skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For starters, there are a number of recent Supreme Court decisions (interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act) that allow ToS to prevent consumers from suing as a class [1, 2], thereby ensuring disparate legal resources in favor of a corporation.

Generally speaking, the difficulty in bringing criminal cases against employees of corporations is convincing a court to pierce the corporate veil.

Unfortunately, this presents a catch-22. In order to prosecute an individual for corporate actions, one typically needs to prove the individual engaged in fraud or knowingly illegal actions (circumstances that justify piercing). However, if proved, one is unable to also sue the corporation (as you just argued the individual was acting against corporate interests and/or without corporate knowledge).

Furthermore, and I hope a lawyer corrects me if I'm wrong, criminal law requires much more stringent tests to prove guilty intent. In nebulous corporate power structures (and employing very expensive lawyers to design systems to shield themselves from exposing this proof), this is usually impossible.

E.g. criminal prosecutions over the housing crisis

[1] AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...

[2] American Express v. Italian Colors (2013), http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/details-american-express-v...
I was out on the North Shore of Hood Canal (on the peninsula West of Seattle) - the turboprop went over at about 300 - 500m, just across the water (I think about 1000m) from us. Thought this was odd as we never see commercial traffic out here. Then the F15s went by, one low and trailing the plane, and one much higher... Whole thing had a super weird feeling.
Which part of this isn't applicable to bicycles as well?
The city, and the neighbors.

YIMBY: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
For example at the last presidential election last year there were 11 candidates, so there was a table with (simplifying) a pile of envelopes, 11 piles of papers (one for each candidate). Generally people don't take the whole 12 items with them. You would pick randomly between 2 or 11 papers (depending on your sense of theatrics) and the papers you're left with after the voting booth, in my case I crumble them and throw them in a bin. Crumbled paper can't be counted. Some people keep them in their pockets until they get home.
Through process verification.

I don't know about other countries, but here in New Zealand elections are monitored by the Electoral Commission who employ people to watch every step of the process. In addition every political party is entitled to send scrutineers to polling places and the count. The boxes are shown to the scrutineers who verify it to be empty, then sealed. The boxes are never taken out of sight. Every step of the process is under multiple eyes.

This seems to work well. It's possible to double vote by visiting multiple stations but in practice this is rare. It does happen but the electoral commission do analysis on the votes to ensure it didn't affect the outcome. Those responsible are prosecuted.
Kerberos. Not your usual guard dog.
I think scooters are fast enough in my experience to be in the bike lane or on the right side of the road with bikes as in many US cities. They DO NOT belong on the side walk.

I think re bikes on the sidewalk, I'm mostly in favor of a maximum speed limit for sidewalks, as well as general rules regarding if the sidewalk is full of people. I am a cyclist though in a US city with a load of "share the road" signs but few bike lanes and shitty drivers, so I find the sidewalk is safe in certain parts, and of course, no one walks in the US. I walk much less nowadays because I find it's safer for me if I bike.
If you're referring to a normal ballot, I've not seen anywhere that doesn't require some proof of residence and identity

Likely you are correct for the places where you have voted, but there is a lot of variation across the US. This page has a map of what states require (or do not require) ID: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-i....

As shown there, California, DC, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wyoming do not require or request that the voter provide written proof of residence, identity, or eligibility to vote.

The specific process for those states differs, but in general, it's all based on self-attestation. Some states require you to provide a signature that is compared against another source, but nothing like a bank statement is required.
And I'm sure you have a rigorous evidence-backed argument backing that up.
I went to soul cycle yesterday. A girl in the front of class starts filming the instructor. He asks her to stop. She laughs. She films again. He asks her to leave. She doesn’t. Films again.
It sounds like American networks are flirting with the British way of writing TV.

The British version of The Office only ran for 14 episodes and was wholly written by two people, versus 201 episodes and 40 credited writers for the American version. The original House of Cards only ran for four episodes. Even long-running series tend to be produced in much smaller quantities, because the norm is six episodes per season rather than 22. You can try out a much wider range of ideas if you just make less of each thing. It isn't as immediately profitable, but some of those ideas will become export hits. Not every programme needs to be mass produced.
Focus: a modern minimalist Beamer theme
He's saying that the Gnome night-mode doesn't adjust brightness ... not that it can't be changed at all.
That is also a solved problem. Polling places are only opened where representatives of all* candidates can be present plus sworn officials.

And if you think about it, you actually don't want to check that _your_ vote has been counted.

