skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coal miners will absolutely never, as a voting bloc, have anywhere near the power of the Energy Industry. It's also much easier to change their minds, by giving them another job at a net zero cost to society, than it is for a billionaire oil tycoon.

I agree that a democratic government won't do everything that should be done, but it's the least worst option we have. The best way to reduce corruption is to attack the class system.
That's hardly a Colorado-specific issue. They were wronged from day 0, and forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.
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There is nothing good a “blockchain” can do for an election that a simpler centralised system like certificate transparency logs can't, and in either case you'd have to sacrifice the secret ballot to provide any meaningful verifiability, making the whole exercise strictly worse than the existing system.
I recently came across the idea of "Prioritizing for Impact".

You have made a very intuitive visual representation of this idea.

Could it be named something more descriptive?
Why Baller Todo?
eg Impactful Todo, To Do The Most Impact
We need to make voting simpler to understand for the average person, and each step to involve more people.

Right now the systems are so convoluted that it gives a fertile bed for ignorance to grow, which can directly results in lower public trust in voting and or conspiracies.

The electrification of voting (e.g. Diebold Election Systems) have only worsened that through a combination of questionable bidden processes and outright low competence.

This takes complexity and multiplies it, then expects the public to "get it" when you show them the algorithms, and ask them to do the raw mathematics themselves. It is completely out of touch with the general public.
Of course there are other ways. I don't understand this myopic perspective.

Society has a problem: poor people exist. There are a UNIVERSE of possible solutions. Charitable organizations, churches, help from family - the list goes on and on and on.

Yet here you are, saying "I can't think of anything we can possibly do except point guns at not-poor people, take their money, and give it to poor people."

The crazy thing is that I believe you when you say it; I think you're saying it in good faith! I just can't fathom how you reached that conclusion. It's utterly nonsensical to me on its face.
Not to downplay how sad it is, but he did seem as at peace as a person could be.
Xcode comes with a very rudimantary but feature complete and free graphical diff util called FileMerge. You can call it from the terminal as 'opendiff'[0]. It works great with Git as difftool or mergetool and it even supports diffing entire directories.

[0] https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/opendiff/
> I strongly feel like it needs to take the idea to a new level, ditch the messy language and completely refactor it. Don't get me wrong, NixOS is 17 years old and it still feels like alpha version.

That's what Guix is for. https://guix.gnu.org/
Short sighted and needlessly defeatist in my opinion. Some people would've had us ride horses forever because the first cars were dangerous.
Better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_principle...
Another way you can use nix-shell: with Nix, shell scripts can declare their dependencies. For a random example, I have a script that extracts chapter information from a DVD. Its shebang looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i /bin/sh -p ffmpeg_4 lsdvd python3

This is the equivalent of "#!/bin/sh", but with some package dependencies. Without nix, this script would implicitly require lsdvd to be available, increasing the complexity and fragility of system administration: if you scp the script to a different machine, the script is broken there until you install lsdvd. Even on one machine, you have to keep lsdvd installed (and remember what you have it for). Nix takes care of all that: when you run the nix-empowered script, it will make sure lsdvd is available in the script's environment. I keep an extremely minimal set of packages install system-wide (and nothing installed to my user environment), and declare dependencies in the places they're actually needed. I no longer think in terms of installed-or-not; everything is available.
Sure they would. Apple wasn't a particularly special company when they were funded, new computer companies were a dime a dozen.
Yes, that's your point. But you're arguing a different point than treve.

Treve was saying that anything becomes ridiculous when inspected closely enough. Even the core components.

You are saying that the extension to corner cases becomes ridiculous.

The extension can be ridiculous without the original core being ridiculous.

So you're saying a correct thing, but it's not relevant to the conversation that existed before your comment.
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America. I used to walk two miles to school when I was a kid. That school got torn down years ago, but was replaced with another on the same lot. It would be just as easy to walk today as it ever was; there hasn't been some fundamental change in how communities are laid out.

School buses still exist too. Kids in rural areas can stand at the end of their driveway and board a bus without parental supervision, provided their parents aren't totally paranoid.
Furthermore, it's not because it's written in a contract that the clause is legal.
"What is We <3 Trebek?"

Thank you Mr Trebek. You played well. You fought well. For inspiring millions of young geeks, you are our champion tonight.
Absolutely this.

I've also taken to putting a QR code on the first slide in the deck, when I give the talk live. It seems silly to have people rush top copy down the URL when we have this convenient URL-communicating technology at hand.

