skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what is the motivation for the optical scanners? Why do away with a system that has proven to work and has known, mitigatable (is that a word?) downsides with one that is consistently found to have dangerous gaps in security and time and time again found extremely vulnerable?

Do they significantly improve accuracy? Do they save a significant amount of money? Do they increase the speed that things are tallied, and does that make a significant difference or improvement anywhere (because unless i'm missing something, getting results a few hours earlier is not a good reason to lessen the security of an election)?

I genuinely don't know, and I'd love to see more information if anyone has it on this.

Because to me, without knowing all of the details, it reads like "we trade some security to save costs by just not tallying some precincts at random".

If it's saving a significant amount of money, to the point where the state is much better off because of it, or if the usage of them somehow increases turnout by decreasing the time it takes to count votes, then I would agree with you. But without evidence like that, I'm sitting here wondering why these machines keep getting used.

Often times things that seem like they shouldn't be secure often are, and I'd love to be wrong about this one.
Ex-Apple engineers unveil a next-generation sensor for self-driving cars
Lise Meitner, Jocelyn Bell, and Rosalind Franklin would like to have a word with you...
This is science, not peace. Not a difficult distinction.
> People are openly getting chosen for jobs on the basis of their gender or race, and that's 'disgusting'.

Why exactly do you think so many men, and in particular _white_ men, are in these positions to begin with?
It's about two pounds to the dollar last I checked, but PPP is probably of more interest if you're considering working there.
This implies that statements can be disproven on a scientific basis. Sometimes we don't have the metrics, and we gather them too late. Sometimes statistics can be interpreted either way.

Look at the IQ-bias in non-western countries. Racists take it to mean that people are less 'smart' in non-western countries, the scientists working in the field have a number of opinions, from considering it a cultural bias on part of the test, to considering the bias to be correctible, and a problem created by poor material circumstances such as poverty, lack of nutrition, and inadequate education.

The problem with the former, is that because the test itself is the metric, you can't 'prove' that it is biased. Are these people less intelligent, or is the test at fault? We need to devise another test to see if we can correct for the bias. But wait, that means that the second test might be biased towards non-western cultures! Societal bias in general becomes ridiculously fiddly and difficult to prove either way, simply because there are so many different places in the process where something can go wrong. From the test itself, to the pruning of the numbers, to the slice of the community selected for the tests (historically 'gender difference' studies have had such small -- and inequal test groups that they are laughable), and so on -- all can have bias. It is to some degree impossible to prove whether your test is biased or if the bias is in culture, because cultural bias can lead to material effects. How do you isolate for how the researchers treat the subjects? Are women being driven out by lack of skill, or because the male-domination of the environment has led to an inhospitable culture. How do you test for that in the first place? Etc. There are much too many variables to make it a 'simple' job.
IPv6 is 20 years old
private trackers have been implementing a solution for over a decade that this project seemingly does on a rudimentary level: 'bonus points' for seeding a file after snatching it, which accrues the longer you help seed. the points can be spent however the tracker software is written, be it profile/forum customizations, additional access, or reclaiming ratio.
The concept of xyz "villages" at DefCon was always pretty silly. Very little, if anything, new is going to come out when people have no real time or access to these devices. Combine that with the technical skill of the average attendee and you get results like this.

Anyone in security could threat model every single of these attacks on the back of a napkin in about six minutes. It is sad that you can replace hard drives in voting machines, but of course that's expected and rather obvious.

It'd be neat if DefCon would use some of its money and sponsor a device roadshow. Ship these things around to different labs and makerspaces for month long stints. Sign up someone who has a vague idea of what he or she is doing that can guide and teach others on weekends. Let people do real work and not just marketing.
Yeah the second thing is the problem... You also often see like 100 upvotes and 300 comments and many comments downvoted... HN algorithms recognize such articles/threads as "flame wars" so they demote (but not flag) them.
If so, looks pointed (especially some cartoons) but information is mostly reasonable. Valid point is:
"Quotas in only the best jobs is not equality"
Those are just some assertions you made, most of which are considered "wrong" by experts who have spent time in this domain.

> cheaper

You realize we get to use volunteer labor here.

> more audit

That's broadly dissented unless you presume a given-by-god form of "done properly" and no-true-scotsman your way out of any constructive discussion.

