skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With paper ballots

That's good and all, but in the 4 states I've voted in, only one had a paper ballot. 3 were me showing up to the polling place and pressing buttons on a monitor. The 4th mails me a ballot, I fill things in, and send it back (so no receipt either).

Given my experience, and that several others tell me they do similar things, I don't understand your counter argument. We already do not have paper ballots to check. There is ZERO verification currently. If those ballots are printed out from the electronic machine that I voted on, well you still have to trust that a corporation did not mess with anything and printed out the wrong ballot, or just didn't print yours out. The way we are doing things and the way we used to do things don't enable the trust that you are suggesting.

But let's assume that the year is 2000 and we're voting on a paper ballot. We don't get to take a copy home. Once we leave we don't know what happens to that ballot in the box. Has our vote been counter? Did we fully punch out the paper chad? Did our ballot get lost when a country wide controversy started and my ballot got mailed around the state several times? Can I verify that the government's decision of how to count my vote reflected my actual intention?

The answer to these is that you can't do any verification of this. So I rather kinda like the idea of a website that I can go to and check that my vote was counted correctly and matches. The triviality of it from the voter side makes this process easy. Does it solve all verifiablity problems within the pipeline? No. Does it solve some? Yeah.

Personally I'd rather take a step forward, even if that step is small.
oh cool. last version i checked i could not import my passwords
>He spoke out against vaccines on Facebook, and suggested using papaya leaves and/or vitamin C instead.

In other words, he suggested people in the midst of an outbreak of a deadly, contagious but treatable disease avoid that treatment in favor of homeopathic bullshit that will only result in more deaths and further contagion.

Believing he should be allowed to do so without consequence shows a complete lack of empathy for his victims.
This is... not the result I was expecting.

I hope Elon Musk still takes this as a learning experience despite the good outcome (from his perspective and that of his companies).
I use the cmd directory for my main files, setups, etc... but use project root level packages for the bulk of the business logic. I kinda go the impression here that he uses cmd for all source.
> DBAs are willing to put up with quite a bit, and I can't figure out why. The engines themselves are phenomenal works of engineering; the usage of it is utterly pathetic

Perhaps they don't want their programs to bloat until they can read email.
Tinkerbell, a Provisioning Engine by Packet
Looking through your code, the text character set seems to be coming from the original ROM image. Is that correct? What I thought was interesting was that the glyphs appear 100% identical to the original Apple II character set, down to the pixel. Was there some kind of unexplored connection between Space Invaders and Apple, back in the day?
You don't even need false positives. Just identifying more people who have warrants out will cause innocent people to die. Every time an AI gets a hit and calls the police the public is at risk. The police are simply not professional enough to be expected to rush into a situation where they have no knowledge other than there's someone there they want to arrest and not have an unacceptably high chance of leaving death and destruction in their wake. Calling the cops more because we have AI doing it will result in more death regardless of the accuracy of the AI. If cops could be trusted to show restraint swatting wouldn't be a thing.
Why wouldn't you import the missing food then?

If it's profitable to export soy from the US to china it most certrainly is profitable to import food from africa or australia after a storm.
Anil - whats been the biggest challenge in going single product? Or has it been smooth sailing?
The vaccination debate makes me sad and pessimistic. I am an avid proponent of vaccination in general but also of people's right to refuse them.

It's remarkable that things like Tuskegee are so quickly forgotten, and upsetting to me how quickly the issues become so oversimplified. I feel alienated in believing education, transparency, and rewards for prosocial behavior are the best way forward.
I love this site! Great work!
Would be curious on how much their Joe Rogan is responsible for their Q4 spike.
> Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase "pedo guy" was common in South Africa, where he grew up.

I just went searching in the obvious place, and it's almost like this was planted for people like me: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pedo%20guy&d...
I love playing with fpgas, but the compile time and size limitations are always horrendous or simply not tenable for most applications. This library narrows that down to be even worse [0]. On most of alteras chips you'd be hard pressed to fit a few of their own filter libraries, let alone your own code. Honestly I'm not sure what you would use a tool like this for. If you want asic development, you will likely need to use an hdl for better synthesis. If you want dot net languages, you are going to want a regular cpu.

Can someone tell me what this would actually be used for? I'm sitting here scratching my head.

