skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging – A Practical Example
Do you still feel that way when considering how this would inhibit many people who cannot get IDs from voting? It's their right, no? Just because they don't have a means to obtain an ID doesn't mean their voice shouldn't carry weight in our democracy.
tablets and Bluetooth keyboard have filled the role well for me.
>If the bill passes, the number of fraudulent votes required to do so would simply need to be equal to the winning vote differential; it would not matter for whom the fraudulent votes had been cast.

>Wow, this establishes an incredibly perverse incentive. If a party believes that they will lose, they can engage in fraud in favor of the opposite party (e.g. burning boxes of ballots in safe districts), and spoil the vote.

By this rule, they could have the election overturned by casting fraudulent votes for their own party.
All profits anyone makes on cryptocurrencies comes out of the pockets of other "investors". A lot of them will be like this, addicted people who were lured in by dishonest promises.

Cryptocurrency is a negative-sum game. There is an inflow of cash into the markets, and two outflows: Regular traders cashing out, and miners cashing out. The market caps, the supposed dollar value of your holdings, it is all imaginary. The only thing that is real is money being paid in, and money going out.

And unless you sell and take your profits, that outflow is not going to you. It is going to someone else. And if you do, the money comes from somebody less fortunate.

The only ethical thing is to not get involved.
In the spirit of OP, the main navbar on Baratza’s website links to an article titled:

STOP! Don’t Dump It – Fix It!

https://baratza.com/stop-dont-dump-it-fix-it/
I’m not sure. If Party A expects Party B to win by 1%, A can seek to frame B with fraud by creating 1% more vote for B, who now wins by roughly 2%, meaning the bill doesn’t apply as the margin is greater than the fraud.

I don’t disagree with your assessment but I think the result is more complex. This becomes a statistical cat and mouse game, which again is a total distraction from the actual purpose of the voting process.
The Madman as Painter (2016)
I am not sure how close pandoc comes to your requirements?

https://pandoc.org/
Day trading is gambling and futures / puts are worst regardless of the asset being traded.
If their refund policy was literally "accepting returns on anything for any reason" how is it "hacking" to return a laptop after a year?
Even without that obvious long term power grab, intentionally spoiling an election and requiring a new one shifts the voter base. Compare voter turnout of presidential elections and midterms, any other election gets even less turnout.

Plus, think of what one example of a "fraudulent election" would do to nationwide discourse.
>You need to identify yourself to register to vote, and to vote you have to arrive at the poll, state your name and address, and sign a sworn statement. The system is practically impossible to abuse, evidenced by the fact that there have been almost no documented cases of anyone abusing it.

Or it's because it's rarely caught and charges are rarely pressed:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/voter-fraud-a-myth-thats-not-wh...

61 out of 63 attempts to vote fraudulently were successful, and one was rejected only because the poll worker happened to be the mother of the person they were trying to fraudulently vote as.

Until there's widespread and thorough pentesting of the election systems in various states it's impossible to say at what rate fraud does or does not occur.
Yeah, I think that's the thing that's missing from the narrative in this article - if certain goods on Amazon are really heavily marked up compared to other sites, it's better for Amazon's long-term reputation if people don't don't automatically buy from Amazon and maybe get them from other sites because of the reputational damage when those people realize they got screwed, and so Amazon have an incentive not to add a default buy box button under those circumstances. (Usually this seems to happen with in-demand items that are out of stock from Amazon themselves, and the sellers that aren't allowed in the buy box are third party ones. So basically, it mainly screws over canny middlemen who hope to resell things bought at retail elsewhere at a big markup, maybe even literally getting them shipped direct from places like Walmart to the purchaser.)
I'm sure that smart TVs in particular are definitely listening.
Right, it should be higher than you expect but it shouldn't be too high. If you expect €100 and ask for 20% more it should be safe if the company is willing to pay €80. If they aren't it's probably too much of a mismatch in expectations to make everybody happy.

But a candidate can only do this well if they know the market to within 20%, which might take a fair bit of research and asking around.
Absolutely, you need to care for that future dev who's an idiot when writing code today because that's going to be you in a week or two when you've forgotten all about it.
> and then punishing them if they sell somewhere else that has lower fees for a lower price

how would Amazon know if a particular seller is also selling elsewhere?
Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)
Not defending Amazon's behavior but the standard for government intervention in antitrust cases has for decades been how the anticompetitive behavior affects consumers, NOT other businesses/sellers.

And it's pretty clear that Amazon has led to much lower prices and a consumer surplus compared to alternatives in the market.

And for all the shit AMZN gets on HN and over social media, broadly it is still one of the most widely respected and popular companies in the US across a broad spectrum of consumers.

