skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth mentioning that the way this has taken away seats from the two major parties is not mostly through the rise of third parties, but the election of independents unaffiliated with any party. This has invariably occurred in electorates which are so homogeneous they were safe for one or the other major party, usually (but not always) rural.

The most spectacular example of this was the election of three rural independents who then proceeded to install Julia Gillard from Labor as Prime Minister, even though they were conservative. Their stated reasons were Labor's promise to build a fibre-to-the-premises broadband network and their assessment of the conservative leader. Other examples include members in wealthy Sydney suburbs who, while otherwise conservative, wanted action on climate change, and members in farming electorates unhappy with the way the Nationals have been captured by mining and housing development interests and failed to represent farmers.

(The Nationals, formerly the Country Party, always join the conservative Liberals in coalition, apparently having forgotten the purpose of coalitions.)

An exception is the Greens, who usually score one seat based on the central business district of Melbourne. This includes very high density apartment towers, and student accommodation for the University of Melbourne, and is demographically odd.

Many observers believe the rural independents may eventually coalesce into a new party which displaces the Nationals. I see no evidence thay the Liberals' several humiliating losses to independents in "safe" seats is causing them to rethink their policies. This may or may not change once they are unable to rely on whatever replaces the Nationals to form government.
Depends how many discs you lose, including the ones you threw in a tree to knock another one loose XD
>>It has everything, except the first Star Wars?

They have all movies, including first. I've watched it there like a month ago.
How to Communicate Between Your Arduino and Personal Computer (Serial Functions)
Joanne Linville, 'Star Trek,' 'Twilight Zone' Alum, Dies at 93
Mosaic I think.
If you want to make your own langue, I recommend reading excellent book "Crafting Interpreters" by Bob Nystrom.
http://craftinginterpreters.com/
and, Predator free 2050! (don't mention the deer and pigs)
RenderingNG: Ready for the next generation of web content
I guess their approach to testing is one of the qualities that makes it stand out https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
@cmeacham98 This was a flaw in my original draft. I'm just trying to get some ideas down. I edited my original post to add:

"You could also make the amount required variable to company size. Small company under $1M in revenue? $500. $1-$100M? $5000. $100M+? $10000. IDK, just something."
Any idea why this reply is downvoted? It seems there's a lot of comments that has a slight negative or doubt are downvoted in this thread. You just don't see this behaviour on any other HN thread.
Apr. 25, 2019: Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company

June 22, 2021: Microsoft hits $2T market value
That was the plot for "The Inquisitor" episode of Red Dwarf.
> I’ve been regularly crossing schengen borders using fake documents since this whole nonsense started

Why would you do that? Unless you're pulling some dodgy shit there is really no reason for this and frankly, I don't believe you.

> Many EU citizens do not have SIS entries but are still able to travel.

Huh? Of course you don't have an entry in the SIS if there's no reason to be entered. SIS is not a directory about every resident in the Schengen area, let alone the whole world. If you do have an entry, however (dpending on its contents) you can be damn sure that you're in for an extended interview with border authorities.
I want to explore a hypothetical to understand your perspective a bit better.

Let's say the only thing she said on the topic was that she thought trans women shouldn't be allowed in competitive women sports because they probably have a biological advantage over non-trans women, or at least that there's insufficient evidence that they do not.

Would this be enough to justify the label of "despicable" in your mind?
GCP Gray has a great series on voting systems. Here is his one on Alternative Voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Highly recommend his videos. Funny and informative. Also his Podcast, Hello Internet is awesome.
News outlets will digitally watermark content to limit misinformation (2020)
I think it's more the fact that there aren't alternative options.

Other comments have already explored how America has a "union monopoly" system for lack of a better term: where unions exist, the labor pool that is non-union is often extinguished.

> what's wrong with saying that?

If the alleged screw is flooding your home and you're on the phone with a contractor who says "it'll be Monday morning", it's safe to assume that the contractor feels safe because there's no competition out there that will come out to finish the job due to the union monopoly or other rules/regulations that the unions have established to make them the only turn screwers.

Unions in the United States gained a bad rap from things like this, and I think that's what the OP's intent was with their comment.
> But instead, they're putting mouse cursors on iPads, and the stylus is still a niche tool for artists.

Have you tried it recently? Pencil is surprisingly well supported across Apple’s apps.
wasnt very long ago that everyone was freaking about how crazy it was that either Microsoft or Apple would be the first trillion dollar company. And how insane it was that a company could be worth a trillion. Now a handful of companies have well exceeded that level (or more than doubled it) in a few short years..