[0] > Currently only the Nexys 4 DDR board (which is NOT the same as the non-DDR Nexys 4, be sure to purchase the linked board!) is supported, so you'll need to purchase one. Note that this is a relatively low-end development board that can't fit huge algorithms and it only supports slow communication channels. So with this board Hastlayer is only suitable for simpler algorithms that only need to exchange small amount of data.
if they pull a facebook? i m off, and i m sure many, many will.
The spin would be "US cuts off global internet in a petty attempt to interfere with China's management of its own network". Justified by a technical backstory that approximately nobody understands, I don't think it would play well even outside of China.
Is the cosmic expansion accelerating? All signs still point to yes [pdf]
The summary here has it all laid out:

>They find that supply factors such as wages in the education sector and state appropriations to higher education both play important roles in explaining changes in college tuition inflation. In contrast, they find little evidence that demand factors such as changes in the availability of student loans have a significant effect on college tuition.
I don't think that last line is helpful. If you believe that the Chinese government is akin to the Nazi party, better to make the argument explicitly than to use a term like "Chinazis", which could be interpreted as overly broad and highly insulting in the best case.
The issue here is should individuals be responsible for the consequences of actions of others given their speech.

I think the classical answer is No. I think it's anti enlightenment thinking to punish people for their discourse.

https://youtu.be/myo7uSM91bc
It's not that surprising when you consider that the British guy opened the conversation by suggesting that Musk stick his submarine up his ass. That kind of set the tone of the conversation, i.e. mean and figurative.
from the letter it doesnt seem he can do more with shares than without
Isn't this not the same thing as AI that can beat humans at things like Bridge where the bidding game matters quite a lot? IIRC in Hanabi the fact that there is imperfect information does not really matter that much for strategy, where as in things like League of Legends or Bridge or many of those types of games it really does matter quite a lot.
It's called hyperlink and doesnt require any code or javascript to run. Maybe excessive requests to same IP could be throttled by a user agent.

An outbound browser firewall could helps also.
Amazon Leases New Manhattan Office Space, Less Than a Year After HQ2 Pullout
So the question is:

Did they rule for Elon because of some legal technicality?

Or was it because of the exorbitant defamation claim?

Or was it because Elon was correct in his claim?
In related news it turns out Elon Musk himself is a pedophile. He rapes children.
Yeah, I enjoy using it but I use 4 different devices throughout the day and not having sync and the clunkiness of its sync (sometimes it doesnt work at all for me on my home network between desktop/laptop) actually pushed me back over to Firefox yesterday when I got a new laptop.

I also finally got sick of the ads popping up as system notifications, which are far more distracting to me than regular ads, so I disabled that.
Seriously? All it takes is just a quick look into manual.

https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Ph...
> DNSSEC does not have E2E validation

My comment compared the strengths of each protocol with the fairest interpretation of each. Your judgement here does not do this - it's obvious that a stub resolver relying on a third party to do verification is braindead, and clients doing a full recursive lookup is the correct answer. How clients are currently setup has little bearing on discussion of a protocol's properties.

> Nobody needs "permission" to protect their queries with DoH

This is also false if you compare the protocols on equal footing - if the authoritative servers are not speaking DoH/DoT, then queries are only partially protected. In order to do "DoH across the path" as you said above, cooperation is needed.

> A better plan would be to take DNSSEC back to the drawing board and come up with a modern alternative to it

Sure, but this becomes harder when things like DoH are touted as being a sufficient replacement...
India banned TikTok for a few months: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/tiktok-ban-india-users/i...
Gosh, I wish I could re-read the whole with in context, now.
Do not yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, especially if there is no fire.
One man's rights can't be violated to save a few hundred/thousand lives?
Ideally, they shouldn't be but in a state of emergency, you can bet they will be and the Courts can sort it out after the fact.

It's not exactly like they took him out back and shot him for disagreeing. Though, it would be super ironic if he caught measles while locked up.
LOL all of those terms were created this year in just recent months?

Holy scam
Those children didn't die from a vaccine, and you're fundamentally wrong to imply that they did. They died because of human error administering a vaccine. If you put some vaccine into a bullet and then shoot someone in the face with it, they died because they got shot in the face, not because vaccines are dangerous.

Of course things can go wrong in medicine, but that's not related to vaccines. If this is the kind of concern you have, you should never allow any doctor to put a needle in you, because it might be contaminated with something. You also shouldn't take any medications prescribed by a doctor because the pharmacist might mix them up with something. You certainly shouldn't ever have surgery, because the surgeon might misread the chart and perform the wrong procedure. Of course errors are possible in medicine, but that doesn't mean that needles/medications/surgery are inherently dangerous, it just means that human error happens. If you choose to never use healthcare for that reason, then you're wildly irrational (which is fine, just don't harm children because of your wild irrationality).
For me the key to avoid isolation are my hobbies...

The main two that helps me with that are to ride my bicycle at least twice per week and to play Jazz jam sessions on a pub nearby.

also... wife + kids + regular family time... all that helps a lot! =)
It hinged on whether "pedo guy" was an actual attempt to brand someone as a pedophile, or whether it was an insult, which, at least in the US, is protected free speech.

