skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one should be praised other than the people who discovered "the mistakes".

The tactic here is voter disenfranchisement. It's a tried and true tool of the Republicans and has been around since forever.

The thing is inactive voters are just that, inactive. There is very small risk that some of their names might get used for voter fraud. But every time this is researched, only a handful of incidents are discovered and it takes thousands to swing an election. Those thousands can _easily_ be achieved, however, with sloppy aggressive and unnecessary purging.

I wish there existed the political will to issue "citizen ID" cards (or other mechanisms) to all citizens, like they do in civilized countries. These could be used for residency and authentication for voting, banking, taxes, and other functions. This authentication mechanism would instantly remove the phony concern of voter fraud amongst republicans while not disenfranchising voters.
I think you're replying to a different point than the GP was making -- the "major party" you are (I assume) referencing is also the party that backs Voter ID laws, which the GP was explicitly pointing out as a solution to the problem.
there's no such thing as "smarter", even. That's a projected property not an innate quality.

People who prefer classical music are trying to project an air of sophistication and intelligence but aren't any better at anything than anyone else
Not really, you can learn to handle BGA in 4-7 days and $2-3K from some very best people in the business https://www.ipadrehab.com/index.cfm?Page=Practical-Board-Rep...
"It's still an odd sequence to hear someone complain everyday then when you say "hey I have this thing" you get a "nono I dont need that". Still appear absurd."

I would suspect it's only absurd because of one's personal lack of understanding of the situation. I can only speculate the full situation, but I can imagine a hypothetical situation where a bunch of accountants joke in camraderie about how much their accounting jobs suck, but when someone actually tries to resolve this, the "fixer" is actually trying to fix a non-problem due to lack of social insight and thus the fixer seems absurd.
I kind of hoped we were past this kind of issue. 5-10 years ago I felt like there were "brand" incompatibilities with home wifi. A specific wifi router would just not connect to a specific type of computer/phone.
I thought it was meant to be a neologistic elision of words, in the style of "I accidentally the thing" or "I can't even".
I'd encourage you to read some of the scholarly material related to Bush v. Gore, particularly the distinctions between the first case and the second case as well as materials that cover the actions of the FL court specifically - it's a lot more complex and nuanced than you summarize here.
Registering to have, not registering the actual item. Same way you register to have to vote but you do not register the vote itself.

In my mind, the difficulty to do both should be equal, as making either more difficult than the other is suppressing the rights of a group to do which ever is more difficult.
Asymetric crypto is all about this. The only difference between the key holder and a third party is a time factor.

Another exemple is the rationale for EU privacy laws. It was fine to have your history in newspapers or judicial archives, as searching for them was prohibitive. But having it searchable through computers makes it trivial for would-be employers, neighbours, etc. to find out about you, transforming any small misdemeanour in a lifetime sentence.
> It seems strange to me that data-logging flash wouldn't be a dedicated FRU module, instead of being in the same chip(s) as the actual firmware. I see how this could easily happen as a BOM-reducing or size-reducing measure for something like a cloud thermostat, but for a luxury car?

It is strange no one performed back of the envelope calculations on flash life vs logging size.

I've worked in embedded, we had a time series based rolling log. Flash life calculation was done at regular intervals.

IIRC with what we shipped, the flash chip would outlive the battery by 3x or 4x. And that was without wear leveling!

We were smart enough to continue the rolling log at the last point on flash we uploaded from, avoiding the mistake I've seen some products do of starting over from the very "beginning" after every log sync. Do that and you end up with 10% of your flash worn down to nothing and 90% of your flash going unused.

Also, unless needed, please stop using JSON. Use a binary format instead. Protobufs is trivial to get up and running almost anywhere. Other binary encoding formats may serve a product's needs better. JSON is fine if everything is low bandwidth web services talking now and then, or low friction HTTP APIs, but for other use cases... use something else.

Worst I ever saw was XML being used to RPC invoke every single function call, even local ones. All params got packed up in XML, sent over to the destination, who'd then unpack the XML, execute, and package up the return value. A double digit % of the CPU was being used on XML serialization and de-serialization. (If your choice is that or JSON... probably go with JSON!)

Logging flash being same as storage flash is super weird though. Though if their MCU only supports hanging a single flash chip off of it, I could see it happening.
No, the same people who argue one often argue the other
The way you framed it made it appear the opposite.
Good luck finding the part and not voiding your warranty
I haven't been able to find the source since but I learned in a philosophy class ages ago that one of the classic philosophers (Plato? Aristotle?) said that a society can never be perfectly fair and just.

* To be just, parents should be free to provide for their own children.

