skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't change a thing. Both ax and java were quite well documented and free for everybody to use, but they definitely broke the Internet for everybody without any exaggeration.

I'll explain you why in the most neutral tone I can.

Do you understand that biggest peddlers of inscrutinable executable format on the web are people who are not fine with the open nature of the Internet, and who can not make their business when all code available through the browser is available to at least minimal form of inspection?

In other words, the people who are mad because they can't run business in the web because their business model depends on their code being closed, they WANT THIS big time. Their business thrives off non-interoperability and brokennes of software at large. Their success comes at the detriment of the Internet ecosystem at large. The more they brake the Internet for the rest of its users, the more money they can make, and this is why there can not be reconciliation with them and, us, the wider and more sane part of software developer community.

And we, the engineering cadres, the most influential class of people in the new tech driven world, have all the influence needed to deny WASM adoption.
It would be a way better feuilleton to get a trickle of the results during 48hrs.

More seriously, France has paper voting, yet results are published at 8:00:00pm, closing time of the last voting offices. How? Statistics. And only takes the night to confirm, when we’re on a 50,3% kind of results. And it’s already 60m voters; If it works for 60m people, it will work for 300m (especially if only 120m vote in USA).
I've never heard of anybody suggesting tobacco nor nicotine be scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act.
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Wow 16:10! I might buy one just for that! 16:9 sucks. Now if I could only get a squarer desk monitor.

They always focus on the 13 in these articles, but I always get the 15, which is often a Precision.
The red pointing stick in the ThinkPad was from IBM (or PARC), not from the Media Lab. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#History
reading the older sci-fi is painful when it comes to gender portrayals

I don't think this is specific to science fiction. Most fiction and nonfiction from more than a few decades ago is pretty bad according to modern racial and gender portrayals. Anything before 1940 will just completely assume some races are inferior. Anything before 1900 will just completely assume women are inferior. Go back further and you get things that don't even make you cringe nowadays because they seem too ridiculous, like people thinking that slavery is fine. Go back to the Old Testament and it has lots of different stories that encourage killing people for reasons that we would consider unacceptable nowadays.

Anyway, it does make it less of a "light, enjoyable read" when you are dealing with attitudes like that, but I think it is still worthwhile to read old things with attitudes that we now consider inappropriate, in order to understand the past. Many times there are good ideas mixed in with the bad ones.
"I bought a donut and they gave me a receipt for the the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut. I give you money and you give me the donut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a donut." - Mitch Hedberg

Unlike donuts, I can imagine a situation where I would like to prove that my vote happened. We print out receipts for donuts, coffee, parking, all kinds of inconsequential things, ten times a day. But when it comes to voting - one of the most important transaction I'm going to do in a given year - suddenly, people are pushing hard for no receipt, no paper trail. It's transparent bullshit, obviously in bad faith, and when people start making bad faith arguments I start questioning motives.

Or maybe its just so obvious to technical people because we know how vulnerable and unreliable software can be. This XKCD cartoon sums it up pretty well:

https://xkcd.com/2030/
I looked into their WebAssembly demo, but it doesn't seem to use WebGL, just a regular DOM (with an ungodly number of elements).
What is your definition of learning? I’ve generally seen it being defined as getting better performance on a task, given data.
I mean Stackoverflow is bigger than Quora and uses a relational database for storing most everything if I recall. They also use either memcached/redis (too lazy to check) to do caching of things pretty heavily though.
I'm a Brazilian, living in Sweden and I'm going to push and get in touch with people I know who have connections or work at Riksdagen (the Swedish parliament) to start any kind of discussion on sanctioning the beef and mining industry in Brazil.

It's possible to criticise something even if you live in a glasshouse, even more when what's being done down there is senseless for the future of the whole country, like I mentioned on another comment: this is utterly myopic and stupid, extract and destroy now to have something for 5 years or do the proper thing and invest in educating society taking 1-2 generations (so about 20-30 years) and reap the benefits for the next centuries.
What a specific part of the government budget to focus on to justify faxes. Its not even 4% of the expenditures of the federal government.
I'm trying to understand what general moral principle is that is being suggested. You can't accept money from sex criminals? Or only if you think they won't commit a future offense?

"You have to personally decide what's moral" isn't a very good response when a crowd is gathering to punish someone.
Expecting the price to rise when you know the underlying fundamentals don't support that price is the definition of a bubble.

People buying houses in Detroit have an investment thesis that there will still be people living in Detroit and they will still need houses, and even more broadly, that there will be more people needing more houses than there were at the bottom of the housing crisis. They may be right or wrong, but there's still a thesis based on fundamentals.

