skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops Brenda Snipes’ office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones
Maybe it's my age but I am getting increasingly tired of the same articles about Smalltalk/Squeak/Pharo being on the edge of a breakthrough. Surely Smalltalk is nice and also has its place in the history of programming languages. Today, however, there's such a vast number of interesting programming languages that are used "in production" that I doubt Smalltalk will suddenly get more traction.

What makes articles like this one really annoying are the same old claims that seem to be a bit delusional if not outright wrong, such as:

"the Pharo IDE is much simpler and cleaner than Visual Studio and Eclipse. Even children can use it without difficulty!"

The accompanying screenshot surely doesn't support that claim.
And an implementation of Doom at merely 7 hours per frame!

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/tree/master/vali...
But why make the government pay for it, when users will go on Amazon.com and pay to install their very own personal cloud home listening devices all by themselves?!
> Do not be constrained by questions of usability, legibility, and flexibility

That is, create a work of art (as opposed to utility). Okay, art is nice, too.

But mixing artistry and utility is quite hard. Designing a nice, livable house, or a store, is a craft. Building fancy sand castles is a (pastime) art. But mixing the fancy free-form with being actually usable by thousands takes lots of work, resources, and time, because what you'd have to build is a cathedral. (If you think modern technology makes it simple, look at the history of building the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.)
Day 0, when it went live, ACA successfully processed six people. :P

Will give a few more tomorrow, when I have something more than a phone.
As a friend of mine says, if everyone stopped having children, the climate change problem would solve itself within 100 years.
Not for Mac Minis, but you can get two port, Intel X520 series 10GbE (optical) PCI-Express cards for $85 to $110 each on ebay these days. 1310nm/LX SFP+ are really cheap, like $25 a piece.

I am biased, working in network engineering, but I really don't see a huge use case for 10GBaseT. It's almost unheard of in an ISP environment. Anywhere we need more than 1000BaseT we do everything optically.
I brought my trailer out there but it was vandalized. There's a small existing cement foundation where a building used to be (which is common for the parcels out there). I started basic work on some outbuildings using dry stone masonry (there's a rocky outcropping on about half of the property so there's an unlimited supply of big rocks)

I started working on a well, but for water I mostly filled up my tanks at the Joshua Tree visitors center once a week (the water is free for the public).

For power, I used a generator and a battery bank. I purchased some solar panels, but I decided not to put them in until I build a real cabin.

For internet, I used cellular. Since there's a 100 foot outcropping on the property, I was able to get a great signal by setting that up on top of the hill.
Can't believe how stuff like this is happening in 2018! That being said...

Are there any start-ups developing voting systems and improving processes?

What are the major challenges in getting systems adopted by municipals for actual elections?

Have there been any success stories in this space?
Now it is self-administered eye drops (inefficient) or an injection to the eye (ouch) [1]. This thing, if it gets adopted [2] can be used by the patient themselves and at the same time will deliver the drug better.

Here is the reporting from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneed...

[1] Intravitreal injection : https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007629.htm

[2] A 2015 report saying almost same thing : http://www.optometrytimes.com/modern-medicine-cases/new-tech...
I know that this article itself doesn’t have much content but I’m interested in what the police are actually requesting, and what they end up getting. Do they assume/suspect that Echo/Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera? Or do they have evidence that Echo was actually activated around the time of the murders, or afterwards by the suspect himself?

I was also interested in this quote:

> "I think most people probably don't even realize that Alexa is taking account of what's going on in your house, in addition to responding to your demands and commands," said Albert Scherr, a professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

What is it that users don’t realize? Anecdotally, just about everyone I know who has refused to have an Echo do so because they believe Echo is doing far more surreptitious surveillance and analysis, i.e. not just listening for the trigger word. Though I’m sure most users don’t realize that when Alexa does trigger, she sends the audio to the Amazon mothership, which are then stored/analyzed for an indefinite time. Though most people don’t realize the most basic things about data, like how when you friend someone on FB, FB actually stores a log of your friends, and any other kind of stated interaction, such as the users you’ve blocked
Our motivation came primarily from the firsthand experience of the sister of one of our cofounders; as a researcher conducting trials herself, she saw the inefficiency and bureaucracy involved in managing them.

We are also concerned about scientific reproducibility as a whole, as well as data alteration. For example, even large companies like GlaxoSmithKline [0] have been caught tampering with clinical data, and the effects for those taking the drugs can be deadly.

