skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's like I am saying "you are a reptiloid alien from planet Nibiru planning the conquest of Earth" and now the burden is on you

Your line of reasoning is valid--that a claimant cannot simply make an assertion and declare it true, simply because it cannot be disproven. But, what you're missing is that it's the state that is making the initial assertion: that voting is secure and accurate. So, they are the ones claiming the voters to be reptiloids.

Pretty much the whole of your comment is undermined by this single misapplication of reasoning. But, I'll continue on a couple of other points...

>Not true. She does claim there's evidence that something is wrong

She's asserting statistical anomalies that can be clarified with additional information (i.e. a recount) that the state refuses to provide. But, that's not the point. Again, she's in this position based on a fallacious premise that you've accepted: the state's assertion of security without sufficient proof.

>How would that look like?

There are probably n technical solutions to this. A simple one would be paper-receipts with anonymous identifiers that tie votes to tallies published on-line. Anyone can look up their votes/results and/or download them to run analysis. Add a cryptographic hash to avoid forgeries. Speaking of hashes, there's also block-chain.

>It is true that the machines have vulnerabilities, as do about 100% of computer equipment. Given that, I am not sure what your proposal is

Your premise leads you to exactly the opposite of the conclusion that one would expect. That is, you acknowledge the problems, but conclude that it's acceptable for the approach to be trust in the system versus introducing corroborating processes or systems.

I'm not sure if you know the degree to which vulns are a problem, but start by at least closing known vulnerabilities. Then, provide other validating factors that mitigate the shortcomings you acknowledge, whether via paper or otherwise.

In any case, throwing our hands up and saying "it's hard, so let's stick with what we've got and declare it secure even in the face of challenges" is not the solution.
The author seems to be well in his middle age, and wears glasses. His visual acuity might make his subjective experience irrelevant on that specific point.

I can tell the difference between retina and non retina 27” on a desk (but I have 20/10 vision, which makes my subjective experience irrelevant for most people too)
Your comment reminded me of story of Marco Pierre White before he became famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xCIstDBaI

Uncompromising, relentless, with a lot of luck too (which he completely acknowledges in the video played a big part). But luck will only find you if you put yourself out there to be found, which White did.
They under-balled it if anything. They used a $400 Broadwell Xeon, while the base iMac Pro has a Skylake Xeon W. The chip is a custom Apple SKU, but the closest is a $1,100 Xeon W 2145.

$650 is steep for a motherboard, but it has dual 10 gig-e ports and supports registered ECC. A SuperMicro motherboard with the Xeon W support will run about $350 (they’re not out yet) and an X550AT2 NIC is about $200 on eBay.
I'm sorry, but are we looking at the same pictures? The soldering looks more than OK. For example, the solder used is just enough that it takes a pleasant concave shape on the terminals.
Took awhile to figure it out but it's "Notebook Sales" (as opposed to DT, Desktop).
CBT is good, but actually I would not recommend CBT for laziness. It can help with other things for sure - such as self disturbances, idealizations, and acceptance. It may even be considered a good foundation - But, it does not challenge the fundamental drivers of your life that induce laziness. At least it did not for me.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) was created, IIRC, from seeing people go through CBT but still suffer from emotions & avoidance. While it overlaps with CBT in some ways, it identifies things like the way language shapes our thinking, and proposes we lead by our values instead of by our emotions. Be present in the moment, accept your feelings but don't justify your behavior by them, and do what matters.

I only figured I'd mention, because I recently learned about ACT after being an advocate for CBT, and coming to see where they work and where they don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...
Given the context, I'd assume that NB is short for "notebook."
No. Incompetence can crop up under any ideology.
Now if only they also made a laptop with ECC RAM.

I'd gladly pay 1k more to have a stable system.
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An oldie but a goodie. IMHO, this paper, along with Larry and Sergei's original work[0], should be part of every Linear Algebra course. Few things get students to pay attention like the mention of ungodly amounts of money!

[0] http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/422/1/1999-66.pdf
Backups and ECC address completely different problems. Backup systems will happily store corrupted files into your backup disks. ZFS-style filesystem level checksums won’t catch many problems either, because they only check to see if what you wrote is the same as what was read back. If the data was corrupted in memory, it’ll happily pass you back corrupted data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16092132
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Ah, right. I thought the OP was referring to modern CPUs.
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The reason is because you really can't change hearts. "Metoo" is the sort of thing that is slowly changing attitudes around sexual assault, but such movements aren't easy to enact. Changing hearts is hard. Black slaves were liberated at the end of the civil war, but after the reconstruction, we had to wait almost 100 years before the civil rights movement ended Jim Crow, and even today, there are persistent racial issues. You can't easily change social attitudes that have existed for hundreds of years over a handful of decades. And those attitudes have readily observable effects on real people.