People buying unbuilt houses in the middle of the Everglades [1] because they heard of prices doubling or tripling within a year is speculation, and many of those areas still have not regained the value that investors paid for them, almost 100 years later, and probably never will.

[1] http://www.thebubblebubble.com/florida-property-bubble/
I didn't read the article properly, obviously. Thanks for the responses.
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan.

Mozilla does not take action to protect users in UK.

That's funny.
I got a lowly Acer E5-575G for $799 that came with discrete ethernet, vga and hdmi ports and Manjaro has been rock solid on it for a year.

Why is it incredibly unlikely for Dell to do the same?
I live in Durham and remember this happening.

This is also the state in which the ruling party committed election fraud in the last cycle, and got caught.

Nothing that is possible is out of the realm of possibility at this point.
This is great for exploring.

But practically anyone putting crops anywhere other than under the sun is missing out. Taking them away from that abundant FREE source of energy sticking it underground and then spending electricity & money to light it up with LEDs...yeah no.
>Paper ballot boxes are just as hackable at scale with those requirements.

No they arent. You need one guy with physical access to to a machine, at any time, to screw an election, with manual counting you need everyone in the room conspiring to rig the election during the voting hours. With the possibility to volunteer to count votes and publishing the voting numbers for each voting station, you just dont get those situations.

I know its an unpopular statement, but having a democratic election is not a new problem to solve. Most western countries do it just fine. This is not a problem with the concept of paper ballots but a absurdly broken system.
Also discussed a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205876
Yes. Perhaps you are mistaken and are taking the terminology "neural networks" too literally?

Do you think a bird uses its wings any differently than an airplane's to fly?
In the Ontario provincial elections we used a hybrid system. They ballots are paper following the same process you described, but they're first inserted into a machine that tallies the counts electronically and the paper record stored in case of discrepancies that might call for a hand count.
Basically, every kernel needs an explicit_bzero() system call because it's very difficult to assure data flow properties of de/initialization without something the compiler cannot optimize away.
A majority of institutional investors have investment mandates which limit them in the amount of cash they can hold. Additionally, if you think there's no chance of EU inflation going forward, even if these are negative yielding securities, you will still have a price return on these.

30yr Bunds were yielding 0.875% at the beginning of the year and have recently gone negative. If you were benchmarked against them and at the beginning of the year decided to either move to cash or short them, you more than likely lost your job.
Oh yes, I just tested it out and you're right. Bummer.
Alternatively investors holding USD may believe that EUR will strengthen against USD over 30 years by more than:

0.5% + US_30year_treasury_bond_rate + risk_adjustment

A negative interest rate is fine for US investors if you think the exchange rate will shift enough in your favour to cover your costs.
For some weird reason, Germany has been doing the impossible for decades now. Nobody "finds" boxes of ballots here, and all votes are cast anonymously. Several people in this thread have already explained how this magic trick works (registration book, each voter is ticked off, number of ballots from precincts are counted against ticked-off voters = can't find thousands of additional ballots).
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For those wondering why anyone would buy such a thing, consider:

- Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are among the safest in the world.

- A holder of a bond earns a capital gain (bond goes up in price) when interest rates fall. In that sense, zero is no limit at all because there can always be a buyer willing to accept an even lower (more negative) yield.

- Bond investors are well-aware of the two points above. When they sense that interest rates and/or inflation are headed lower, they know they can profit by buying, regardless of yield.

- Anticipated rate of inflation matters a lot because investors seeking return through yield focus on real interest rates (nominal rate - inflation). Inflation can be negative as well (deflation). If inflation is lower (more negative) than the bond's nominal return, that's a real positive yield. And that positive yield is locked in for the term of the bond, which in the case of the story is 30 years.

- The European Central Bank has repeatedly signaled its belief that zero is no barrier and that negative yields will be tolerated indefinitely. The ECB stands ready for quantitative easing (QE), in which the central bank buys bonds with money it creates from thin air. Investors know this and this compounds the incentive to pile on and buy bonds to enjoy the capital gains (and real returns if the investor believes that deflation is inevitable).

It's likely that all these factors combine to create the current environment. How long all of this can continue is anybody's guess because the situation is without precedent.

It's as if the financial crisis of 2008 was never resolved - just papered over through massive central bank purchases of treasuries and stocks (Japan's central bank owns a major fraction of the value of the Japanese stock market at this point).
Interestingly, it could also be argued that the breakneck economic growth that some Asian countries went through (in the case of Japan, at least until the 1990s) can be partially attributed to their high savings rate. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrod%E2%80%93Domar_model
The Bush/Gore recount was 2000, 3 years before Snipes was appointed admin; that being said her entire history is a tale of general incompetence culminating in getting kicked out last year for bungling the 2018 election so you aren't that far off the mark
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I mean, you can't have your cake and eat it too - if you claim that a particular issue is not a bug and you won't fix it, then you have no ethical grounds to say that it shouldn't be disclosed.

