jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> How would we know that the fraud that would be prevented with voter ID is insignificant?

The fraud made possible by not requiring voters to show ID is the possibility that someone could impersonate a registered voter and cast their ballot. There are natural limiting factors on how much this form of fraud can be scaled up. Any one person impersonating other registered voters can probably get away with at most casting one ballot per voting location, lest they be recognized as a repeat visitor. Each person voting fraudulently needs to pick a specific registered voter to impersonate at each location, and memorize basic information about this voter (eg. name and address), and physically travel to each voting location. And if any of the marks picked to impersonate end up trying to vote for themselves, the attempted duplicate voter will be detected. So each participant in such a fraud scheme is good for optimistically a dozen fraudulent in-person votes over the course of any one election day, and if committed at scale with a large number of people, the risk of detection quickly becomes very high. The real-world rate of detection of this kind of fraud is extremely low, so we can be confident that this impractical form of fraud is in fact seldom attempted.

> It seems we have no real election auditing in our country, which frankly should be something that's done automatically at least on a spot-check basis.

I don't think this statement is about voter ID.

> One large category of fraud that it would prevent would be illegal immigrant voting. In my state you can register by having someone that is already registered vouch for you. That's it. No other identification needed.

The Voter ID proposals that have been so controversial in the US in recent years (since ~2006) are not about showing ID to register to vote. They're about showing ID on election day, even if you're already legally registered and have been voting without trouble for decades. If you are saying "voter ID" but you mean to talk about tighter controls on the voter registration process rather than on the process of voting on election day, then you should use different terminology rather than using a term that has a different meaning in current common usage.

But aside from that terminology issue: requiring people to show ID when registering to vote ahead of the election is not the only practical way to prevent illegal immigrants from voting. Even if a prospective voter does not show current government issued photo ID when registering to vote, they still have to provide identifying information as part of the registration process. This can be audited before election day.
I have the feeling that these words were more or less the same reasoning offered for all coups. That is were it gets dangerous. When no viable alternative leads to undemocratic processes that set the precedent for a lot of undemocratic stuff after. Lots of countries that forcibly removed presidents from office developed a tradition of doing it regularly (once a decade or two).

I think there is an alternative in this case.

Argue it out. If the president ends up getting removed by legal means, it should be clear enough reasoning and support by legislators that his arguments are clearly too weak to defend him. Be transparent and follow due process. And make clear that riots wont be tolerated.

Alternatively, isolate him, disobey him if he orders against oaths and laws, but dont remove him. This way at least it is clearly not a coup.

Since the president is isolated now from his followers (as it looks), and also his term is going to end in less two weeks, I think it is worth considering strongly to hold off with removing him from office before his term ends. Preparations have to be taken though to be able to remove him from office if he stays any longer than his term in office. Removing him forcibly then wont be a coup, because he is not POTUS anymore.
1. GPG has a lot of problems. Perhaps the biggest of which is that there isn't a critical mass of people who use it, and it is pretty difficult to us at all, much less to use correctly.

2. I have tried several MUAs and haven't found one that IMHO "doesn't suck." Although search isn't always the problem. (The biggest problem I've run into is actually getting them to work with logging in using an SSO method like SAML or OIDC). And this point was specifically in response to the parents statment that "Had IMAP addressed search in a better way, I think it would have made a huge difference."

3. Not sure what you mean by that since email _is_ decentralized and federated. Meaning, if you use gmail as your email provider you can still send messages to people using a different email provider. As opposed to say something like Signal or Whatsapp, where you can only message people using the same service as you.

4. Well, some subset of html has become the de facto standard for rich text in emails. Although what subset that is depends on the client...

6. Different issue from what? It is a very real complaint I have with email. Changing your email address is a pretty big pain, possibly more so than changing your physical address or phone number. For many people, myself included, the thought of having to change my email address is a pretty good motivation for staying with the service I currently use. Now it is possible to use your own domain with many email providers. But doing so is beyond the technical skills of most people, and costs more for essentially insurance in case you stop liking your current email provider some time in the future. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good solution for this. At least not one that is scalable.
I think shifting the emphasis and amount of representation of different kinds of speech and different prevailing opinions, without actually blocking speech, is not censorship as it is classically meant.

Otherwise you might as well say that every form of debate, persuasion and promotion are censorship, because they have that effect.

Calling that censorship is to miss the point of the more serious thing that is widely disliked, which is the bright-line distinction between opinions that are merely rendered unpopular, compared with opinions which are actively blocked from being expressed or heard at all.