(Example" https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/samples/slide001....)
A sad day. Jeopardy has always been a pretty unifying cultural touchstone in large part because of his hosting style. A brief bio can be found on him on Wikipedia [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Trebek
Interesting comment - care to elaborate on why Apple would have never been funded? Also, are you referring to the initial starting capital, or a later stage Apple?
> If we're pulling out more fish from the sea than all those pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, etc., that's gonna leave a mark, eh?

The sea is big, though. 3x as large as the land, and it's mostly teeming with life. It gets just as much solar energy per square km as the land, so it can support a roughly similarly dense ecosystem.

The problem is more about what type of fish we like to eat than the sheer volume: if we were willing to make do with krill and plankton we could sustainably consume many times our current intake, but not so when we want cod and tuna.
Sufficiently sophisticated modeling could do the trick.
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Pancreatic cancer (and other abdominal-area cancers like stomach, gallbladder, etc) are notoriously hard to find and diagnose because they're almost completely asymptomatic. Once we see the cancer, it's in a place where it's noticeable like the lungs at which point it's in later stage metastasis.

Unfortunately there's not necessarily a cure that just needs more money. And enhanced screening has been a total dead end.
This is far right talking point nonsense. Get a grip, or bring it to Facebook. This is not the place for this.
Four words of wisdom from a past Democratic presidential campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid

Find ways to revitalize the economies of impoverished rural areas (Not handouts! That breeds dependency and resentment.) so that they can share in the wealth of the next economic boom.
> You can't anonymize (remove) voter data and also validate that data.

There are a variety of teams and projects working on that problem. I wouldn't say that limitation is really an absolute.
It's not strictly better, no. As a minority shareholder in Google I have effectively no power to make them stop ruining the internet. Majority control is what gets you something like full ownership, just with some other risks and benefits.
Can the bank lock your car because you missed a payment? No.
just like "Yo"
Not sure why you've been downvoted. I wasn't aware of that comment. A real surprise given his image as a dorky guy.
If you're running other stuff in containers, I'm just curious why you'd choose to run Traefik outside a container?
I think it’s interesting to compare it to Kubernetes. K8S has more functionality at the cluster level and a stronger ecosystem, but Nix has a much more well-founded “core”, IMO.

Both are declarative by default and easy to reproduce.

Hopefully we’ll see them converge in the future.
"Serious" as in "I don't want to store my files in some random cloud".

Jira is, among other things, a document storage solution. Security aside, at the minimum most people would like to be able to back up and access their critical files.
This is political advertising, which is different from political information. It has always had this purpose. As long as they're following the FEC rules, where ads are clearly marked as such along with who is paying for them, what's wrong?
Forrelation is discussed in the article prominently. Did you read it?
Are you adding info on what would be even worse? Because this is even worse on iPhone.
Was intrigued by the reference in the morphological network section to the Ritter & Sussner group having disappeared. A little digging shows that the group's site is indeed gone, but digging further it just looks like Ritter has retired (no recent papers, listed as emeritus on www.cise.ufl.edu site), but that Sussner is still active and has recent papers on the topic (as well as ones that are fuzzy math related) such as https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338045815_Extreme_l...
Here comes the next IPO wave
> Have us testify before technologically illiterate politicians and fine us 1% of what we pay our CEO?

Slack operates in the EU and has paying customers in the EU. It also likes to take advantage of anti-competition regulations when convenient: https://slack.com/intl/en-in/blog/news/slack-files-eu-compet...

CEO pay seemed to be $356,952 at time of Slack's IPO.

Maximum fine under GDPR is the greater of 4% annual turnover and $23M. Slack's turnover is too small, which means the maximum fine is $23M, nearly 700% of CEO's basic compensation.

Regulations here have teeth; it's not the United States - and it's a good thing for society that they do.
No, like the founders of the USA, I believe in natural rights. The right of people to be secure in their persons and their property being one of those rights.

If you and I get marooned on an unclaimed island and I construct a spear for hunting crabs, you have no right to my spear. I am within my natural rights to defend my property should you try to take it by force.
Spring boot vs. quarkus vs. micranaut vs. helidon vs. vertx
JetBrains offers a couple of models for licensing. One of those is a "subscribe until you don't want to pay for it, then the last major version that you subscribed too is yours to keep forever." Another is "pay for the specific version once and be done with it, here's your license key."

I am not affiliated with JetBrains. I have a continuing "pay once a year" "subscription." Should I ever need to cancel that subscription, or let it lapse (I did that between July 2019 and August 2020), I can still use the last major version from the prior year.