We believe Delphus can solve these issues, giving patients more transparency and trust in the research they participate in.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-...
After their bizarre cartoon-like remake I feel the best reddit experience is converging on none at all. In particular reading deeply into reply-heavy threads has devolved into rapidly scanning thin columns of text. They've managed to migrate the experience of reading a poorly designed website on mobile to the desktop!
Have you ever smoked a cigarette in your life? You don't know what you're talking about.
Watching these guys argue is like watching mud-covered pigs argue about which one is dirtier.
> Do they assume/suspect that Echo/Amazon continuously records and logs audio, akin to a security camera?

Yes, I think random non-technical homicide detectives might very well assume this. They're fishing for anything they can get, even if it's a 1% chance. Almost certainly the subpoena response from Amazon will be that they are not in possession of a recording.
We'll have to disagree. My concern is more about the direction (banning more and more at the federal level) and the righteousness that drives it. Given such justification, there are many vices, addictive ones at that, we can feel good about banning. It's not that precedent doesn't exist, it's more about whether it's the role of the government at the national level to make this type of decision.

I was just reading about Wayne Wheeler [0]. He had a negative personal anecdotal experience with alcohol which he successfully used to justify its banning. (edit: sorry, last part was meant to address the anecdote you previously had there, and which many of us have experienced with the harms of smoking by loved ones)

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler
Key points from the video:

1) People mostly benefit from having someone to talk to about their problems. Drugs apparently aren't much help.

2) People with the most trauma are the ones that have the least finances to pay for treatments.

3) Most trauma is from early life.

4) The therapist has no support from colleagues and cannot talk openly. When someone mentions suicide its recommended to send the person straight to the hospital and to be medicated (Video author does not agree).

5) The responsibility is too much, hearing the horrors and being on the minds of the harmed person.
The kettle sat upon the stove absorbing heat in order to control the state of the water contained within. Nearby a pot was perched over a burner, boiling away. The kettle thought to itself, "What a glorious tool am I. That I can heat water with such efficiency. When my contents have been coerced into the desired state, I force the water though my finely crafted spout to release a useful scream. My custom fit handle makes it an ease for my user to pour the liquid into the desired consumption vehicle. My construction is an economy of function--truly beautiful design. My creator must be proud. The ugly, black pot to my left is such a brutish tool in comparison. Boiling water with such a utensil would be utterly daft. I am the path to the future of water enhancing tools!"

After some time had passed, both the kettle and the pot rested above their heating elements, rigid in their stillness--charred, empty. No human had monitored the job these tools were designed to solve. The water was gradually vaporized until none could be found in its native form.
There was a company Rackspace bought maybe 6 years ago that was building a semi-POSIX compatible layer on the v8 VM. They had Python running on it and it looked pretty interesting.
Gmail in 2018 feels like I'm downloading Thunderbird every time it opens. Ideally I'd only need to load it all once and then it'll be cached for faster load next time. But maybe that's too much to ask when changes must be deployed multiple times a day.

And yet the Gmail experience is not significantly better than non-JS alternatives, at least for m my use cases.
There is a great gulf between adequate and finesse. I think you would be surprised at how quickly people can become adequate, and developing fineness seems statistical.

Not everyone can become amazing, but some will. And the more that have the chance, the more frequently it will happen.
Even if it reveals at the end, it should still be dismissible. That kind of dark pattern gets me hitting the Reader button every time. And setting it to always go to Reader mode on such a site.
It’s not possible. This is a classic example of the legal system confusing reality with science fiction.

You can monitor Echo itself over your network and quickly realize that it’s not sending a constant stream of voice data. For the most part the device is off until it hears its name.
flavoured ecigs target highschoolers
Attempts to do this are being made in academia. Some recent work tries to quantify the network requirements of this, and decides that it's far more feasible to use some local memory as a caches than to have everything be remote.

Network requirements: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/...

Two systems that use remote memory:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/...
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/shan
Alas, not a lot of insolation in Antarctica or Siberia.
Sorry if I was unclear, the part you quoted was meant as a future example based on slippery slope, the direction being taken, and similar substance outlawings. I am not saying this particular ban is criminalizing it.
Could be that web servers don't have much more bandwidth per client. Or that they're actually cold starting VMs or lambda functions instead of running constantly. Still, I agree the overall feel of the web had gotten shower and jankier over time.
Silicon Mechanics can build just about anything with your choice of Supermicro motherboard.

http://www.supermicro.com/en/products/aplus/solutions/SP3
Many Oracle installs used to rely on the apps that ran on them like ERPs and the like. Oracle bought many of those companies (e.g. Peoplesoft)

With cloud availability and many of the features of high end DBs commoditized, and the new strain of apps being cloud / SaaS, Oracle's available market has dried up.
In our current system, growth == prosperity, generally.

