jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What is it that you think happened here? Like specifically how would this fraud work?

The ballots have all been accounted for, an investigation confirmed no boxes were added or removed, and all the ballots in Georgia were subsequently audited and then recounted twice.

Here is a slightly better link that further links to some source documents including that state investigators testimony (since this whole thing of course was already considered and rejected by a court) https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/video-doesnt-show-suitcase... Do you think the investigators report would contradict their own testimony?

Not that it should matter, but all the county and state election officials involved are Republicans too.
It took me 1 second to think that Python has divmod built-in whereas you must import Math in C# to use DivRem. It's just little things like that - as well as boilerplate - that really makes a difference in these interviews. How many of these interviews resulted in a job offer? I disagree with eyelid-batting being the new success metric.
Except the part where it is not her desk or computer: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/134698517009265049...
> it's an open cpu,

Not true. ISA != RTL
> Social life is impossible without the mainstream technology.

If people won’t go to the trouble of using an alternate way of getting in touch with you then they’re not really your friends.
I just think the law will either be changed or re-interpreted to not allow this. Too great a potential for use in laundering money/tax evasion on capital gains.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a friendly follow-up after a week or two. If they respond negatively (or not at all), it is likely that you would be unhappy in such an environment anyways.

For the future, it may be worthwhile to establish a time to contact each other for a follow-up during the interview. Make it casual - as you're leaving, for instance, as being too focused on the subject may make you seem desperate (whether or not this is the case, it is not a positive portrayal of your state).
>I think they got caught up in the whole NoSQL thing.

I was hesitating saying something to that effect in my comment, but seeing as someone else has broken the ice, what the hell:

This whole IndexedDB push by Mozilla has seemed a side-effect of the SQL/NoSQL hubbub, and not much else. There's legitimate use for IndexedDB, and it does a couple things better than WebDatabases do, and it's closer to writing JavaScript... but there's almost no reason to not implement WebDatabase by dropping an SQLite engine into your system. And why the hell couldn't they have picked something that already exists to a certain degree, rather than making everyone start from scratch in optimizations?

edit: to go a step further:

>Implementors should be aware that this specification is not stable. Implementors who are not taking part in the discussions are likely to find the specification changing out from under them in incompatible ways.

They sound kinda like they're complaining about all this, in a "you'll see! You'll all see!" sort of way. I think it's a power-struggle thing; there's a standard on the web they don't and can't control, because everyone went ahead and agreed on something without them while they were busy making it way more opaque and complicated than it is / needs to be.
And it's this kind of reaction that makes vegans irritable, when you tar an entire class of people with a small subset's behavior. :)

Seriously, though, can you blame 'em? Take whatever uninformed opinion somebody has about something near and dear to your heart. If you use computers and/or you're a geek, this shouldn't be hard. Things like: Macs are for idiots, or Linux is broken, or Windows is inherently insecure.

Now imagine hearing people--- well-meaning and otherwise--- tell you about it over and over. Wouldn't you get sick of that? Even if you personally wouldn't, is it that hard to imagine that a reasonable person might?
This might have been reduced by the release in February:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/app-engine-sdk-1...

See the section "Reduced error rate with Automatic Datastore Retries".

I haven't kept a close watch on what's changed since then though.
Me weekend, full of plans, ended in only reading HN (except when I went out)...
Holding BTC is a use case.
Glad the Sony hack get all the attention for spilling some internal memos.
Could an aeronautics person kindly explain why it's so hard to get this thing to land as it's supposed to? I'm not being judgmental at all here; I am saying that as a software engineer with no aeronautics experience, I simply don't understand the problem. Assuming all of the sensors indicating tilt, altitude, etc. are accurate, the software portion coordinating where and how much thrust needs to deployed to keep it level and descending at an appropriate speed should be relatively straightforward to write. And yet, with at least dozens of undoubtedly brilliant people working on this very problem, the result is the world's most expensive fireworks show.
I wrote about something similar with VP8, which is highly patent-encumbered. Google was like:

1. You have a license to our related patents

2. You're on your own if someone else claims that your use of our stuff infringes their patents

2a. But if the party suing is also a licensee, they lose their license.

3. You lose your license if you come after us for anything.

These kinds of licenses have network effects, and are only really effective in a mutually-assured destruction scenario.

http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/2011/03/googles-afraid-its-free...
A line that encompasses the object you are testing but that you don't fully understand (or that is hidden from you) and nothing more is not arbitrary. The best you can do in these circumstances is say it adheres to a spec for the cases you tested (which could, for all you know, be the only ones that yield correct results).
Thanks for the video, really cool.
The key point of this is that the database of calls was collected without court oversight.

