skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the voting mechanism is sll open source, simple image with has that is verified by many eyes. The international watchers and local ones can verify the machines at random by cloning the disk and comparing hash?
Haha, funny because its true. Maybe a neural core co-processor do the trick
You could say the same about purchasing alcohol in the 1920's. But today I'm sure you don't feel you're supporting organised crime when you have a beer.
Just drive a car with very low ground clearance. Problem solved?
Rock Climbing and the Economics of Innovation
>Do you actually have something concrete in mind here

Ideals codified in law. For example, the 1rst and 2nd Amendments.

When generalizing with national boundaries, I of course do not mean to imply that literally everyone born within those imaginary lines thinks the same.

Are there more specific categories I could use for these ideological classifications?
There are fields of science that have banned certain statistical measures:

Psychology journal bans P values

https://www.nature.com/news/psychology-journal-bans-p-values...

I happen to agree with the sentiment expressed above that the entire concept of hypothesis testing is fundamentally flawed. This is what you call the "best tool". It is not, it is the tool that is used because it allows for the most fudging of results.
In latin countries male names end in o, and girls names end in a.
Not saying that the current administration is trying to abuse this, but having the executive branch able to paralyze the body governing elections seems like a massive loophole.

Is this something that congress could (technically, not politically) fix themselves, or do they really depend on a nomination from the executive branch?
I saw the points, but I don't understand the fundamental premise underlying them. How can WeWork's valuation can be analyzed in terms of market trends when the market didn't set it or agree with it?
No one has yet mentioned but some people have built special keypads for inputting hexadecimal addresses. I remember seeing a patent a number of years ago for an "IPv6 keyboard". Not sure if he ever tried to mass produce it. A web search shows one website is selling something called an "IPv6 Buddy". Perhaps it is the same person, but I doubt it.
Untrue, legal suppliers are already supplying coca and poppy plants for medicinal purposes. So there's no reason to believe legalization wouldn't grow that industry just like the legal marijuana industry is growing.
Facebook do disallow clear voter suppression ads like that one, though. They have a specific rule banning voter suppression which applies to all advertisers including politicians, and they definitely enforce it. One of the articles going after their hands-off approach to political ads (I think in the Guardian) even specifically attacked them for banning this whilst leaving other lies alone.
I'm actually very surprised that Germany seems to be one of the top countries for IPv6 adoption with 44% in these statistics. How did that happen, the internet infrastructure here always seems to be in a very bad shape.
In this analogy, if the people are truly sheep, there is nothing to be done. Democracy is finished. The entire premise of Democracy is that voters can be trusted on average to make correct decisions on who should lead. If that premise is false, the wolves win in any scenario no matter what.
Yes, but imagine the savings if she had gotten treatment instead of 20 years of pointless punishment.
Dicts are implemented using hash tables and thus slow on pass to procedure that modify them. I had to switch to Python and then C when I encountered quadratic runtime using dicts.

I hope they will use something like hash-array-mapped trees someday. It will make things much faster.
One could extend that kind of reasoning to a number of so-called "legal" products and services being sold today.

Either directly or indirectly (degrees of separation), many simple acts of commerce fund things most would find abhorrent.

Diamonds are most definitely on that list still - despite all the noise and promises made; I am fairly certain so-called "blood diamonds" are still a part of the trade.

Gasoline (more concretely, oil) is another.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that various renewables have their own problems in a similar vein...

You can probably think of others.
Even Apple's been toying with similar things since the mid-90s, with Copland and the "Hi-Tech" theme. https://www.flickr.com/photos/maclab/488943849

Windows made it pretty easy to roll your own dark mode in the 9x days, and Kaleidoscope was around for Mac users.
There will not be another Dropbox.
War Elephants
It's like "peak oil." They keep saying we'll run out, but if we keep drilling or fracking, we keep finding more.
Hmm, I don't suppose they will revive pebble.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14703108/fitbit-bought-pe...
This is of course anecdata, but I've personally used BTC to send remittances in Venezuela.

I'm not sure how many people here use BTC as a means of preserving the value of their money since most people would rather hold USD, but for sending remittances, it cannot be beat.

As another interesting anecdote, my sister is in Argentina and a bunch of friends started asking her how to buy BTC before the election yesterday. Seems that those that managed to move their Argentine pesos to BTC did so just in time:
https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/argentina-central-bank-cu...
Dear Europe: Letters from JK Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Mary Beard and More
Money spent on ads directly doesn't reveal the actual budget of the campaign, as most of it was likely concealed in "news" in one shape or another.

>It's conversations like these that make me lose my temper.

Everybody thinks the other side is brainwashed. However, judging from your statements, the people you support are currently overwhelmingly in power so maybe you can find some consolation in that.
Thanks to the Federal War on Some Drugs.
Facebook advertisements are a public forum. Moreover, there is an intermediary party that can exercise review.

