skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are looking at is the direct consequence of deregulation. Profit over people is the logic of deregulation. The people want regulation to protect the populace and vested interests for profit do not want that regulation.
A quote from the above Atlantic article:

“Excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. “But the fact that such gerrymandering is ‘incompatible with democratic principles’ does not mean that the solution lies with the federal judiciary. We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.”
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This is why I block ads. I have nothing against advertising. I wouldn't object to reading an article in the NY Times and seeing an ad for Ford's new car, or a new Pixar movie. But I can't take the risk of having malware installed on my computer, or accidentally clicking somewhere and being fooled, swindled, or misled.
It's kind of like browser fingerprinting. A font list plus a list of extensions plus... who needs, uh, fingerprints?
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Google messed up my email account when they were changing something in Google for Domains (this was a free Google for Domains account, when those were free, and a personal domain, I was an earlyish adopter) and were merging Google For Domain and GMail accounts. There was no support on being locked from the account. Fortunately, having bounced around hotmail etc two decades ago, I had the foresight to register my own personal domain name, and had a backup of mails.

Have your own domain name.

Don't use your registrar to host your email, or website (interesting and wise advice from Dreamhost, a similar amount of time ago).

Running a mailserver is a pain, to be frank, unless you're in it to learn. A paid 3rd party with an SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a good option, and perhaps a privacy slant too. Perhaps Protonmail?
The dynamics between squirrels and crows is interesting.

Usually they both turn up at the same time. Squirrels are scrappy and messy and really noisy. Crows sit back and wait for them to finish. Very dignified. Squirrels ..otoh..can be grabby.

Once I had a batch of hazelnuts I couldn’t sell. And I was leaving it out for the squirrels. The crows hung around the squirrels as they cracked it open..and as usual in their ADHD state, they’d eat barely a third of it before picking another nut. Crows would go after the half opened nuts and peck on the meat still in it. It’s like ‘follow the crumbs’..they just had to stalk the squirrels who were like the can openers for the crows.
> The cognitive dissonance

It's not cognitive dissonance, it's bad faith
Years ago around the Apple Maps fiasco, I read a very good article titled (paraphrased) "Why people follow GPS into very obviously bad places". At the time there were reports of people driving into empty fields, lakes, despite very obvious visual cues that they were about to drive into fields, lakes. The reasons were primarily the implicit trusts people have in computers, and secondarily, the ur-map on which all maps were built had roads marked but not necessarily their usability. A map would contain a secondary road which would be closed in winter due to snow, but path-finding software will not know this. The article detailed a case of a couple (I think?) following such a path to their deaths - by the time they began having doubts about the GPS, they were too far enmired in their situation to turn around and save themselves. I regret not being able to find that article again, I thought it was at Wired or The Atlantic.
>Please upgrade to a supported browser to get a reCAPTCHA challenge

I guess this is a 0 for me then
Not sure how much Ublock Origin makes a difference. I have a score of 0.9 with it turned on.
I saw a recent statistic on the talent.works blog that might be interesting to this discussion. They had a sample size of around 6-10k and found that women had a much higher interview rate than men, at all levels of experience, and across multiple categories of industry. Here is the graphic related to their article. [0]

But on that same dataset it was found that Asians and Whites get more disproportionately more job offers than Black and Hispanic applicants in America. So while things might be shifting or evening out for some characteristics, like gender, in others they are still going strong.

[0] https://i1.wp.com/talent.works/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/re...
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Hello HNers,

I do not have any profile on any social media sites, meaning no followers. I am working on a web app. How can I promote my web app?
Furthermore, as computers get faster and cheaper in every dimension what makes economic sense to use “Big Data” tooling and efforts gets substantially larger with it. The limits of single nodes 15 years ago were pretty serious but most problems businesses have even in the so-called enterprise can currently easily fit on a workstation costing maybe $5k and be crunched through in a couple hours or maybe minutes - a lot easier to deal with than multiple Spark or Hana nodes. Operationalizing the analysis to more than a single group of users or problem is where things get more interesting but I’ve seen very, very few companies that have the business needs to necessitate all this stuff at scale - most business leaders still seem to treat analytics results in discrete blocks via monthly / weekly reports and seem quite content with reports and findings that take hours to run. Usually when some crunching takes days to run it’s not because the processing itself takes a lot of CPU but because some ancient systems never intended to be used at that scale are the bottleneck or manual processes are still required so the critical path isn’t being touched at all by investing more in modern tools.

