jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Mail-in ballots are particularly prone to fraud, something the New York Times worried about back before Trump.

This is mischaracterization of the article.

1. The title that shows up in the browser bar (the HTML <title>) is: "As More Vote by Mail, Faulty Ballots Could Impact Elections".

2. The title as shown on the page is "Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises". So, clearly, the article speaks about both fraudulent and faulty ballots. In my view, the article is not well organized. The two ideas are too fluidly mixed.

So, with this context in mind, let's discuss two paragraphs from the article:

In 2008, 18 percent of the votes in the nine states likely to decide this
year’s presidential election were cast by mail. That number will almost
certainly rise this year, and voters in two-thirds of the states have already
begun casting absentee ballots. In four Western states, voting by mail is the
exclusive or dominant way to cast a ballot.

The trend will probably result in more uncounted votes, and it increases the
potential for fraud. While fraud in voting by mail is far less common than
innocent errors, it is vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud
that has attracted far more attention, election administrators say.

Yes, the article says "voting by mail [...] increases the potential for fraud". However, how often is this an important factor? How often does it affect election results? From what I understand, the overall fraud rate from in-person voting is so low, that even a doubling of that rate is negligible.*

* Except, of course, in extremely close races.
That is valid, but I don't know if you can still talk of "society" about a very reduced population, it depends on the reduction factor and stops at reproduction rate zero.

A probable outcome would be that another society takes over the one disappearing.
These kind of comments always get downvoted but it is pretty accurate. Certainly people like Madison didn’t want a thriving, egalitarian, democratic, civic culture and nation.
What? “Diverse information diets are not a good thing, because most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable.” Do you realize how elitist and even authoritarian that statement is.
I think the UI is better. Encryption is worse. But I like how they structured their data centers. They have sprinkled them into different countries and they claim that servers from different jurisdictions are necessary to access the data. So if an agency wants to access it, they have to get warrants from different countries. With all the war on encryption going on, e.g. forcing companies to include backdoors, I think this is the way to go.
1. Regulations were severely cut. Those choke the life out of American business, making it uncompetitive. Maybe you like some of the regulations, but they have costs. Those costs aren't very visible to most people, because most people aren't trying to run a business, but they are huge.

2. Imports from less-regulated low-cost places like China were impacted by tariffs, favoring American workers. Retaliatory tariffs were largely unsuccessful.
It is very likely that a CI/CD tool was improperly configured.

As a former pen tester/red teamer, your favorite CI/CD tool is also my favorite way to gain access to a large footprint within the org.
FFS ever consider why rich people want more trees?

We need to work towards trees in cities. Although the death rate because of pollen isn't great. But we need air filtered homes anyway. Not sure on these stats.....

This is a pulp story, but not to be thrown out -

Tree cover on the streets of Parramatta can mean a difference of 10C on a hot day

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/western-sydney-heatwa...
Isn't email mostly consolidated to a handful of providers with published APIs? (Office365, Google, Yahoo) I'd be curious to see the market share of just those 3 combined.

And they don't have any incentive to move to this.
I'm pretty sure the product teams have access to Amazon reviews.
That only matters if you plan to kill people who aren't working.
There's definitely been tons of completely legitimate, justified, and useful bad reviews for bad products. Usually those reviews just get deleted. I guess the effort to pay staff to constantly delete Noahic deluge sized floods of legitimate honest and sincere bad reviews from actual purchasers was deemed not worth the effort and the reviewers can be dismissed to a Siberian Gulag for their thoughtcrimes of accurate evaluation. Welcome to Happytown where every product is perfect and there is no dissent.
Users work in an infinite number of different ways, and they way they worked before they use your app is probably forced by whatever crap they are currently using.

No matter what you do, you end up forcing a lot of people to learn to work the way the app wants them to. The best you can hope for is to build an app where, once it's explained, most users first go "Oh, ok, that makes sense." and then actually remember it later. If you're really good, the users will even say, "Wow! That's much better than the app I used before."
So basically, and excuse the snark here because I really don't think you're dumb or anything, but... you have a lot of very strong opinions about whether developers should be able to use a 17-year old 64-bit block cipher, but not a lot of opinions about anything that goes into making a block cipher construction secure.

(Why did you allow ECB to be used?)
Where can I find a low risk investment that yields a decent monthly return on 1 million?
That was my guess as well. Analog Macrovision obviously died a hard death when DVDs replaced VHS tapes ... and that translation was remarkably fast for consumer electronics. If they hadn't been on the ball it would have been ugly, probably terminally so.
I'm not sure you've actually addressed his concern. I think the ability to use one (in an engineering sense) and get seemingly good results is separate from the issue of fully utilizing them. You are likely better off using a much more hands off tool that requires little knowledge of the underlying mechanism (to his point, d trees and svm).
Yes but they are protected by limited liability. Legal (criminal) enforcement of debt is a slippery slope and one that I do not support. If a corporation defaults on debt they are protected under limited liability. In this case an individual is not. It not only gives corporations and unfair advantage, but it is very prone to abuse of the system. As evident in the article publicly funded resources are being used to secure private funds. I don't want my money being used to pay Vinny "the cop" enforcer to shake people down. The fact of the matter is don't give credit to people who have no credit worthiness.