Direct mail is not a public forum. Moreover, who would accept or reject a direct mailing campaign?
A full web ui with issue tracker is a bit more than a small wrapper.
2 years max is my guess.
Where did I say anything about child pornography?!

Are you perhaps confused because I mentioned the Communications Decency Act? It's true that one of the purposes of the CDA was to regulate pornography on the internet (although I don't think it was about child pornography--the pornography concern was about children seeing pornography on the net), but those parts of the CDA were struck by the Supreme Court in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997).

The CDA also, in section 230, said that providers and users of interactive computer services are not to be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. Section 230 was not struct down in Reno v. ACLU, and remains in force.
Do it, the Versa 2 should have google not alex.
Thank you, this synthesis was way more helpful than most of the other comments here.
I was a bit surprised to find that quite a few of my friends who traditionally used Photoshop and Illustrator in their work either have transitioned to Affinity products, or are making a conscious effort to look for alternatives. I would have thought it would take longer and/or that people would be extremely tied to their tools.

But you do make a point. Often there is no obvious alternative. And changing tools has a cost.

Mostly because they want to pay for software and then not have it stop working on them for silly reasons, but also due to a general "bullshit fatigue" with Adobe. It isn't a company that cares a great deal about its users.

I did something similar a few years ago. After Oracle ended up buying Sun, I really wanted to stop using Java since I didn't feel Oracle was a company that I would want to do business with.

However, it took me several years to transition away from Java. I really liked Java. Finding a new programming language that is suitable for the kind of work you do, has enough of a community etc. isn't just a matter of deciding to move. You need somewhere to move to. Eventually Go evolved to where it fit my needs really well, so I managed to make the transition. 2-3 years later and I haven't touched Java since. (Which was somewhat unexpected. I didn't expect changing languages would be that fast, but it coincided well with new projects etc).

As for switching editors, VSCode managed to attract 2.6M monthly users in roughly 2 years. If you believe estimates of how many developers that are in the world, and you squint a bit when comparing numbers, that's roughly in the neighborhood of 10% of the global developer population.

My intuition says you are right. The data seems seems to suggest it wants to disagree with both of us :-)
They are unhinged. I've got worse things I've written than you because of my frustrations that I won't get into. We are in complete agreement, it seems, except on certain tactics. I will probably be more agreeable to your approach after 7pm, but I try to stay off HN after drinks.
Oh wow, I click on stuff and it just loads another boring html page in a few milliseconds. One request, 4-10KB HTML, and it's absolutely beautiful. It really speaks volumes when a website deliberately sticking to over 20 years old technology is a poster child for great UX.

Also small sidenote: Does it not properly sign the PGP test mails for anyone else?
I've been using Svelte for nearly 4 years now, with nearly 3 of those in production. Our entire site https://beyonk.com as well as our admin, backend, and client apps, widgets, and SDKs are all built in Svelte.

I'm a competent all-round developer, but I (was) more comfortable on the server-side than the client-side. However, Svelte has been the first framework (I've used Angular a lot, Vue a lot, and React somewhat) where I've felt fully comfortable working on the client-side too. It's clean, understandable, fast, and it makes sense. It's easy to maintain, and scale my frontend, whereas I've not felt that when I've built similar sized applications with other frameworks.

Svelte, logically, makes sense to me - the API is consistent and sensible, and I can often take a good guess at how to do something without reading the docs. Having no client-side dependencies makes it an absolute ideal fit for distributable libraries too - people can just "slot" our widgets into their site, in one line.

My criticism, as somebody else voiced, is testability. I'm a huge fan of testing, and I generally look for libraries and frameworks which are test-first/test-centric - for instance I use Hapi on the backend, not Express, for this exact reason. That's not to stay that Svelte isn't testable, it's just not been a focus of the framework, and I'd really like it to be. I've had success using [https://github.com/testing-library/svelte-testing-library](h..., and it works well.

I originally built Beyonk in Nuxt but I switched over to Svelte as I had prior knowledge of it, and felt like Vue wasn't quite as nice to code in. After doing so my code was much terser, cleaner, and easier to understand, so I stuck with it and built out the other applications directly in Svelte.

I don't think I could face using any other framework after using Svelte, it would feel like a backwards step. Single-file components are a massive bonus, and scoped styles... I don't know how I lived without them.

It's worth mentioning that when I first learned Svelte (v1) it took me 45 minutes to get the basics and build what I wanted to build. I think the current v3 API could be learned from scratch by a decent frontend developer within a day. That learning curve is drastically lower than that of any other frontend framework I know, and for that reason I'm not concerned about hiring for Svelte.