I can support “misguided” Big Data projects from a political perspective if they help fund fixing the fundamental problems (similar to Agile consultants) that plague an organization, but most consultants are not going to do very well by suggesting going back and fixing something unrelated to their core value proposition itself. For example, if you hire a bunch of machine learning engineers and they all say “we need to spend months or even years cleaning up and tagging your completely unstructured data slop because nothing we have can work without clean data” that’ll probably frustrate the people paying them $1MM+ / year each to get some results ASAP. The basics are missing by default and it’s why the non-tech companies are falling further and further behind despite massive investments in technology - technology is not a silver bullet to crippling organizational and business problems (this is pretty much the TL;DR of 15+ years of “devops” for me at least).
suggest an app. My daughter has an iphone and my kids use ipads for school. My biggest problem is their inability to backup to my linux server, or grab stuff easily off my samba share folder.
That's fine - if I see that shit, I close the tab and move on...

There goes your "minor inconvenience for most users"...
> What's wrong if a bot buys some of your inventory, pays for it and everything?

100% of the time, a bot buying things from a store is doing so to test a database of stolen credit cards the bot's owner has purchased/stolen. Accepting those sales means you'll get hit with chargebacks a few weeks later as the real owners of those cards see their statements. Then your store gets shut down for exceeding the maximum 1% chargeback ratio mandated by Visa and MasterCard. So preventing this scenario matters a lot, and when someone targets one of my stores for testing like this, enabling a CAPTCHA on the payment page is one of several, often-essential mitigations. Blocking IPs, blocking whole countries, including a nonce in the form, etc are on their own insufficient most of the time: the readily-available tools for this kind of attack already handle rotating IPs, retrieving a new form nonce on each try, spoofing the proper referrer, etc.
There's another plus side to this, the fact that the add is delivered in the style of the channel/presenter, instead of being a pasteurized boilerplate pre-recorded crap, some of them can be very entertaining.
Yes it means Google has p0wnd the web.
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I get this. My Plus let's me do art and work more effectively, but I must be constantly vigilant of RSI due to its weight.
You store all your passwords in plain text on your machine?
Both are covered. It specifically talks about two categories of problems, for which checklists are and aren't useful. Different sorts of checklists and what should and shouldn't be on there is also covered.
you have... (hack hack) afib.

(and then, apple watch is a countermeasure)
https://hcaptcha.com/ seems to be a viable alternative. If you are a developer, please consider using something other than reCaptcha. Not only is it annoying, but a privacy nightmare as well.
"We have more information than ever"

IMO that's the issue. People get so overly confident that the source of that information is never wrong so they blindly trust it. It's if the more info someone has the less critical thinking they will do.
Deterministic Finite Automaton. It's a concept from automata theory which is a concept from theory of computation. Implementations of DFA's are how libraries like google's re2 or golang's regex are implemented. They're not as powerful as regex libs built with a non-regular language model but that's by design.

Fun trivia: DFAs and NFAs are computationally equivalent. Any NFA can be converted into an equivalent DFA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton
I got 0.7 on FF, 0.3 on Opera and Chrome, all in incognito mode.
Maybe they have just a few values and return it based on AND OR logic of 2-4 variable.
Or maybe they are just playing around trying to gather some stats, for some "Don't be Evil" purpose!
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I did something very similar back in 2006: https://programming.arantius.com/dollar-e
Firefox with uBlock O I get 0.9. Don't know what everyone else here is talking about.
I also have a similar result (0.7) using my browser at work. I am using containers, uBlock, privacy badger and auto-delete cookies.
I just feel like this is another nail in the coffin that is trust in democracy in this country. You look at the stats on how much young people in the USA trust their political system and it just keeps falling for reasons like this.

Oh please vote... just remember that we can make your congressional distracts meaningless by overloading it with one side. Oh and ya the electoral college will overwrite the vote of the majority. Democracy?
Here is an answer from the hncynic bot:

I had problems with my spinner at first. However, this is one of the things that is really annoying about using captchas instead of passwords.

It is possible to create a secure account for something useless without using the system and you probably won't get spammers anymore.

What a dumb idea, you would want to implement it yourself, because the people working and maintaining the system(s) will all have some way of doing that already.

