skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was this election spoiled? By Nader or by Gore? You can argue the semantics of what "spoiler" means, but to me it's clear that IRV doesn't handle this situation well.

In that scenario more people preferred Bush to Nader, all the bush supporters plus a few Gore supporters. So no it wasn't spoiled at all, the most popular candidate won and the system worked.

It seems you think the goal is to elect the centerist candidate or something?
Yeah, using it sparingly is key. Tobias in Arrested Development would occasionally have pratfalls that always got me. And just yesterday I saw this video, where the physical comedy caught me off guard and had me laughing harder than I have in a long time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwVIakdxks

Of course my wife was only mildly amused, and she loves Oh Hello. No accounting for taste in humor, I suppose.
Amazon provides cloud services to the government now; and Bezos owns the Washington Post. Plus, and perhaps more importantly, the Democrats did not try to pin "Russiagate" allegations on Amazon. Now, Trump kind of dislikes him IIRC, but still - the political climate does not seem favorable to going after Amazon that way.
These apps were designed to be installed when the phone owner left their phone unguarded, and to be unnoticed by the phone owner. Poor man's Evil Maid attack.

TFA:

"To install the apps, the purchasers were required to bypass mobile device manufacturer restrictions, which the FTC alleges exposed the devices to security vulnerabilities and likely invalidated manufacturer warranties. In addition, while Retina-X claimed in its legal policies that the apps were intended for monitoring employees and children, Retina-X did not take any steps to ensure that its apps were being used for these purposes.

Each of the apps provided purchasers with instructions on how to remove the app’s icon from appearing on the mobile device’s screen so that the device’s user would not know the app was installed on the device, according to the complaint."
No one asked for their own computer. EdTech companies forced it on the kids by bribing and presuring school admins.
That is a pretty offensive amount of light pollution going on the glimpses of street lights and car headlights in the pictures.
WaterBit — https://Waterbit.com — real hardware deployed on real farms.
> How on earth did you get that from what I said?

You said you disagree with my statement that "having such a policy does not imply hate on their part" -- which I take to mean you think having such a policy does imply hatred. I just repeated that, but replaced the word "hate" with its definition -- "feeling intense or passionate dislike for (someone)".

> I think they are a hateful group because they so vehemently wanted to deny medical access through their mandated healthcare program.

You're using emotionally loaded terms that assume a particular attitude on their part. My point is that if you don't start by assuming any particular attitude and evaluate their actions alone, those actions don't necessarily imply an intense dislike for anyone (i.e. hatred).
Prediction-based neural mechanism for shielding the self from existential threat
why Algo instead of Streisand? out of curiosity.
Except we know the world doesn’t work that way. In the 1950s and 1960s, law firms would not hire Jewish attorneys. Yet today the idea that Jewish people are somehow less fit for legal practice would sound utterly preposterous. Likewise the admission of Jewish and Asian people to elite schools like Harvard. The market can stay irrational far longer than you can stay insolvent.
New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Security Position
I mention this every time this comes up but it's info worth spreading... "sshuttle", make any server into a VPN without VPN server-side software, this takes the pain out of doing your own VPN, gives you far more obscurity, lots of flexibility and in my experience it also performs much better - which I believe is due to the TCP deconstruct-reconstruct vs traditional VPN which does TCP over TCP. The only disadvantage is it's only for TCP (no UDP or multicast).

For routing all your internet it's as simple as this (on the client only, no server setup):

sshuttle -r user@1.2.3.4 0/0

That's it... server requirements are met by almost anything, you don't need root access, but it does need python, which most distros have by default. Now you can use your own little obscure server, yes it's not invulnerable a VPS provider can still look at you if they wish, but it's far less of a target than a purpose built consumer VPN provider.

It's also far more powerful for slicing up and mixing subnets or only routing specific targets ... for example unblock a specific site, but don't re-route other traffic:

sshuttle -r user@1.2.3.4 sci-hub.tw

[edit]

Minor issue worth mentioning, not to disappoint people trying this out - it's currently necessary to use the -x option to exclude the server itself from being routed on Linux, I think this is due to a kernel bug? which is a little annoying, hoping this will go away eventually. This is not relevant to BSD or Mac, although on Mac you have other kernel bugs to worry about in XNUs network stack.

sshuttle -r user@1.2.3.4 -x 1.2.3.4 0/0

[edit]

As "icelancer" has pointed out bellow, please note that using your own server ties your activity to your identity more definitively if you are the only one using the server and you pay for the server in your name. Not being a purpose built consumer VPN makes it a less likely target through significant obscurity, however in the event it IS targeted, it's uniqueness will make it easier to associate activity with you via the VPS provider.