Responsible disclosure expects delaying public disclosure to protect the users while the vendor prepares a fix. If the vendor says that they won't fix it, then it's not only a right, but a moral duty to disclose that vulnerability to the users.
Given that practically anything under the sun is undefined behavior for C and C++, that isn’t saying much.
Where did you learn about the definition of feminism? Feminism is called feminism because it advocates women's rights in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

The term was coined in the late nineteenth century; before women's suffrage and the gradual abolishment of a whole host of other laws and customs that suppressed (and in some cases still suppress) women — hence the name of the movement.
that seems logical; I fail to understand the argument that some form of voter identification like this is 'racist'
A loan at 95% loan to value is risky because a decline in the home's value for any reason, even just price fluctuations in a normal economic cycle, could put the loan underwater, and the bank would get less than the loan amount in foreclosure. At 61% loan to value (the example above), it would take some sort of catastrophe not covered by the home owner's insurance for the bank to not get the principal back, even if the borrower never makes a mortgage payment. Depending on local laws, the bank might be out some legal and administrative fees.
Before the bombs were dropped the Japanese had already intimated that they were willing to surrender with one condition: that the emperor would stay emperor. The U.S. wanted an unconditional surrender, but in the end accepted a conditional surrender while calling it unconditional in public. Stalin's entrance in the war sharpened minds on both the Japanese and American side, as neither wanted Stalin involved anymore.

It's hard to prove exactly, but Stalin's entrance into the war is almost certainly the precipitator for it's quick end without an invasion. For the Japanese, partial occupation by Red Army troops was a much worse prospect than occupation by American troops. For the U.S., giving Stalin a say in Japan was utterly unnecessary and very much undesirable at that point (as opposed to much earlier in the war). The A-bombs wouldn't have moved the Japanese military or emperor very much: they weren't more devastating that fire bombing already had been, and there weren't any notable cities left to devastate in Japan.
Admittedly, limiting the free plan by posts was the laziest way I could keep from giving everything away for free. As the app matures, I'll be adjusting plan features and pricing to match what the market desires.

Thanks for your honest feedback and letting me know which features you find value in.
Couldn't the software behind a voting machine simply be public? It should even be readable by anyone who has taken even a basic CS class. Besides the function that verifies the user hasn't voted yet and is registered to vote, the actual counting of the votes should be trivial.
Because votes could be sold. E.g.: “Show me your receipt to prove how you’ve voted for, and we’ll give you $50”
"16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines" just they way they want it.

Who are they? I'm not the one for deep state conspiracy or "our corporate overlords" stuff...but what is wrong with paper ballots? What is going on in American democracy?

Is it because it cost more money? It's a fcking election. One of the most important events in a functioning* democracy. Spend. The. Money.

Unfortunately, the US is NOT a functioning democracy in any sense of the word.

* Disgusting party gerrymandering
* Packed politicalized court system (esp. the Supreme Court)
* A broken voting system
* A broken Senate
* No limit corporate donations
* Anonymous super PACS

That's a long and hard list to fix. I doubt we will do it.
But this doesn’t say if they are a tech company or not. If you think that it’s a bad investment simply don’t invest? Why is the “WeWork ain’t tech company” uproar?
...A PRIORI ==> MULTIVERSE ==> UNIVERSE ==> HUMAN ==> AI ==> A POSTERIORI...
Exactly point point. My problem is that certain political groups are pushing for no voter ID laws, which just makes it easier to fake votes.

Why would anyone be for this if not to subvert our Democracy?
I work in ML and have a phd in biophysics; I asked a legitimate question and it's not at all clear that humans "learn" differently than good ML models generalize.
There's nothing harmful about it. Many organizations have a legitimate need to monitor their network traffic. For example any healthcare provider has a moral and legal requirement to ensure that protected health information isn't being improperly sent outside. Traffic monitoring and deep packet inspection is also important for intrusion detection.

If you don't like it then there is something you can do: go work somewhere else, or use your own device on your own network.
Domino's Australia trials neural network to tailor pizza deals
I was trying to figure out how to do the same, and it magically appeared about 7 minutes after I was approved.
> You have to trust someone

Our technology that we have before us today is a wonderful gift. We can in fact create trust-less systems.
That's just numbers. You're making say 5 votes rather than 1. In some places in the UK we can have MEP, MP, Borough Council, Local Council and Mayor all elected on the same day, as well as local referendums.

