skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't bothered to read up on the origin history of this company, but would not be a surprise if they started out as spammers.

> guaranteeing the accuracy

The entire construct of "disinformation" is a strawman. There is ample historic evidence that the populations of societies subject to lying government organs (c.f Pravda in USSR) learn to discern deception.

If "disinformation" was so potent and deadly, none of the authoritarian societies that heavily relied on disinformation and lies would have needed to apply secret police tactics to control the population. They had both and they all still collapsed.

"We need to control disinformation" is double speak for "we control what you are permitted to know".
Blind leading blind:

My impression was that parallel universes do not feature.

Rather, it was that, contrary to appearances, Hawking radiation contains all the same information that went into the black hole.

However, this information appears only in the joint distribution over those photons rather than in any of the marginal distributions.

Broken metaphor: You throw a coin into a black hole. Was it heads or tails? Two photons escape the black hole, both spin-up* with 50% probability -- they each appear to carry no information about the coin. But suppose that if they are the /same/ spin, then the coin was heads, and if they are /different/ spin then the coin was tails. In this way the coin's information is not destroyed, but is also not carried by any individual photon.

* I have no idea if spin is actually the property of the radiation that carries the information.

I also get the impression that it is later photons that must somehow be entangled with earlier ones. That -- referring to that V-shaped curve -- the black hole is storing up information about what went in up to about the halfway point in time, which it later radiates away during the second half.

Waiting for an actual physisict to chime in, as, disclaimer, I don't actually know anything about this.
Here’s something I don’t understand: Sierra was a money-printing machine, earning easy profits and on a natural growth path. With a trajectory like that, why go public, why sell the business at all? There was nothing to gain really, whatever growth they would have gotten from going public and from the CUC deal (even if it had been on the up and up) they would have seen naturally. Gaming is not a winner takes all market, they had no need to grow more quickly.
There are plenty of passionate, creative people on the modern internet. Just because someone doesn't hand-write all of their HTML and stylesheets from scratch doesn't mean they don't have anything interesting or authentic to say.

I'm sure there are people on Instagram who are passionate about what they do - their passion just doesn't interest you personally, and that's fine. The internet doesn't have to serve the interests and tastes of just one kind of person.
Ask HN: Are AWS Graviton2 based products as good as advertised?
Have you already tried them? Managed services might be a no brainer (if numbers are true) but is compiling to ARM worth the hassle for what this instance type brings to the table?
Exactly. I run Better Programming, which is the second biggest programming publication on Medium after Towards Data Science. And it's definitely the case that authors are opting in to the deal that Medium offers: a usually small amount of money and a fairly large boost in readers.

The average article we publish does 10k views, which for most authors is way more than they'd get self-hosting and posting out to Twitter/FB.

I think also that Medium is still overly dominated by user generated content, i.e. what people here are calling low quality articles. You'd think of that content differently if it were better curated and better edited.

But all of Medium's subscriber revenue gets reinvested in their content. Most of that is author payments, but also they pay copy editors and curation editors. What they haven't done in programming yet is pay for any articles that have had a proper high quality edit. In programming that's a story editor, tech reviewers and a bug/errata updating process. But I suspect that will change because the subscription numbers are starting to be big enough that they can afford to invest in these things.
Are we claiming global "intercorporational" conspiracies now?

Why aren't these being flagged?
It came a long way, it's very impressive what they managed to do in a short period of time. Not only Valve but the community in general even if they weren't directly involved with the gaming part.

Manage your expectations, I would treat it like a console, you won't be able to play 100% of "PC" games but you will have a very large selection of games including AAA. And in comparison by raw numbers Linux have many more games than regular consoles, not to mention all the emulators you can use.

Performance wise Source engine games run better than on Windows for me and a few Proton (Wine) games runs better too, but that's not the rule as there is a small penalty from the "translation" layers. Vulkan games run very well.

If you try to run all games even the ones that Valve didn't approved to run with Proton ("1-click in the UI and it just works") you will have to tinker and do nerd stuff like using different versions or compiling from source. Don't blame the platform if you go that route without proper knowledge and patience. Also in the same line of thinking don't try to use Wayland yet, specially if you have a NVIDIA card because there's no support from them, and I hope they do something about that but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Voting systems that serve to "moderate" voter preferences are anti-democratic. Sometimes an extreme policy is necessary to meet a challenge (e.g. climate change). A voting system should simply do its best to express true voter preferences. That's it.
There are a few download links but it seems they all return HTTP status code 402.
Yeah, but on that front, the parts of the market we need to tax have regulatory capture.
this subject is covered at length in the article.
If it's anything like HTTP/2, in 4-5 years.
> I wonder why companies don't use a boil-the-frog approach

Because, just like in real life, the frog will jump off way before it reaches the boiling point.
Curious what is the problem with this? You can still use your small sed-like subset of language in your project?
FWIW that hasn't been my experience; mine has been closer to gp.