> This also ties your identity to a provider definitively. That's fine, as long as you tell people that's what is happening. A good consumer VPN that isn't a garbage one offers plausible deniability.
Ken Loach said this of superhero films: "They're made as commodities like hamburgers, and it's not about communicating, and it's not about sharing our imagination."

Superhero films are just a genre, like any other. It's a constraint that lets you better express other themes or ideas.

Think about the best superhero films vs the worst ones. The good ones were all about something, not just people running around in costumes. And all the bad ones were just people running around in costumes.

Nolan Batman: does power make right? (all) who has the right the enforce justice? (bb and dkr) does peace by force breed a worse evil? (dk) how far can you push people before they embrace their darker haves? (dk and dkr)

Captain America: what is patriotism? (all) can you trust authority? (WS) the risks of concentrating power (WS) is rehabilitation viable (WS and CW) is safety more important than liberty? (CW)

Wonder Woman: is it better to be a part of society or apart from it? is the world worth saving? do woman have the power to shape the world?

Captain Marvel: can a woman succeed in a hero role without a male romantic/sexual interest to feminize her? also, the power of propaganda to literally shape how we view others (and especially, "The Other")

Black Panther: can black culture be identified with modernity and success? what is the role of tradition and culture in modern society? does our true power come from external sources or from within?

Spiderman (HC, FFH, IS): how much would the events of the Avengers films actually affect daily life? (HC, FFH) what are the consequences of casual implementation of government policy? (HC) what does it mean to be a superhero? (IS) what is identity (IS) how much of life is driven by deception (FFH)?

X-Men: what does it mean to be an outsider/The Other? (1, 2) can The Other become part of society (2, FC, DOFP)? Contrast with the universally derided 3, Apocalypse, and DP, which don't appear to have any driving themes.

Aquaman: can man and nature exist together in a non-destructive state? can mankind save itself?

Joker: what is sanity? how thin is the line between thought and action? does inequality justify class-based warfare? does abuse justify retribution?

Contrast with the DC Justice League ensemble films, which don't have any themes. They just have people in costumes stand around a fight CGI villains. Snyder's Superman films have a concept (what if Superman killed?) but no themes (since they backed away from actually exploring any of the religious themes likening Superman to Jesus).

For those of you who haven't had to suffer through Ken Loach's works: they're all pretentious, insufferable dramas that claim to be about something. But they're trying so hard that they have to hit you over the head over and over and over again so that you know that they're supposed to be about something. Because if his works didn't explicitly tell you they were about something you wouldn't know from the play/show/movie that it was anything deeper than the poorly directed, poorly acted crap in front of you.
In defense of AWS, the ddos is probably one of the most massive and targets dns servers. I fully expect the dns to be strengthened after this incident. At the same time, using another provider doesn’t resolve the problem of ddos attack, which can happen at any point in a public network, not limited to DNS servers
There aren't many technological systems - big or small - that don't ever fail.
Personal coaching services to people looking for a different area to work in?
A katana can be (and usually is) used as a display piece. The FCC is saying (not unreasonably) that these apps aren't really suited for anything but illegally stalking people. They claim to be for legitimate tracking, but they made design decisions that clearly disagree with that.

There's not really a direct analogy there (an...invisible katana?), but I think the difference is clear.
What about 4 windows, 2 for safari, 2 for FF in windowed mode? But I guess only window can be active at a time.
Honestly this marketing piece should be titled "How to configure our company's product so it can hit specific throughput metrics."
> If you have wizards, that is.

I'd just like to call attention to this. There is no wizardry to learning (basic) Haskell very well, i.e. to such a degree that using an Elm-like library would not be an obstacle to getting the job done.

You may not ever learn advanced Category Theory, but that -- contrary to popular belief -- is not actually necessary. You may end up using some libraries that use Category Theory at an advanced level (lens), but at absolute worst we're talking learning to parse compiler error messages that are about 1-5% of what a C++ compiler will spit out at you.

Also... when did we want to stop learning?
It's useful to emphasize that the Cmd-[ and Cmd-] shortcuts specifically, work pretty much everywhere: in iTunes, Safari, Mail, Preferences, etc. It's almost like macOS has universal "scene-graph navigation shortcuts."
Open Firmware is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground...