So all the defense the government used with the NSA database being overseen by the FISA court doesn't apply, there was no court oversight of this program.

It did not target specific individuals and there was no probable cause before the collection of this data.

This is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment in my view.

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Most likely some form of Windows CE, but close enough.
You mean the person's political party affiliation from his voter registration? I have trouble believing this story, what state did this supposedly take place in and why would a DMV examiner have access to voter registration data? Sure, they can register people to vote, but that's not the same as two-way access to the electoral rolls. And in any case, it's hard to believe that a DMV worker would knowingly jeopardize their job in such an obviously inappropriate way.
You've made a couple of incorrect assumptions here.

> I assume it is because you want other people to use your software, for whatever reason.

No–as an OSS publisher I just want to make it possible for other people to use it. I don't necessarily have to want them to use it.

> ...surely you want your software to be of high quality

Again, not necessarily. It's a mix of factors–how much time and energy I have, how important the code is to me, whether I actually do want others to use it, etc. But there's nothing inherent in publishing OSS that says it has to be high-quality.
I don’t understand. Can the government control the contents of the newspaper and decide what the newspaper company may publish?
AMD is getting almost 30% better performance at 287 watts than Intel at 380 watts (Intel W-3175X in the review). If you're actually using all 32 cores all the time, you're saving TONS of money overall. Not only are you doing 30% more work, but at 25% less power.

Even if you left it on 24/7, it would take you a year and a half to make up the difference in price between the $2000 AMD and the $3000 Intel. If we assume both chips have identical performance, the Intel would cost $4350 to run over 5 years vs $3480 for the AMD (assuming 24/7 at all cores). The total cost of ownership for that Intel chip over 5 years seems to be around 2x that of the AMD chip.

I'd note we've been talking about 32 cores 24/7. If you're using 4 cores and 8 threads, you will be using half the power (about 140 watts). If your system is idling, it's using a bit less than 50 watts.

Let's say you leave your system on 24/7. You work 8 hours, play 4 hours (4 cores, 8 threads constantly running), and it idles the other 12 hours. We'll assume that you somehow max all cores for your entire workday and max 4 cores during play. You'd be well under half that price per month.

Change all-out time to a more reasonable, but still strenuous 4 hours with 8 moderate hours and shutting off your computer at night will get you down to less than $20 per month.
Yes, if you have dumbass hiring processes, it's a business deficiency just like any other, wasteful spending, etc.
That automation is in competition with minimum wage is unsubstantiated. And if companies innovate to get rid of the need for minimum wage jobs when min wage is raised, the society's response should not be to throttle innovation or keep lower minimum wage, but to institutionalize changes to how we redistribute the gains of that innovation.
If a job can't be done for a livable wage, then we have to be willing to let those jobs go. Automate them, outsource them, let the companies who rely on exploitative labor fail -- the jobs are going to leave eventually anyway.

Meanwhile, we should funnel some of those productivity gains to build a robust social safety net (including education and job retraining) to give the displaced some dignity, and the ability to retool and become productive again if they so choose.
Thank you, interesting. I found some other documents (by employment lawyers) online that support what you're saying: https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2009/10/23/can-employers-disc...
"thin as an XPS 13, repairable as a custom-built gaming PC" was not actually a direct quote from us, but it's nice that the folks at Ars think of our design that way!
And yet there are many software and tech people who are part of unions such as in the public sector or specialist unions like SPEEA for aerospace.
This is news to me. Is it because you're in California currently? I just got hired by a California based company but I'm from Washington, I'll be remote and if I ever go to the office it will be in Washington.
The obverse of this is that everybody can get whatever they need from Shenzen nowadays, not just some privileged American communities.
(2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25363686
So just to recap the current Crypto situation.

- Scaling solution: Visa.

- Custody: BNY Mellon.

- Trading: Centralized, trustful exchanges.

- Unlimited money printer: Tether.

- The same insane unregulated over-leveraged garbage derivatives products that triggered this whole horror show in 2008: DeFi.

- Volatility: Unbelievable.

What exactly has been achieved? This is the first IPO I plan to short on day one.
I guess someone misses pcmcia modems and network cards. Does seem a bit odd to not just go for plenty of USB c ports.
Thanks for this recommendation. Just installed it.
> The gamble has not failed. It just takes longer.

Sure, and if you give a monkey with a typewriter infinite time, he'll eventually write Shakespeare. The point is, we made the bet 50 years ago and China has only become less free and more totalitarian. How much longer are you willing to wait? If you keep the status quo, you'll just be strengthening the iron-grip of the anti-democracy-at-all-costs CCP party.