> ability for voters to verify their vote

ALSO broadly dissented or at best extremely nontrivial. Blinded cryptographic operations are the territory you're talking about if you want to be in the ballpark of correct, and while the theory exists, the practice is again... not a given. I'm not even sure the theory is fully available for this domain.

Remember, one of the core concepts in a functional democracy is a secret ballot. This is essential to avoiding Some Very Nice People hovering just outside the polling place to make sure everyone in the area voted "correctly".
The basic principle has been invented over 30 years ago in 1987: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4258955

They're used in long haul communication for some 15 years or so. They're especially useful in submarine cables, for the sole reason, that new optical transmission schemes(modulation, wavelength multiplexing and so on) can be implemented by just replacing the equipment on either end, without the need to replace components down there on the seabed.
There are absolutely indie games that don't have any of that, and yet are wildly successful.

See: Five Nights at Freddy's and Getting Over It. (You could argue that the hook of Getting Over It is the intentionally annoying controls, but I highly doubt that that much of the market is a bunch of masochists.)
2KB is tiny, that must be a default which grows or is extended as required? Obviously it works out okay for them, but I feel like it would add nontrivial overhead to every function call if you're always having to check whether or not you need to grow your stack to accommodate the new frame.
It does explain, but unfortunately the justification itself is light:

> "despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive"

The scourge of biased 'social science' strikes again. The politician believes that science has shown that women make companies better (but oddly, men don't make companies with all female boards better).

I've encountered a few studies over time claiming to show this. Every single one was junk. Common problems are:

1) No ability to replicate, e.g. citing private databases and then just asserting the outcome. This is a frequent problem with studies that come out of management consultancies and other such groups.

2) Dropping data points. One study I read that concluded women on boards = more profit started by excluding all the unprofitable companies from the analysis.

3) Confounding variables. It's typical for such studies to simply compare profitability against gender without controlling for other factors. For example they look at firms in the middle east (all men) and say, look, western firms are more profitable, it must be because of women. This is especially problematic when they include countries in the analysis where there are already laws forcing women onto boards - invariably it's the richest countries that do this i.e. those without bigger problems to worry about.

I have never encountered a study that showed with any scientific validity that companies make more money when they have women on the boards. Yet now these faux 'studies' are causing major law changes throughout the world.

This is of course exactly what the (invariably female) authors of these studies wanted in the first place. It is sickening and may eventually result in severe blowback.
Drive through all the key checkpoints, drive backwards to the start line, get credited for a complete lap. Not likely to be useful, but still a bug.
> doesn't offer as much combustibility as Jira

Autocorrect is such a prankster
At my previous bank, you could get your account password reset with SSN and birthday. Also, your account number (and your website login) was your social security number. And for the longest time, your password for your account online was your ATM pin. This is at a credit union in the US. I switched banks as soon as I had a significant amount of money in my account.

tbh, i'm surprised they don't have bank accounts emptied out regularly, but they're sort of small(limited to grocery store employees), so maybe its just nobody has seen it.
Setting aside that the mere existence of unconscious bias is still a matter of debate on an universal level, it's baffling that people still think this accusation is a valid argument on an individual level. You have to prove it exists. The accused does not need to prove he or she is free of bias.
Another cause is that changing your opinion means admitting to yourself (and others) that you were wrong. And that's hard for many people to do, especially with long-held beliefs.
Isnt it the same Academy?

Why would science be assumed to be uncorrupted?
> The right of the stronger, fitter.

Right, so why don't I just come along and murder you? I have the right, by your logic.

Or, maybe, this Social Darwinism is fascist nonsense and you fully admit to being disgustingly amoral.

> I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings, but that‘s how nature and evolution works.

Human society is not "uncontrollable nature" or determined solely by biological evolution. Everything is a social and personal choice.

> Perhaps your religion preaches something else, but why should I care?

Really? The only reason to care about social wellbeing and people other than yourself is religion?
> Free passes aren't given based on gender, though preferential treatment might be given as part of an affirmative action program

Isn't that one and the same?
Maybe I’m reading wrong, but nobody implied Cisco installed the backdoor at the request of the government.
I knew it was. I forgot to put the /s sarcasm on my post!
I have a lot of respect for the eastern bloc engineers. After being throughly pillaged of all industrial infrastructure after the war, surprisingly by the early 1980s some of the stuff being churned out was amazing. Right down to minicomputer clones.
This is some seriously shortsighted thinking.

