skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because one can buy you a nice yacht, but the other can buy control over the most powerful military in the world, the stakes are just significantly larger for an election.

The reward provides a sort of ceiling on how much time and money can be spent on trying to break a system. Even if you could get access to a few billion dollars by somehow "hacking" a bank and get away with it, that means that you'd only be spending up to a few billion to do it, and you may spend a few years to plan, but not much more.

But trying to "hack an election"? I would be shocked if there weren't multiple countries spending billions of dollars across literally decades of time trying to find the best way to influence and hack elections in other countries.

Do you really think that ANY software is secure enough to withstand a team of a few thousand of some of the most talented developers money can buy working full time for decades on trying to break it? Because that's the kind of threats that elections face. And if that election happens at all on the internet, the adversaries can be literally anywhere in the world and still attack it.

There are also auxiliary reasons why electronic voting isn't ideal. It removes the ability for the average person to validate the security of their election themselves without a software engineering degree (in a paper election anyone can go watch the locked ballot box all day to ensure there is no tampering, and they can count along with everyone else at the end of the day). It introduces accessibility issues, it adds unnecessary bottlenecks and dependencies (there have been countless stories of there not being enough voting machines or them breaking down causing lines to get multiple hours long and in many cases prevent people from being able to vote before polls close. There's even evidence this has been done on purpose to sway elections by preventing people in some areas from voting as much as people in others), and it's really expensive!

And what are the benefits to electronic voting? slightly faster counting? (you can get results in minutes instead of hours...)
Ask HN: What are good resources on web scraping?
I am learning Python for data mining and analysis. Please suggest your favorite books, blogs, guides, or tutorials.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22126084
I would pry the RFID chip from the one you bought and transfer it to the new one.
This is usually factored in by the procurement group though, along with discounts relative to purchasing power.
I find I do most things with more focus if I can talk through the process.

It externalizes my inner monologue which is multithreaded and makes it more or less single-threaded so I'm able to stay focused. It also serves as a check on my brain.

I suspect this is why Pointing-and-Calling reduces errors in Japanese workers [1].

Unfortunately it's not socially acceptable to talk to yourself. If only there was an invention like headphones, but for speech, a sort of a "cone of silence", I suspect it would improve my effectiveness by 10-20%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
Why do they use RFID instead of exposing the contacts (like on a SIM card, or other ISO7816 card)?
Agreed about the use of language, and I wasn't being literal either. Nobody believes the cartoonish notion described by saas_sam. What they actually believe is that people who think they are self-reliant conveniently forget or downplay the other factors, i.e. they are not as self-reliant as they like to believe.
I really liked this viewpoint. I feel like it's not uncommon to go over to someone's house and the ice maker or water has "broken". The good news for GE is I just say, "Oh, all fridges suck" and not "Wow, this is a GE fridge? They're unreliable."

(Which, not for nothing, is harder given all the diffusion brands. For GE, that includes Monogram, Café, Profile, Haier, and Hotpoint.)
If it is labelled clearly when you buy the fridge, its far. If it is hidden, then it is not.

Perhaps Libertarians would jump in? Choice made with knowledge founds their original philosophy.
Fairway was mismanaged and looted by private equity
Killer plague game (Plague Inc.) tops charts amid coronavirus
> Wojcicki has theories, but she doesn’t have clear proof for why consumers are shying away from getting tests

Because the ones that want them have gotten them and there's no reason to ever buy the product again once you've done it once.

I mean, smartphones are great, but the market for them would have hit a wall pretty quickly if no one ever had a reason to replace them after buying their first.
Keybase comes with social tools to verify identity. Would be pretty silly to see a military personnel profile in public view.
It seems about as charitable as a profit driven corporation, which was being evaluated.

On a less snarky note: We've been repeatedly shown that companies act in their own self interest, and put out as cover reasons that are more socially acceptable.

But also, I think "restricting consumer choice because their warranty wouldn't cover it" is a terrible reason, and shouldn't be socially acceptable.
Physical contacts are usually the flimsiest part of a system aren't they? Probably costs more as well to have connections! RFID is so cheap they put them in paper clothes tags.
My interpretation is that he meant it's alarming to see the government suddenly openly suggesting an e2e messenger because it might hint to the agencies having discovered a hole in the Signal protocol.

I highly doubt that personally, but that's what I read from nimbius comment.
Traditional Chinese magicians calling for censorship of their tricks (2019)
It seems like you're basically telling people to sit down, shut up, and listen without questioning anything. Why not just let people think for themselves?
I've been using Mint daily for 12 years.

The #1 thing that I need from Mint is 100% reliable integrations so it can automatically pull all my data, which it no longer provides. I have been talking to their support for about a year asking to fix an integration with US's largest mortgage servicer.

The #2 thing is reliable inference of transaction categories. That's also starting to wither. Categories are all over the place.

Everything else I really don't care about. Even if there's on interface and just a big "Export to CSV" button I'd be thrilled about it.
Hrm.. sounds awfully like Juicera. Possibly worse. I wonder how these kinds of decisions are approved at the management level. Do they have their heads buried in sand? Is their appliance business so unprofitable that they're willing to take any risk?
The year is 2035.

Your refrigerator refuses to work because of a comment overheard by your thermostat that was construed by AI as being insufficiently supportive of your countries corporate foreign policy objectives.

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
Where I used to live water was more like 60 deg F in the winter.

Where I live now it's 58 in the summer, 53 in the winter. After going in all summer I couldn't wait to see what 53 does to you.

I'm the only person out there in a speedo, everybody else is in a body suit. Beach walkers are bundled up. I'd like to know the effects on brown fat.

First time I did it I felt stoned afterwards. I don't really get that feeling anymore but I definitely feel better. My cold tolerance is high throughout the week.