* To be fair, every person should be given an equal opportunity to succeed.

These are fundamentally in opposition: every extra dollar a parent gives to their child is an unfair (in the sense that the child only earned by virtue of "choosing" that parent) benefit.

This was one of those moments that really turned on a lightbulb in my head when I think about how a society collectively raises each generation. I now think that a healthy society shouldn't "solve" this problem, they should just try to find the sweet spot that balances these two opposing forces.

And, interestingly, this is something that really affects me in a material way. My kids go to a public elementary school. My taxes fund schooling for all children in the area. The school also does donation drives and other things that let me opt in to giving money to benefit all children. But I also can choose to spend money on private classes, tutors, and other extra-curricular activities that only benefit my own children. So I have a very direct set of levers where I can choose my own particular moral position on this continuum.

Personally, my feeling is that we should mostly lean towards justice and equal opportunity. Most resources spent towards educating children should go in ways that benefit all kids. Fewer private schools, more public funding. My argument is that being a child of wealthy parents is already a tremendous ambient benefit. The child has a more comfortable, stable home environment, and fewer worries around material needs. They are more likely to get quality, prompt mental and physical healthcare. All of those give them a huge advantage compared to other kids.
The country, I would really want to emigrate to is Portgual. lots of sun, low cost of living. but it seems there's no tech jobs there and they pay poorly. I'm not seeking SV money, either but more like mid city US money in the range of 50-75k EUR for a mid level engineer
This is the real voter fraud. Purging eligible voters from the lists.
No dispute. Obviously decades of anti-Soviet propaganda (which does encapsulate many legitimate critiques) have muddled the conceptual landscape, both in terms of oversimplification, and in emotional charge. And, we have significant status quo bias regarding our particular neoliberal form of capitalism; you can't tell a fish about water.

Still, even correcting for those historical factors, I think every -ism, or school of thought, suffers from similar problems in subjective perception: it's easy to find nuance and diversity of opinion if one looks for it, and equally easy to find bad actors, tribalist talking points, sloppy thinking, etc, if one looks for it.

> We have a problem with people seeing Ms. Scott from England, thinking her skirt is a kilt and getting angry when she claims she can't play the bagpipe.

:)
I prefer the approach of LINQ expressions over LINQ method chains, but in C# very few LINQ operators are exposed to the LINQ expression syntax. So if you start with expressions you often end up with a terrible hybrid of both.
This is funny. You're making the point Android is successful as a product because it provides google with "ad impressions" which is exactly my point, Google knows only how to make money one way, with ad impressions. Android the company wasn't successful commercially (no revenue from licensing, not self sustainable) and was acquired quite early when they realized it wouldn't be. Android itself is a huge money pit for Google, and it's worth it only because it creates an avenue to monetize mobile. In commercial terms that's a "loss leader", not a profitable product.

Stick to engineering, it's better.
Warren takes aim at private equity after Splinter News shutdown
were DNT anywhere near widely accepted it would probably be possible to enforce it via GDPR. (That is, report the pants off websites that show GDPR popups as you've already told them you don't want that)
I recall Genghis Khan's kids were pretty underwhelming too.
It depends where you are in the stack. At a low level they're using the same data centers, but the public stuff like GCP and Kubernetes is a rewrite of earlier internal software and migration of higher-level servers to a different stack is nontrivial.
Hey HN, I wrote the article. Let me know if you have any feedback!
Um no. Janitorial service is not intellectual property. It doesn't qualify in any way as a 'secret'. There's no 'secret' or private information being shared. If the Janitor publishes a tell-all story about what went on in the author's home, then yes, he does get to charge everyone who reads it.
This is how republicans are in elections. I mean not all districts can be jerrymandered, so voter purge is a must.
AWS has Cloudfront Edge servers in more locations than they publicly claim. That doesn't mean that they operate full data centers though.

They have 2x100G dedicated upstream at the Internet Exchange in Santiago, Chile for Cloudfront. Servers are local, I have 3ms ping to them. They don't appear in this list: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/
What's the best way around this kind of outage?
NPM is moving back to its developer roots, founder says
The problem with capitalism isn't money. The problem is a centralisation of power. If your only idea of an "alternative to capitalism" are nation states like the Soviet Union or China, you might have a massive blind spot.

Look up historical anarchist movements like the commune of Paris, or in more modern days the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (unlike what news coverage would have you believe, they're not just "Kurdish rebels"). Or if you want a quick read, check out their founding principles by reading Öçalan's brochure about Democratic Confederalism. Or for something less grandiose, just look into anarcho-syndicalism and workers' cooperatives.