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/microsoft-will-be-a-trillion...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18515623/microsoft-worth-...
It would be mind blowing if Crosby isn’t making at least a million from those crappy Tim Hortons commercials.
They aren’t going head-to-head like sumo wrestlers.
In what universe do "low to middle class" people own copyrights and send DMCA takedowns?
We Don't Know, But Let's Try It
Spooky but my vote is CG for this one.
Whiscas?
> User: Site, look here, TTP which you trust says I'm legit.

What does "legit" mean here?

That's a really subtle issue for online identity applications.
> Masks are not yet "trivial" and it's stupid to argue otherwise.

Fauci disagrees with you.
Also, while it's not so much in the "evil by modern standards" category, New Testament Jesus is often rendered benign and generically harmless by people who profess to be Christians but don't want to deal with any of the parts of his teachings that might inconvenience them.
Nah, you don’t have to wait 200 years.

On the other hand, I really like both CSNY and Beethoven, so I guess it takes all kinds.
USC 1030
The reason why cops don't get fired isn't just unions. Union workers get fired all the time for much less. The reason cops don't get fired is political.

If you fire a cop for a reason that the cops don't like, their political connections will come breathing down your neck.

For some weird reason I "can't quite put my finger on", it's almost as if cop unions are uniquely different from other unions.

Perhaps reading into why Union Federations never take in cop unions will help.
I write in the notes app all the time and have none of the problems you describe. I assume that’s because I don’t use scribble, and I just write in my own handwriting.
prints 40% of money supply in 12 months.
If a government (any) could build and operate these type of aircraft - what would be their purpose?

That is what I cant figure out.
Bear in mind, Best Buy should pay zero pennies for each of the millions of people trying to reach their website. It's absolutely inexcusable for a search company, which also owns an ad company, and also happens to run the web browser everyone's using, to create a system that basically taxes all attempts to visit a business's website specifically.

Honestly, what Google and Microsoft and such are doing in this case is trademark theft. They are selling the search result for a trademarked name they don't own, and when the actual trademark owner wants to be found by their own name... they have to pay for it.

I don't know who is going to file the case, but sooner or later, someone should, because it's a slam dunk.
This is one of the great aspects of states (localities in general) mostly governing themselves even in important things like voting. Some state tries something new, and everyone observes and can learn from the results.

If all of the new things states are trying were concentrated in just one state the churn would destabilize it too much. By spreading out the chaos we collectively get to try many new things at once, but avoid being overwhelmed since each locality is dealing with fewer new things.
If big labor could actually pull off what they are proposing, they would have done it by now. And not only at Amazon. At McDonalds and Walmart too. But they know they cant. They are playing for relevance.
There's only so much room for a star in a niche sport. Cael Sanderson is one of the all time greatest collegiate athletes. He got a shoe deal.

None of the wrestlers he beat got a shoe deal, because wrestling isn't that big a market, and who wants to wear the loser's shoe?

A lot of good wrestlers lost to Cael. A guy named Daniel Cormier is one of them. Cormier went on to win championships at two different weightclasses in the UFC. But he never got a shoe deal.
The legal argument, is that this is an illegal activity in certain jurisdictions, like the US, with USC 1030
> There is no flexibility.

That's fair. The "I only sweep floors, if you want mopping it's another department" type of union inflexibility is terrible for productivity. But I think your scenario is an example of inflexibility that's completely warranted.
Well, it's more complicated than that. Anti-capitalist unions were cracked down upon, often violently. The unions that agree with you tried what they could and it took violence to stop them.
When MSFT hit $1T I thought there is no way this is sustainable. I thought the stock would definitely stabilize somewhere below that level. How very wrong I was.
It is

But that doesn't make it untrue
> Just disallow that?

Sure, Google could disclose real advertisement destination URLs tomorrow if they wanted. But the marketers are their customers, and that would upset their customers quite a bit. Especially since a lot of their customers' entire purpose in paying for Google Ads is to exploit that particular feature.
Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship
> A bit more speculatively, there's some evidence that higher cognitive ability is correlated with support for free speech[3] and other tenets of liberalism, so any company going from a highly-selected-for-intelligence employee base to a dumber one has a built-in backlash against liberalism/pluralism/open-mindedness/etc.

I wonder if their focus on mind-numbing algo questions in interviews also contributed to this? Somebody willing to spend months grinding Hackerrank, Leetcode or the like to get a job probably isn't a bastion of criticial thinking.
The kind that starts with Disney pulling all its advertising from Google. Companies this size move a lot of money between them, and that becomes leverage in pissing matches.
Someone on reddit translated the words and a few others chimed in that the speakers sounded really authentic

EDIT: found it, https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o5g78m/triangle_over_...
Very well put. I was diagnosed as an adult. While I was waiting for my results, at one point my wife said, "wait, do you want to have ADHD?". And yes, I wasn't really able to articulate why I was hoping for a positive result, but that's just it: putting a name to it as a way of forgiving myself for not "living up to my potential".
After the first Thor movie, myself and many more. After Thor: Ragnarok, it really seemed about right for him to break out. Very interesting character when played right, could have been another actor but Hiddleston has really made him his own.
Change his name to

Disney s Loki
It'll be very telling if Google switches to using Wikipedia Enterprise: https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tec...