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867724

OpenFirmware uses architecture independent FORTH byte code, so peripheral cards can include machine independent drivers and diagnostics!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

Open Firmware Forth Code may be compiled into FCode, a bytecode which is independent of computer architecture details such as the instruction set and memory hierarchy. A PCI card may include a program, compiled to FCode, which runs on any Open Firmware system. In this way, it can provide platform-independent boot-time diagnostics, configuration code, and device drivers. FCode is also very compact, so that a disk driver may require only one or two kilobytes. Therefore, many of the same I/O cards can be used on Sun systems and Macintoshes that used Open Firmware. FCode implements ANS Forth and a subset of the Open Firmware library.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844026

That same Open Firmware Forth system [1], which was developed by Mitch Bradley [2], was not only in the PowerPC Mac bios, but it was originally used for the SparcStation boot roms, and eventually in the OLPC, and it was even an IEEE Standard 1275-1994!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bradley

In fact: the Open Firmware boot loader and plug-in card firmware interface technology, commonly used by both Sun and Apple, is the only firmware standard in existence to have its own theme song [3] !!!

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20070204145613/http://playground...

: OpenFirmwareSong ( - )
\ By Mitch Bradley.
\ Sung to the tune of "The Flintstones".
𝄞
." Firmware" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." It's the appropriate technology," cr
." Features" cr
." FCode booting" cr
." Hierarchical DevInfo tree." cr
." Hack Forth" cr
." Using Emacs on the keys," cr
." Save in" cr
." NVRAM if you please." cr
𝄒 cr
." With your" cr
." Open Firmware" cr
." You can fix the bugs in no time" cr
." Bring the kernel up in no time" cr
." We'll have an FCode time!" cr
𝄒 cr
\ Thank you and good night!
reboot
;
The Monty Python custard pie lecture is also hilarious.
Nothing is impractical when you have enough tps.
AWS’s track record is still good, though. I mean, there will always be problems with cloud technology. But would you rather try to mitigate a DDoS attempt yourself or would you rather Amazon do it? I think giving up on AWS because of this event would be kind of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
InfoWorld review of Rockset: Real-Time SQL for operational data
You are correct about thermodynamic efficiency. I interpreted it to be about economic efficiency. In which case one or more doublings of kWh output from dollar input is still a stretch but plausible.

Modern rooftop solar modules haven't even doubled efficiency from 40 years ago, but they have improved cost per kilowatt hour by more than 100x.
They are capable. Developed countries are still below the upper limit of what they could borrow. You can see this in the fact that long-term interest rates are so low. If people were running out of patience for government borrowing you would see long-run rates spiking. While debt levels are high, they are not unprecendented. US debt/GDP is 105%, which is far below Japan at 220%.
Computing shifting to the background. (Ubiquitous sensors plus Cloud based AI anticipating our needs)
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
Well, the more general problem about asking people visiting Google Translate to verify if a translation from A->B is correct is that generally people visiting Google Translate didn't know how to translate A->B or weren't very sure.

How many people on Google Translate actually are able to reasonably verify translations? Relatively few - and those qualified few who might poke at Translate out of curiosity are just as likely not to feel inclined to offer free labour to Google.

> Considering Translate is such an important product, I can't fathom why they just don't hire a single linguist (or just anyone who isn't completely clueless, really) per language to register decent translations, or at least import them from a real dictionary...

Perhaps professional translators rather than linguists. I imagine they have some linguists on the project, but they're likely to be more NLP-type linguists.

The difficulty is that they're interested not just in word-level meaning/translation-accuracy, but also phrase- and clause-level accuracy, and those are really large (i.e. theoretically infinite) spaces.

I've heard that the Spanish<->English translations aren't too bad.
Renewables for 'meteoric' growth. But that's not enough to fight climate change
"Pass by each other".

The Englese, she is the very hard language to speak.
https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/Aging%20and%20Disability...

Over the next 20 years, the number of elderly over the age of 85 is projected to go from 6.4 to 14.6 million. 10% of the population is over 65. That's a lot of people who don't work and need care in the next 2 decades. We are probably going to see a big uptick in Y combinator graduating companies who focus on elderly care.
Ask HN: Where to find good looking static site themes?
I'm a big fan of static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, etc.) and the move towards Headless CMS's. However one problem I have found is that WP has by far the most amount of decent looking themes.

Is there a competing site to themeforest that has a good selection of non-WP themes?
They did redo the android app sometime earlier in the year, it's very likely that is playing a factor.
The possibility of strike back, massively trolling all the school if students team and decide to search for controversial statements all the time, everybody at the same time, or search "What to do if a teacher try to abuse sexually of me" just for fun, is fabulous. Matherial of legend.

If the alarm is triggered at a higher level, the school direction will gasp and remove the program in a hurry for fear of being signaled as a conflictive place with low score. If not the disruption and massive lose of time and calling to annoyed parents would taint or nuke the stupid data collecting bussiness.

Obviously being watched all the time will cause distress and strange behaviour in students, something that psychologists will understand perfectly with just an innocent sad look.
Try prototyping apps/products for yourself or friends. At least if they don't become big companies they were useful and hopefully fun.