There's nothing you'll be able to do about oceanic anoxia, or a myriad other effects that are simply catastrophic.

Speaking of skiing, good luck when those economies collapse when the brunt of tourism goes away.
> no one would ever be convinced to change their minds ever. And yet, we do.

"I've never seen anybody change their behavior as the result of a well-reasoned, rational argument. I have seen people change their behavior to avoid ridicule." -- Scott Adams
There are subjective qualities such as visual quality but there are also objective qualities such as "hours played" or other measurable ones.

Also people will do the marketing for you if your game is good but if it is not you will need to convince them (money most likely). And that is what bigger companies often do (via Twitch streamers e.g.) and what indies cannot (especially solo devs).
> I don't think any reasonable person could summarize this as anything even slightly like "Why don't everybody agree with the left?"

it's quite fashionable to trash talk this amorphous and indistinct group called "the left".

"conservative" political commentators in particular love using "the left" to as a generic stand in as "those undesirables" or "those fools" or "those leeches" etc.
> "Women scientists are harder to work with because if you criticize, they cry"

Let me fix the quote for you:

> "Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry."

He was making an obvious joke about his love interest, not "women scientists".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunt#The_toast
> so humanity will just have to deal with it and adapt over the next century. Shame about the planet and the natural ecosystem, though.

I don't think you understand that efforts to prevent climate change are efforts to preserve humanity - the planet will survive in any case, and just form new ecosystems. It's us who'll be the first victims.
> “this guy gets investigated for bribery”

This x 1000. Although I’m not sure how effective any investigation is in the Trump administration.

It seems the whole administration to the top knows of it, believes in it and treats it as the status quo.
> and a tiny minority succeed in making (big) money.

Who is making big money JUST off novels? Not speaking, not tv deals, writing.

Meanwhile I know several game developers making a living. Setting out to do it still follows a success distribution, but it’s fundementally achievable in a way unavailable to writers entirely.
I would also like to see some things have more details, such as the 11 yr old hacking a mock up of the Florida election website. Was this a true representation of what Florida used or a learning tool with flaws built into it?

I feel I could spend well over a week going through trying to learn more about each point made.

I've also heard some people claim that a lot of these voting machines are no longer used.
> But a couple months later they are right back to their old thinking. Maybe people tend to forget the stuff they would rather not believe.

Or it could be that their follows/likes on social media tend to be an echo chamber and dominate the information they receive. As soon as you stop talking to them about something different than what they normally hear, it quickly fades from view as their social feeds bring the "facts" that support their current position to the front again 24/7.
> Why do we want to throw this out for having live results?

The supposed impetus for the change was the hanging chads controversy in florida in 2000.
I trained an ai to write like Lovecraft but my work was ignored because I'm from LA lol. It's not the first aid novel but it may be the first backed by a major publisher. Given how little people read with machines generating ai novels there is even more material for people to not read lol.
Recreation.gov redesigned
They do - .scot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.scot
Voting ballets in the netherlands are map-like large sheets with columns of names which you fill out behind a screen or on a table before being directed to a locked bin where you insert your folded sheet. In this way, the actual process of voting is over in the fraction of a second. You are not left alone with the bin at any time, and therefor can only effect your own vote, so it's hardly comparable to the electronic voting process of the states that use electronic voter.
I'm in a plane, and cant supply sources at the moment, sorry.

Personal anecdotal evidence from 2003. I finished school, and applied for studying engineering. There is a "cutoff" for colleges and programs. Because I was not born in a "backward caste", I needed to get 92.4% to get into the program I aspired to. Whereas, someone who was born in a "lower caste" and has a paper that says so, will only need something to the tune of 65-68(don't remember the exact number) to get into the same program. As far as I know things have not changed for the better in decades.