You can argue whether that's overall good or bad, but I'm talking about the law as it is and has been enforced vs. what people WISH the law said.
> from informing consumer that 30% of their donation to a charity is taken

For me the biggest concern is that people want this to happen and even would go as far as say that people get a perverse sense of satisfaction from Apple's unfair behavior. Because it validates the widespread pessimism and 'everything is broken' mentality that is normalized nowadays
Seems like they could really use some ground-penetrating radar! It'd also greatly reduce the environmental damage from all the futile empty holes.

Great article and expository photography!
The problem is the emissivity calibration, as different materials have different IR characteristics. For food, the best by far is the fast contact Thermapen (get the original British version rather than the heavily marked-up US licensee's).
The effectiveness of the boycott is a function of relative power levels, not whether the corporation can take action to adjust the issue.

If it's made illegal to fire people for speech, I doubt people would have any qualms (assuming they have the purchasing power and scale) with driving the corporation to bankruptcy. Another corporation will take its place.
Yeah that makes sense. I won't be able to do it 100% of course, especially considering I so far have only learned high school maths, but even if it just manages to do it in some situations, that would still be fine as long as it falls back to (often quite accurate) numerical integration. I'll read some more about it!
>Why does the United States allow anyone to vote without identification is a shocking question to be asking in 2021.

I feel this is a huge misconception, everyone has to identify for the most part to get your voter registration card for example, so to claim we are allowing votes without identification is false.

Voter registration usually also includes your signature which is verified on all ballots mailed or otherwise.

For example last year I had to verify that my ballot was actually coming from me since they questioned my signature as it was an old signature I used. I sent in the proper documents to update said signature and prove I am who I said I was and it was done and over with.
As a policy it denies both women and men the opportunity of working together. If you are a man and a woman happens to be working on the same problem that you are investigating, would you like to be excluded from learning from her? And vice versa.
Yes, the whole drop-shipping scam that get-rich-quick types were pushing on instagram had to do with buying merchandise at market price then marking it up for sale on Amazon. Amazon seems to be using many more third-part merchants and pricing, which was originally a great deal on AMZN, has become more of a buyer-beware thing. Amazon is no longer necessarily the best price for merchandise.
Does the us army or ISS use apple products?
I think the point and the example are wrong.

Chinese companies can list on US exchanges, because 'business' is generally good for everyone.

The US would probably not allow major Chinese defence contractors to operate or list in the US.

If 'France' wants to use Twitter, fine, but China, a military and economic adversary tries to use it for propagandistic purposes, even while gaming it, they should be banned.

Literally Donald Trump, former US president is banned, while the CCP can push garbage propaganda? That makes no sense.
Really interested hearing your experience with them! I worked on a project a decade ago on predictive analytics and it cost almost seven digits and required a decent amount of infrastructure overhead. Curious how this perform since everything runs on the board.
McM pricing heavily depends on how much business you do with them, if you're a commercial buyer you'll see much steeper discounting applied.
Yes, I've also noticed that the cost of small items has gone up significantly. Amazon passing shipping costs and fees onto sellers explains this finally.
"It was only when the pejorative phrasing of “hyphenated Americans” came into vogue in the 1890s, emboldened by Roosevelt’s anti-hyphen speech, that the pressure for the hyphen’s erasure came to pass."

So the claim is that 1890's US anti-immigration campaigns caused such anti-hyphen sentiment that we abandoned the traditional hyphenation of... place names? (except for holdouts such as the New-York historical society).

I am not an academic who studies punctuation over time (surely you exist!) but I... have trouble rejecting the null hypothesis of, like, grammar just evolved, and people increasingly tended to use a non-archaic spelling?

If US anti-immigration campaigns did cause hyphen dropping, why don't we see any big non-American English-speaking place names with hyphens? (New-South-Wales?)

Also, the text itself feels like a stretch; Roosevelt's gave his hyphenated Americans speech in 1915, not amidst the anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1890s
A common definition of cryogenic is "below 120K/-153°C", or more general temperatures where "simple" gasses like oxygen/nitrogen/... become liquids.
This is a gambling addiction, full stop.

We don't need to invent new terms like "cryptocurrency addiction" it's just gambling!
Sounds like you have an interesting point but it might be too subtle for me. Can you rephrase?

I take it that the “poor person” benefits from cheap imports as a consumer but might at the same time they might be poor because they can’t get a job, because so much industry had been outsourced to other countries.

I have spoken to homeless people and cost of housing seems to be the big factor not cost of cotton pants or food. Cost of housing is not really related to imports.
The ironic part of that is that often people will end up spending more on crappy stuff, as they end up buying several {thing} over the time period one more expensive one would have lasted. This is also an example of why it's expensive to be poor.

