skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel the television has a huge importance in this country and the fact that millions of americans consider it the source of truth even to declare who is the winner of the most important event of their lives strikes me as unbelievable.

Huh? What's the preferred european medium? Smoke signal?
But what does it mean in practice? Do they say who they consider the authority for the projection? For instance to this day Biden is projected to win Arizona by Fox News and AP but not by other media organizations like CNN.

Seems like an oddly vague phrasing for such bets.
from what I can tell is many schools stopped teaching what we used to call 'civics' classes. in that class you would learn things like this. so that people have a poor understanding is because they are reading the cliff notes of the cliff notes.
I’m a huge fan of spreadsheets as config files due to their ability to compute values from formulae.

I currently do this in F# using ExcelProvider, which allows you to access computed values and types at design/compile time.

This is much handier than using json/yaml/xml etc., again due to formulae, but also the use of Excel/LibreOffice as a config editor. Additionally being able to have multiple spreadsheets within a workbook is a nice way of organizing your configuration data. Beats the pants off other serialized data formats (depending on your use case) and I find it to be preferable to using ‘code as configuration’, especially because non-developer users can edit it.

EDIT: Link to ExcelProvider http://fsprojects.github.io/ExcelProvider/
American here. This process is fairly normal and we will know the actual outcome once the electors vote. In many elections we know early on election day because the winners lead is really clear.

I also learned history from books and not movies. I would still recommend some movies to someone who wants to learn the basics in a couple hours, but movies always take liberties with the truth in order to tell a story.
I put money on Biden in the EU at a promised return rate of 1.6 with a Malta based company called betway. The bet was cancelled in the election night shortly after midnight EU, while polls were still open. Odds first went down to 1.57, then 1.53, then 1.50. I guess they saw "irregular betting patterns" and pulled an emergency brake.

No communication from them either. Took a few days to get my money back.
SMS 2FA is weak, but it does two things: it shifts the attack from a passive opportunistic one to a targeted one, and, 2. in unionized environments you can add a second compliance factor without distributing new devices, "training" people to use TOTP apps, or "forcing" people to install an app on their personal devices.

That is the big cultural reason why SMS 2FA is going to be with us for a while. Sure, use TOTP and FIDO tokens for systems people, but for institutions with thousands or tens of thousands of employees, SMS 2FA is still economical and will still be with us 5-10 years from now. It's the new passwords.

The smart thing would be for MSFT/o365 to give you the option to switch to a TOTP token and other authenticators with a better experience so people can switch organically. Most security people still don't distinguish between authenticators and identities, as federation concepts like identity providers are still in the rarefied space of enterprise. Identity isn't well thought out either because it's a legal concept, and like most tech risk and liability, if anyone read the fine print they'd never use it.

SMS 2FA is basically a ritual that allows people to agree to ignore risk.
Rooting a TP-Link Archer A7 with a USB Drive
A good point. However, if, for example, the quality of the output is poor, I think that most people would not be sufficiently technically informed enough to be able to point to the printer head as the source the problem. Even if they do, there may well not be a brand sticker on the printer head. To most observers, then, it would be the printer that was faulty. Most printer manufacturers are protective of their brand images and don't want negative associations with that brand. Reasonable enough, as far as I can see. Let's face it, most branded ink or toner is expensive irrespective of brand. The best way of reducing printings costs? Probably just print less.
It appears one person's "extremism" is another person's "wisdom". If you've ever worked in state/federal government you'll get the sentiment. Sure it's speculative, but definitely not extremist.
Founders can, his situation varies. Either QSBS or ideally through 83(b) (where one pays all taxes on company stock at founding in first 30'ish days).
Might be a good idea to include that in the fine print, next time.
OP is saying that Amazon has exactly zero reasons to change its ways if it makes zero difference to their income. They deleted the reviews of a reputable customer. Will he keep on buying from Amazon like he did before? Yes. So will there be any downsides for Amazon for deleting reputable customers' reviews? No. Money will keep flowing, resentment is irrelevant. So, they will keep deleting reputable customers' reviews, because changing that takes effort, and effort costs, and cost have to lead to more profits to be justified.
>I'm not sure whether this will work for games that have native Linux version though

When you switch OS it will reinstall the version for that operating system. At least that was the case when I tried about 18 months ago
Even if he didn't earn any interest and never earned another penny, at an $85k/yr burn, that $3M will last 35 years. Seems alright?
Well you would have been right 6 months ago, but right now it's absolutely not an issue any more. Even pointer capture works right. Even on multiple monitors. Try it again with a recent Proton.
spain, france?
True, although I think what they're doing make sense. If they pay out and then Trump's legal challenges succeed, it only gets uglier for them.
> Good faith decisions go a long way, if they believe in the founder that 800k becomes an investment to be front-of-line for his next company.