I think that's about it really. I really enjoy, and in fact, look forward to writing code in Svelte on a daily basis - and for me, that was historically something I never expected to say!
I think is the issue is where this leaves cyclists, who are also supposed to obey signals and traffic direction restrictions.
Maybe now they'll fix a 3-year old Android bug that prevents simple BLE scanning from working after several weeks.
Worth reading: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...
A man who rigged America’s election maps
... well it’s not the 1920s, so you’re not supporting organized crime...
that is the cliche definition of insanity:

"doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."

probably the most common mistake students everywhere make. They keep taking more courses - it never helps just makes you more confused.
I'm currently running a pfSense router at home, which has limited IPv6 support. Does anyone have any suggestions for something with more extensive IPv6 support?

Specifically what I need is something which can handle my ISP only handing me a /64, and can smoothly handle prefix changes (update firewall rules etc).

Ideally also being able to register/update LAN clients on dyndns service so I don't need to install an update client locally on every device.
TSMC and GlobalFoundries Dismiss All Litigation, Announce Patent Cross-License
I hope that's true. I suspect that if it is, it only is until one or two teams does it successfully and monetizes that outcome. Then it's open season.

That's a trend in computing. It's forever too hard, until all of a sudden it isn't for a very select few and they do amazing things[1]. Then a year or two later everyone is doing it.

1: Amazing is relative, and in this case may be less about customers getting something amazing and more about to the execs looking at amazing profit reports...
Hacker News Doesn't Work over IPv6
This statement confuses me. What one or two counties contain the majority of the US population? If elections moved to a popular vote, it would be much harder to rig the election because you'd need to manipulate the whole country, rather than a few key states.
Right.

In my defense, I may have mistaken it for a login button of some kind. Usually the login link goes at the top right. It's uncommon for the "buy" button to be in the top navbar. It's usually at the same level as the product being presented.
Nokia's tire division makes studded bicycle tires. The problem bicycling on ice with these tires is the threat of cars sliding into you.
Another recent SMBC was about the Elitzur Vaidman bomb tester, which I had never heard of before, and after staring at Wikipedia for a while, I have a somewhat better understanding of what quantum interference means, and sort of proved to myself that all this quantum stuff is actually real/has potential useful applications.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/duuude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_t...
relevant podcast:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/headlong-surviving-y2k
With illegal pornography there is a victim and funding the criminal would logically make someone complicit. Same goes for funding murder videos. There is a victim so there is a crime. If you watch the videos of murder/porn for free - are you actually enabling the crime to happen? That's a gray area for some, but for me I'm fine with that being ignored so we can focus all resources on stopping the clear-cut criminals who made the videos.
> Obviously Tether (or any private stablecoin like Libra) is even worse than a regulated fiat currency, and should be strictly illegal.

Having a system of tokens that serve as an IOU to a stable basket of goods should be illegal? That's essentially how banks work, you give them money, they give you an IOU. I imagine a stable coin could be designed with enough proofs and audits to give you certainty. I think a well administered stable coin could have a transformative role in many areas that have capital controls, similar restrictions or high inflation.
Where do Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina stand after recent elections?
>> The Symbian documentation team was tiny, perhaps 20 people at most. At an offsite we would pretty much fit round two tables at most. ... Source: I was there.

> What's the purpose of the throwaway account for this?

My guess is they want keep their other account pseudonymous, and admitting that they were one of a specific team of 20 people at a specific company goes a long way towards unambiguously identifying them. At a minimum, one of their teammates could probably ID them.
$ ping -6 news.ycombinator.com

ping: news.ycombinator.com: Name or service not known

There is no AAAA record :/
Not really by enough to matter unless it's somewhere in the range of being worth more as scrap than as a car. But if that's the case then I'd think so.
In the recent Canadian election, the conservatives used Facebook to target Asian Canadians with ads falsely claiming that the liberals wanted to legalize hard drugs.

It shouldn’t be facebooks job to police that though, we should have legal recourse when that happens
I don't think it's fair to compare the community of a framework which is less than half the age of the ones you are comparing it to, but I agree community is a big one - luckily I've found the Svelte community super helpful, so I've really not suffered at all.

As for 3rd party libraries - it's ludicrously easy to integrate anything you want with Svelte. I've built wrappers for Vue and React before, and I can safely say that it isn't necessary for Svelte. Things just work.
There are some performance related topics covered in the Docker chapter regarding schedulers. And there are improvements already merged for Erlang 23 to remove the need for as much manual tweaking -- for example in 23 the VM will only start a scheduler per-cpu the cgroup actually allows, so if you are limited to 2 "cpus" by the cgroup there will only by 2 active schedulers.