The knew the risk, jacked up the cost of credit for those individuals based on it and now they want to enforce payment from an individual that they knew where high risk in the first place. If they can extort payment, then they should have given then the cheapest credit available given that they are guaranteed to recoup their money.

This stinks of predatory practices and the whole lot of them should be strung up in the street. Credit ratings exist for a reason, and if these companies willfully ignore those ratings then F* them. OK now I am worked up.
Well, I don't know about sustain that cost but look at the ad they demoed for Nissan's new electric car at WWDC; video, some interactivity, and oh yeah, iPhone owners get priority on the waiting list for it.
Link to nice doom port at bottom: http://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Chocolate_Doom
Back at the uni, I was shown a nice proof that one infinity (the (infinite) count of natural numbers) is not the same as another infinity (the count of real numbers, IIRC). Basically, it was shown no mathematical function can be constructed that maps one onto another, IIRC.

Also, please note the Cantor's theorem [0] -- this bears some relation to programming, as considering subsets of a set is an important problem.

In short, it makes sense to discuss different infinities.

All that may sound purely academic theory, but please remember current cryptography grew from what once seemed to be just purely academic theory.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_theorem
The answer lies in the difference between a cardinal and an ordinal. A cardinality is a size, an answer to "how many". As in 1, 2, 3... An ordinal is a position. As in first, second, third...

For finite numbers they are trivially equivalent. No so for infinite. If you add 1 to ω you haven't changed the cardinality at all. But if you append a new number after ω then that new number is in a position which doesn't exist anywhere in ω, and therefore it must be a larger ordinal.

So because cardinals and ordinals are different, there is no problem with ω+2 being a larger ordinal than ω, even though it has the same exact cardinality.
Well, I'm not a mathematician but I've always thought there were different "strengths" of infinity. Consider for instance that both lim(x -> ∞) x and lim(x -> ∞) x^2 are infinity, however lim(x -> ∞) x / x^2 and lim(x -> ∞) x^2 / x are not the same thing.

That's of course a silly example, but I hope it gets my point across.
There are other chairs that are as good as the herman miller aerons that cost about the same or close enough to it. However, the resale market for herman millers is extremely strong - you can buy one new for around 650 and sell it 5 years later for 400. Where the steelcase leap might be a great chair too, it simply doesnt hold its value the same way.
Exactly. How much of IBM's money had gone into developing the new product? How many sales did they lose as a result of this public humiliation?

That's the problem with "elite" teams in organizations. You don't get the actual elite. You just get the best connected, and they think they're untouchable.
People dont like being told things. They generally have to come to their own conclusions. Rather than tell them they are wasting money, instead ask them questions to try to better understand the value they think they are getting. It may be that you dont fully understand the situation.
Knuth is my favourite on several levels. He wrote the definitive version of quite a number of algorithms, and when he wrote The Art Of Computer Programming, he wrote TeX because he was unhappy with the state of typesetting technology at the time. There are legendary stories about his ability to program bug-free code on on his first try and his ability to debug other people's code while he was typing it for them on punchcards.
I don’t understand at all.

Can someone explain why you’d want icons in the monospace font you use for development?

I thought those icons were mainly for building websites. But those are usually triggered with a CSS class, not embedded in source code.

What am I missing?
For those interested in learning more about PostreSQL, I'd recommend the book by the author of this tool[1]. It's bee a great resource for me. It's a great introduction to SQL with a focus on postgres.

(FWIW, it was called "Mastering PostgreSQL" when I bought it, but as far as I can tell, the site I linked is just an updated version).

1: https://theartofpostgresql.com/
I don’t think we should feel the need to comprehensively entertain every idea that is different and sounds silly.

For a healthy ideas ecosystem: If you hear a new and silly idea, and you don’t have the time or energy or interest to look into it properly, the best thing to do for everyone’s sake is to ignore it.

Either address an idea properly, or ignore it. Don’t write a 140-character snarky dismissal of it, don’t attack the personal characteristics of the person holding it, and certainly don’t seek to censor or “cancel” them.
It might work out for you personally but it still doesn't address the issue of not making a living wage. If their weekly paycheck isn't any more than it was, they're still coming up short on their monthly expenses.
(with airline points)
Such as? Go is what Python should have been in my mind, although I would love a more expressive type system. But overall it generally replaces Python for me.
`void ()(void, everything_else)` is in my personal experience a much more common API than that of `qsort` (probably for exactly the point you're pedantically trying to make), so I chose to focus on that API for this article.