It's not that alternative models haven't been tried yet, it's just that building egalitarian grassroots democratic structures within capitalist nation states is nearly impossible and even when you manage to do so, you now have to figure out how to interact with the rest of the world and prevent them from ending you.

Let's be realistic: the United Nations isn't exactly going to take interest in an autonomous territory that intentionally rejects nationhood. And if foreign powers (even the "socialist" nation states) have any political, economical or military interest in your territory, things are unlikely to end well for you.
Well, the difference between TVs and computer monitors is about as big today as it was in the 90s, right?

Back then, they were also essentially the same technology (cathode ray tubes), but the TV had tuner and some analog circuitry to decode the signal.
If only the southern racists during Jim Crow promoted voter suppression tactics as a way of reducing voter fraud like today.
Christ, I had to actually sit here for a moment and imagine how I could even possibly manage to spend $1M a day. I can only think of two things: 1) hiring people to work on things I know are unprofitable but want done, and 2) giving it away.
Without supporting ax/WiFi-6 I 100% agree that this is an absolute garbage purchase. I’ve been looking to upgrade over the past few months and this has seriously missed the mark.
There are hardly black people deep in the Ural mountains, where I happen live, near the Siberian border.

Anyway. Affinity to classical music (or classical poetry, for that matter) comes not from cultural background, but from a certain level of intellectual sophistication. I don't buy the thesis that some people are born into an oppressed class and can't escape it. In our age education is easily accessible to anyone who has internet. One can learn any language for free, become a developer or a musician or a photographer, all it takes is some will to make yourself learn some marketable skills.

Of course, now you'll likely say that some people are oppressed and conditioned to be unable to escape their caste, but it's just nonsense.
I've been using duckduckgo as my primary search engine for a few years now, since 2014. It has improved significantly over that period of time and I am happy that it has come so far. I used to use g! flagrantly, but now I find myself using it less and less. Still, I wish there was some way to stop using yt!

I think it's time to switch to the dark theme. Thanks duckduckgo!
Frankly speaking, I don't have MBA nor am I in Management. Infact, I can't afford to get MBA.
But as a Developer, even I recognize the need for MBA grads from elite schools especially as Company scales in size. You can definitely have CEOs / founders who are like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates but reality is, once your corporation gets big enough, even if the CEO doesn't have MBA, they will probably hire army of elite MBA grads to formulate and execute successful business plans.
Most major financial services companies also make sure to hire a few minor members of the Saudi royal family for the same reason.
Yeah, from the European perspective the American situation is hard to understand. In the U.S., requiring everyone to register their address is going to be met with cries of Big Brother and small but vocal resistance. This is despite the fact that the vast majority of people have to declare an address to file their tax return and/or to have a driver's license.

The other piece is that the constitution, written before direct elections were common, explicitly leaves the execution of elections to the states, which makes it hard for the federal government to set standards or require this kind of registration. And it's politically intractable to fix these silly things in the constitution.
The opposite could easily be said. If you cannot even try to appreciate country/rap/beiber, then you probably have some mental blocks yourself :)
Strapi raises $4M for their open-source Headless CMS
You Call This Progress?
Flash isn't the only game in town. I wouldn't be surprised if airbags use FRAM - capable of more than 1 trillion write cycles
I wonder if it's legal for Twitter to make market moves prior to pushing out a Trump tweet. Single-signal high frequency trading, basically.
You can probably ask for anything you want. I would doubt, however, that anyone would give you anything unless they a have reason to do so.

Like an outside offer.

Why would I, as a company, promote you and give you more money when no one else wants you? I have no incentive to do so.

I’m sure wouldn’t do it out of the good of my heart. That doesn’t exist. People may try to make you think like such thing exists and you might get a promotion from time to time but that is a fraction of what you would get if someone else was interested in you.
Nice! I feel like this project is mirroring the development of the internet itself. :D
10% of households don't have a computer and 15% of adults don't have a driver's license. Maybe your experiences don't generalize to the rest of the population.

Also, many states require you register to far ahead of time and will arbitrarily purge you from the voting roles. So I guess my point is this is more of issue than you're making it seem.
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Actually weirder than Kimmy Schmidt
Electoral fraud, it's the common phrase and lets you easily distinguish between voters breaking the rules (exceedingly rare by all accounts) and state perpetrated disenfranchisement (happens all over; gerrymandering, poll closures, and mass purges to name a few).
I wonder how they ate. 7 adults are a lot to feed. It says they had a vegetable plot and a goat. I don't suspect that would be enough to feed everyone. Someone must have been making trips to town (other than the guy that went to the pub).
That was not data, that was a guess about your class.
"tens of millions" and "in perfect operation" doesn't quite jive with me but the numbers are mostly there.

