and will not talk about what's not convenient for the stories they tell. We've seen too much of it this year.

* Even if there was this great publicly-funded unbiased media source. Public funded usually means government. Twitter, Facebook, and others are now explicitly marking all the government-funded media and sources, as a way of implying bias. Essentially, bit by bit discrediting these platforms.

* All the private social platform don't owe you anything and will kick you out at will without any need for explanation.

If we agree that free speech is a critically important value of a civil, prosperous, modern civilization, then we're in big trouble. Most if not all the discourse these days is happening online and all the communication channels that people use belong either to:

* private corporations that are not bound by free speech laws

* non-profits overrun by often biased volunteers

* privately owned media companies pushing their agenda without any boundaries or common sense

* biased government sources pushing their propaganda

So where is the avenue for free speech in the 21st century? Shouting on the street outside?
> Maybe I'm being extraordinarily dense, but why is that noteworthy here?

GGP here: I said it was trivia; please see the edit above.
> I think that people who favor ranked-choice voting have really underestimated how confusing it will be to a lot of people.

Tens of millions of Australians have voted this way for over a century now. The statistical likelihood that the population in Australia is somehow less prone to confusion is miniscule.
There's also power automate (what used to be called Flow) from MS; don't know what the limit is for free but it works ok for a few basic things that don't already connect directly (through webhooks and whatnot).
The official examples / etc. are "corporate" focused but it works quite well for personal use as well.
Isn't this common in sports? If you're caught intentionally cheating even once your entire career's achievements are invalidated.
May 1st, 2019
I'm pretty averse to no-code, etc. Is there some event-based set of libraries that have a common protocol which have all the boilerplate code in place to connect to popular APIs and receive webhooks from the likes of Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

In other words a programmable ecosystem like IFTT?
https://github.com/huginn/huginn

https://nodered.org/

Those projects already exist, you are probably better off contributiing to existing ones rather than creating a new one.
Should have gone to HBM I guess ;)
I suppose my comment was a bit strong. My Ph.D was on the the hippocampus and the development of binding operations supporting episodic memory using standard MRI and cognitive tasks, and I already know I don't understand half of what they are doing in more basic neuroscience articles.
Not just single issue - you can vote the party or candidate that "far, far from the typical public position on most things but preferred by me", without opening the door to the ones you actively oppose.

I would likely be a green party voter by choice, but when there's a republican on the ballot, there's no way I'm voting green - the downside of having the republican win is (for me) larger than the downside of not casting my vote according to my conscience.Adjust to suit your own political preferences - perhaps you'd like to vote libertarian but are worried about allowing the crypto-DSA democrat into office, etc, etc.

This is MAJOR. The US, the UK and other first-past-the-post systems need RCV or something similar so badly.

[EDIT: yes, STAR is likely even better]
Actually the law in the UK is that Pedestrian's usually don't have the right of way outside of designated crossing areas [0]. Drivers are considered to have a "Heavy Duty of Care" since they are of course driving large dangerous vehicles and pedestrians are more vulnerable, but they still have the right of way on your average road.

Road death rate is a very broad statistic. As an EU citizen living in the US, there are certainly more differences than road-crossing rules and etiquette. For one, population density is almost an order of magnitude more sparse in the US (36 people / km^2) vs the uk (275 people /km^2). This, among other things means there's a dramatic shift in driving norms. There are also major cultural differences, eg talking on the phone while driving in Ireland is taboo (and illegal), but in Boston it's totally normal (and perfectly legal). Drink driving here is far more acceptable too. The list goes on and on.

[0]https://www.birchallblackburn.co.uk/do-pedestrians-always-ha...
I signed up for IFTTT Pro for $4/month - as the article says, I think the suggested $10/month is too much, but there is definite value in what IFTTT provides.

IFTTT is great for quickly moving data around, but I wish there was a zapier/google apps scripts/lambda functions way to quickly hack apart and reassemble data for easier consumption by external services.
This absolutely can be a liability. I've been 'hit' by a car that made a left turn into their driveway across the bike lane. If there is a small animal or another pedestrian that isn't the biker's fault - the car is still liable at that point. Blocking orthogonal lanes of traffic is not a driver's 'right'.
Not sure if you came up with this or heard it elsewhere, but that statement really resonates with me.
Everyone with the 'I've got mine' mentality is the villain. I expect that reasoning from my 3 year old son, but my 5 yo daughter has already moved passed it. That an entire nation basis it's philosophy on that of a toddler is... Disturbing.
I'll admit, the performance benchmarks on actix-web are very impressive!

Thanks for the detailed response, I have an eyebrow raised :)
Score voting is not hard to understand.