I did this with office chairs. I was buying a new mediocre chair every few years before finally buying a Herman Miller several years ago. It was expensive compared to anything else I'd owned, but (1) it's an order-of-magnitude better chair, and (2) I had probably spent about the same money on several crappier chairs over the prior decade. I am still sitting in this chair now, and it's still just as good as the day I bought it.
They could show a shipping rate to their typical target market (eg. “$5 shipping to continental US + tax”) or use a IP based address estimation.
Probably "buyer beware", if you're buying something that expensive then you should look around and not just assume Amazon has the lowest price.
My understanding is Texas law prohibits them from running their own dealership
Offset scissors like the Allex SH-1 are the way to go.
They have a fun website buf you can find that stuff on ebay, and usually in bulk
> “Engineered to fail” and “planned obsolescence” are both pejorative rephrasings of “consumers prioritize price”

No. Of course, a part of potential lifetime loss is due to price. Manufacturing a case in plastic instead of carbon fiber is simply far cheaper and most consumer will go for that. However, we see cheaped out components even in high-priced or prosumer gear, while the existence of this market already pretty much proves that price is not everything to every consumer. Additionally, there are many examples of behaviors that save no money or are actually more expensive, but help the bottom line by forcing people to buy new (see the Phoebus cartell [0] or the slowing down of older iPhones by Apple).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I like how domain name is an overkill.
Yeah I don't think current antitrust law really covers it. I think in the next decade we'll get new versions of what a monopoly, oliogopoly, and antitrust cover as umbrella descriptors. Amazon may get even worse since Bezos is leaving soon.
Having to register to vote is the other thing that could be removed as a barrier to vote.

Re: the lack of fraud: people obviously believe (or say they believe) this is a problem. So it (giving everyone free and easy access to ID and then requiring it to vote) seems like a trivial fix to that problem of trust. I realize it’s solving a problem that might not exist, but once everyone has ID it’s an easy decision, and there are other possible benefits of having more IDs.
> Also, you likely don’t need a knife. Scissors are much more useful, and micro scissors weigh less than an ounce.

You can only have this opinion if you're going hiking with your wife's boyfriend.
Will Firefox and uBlock Origin prevent my IP address from being discovered? Sibling posts indicate this was probably accomplished via IP address targeting.
The Times has become one of the biggest online bullies. To be consistent the author would have to quit working there. Consider this article therapy, part of her process of working it out.
Ok. So BBC, how many billions are lost every year among forex traders? But you could also easily put a story against that about someone who made billions with cryptocurrency. This is not journalism at all..
Adguard on iPhone works alright, hooks into the Safari blocker API. It's not as effective as a proper blocker on Android but it does improve the experience.

I also run my iOS devices over Wireguard when out and about to my home network which runs a pihole DNS server. Works surprisingly well and also catches ads in apps that way.
How does purchasing in a physical store prevents them from using your tracked online activities to target you and others ?
My Vizio M55-E0 has a noticeably (much, much) slower UI if it's not connected to the internet, though it's probably just poor design rather than an intentional thing. Definitely never buying another Vizio, though.
I've been following this for a while and think it is a gorgeous idea. Particularly nice is the fact that one can still use C and C++ libraries from lua, then dip out into Terra for things that require more speed that don't currently have a library.

Lua tying it all together means you have a tiny, dynamically typed language that can be embedded in lots of popular C based software, which can now be accelerated to (even more) incredible speed. I predict big things and wish them well.
It’s all about who has the better 2nd option. How long will it take them to find someone else like you at the rate they want to pay? How long will it take you to find the pay you want somewhere else?

The best thing you can do is find another alternative at the rate you want. Then you can say, “I want to work for you. You are my first choice. Just please match my other offer.”

The other offer shows you are coming from a position of strength, and validated your market price.
My truck is approaching 20 years old. I appreciate it ever more, because it's my truck, not someone else's "platform". It's gonna be a bitch to replace when the engine disintegrates.
Bogus paper pseudocode: A pyramid vector quantizer
I did; my thinking was that it was a snarky dig at the author by knocking "Oxford" down to "community college" and making the cliché internet objection to longer articles ("get to the point"). In other words: an obvious status move, the cheapest fault-finding that exists, and literally nothing else. It considers none of the actual content, and to the extent it says anything, what it says is false—there's no need for articles to "get to the point"; it all depends on what kind of article it is. All that seemed not only shallow and dismissive, but a textbook specimen of the genre; hence I posted the above. What's your thinking?
Something "engineered to fail" may be cheaper because materials that don't last so long are cheaper.

But it's also possible that the material isn't cheaper at all, but the manufaturer gains because if the part wears out sooner they can sell a replacement sooner. That isn't a case of "consumers prioritize price".