> Take Hong Kong as an example, nobody would image such pro-democracy would happen at such a massive scale.

I've only ever heard this line from the CCP propaganda media and biased pro-Beijing people. For most of the world it was a given.
Fair enough :D

When I lived in China, I inadvertently ended up running a VPN service. It started because I needed a connection out of China myself and ended up getting more and more customers because I was proactively keeping the connections across the great firewall alive.

I guess a VPN service would qualify: easy to start, already quite a bit of competition, up to you how you'll set yourself apart from said competition ;) Good luck!
Some cities have meetups doing coding katas using pair/mob programming. Eg [1]. Perhaps a demo opportunity? Though the mac-only could be an issue.

Fwiw, doing a 3D "desktop" on linux a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by electron's desktopCapturer for visuals. But multi-source input... X was ok-ish, Wayland not.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Software-Crafters/
I'm curious why parent is down-voted, is this line of thinking completely out of wack? I thought China is definitely going to become more democratic, following similar path as Japan and Korea.
I think I'm going to turn the other cheek on this discussion.
What makes you think this shouldn't extend to all geographic features? Why do we have property rights to land?

Owning land merely means being the last in a line of people who enriched themselves on the backs of others by taking common property and depriving everybody else.
"full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly)" Love the term.

Edit: apparently comes from KSP.
Read that http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/23...

tl;dr Many experts say that his punishment is torture and the US has denounced such treatment as torture not too long ago when it was done by others.
It looks interesting, unfortunately to use try it, it requires an invite code? It might be useful to put a few codes on HN so that we can try it out.
Anyone can be suspected of anything. Let's have a trial, a real trial, and then worry about punishment after he's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

(And by real trial, I mean a jury of Americans, not some bullshit military tribunal. Yeah, yeah, he signed some papers that said he can't have a real trial. Fuck that. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.)
Thanks, I'll try to hunt those down. The police statements would be far more convincing for me.
I recently bought my first house in the greater Wellington area, so have spent the last four or so months dealing with real estate agents. I think anything to reduce their influence is probably going to be popular. The fixed commission is probably a good move as it makes you look more neutral, unlike agents who wants the highest sale price possible.

From a buyer's point of view the biggest problem with the site is the low number of listings, but I imagine that will grow with time. Best of luck.
Well, as long as some people aren't being abused, the system is fine and in no need of repair.
It's a shame he didn't keep writing: all three entries are from June 2007.
Ok took 30 minutes to run some benchmarks on a AWS instance. I used a small instance run a simple Flask Hello World app with gunicorn (1 worker and 4 workers) and bjoern. Frankly I was not able to fund any speed difference between both the servers. Here is the gist of the benchmark results

https://gist.github.com/753998
If you're committed to the style points that you get from writing good software, seriously consider starting to do that in a language other than PHP.

But aside from that issue, consider this: You have probably create quite a war chest of software you've created for rocking and rolling problems, in PHP. Python's package structure makes it a lot easier to re-use software than it is in PHP. There are some amazing micro-frameworks out there, that let you use other people's code, just the parts you need, without any bloat. But even if you ignore what other people have written, and want to write it all yourself, Python is a way better place to be. Using WSGI you ahve all kinds of options for ultra-fast, lean and mean hosting of code that you write for frameworks.

But things like Flask may appeal to you: http://flask.pocoo.org/ It's a collection of a handful of tiny things that together form an alternative to something like Django. Considering you've eschewed CakePHP, Flask may interest you greatly. There are actually a number of micro frameworks like this. Playing with, reading the code, or using some of these things may be fun for you.

Edit: "FLASK" not FLASH. Oops.
Uh.. I think it's standard security policy in most enterprises to discuss matters internally before getting law enforcement involved. That's just prudent. If I walked into a company where the policy was "let IT staff talk to LE first, then notify chief counsel" I'd change that on day 1.
I would like to share with you a funny story about Corewar:

5 or 6 years ago, a group of students at the local university organized a Corewar contest. The group of organizers were, how to say it, "theorethical nerds", some of them in their way to be professors (two of them are in fact professors today). Big egos too.

I was no more a student at the time so I didn't join the contest, but I commented about it to my girlfriend because I had read about Corewar before and found it interesting. My girl was a student and she liked so much what I told her, that she decided to compete herself.

I can say that when she is obsessed with something, as she got with the contest, she doesn´t stops at anything. So in less than a couple of weeks she had serveral 'strains' of working bots each with different behaviours and abilities. Until the last minute she was testing which were her bests programs to compete.