I don't know how much the government can take away from a site like this as well. But it's a bit like trying to ban a kid because the kid got an old friend on their facebook because his parents were "bad".

So, even though you have a big idea about voting systems, it would be a better option to require a system that only exists to be able to be used for good reasons.
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At that moment I don't care if their AI gets the wrong feedback on what a bicycle is as long as I get pass the captcha.
In this age of single-page web apps, it's preposterous to suggest that one needs to navigate to a second page to do something as simple as entering one's password -- regardless of what's happening under the hood.

Add some AJAX to that damn thing. You don't need to pull off a microsoft and redirect without notice. It can be as simple as hiding the password field and showing a button for the 3rd party auth provider instead as soon as the user enters their email. Payment forms have perfected this kind of technology a long time ago; they can rearrange the form to suit the card type as soon as you enter the first few digits of your CC number. There's no reason login needs to be any more clunky.
That's Roberts writing?

"It is not even clear what fairness looks like in this context."

Except it IS clear what unfairness looks like, and it's this.

“How much is too much?”

This, what they are doing right hear right now, this is too much. I have to assume it's obvious to the majority here and they know what they're doing.

Kagan's dissent is great and finishes with this which REALLY resonates with me:

"Of all times to abandon the Court’s duty to declare the
law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in
these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the
Court’s role in that system is to defend its foundations.
None is more important than free and fair elections. With
respect but deep sadness, I dissent. "
If my understanding is correct, this is a misleading title. Federal courts cannot invalidate partisan gerrymandering - it's left to the individual states.
Atlantic's chart from Poole says the Republicans now are far more right-wing than they were in 1955. That was during Jim Crow and Operation Wetback, when the US's immigration policy was formally, "whites only".

I mean, seriously?

Moreover, they ignored everything since 2012, when the social justice movement really gto going only in 2013 [0]. Which means they're not even really addressing the meaningful recent leftward lurch. This is exactly the kind of obvious manipulation I'm talking about. Leaving out 7 years of data that are the core of the entire argument.

[0] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

The Pew data, which is what Tim Pool was working from, and which comes from an extremely reputable source, stands strong and it reinforces what I've said.
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What's the distinction between small 'c' Constitution and the formal document in this context?
Contrary to the results here, using Firefox + uBlock with DNT and tracking protection enabled, I get a score of 0.9. In private browsing mode it's 0.7.

I wonder how many people here are using a VPN or accessing from a non-western country -- I'd bet those are much bigger factors
Because, by design, we don't have proportional representation. Even in a world without gerrymandering a small majority (say 55%) of voters evenly distributed can pick even 100% of elected officials.
Pretty uncommon in the Netherlands. Yes you can get one, but most people here don't have one, possibly due to very few merchants accepting them, and when they do, they pass the CC fees to the consumer
Okay I'll take the bait. Why?
I don't think this is the case. My twilio login seems to expire fairly often and I have to sign in a lot.
You're correct that, for the final discrete or probabilistic variant calls, there are far better data formats. However, it's clear that Nick's lab currently wants to work with raw intensity readings.

My main practical recommendation for Nick is to become familiar with bgzip and zstd. bgzip sacrifices a little bit of compression efficiency relative to plain gzip, but in exchange it solves the more important problems of (i) letting you take advantage of all your cores when decompressing and (ii) supporting random-access reads with an appropriate index, while remaining compatible with all .gz-reading programs. When backward compatibility is unimportant, zstd tends to have much better compression/decompression speed for the same compression ratio than gzip.
It seems inherently unfair, and maybe undemocratic that a party (any party) could control state government with a disproportionately small number of overall votes.

Or that any party could gather a large majority of votes, and not actually have any control.
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> What's wrong if a bot buys some of your inventory, pays for it and everything?

In the book "Spam Nation" (Brian Krebs), a group of students try to fight fake online pharmacies. To do this, they created an army of bots and placed thousands of fake orders every day. The goal was to create so many fake orders that the human processors (many fake pharma stores were not fully automated) had to spend a significant amount of time clearing out the fake orders before getting to the real orders.

Now imagine this on a legitimate website. Not every website is automated, not every organization has the same resources that Amazon does. CAPTCHA's are a great way to ensure orders are coming from real people. They could still be faked, but the bar is a bit higher.
> When we see 5 and 6 inch phones, but with higher screen to body ratio, some of us seem to mistake this with a phone that is too large to hold.