Read Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", which everyone interested in serious money has already read. One of his points is that prosperity for the little guy comes almost entirely from growth. In the absence of growth, money tends to flow toward those who already have it, in the form of rents. ("Rent", in the economic sense, includes any passive asset which generates revenue.)
You can try this guy for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67Lh4LE5LY

Though if you already have confirmation bias that anyone who complains of a large company of shady behavior is a crazy nut, maybe this conversation chain is simply a waste of time. Without access to Yelp internals, it's always possible to just write it off as hearsay. Especially when, if you read my post, the courts have ruled that this behavior is not racketeering, even if it passes the duck test for extortion in my view.

The logical explanation offered in the video is that the salespeople themselves are the ones leaving the reviews, not sanctioned by Yelp higher ups. I worked a year doing web development and SEO for an agency that specialized in small local businesses, and enough of my clients had had similar experiences with the "Not Recommended" review algorithm after receiving harassing telemarketing calls from Yelp that I just assume that there's something shady going on.

I honestly just think their business model is structured poorly. Too many perverse incentives involved. I won't be sad to see them go.
caveat: i haven't finished reading the entire FB announcement yet.

google announced something along these lines at their AI conference last september and released the video today on youtube. here's the link to the segment where their approach is discussed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4RWfGTtOg&t=330s
Android Security Auditing: Investigating Unauthorized Screenshots
oh yeah I remember when ig first came out and people were cross posting to twitter and Facebook/reposting/compressing the memes even more
Canada is better than United States from my experience of living in both countries.

I sought help with gender dysphoria in the United States. Ended up being drugged with antipsychotics, while stuck in a hospital for two months against my will and when I just wanted to start HRT. Doctor wrote untrue statements on my medical records and I couldn't find anyway to sue since I was a poor university student at the time. Almost resulted in suicide. Insurance was billed approximately $55,000

Now I'm in Canada and I'm suicidal from the past events in life but I can see a psychiatrist once a week. She doesn't recommend drugs and mostly just wants to talk with trying to improve my outlook. I'm trying to get death with dignity in Switzerland and got a positive evaluation from her after several months. Everything in Canada is covered since I was born in Canada (citizenship).
I'm in Montréal and from what I've seen most doctors don't push prescription drugs compared to what I saw in United States (Michigan). Canada also has a phone number (similar to 911) but is a direct line to speak to a nurse or social worker for help. People here actually can get help concerning their health right away and not fear having to pay anything.

edit: I think the cost of the healthcare in the USA is why people that don't get help, end up mass shooting and mental health stigma is a result of people not being able to afford it; trying to rationalize it's for people really messed up (not them).
So many of my patients were harmed by smoking that I guess this one feels personal!
If you have to ask, you’re probably not qualified to convince them...
I’m feeling almost nostalgic.
No he didn't. This was the developer, he's been gone from reddit for over 2 years now: https://www.reddit.com/user/jase
I worked on Windows 7 and 8 on the Core UX team when he took over and turned the Windows desktop into a touch friendly interface. The guy is a true believer and maybe he is right, but I certainly don't feel like my iPad gets much use anymore. Most headlines I hear seem to be about declining sales and I can't help but recall the overwhelmingly negative feedback from users about the Windows 8 changes.

I always felt like Apple did it right - take the phone and move towards the desktop. Otherwise you are just creating a system that is as bad at the new computing scenarios as it has now become for the old ones.
Gwern does a lot of drugs.
What? You demand government(the USA) to punish the victim(Twitter) to solve a problem?

The problem is the government(of Soudi Arabia) asking for the information from Twitter office in Dubai. On refusal Soudi Arabia government can sure to use physical power over Twitter office conveniently located very close to Saudi Arabia.

It's like punishing a bank employee who had to hand over the money to the burglar at gun point. Also the it was the punisher(The USA) who gave a gun to the burglar(Saudi Arabia).

Is that what you want?
The idea of creating an abstraction layer over thousands of MySQL nodes is a novel one, and should be commended. I like the idea a lot, and by DropBox's scale and success, it must work well.

I would be interested in a granular point-by-point comparison between this layer and native MySQL replication. In other words, if someone were to rewrite MySQL replication such that it did everything that this abstraction layer did (in addition to replication), what would it need to do?

Now (and this is strictly academic/theoretical), I'm curious what would be necessary to modify in the abstraction layer if the abstraction layer was to support a whole bunch of disparate SQL databases underneath it, i.e., Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. (No, that wouldn't be practical, but it would be an interesting exercise to really learn where the gotchas might be where working with different SQL dialects...)
How do you protect two isolates from interfearing with one another if they land in same process? If two of them happen to both start a calculation that takes 50ms of cpu time, do both calculations end up taking 100ms to complete? Or do you prevent concurrent execution some how?
No part of the GDPR specifically allows you to remember things, but Article 2 (which limits the scope of the law to data processed as part of a filing system) does except processing for purely personal activities in 2(2)(c).