My guess is Google's "donation" is pennies on the dollar from what they benefit from Wikipedia, and more of a token gesture than anything else.
Hey that's pretty crazy, but also why is a person going by Lord Amalthean selling shirts with his face on them?
Can you break that down? Periods are your friend, your comment makes me feel like I'm rereading Moby Dick.
The conspiracy theory idea I've heard is that at some point there is an intention to fake an "alien attack" in order to extend governmental power, etc.
Ask HN: How is back to the office impacting the employees/morale on your teams?
Throwaway as I don't want to discuss this under my real name.

I was told this evening that two developers on my team resigned (I was off for the day) over the back to the office plan, bring the team down to just myself and my team lead. Just a few months ago we had 6 developers.

Have you started losing people over it yet?
I'm a pretty skeptical person when it comes to stuff like this, but that footage is eerie.

Really looking forward to having it explained. if its not CG then it's going to be a hard one to explain.
Very simply: plain decision trees usually overfit to training data (and, therefore, perform very badly out of sample). So the important part isn't the tree but the boosting. How you go from an ensemble of weak learners to something that works.

And this boosting generalises to any learner. You can apply it to regression too. Again, the boosting part is really the key. The innovation isn't a new technique either, it is just the aggressive application of computing power to these problems.
Two days in a row I see this Karpathy name on the front page of HN on two totally unrelated subjects. It almost feels like this is simulated world and something is wrong.
Appears not, it can clearly be seen above the cloud or smog, this sped up video shows this to be the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/o5r4hw/sped_up_shangh...
Small-time artists, musicians, and photographers. DMCA takedowns aren't just for corporations protecting their IP; they're also a valuable defense mechanism for hobbyists when their work gets ripped off by those corporations.
>How do we distinguish self-censorship (justifiably bad connotations and all) from "Choosing to not say things that would piss people off for no gain?"

The key thing is that there's a mentally unstable subset of people that will get pissed off by pretty much anything. Letting their feelings control your discourse basically leaves no room for discourse.
You seem to be assuming that doing something is usually better than doing nothing. I believe the opposite is true in politics. It's difficult to make things better with political decisions, but it's much easier to break things or make them worse. If you can't convince a clear majority that something is a good idea, doing nothing is probably a better choice.

Presidents, prime ministers, and governors are always enemies of liberal democracy (the republic for those more familiar with American terminology). Nobody should be given that kind of power, but unless we can figure out how to run a country without such leaders, we have to tolerate them as a necessary evil.
But not in the US. My point was to illustrate that the Chinese equivalent situation is discriminatory against foreign companies even though it applies equally to all.
It's also worth noting that the NLSB is currently investigating Amazon for illegally pressuring workers to vote against unionizing.
Soon, we'll all be running 4-minute miles :)
Give it another 20-40 years and the world will have the first trillionaire person. 4% inflation over 40 years multiplies the money amount by about 4.8x.
Undefined behavior is unbounded in both space and time in terms of program semantics, that is, a program that will engender undefined behavior may do so at any point during the course of program execution (unbounded in time) as well as may be observed within any memory region (unbounded in space). A colloquial way of saying this is that a compiler is free to do anything it wants anytime it wants in the presence of undefined behavior.

Unspecified behavior is bounded both in space and time. Unspecified behavior may only affect program semantics within the statement in which it is engendered and may only be observed within the region of memory that is written to or read from.

It is often said that undefined behavior is invalid, and one can sympathize with that statement as it's commonly repeated, but it's not true. All the standard says about undefined behavior is that the standard imposes no requirements about program behavior, it does not state that the program is invalid or that the program must behave in some kind of invalid manner. Almost all non-trivial C++ programs engender undefined behavior in a manner documented by the compiler and do so in a safe and principled way.
https://archive.is/bg3kG
> why is it only appearing now?

Maybe the clouds have to be just the right height/composition to see the effect. If the clouds were higher it might be too small and diffuse to see, maybe the lower clouds are partially blocking some other light sources making it much more pronounced or something along those lines.

Why did no one break out a high powered laser pointer or range finder?
> the dopamine rush lights up your reward system above your baseline levels in these extreme situations just like procrastinating and getting something done down to the minute before it’s due and narrowly missing the severe consequences (getting fired, your spouse leaving you, letting bills go unpaid until you are about to lose your utilities, house, get deeper into credit card debt, etc.