There's really no reason to pass a rust closure to `qsort` instead of sorting in Rust. That said, if there's demand for real world use cases that require passing Rust closures to C APIs that take only a function pointer and not a data pointer, I'll be happy to write a follow up.
Yes, Google should exclude or at least visually distinguish all paywall and loginwall content.

I also want a law that requires cancel/close buttons to be obvious, accessible, large (of at least a minimum pixel size) and highly contrasting from the content that it’s on. This would solve a lot of the pop up login dialogs on web pages that do not actually require login.
They were using a quote from the article to support their own point, not stating that it represented the article's overall conclusion.
You laugh, but I've heard that NFTs taste better than the actual cookies they vaguely represent in JSON form.
Sounds like Chrome, minus the build-on-the-customer's-machine part. Or like Homebrew, sort of. Also sounds like a malware dropper. That said, it makes sense. I would decouple the build-on-the-customer's machine part from the rest, having a CI system that has to run the same way on every customer's machine sounds like a bit of a nightmare for reproducibility if a specific machine has issues. I'd imagine you'd need to ship your own dependencies and set standards on what version of Linux, CPU arch and so on you'd support. And even then I'd feel safer running inside overlays like Docker allows for, or how Bazel sandboxes on Linux.

Also reminds me a bit of Istio or Open Policy Agent in that both are really apps that distribute certificates or policy data and thus auto-update themselves?
I would not call adding two binary numbers algorithmic.

Having candidates write code is always a good filter. You'd be surprised by the amount of people who can't write a nested loop with a decade of experience under their belt.
My parents live in a very rural place. Not only is internet ungodly expensive there but people don't think of the internet as part of their way of life. I imagine this number is much bigger than 7%, though that alone is a lot of people.
That's done by hand. I guess you could automate it. Maybe we'll see that some time in the next century.
What's so stupid is trying to avoid having humans in the loop. Paying an educator to find 100 hours of decent content per age level couldn't cost much. It isn't youtube, it doesn't have to be endless. But it needs to be good and appropriate. Human curation is the right thing to do.
I find that video deeply unsettling.
You can migrate from docker-compose to Swarm very easily, and it'll handle redeployments automatically for you.
> Which countries (again, with the exception of Scandinavian countries) are the richest and in which countries the lot of ordinary men is better? The ones where there's more free market, not less

Which countries, specifically, do you have in mind?
The administrator gets a report immediately. Also the server environment is much more in control. Been there, done that, the author has a lot of good points. Partial server rendering is rock solid and so much faster. Not looking back.
> __builtin_expect still puts the error-handling instructions right next to the rest of the code. The lambda puts the error-handling instructions elsewhere.

Surely that's a decision for the optimizer to make, in the case of __builtin_expect?
> Every serious programmer I know

So, you know all the same programmers the parent poster knows? The parent explicitly stated that this was anecdotal, and from (not your) personal experience.
To verify, the aforementioned "magic" includes a strong network effect / community aspect? Or is the issue that the tech and UI is particularly well-optimized for this use case and if someone else could only get it write it would be easy for streamers to use it instead?
> Wait, what? The author played along for more than a year and then placed a complaint? Maybe it's the way the article is written but this seems pretty bad on the author's part.

“Playing along” simply means that she didn’t escalate the matter immediately to HR but ignored that (repeated) behavior in order to continue with her work. I don’t see anything wrong with her wanting to ignore this harassment in hopes that the harasser would stop, but deciding after a year that it was too much and never going to stop, at which point she decided to report it.
I think the reason why many still think SHA2 is safe is mainly because of Bitcoin. There's a lot of money at stake and many crypto experts working with Bitcoin. If there was a hole, it's possible someone would've found it. AES was also designed by NSA and is considered safe.

That said, I think it's better to avoid them anyway just to give another hit to NIST/NSA. Plus, ChaCha20 and BLAKE2 have much better performance in software than AES and SHA2/SHA3 anyway, so I would like to see those adopted as default options instead.
> although they won't be given media coverage

I'm curious, why do you think that is?
The site is TLS 1.3 only.

Please make sure you understand the unintended consequences of doing that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26559869#26560889
That would heavily penalize high-revenue low-profit-margin industries, such as retail. What's the point? Amazon would split off its profitable parts (AWS/services), which would make the barely profitable parts of Amazon worse for everyone.