Erlang does have the option to bind schedulers to processors but I don't know of any real world usage of it:

Binding Schedulers: http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#+sbt

Custom CPU Topologies: http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#+sct
Promote it in the abstract, or promote a very specific war.

The first seems inside the line to me (stuff like 'support our troops' or 'Join the army, take the fight to our enemy'). The second is past the line (stuff like 'we need boots on the ground in Syria, write your senator!').

I guess legally there is a difference between 'promoting violence between citizens' and 'promoting violence in war'. Since the first is usually illegal, and the second is not.
It's good that the banks can be bailed out. It's good there's some inflation. It saves capitalism from itself (the rich acummulating all or practically all the coins).
Don’t Offload Your Memory Quite Yet: Cognitive Science, Memory, and Education
My dream would be to have dedicated bike lanes not shared with automobile traffic.
I'll take the under on that
> Apple should release the AW from the walled garden and allow it to work on Android

Basically. Sure, I'm generally biased towards Apple products, but it just seems like wasted effort they all develop their own phone, smart speaker, virtual assistant, watch, etc. I don't feel like its doing the traditional "competition making everyone better." Instead it feels more like a checklist of portfolio items.

I do see the value in integrating with your own stuff, but I just don't see these product categories improving that much. When any big company buys one of these smaller companies I feel like the wish is that they stay the same and ignore them. I can't really think of any of these cases where I've been happier at the result.

The best bet is probably something like Withings. It was acquired by Nokia in 2016 and sold back to the founder in 2018. My pre-2016 scale still works and connects great. Sure, we might not have these companies at all if they weren't acquired, but they also wouldn't have been built up the same way if their goal wasn't a big buyout.
AFAIK it can, though I don't use it - I don't trust these sites that much. Web flow of paying with my bank account is fast enough, and with recent popularization of a mobile payment system, the flow can be as fast as pulling out my phone, PIN-authing to my bank app, typing a six digit number shown on my phone into a web form, and confirming the purchase on the phone. Takes 30 seconds.
> remember how the Department of Justice has deputized every financial institution in the US (and many outside of the US)

Most people simply have no idea how wide, deep and far the sinister arm of the US KYC/AML process reaches in the world economy, the level of control and power it grants the USG, and how much inflamed badwill the US is collecting internationally because of that.

Russia and China and trying as hard as they can to get out of the USD system for a reason. I can't wait for them to succeed in lifting the yoke of the US currency reserve, and when they do, the world will be a much better place.
The system works amazingly well. In a couple years of walking through midtown, I only saw one person get hit by a car and they walked out from behind a food truck into traffic, nowhere near a crosswalk. The car couldn't have done anything about it.

When I first moved there I was annoyed by everyone ignoring the signals. Then I came to appreciate it as an efficient way of getting around the city. Pedestrians (and bikes and cars) all used the signals as general guidelines, but would go when it was safe, because otherwise you're never going to get anywhere.

I'm not saying that everyone everywhere should ignore traffic signals, but it seems to work well in New York City.
You can't just dismiss the demographic argument. The beautiful thing about demographic arguments, unlike just about everything in macroeconomics is it's predictable decades in advance in its magnitude. China really fucked themselves with their one-child policy, there's no way to fix that aside from mass immigration and I don't see that happening, do you? So demographics will eat them in the end.

The US have had enough immigration, legal and illegal, that the aging baby-boomers (much milder than what China has to face to begin with) won't be as bad.
> I feel like there is a huge market for ages <21

> I understand that accident rates among this demographic are incredibly high and that would complicate your liability.

As you mention, the liability cost is simply very high for drivers under the age of 25 (prefrontal cortex is not yet fully developed), which is why most rental car companies do not service that age cohort.
Motives for Writing Free Software (GNU)
My roommate bakes bread and it’s messy. Flour everywhere, steam pan, the bread spatula tray, multiple utensils for various steps, all the paper and plastic wraps. I mean the bread is nice, but if you’re not very careful and cleaning as you go it’s a lot. Definitely not 30 minutes of work, more like 1.5 hours with all the cleaning.
Absolutely true: if it's not well documented, it's not a product, it's borderline useless. Apple is just one of many 'big companies' that strangely under-document so many products, frankly it's bizarre.

If you don't have good docs, tutorials and snippets, it's not 'done'.

iOS, Qt, many frameworks: spending days, sometimes literally weeks writing 'tiny experiment code' to navigate the ambiguities or missing parts of docs, it feels totally unacceptable to have to do this.

This is a hugely important statement the author is making.
That's sort of the beauty of Svelte. The surface area is minimal, and as such - though there are gotchas, you can almost count them on one hand.

I learned to use Svelte (granted, v1), in 45 minutes, and build something using it. I guarantee that a developer won't need 2 weeks to become comfortable in it.
I don’t understand. Using statistics doesn’t imply using normal distributions.