*reasonable exceptions exists
I've used it for the last month+ now and it's not quiet there yet. Setup via terraform was mostly fine although the default subnet sizes were too small (since the networking layer seems to over-allocate IPs you only get 30% of the IPs usable for pods). The metrics backend is broken so metrics based auto-scaling of pods doesn't work. Also, r5 nodes aren't supported by the networking plugin since someone forgot to add them into it. User authentication for access to EKS is somewhat awkward. Also, the user role that creates the EKS cluster has magic admin access which I can't find a way to control.
Echoing the other comment about Sweden: The last Australian election had 91% turnout, which was the lowest since 1926. It is possible to have high turnout without computers.

You could, for instance, not have elections on a weekday as a start.
They are pretty popular in London for the last mile commute - it’s faster than a bus, and easier to transport on trains and store than a bike.
Going at 50 km/h is a feat for many cyclists. It also requires a bit of effort or a hill. When you can turn a dial or press a lever and move fast, you become much less conscious of moving fast and this attitude can lead to causing much more harm.
No need to bring the brain back to life. When memories and the connectome are finally understood, simply scan the brain, even by destroying the original if needed: cut it into slices, scan it, then upload it to a robotic body, or even a simple computer simulation (good enough for me!)

I do not want to be "flesh and bones" when we will have better alternatives.

I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what we are? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.
This is also how voting works in the U.K. without issue. I suppose your question is how you’d (a) know that fraud happened and (b) find who is responsible.

For (a) I suppose someone would come to vote only to find their name crossed off. For (b) I don’t know. Perhaps there would be cameras. Note that to commit fraud like this you still need one appearance at a polling station per fraudulent vote so it’s hard to have much effect.

A second issue to consider is that the list of those who are eligible is made by sending letters to houses asking who lives there and is eligible to vote. There isn’t really any checking of the eligibility.
Sure, I have a PG database on the internet. It's firewall allows only traffic from my whitelist IPs. Additionally these PG servers require SSL[0] from only my CA so even if firewall is open, no access.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ssl-tcp.html
Des Moines, IA: https://www.fastcompany.com/3056081/why-i-based-my-tech-comp...
I don't know what America has to do with anything, but China's income inequality is also worse than America's, so there's that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
I was thinking Champaign IL. That’s got some serious tech but not very well known. Amazing talent pool and research from U of I as well.
Yes, and that number just keeps getting adjusted downward doesn't it.
Google is doing what the social contract allows.

Not to get all John Stuart Mill, but the town idiot is not above social censure.

The government isn’t doing it. And right-wing speech, IMO nonsense, is all over the web itself.

Stop believing “Big Corp should be fair.” That’s a complete fabrication on your part.
Ask HN: Why can’t all text inputs act like code editors?
Am I the only one that tries to move lines, wrap parenthesis or use multiple cursors in web apps/forms out of habit? I feel like the world is missing out. From a UI:UX perspective would you appreciate if an app offered a setting to enable editor mode on all inputs?
Sorry, I wrongly opened article looking for a next generation Docker replacement, time to resting my eyes.
Let's hear what everyone has to say here.
So that's where the youtube videos of CNC milling machine failures come from! TFA noted that major causes of the disaster was the culture and failure to independently unit test the machine.
Note that there have been some recent changes—we now have LKFS, or LUFS, whatever you want to call it. There are now a set of standards for how to compare the loudness of different programs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKFS

Nowadays there are enough systems out there that will clamp down on LUFS to some value like -14 that it’s taking away incentives for people to slam their mixes into the wall. Spotify does this. If your music is -8 LUFS the Spotify attenuates it by -6.
There's nothing that you said that isn't factual.

What's funny is any argument against voter ID should be blown out of the water by just making IDs totally free (yes, I know, paid by taxpayers).

But I've had this discussion with people before, including people who actually believe that it's racist to have any form of ID to be required anywhere. Yes, these people do exist. The conversation always goes down the road of "well what about the mountain people who live 200 miles from the DMV, don't work, don't have an address, don't have a car, and can't take a bus?"

It's the most immature form of "debate" to hunt and peck for extreme edge cases and pretend that they are silver bullets. Aha! It doesn't work for the minority who won't hop on a bike and become a part of civilization, therefore those who are pro voter ID hate the poor. Yeeeup.