I think the JetBrains model of "we have a variety of ways for you to give us money that is fair to us and you" strikes a good balance.

There are a number of tools I have taken off of my workbench because they have gone subscription only: Tower, 1Password, and so forth. I only purchase "one time licenses" of MS Office these days (we're about 3 years behind). I'm in the process of excising Adobe from my life, but unfortunately finding it rather hard.
Probably my greatest honor was being called a "buzzsaw" by Alex!

He liked to verbally spar, always quick with a joke, a flair for the dramatic - a perfect fit for a TV quiz show host.

A small anecdote:

We filmed college Jeopardy in Columbus, Ohio. After taping was over, all of us contestants were all hanging out in the hotel lobby waiting for our flights.

Alex and the crew were doing some kind of local press thing in a nearby conference room.

Out of nowhere, into the hotel lobby walks .. Jerry Springer. He kind of just meandered into the lobby where we sitting and sat down, by himself, with no apparent agenda?

We being a bunch of not-too-shy college kids struck up a conversation and learned he was campaigning on behalf of some state Senator and they were going to use the same TV crew and setup that the Jeopardy! team was using to film some interviews.

He was very nice, and then Alex and the crew came out during a break and we all got a couple of pictures of us, Alex, and Jerry Springer.

A surreal meeting of two very different TV personalities!

RIP Alex, the coolest of the nerds!
I had started to believe he was somehow going to beat the odds that he and all of us knew were essentially insurmountable.

The fact that he continued working nearly until the end shows how much he truly loved his job.

He will be sorely missed.
> In this sort of scenario the better choice rather than implementing error detection is just fixing the original problem that caused an infinite loop so users don't need to fix anything in the first place.

Sure, not having the bug would be better, but I can only assume that the developers didn't intend to make the conversion loop. They failed to not have the bug then, and most likely will fail to not have bugs in the future; that's life. The solution in this case may not be to detect an error condition, but to just indicate what the software is doing. Ex a persistent notification for 'updating database schema', maybe appearing after a 5 minute timeout; if that sits around for an hour or five days or something, you can google around for it.
If you remove the action/inaction part you've ruined the question.
> If there's a board, it may be worth it to let some members know

Scenarios like this never work out well for the person doing the "complaining", whether you're going above your manager to their manager or your CEO to their board.

It's not worth your time, energy, or reputation. Focus your energy elsewhere, it's not your fight anymore.
The easiest way to go about this would be to give up the requirement that votes are private. This would make the need for cryptography drop away completely, and trusted third parties mostly. Individual voters could verify that their votes were counted correctly, and everyone could verify that eg dead people didn't vote.

I'm not saying this is a good policy, just a hard technical tradeoff of what would be required for verifiable voting without cryptography.

It's an all or nothing proposition too. A hybrid system (opt in to make your vote public so it can be publicly verified) would create additional vote pools that would differ based on ideological preferences and thereby attract calls to disenfranchise, as we've seen for mail in voting.
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You can definitely operate a profitable startup/any sort of business if you can find enough college grads/cert drones who are desperate for work, will take $15/hour, are "dumb and ready to fuck" and will put up with a team of unprofessional micromanaging assholes. You just to have to make sure you are their leader!
Hey there! I think any place to share what people create and collect feedback is cool. I just uploaded my project, but is there a way to edit the description?
If you and I get marooned on an unclaimed island and I construct a spear for hunting crabs, you have no right to my spear. I am within my natural rights to defend my property should you try to take it by force.
After much hand-wringing by bureaucrats, it would end up as a tax on fishing poles.
From my perspective as a user making me click those traffic lights isn't essential functionality.
If you're not already au fait with k8s, and you're not trying to learn it, I'd recommend looking at Docker Compose, or Docker Swarm if you think you might add another node at some point - these are much, much simpler, and can do anything you'd want for a single node or small cluster.
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The first statement said both sides, the second statement 2 days later tried to clarify the statement with an excuse that he was saying other people that walked amongst nazi were the good people. As a constant pattern of trumps presidency, he throws out a dog whistle and then walks it back 2 days later sayig he was taken out of context, misspoke, or was joking. You can claim he's fighting against antisemitism and racism, but I just straight up don't trust his good faith. My jewish eyes see him as supporting nazis and a supporter of those who walk with nazis. Him being a poor communicator is a lackluster excuse why I should trust him.

