skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

If the result is 49.999% vs. 50.001%, you cannot conclude anything meaningful about the will of the people. Maybe the weather was just slightly worse in a neighborhood supporting the losing candidate and it tipped the result slightly.

So even if the voting process is perfect, that close of a result is totally random for other reasons.

Most people don't seem to be capable of thinking about non-determinism like this, though. Witness the huge number of Americans who think the presidential election is illegitimate because Trump got 46% of the vote to Clinton's 48%, when honestly 46 vs. 48 is very little difference in terms of what they mean about the general will about Americans.

On the other end of the political spectrum, witness the amount of Brits who think a 52-48 vote to leave the EU is somehow relevant.

In calculus/analysis terms: this is why proportional representation parliamentary systems are better -- because the function from "how many people support which parties" to "what policies you end up with" is not discontinuous.

If the UK ran on a proportional system, they'd be getting some sort of very soft, Norway model Brexit. If the US did, a center-right Democrat like Clinton or Biden would be PM.
Stonehenge. Etc. Regardless of how, BIG things were being moved.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, the weight and difficulty of a body is a function of the number of people trying to carry it. One person carrying a single body might be a struggle.

But five, ten or twenty people? That wouldn't be a struggle.
We actually have done fairly extensive benchmarking of high cardinality data on our single-node product (we have a blog entry detailing at least our insert performance here: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-is-high-cardinality-how...)

We're actually currently focused on query optimization for our multi-node product, but we don't have any numbers we're currently ready to share.
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An argument I heard recently against this is, if abolished, politicians won't have incentives to campaign in rural territories, and they won't be accountable to rural territories. That basically makes sense. The EC is the only thing that really gives rural territories any stake, as the majority population has shifted to larger urban centers.

People who want to get away from the big cities and live a different kind of life with different priorities (and different legislative interests), shouldn't be totally shut out, should they? Even though I live in a giant urban area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere.
I'd go the other way -- use machines to mark ballots in a human-readable way, so that manual processes can be used to validate the machine processes be questioned.

The whole electronic voting movement started because people had difficulty with ballots in Florida; a _good_ UI would help alleviate this.
The study is about the transient effects of vaping on healthy never-smokers. The chronic effects were observed as part of other studies and just cited here.
Would also like to add that the video in the article (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_4F3foB3Q) is really well made and to the point
This is stupid. The entire point of the electoral college is to ensure small states have a say and the country isn’t ruled by the majority mob. Small states would have to be pretty ignorant to make themselves irrelevant like that.
The fundamental demand for dollars and euros is caused by the fact that every April, you need to have a bunch of them. And if you don't, eventually men with guns will take you to jail.
Anyone who dislikes those that support gay marriage, universal health care, UBI, or who has hawkish view of the US's involvement in other countries.
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One: I don't keep track of criminal convictions of every person I interact with. I'm not going to investigate criminal convictions until I'm at the point where money is likely to start changing hands. It's called due diligence, and it occurs late in the game, not early.

Two: the justice system is supposed to work such that when you are done with it your debt to society is paid. The fact that Epstein got off so lightly, repeatedly, is the fundamental problem. An individual should not have to look up the criminal convictions of every person they interact with.
I assure you that the DNC prefers Trump to Bernie, by far.
They were accepting funding after Epstein's first conviction (and dodgy deal) in Florida. Moreover, Minksy, the lab founder, has emerged as a client of Epstein's.

This "apology" arrived only after high-profile researchers at the lab have started quitting.

"Sorry we got caught."
I think the information portrayed here is less favorable to Ito.
First off, Avicii used FL Studio. And music is diverse, I think you're either living in a bubble or somehow your exposure to music is very limited. Music production is also a lot cheaper and easier to pick up these days so you most likely also come across music made by beginners and/or people who just want to make music for other than artistic reasons.
Anecdata: I own a 9380, and it doesn't have this problem.
At this level? Absolutely, yes.
You act as if one discounts the other. They do not.

Edit: I hate meta comments, but getting downvoted for pointing out lies is tiring. I've read the apology. I'm right.
The saying is "ignorance of the law is no defense"--it's a real stretch to recast it in terms of "ignorance of the activities of an independent third party" don't you think?
"So back in reality" GRAS does not mean what you think it means.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664775/

> Despite scientific uncertainty regarding the safety of inhaling aerosol and flavorant substances from electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) relative to inhaling smoke from traditional cigarettes, some consumers and vape shop employees suggest that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) designation of constituents provides clear evidence of overall e-cigarette safety.

> Although the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) has clarified that the GRAS program only assesses product safety for ingestion in food, not inhalation, public confusion appears to continue.