However, the point isn't to quibble over the meaning of the word. The point is, would it be harmful to functioning democracy and people's freedom of thought to "promote factual voices".

By all means argue against doing so, and be concerned that it would result in long-term censorship effects but:

I've tried to make the argument that the absence of "promote factual voices" also results in long-term censorship (the way you are meaning it), because we get a de facto biased spread of opinions anyway as a result of social media dynamics and all the dodgy actors in them.

There's newsfeed algorithms, advertising, optimising for hits and clicks and engagement, nefarious actors, paid shills, all sorts of things. And though I'm loathe to say it, a lot of low-quality trolling and thoughtless opinions which get amplified easily. But even without all those, social media has system dynamics which must inevitably result in something that governs the consensus towards an allowed range of ideas versus ideas which are discouraged.

I think we have no choice on that. The only choice is which kind of systemic bias shall we opt for.

I favour whatever structures lead to certain types of thinking (not the same as particular opinions): higher quality debate, eduction, knowledge and wisdom in society (which sounds like healthier democracy to me), as represented by a broad spectrum of people, open to all, and designed to protect diversity of thought while promoting quality of thought. I'm avoiding saying what leads to that, because I honestly don't know the answer, only that "don't promote anything" is not necessarily the answer or unbiased, especially when there's plenty of other dodgy promotion going on behind the scenes already.
There should be even more Ancient Greek temples in present-day Turkey.
You would use magnetic logic. There are materials that can function as core memory, even at the temperatures of the surface, what is little known is that cores can also serve as logic units (NOR, NAND, etc) if they are given a suitable clock drive. This clock signal could be generated with an alternator driven by the wind on the surface.
I've read about retrotransposons lately.

Completely insane mechanism that alters DNA of our cells in their lifetime in useless and dangerous way just because for DNA/RNA sequence to survive and spread it's sufficient that is figured out how to copy itself.

My another recent interesting read: viroids.
I think you are not seeing the problem set for what it is. Your attitude seems to be: “there is no issue with the integrity of the number summmary.” Let’s say the problem at this point has nothing to do with who won - the problem at this point is that a great many of your countrymen are convinced they cannot trust the system. Your hope is they get over it. I can only tell you that from observing politics for a long time that the concerns over election integrity are getting worse in this country with each iteration, not better. In the face of this we are relaxing the control structure, not strengthening it. The result of continuing down this path should be easy to perceive.
Im sorry but the demos there as simple as they are running pretty bad on my mac.

HTML5 is nowhere near being able to produce something like that anytime soon.

It's not just about making it so that it works, it's about making it so that it works smoothly.
Can't wait for Telsa's IPO is June 28th
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Which console lacks HDD storage and digital delivery? Xbox 360? PS3? Wii?

I'm surprised hotels haven't moved much past N64, which even the ones that have it are using emulation
(I am suspect of this claim myself, but confident enough to post it). ---Actually I think I've seen at least NGC available from hotels. (Both thru the CATV & ordering system.)

Edit (Yay, I thought my comment had baked set already!): LodgeNet used their hotel PPV delivery systems for game rentals on demand, and they were run on console hardware, with the video piped over the CATV channel dedicated to that room. I have no evidence to support this, it was a PITA to search.

I got hung up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_M82 , Which I knew wasn't the FAMICONBOX I was thinking of. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011234713/assembler.roarvgm....

My point is lost to me.

Edit2 (It's late): Anyways, I shouldn't have jumped so aggressively about your claim of no HDD & delivery, Since I also would like to see console aggregation.
Hm, it's not productive to argue over analogies. They're just used to illustrate a point. I was saying math was explicitly designed to work & to be general. Likewise words were designed for communication (not just for describing the real world), & I'd say that sentence communicates your meaning very well.

eg later he says:

>"Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep make 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, l find it both strange and unexplainable. "

That makes absolutely no sense. You might as well wonder why the word "wheel" describes wheels. Or wonder why wheels exist. These are empirical facts.
Since the ecosystem of non-bootstrapped startups combine founders and financiers, where do you draw the line? VC firms seem squarely in the financier camp, and founders who do not contribute capital are not, but angels and incubators are more difficult. An honest classification attempt would attribute some of their equity to capital and some to work contribution, but even when there is currently a stable valuation available to calculate the capital contribution to an equity grant, the numbers are often uncertain guesses.
Your case is isolated, IE7 is pretty much dead.
I recently had this discussion with an accountant. We generally have to estimate our times in hours for clients. This is very hard. One can look at all the requirements and have an idea on how long it will take, but one can never be exactly sure.