Or its the cost of a lesson to stay away.
Rough Outline to A/B Testing
a guide i wrote about how i approach and advise companies on a/b testing
A better analogy would be if the car didn't come with airbags, but even that is not as good because you have no way of knowing if someone listened into your conversations whereas airbags let you know just fine.

Ford once paid $300M for a faulty airbags thing, but that was negligence whereas this is fraud. Of course this isn't a lethal risk.

I would think the case would have legs. Haven't a clue how much for.
The employees got paid the wage they agreed on, too. How much more of the sale do you think they should have been given?
Interesting "journey", but as I was reading I can't get over how similar this site looks to Stripe's old UI. From the color scheme to the icons for each product in the menu bar, it's almost a 1:1 copy.
I've seen what they post when they're "speaking their mind"

It almost always devolves into "jokes" about getting state approval to shoot immigrants, refugees, minorities in open ranges, or providing "helicopter rides" - a reference to dropping people from helicopters.

This is what currently unifies the right wing of US politics.
They are still less efficient. Compare even modern stuff like HAMTs to ordinary sets. Close, but no cigar.
I guess you're technically not wrong, but what is your point?
I assume they also got paid in that time? You're making it sound like they've made a big sacrifice to (only) receive $80K at the end.
Wireshark Client: Capture All Mobile TCP&UDP and Decrypt TLS to Wireshark
Who has been hostile to the poster?
Ink tank if you have to go non laser mode. I own like 2 HP 5820 ink tank printers and had to change a part inside once. Other than that can do other than counting pages but 3 years they havent done that. Not that I update my printers
I recently watched an interesting talk[1] about the NANOGrav project which looks for extremely low-frequency gravitational waves. The sources for these would be super-massive binary black holes, unlike the compact binaries ("regular" black holes and neutrons) that LIGO can observe.

They use radio telescopes to look for disturbances in the timing of millisecond pulsars due to gravitational waves, and they get about half of their data from Arecibo.

The project has been going for almost 15 years and they had just begun to see interesting stuff in their data. As the the project relies on continuous measurements of the pulsars, in order to detect variations in their timing, the presenter mentioned that more than six months of downtime would have a significant impact on the quality of their their overall data, and as mentioned on their page[2] many of the pulsars can only be measured by the Arecibo telescope due to its sensitivity.

[1]: http://pirsa.org/20100068/

[2]: http://nanograv.org/announcement/2020/08/20/Arecibo.html
The exact same logic goes for fake reviews. If no profit is harmed, no need to take action.
The name has nothing to do with Go the language; Just coincidence. It was taken from a play called Waiting for Godot.[0]

Internally, everything is C++ (and your code can also be written in it), but the bundled scripting language is called GDScript (it’s a bit of a mixture of Python, Lua, and others with some extra unique syntax sugar). However, it does support bindings to other languages. The most common being C# (using Mono), but people have gotten Rust to work (among others).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
I agree it is plenty but remembering it is a household income I suspect, so yes is a very nice life, without being silly.
I see your vision now, and I get everyone's "this is PC nitpicking gone mad!" reactions - but I think it's more subtle (of course it's totally up to you). "Girl" works great as a superhero name, but for tool for doing serious software development it feels a bit dated.

"Girl" has a lot of historical connotations when applied to real actual work. It was a way to belittle the importance of people's skills and organizational value. When I first read "PatchGirl" I saw switch-board operators, not superheros - because it sounds exactly like a name that would get applied to women's work in the 1950s.

The same is true for "boy": if you want to imply someone's not a man, you call them "boy"... but no one after the 1950s would do this in an office setting unless they were being antagonistic. Again, it's fine for a superhero!