That's true. However, it'd still be harder (or impossible) to reach every corner of the display with my thumb, which I think makes it tedious to use.
I don't have a problem with that on my SE.
If it were up to me, they'd just make the SE even smaller by removing the bezels.
I hate this trend. It breaks password managers. Calendly is another service that does this.
I wasn’t asked to find a good one.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/

For those who want a more in-depth look at gerrymandering and why it's not simply or easy to fix, I highly recommend this series from 538. They do a great job highlighting complicated wrinkles with common gerrymandering solutions and pointing out ideas you may not have previously thought.
There's plenty of theists and agnostics that do not believe in creationism or intelligent design. Therefore, their disbelief in intelligent design my indicate that it is creationism.

It does seem like the majority of intelligent design advocates are creationists. My assertion is just as powerful as your assertion: both are fact free.
I always found the algorithm to convert a NFA to an equivalent DFA to be pretty cool.
What are the open source alternatives to this?
The constitution includes the Constitution, plus precedent, convention, etc.

Some countries, like the UK, have a constitution but no Constitution.
That should speak highly, then, of putting in work beforehand to have an initial audience (and indirectly, prove your authority on the topic underlying your product).
I sent feedback through the Google Maps app. Two years later on the same route it gave me the same suggestion.
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Work Firefox which I use all the time, no addons (including any adblockers): 0.1

Almost unused Chrome installation, also without addons: 0.7
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Except that this is Google we are discussing, but your question still stands about reporting to Google; I am very interested in how responsive they are to things like this which can be potentially life threatening. While cars aren’t held to the same certification standards as airplanes, it might seem that auto GPS applications might be held to some heavier scrutiny or at least providing a standardized (and auditable) means for correcting these kinds of issues. Now, it seems that Google just black holes correction requests. I live about .5 miles from Google and my home address is still wrong in Google Maps after a year of me reporting it. Apple Maps on the other hand, had my issue fixed and updated on their Maps within a few days.
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IIRC, O'Reilly's Safari Online did a good enough implementation that handled external authentication (using SAML with an IdP) and on-platform authentication (using email address and password). The login form had both the email and password fields, but once you typed your email address and tabbed to the password field, it would've detected at that time whether you're an SSO user who needs to be redirected to elsewhere for authentication, and if so, it would hide the password field and redirect you when you hit Enter or clicked the Submit button. This requires JavaScript to work, but seemed like a good enough compromise to support both modes.

P.S.: It's been a long time since I used Safari Online. Hence the past tense in the description above. It probably still has the same behavior.
Just another note on your last paragraph - I'm honestly not as concerned about financial corruption from the sales side. That's fairly predictable and orthogonal to most issues that really matter. It's the ideological bent of the reporters and staff themselves that worries me. No different than if the entire media institution was taken over by Scientologists.
> You'd want to avoid having hatespeech

I have zero confidence in automated hatespeech blocking ever since I had comments blocked multiple times for fighting racists with reason (which is, honestly, the only way it will be eliminated, just like it worked against homophobia and interracial marriage... I wonder how long it will take before we realize that if you ban it, you martyr it, and you merely send it off to fester on some darkweb somewhere)
> How would they do that? Pass a law? Does the federal government have that authority?

Yes, at least for federal election districts. (The power is shared with the states, though.)

The crux of the SCOTUS decision is the court has no way to define fairness when it comes to drawing political boundaries. Congress passed a law banning gerrymandering using racial criteria, so courts can overrule maps on that basis. But Congress hasn't addressed partisan gerrymandering. The courts, rightfully in my opinion, after reading the SCOTUS opinion, are rejecting the right to unilaterally expand the set of criteria upon which they can reject political maps.
idk, recaptcha solvers are about $3/1000 or something. That sounds like a very low hurdle to mess with most websites if that's their line of defense.
I think the previous commenter might be talking more about their own isolation rather than the global effect on the rate of software production. It's something many of us who come from communities that are later on the tech adoption curve can relate to.
For better or worse, Google probably has all the data needed to avoid routing a lot of vehicles down a little-used dirt track, even if it is not explicitly flagged as such in its database.
Here is some further reading on the topic that I found useful.

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Anyone have a non-paywalled source? Looks like they figured out the private mode work around.
> ...an exact mirror...

It might be lazily reworded, but hyperbole like that hurts the commenter's credibility and makes me less likely to believe them.