For Toyota ~57 million vehicles from '02-'09
https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75ye...

For Honda ~23 million from '02-09
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267276/worldwide-automob...

Volkswagen group looked to be in between the two.

Didn't look for Ford or GM.
Url changed from https://blog.torproject.org/new-version-onionshare-makes-it-..., which points to this.
AWS has the AWS Schema Conversion tool that works pretty well.
It does seem to me like specialty retailers out in the middle of the mall have really upped their game over the last twenty years. I think the guests are getting sucked out into the middle of the mall for the boutique shops.

Except you can't find a book in most malls.

I've seen at least one mall expand, adding no additional department store space at the corners. Another tacked a Barnes and Noble onto the corner but not really attached (the exception to the 'no books in malls' situation). Two, including the former, added an 'outdoor' area, which was a walkway with shops and restaurants on both sides.

The weird thing about the B&N was they stuck it on the end of the mall that had high turnover in tenants. I never understood why they didn't knock out one storefront and put a hallway through. Maybe access space behind the stores was an issue?
Actually you could just remove the notion of "family" and it would go away too. If you don't raise your children and never know who they are, you can't give them any money.
It's not a coincidence but I don't think it's super malicious. it's not because it's a "democratic strong-hold" it's because Franklin county is Columbus, dense, and more populated than the surrounding areas.
Every engineer on HN should be earning enough that they can put away 6+ months of expenses just in case.
To build on this for others wondering, back when I was considering an MBA program, Wharton had the most reliable numbers [1]. Median base comp for grads is now 130k, at graduation age around 28-30. Really not that great these days. The other problem is when they talk about a salary bump from when students enrolled, they tend to ignore that students likely would have gotten a significant raise + promotion in the same amount of time as the program took to complete, so the perceived value increase is likely overstated. As the GP comment states, for specific career tracks where an MBA is expected and highly rewarded, it's worth it. But for most career paths, the financial ROI is no longer there, especially in tech.

I will say that I think a lot of people can benefit greatly from learning basic accounting, finance, statistics, and microeconomics especially people who want to be entrepreneurs. But you sure as hell don't need to attend an MBA program to learn these things. Also, a lot of the other MBA coursework around things like marketing, global trade, operations, and management is either not even close to practical in a small business environment, assumes you'll be managing people who actually know what they're doing, or is useless without actually having significant real-world experience to match the theory.

[1] https://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/value-wharton-mba/
As a Franklin county resident, I see multiple groups of volunteers who have a big push around August-October to concentrate efforts around the the Ohio State campus and downtown areas to register voters. This includes groups affiliated with campus political organizations, the League of Women Voters, and groups who seek signatures to bring issues to a ballot vote. The extent to which the article describes purging 40,000 Franklin County voters is much more than what I'd expect than people being ineligible to vote for reasons like leaving student voters leaving the state/county (and not updatign their address), becoming deceased, or the recent case regarding the "use it or lose it" rule. In my opinion there should be a formal audit that includes other state data to correct the discrepancies in the spreadsheet of voters to be purged.

Additionally, Ohio voter ID laws themselves can be regressive in harming poorer populations. Many don't have access to a nearby BMV bureau to get an ID, aren't aware of the registration deadline which has already passed, lack utility bills in their name, or can't get a stamp for an absentee vote to be mailed. For the the current and next ballot cycle it's important to allow citizens to voice their opinion at the box and to register with a party for primary votes as well.
It's not (all) his money
I have a computer engineering BS and got my MBA from a full time, two year program without financial assistance.

The price of the program has been a very difficult burden in retrospect. I would have financed it differently and made different spending decisions if i could go back.

But the education was as parent describes, offering a very useful set of skills, from business presentation, teamwork, research and finance.

Things that inherently are not a part of YC startup school, (I just graduated from that with EasyALPR)

Startups require a whole other set of skills, but what they teach in MBA is valuable—-so long as it is financed carefully.
I feel Ionic is more engaged into open web than big companies trying to enforce their own standards. The question is when Appple and Google will start blocking (outside of walled garden app stores) hybrid apps?
The End of All Things: What Is Reality Made Of?
No, this does not mean every single one of those 80% were not purged correctly.

It means that nobody has found errors... Yet.
What you call trap I call tradition. There is a limited number of one letter names, getting your language to be identified with one is a big achievement. For D in particular, there has been a long competition to become "the next C" and the name has helped D to always be considered a contender.

And it does not poses such a problem for searching engines in practice. At the end of the day, you never search for "C", you search for something like "pointer to function in C" and probably much more specific, so any search engine will give you right results.