> I woke up this morning and didn't do anything "productive"

Stop thinking about it, enjoy your free time by going outside more. My most creative ideas appear when I stop looking for them.

Also, this related post is on the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21324768
Austin is the 11th largest city in the US, now (quite a bit larger than Boston, for example). That's kinda big.
That would still be part of the ddos though, No mitigation is impact free.
That's a somewhat complicated question, because the OP in this case was probably a bad one for HN. But the short answer is yes, it was inappropriate even under a post that was itself politically charged—because sometime good submissions are politically charged. In those cases following the guidelines is even more important than usual, and also is harder than usual.
The difference is that Google's system is likely real :(
> 99% of Mozilla's development comes from paid Mozilla engineers.

While this is by and large true, Mozilla does still have a pretty solid base of volunteer contributors. It's nowhere close to what it used to be back in the day when more than half the development was done by volunteers. But there are still serious contributions coming from volunteers every day, and as a long-time employee, it still has a major impact on the feel of Mozilla development work. You won't be ignored or shut down because you're not being paid, if you have an idea for a different way of doing things that works better, it'll be accepted and supported even if it incurs ongoing maintenance, etc. (Well, assuming people decide it's worth the ongoing overhead, of course; I'm just saying that it's common in other supposedly open development organizations to only accept isolated improvements that make core developers' lives easier.)

I do miss the days when external contributors were a much bigger part. It's tough when people need to eat, and the system complexity has risen, making it harder to get started in many areas.

Contributors welcome!
My suspicion is that physical comedy is less relatable because the modern audience is less acquainted with physicality in general. Slapstick doesn't have quite have the same point if you've never given or received a slap, and making light of grievous injury and workplace accidents doesn't have the same ring when those aren't everyday facts of life.
Sorry for the belated reply; I just saw this. I suppose "may have accessed" was intended to communicate that in the title?
I went back to Safari after bouncing between Chrome and FFX and I’m so happy there. It’s quite a bit faster and uses far less resources.
> Surveilling your kids is not the answer. Full stop.

surveillance [1]

n. Close observation of person or group, especially one under suspicion.

n. The act of observing or the condition of being observed.

---

This is CERTAINLY your responsibility toward your children. (The lack of it is known as "neglect".)

Personally, I do not let my 6 year old go to the small neighborhood park by himself. But if he has a remote monitoring device, I do.

As he gets older, there will be other cases where he will be allowed to do things only under some type of supervision.

Obviously it varies by age and maturity, where age 0 requires earshot proximity, and age 17.5 requires comparatively minimal attention to diet, education, and recreation.

"No surveillance full stop" is simply wrong.

"No electronic surveillance" is I think unwise and ignores opportunities for safe, constructive experiences.

"No secret surveillance" is I think a fair statement.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/surveillance
haha, very interesting idea, check out angel.co
Probably not. It's one of these responses we see on every Haskell/Idris/etc. post, except this time is formatted as a sort of Concern Troll.

(I have no idea what would motivate a person to do such a thing, but people are weird.)
Hi!

I never liked adding toggle code to the apps I write, and after some time using Istio at work, I realized that we can accomplish the same effect by using routing rules in sidecar proxies.

Istio is pretty early and there are no good tools to leverage its full potential, let alone using its routing rules for feature flagging.

I built a visualization for the routes in the service mesh in a couple of days and the people who saw it were pretty happy. I am now working on the creation of flags, where routes are going to be created in the sidecar of each service involved in the feature.

Let me know what you thing, any feedback will be much appreciated!
Memories are formed and retrieved by the brain
How can the schools just allow any free product to be installed in their systems simply because someone offered them said service or product for free. These (test subjects) are our kids. There should be boundaries set forth by the law not to allow any said system or service to collect any data on kids under a given age.

I guess as long as someone offers security - it’s ok to disregard privacy.
I’ve seen a complete lack of arguments for why anybody should use Algo or Streisand. I don’t see the point. If you don’t trust VPN's, why trust literally anybody you choose to host a VPN, especially if there is arguably even less anonymity to be had.
Techcrunch doesn't have a problem, they did exactly what they were supposed to do: publish the information immediately.

The problem is that someone at Snap did not do what they were supposed to do. Rather than a broad disclosure, they made a limited one, which had a noticeable affect on the market.

And this is exactly the type of failure that the SEC likes to police. It's like to result in a small fine and/or binding agreement for Snap to broadly disseminate financial results in the future, rather than leaking financials to favored journalists.
I can't believe VPN can give you acceptable speeds for torrents tho...
I have never managed any factory plants. I don't plan to. This is not a "pain point"; it's abuse, and an obvious case of the Tragedy Of The Commons.
With AI, machines become expert at reading brain scans
Donate money to charity please. Don’t give money to this scumbag.