Best work advice I ever got: the competent nice guy always gets hired before the genius asshole.

People just want to solve a problem as painlessly as possible and go home.
This seems very handy, thank you very much.

It would be great if it could support perfect roundtripping: Comments, ordering, whitespace,... are not touched. It would make fearless updating of config files a breeze.

This I understand would be a huge undertaking, requiring writing your own parsers.

Not that I want to be ungratefull. This looks a very usefull tool as is.
Nobody I know has a mask for every day. Masks for which there is no standard of construction or performance. They’re almost entirely for show.
Ken Williams' initial comment there:

"It does seem obvious that I was fooled by Walter Forbes, but so were most people. He was the Jeff Bezos of his time. He had a big-four accounting firm who signed off on their financials every 90 days. Henry Silverman (Avis, Howard Johnson's, and many other companies) believed in him, as did everyone. He had been on Sierra's board for five years. I thought I knew him well. I also thought we had structured the deal such that the software business couldn't be screwed up. And, I had so much faith that Sierra's market dominance was so strong that no one could ever screw it up. As you might imagine, I've looked back on the crash many times, and still believe I made the right move based on what I knew at the time. The problem was that I was dealing with snakes and didn't know it. MANY people lost their jobs and had their net worth wiped out. It was indeed a sad event, but I wasn't the only person fooled by CUC. Tens of thousands of people directly or indirectly were hurt by the financial scandal."

There are others, too, that are worth reading for the interested.
No, it was a book for kids about time and measurement or something..in the early 80s.
https://obsidian.md has served me very well. It's not open-source but the community on discord and the forums has been amazing and folks are very responsive to feature requests.
> This comment sounds very entitled, as if a pedestrian is entitled to the road whenever they damn well please.

It's not 'as if' that's what I'm arguing - that's literally what I'm arguing. I literally think a pedestrian is entitled to the road whenever they damn well please. (Within reason, to genuinely cross it reasonably quickly, don't step out without giving cars at a reasonable speed enough time to stop, excluding purpose-built major roads.)

Look at it from the other angle.

Why should cars be entitled to the road whenever they damn well please?

Why should the pedestrian stop for the car, instead of the car stopping for the pedestrian?

Why is your default mental model that the car owns the road?
Or the argument that it’s somehow a new thing - like evangelical Christians weren’t taking issue with Monty Python sketches or sex and violence going back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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How does eating carbs convince your body to start consuming fat?
Wasn't there recently a story where Tesla revoked a license after a car was re-sold?

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-aut...
On what do you base that?
Right now if you vote for a third party in the US your vote is wasted.

Under a ranked ballot system you can vote for a super marginal party confident that your more mainstream preference will ultimately get your vote if your marginal candidate loses.

This encourages votes for smaller parties
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ADHD and Autism are "spectrum" disorders. Meaning that in a sense, we ALL have them to varying degrees, on a spectrum.
(For example, we can all be distractable..)

The definition of a disorder is that it's interfering with your life. So, if it's not bothering you, ALL GOOD. :) You don't have a disorder.

I appreciate that you're well-intentioned. And of course if someone is happy exactly as they are, that's awesomesauce!

But to the degree someone expresses that they struggle with something, and they might benefit from learning more or exploring options, it's not wrong to gently and respectfully encourage them to explore learning/options.

It doesn't mean someone is "calling them" something.
I think there's a sort of Toqueville effect[0] in regards to the popular treatment of FPTP.

According to Arrow's theorem more than two outcome voting systems, in terms of voting preference profiles (e.g. score or ranked choice), often succumbs to matching the least amount of voting preferences--which of course pleases that small disenfranchised minority but in exploit of the populous[1][2].

"Would it be wonderful if, under the pressure of all these difficulties, the Convention should have been forced into some deviations from that artificial structure and regular symmetry which an abstract view of the subject might lead an ingenious theorist to bestow on a constitution planned in his closet or in his imagination?" - James Madison

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

[1] Critique for layman:
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/november/devlin-ranked-v...

[2] Mathematical Proof:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/#NonDic
I think this is a side effect of one's life becoming more routinized as they grow older, and having fewer memorable moments in each day.

Anecdotally, I had this feeling of time moving more and more quickly, and "that thing which feels just a week ago was actually a year ago" until my early 30s, when I finally decided to unsubscribe from routines.