Personally, I don't really care about this issue as I think voting is a waste of time and I don't do it anymore. But it's hilarious just how far extremists will take the argument.
Have you ridden a Bird/Lime/etc.? You don't accidentally go 50 km/h on one. If anything, I'm more likely to go too fast on my bike because they pick up speed going downhill much more easily.
They cant afford to loose users. Like him or not Alex has appeal to a demographic that uses twitter alot.
1. Yes 0RTT uses a key agreed during a previous TLS session

2. The intent is that correct servers will never do 0RTT unless there's some explicit buy-in from the application. Allowing 0RTT unconditionally is almost invariably going to end badly. A static web site (all idempotent GETs) ought to be OK, and making it safe for toy (single server, transactional) apps isn't so hard, but 0RTT safely for serious stuff is hard, most people just shouldn't.
> there have been many attacks, but not since Xinjiang turned into a total surveillance state

It might seem that way when you ignore attacks on people by the surveillance state. From the invasion of privacy en masse, to people being disappeared, thus robbing them of even their deaths in a way not even the most heinous terrorist attacks do. It's like nuking a city and then saying you "stopped all car thefts" in it.

It's just as fundamentalist and religious, only with a party line that can shift on its own, vs. preachers who shift their interpretations of fixed scripture, for the same result.

Also, monuments destroyed in medieval times? Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

> The start of the Cultural Revolution brought huge numbers of Red Guards to Beijing, with all expenses paid by the government, and the railway system was in turmoil. The revolution aimed to destroy the "Four Olds" (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) and establish the corresponding "Four News", and this can range from changing of names and cutting of hair, to the ransacking of homes, vandalizing cultural treasures, and desecrating temples. In a few years, countless ancient buildings, artifacts, antiques, books, and paintings were destroyed by Red Guards.

Doesn't sound so great. A book I can recommend is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Swans

> it might take materialist brainwashing ('re-education') to reverse religious brainwashing.

They're not even getting "materialist" brainwashing, whatever that would even be, they're getting totalitarian brainwashing. Within the framework of totalitarianism, where there is no truth except the truth enforced by coercion, what you say makes sense: only a stronger lie can combat an existing lie, and anything grounded in truth or voluntary insight is lava.

It's still essentially arguing wether a turd or a puddle of puke constitutes better tasting food -- any no doubt existing differences are meaningless, they should never make you pick one or the other.

> "Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world."
-- Hannah Arendt
Unreasonable? Most of the company's expenses are employees, and a lot of this stuff is common sense. It's hardly advanced math.

No way were they bankrupted just because of 2 pay periods. There is more to the story.
What’s stopping anyone to use flexbox and grid together? It’s perfectly fine, you can even throw a couple of floats into the mix.
> Why are companies obsessed with 'young people'? They know nothing, and have hardly any experience. Us 'slightly older people' are a way better bet.

The charitable explanation is that investing in an unknown has almost unlimited potential upside that investing in the experienced doesn't provide (because an experienced Bezos|Page+Brin|Zuckerberg, etc. doesn't need VC money), so investors are only left with 3-5x opportunities[0], when the once-in-a-blue-moon 100x blockbuster is what actually covers the cost of all the failed investments and still turn a profit.

The uncharitable explanation is that the young and inexperienced are easier for investors to take advantage of via liquidation preferences etc.

[0] This assumes that an experienced founder with a 3-5x track record doesn't have a 100x company in them. Which is patently false, but so goes the narrative.
I'm sorry to hear that it's not multi-process. Ticked all of our boxes right up until that point. We have a use case to render our own UI, which from a threat modelling perspective can run in-proc, but also have another use case of running untrusted web content which absolutely needs to be out of proc. Do you have any plans to consider making it optional? I take it you've probably made architectural decisions that would make that extremely difficult?
The traditional American model has been the 20 episodes per season and as many seasons as you can get renewals for.

In a lot of ways, I prefer shorter and fewer seasons for a lot of shows. At least for me a lot of shows outlive their welcome. Although that sentiment probably differs from that of a lot of fans.
The author seems to be talking about mining fossil fuels. And how they believe that fossil fuels will end humanity.
Trump is actually quite close to Obama in ideology. They employ different methods in service to basically the same masters.
What's cheaper - a Burger-Flip'O-Tron for a million dollars + an expensive maintenance contract, or a $500/month migrant worker who you can replace for any reason whatsoever and find another one happy to take their job?

Remember that in those countries labour is incredibly cheap and no, automation is not a superior option to immigration.
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All of them?

Bicycles belong in a category that is properly defined by the law. Riding a bicycle is explicitly covered by your personal liability insurance. 45 km/h e-bikes have their own special category and need license, plate, registration and specific insurance.
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I really find articles like this fascinating, and have a great respect for the pure engineering effort that goes into emulating these other devices.

Having been a web dev for 10 years and now Deep Learning / ML, I've never even dabbled in emulators or even read their code, and I find it inspiring that there's entire fields of programming that I know little about and can explore later.