You can't change the hearts of people easily, although attitudes slowly change over time. When you can't change people's attitudes, the best you can do is make laws, rules, and policies that alleviate some of the ills, until we reach a place where we achieve a more equal society.
From what I remember early horse collars would choke the animals, and more sophisticated ones were a big deal invention in late first millennium Europe (or maybe introduced to Europe at that point from contact with Asians?).

This was one reason oxen were used as draft animals in preference to horses.
My impression is that "search" isn't so much of a solved problem, but the question is changing.

The next–very unsolved–problem is being able to "understand" natural language queries and "understand" source materials such that a user can ask for something and get it.

"Understand" is in quotes because because it means something rather specific.
Yes English is my native language.

As for the wife I have explained it to her on many occasions, but she thinks this is just an excuse that I have made up to allow me to ignoring her :)
I read in one review that, in addition to the non-upgradeability of the new iMac Pro, there is one real coup de grace: the beautiful integrated screen is not capable of being used as an external display for any future computer.

If true, doesn't this strike you all as truly unnecessarily egregious? Why should an iMac Pro stuffed full of chemicals to show beautiful 5K images, never be capable of being used as just a display? Is there a good reason Apple customers have to buy brand new displays?

This is worth asking because, unlike the components in the new machine, the display will probably be state of the art for a while.
Reminds me of this work : http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/guitar/guitarchladni_engl.h...
I actually did this a few months ago. Today I realized I had gone 7 days without logging into Facebook or even thinking about it. The good thing about unfollowing everyone is that I can still participate in Facebook Events and Groups, both of which many of us still need to coordinate meatspace activity.
You didn't address my questions. You've given some instances where you don't believe you have enough information to draw a conclusion, but where you also admit you don't have all the information that the employer did. Is your claim that PBS, the New Yorker and the NYT did not investigate?

In other words, why is your reaction to take Lizza or Smiley at their word when they say that their employer is lying, but not take the employer at its word when it claims that Lizza and Smiley do something that is objectionable? As far as I can tell, you have an action by an employer and a statement by an employee, and are claiming from that that the employer didn't have enough information to act. How can you know that?
I was referring specifically to not being able to deploy due to a package manager being down. Of course there are still issues that can crop up with using virtualenv.
The corporations in question pay very little taxes in the first place, getting them to pay their fair share would be nice.

But I don't think that would change their negative influence on the society.
they did that till the very end.

they just realized it was the ultimate killer feature so it was cleverly removed from the lower end models. the high end ones could always be turned region free. in the very end the ones with multidisk and what not could be factory reset to clear the 3 region change restriction.
Another win for Betteridge.
They might care about having to round-trip them to a repair facility (even if that's the back of an Apple Store) though, and not (without complete disassembly) being able to take the storage out before handing them over.

Quick comparison, HP: 3 year Next Business Day onsite Warranty - they come to you, they make assertions about how quickly they'll be there. Can be extended to five years (for a Z840 for less than £200 or ~5% of the machine's purchase price)

Dell Precision: same. To add another 2 years to a Precision 7920 costs a bit over £200 or ~7%.

Apple: one year. £159 (~3% of base price) to extend to three years, and no option for more. You have to take it to an Apple Store (good luck with that), or Apple can arrange to have it shipped by courier. Hope whatever courier they use don't drop it along the way, and no sign of a guarantee when they'll get it fixed.

I expect the target market for the iMac Pro overlaps strongly with Apple's other machines (i.e. the iMac Pro's replacing an existing Apple computer) so this won't be a surprise but it's disappointing that Apple won't stand more behind their machines.
Android and the Google Play store works pretty well. The systems "locks on to" a public key signature so further updates for a given app must be signed with the same key. That would fix the problem with reproducible builds here. Only adding new top level packages to a project for the first time is at risk then.
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It is obvious for reading just a few lines of this article that the author is extremely biased in support of Clinton and Democrats and he only cares about media manipulation when he loses. If media manipulation in his side it doesn't matter.

I am not American and from my point of view Democrats totally own media attention in the US. They own the artists and famous people space, they own most important TVs and newspapers and so on.

In fact Trump won because of their support, as they only talked about him in preelection time, as they believed Trump was way weaker than other Republican candidates.

Now this man is socked not because Facebook is a manipulation media, like TV or Newspapers, but because other entities could control it as well as they can.