All those other good people walked under those nazi flags. Why would I trust them either?
Have you gained a noticeable amount of water weight since you started taking creatine? I used it to take it many years but go so bloated it felt unpleasant. Maybe I was taking too much or a bad product.
It's politically incorrect and not very tasteful, but they're acting like it's Jennings who has to "get past" that six year old tweet when it's actually people like that HNer who link it any time his name pops up hoping that others tar him for it. It makes we wonder how much this HNer is still dwelling on it.

It's not the best joke but he's also not wrong btw. Let's not suggest that having shriveled up wheelchair legs is a boon in the dating market. It's just not nice to point out such inconvenient truths.
> Nearly every consequential state fell at, or beyond, the tail end of 538's confidence interval

While I haven't checked each and every individual state, I'm pretty sure they all fell within the CI. Tail end yes, but within the CI.

> (BTW, who uses 80%? and not 90-95%?)

... The left edge of the 80% CI shows a Biden loss. The point was 538's model was not any more confident than that about a Biden win. So yeah, not the highest confidence.

> Deny it all you want, gaslight, cover your eyes, whatever -- but clear, convincing, overwhelming evidence of a systematic flaw or bias in the underlying polls is right there in front of you.

Posting a bunch of media articles doesn't prove anything. I'm not saying there isn't systemic bias here, but your argument is simply that you wanted the polls to be more accurate and you wanted the media to write better articles about uncertainty. There's no rigorous definition of "systemic bias" here that I can even try to prove through data, all you've done is post links. You seem to be more angry at the media coverage than the actual model, but that's not the same as the model being incorrect.

Anyway I think there's no more for us to gain here by talking. Personally, I never trust the media on anything even somewhat mathematical. They can't even get pop science right, how can they get something as important as an election statistical model correct.
Actual title of this marketing piece with no actual detailed technical information on "How active noise cancellation for automotive works":

Advanced, broad-band active noise cancellation now available in cars
I'm sorry but you still have no idea what you're talking about. 'I know some Americans' doesn't cut it. Unless you've lived in Trump country for a while there's no way you've met enough hard core Trump supporting rednecks to make any kind of accurate generalization about them.

>Your comment reinforce my point instead of refuting it.

I live in one of the reddest states in the nation and come from a family full of those Alabama rednecks you talk about, and I voted Republican in every election before 2016. If you think I represent the liberal elite, you're dead wrong.

Good luck trying to get along with the rednecks you're talking about. Most of them don't want you here, and if they had their preferred immigration policy you wouldn't be allowed in. Many of the family members I talked about wouldn't even allow you to marry a person outside your race, and they'd prefer if schools were still segregated. Though they'd never say that to an outsider's face. And the majority of them outright support requiring Muslims to register with the government so they can be tracked.

This has nothing to do with the South btw, it's more of an urban rural divide.
Oh for sure, I grew up poor and am now on the other side. But that’s not what the author is talking about. He’s condescending to people that are making $250k/year for ”leaving millions” on the table. At $250k/year you don’t have to care about money a whole lot, and you can make that being a developer.
As far as I’ve seen, paper ballots are the most secure, affordable, and understandable method of voting to embrace. Granted, we’re on HN so we all know not to trust technology.

Does anyone have a counterargument to paper ballots? I know that there were some murmurings of fraud in the paper ballots this election but from what I’ve seen, paper ballots are head and shoulders above (hackable) electronic systems.
I have been an operating partner at an investment firm / VC firm for the past ~1.5 years, and have co-founded a micro-VC firm [0] with two other friends 6 years ago. This is to give you a sense of my limited, but higher-than-zero experience in the field.

It seems to me that VCs gain mostly from informational asymmetry, and from some form of arbitrage. Most VCs are punished or rewarded over the course of several years, that's why reputation and "fame" are still fairly important in the VC world.

Lately I've been thinking about how I would start a new VC firm knowing what I know now, and how I would make it different (better) than any other VC firm out there. It actually is a very, very interesting mental exercise.

I don't have an answer for you (btw, if you'd like to brainstorm this with me, feel free to reach out, contact details are in my HN profile), but I'd probably start by asking several startup founders what they would like in an ideal VC firm. I would then ask several LPs, even though I suspect this aspect boils down to "convince me you're going to make me more money".

Anyway... thoughts? Things I should read? People I should talk to?

[0]: http://m14t.com/
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Here's the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
> The Obama administration used its office to take down a political opponent, on the basis of improbable claims of collusion with Russia, backed by an opposition research report funded by the Clinton campaign.

The opposition research was initialy funded by the RNC.
If you are a tech user and like comparing various kinds of files, not just code for git commits, I'd recommend Beyond Compare, it's the most powerful (albeit not the most sexy) app I've seen so far