Our field is truly amazing!
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The main thing I like about the British style is that they tend to make a season (series in British English) more self contained--they are less likely to end on a cliff hanger in the event the show doesn't come back.
Is it paranoia for me to lock my front door, because no one has ever tried to open it without my permission?
Ah, sorry, should have linked my source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribut...

Wealth, not income. Although I do now see the data is 2000 era, so the situation might be different now. China was a very equal country by wealth back then, though.
There's no need for any sort of automation.

Look at the last Russian election, there were a lot of districts where busy hands produced a lot more votes than the number of real people that actually showed up to vote. (Russian voting stations have live video feeds, and Polish journalists sat down to count the number of people who voted, and then compare that to the officially reported votes.)

Or the counts could have been simply altered as they were reported. Complaining, reporting would get people an unwanted visit, so why bother?
Many people are not aware of this but large parts of India are already below the replacement birth rate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...

And this happened without heavy-handed state policies.
I don't have experiences with DMVs outside of California, but Californians love to complain about DMVs just like other things they chose to expose themselves to like traffic, heat, and relatively mild winters.

My experiences with the DMV have always been pretty smooth, and I've been to multiple offices. Yes, there's often a line, but people will stand in line just as long or longer for a 3 minute ride at Disneyland. Waiting at the DMV isn't fun, but you rarely ever have to go. Still, the line can be avoided almost entirely just by showing up early. Most people are lazy and show up hours after opening without an appointment. If you can't get an appointment(which already solves a ton of problems) show up 45 minutes before opening, be one of the first in line, eat a snack, hand over the papers you already filled out at home, and you're done. Yes, it's really hard to get up at 6am when you normally get up at 8. Life really, really sucks.

Let's say that other DMVs are worse, which I imagine they are. People don't have to renew their IDs for years. Waiting at the DMV once in a great while is a very, very small penalty.

People just complain too much, in my opinion.
China's gender imbalance is only marginally worse than India's. The one-child policy may have been a contributory factor, but the fundamental problem is a deep-seated cultural preference for boys. You can't change that unless you're willing to talk honestly about the dangers of gender imbalance. In that sense, China's dire prognostications are a sign of progress.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I built just that but for a platform that is no longer usable (Borland C++ builder). The whole idea of re-usable components like that which you include in your product linked along with the rest of the code was very appealing, much more so than today's 'include this javascript from some server somewhere'. At least we now have subsource integrity.
>Are there really that many things you can't do in the world with that salary?

I can't save $1.5 million as fast as I want to with this salary (I know people who can live it up and still save $100k a year at Google and trading companies - I'll be lucky to hit $25k max).

>Do you have any non software engineer peers?

Yes. They're all in medical school. The rest I don't really have contact with anymore.
Just as rigorous and evidence-backed as the people claiming they will save your head for the future to bring it back (or some construct of you).
Funny story: when my wife and I went in for our first ultra sound in Beijing, the technician wasn’t allowed to tell us the sex of the baby but covertly pointed out the obvious boy marker so that we didn’t really have a doubt.
Make ID cards free.
It's a nice gesture. Unfortunately, it is not required for software engineers to pass any test on this or subscribe to it or otherwise be held to the standard before they are allowed to write and publish software, so unless and until someone forfeits a lot of money and/or their liberty, it will likely not be widely adopted in any practical sense.
It's cheaper for your made-up model. I can make up one where it is more expensive.
I think the chances are close to zero - desiccation of the brain tissue destroys the proximal and distal dendrites and therefore the connections that represent our memories and consciousness.

Freezing causes the water to expand and rupture the cell membranes, which also causes irreversible damage and information loss.

I hope we can discover a better preservation technique until we get neural uploading sorted, I think we are closer than ever in history, and I'm optimistic!
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a fission bomb, 15-16 kilotons (of TNT equivalent). The biggest bomb the US has currently (not even close to the biggest developed by the US or USSR) is 1.2 MEGAtons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B83_nuclear_bomb
Public DNS is just one of the many free services that Google provides in order to slurp up every single possible activity that happens on the internet. Visit this website in your logged-in Google browser tab:

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

I don't know what it says for you, but for me it lists everything I do in my life. The restaurants I look at in the Seamless app. The Reddit posts I clicked on in the Reddit app. Every single YouTube video I watch. Everything I search for. All of the places I went yesterday and in the last 6 months.

And these are only my "explicit" actions. Now imagine that Google also passively knows every single web address I look up via DNS? We share private browsing sessions to them all the time regardless of in-cognito mode or any other privacy safeguards.