For instance, manufacturers have tried to sell printers which refuse to print when there is still quite a bit of ink left in the cartridge. Printers which refuse to let you use all the ink are engineered to fail, but they aren't cheaper than printers that do let you use all the ink. The manufacturer is relying on the fact that obtaining good information is costly; testing printers to rigorously prove this takes resources, and even when it gets discovered, many consumers won't know that the printer is doing this, so they won't use that information in comparing otherwise similar-looking printers.
I think we're sort of agreeing on the same things. NAT protects devices, and stateful firewalls protect devices, and if you have neither, you're not protected. My point was that more devices exist behind NAT than come bundled with a stateful firewall, hence NAT protects more devices. The NAT devices/routers might additionally have a stateful firewall (which really only protects the router, not the other devices), but I wouldn't trust it as much as the security of a non-routable network.
I stopped paying any attention to reviews on Amazon when I noticed that the item being described in some reviews had nothing at all to do with the one currently in the listing (something more like trash can vs curtain rod, not different sizes, configurations, or colors). Once I noticed this, it seemed really common, which means only a review which explicitly describes the item entirely could possibly be relevant, and then I have to worry if the seller laundered the item to enter "verified purchase" reviews... so reviews on Amazon are now a worthless waste of space.
If nothing else, follow their guides for the arduino nano 33 ble sense + TinyML. They are a lot of fun!

[1] https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/docs/continuous-motion-recognit...

[2] https://tinymlbook.com/
> The most underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to document. Fuck, someone please teach me how to write good documentation. Seriously, if there's any recommendations, I'd seriously pay for a course (like probably a lot of money, maybe 1k for a course if it guaranteed that I could write good docs.)

Highly recommend a journalism class at local community college.
This happened to me as well.

I was sent a A7sII box with a ziploc bag with the exact amount of cat litter to make the box as heavy as it should be.

I had sent Amazon photos back when this happened. They refunded me no problem. But I think they wouldn't do it today.
> Something bizarre I have noticed though in junior-almost-senior engineers is that they pride themselves in obfuscating and writing "highly complex" logic, with no documentation

I've noticed this too. One thing I've had mild success with is the concept that a particular programming document (especially in functional programming) is really a series of mini-documents. Each mini-document has function-level comments, a signature, body, and returns that tell part of the story of what that function does. The minute that the collective of those fail me and I find myself reverse engineering code, then we have failed the team and cost the company money.

Some complicated things must be done, especially at the size and scale of our products, but complex things are painted with a fine veneer of interfaces and documentation.

I think another exercise that can help is putting junior engineers front and center to architecture. Whether it's exposing them to review, the review process of a Senior engineers design, or putting them front and center to design implications. I've seen having to figure out the difference between a controller and a service cause some really positive abstract thinking that puts people on the order of thinking for the group rather than their own merits.
"Now you have the right to read that a different way; but please respect that others are not just "memory-holing" misogynistic comments for some reason or another."

Almost every single one of the posters defending this misogynistic behavior are just deliberately leaving out his most incendiary and misogynistic remark and instead focusing on comments he made that are less objectionable.

Why do these people deserve "credit"? Am I suppose to believe only focusing on the least objectionable comments to paint him as some unfairly maligned martyr is just an accident?
> Plus, think of what one example of a "fraudulent election" would do to nationwide discourse.

The Brooks Brothers Riot of 2000 did exactly that, and today's discourse is visibly impacted by its aftermath. It wasn't prosecuted, and Democrats complained about the potential illegitimacy of Bush's win for ages. When Trump called the 2020 election into question, Republicans pointed the finger at Democrats, essentially saying that turnabout is fair play.
It’s kind of the opposite of a game, it’s very transparent. In reality you would accept a minimum of $X and reasonably think there’s a max of $Y. Companies don’t treat employees as purely cost, they want to give them good packages for retention and morale so they don’t just offer the lowest salaries imaginable.
As someone who never sees ads on my phone or online, here is how:

Ad blocker (uBlock Origin) in the browser.

No social media apps on the phone. No other "free" apps on the phone. Location services always disabled unless I'm actively using Maps navigation. Bluetooth always disabled.

I pay for YouTube Premium to not see ads. If there is another app that I find useful, I pay for it to not see ads.
Sure, do it. But before you require the IDs at the polls. Seriously the days when a black mother was not allowed into a hospital and was refused a birth certificate by their county was only 50 years ago. Pretending like this isn't discriminatory isn't helping.
Yes I know that the perfect database cannot exist. I think some trade-off are possible though. Today I use postgresql with a primary and replicas, together with couchdb in the same application. They complement each other, but I think something good between is possible.
Reminds me of this debate on "pwn" history from the day prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322701
Concur. Nice to see my own conclusions validated, I really like mine.