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-2-gdpr/
They could (should?) have been doing this a decade ago, but they didn’t. It took the relative success of Tesla to convince them.
Well, you could try to do an account remove under GDPR. It would be pretty entertaining in this case.
this might be a wrong forum to ask.
picture a bunch of flabby nerds.
We may have encountered Peak HN.
Ah, that makes sense. Many thanks.
Thanks for the summary, as it’s the only way I’d have heard this person’s view. 1) paints a broad and inaccurate view unless there is more specificity about what kind of medication is being discussed. 4) & 5) are well taken, though; where do professionals with confidentiality restrictions get help, each other?
You need to notify users but it doesn't have to be a popup. A clear explanation on a privacy page that is clearly exposed in each page is fine.
Maybe I'm confused, but ranking databases on license revenue will inevitably show that the databases that charge licenses are higher.

I mean PostgreSQL is open source, and required no license fee. I'm not sure that license revenue is a good comparison metric.
Maybe it's my age but I am getting increasingly tired of the same articles about Smalltalk/Squeak/Pharo

They want to sell you courses.
On the other hand, if the government comes to Amazon with a valid sealed court order, are you willing to bet they'll stand up rather than start streaming audio recordings home?

Amazon winning DoD cloud business is actually the smartest thing the US government could do to align interests.
> And people looked at you like you were an absolute raving loon if you tried to explain the architecture of the ECHELON program, 15 years ago. Now who's laughing...

I would imagine Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, & the US.
Ah, you're talking absolute nonsense. That's why I didn't understand. They didn't slap the nand directly on pci-e because that doesn't work. There has to be an interface chip, a controller if you will. They only way to get anything close to what you've made up is to not use PCI-E, either. And it doesn't even make sense because NAND doesn't work in "directly accessible" anyway. It still needs to read and write in blocks. It still needs those batched up, it still needs a queue depth to achieve its speed, it still needs garbage collection, etc...

And since they are using an off the shelf CPU, it's using PCI-E not something custom. Which means a flash controller is on the other side of the PCI-E bus.

They are probably still using nvme because there's no reason not to, but regardless there is still a nand controller between the pci-e bus and the nand flash.

There's nothing particularly incompatible with secure enclave + standard nvme. You'd still do encryption wherever you wanted.
You know MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres don't have licensing costs, right?
I’m sorry, you’re saying there’s no boards available with IPMI?
Maybe they're hoping one of the parties involved yelled "Alexa!" as the crime was taking place. /s
I still don’t quite understand your argument. Is it that the vaccine’s side effects will be more harmful that its benefits when applied broadly to a population?
Did we read different articles?

> recording devices installed in users’ homes have recordings used in a court of law against the homeowner

I didn't read that Amazon have said they have recordings of the incident? Did they? It seemed like they "might". Was the alleged murderer the home-owner, or the victims? In the latter, it looks like they've been used to support justice for the homeowners?

> the third party doctrine means a warrant isn’t even required

The article I read said that a "judge has ordered Amazon to turn over recordings". That sounds a lot like a warrant to me, and if it isn't, it sounds like it isn't only under a technicality of some sort?

> the NSA can intercept these recordings

I also didn't get that from the article you're replying to?
I'm explaining this badly. All I mean is that when a function returns a variable, it's an l-value.
Isn’t there a misalignment between IPv6 adoption and scarcity of IP addresses? We rely on ISPs to adopt IPv6, but if they also own IP space, why would they lower the value of their holdings.
They also do CNCing pretty efficiently. The same piece of aluminum that makes an iMac screen bezel makes two wired Mac keyboards.
> a valid sealed court order

If the government show up with a valid court order, generally they can do what the hell they want? That's how justice works in a democracy?
Is peering the same as the stick table aggregator?
Prohibition has been a abject failure whether it’s alcohol or opioids.

Discouraging use and offering treatment is far more effective.
Thanks for documenting your story, appreciated reading through one of your blog posts and would recommend others to take a look.
IANAL but this is a surprise to me. Ignoring the obvious issue of whether Echo actually is continuously recording and storing audio, SCOTUS ruled just a few months ago [0] that police need a warrant to obtain cell phone data, which is a setback to the idea that all digital info sent to the cloud is up for grabs to the U.S. gov.

And it would be a surprise to me if the NSA spent its time intentionally and broadly intercepting and analyzing the domestic recordings of the kind described in this case. Not just because it would be illegal, but pointless for their institutional mission, which they seem barely able to manage as is.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/carpenter-v-united-states-suprem...
they decided to open their eyes? the community proved that on the first oled phone, and it was already a big difference.

most apps from android 2 onwards have a "total dark oled" theme because of this initial community research