Nicotine isn't even on the GRAS list at all. Some of the additives (like glycerol) and flavorants are.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=GR...
You have mentioned electoral fraud in Russia. With paper voting and cameras, we can at least know that the fraud has happened and estimate its scale. With electronic voting, we wouldn't be able even to check anything.

In major cities like Moscow or Saint-Petersburg, there are many activists that work as observers and just their presense helps to prevent fraud. With electronic voting, they wouldn't be able to do anything, except for verifying that reported turnout matches the number of people who visited the polling station.

I think that main threat for elections is the government and election staff. They have uncontrolled access to voting machines and can tamper with them. Maybe in Western countries it is impossible, who knows, but in my country paper voting is more transparent and auditable than electronic voting.
Because we all know that everything on the internet is true.
> Times when the DMV or RMV is open will shrink, some states will require an extreme amount of paperwork in order to get identification.

The U.S. sounds more and more like a dystopia to me. In Germany having an ID is a matter of fact, you get a new one every few years and they glue an updated adress on its backside when you change your main adress. The times when you can get it updated might be inconvenient but you are required to have a valid one, so you just have to spend a vacation day every few years on it - the horror.

> In many cases it is racist.

How about trying to improve on the current state of afairs instead of complaining while keeping the barndoor wide open so the racists can continue doing as they currently do?
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Ok, so here are my assumptions for a good chain of custody...

Ballots, whether sealed or unsealed, blank or marked, must have at least two people present (from different parties) for all handling. At the end of the process, it should be possible to account for every ballot, marked or blank, and know who handled it (except for the individual voter), from the moment it was received from the printer to the moment it is eventually destroyed. Counts should match at every level, from the printer to the distribution to the voters to the number of ballots in each locked box. Every box can also be traced to an individual machine.

Assuming this is done, where do you fit fraud in? I see three paths for fraud - adding ballots, removing ballots, and substituting/altering ballots. How do you add or remove ballots without upsetting the counts? How do you substitute/alter ballots without breaking seals? And mind you, the techniques have to be able to a: survive a recount, and b: work at a sufficient scale to meaningfully alter the election results.

The way to break this isn't the weakness of paper security. It's to undermine the chain of custody itself, do have the kinds of sloppy processes endemic to Florida, Ohio, etc.
IDK, people seem to have forgotten the idiom, "Talk is cheap"
What's the scariest thing about monsters?

They look like you and me.
Apologizing after he’s dead, why?!

Maybe just maybe, he’s no longer afraid of what he could say.

And btw you can call “trafficking” “sex trafficking” that’s what it was.
His post doesn't say that either. The OP is presenting things that can both easily true and do not contradict one another.
you could make a strong argument that the 'winner-takes-all' electoral votes in states that have winner-takes-all systems is essentially already doing what the proposal to effectively eliminate the electoral college is doing -- it's saying that individual votes dont count, only the collective whole.
So, it sounds like the real error was Ito's failure to do some due diligence research on a potential funder, is that right?
> 2) Stupid pageup/down placement. I kept on hitting them when using the arrow keys.

Personally, I'm much more irritated by the Home/End keys position, as they force the hand to do a long movement, when compared to keyboards that map them to Fn+side arrows (which don't require any movement).
Epstein had already been convicted. It wasn't a secret.
> Assuming that people can't get IDs based on their demographic is also a form of discrimination.

Assuming it based on no evidence would be a form of prejudice.

Concluding that such a disadvantage exists bases on ample empirical evidence plus occasional statements of policy makers cheering themselves for preserving or advancing that disadvantage is not.
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The question becomes, how much understanding is enough?

Do we need AI engineers passing laws or training courses for politicians?

Can the AI be treated like a black box [0] and the regulation still be effective?

I think in some cases the answer would be yes. A simple thought experiment demonstrates this.

Example:
Consider regulation for AI in relation to job losses. Does one need to know the details of AI tech to develop regulation effectively? I would argue not.

The economic impacts can be analysed. At some tipping point, job losses Lead to a cycle of:

reduced demand -> reduced
Revenue in companies
-> reductions in jobs -> reduced demand and so on and on.

To regulate this, one would have to model the economic impacts as best as one could. Understand what jobs are most likely to be lost, in which industries. Understand the key things to monitor (I.e replacement job rate. Assuming jobs are created in other industries). And pass
regulation to mitigate some of the risks or make sure the number of Job losses never hit the tipping point. None of these items leads me to believe the person passing the regulation requires knowledge of AI at an engineers level.