- Give each candidate a score (0-5 points)

- Add up everyone's points

- The candidate who received the most points total, wins

It also happens to be a much larger improvement to the status quo than ranked choice (which is still an improvement).
> The issue, amazingly, is Fox News and it’s ilk. Yet, the conversation here is the NYT.

That is because practically everyone on HN agrees Fox is bad, biased, etc. Therefore the debate is going to be implicitly about how bad the NYT is in relation to Fox.

A related factor is that it's hard for an educated person to get suckered by Fox. There are too many garish infographics and obvious nutjobs. It just does not give even a superficial impression of being Legitimate and Unbiased and Supported by the Best Experts. But the NYT does, and that's what makes it more dangerous.

If I go into "Uncle Cletus's Homeopathy Clinick", I kind of deserve whatever I get. But if another con man has a convincingly faked (or even real) Harvard M.D., then sets about poisoning lots of people through incompetence and apathy and greed, then everyone insists it can't possibly be his fault because he has an M.D. from Harvard...

...you can see why "Uncle Cletus is the real problem here" can seem nonresponsive. It is not even especially obvious to me which is "worse", "Uncle Cletus" or Fake M.D., even if we grant that Fake M.D. is somewhat better at medicine. I know I personally could get suckered by the latter but not the former, making the latter more dangerous to me.
I bet ALL Tesla's profit margin (non-carbon credit) comes from this "feature", this increase will bump up next quarter results. FSD buyers are discounting cars for non-FSD buyers. Non-FSD base model (by phone order) is probably a loss leader.
When talking about argument against RCV, you'd need to come up with a way to create a "spoiler" effect.

While it's trivial to create a spoiler in the current system ( Bush v Gore v Nader ), trying to create a spoiler in RCV is much much harder. Go ahead and try. Then compare that to what would have happened in the current "one vote" system. You can easily see that RCV is clearly an improvement and makes it much harder to have 3rd party candidates spoil the election by stealing votes from the most popular candidate.
> It's about fresh food, cultural traditions, and conservation.

You don't eat wolves. No one you know grew up hunting them. Killing a (still) endangered species is not about conservation, in fact, it's closer to the opposite based on everything we know.

I'm talking about killing for sport, which is what wolf hunting is all about on an individual level (on a government level, it's about the political showmanship of protecting rancher interests).

And as a sidenote, I live in Montana; I am very familiar with hunting. To generalize hunting without considering the animal being hunted is disingenuous and entirely self-serving. Should we talk about hunting horses and dogs in the same breath?
The layout of that ballot isn’t helping. For comparison, I’ve found the RCV ballot in San Francisco pretty intuitive (https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Images/Dem...)
Offering a free service indefinitely is suicide.
I have. They do not have the right of way. Vehicle operators merely have a high duty of care which can supersede right of way.

Also, the case you reference was a case of a pedestrian crossing at a designated pedestrian crossing, so I don't understand how that's relevant to your point – if anything it supports mine.
I managed to lock in the price for $2/mo. I'm not super happy with the Pro features at the moment, but I'm hoping to see them turn it around. The price is low enough that I'm willing to stick around for a while.
http://archive.is/CWH81
I presumed it was mainly for ease of use. I might be wrong - anyone here write for Medium who can chime in?
Mostly just given up, and changed my expectations.
See my post in this thread for an example of why RCV is bad, and see the links I provided to learn more about STAR.
Fun story, the Maine Republican party has worked its ass off to try to get this shut down.
Can anybody with experience using Node-Red and n8n comment on the difference between the two?
Physical world regulations match the digital world unless laws state otherwise.
I think it would be excellent if it found more adoption in the US (or approval voting or similar).

What drawbacks/surprising consequences, if any, are there?
Thanks for the details! I have been interested in branching out away from web dev, and Rust does seem like a good avenue for that.
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For a while I felt silly sticking with HomeSeer while sites like IFTTT started springing up offering much of the functionality I had for free. I still prefer local control for stability. Internet outages are rare, but twice they have happened when I am out of town and exactly when I really need certain aspects of my automation to work.

And I always suspected these services wouldn't be free forever - and what a surprise, they eventually had to figure out a way to make money.

If you don't want to go commercial like HomeSeer there are many other open source projects like HomeAssistant that are still relatively friendly and provide great functionality. The RasbperryPi has really been a game changer offering cheap local processing for very cheap. I don't mind using cloud for remote access, but I would never want all my logic running remotely in the cloud. Been burned too many times by services either changing with zero or little notice, or as I stated earlier, internet issues.

With projects like HomeBridge, gluing different standards and universes together is getting easier which also negates a lot of the necessity for things like IFTTT if you are willing to trade some time for convenience of just subbing to a service like it.