For this man it was obvious that Hillary was going to win (because they control most media) so it was a big surprise that people could actually vote on their own in a democracy system.

The day they lost the election he wants to talk with Zuckerberg to "make them aware of the problems" of facebook not being a totally biased platform like the New York times or Washington Post is.

Again as a non American I don't want to be manipulated by either side. I don't want to be forced to go to a WWIII just because some people can't deal with losing a democratic election or because some guy impulsive action.

So it looks to me that the best solution is to design alternatives to facebook that are not as centralized and to start using them even if they are not as good.
indeed, and perhaps practical insight into how a culture different from one's own, thinks

"a word [or phrase] is the skin of a living thought"--not sure who said this, i think it was Oliver Wendall Holmes
Give me one good reason on why we need Facebook.
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Googles monetization strategy blinds the results. My guess would be either a way to search beyond google or force it to give results that aren’t manipulated somehow.
Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations

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Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the US later this year after launch. This will be my first B2C business, so excited for a little change of pace.
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They are Javascript programmers ...
So far it hasn't harmed me, and I haven't had an active account in 8+ years. I believe this actually helps me, though I can't really quantify or prove it.
To be fair, when you're writing the C side of your JNI bindings, it'll also let you call any random pointer as if it were a C function of any type. You'll have non-type-safe code _somewhere_, it's just a choice of where.
Not sure if I would use Twitter as a success story for handling scale. Not exactly the poster boy of reliable software.
Can't speak for all linear algebra courses but my linear algebra course in college actually taught that paper for at least two lectures and a discussion section back when I took it.
Isn't this already true of recent iMacs? I don't think you have been able to use them as dumb displays for at least 1-2 generations?
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> All software platforms should be required to offer a legitimate opt-out, one that enables users to stick with the prior version if they do not like the new EULA. “Forking” platforms between old and new versions would have several benefits: increased consumer choice, greater transparency on the EULA, and more care in the rollout of new functionality, among others

Interesting. Although if this applied to all software platforms, I suspect startups are going to be hit a lot harder than the big co's. Maintaining this level of "forking" seems like a nontrivial engineering task.

> Eighth, and finally, we should consider that the time has come to revive the country’s traditional approach to monopoly

Feels unclear how this would help. It feels difficult to craft anti-trust laws that big co's can't reason their way out of. But IANAL, so please correct me if I'm wrong here.
I'm a bit late to this, but check out keybase chat. You can sign up on desktop / mobile / whatever you like, and desktop users can even drag and drop to a folder on their computer to share files (with like a 250gb per person limit right now I think), so that gets you a lot of the functionality of email right there.
Not always, look at Jeff Koons and other more recent top artists.
Because that is the symptom. The problem is that the ecosystem encourages excessive dependencies. You can say "the way the ecosystem encourages huge dependency trees" if you like.
I am not ignoring her (I will turn to her and look at her), I just can't speak or understand what she is saying. I will be looking straight at her, but I can't understand what she is saying nor reply.
> For a women to have be able have the same experience they would have to engage in a largely male dominated culture ...

I'm not so sure about that. While my initial contact with programming was via other boys in school, most of the following journey I spent absorbing knowledge from faceless entities on the internet. I think that kind of development is quite common among the early starter/hobbyist programmer types. Maybe it's just that initial opportunity of contact that makes all the difference, but otherwise I think hacker culture is pretty ungendered in the interactions of its members.
AFAICT, Coffee Lake has 24 PCI-E lanes, 8 of which are used to connect to the chipset. If they used all remaining 16 for the GPU, then NVMe and thunderbolt connections would have to go through the south bridge, affecting latency and throughput.
Tons -- if you want to look at the evidence, look at the gender and ethnic makeup of programs for kids gifted in math in the US. First-generation kids are deeply overrepresented, and by the third generations kids of any ethnicity are all equally bad at math in the US. Cultural attitudes have a lot of influence on people's approach to mathematics.

Moreover, in my experience I see lots of people in the US say "I'm bad at math" if they are not good at algebra. Algebra is not math. Neither are fractions. Geometry is part of math. So are combinatorics, logic, numerical analysis, etc.
@yorwba - You are correct, of course the fiber scan retinal display is feasible (albeit certainly very difficult to implement in an array for a wide FOV AR display). Please don't subscribe to the nonsense issued in the subject blog.

For proof of concept, one need only look at the fiber scan endoscope demos:

https://youtu.be/1UF9fJtZHAY

This is essentially the same technology, but operated in reverse (i.e. using the scanning fiber as a camera vice an image projector).
From what I’ve learned, diet is both highly individualistic and best based on whole foods. Highly processed and refined foods confuse the statistics.