As I gradually moved away from having a daily schedule, I had more time for unique and memorable experiences in my everyday life, and this feeling began to change.

Nowadays, it is actualy more typical for me to feel the other way, meaning something which was just a week ago feels like it was much longer.
Check out JJ Ricks's recent Waymo vehicles. There is no evidence of that being the case today.
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Though I've never used Xidel, I came across it when researching XPath 2/3, and was very impressed that anyone managed to implement these massive, complicated specs all by themselves.

The major OSS XML libs, including LibXML2 and Xerces, do not implement what Xidel does, and neither to some proprietary libs like MSXML.
Ignoring dark energy, we expect gravitational energy to be identical to non-gravitational energy; ie, “half”.
Nice work, thanks for looking into it.
Do you understand me?! OpenAI use well-know linguistics tricks relying on conjunctions(joining words) to separate the text from which they plagiarize on clusters from 5-7 words, exactly the capacity of human short-term memory is. They also use the Google search engine for custom queries, with date restriction which helps them to plagiarize from different texts written on a particular topic so they to be sure that when they copy, paste and concatenate clusters of words in new text, all these phrases of 5-7 words should be related to one topic. This creates the illusion of meaningfulness at first glance. OpenAI are CON ARTISTS, and Google help them to make their scam.
One of the most bizarre cases that I remember is a family trying to bill a wolf attack to the government showing the rests of a barbecue as a proof of the attack. Apparently the (very smart) wolves managed somehow to shoot the cow in the head with a firearm before to cook it. And this is a real history.
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And, if it's lower than the effort that unsubscribe will probably require, hard no.
But Waymo did not cause the crashes.
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I am releasing my new project, LaunchAfrica, as a beta to Hacker News.

http://launchafrica.io/

Its basically yet another jobboard (sorry) but with the focus on the African tech and startup scene.
As someone who grew up in Africa, I would like to give back and showcase the opportunities that this are available.

What I am looking for from you is any critical feedback. From the design, to copy, and even the functionality and any additional features. ANY feedback is welcome!

p.s. Any one reading this who has a startup or tech company in Africa, please don't hesitate to get in contact so we could work together. I would love for your job vacancies to be listed here. It is entirely FREE right now!
To reduce the friction I would even post them for you!

Thanks!
It was not obvious to me how to support a large number of methods without a bunch of error-prone boilerplate. It seemed very low-level, which is fine if you have a small number of interactions but it started getting out of hand quickly and fbthrift does this neatly out of the box.
It'll be time to update to 2020!
this was hilarious. I'm watching the full twitch broadcast right now and there are interesting tidbits in there for anyone interested in autonomous driving.
More info on the Denisovan's: https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/denisovans
In the article it says that Dijkstra didn't use a computer, TV, or cell phone.
> the average car operator pays more towards the upkeep of the roads than the average pedestrian

Pay to play, huh?

Rich people get to use the roads for what they want, huh?
I would say about 1/3 of my steam library works perfectly on linux. The remaining are not available.

I thought I had one game with a crash to desktop bug in linux but then I played it on windows and it turns out the crash has been faithfully reproduced.
Look, I love being downvoted and called uninformed as much as the next guy, but I think perhaps you are missing the nuance of my inquiry. I see at least four different voting proposals in the above comments, so it isn't clear to me whether RCV always works as you describe - admittedly, this discussion hasn't come to my locale in a meaningful way yet, so I'm legitimately interested in understanding the various models.

I have to wonder if perhaps even in the model you are describing still overlooks the human element. Our voting system is remarkably complicated - everything from fill-in-the-bubble to poke-out-the-hole to align-the-paper-ballot, voting by mail, voting in person, etc. The first part of my inquiry was a deliberate interest in the human interaction in this kind of voting.

The second part of my inquiry seems to have been touched upon by several other commenters, regarding the math behind outcomes when this kind of voting is introduced.

>This comment is uninformed.

Perhaps leave this part out next time - the rest was helpful. You make more friends with kindness.
It feels a little onerous for me to lay out the a privacy advocates argument from first principles.

I'd presume if umvi had rejected the groundwork reasons for privacy, they would have made a comment more like:

"What bad thing are we asserting would happen if they created this data set? What demonstrable harm can you show from even an omnibus dataset? Let alone what this mall is creating?"
In general, not nearly as mature. In general though, gRPC is not for browser->server calls (grpc-web notwithstanding) but is designed for server<->server communication.