For what it's worth, the person with that piece of paper might be a millionaire, and their parents more educated than mine, and it doesn't matter, they get ahead of me with lower score.
Very well said. As if this comment you're the top top-level comment. But only because you claim yo be from India and have an Indian sounding name. If I said the exact thing I'd be called names.
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Yep. It's certainly true that indie gaming is a harsh place to be in right now, but there's no mystery or deeper reason as to why the writer's game failed.
The Economic Woe of Young Liberal-Arts Majors
It does, I was actually surprised .scot existed but noticed an advert for it the other day
Question for this company / anyone who runs similar businesses - is $1MM ARR enough to pay 7 people? I'd be interested to know what they do in EBITDA and how they think about salaries.
This is actually a general question I have about start-ups. The economics of having a business that makes $1 - $10mm in revenue and hires 7 - 100ish people is still difficult for me to understand. Yes, you can raise equity or debt because equity / debt holders believe in a certain business model and then use that capital to pay people, but to be a standalone business without VC or bank funding, you need cash flow (not revenue) that can pay engineers market value.
It stems from a misunderstanding of what it means to say that you've changed somebody's mind. Hardly anybody ever changes their mind in the moment. That's not how opinions or the stubborn humans who hold them work. People change their mind on issues over time, in response to multiple inputs.

If you expect to see evidence of changing minds literally represented in comment threads or at the end of dinner-table arguments, then you've totally failed to understand the value of those discussions. Intense discussions routinely change minds, but they rarely end with any evidence that a change has taken place.

The notion that contentious discussions on broad cultural disagreements are valueless is, I think, mistaken and the meme is, in general, profoundly damaging.
(1) We do not consider investments ATM. We have enough cashflow to implement all short-term ideas. But of course I do not exclude such an opportunity in the future. We always start with small experiments and increment.

(2) We have no ambitions to market leadership. Moreover, I'm not sure that this is possible. The requirements for ideal time tracker are very different based on industry and company size. If we want to be a leader, we will have to add all the features. But then we will become difficult to use and this will have a negative impact on existing customers. While our main market is the US, we have customers from 70 countries. We will continue our expansion on top markets, instead of focusing on one.

(3) I think it depends on the product. We have a fairly low ARPU - about $50. Our main client is SMB. They don't visit us and no personal meetings required. If you do enterprise - I think it makes more sense.
Congrats! Love to see more and more of these stories. Is this a trend lately to see more companies going for cash-flow at the outset?
He raped me 38 years ago. Believe me folks its true
But 14y ago you would be lucky to even have an ISP that would allow you to send an IPv6 packet.
Legacy code.. It's everywhere!
Definitely not as overtly prohibitive as in the past, but still we have workplaces/systems/hierarchies which aren't as inclusive for men as they are for women. e.g.: you won't find many women on the trading floor, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of women out there who would enjoy making a shit ton of money in a high-risk environment. However the treatment of women there is notoriously bad. It's not the job women don't want, it's the toxic environment which goes along with it.
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I wish these laws would focus on the issues with the pipeline, instead of bandaid "fixes" like this. It's insane to me that we can look at women still being encouraged to study soft majors like art, history, teaching, etc, and then be surprised that they're not becoming board members of huge companies 20-30 years later.

There are SO MANY reasons that women are not becoming leaders of companies at the same rate as men, and the glass ceiling is such a small part of the larger picture.

This seems like an unbelievable lazy and dishonest attempt at fixing a real problem.
I worry this won't end well. Netflix already lets series run on too long. Shows that start out good will cater not only to the long tail that sees them through to the end, but a smaller segment who votes.
Yes, but do the people referenced in your quote know or care about objective measurements or do they just feel that things are worse? The sentiment exists regardless of the truth.
> My hypothesis is that Asians are better at math/science than whites.

If that's sarcasm, presumably you think that Asians aren't better at math/science than whites. Assuming that's true, you should conclude that there are cultural factors contributing to the imbalance. So do you support measures that would discriminate against Asians (i.e. pro-white affirmative action) to correct for this "structural" imbalance?
I think the conversion is somewhere around 1 pound to 1.30 in dollars. So 26k for training and 52k afterwards.
Are you trying to access it through company VPN? I get similar issues when I do that from mine.
Feds Force Suspect to Unlock iPhone X with Their Face
Thanks, I was clearly wrong on that point.
New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
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Learn by Doing [Volume 22]: The case of the broken lambda
No. The peace prize isn't even awarded by the same country.
I'm not sure from grandfather's post whether the candidates would be expected to be computing graduates or not.

In the UK, £20k is below average for a junior programmer straight out of university. For example, we've just employed such a person for £25k, in a PHP role.

However, the jump to £40k, provided that the qualifying period wasn't too long, would shortcut several years of career development for a recent graduate. I'd say that's a good deal, except that I'd be concerned about the long term prospects for a COBOL programmer in the UK.