Choice is always good :)
That's around 7.71 crashes/million miles driven by Waymo.

By comparison, US national statistics from 2018 [1] are around 2.08 crashes/million miles driven.

Seems like they're far from human performance. There are ton of ways to slice this data, though. I used national stats for accidents where the police showed up; maybe Waymo's data includes no-police accidents. It would also be interesting to compare injury statistics. And of course this is Phoenix-specific data from Waymo, which is a place with good road conditions.

[1] https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/National%20Statistics.pdf

(edited to include simulated crashes, which were only averted through human safety driver intervention.)
Ha. I like you.

You see nationalization of industry as a pathway to revenue growth? I guess it makes sense, but somehow I always think about industries like healthcare being nationalized as a means of providing service, which is likely to cost the government more money

What industry would be profitable and appropriate for nationalization?
Unfortunately these things only lead to two different internet(s), one that is uncensored, free and the other approved and big brother. Why aren't we striving for improving the critical thinking of average people, instead of banning thought that is "inaccurate".
I once learned Vue on the go as I reimplemented the company's admin dashboard from static rails-generated templates to a SPA. In a week. As a paid project assignment. It was wild, but super fun. They took too long to make an offer, though, and I ended up somewhere else.

I also completely forgot all about Vue in the mean time.
My grandfather died. Now I have to keep a dedicated device to read his Kindle books (and there are a lot of them). The books can’t be transferred.
Just stay with X. Wayland won't be production ready in a long time. Seriously it just came up here a few days ago, and just yesterday a friend of mine tried Linux on his desktop for the first time. He chose fedora for whatever reason, so ended up with gnome on Wayland. Since Steam was important to him and he's running an NVIDIA card, after an hour of struggling I just guided him to disable Wayland. Not only did it fix all Steam issues, but it also fixed a problem he apparently had where applications occasionally lost mouse clicks. Needles to say, his first impression of Linux wasn't too great, but once games worked properly he was happy. Let's see how long he can do without Windows. :)
There is Nissan Leaf (used as taxis in some countries) and it is from 2010. While Tesla inc existed before, I would consider that it really started with Tesla S from 2012.
Is it possible you are subconsciously waking up and looking at the clock (or doing it consciously at the time but just not remembering it)? Sleep generally triggers some unique memory suppression mechanisms.
I appreciate that you elaborated on your opinion and I believe many of your points are valid. COVID is not a big threat to you and your family (based on my assumptions about you which could very well be wrong). Neither is it a big threat to me, 30 year old, healthy, single male living in Germany.

However, some of your assertions are not true. The COVID waves were vastly different in different countries across Europe, and despite Germany having elevated cases again and a second "Lockdown" the situation is nowhere near what it was in May. No constant Sirens from Ambulances (where I live), no overcrowded ICUs (some exceptions). Similarly, the lockdown proposed now is more lenient than a couple of months ago.

There is a definite talking point to be made about which rules are more effective than others and I personally would be more lenient than what my government proposes, but all in all we fared fairly well in comparison with our neighboring countries.

One point you made about a generation only caring about itself I can falsify immediately: The only reason why I am missing a basketball game with friends tonight is because I had an encounter with a positive covid case (my cousin). While I'm >99% sure I'm COVID free, I opted to argue on the internet tonight as some of my basketball peers are in a risk group (>60).

You're not the villain. I don't know you.
> Like, if they started off by charging, say, $1 a year I'm sure everyone would stay and just go "OK". Then start increasing the price slowly until you find the sweet spot.

There's a psychology-caused pricing dead zone if the price is too low. Users assume the price of something implies its value. If the value is lower than the mental effort to decide whether or not to purchase it, most won't. In the user's mind, somethat that only costs $1 a year can't be worth the effort to decide whether to spend $1 a year on it.
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The Maine ballot specifically instructs you not to do that
Ah - sorry. I assumed I was still talking to the first person I responded to. I've made that error in the past of not looking at the username.
Arguably, covid 19 provides all the more reason for suckers to pay more taxes than they have to.
The FAQ[1] and comparison page[2] explain their position.

[1] https://www.starvoting.us/faq

[2] https://www.equal.vote/star-vs-rcv
Just say you hate farmers man, I mean it's very obvious.
Of course, for their owners.

It OBVIOUSLY reasonable to have three private corporations owning the majority of modern musical output... and they even have a little club where they discuss pricing! How quaint...

The outrageous thing is why the fuck we as a society defend these corporations, when they have a literal monopoly on what they’re selling, and the monopoly is guaranteed by the government of every western country
>where more voters preferred Montroll to Kiss
That's only true in the first two rounds. In total more voters preferred Kiss over Montroll.
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