It’s also a highly “incentivized” industry. There’s a lot of misinformation or noise out there, as evidenced in the above.
I disagree that it is easier or faster to just write it in C. But C still makes a lot more sense for many other reasons. And yes, this demos only the very basics, nothing fancy.

Anyways, a nice feature of Swift in this context is that Swift can directly access C APIs w/o any "wrapping". So while PL/Swift can add convenience APIs (like the ones it has to convert String's and Int's into Datum's), it can already do almost everything C can do due to that.
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I think you're right. But just as insane in that situation. Think of the work necessary to prevent that screen from ever being used to display a nasty video signal from –– gasp! –– another computer. It's just such an insult to customers. Am I crazy here? And isn't Apple supposed to be a company of environmentalists?
By some accounts the Russian fb spend was under $100k (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/)

Assuming election meddling is the thing you want to avoid, even a 50% tax wouldn't take this out of the price range of even the thriftiest of governments.
Of course, silly me, haven't touched Java for a while.
No, modern GPU APIs give you plenty of control over data layout, and it's the model AMD had been pimping for a while with their 'HSA' push.
The actual site (millionshort.com) seems hugged to death. I was excited to try it.

If it takes off, I wonder if the phenomenon will give a boost to affiliate sites. If you can't be there in the top results, align with those who can.
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Google does this to some extent. Recently I've found that Google uses my past queries to make cogent suggestions for my next search (essentially to predict what I want next based on prior info). Eg, if I've just searched for "sully", then a short time after type "t" into Google, the first suggestion is Tom Hanks. I've only noticed this in the last few months.
People wondering about the unit construction, lack of upgradability, etc. may be interested to know that the "sealed box appliance" mentality has been in Apple's DNA since the design of the _first_ Macintosh:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port....

"Apple's other co-founder, Steve Jobs, didn't agree with Jef about many things, but they both felt the same way about hardware expandability: it was a bug instead of a feature. Steve was reportedly against having slots in the Apple II back in the days of yore, and felt even stronger about slots for the Mac. He decreed that the Macintosh would remain perpetually bereft of slots, enclosed in a tightly sealed case, with only the limited expandability of the two serial ports."
Yes. Intel Xeon. All of the benchmarks use the os already updated for meltdown too.
It would be a better alternative, but we can't go back in time and stop the Dred-Scott v. Stanford or just generally stop the enslavement of Africans in America. Also, things like universal free college, more funding of public schools, end to segregation would do a lot to "fix things," and that's why I fight for such things.

Affirmative action is one of the weakest things we can do, but it's what we have now and I support doing what you can.

Btw, your point about AA helping privileged members in unprivileged groups rings true, which is part of why I think it's the weakest thing we could do.
And what is the basis for all this?
The point about piracy is important and is a major hidden factor here. The cloud is DRM.
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This is a cute idea, but there are some genuinely useful sites this winds up skipping over. Wikipedia is a great resource for quickly understanding a topic enough to drill down in to more precise research.

Where I see this being useful is searching for current events. For example a search for a local double-shooting I've been following returned some information I hadn't seen before. It would probably be good for them to focus on more news-oriented searching as that's where there's a serious echo chamber among the top websites.
That can sure lead to interesting bugs!
Yes. "Gender roles exist, and they come with expectations for everyone" is a lot different from "the evil patriarchy is a conspiracy by men to oppress women".
Nothing about allowed there. It’s about communication & understanding.

You are free to break whatever convention you like. It will just effect your communication clarity.

Understanding that (and how and why too) will help you be more effective.

It’s no different to saying “you can program it that way if you want but understanding the conventions & methods other people use may help you have more readable and efficient code”.
Philip K Dick, one of my favorite authors, used the em dash a great deal. In fact, I think I first noticed it in his stories. Without having been taught how to use o read it, I immediately understood PKD's intent -- and how the dash wasn't exactly necessary for anything but flavor. A mimic of other punctuation marks is an apt description!

I've been abusing the em dash since.
I’m somehow skeptical whenever I see a CEO holding a pen on a glass wall with random math formulas on it
The iMac G4 from 2002 had the same problem.
It's doable, and one very good option is Sonatype Nexus https://www.sonatype.com/download-oss-sonatype

The one issue I've seen over the years is it seems npm Inc does not officially sanction on site npm repos (presumably to help monetize their private hosted repos), and finding info on how to set up a private repo is lacking.
Mostly yes. The only exceptions are very high end areas like CAD and high end games that make full use of local hardware.

Everything else is going web. Even native clients are often boxed web UIs due to the cost savings of developing the UI only once.