I made analogy to the accountant by asking him how long it would take him to add two large unknown numbers in his head, down to the millisecond. This is similar to what software developers are asked when they have to estimate the numbers of hours for a project.

BTW - The senior guy is probably over estimating to cover his reputation of delivering early or on time.
This gem pretty much sums up the current state of the entire academic world, or at least all of it that I have been exposed to (4th year engineering student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

"I suggest that we have gotten the cart before the horse. We are less concerned with whether students learn the right thing than whether they learn in the way that we rely upon to measure how well they learn when compared to their peers. We do this without even having considered whether the measurement is even useful, much less necessary or even counter-productive. We do it without considering whether encouraging sin is a good way to teach morals. We do it for no better reason than tradition, habit, and inertia."
Atlanta has been rock solid for me the last month, before that I was getting some lag in my SSH but that's about it.
Research and recognition for this: http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2010

PHYSICS PRIZE: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
Add a small camera looking inward at the pupil to track it and the shadow of the block.
And this is why people should be working on getting paypal legally classed as a bank.
Two complementary sheets of any black/white Pattern should suffice. With some space between. That would get you 25% of ambient and zero from one specific direction. Make the inside of the outer layer and the outdid of the inner layer reflective and you could approach 37%. Spacing can be very close, but requires a smaller feature size. Regular patterns will cause moire patterns.
Many low density towns get away without a sewer system, houses can use a septic system instead. In low density towns you can build horizontally, which uses less human, energy, material resources than building upwards. In a low density town, parks and fields have low enough usage that the grass can be maintained on its own, in cities the fields need to re-sodded often and require extra fertilizer. In cities you end up building roads on multiple levels, railways underground, etc, all of which adds enormous resource costs to construction. Cities have so much pavement they are noticeably hotter in the summer, which requires more air conditioning.

On the flip side, low density towns require more asphalt per capita and more day-to-day gasoline usage.

Overall though, it's not on the face of it obvious to me that low density is more resource intensive. I'd be interested if you have links to detailed research on the matter.

It's also not obvious to me that small towns are more subsidized. Bridges, highways, subways, etc, going into a city are all government funded. And cities like Washington D.C. and New York are basically imperial cities - they make most of their income from politically connected agencies, banks, contractors, etc.
Hmm. Time for a Haskell-to-Javascript compiler.
This proves that predicting the past is much easier than predicting the future.
FWIW: Recent discussion on the female mRNA innovator allegedly sidelined in her academic career. She isn't mentioned in the article either - I've no idea if she should be - but it seems a relevant recent topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623616

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3
Yes, anything in economics is a tradeoff. But IMO preventing companies from getting so big in the first place is by far the lesser evil in this case.
I've done it, but at my Representative's local offices back here, not in DC.
> Haskell is a language for experimenting, success is not their goal and it would remove resources to actual research.

It's somewhat facetious motto is "Avoid success at all cost".
Can you believe Groupon has 4,000+ employees and Doordash has a headcount of over 6,000?
> Is the polemical tone really necessary here? You can disagree with MMT without resorting to vitriol and accusations of the Times wanting an "equity agenda." Whatever that means.

It is necessary. MMT an immoral economic theory used to justify a very specific set of policies that would not otherwise be feasible. You'd have a very difficult time selling an enormous expansion of the state if individual citizens had to directly foot the bill through taxes, so instead you convince them that you can just print the money at no cost to anyone, the ultimate free lunch. MMT is by its very nature political since it involves transferring a large amount of wealth from individuals to the state (and bankers) via inflation, which is an inherently political decision.
>Whataboutism at it’s finest.

Stop projecting about being a hypocrite.

>What do you think the establishment would have done if BLM protesters stormed congress?

Those rioters have a well documented history of destroying federal property, attacking federal officers, employees, etc. What do you think?
It looks like this is much more fine grained compared to mran, i.e., with groundhog, you select the date vs with mran where you use the last (often > year old)
snapshot.

mran is a great idea and if Rstudio (the defacto gate-keepers of the faith -- with Hadley the high priest) pushed to use mran, then the R community would follow suit (like they do for everything else).

This would do a lot to bring MS into the fold, which would actually be great for R.
This has been a very long time due.

An ability to give untrustworthy software an access to a sandboxed blank copy of Contacts would've been very useful.