I think that's why some people will be against the name. Words are powerful, and have been used powerfully in the past. If you're not aware of the past (or not adversely affected by it) then it seems like a stupid nitpick - but to some there's a negative reaction to seeing history repeating.
A good punishment is government nationalizes it, paying shareholders nothing, then immediately sells those shares back onto the public markets. The government would earn close-ish to the market cap.

Effectively, allow the company to continue as before, but wipe out all shareholders. After all, they are the people who allowed this behaviour. They are the ultimate decision makers.
Seems pretty decisive to me. All that's left is wrapping up the remaining counts and certifying.
It's probably a mistake to assume he'll never earn another penny in income outside this payment.
Yeah when I first saw the betting market for "next president" and Kamala was 1000/1 I dreamt up scenarios of how a Biden win followed by some sudden illness between now and Jan could cause it and it raised an eyebrow over market settlement. Tho I also never looked into the actual rules
Client side is handled well, but I think backend still needs to enforce the "only one submission". For that, I use an idempotency key. You generate a random key (UUID4 is fine) which is passed alongside your form. If (for a reason or another) the same form is sent (with the same key), the backend will ignore it because it has already seen that key before. It allows to implement an idempotent behaviour.
The certification process is what gives you the projected electoral college votes. Many states aren’t even done counting the initial vote yet, let alone having recounted or certified so I don’t get how anyone could have a reasonable expectation of getting paid already.
American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max
Here’s the text:

“This market will be settled according to the candidate that has the most projected Electoral College votes won at the 2020 presidential election. Any subsequent events such as a ‘faithless elector’ will have no effect on the settlement of this market. In the event that no Presidential candidate receives a majority of the projected Electoral College votes, this market will be settled on the person chosen as President in accordance with the procedures set out by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

This market will be void if an election does not take place in 2020. If more than one election takes place in 2020, then this market will apply to the first election that is held.

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At the time I write this comment, half my screen is full of people calling Josh not so nice things.

Folks, this is a founder who's openly sharing the kinds of things we usually keep hidden. I doubt there's been a startup exit in the last decade where a healthy skeptical HN'er couldn't find some wrongs being done, if the details had been available. It's extremely hard to get everything right, from every perspective. The only difference here is that the details are actually available.

Please go easy. We want more posts like these, not fewer.
Is that a more recent thing for Brother? I have one (probably c5 years old) and although there are proprietary drivers if you want them, it will happily accept PCL or even PostScript (PostScript is slower though) over IPP and it has a basic interface on its http port (toner levels, page counts, etc).

It wasn't the lowest-end model but it wasn't super-expensive either. I think the next model down was the same but wouldn't take PostScript.
> high-stakes mass testing (entrance exams etc.)

That's because it's done wrong.

There are countries where they simply sort by descending scores on whatever standard test they came up with to admit. As if the test was perfect and results could be compared at an infinite decimal place (hint, stats and physics disagree with that!).

So the test basically becomes a measure of how someone is good at taking the test and you start to see min-maxing behaviors. It's a contest to see who can pour the most time into maximizing its results. The incentives for cheating are simply so high. The downside of cheating is that you don't really learn, but since the only skill these tests teach you is taking the tests, you are really robbing yourself of a skill that becomes useless 3 minutes after the test.

My advice is to throw these tests in the trash.
- Redirect all mobile TCP&UDP to your desktop Wireshark

- SSL/TLS-capable intercepting

- HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, IMAP, DNS, FTP, POP3, SSH, Telnel, IRC, ANY custom protocol…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhxrSyqky94

Wireshark Helper
https://www.txthinking.com

Wireshark
https://www.wireshark.org

iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireshark-client/id1534485108

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.txthinking...
That's no different than me buying GOOG/FB/AMZN stock at the time of the grant, it's nothing more than betting on the stock market.
No, it doesn’t. It simply means if nobody founds it there is no company in the first place.

Whoever wants to do the first 3-6 months (or 3-6 years) without a paycheck while figuring out the problem, solution and funding gets to be the founder.

If employees were lowballed underpaid, screwed out of vested shares etc that’s different but of course the person that decides to make the company owns most of it and gets the biggest payout when it sells.
IBM Is Offering Free Certification on Coursera for Attending Its AI Event
I agree with you on everything except for Steam. It is the only launcher / store I have installed because it legitimately adds value to the games I play. Specifically Big Picture and In Home Streaming let me play my games on any other device I want, and that's done a lot of mileage for me in playing games like Final Fantasy XIV on the Nintendo Switch, or even on my old laptop sitting in bed.
> 'The people' are never going to gain access to networks of information systems, complicated weapons, training / support etc..