That's not complicated -- just post each vote in a different box (paper can be different colours) and count them separately. OK it may take a day or two to find out who your local parish councillor is. Whoopee.
This story continues to be so sad. Steam is reprising the role of Adobe who, for quite a while, refused to acknowledge that being able to use FlashPlayer as a tool to get you something on Windows was just as bad as breaking FlashPlayer. I heard one Adobe executive say, "Hey you can use a baseball bat to bludgeon someone but that isn't the bat maker's fault is it? If they are forced to make foam bats their product is useless."

That position isn't "wrong" so much as it isn't useful in reducing risk.
The point isn't to get a receipt that I personally voted. The receipt analogy isn't that exact. The point is create a verifiable paper trail for the event that some registered voter voted a certain way. Paper ballots do that. He's just pointing out how ridiculous it is to argue that it's somehow too expensive or onerous to create a paper trail when every parking lot, every coffee shop, every store is able to create a more extensive paper trail even for the most inconsequential transactions.
state sponsored vs not?
>obviously there are complexities when it comes to people who either misremember their selections, but I also see no reason you couldn't also have a copy of your ballot emailed or printed out for you from the voting precinct.

Someone called out above, unfortunately accurately, that a receipt with you voted for will greatly simplify vote buying. And with 30% of people not even bothering to vote, vote buying would probably be incredibly cheap.
It's not hard to say it's better than smoking. Every study done to date comparing the two days it's not nearly as harmful as smoking.

Smoking is one of the most harmful things you can possibly do to your body. Many people underestimate how much of a low bar being better than smoking is.
The salient part seems to be that the researcher reported the first vulnerability through HackerOne and was (reportedly) told by Steam it wouldn’t be fixed. He then published it after being instructed that was against the rules and was banned
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I had the same argument with Coinbase about this one...

Ended up naming it 'Bad QR', putting this page together and sending them a private link (https://writecodeeveryday.github.io/projects/badqr/)
a) Program has scope that doesn't include X

b) Researcher reports vulnerability that falls under X

c) Since it's out of scope, it's closed as N/A

d) Report is locked because company doesn't want to publicly disclose a vulnerability in their system via the Hackerone platform

What's the problem here? Just go with normal vulnerability disclosure. Bug bounty programs are a two way street, and respecting the scope is part of that.

Edit: I guess the important part is that the researcher was then banned for disclosing the report. Seems reasonable, honestly. I don't agree with it, but I understand it.
15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
What you describe can be easily detected by an observer, who can take a video and instantly publish it on the Internet. You cannot take a ballot from the box so that nobody notices. But with electronic voting, you can replace the firmware and nobody notices anything.
I think true learning requires generalization performance- prediction on outgroups which were not represented in the training set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalization_error). It's very similar to when a new theory is able to predict experimental observations that previous theories cannot (general relativity and QM being two great examples).
I know desktop system JRE's aren't recommended any more, but there's still plenty of apps out there that require them. I literally ran into this last week.

I am glad to hear the toolbar on the JRE is gone, and I'm glad there's a prominent notice on the download pages - but there's effectively no free official standalone JRE for commercial use anymore.
I'm all for improving communication with user. But blacklisting certificate does nothing but harm.
> At best you'll get a Rust'ish WASM, Python'ish WASM, PHP'ish WASM, etc

I agree with the latter two due to runtime uniqueness, but not so sure it holds for Rust. Since C FFI has become the defacto WASM standard (with higher level interop coming as the article suggests), some low-overhead langs like Rust can be reasonably used elsewhere via WASM (though in most cases, you'd use them as native libs if you had the option).

Essentially it comes down to two things: How much of the WASM conformance is language-specific at compile time (e.g. for Go, stack resumption is manually built causing bloated WASM), and how much overhead does WASM interop cause at runtime (e.g. can it use the string interface type instead of converting to what it considers a string in local memory and what are the tradeoffs of each approach). If your language has a low WASM impedance mismatch at compile time and runtime, like Rust, it is a decent candidate for a WASM target. If your runtime has a low WASM impedance mismatch (e.g. the browser, native, and to some extent the JVM), it is a decent candidate to run that other decent-candidate WASM code without a huge overhead.

I've run Rust on the JVM [0], C in the browser, etc with decent performance because of those characteristics.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/asmble/tree/master/examples/rust-re...
In Canada, each person is assigned to a polling station, typically a school, church, or community center near their residence. You present ID at the door and your name is crossed off a paper list. Your name is not on the list at any other polling stations.

You have the option to mail in your vote or to vote in an advance poll, but these options close a week before the main poll, so if your name appears on the list at your polling station, they're pretty confident you haven't voted yet.