There is some tooling out there for development (https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl and https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui are pretty nice) but it's still much less mature than the massive amount of mature tooling available for HTTP-based services. And that is both an artifact of gRPCs relative youth compared to REST and also for some more fundamental reasons (binary wire format, mutual TLS based authentication, etc).

All that said, I've been working with gRPC over the past 6 months or so and overall the development experience is much nicer on net I think.
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I'm not well versed in the different self driving techniques but isn't 6.1 miles a little low compared to say Tesla which is estimated to have autopilot miles in the billions [0]?

[0]: https://lexfridman.com/tesla-autopilot-miles-and-vehicles/#:...
You've now changed the goalposts from "aggressive usage" to "here's a count of a particular substring in the source code."
from the wired article:

"...the election technology business was a heavily consolidated industry—a cartel, essentially, of just three vendors, all owned by private equity firms—that was starved for profit and all but incapable of innovation. Subsequent research suggested that the companies earned their most stable revenue through a maze of fees: maintenance, upkeep, software licenses. Their core business model seemed to involve locking clients into relationships of “ongoing annual payments.” Small wonder, then, that the firms hadn't leapt to DeBeauvoir's idea of building a machine with open source code that aimed to liberate local governments with cheap, self-sustaining technology."

that's just one of the thousand cuts of corruption undermining our democratic republic. consolidation (including in government, via a 2-party system) has unquestionably proven to be a social bad.

in any case, the wired story was interesting and informative. the STAR system (potentially) solves the problem of verifiability with secrecy, but not the issue of better representing the people's will in voting.

for the record, i'm partial to score voting (like nicky case) with a 7-point scale.
We will probably only know it in 10 or 20 years. Very often it takes time to see what is really valuable and what was just a trend.
I'm in perfect agreement, but you'll need to break up Twitter and Facebook first and get the babies onboard with a decentralized system.
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I'm not sure why anyone would be downvoting your data point. I am pretty bothered at how much emphasis folks throw behind the TechEmpower benchmarks. If you really dig into the implementations for the top languages, it's easy to see how far from the real world, those apps are. In the case of C#/ASP.NET, as soon as you add EntityFramework (or Dapper, if that's your thing) and some real-world querying of a database. You're looking at a pretty big slow-down. I'm certain things can be done to speed it up though.
(I don't know anything about Australia.)

Generally, election reform advocate for something like RCV for executive races and proportional representation (PR) for assemblies.

PR can moot districts, eliminating some attack vectors, like gerrymandering.
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There's grpcurl and other similar tools for when you just want to run a simple gRPC request against a server. If you server runs the reflection service, it will also let you inspect the schema of whatever is running on a given endpoint.

For in-browser use with gRPCweb, if you use test-proto-on-XHR, things continue to work as with REST/JSON.

For inter-server debugging, you usually defer to opentracing or similar, and capture request data there.
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Does gRPC bring fexibility and discoverability like GraphQL?
The current system in the US already favors a tiny minority. That's why they try so hard to limit who can vote. A change is an improvement if it at least grows the number of people represented.
I would not go as far. Self selecting bias is probably the reason. People without aphantasia just don't comment in these threads.

However we can say HN is the site where people with aphantasia feel safe when describing what they experience.
In the 90s.
I don't understand how people are jumping head first into a new technology that is so young. It reminds me of the different js frameworks fads.
Why would you use that in production, with no decent level of certainties about the status of the project long term?

Web is high level scripting, and lower level languages can be used by those high level languages to provide the required speed. The performance of those languages do increase over time with new hardware and discoveries. You can hardly do better than the concise syntax of php or python, depending on your preferences, in terms of performance vs code length.

To me programming has always been about obeying the KISS principle. Does using rust for the web corresponds to that principle? I'm unconvinced. Compare rust code to php code. php might be slower to process big operations, but big operations shouldn't be left to php anyway. php is a high level scripting language. Contribute to php and writing an extension would be a better way to go in my opinion. This or another scripting language.
One downside of PICO-8's closed source is that it can't easily be ported to different architectures by fans, so you're limited to Windows, Linux (x86) and the Raspberry Pi (and HTML/JS, but just the player). There's no Android port.

TIC-80, on the other hand, runs more places (Android!). And someone has ported it to run on OpenDingux portable handhelds, there's a RetroArch core, etc.

That said, PICO-8 is super, super polished and absolutely worth the $15.
XPath is hard to replace when writing Selenium WebDriver scripts. Thank you for existing, XPath.
Ask HN: Do you use Sociocracy methods in your organization?
I was recently exposed to the methodologies of Sociocracy and am wondering if any of you has experience with real world use in an organization you belong to?

I am especially curious about using it for decision-making and internal elections.