I’ve been this way my entire adult life and I did not realize those were dopamine hits. Wow.
While scraping search results isn't illegal, by any means, it's also not illegal for Google or Microsoft to block requests they believe are from competing search engines. Presumably the cost of paying them is less than the cost of hiring engineers to constantly try to find new ways to outwit Google and Microsoft engineers.

Again, if scraping data from websites without permission, Google simply wouldn't exist. Bear in mind, robots.txt is a feature that Google and Microsoft choose to respect, but the default assumption search engines have made from the beginning, is that they are free to grab whatever they want from the web, unless you ask them otherwise to please not.
This happens because content creators outsource this work to law firms. The law firms have an incentive to be as aggressive as possible. The more takedowns they report, the more effective they seem.

All these comments which imply Disney pursued this takedown despite consideration of competing interests like supporting fans are a bit silly. First, Disney itself isn’t likely directly involved. Second, Disney is MASSIVE. Even if one of Disney’s marketing departments opposes such notices, they likely wouldn’t even know who to call to try to stop them.

Note: I dislike takedown notices as much as the rest of you.
Next you're going to tell me that social security is unfair to all of the people who died in poverty before it was introduced.
I've seen Erik Naggum's name mentioned in this context before, but years ago I looked through a bunch of his contribution on comp.lang.lisp and couldn't see anything justifying this reputation. His articles rather looked quite eloquent and thought-through. Could you provide an example?
How to be a successful startup founder – Rob Reid and Lex Fridman
I can't help but think this is in part due to devaluing of the dollar due to the massive quantitative easing and stimulus (see it visualized in an economic infographic linked below). The amount of money flowing in the economy has to go somewhere and a lot of it is finding it's way into the stock market. Thus, we see a record number of IPOs this year (not seen since the dot-com era) as well, and some interpret this as an eminent "SELL" signal.

https://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_stimulus_packag...

Market SELL Signals Start to Pile Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xmYeJEHsA
My kid's cat - I've taken care of since they've left for college - started scratching at the bedroom door earlier and earlier in the morning - because that's when it was fed.

Now, it's fed at bedtime so it doesn't care what time I get up.
Show HN: My New App Kin – Social Habit Tracker
Well then I take it all back?
That's exactly what the iPad supports now. So not a dream anymore.
Squids in Space
Wow! This is brilliant.

The other good news is that with Indian Government's de-regularization of geospatial data[1] up to 1-meter resolution; the initial mapping of topographical divides can be done much faster. Start with Satellite imagery and then zoom in for finer details with drones.

We work with farm owners in remote corners of India, there are areas where farmlands are sandwiched between natural forest. So, some interesting problems crops up -- prevent animals from destroying farms but also help them not trap in electric (solar) fences. If cows dies, your business is pretty much dead.

I really hope ISRO's data becomes easily for public access through an easy to use API, without having to navigate through their paperworks and bureaucracy. Last time I checked, some of their data (they say is for Public) comes in a downloadable that goes through a Flash Player (so, no longer works).

Disclosure: The link is from an article I wrote.

1. https://valinor.earth/blog/india-geospatial-guidelines-2021/
Landlords do not provide shelter. They hold it hostage.
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1354293026210910209/pho...
There's no need to lament that pleasure is some ill-defined or undefinable abstract anymore.

Modern neuroscience has teased apart the concept of pleasure into wanting and liking. The implementations of those modes or modules of affect are pretty well conserved across mammals as are the physical expressions of that facet of pleasure when they are activated. Very specifically the liking is mediated by the shell of the nucleus accumbens and the ventral pallidum by glutamergic cells. Whereas the wanting aspect, or in the jargon the "incentive salience", has a lot going on but is mostly implemented by dopaminergic cells projecting to those 'liking' neural populations (among other places).

If you want to know more I highly recommend Kent Berridge's publication list. There are a few good lay reviews mixed in with the technical papers too. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WIRQRN8AAAAJ...
All the time! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
True. I took the Bessemer results at face value in my comment, but of course there's also that possibility. Which kind of dovetails into #2 above. ("Boss says if this place unionizes, we're all out of a job")
If you aren't losing discs, you aren't playing enough.
Introduction to Japanese Natural Language Processing
I'd really like to be able to customise (explicitly not based on my "behaviour"), how I want my search results ranked. I don't really care how you do it, let me upvote/downvote results, or let me build rules, but consider the default results just a starting point and then overlay the users preferred index
It appears to me as though "magically" the wealthy always seem to manage to store their wealth in some form that isn't devalued by inflation (real-estate, ...) whereas the poorer people are, the fewer possibilities to do something similar they have (in the traditional money system).
So systematically, inflation hits the poorer people more. Yes, a deflationary currency would maybe benefit the already wealthy more than the poorer, but somehow I don't need to hesitate which one (inflationary, deflationary) I'd rather choose.