Looks like the jury decided the latter.
It was my understanding that these methods profile performance of the API which will execute at different speeds on different devices. The samples themselves shouldn't be different if they're using AudioBuffer and typed arrays.
If you give your data to them, it's legitimate for them to use the data. You literally signed away your rights when accepted their ToS.

I would go for clearer definitions of what personal data are, several most important kinds of it. Maybe a regulation should require that ToS clearly state how these data are going to be collected, accessed, and stored. Much like with medical or financial records.

Then most users would just make more informed decisions, and that might also inform their online behavior and expectations.

People are mostly not dumb, they just need clear information.
(From the most-upvoted post)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pedo%20guy&d...
"Tech giant agrees to take 335,000 square feet in Hudson Yards neighborhood in deal without any financial incentives from city or state"

But Hudson Yards certainly gave them large incentives, as is customary for such anchor tenants.
That seems excessive. Flat earthers are a tiny minority and almost completely harmless as far as I know.
If everyone around you is much better than you, and you are aware enough to see it. Stay! This is a fantastic place to learn new things and improve your perspective.

You may find that they’re not quite as amazing as they first seemed a few months or year down the line. But if they are, your own progress is likely to be much higher than at another place.
What would be the amount of damage caused in this case?
Yikes. Now I know what kind of content is hidden behind flagged comments.
This is not the standard in the US (although it's an incredibly common misconception), which is defined by Brandenberg v. Ohio, and requires " "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."[0] In other words, it must not only have a purpose of inciting _lawless_ (not dangerous) action, but likely to produce said action.

Additionally, while the case involves "fire in a crowded theater", it's in a substantially more narrow concurrence that holds that the speech would have to, additionally, _actually produce_ said action. Under existing the "fire in a crowded theater standard" suggested here, yelling "FIRE" in a packed theater, but everyone ignoring you would be protected.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
> we really need is a way to pay for content so content creators can survive

So, just buy more BAT and you dont need to see ads. other people may not be able to afford paying, so they 'll prefer to see ads

> but leaves the advertiser in the game. Why?

The printing press, radio and TV always had ads, why? becuase it's the most natural fit, and it allows them to have more / better content. ad-supported content is not going away. A world with more options is always better
Isn't the answer quite simple? There is no demand.

We have reached the point where shipping 1.2B Smartphone per year is called massive, comparing to 200M PC market where 150M of those are laptop ( Soldered and non Socketed ).

You cant buy a self made ARM PC. But there will be Qualcomm ARM Laptop. And the AWS ARM CPU are based on ARM N1 Design, it is only a matter of time somebody make the same CPU, or System integrator selling CPU made from other ARM CPU vendor such as Fujisu, Ampere, Huawei, Marvell, or possibly Nvidia and others.

I dont see much of a problem in getting ARM access as consumers.
"I thought if we could encourage sharing of ideas between different areas of knowledge, perhaps more of the bigger picture would emerge, and eventually more wisdom might develop. Sort of a trickle-up theory of information leading to knowledge leading to wisdom.

This was the underlying inspiration for HyperCard..."
Unfortunately, this is only one signal among many, and it's not a reliable one. It's like saying a good gambler is one who is lucky at the slots. Sure, but...

You'd be better off injecting a large amount of uncertainty into your estimates, and planning around that. If that kiboshes a project, it kiboshes it. Better to fire your devs because you have nothing (feasible) to work on, than to fire them three months later because the project was late, because you have to pay them in the second scenario.
> Hardly anyone thinks that it's "worth it" to pay a fine for dumping trash on the side of the road. Dumpers just assume -- cynically but correctly -- that the chances of being caught are negligible at present.

I know it's not the point you were trying to make but people dump trash because it's easier/cheaper than getting rid of it the "right way". Where I grew up there was one scrap place that only took non-ferrous metals and the towns all charged $20-$50 to dispose of it at the dump (scrap metal is usually something you get paid for, not pay to get rid of). Likewise washing machines and refrigerators and whatnot adorned highway rest stops and the ends of dead end roads. Then a real scrap place that took ferrous metals opened up and not only did the existing dumped stuff vanish but you never saw one again.

Point is that there's a class of petty crimes that are like video piracy, people wouldn't do it if the "right" thing was cheap and convenient enough.
Where I vote, we use paper ballots. They're still widely used, even in the 21st century. The state of election security in the USA is appalling. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/buying_used_v... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_elec...

You are also able to volunteer to take part in the counting, or to observe the whole process. Sure, when you leave, you don't know that nothing bad happened, but you don't have to leave until the end of the process. In my jurisdiction, you can be part of the process that determines whether a vote is distinct (and should be voted) or not.