Who make up those networks if not people? Turncoats decide the fate of battles for a reason. The government cracks down hard on people like Snowden for a reason. These networks are only as secure as the weakest, and least loyal, link.

> my gosh Boeing doesn't just 'patent and make public' their tech, they keep it very secret.

How secret can you keep an aircraft once it gets shot down? The Russians reverse engineered the B-29 [1] , the Americans reverse engineered the Hind [2], the Chinese reverse engineered the F-22 [3], in part using wreckage from an F-117:

"On 27 March 1999, one of the US Air Force’s stealth bombers was shot down in the NATO raid of Yugoslavia during Operation Noble Anvil.

The wreckage was sent to China to study the stealth phenomenon except for the cockpit, which remains in a Belgrade museum."

> Also - there's tremendous 'know how' in there, all the unspoken stuff, skill, knowledge that isn't very well summarized in any kind of document.

Of course! It would take time to unravel this "know how" and get it documented. But the clues are there if you can afford to look. Almost every proprietary system can be documented and clean-room-reverse-engineered if you dedicate enough resources to it. Could a people's army do this? Maybe not, but it's not impossible either.

> China in 2020 is still having a hard time making it's own 5th gen jet engines, having to buy from Russia, though that may change.

I can guarantee you this project would advance much quicker if we were actually at a state of war, rather than peace with heightened tensions. These engines are not the end-all-be-all when compared to all their other priorities, but they could become a priority if war breaks out (obviously I hope it never does). When they do become a priority, history is on their side in terms of insurmountable odds beaten by skilled teams (see Manhattan Project, Have Blue, etc.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

[2] https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/that-time-arm...

[3] https://theprint.in/defence/china-reverse-engineered-copied-...
I think you can't. Money is a major motivator, and its not easy to recreate the same drive by doing the same kind of work, while keeping to the money. I wonder if there are successful people who found the same fulfillment again and again. I know people in science who did it.

So perhaps motivation comes from either by giving away the money or diving into some part of previously unexperienced part of life , e.g. science, religion, etc
While there may still be some votes to be counted and lawsuits to be settled, even without those, Biden has the most votes and electoral college people at the moment; even if the lawsuits are successful, they only cover a handful of votes, nowhere near the amount needed to flip the vote.

But, for betting purposes, I too would hold off with paying out until everything is properly finalized. What if one of the candidates suddenly keels or withdraws before the changeover? If the betting company has to reverse course, they could end up in court and end up paying tons.
Most Americans consider the official certification of the election to be a formal ceremony, not an active part of the process. It's like pointing out that the UK Prime Minister is actually appointed at the Queen's sole discretion.
That’s my observation too. Whenever something is reported they try to attach a big name to the headline. Be it “Harvard”, “Elon Musk” or something else.

It seems this is another sign of inequality. The already famous get even more fame.
There's a good chance, I would think, that the black lives matter movement and changing social dialogue improves race relations in the future.
Perhaps they simply had enough confidence in the information readily available at the LOI stage. Baremetrics went through a diligence process not long ago so I’m sure that was a lot already prepared.

Keep in mind it’s a relatively small purchase price.
My implicit assumption is that rank and file police officers regularly lack the years of psychological training required to appropriately respond to these kinds of incidents.
I made a bet on Betway, and they simply canceled it. Located in Malta, don't trust them.
Projected Electoral College votes could still be based on post-certified results from the states. The projection they're talking about might be the projection of who the electors would vote for (so ignoring faithless electors who could be bribed), rather than the projection of who the electors would be.
Whoops, great catch! Thanks for noticing.
> In order for this to work I'd have to work all day with a camera on my face, if I understood this correctly. This sounds awful to me.

Yeah I wasn't sure, is that what they're suggesting as the use-case? Always-on video and mic sounds awful, even if most of the time no one sees it. My home is not my office, my "home office" is just a desk in my living room and I share this space. So opening a window to my home is, frankly, unwelcome.
We don't teach our kids anything about how our government is structured, or why its put together that way, anymore. "Civics" is too boring and besides, diffuse, nameless feudalism is really what we want now anyway, so ignorant peasants will be in demand.