As far paying taxes: All these billionaires aren't really making that much money, they're mostly owning stuff that may or may not appreciate. The fact that it does appreciate is now mostly a function of monetary policy. If you want to tax that, you really need a wealth tax, which is essentially confiscatory. Good luck keeping that capital ashore.

Lastly, even if you did somehow manage to keep billionaires around and tax them, it's not really that much revenue. You might as well not bother with it. It sounds unfair, and it is, but "worse is better" in this case.
yeah I'm based near Leeds and I've had a great career working across Yorkshire. I just reference London for the international audience, and because it's got that kind of urban metropolitan environment that most developers seem to prefer (even though it's not my cup of tea).

We're not known for the good weather up here, but thankfully it's spring this week so it's nicer.
I don’t see Windows in supported systems for sandboxfs. I guess that would make bazel not suitable for most developers.
Now I want a float to access individual bits.
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>> Penguins have a high fat content, owing to their Subantarctic habitat. However, each penguin produced a measly 400 ml of oil. That’s five penguin lives for just 2 litres! Each digester could hold approximately 3,000-4,000 pounds of oil. However, much of the oil produced was wasted, as penguin oil came with one major drawback – it was often contaminated with feathers, and thus was discarded because it was ‘not pure’.

Complete disrespect of other living creatures.
> Make a point of fucking things up (on purpose) until your responsibilities get taken away.

Ah, right in the feels.

When I was younger I had a colleague playing that game, and he was successful.

We would go to great lengths to have him not involved in delicate (and stressful) tasks.

Looking back, that was dumb. I should have had him involved as much as possible, even if it meant jeopardizing client contracts, customers' infrastructure or even customers data.

I should have forced the company to actually face the issue.

So to sum up: yes that is a valid recommendation.
"To be fair, this compares per-passenger costs for El Al, Israel's national carrier, to the costs for the TSA, the U.S. agency responsible for air safety. Ideally, we'd want to compare the airport security costs for Shin Bet, a Israeli security agency."

I think it's a bit disingenuous to quote the previous statement without this one.
Given that I ordered two Jalapenos from Butterfly Labs in January and they've just shipped today, and people who ordered larger, more expensive items are waiting even longer, I'd say there's a certain tolerance for waiting when it comes to money and items crossing borders in the Bitcoin community.
Given his newly announced re-org [1], the timing is a bit weird.

Don't get me wrong, I think MSFT will be better served with a different CEO, but I wonder whether the two are connected. Certainly, the re-org will struggle without strong leadership to hold it together.

1: https://http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13...
Women Don't Ask by Linda Babcock is well worth reading if you're interested in this sort of thing. One particularly striking result was that MBA graduates differences in pay between men and women was around $4,000 in favour of men - which, IIRC, she claimed could be accounted for by the fact that 57% of men chose to negotiate as compared to 7% of women. Those who negotiated, regardless of gender, tended to receive around $4,000 more than those who did not.

I think it very plausible that a lot of this sort of thing comes down to wanting to be fair, not wanting to be pushy - that sort of thing. Which generally works well with other women, but not necessarily so well if your boss is a man and prefers to communicate in a different style. Especially when your access to that style is limited by there being few gender-relevant role models; a man's aggressive he's a go-getter, a woman's aggressive she's an irrational bitch.
This sounds very interesting and fun. Are there any resources you could recommend on the inputs / behavior?
The CEO's job is to make money (profits) for shareholders. Manipulating the stock price is not part of the job and is probably illegal. Besides, the OP failed to account for the dividends Microsoft paid during Steve Balmers tenure as CEO.
The implication being typical women leaders aren't incompetent? By all accounts female bosses are just as incompetent as their male counterparts if not more-so. In polls, employees prefer having a male boss over a female one. This effect is particularly pronounced when the polls ask female workers.[1]

1.https://www.google.com/search?q=women+prefer+male+bosses
yes it did. I tried Google Now the other day. It blew my mind. Google Now understands every single words I said (Asian accent); As for Siri, 50% is kinda optimistic.
It's fine, I didn't try to nitpick. No need to convince me - I like their service too. Though you'd be surprised how many people don't know that the return option is available everywhere.
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Given the amount of American military infrastructure that was in the UK (and other allies) during the cold war any attack on the United States would almost certainly have included missile and bomber attacks on the allies.

Also with the fact that most Western European countries are quite small and densely populated compared to the United States and the Soviet Union the carnage here would have been indescribable (although if you want a feeling for what a "best case" attack might have been like feel free to watch Threads).
Works as advertised! Minimal and clean.

I just tried to copy the url of my 3.1mb image into my browser but it hanged; turns out you use a base64 encoded string of the whole image to display it like:

data:image/png;base64,... etc

Was this technically necessary? I guess so, but since you show the direct link underneath it, why not replace it with that one?
That story is crazy. How did you react to it? What did you do to him?