It sounds like you've already taken many steps backwards in your voting system, so this further step doesn't seem so bad, but it's still worse than a properly run paper system.
Yeah, the Cedrus VPU is already supported upstream: https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

That page is a bit out of date, I think the support has improved since then.
Because it "pedo guy" is an insult, which is protected speech.
> I pay a substantial portion of my income in rent. That's not because my landlord is satisfying my wants or needs.

If you don't need or want shelter then why are you paying the rent? Clearly the landlord is providing something of value to you.

> The social utility of taxation is simply that in a democracy, the people can decide what they need.

Nonsense. People can decide what they need perfectly well in the absence of taxation. It isn't a prerequisite for fair arbitration, travel, or health care either—all of these things have at one point or another been provided without any government involvement whatsoever.
Vala is about as easy to learn as any language could ever be. If you have experience with Java, C++, C# or D you can probably already read 97% of Vala code. And if it’s your first statically typed language, it’s one of the simplest.

Plus, most people don’t know most languages, so no matter what you choose, most devs have a language barrier. Vala, again, is very easy to pick up — certainly easier than C or C++ and probably easier than Java/C#/D.
> What we really need is a way to pay for content so content creators can survive without ad revenue.

I think there's been some confusion (partly because of Brave's confusing marketing). I didn't even realize there was the pay-the-user-for-ads thing. I was only talking about the micro-payments from users to sites.
Jet-powered VTOL drone is like a quadcopter on steroids
They should tackle Starcraft II next like DeepMind has with AlphaStar, or at least a similar real time RTS like Starcraft with a fog of war and a partially observable state.
Israeli scientists find way to treat deadly pancreatic cancer in 14 days in mice
>especially

I mean, if there is a fire, it’s probably ok to yell about it.
VR looks shitty in video through the lenses too, but it's actually really cool. I wouldn't have been put off buying a Vive by lackluster video captures, because people were saying really good things about it (or, at least, a lot of the things I wanted to hear to convince me to be an early adopter).

I guess Magic Leap's problem is that their product is thoroughly meh. Nobody is raving about it (that I'm aware of), and nothing I've seen makes me feel like going out of my way to try one.
The learning experience is that Musk can get away with practically anything.
Fundamentally, I don't see anything wrong with this. People are already encouraged to use "password managers", which is essentially a workaround for the fact that most sites should not be using traditional password authentication. This system is basically forcing a similar level of security offered by password managers by enforcing the use of autogenerated (and therefore non-shared) passwords.

The main reason you hash passwords is so that if your database is compromised, it's difficult for an attacker to use that information to authenticate to another system. If your system is just an application that manipulates the database, it doesn't make much sense to protect the data from someone who has access to the database.

The main improvement I would make is instead of including the password directly in the email, include a time-limited link that can be used to view the password. This way, a single leak of the user's inbox doesn't provide access to their account on this system.
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but the Linux desktop ecosystem (hardware and software) doesn't get the investment it needs to be on-par with Mac. It's cheaper and easier to jettison Docker than MacOS.
That's nice! I noticed a modal but I closed before reading it. I could parse (not in time to avoid closing) that it was welcoming HN users.

I am curious now what it was saying.

EDIT: Got it again, it says:

"Welcome Hacker News Readers

Before you quickly exit out of this popup, consider subscribing for $10/month for your first 3 months"

I was quicker than they expected lol
> With the multi-level memory caches and instruction-level parallelism of today’s CPUs, a single cache miss may cost as much as 1000 arithmetic issue slots – a huge increase in relative cost.

Does this mean that the value of these additions are partially diminished because of spectre and meltdown vulnerability fixes?
Really makes you think that the entire HQ2 spectacle was a sham to extract financial incentives from New York City all along.
The impact of fear of failure by one of the UK's best climbers [video]
Disclaimer: I’ve been using/testing Brave for the last few years. I've seen it evolve from what was basically a proof of concept running in Electron to what it is today.

I believe if you care to do some research, you'll see that the Brave team has put in the work to be taken seriously.

I get why people are skeptical, especially in this day and age. But the concept for Brave and disrupting the surveillance capitalism known as ad tech goes back to 2013; Brave is not a johnny-come-lately thing[1].

This was started by Brendan Eich, the same guy who created JavaScipt and who started Mozilla which gave us Firefox; it's not like he's someone who doesn't understand how this stuff works.

[1]: https://basicattentiontoken.org/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-ze...
> there's a lot of people who seem to operate on the presumption that in the long term, their side is going to have complete control of the government indefinitely

I think you are confusing outcome for mechanism. The idea is that once their side wins, they'll clamp down so hard on wrong-think that the other side effective ceases to exist. It will be like elections under a dictator: sure there's another party, but if you vote for them you get a free trip to the re-education camp and get erased from all databases.