There is the Conant-Ashby
Theorem or good regulator theory [1]. This states “Every good regulator of the system must be a model of the system” [2]

In this instance the regulation is to deal with ECONOMIC impacts. Therefore an economic model is needed, while impacted by the tech the tech does not need to be modelled. Thus my conclusion.

This poses an interesting question, could all eventualities be catered for in the regulation? There is other theories that could help us answer this question.

Happy to hear different or contradictory views.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box#Other_theories

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_regulator

[2] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Conant_Ashby.pdf
> Did Joi really make a mistake that they could have realistically avoided?

Yeah, how could he have known a guy convicted 5 years before they met was a high-profile abuser. I guess he could have asked lab founder, Minsky, about what services he received from Epstein.
> while the government and public agencies are massively inefficient during peace time

Not just government. During WWII, removing roadblocks to industrial productivity was a focus of government-industrial joint effort. Now, creating such "moats" is a focus of effort and policy.

Or take science education. During the cold war, there was much concern that it actually work. Else we fall behind. That concern permitted disrupting existing interests. Now... not so much.
Frankly, I think HackerOne deserves a bit of blame for that. Any WONTFIX ought to be made public automatically unless there are extenuating circumstances (like the vulnerability being reported against the wrong product).
I think a lot of people became aware of Epstein in 2011 when Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror creator) did this piece on Prince Andrew - https://youtu.be/yPyn7mu375I

I remember it going viral at the time, and since then a casual Google would have thrown it up pretty highly.
Indeed: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/25/bronx-120-report-mass-ga...
I distance myself from the dead people.
The rich would also have the means to invest that money and not just hold cash.
> You can't do this. Probably the most fundamental problem with electronic vote verification is that you cannot give someone physical evidence of how their vote was cast, because it makes voter coercion feasible.

There are machines that print paper receipts to voters (presented under glass so voters can verify), and then drop the receipts into a traditional lockable ballot box. The voter cannot access the paper ballot without evidently tampering with the machine; the only issue is that you'd need a way to get poll workers the ballot at issue without identifying the voter.
Well balancing non-smokers becoming vapers relative to smokers becoming vapers definitely depends on the relative risks. But if vaping is increasing the number of smokers (which is definitely not true among adults, and probably not true among teens) you're right that wouldn't depend on relative risks.
He pled guilty in 2008 for hiring child prostitutes. Joi mentions they met in 2013. If you don't do due dilligence, or even a cursory Google search, I believe you might bear some moral culpability in being willingly associated with a pedophile.

Frankly, nobody seems to have given lark about this guy until the new broke again this time. I'm not sure if it was his connections with many obviously famous people and the time peroid this took place, but before the MeToo movement it seems like many famous people had things like this swept under the rug or people looked the other way. I'm sure it's still happening, but hopefully more light will be shed on bad people in positions of wealth and power.
I'm not quite sure what you're insinuating about Tor. Tor is an opensource project govern by a non-profit. If you're worried about things like backdoors, that's why it was opensourced in the first place.

I'm not sure how you're connecting the CIA with Tor. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA uses Tor. I know the State Department does.
It should be noted that AdoptOpenJDK does not run the TCK against these binaries so they can not be called a compatible Java implementation.
I wrote: "One exception is North Dakota"

You replied: "That is not necessarily true in the US."

Yes, yes, yes. There are always exceptions in the USA. No one person can know them all.

Because every jurisdiction is a snowflake. And everything keeps changing. Causing us all to talk past each other. No small part of the challenge talking about this stuff rationally.

For your jurisdiction, the powers that be determined that your signature was sufficient verification, which can be compared against the signature on file (your registration), just like with postal ballots.

Satisfied?
If you're receiving large donations from someone and allowing them to invest in your fund then yes, you absolutely spend some time looking into them.
A big difference between Canada and the US is that in the US the "vote" is practically never for a single question, but for a much larger set of questions. You could still count by hand, but it takes longer.

There are also more people in the US (around ten times more). You could still count votes by hand in US, but it would take more people or time to do it.
Epstein was literally convicted. You cannot be serious.
I was listening to a recent podcast interview of Ricky Gervais on this topic, where he observed “it’s not enough to apologize anymore and move on. People want blood, people want you ruined, because it’s a point-scoring competition now.” [1]

My only disagreement with Ricky is that I'm not sure it was ever enough, but the people for whom it isn't enough now have a platform.

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/ricky-gervais-takes-o... is a write-up of the podcast interview
My guess is that American scholars are annoyed at the reality that it happened, in contrast to imagined alternatives, like a "demo" off the shore of a city, or over the Japanese fleet somewhere.
Come on. This wasn’t a hidden secret. I can believe not everyone who did business with Epstein after he left prison was aware, but this wasn’t a secret; it was widely reported (the truth is, many people just didn’t care) why he went to jail. The circles he traveled in might have changed, but from my own experiences on the periphery of the wealthy/connected, stuff like this comes up.