So, the day arrived, and the more or less 10 MALE ppl at the competition saw my girl, coming with no one but 3 (or 4) programs. I wish I could have been at the event because my girl beat them all and with all of her bots. They even disqualified one of her bots because it almost always tied (was a replicator)

I don't think they learned not to underestimate a confident blonde girl, but the contest was conveniently forgotten and Corewar was never mentioned again at the place :D.
This is an amazing discovery. You mean to say that when Arabs are with each other, in their own country, they speak to each other frankly, humorously and in broad generalizations about their own culture -- while going about their day, interacting with Arab society, as if they're doing nothing wrong?

Well then, I can't possibly see how that's different from a proportionally small group of Arabs in English-speaking countries being generalized about, made fun of, or being reduced to caricatures by the much larger non-Arab population -- who then accept and act upon those stereotypes when they interact with Arabs (or people resembling).

Sir, have you documented your observations? The world of sociology will surely be shaken by this!
Finally, an easy and quick way to decode base64 hashes.
great.. but I have switched to alfred and love it
I agree with that sentiment. I kind of miss the scrolling news feed. I always thought that was the best thing about the homepage.
If we're going by your earlier, broad description, then yes, they're similar:

A full screen touch device with no keyboard and rounded corners.

Here's a comparison between LG Prada and the original iPhone: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/apple-iphone-vs-lg-prada-...

But as we can now read in Apple's court filing, that's not what Samsung is getting sued over. The similarities between Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy devices go way further.
I started to comment before deciding to turn it into a blog post instead:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042452
I've been slowly learning to draw using paper and an iPad Pro. Obviously they are different, but the iPad Pro gets a lot of right in terms of responsiveness and pencil pressure.
that's Bloomberg when one hits the free article limit. open the URL in a private safari tab.
I don't know what town this is but the DC Metro area has a ton going for it. The population has almost doubled over that time period. If your town only approved minimal zoning increases during that time then of course prices will shoot up.
"ARK 1 is an off-road, mobile dwelling"

Made from 1/16th scale 3d printed maker parts? I am particularly impressed by the frying pan!

All that can be mine for just $7,500 a month from their non-branded website, and I can reserve one now if I purchase a key chain for $100?

Sign me up!

"We ship worldwide. No refunds."

Ya, imagine that.
There was a product listed on HN a while ago that tackled the problem with the solution you described. I can't remember what it's called though...
The Neural Engine is intended solely or almost solely for inference, not training. For instance, in a post from last November [1], Apple mentioned their tensorflow_macos fork can use the "the GPU in both M1- and Intel-powered Macs for dramatically faster training performance", but didn't mention the Neural Engine. (Incidentally, I think that is the same fork used for the benchmark here.)

[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/ml-compute-trainin...
That's not good enough. I want a specific claim about how one or more of the postulates of QM are likely to be incorrect (or even stranger, how they have to do with "putting Earth at the center", whatever that means, or some anthropomorphism baked into the postulate).

Saying "we don't know what we don't know" is both a tautology and completely useless. It's like my saying: "I believe that you committed a crime last week." You ask for more details about why I think that and what the crime was, and I reply "we just don't know." I hope you see how ludicrous that is.
Lisa: "But if we did use fire..."
Good (added) examples. Most of those verge on personal attacks and definitely don't add anything to the conversation.
Nothing new, just read the work of e.g. Joseph P. Farrell and prepare to be amazed.
Unwanted touching is where is begins.

More specifically, unwanted sexual touching. I don't like people jostling against me in crowds but that isn't "sexual abuse."
Beware of the big fat simile in that post. A personal impression does not an offense make.

The offense of "sexual assault" requires "sexual behavior" to take place. A security pat down delivered in the appropriate, formal manner is not a display of sexual behavior though it could become such. The mere touching of "intimate" areas does not make it "sexual" per se, however.
I think the USPS is importance lies in that they serve a section of the market that wouldn't be served otherwise.

Their charter probably requires that they deliver mail to rural areas i.e. unprofitable ones.

If you really wanted them to be competitive you would allow them to ditch their "unprofitable" routes (sorry Alaska) and fund their retirements like Fedex and UPS.

As an aside, it does seem that they are "ad supported" to a certain extent.
Reminds me a bit of Scribble http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

Scribble isn't type-checked (though maybe it plays with Typed Racket?), but is similarly about creating documents that leverages the underlying programming language.

Excellent stuff, and good luck! :D
I'm going to be working through http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2015/ this semester. Looks pretty good so far.
You can map caps lock to cmd on OS X and ctrl on Windows/Linux if you want to always have the key in the same place when you're using copy/paste etc. I find it's more comfortable than wherever ctrl is (though cmd is reasonably placed)