As a side note, Telegram is the same as WhatsApp. You can't start a chat on a fresh install unless you give it an access to the contacts. There's no way to manually add in-app contacts. Given how "pro-privacy" they are supposed to be, this was rather disconcerting to see.
Others criteria are sound from the organization's POV, many (most?) of them pushing it to quickly move people.

A classic one is "do no let any project (and therefore at least part of at least one product) become more-or-less the private domain of its team".

"Private domain" may be anything from "not really documented in written form because no member of the team needs it", to "this team gained enough power by becoming the only one able to run its project, that it now can strangle the org".

Thanks to an adedequate stream of newcomers there is always some knowledge outside of the team (=> high "bus factor"), and more risk and work for any potential warlord.
One of those was at the RNC, I haven't heard of the other one yet.
but can you do video calls on Signal?
Well they did shoot and kill a woman, and they were totally pepper spraying people by the end.

But I agree, Capitol Police should have never let this even happen. They knew there was a big protest. They should have been 100% ready for this and they totally dropped the ball.

Good thing very few people even went in and there was little damage. Well except for that women I mentioned. Anyone even know her name yet? Wonder if there will be murals of her.
The most compelling question I have is: will Donald Trump not be held responsible for this event?

(I don't want to turn this into a political debate; I am simply asking if there's any law that will hold him accountable).
That's not really savings, though, because they need to sell it to Office Max for a price where A) Office Max can pay credit card fees, and B) make a small profit.
I don't think you remotely understand what a coup even is.

That election .. that was a coup.
Maybe they are not regulating radio receiver usage, but the just the possession of it, which would be a separate kind of regulatory space.
The "new friends do not get to see old posts" seems very limiting, I would certainly want the option of being able to share some of my old posts with new friends, given that often new friends are made because of some overlap in real life history.

I understand that this platform is perhaps deliberately not trying to attract strangers, but other platforms that had taken this stance eventually all faded away because all my friends want to play at where the parties are at, and those tend not to be private networks of this sort. It might be possible to avoid this demise if this network grows to be sufficiently large, but it's hard to grow when all existing contents are invisible to new users.
Tactical nukes are indeed the big worry. By the way people talk, I don't think most people appreciate the difference between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. Tactical nuclear weapons aren't "end of the world" (but we certainly benefit from collectively pretending that they are!). The use of tactical nuclear weapons would fall right in line with Russia's apparent goal in Ukraine - turn it into a destroyed shithole incapable of economic development ("neutrality"). Use of tactical nukes would trigger NATO Article 4, but it seems that Russia actually wants to go to war with EU/US ("NATO") to justify their struggle (analogous to NK's "Juche"), and so I'd think we'd still be left with the same calculus regarding escalation to strategic nukes.

Unfortunately the only workable strategy seems to be containment and hoping the wheels come off domestically ("SU 2.0"). This doesn't mean we should heed Putler's boasting about his phallic red button in response to any aid to Ukraine, but it does mean a long period of watching genocide and other organized crimes against humanity while waiting for those wheels to work themselves off.
>I'm pretty tired of debating people who don't know biology here

Too bad. Th is is a matter that affects every citizen in this country, and the experts lost their credibility a couple of years ago at least. The rubes will keep shouting their barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world.
It says that it is commonly used in aquariums. I made the same mistake in my comment below.
Right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuNbGC2D_8
A quick skim of the article does not show any quote stating you should self medicate. There are quotes misrepresenting which stage of approval it is in.
That sounds like the way forward, I wish things were working out that way here! (USA)

Off-topic but, I just discovered your music on spotify a few weeks ago and can't stop listening to your albums, amazing stuff man!
I'm not sure how glad. Health insurance is a cost center, your employer probably has no competitive advantage in getting it, and employees seem to undervalue it (everyone who starts COBRA is shocked how expensive the coverage always was).
When trump was talking chloroquine, were we supposed to take him literally, or seriously? I don't know when I am supposed to do one or the other.
Seems like the pharmacist is more liable since they should have given him the proper safe dosage.
He said doctors can administer it under new FDA guidance.

He didn't say "drink an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks."

http://bannerhealth.mediaroom.com/chloroquinephosphate

I don't see why every story needs to be about him.
> I do feel uncomfortable that this man seems to enjoy playing God.

You can't help but wonder if he is playing out some international hacker of intrigue fantasy, but I think that even if he is, that mindset does more good for his cause than it does harm.