You’ll note Ito never claims he wasn’t aware of the allegations or the guilty plea, he simply says he didn’t ever see any evidence of that behavior.

Plenty of people would pause before accepting money from someone like Epstein and plenty of people, as we’ve seen, did not.

Those that did aren’t responsible for any of Epstein’s crimes, but it’s more than fair that they answer questions about why they took money from someone like him — even if the answers are uncomfortable.
Hackers and crackers can't be controlled.

It seems weird that HackerOne put themselves in such a deeply loser position to try to be the ones to prevent submitters from revealing security issues. Why not be a neutral party, and let the companies try to enforce rules on the hackers in these cases?
Two things:

1) how this effects the position of WeWork as a tech company(or not)?

2) Is there a law or something preventing them from changing their business model? Maybe this is “phase 1” of their grand plan to build a brand, optimize the process of opening new locations etc and they will switch to “rent your empty property under WeWork brand like renting from AirBnB, just comply with the requirements just like Uber drivers’ cars have to comply” business model?
No, only the ones I deal after I visit several of their homes and they invest in the company I work for and also invest in several different of my private financial dealings that I have a stake in. And even then maybe not a deep dive but just may be that I noticed something on the news...

I think it's pretty common place to know a little bit about the background of anyone who is an investor in your interests. When you take or solicit an investment there's often a conscious cost-benefit decision on those dollars. Even people who need money and want to take risks often want to make the best risky decisions and deliberately place their bets.
It isn’t like it was very googable until a few months ago. Now I guess all these big labs will just start running criminal background checks on anyone who wants to donate a bunch of money.
How does it compare with using temporal tables in a relational database?
It wasn't exactly "hidden" though. Their interactions happened _after_ his plea dead for underage prostitution.
I'm all for rural representation, but people in rural areas essentially have their vote count more than people in cities, right? Cause that's the current system for us: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_w...
People plead guilty all the time. It's a byproduct of the US justice system. It doesn't mean that there was any evidence against them, much less indisputable evidence.
My understanding is that China is offshoring a lot of stuff to Africa. Wages are still lower there.
My point is we should not accept Ito's claim that he was unaware of Epstein's background. It is a lie, designed to attenuate our assessment of Ito's responsibility.
> the justice system is supposed to work such that when you are done with it your debt to society is paid.

Yeah, no. If you are a convicted child sex trafficker I won't do business with you ever, even if the state is done with you. If you would, I'd say that's a moral failing on your part.
Jeffrey Epstein was a well known sexual predator in 2013, nobody who is in charge of fundraising for any institution would need to do a "deep dive" on his criminal activity in order to know about that. It shows a major lapse in judgement, as Joi Ito states in his apology.
So just define it to 0. You are correct but it's a minor detail.
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1. AdoptOpenJDK does not run the TCK.

2. Corretto and Zulu each have their own patch set. Corretto backports a couple of G1 fixes and Zulu backports Flight Recorder and TLS 1.3.
Rural communities are already vastly overrepresented in Congress. They don't need what's effectively extra votes for President too.
The democrats crucified Trump in 2016 for not accepting the outcome of the election. Today they want to amend the constitution to abolish the electoral college. Maybe it's a good thing that we can't change these things on a whim.
> If you're not anti-fascist you are sitting on the fence and are silent, so are siding with the fascists.

Saying "if you don't support antifa you're a fascist" is like saying if you want to "make America great" you should vote for Trump or that patriots should support the patriot act.

Sometimes names are political spin.
The C standard includes an appendix that lists ~200 examples of undefined behavior. This list does not claim to be exhaustive.

Often, what constitutes undefined behavior is non-obvious (and not well justified). For example, when adding two signed integers results in an overflow, it is undefined behavior even if your program never uses the result.

Due to C's definition of "undefined" behavior, it means that all of the guarantees we rely on to ensure security go out the window whenever the programmer steps on one of these land mines.
This has been blowing up for a very long time. They almost got away with it... now that people are leaving the lab the apology is certainly suspect.

By the same token, will the organizations that fight trafficking take Epstein-tainted money?
Where I come from, we use paper ballots and votes are counted multiple times by different people both on election day and after. And yes, the public is invited to monitor vote counting.
Why would you even consider using someone else's device to access your private financial accounts? That's just crazy from a security standpoint. Regardless of whether the browser has a MITM certificate installed or not, the device could have other monitoring and logging software installed.

Don't use employer devices for personal business.