At first the water is too cold for my feet but over the course of 20 minutes I don't feel anything at all. Helps that I'm over 25% body fat. I finally get up to my neck. It's still difficult to repeatedly put my head underwater because you get something akin to brain freeze.

The scientific benefits of full-body sun + salt water absorption through skin + cold body exposure are not popular, even if the science has been done. My common sense tells me it's great for me.
> respect other peoples decision making

That is absolutely not my default position. Respect of that sort requires earning and it's pretty rare anyone manages to do so.

> your judgement of value is not more or less valid than the judgements of others

Have you ever met humans? Never driven through a "Cash for Gold, Guns and Pawn" neighborhood? I am very confident that there is such a concept as value judgement systems being more or less useful to the folks that employ them.

> Valuation isn't subjective and and therefore the value anyone honestly pays for any object is _always valid_.

Im not sure what mistake(s) you are making in your life that you seek to justify through this belief system you've outlined here, but the fact that you do feel justified indicates to me that is of the flavor (majority-identity affluence) of owning a suit the price of which could feed a word-median-income family for a year or a luxury sedan for which you paid more than some folks' entire lifetime earning potential, which sure, man, you can do whatever you want because you have been blessed with the privilege and I don't really feel like arguing about that.

The fact of the matter (and you can use this to judge me however you feel like and dismiss the entire concept of having any responsibility for what you choose to value or accepting the consequence of other people being free to judge you for it) is that my mother doesn't cook, eat healthy meals, or have food in her fridge because she "has no money" because, while she makes quite a lot of money in global economy terms (and well above average even for her socioeconomic background in the US) she has a value system where she will value booze or drugs or fast food more than having cost effective and nutritious meal options or any amount of money sitting in any kind of liquid form. She doesn't go to the doctor when she should because despite having a really good government employee health benefits, she doesn't have the cash on hand to cover the (relative to her income) trivial copay amounts and because she values "not having to know how bad it is or do anything about it" more than "knowing what I need to do in order to be healthy". I will get to watch her suffer and die as a consequence of her value systems, powerless to help her without jeopardizing my own quality of life because of the ramifications of this assertion of yours here being false.
Our GE fridge allows third party filters like the very popular amazon one. Is this just in the very latest GE models perhaps?
We are so often told that war is human nature, but how many people in your life use violence as their go-to solution to problems? I bet none of them do.

Violence and aggression are glorified in the media, but when people get into a fight in a public place? Does it make them more attractive to bystanders or raise their prestige? Clearly not.
Oh boy.

Thanks for links. I know, and have occasionally crossed swords with, most of the players mentioned.

Our conservation districts fund their own elections. They don't have the budget to pay to be on the normal ballot. The only fix would be for state government to appropriate the money. People like Toby Nixon have floated this reform at various times the last 20 years. Otherwise, there's no push.

Current WA SOS Wyman is ok, for a Republican. While she does nothing to expand the franchise, she does not share Sam Reed's, her predecessor and mentor, technophilia.

KC Exec Constantine absolutely knows better. He played a role in both of my efforts to protect the secret ballot (prohibit voter id from being printed on ballot) and delaying a major risky overhaul of KC Elections in 2008. Constantine is a wicked smart politician. So I wonder what his angle here is.

The automated signature verification has three show stopping flaws. High error rate, both positive and negative. Blackbox. Is another form of rent seeking by vendors; last time I checked, vender gets $0.10 per voter per election (not just per ballot cast).

I'm very proud of Seattle Times' editorial board on this issue. They learned, matured, adapted. I spoke with them 10+ years ago about election integrity. They were wicked smart, painfully polite & earnest, respectfully disagreed. One of my best interactions as an activist. While I disagree with Seattle Times on most everything (else), they are a worthy opponent.

I know nothing about the vendors mentioned, Tuck and Finney. I assume they're typical consulting bozos chasing sales and haven't really thought about the policies involved, and don't know enough to know they're bozos.

Gael Tarleton would make a great SOS.
I think the cause (or at least accelerating factor) may have been the end of the Cold War. Before that, you had an identity: You were an American, and the bad guys were the Communists. You were for freedom, and they were for tyranny. After the end of the Cold War, we lost the external enemy that (for the most part) united us.
Unless the fridge remembers the IDs of each filter, and won't let you reuse the same ID after 3 months (or whatever the service life is of a water filter).

Maybe disabling the RFID reader hardware will make the fridge bypass the lockout code?

The easier solution is just not buy a GE fridge, but the general public won't be aware of the need for that solution.
Sitting here reading this in pleasant A/C its hard to imagine your brain glassifying at 560°C in a fraction of a second.
I'm running a pi 4 with 4GB RAM, a quality power supply and a fan as a desktop. It is hooked up to a 23" monitor running on an SDD. It is more reliable than my older iMac (2013). And yes, you need a quality power supply, but it has been rock solid for me as well as being dirt cheap.

I also have a PI 3 taped underneath the table for simple utilities and I forget it is there because it "just works" - for the last year.
That's your appropriately named echoic memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoic_memory
Manifold: A Model-Agnostic Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning
Any plan for supporting Python2.7?
Mistakes I’ve Made (that got me to where I am)
I've been under the impression that your VPN traffic is always "you". This could be a bad assumption tho.
Helm-projectile rant is well deserved. I'm often ashamed looking at my colleagues trying to find some file with a mouse in their big fat IDEs.
I wonder if a note to Consumer Reports would be more effective than a tweet.
Good points, but it just means you have to move the verification process upfront like I lay out in another comment further up this chain.

Bottom line is that we have a literal army of software engineers in this country that are capable of figuring this stuff out if it was a priority to get voting to 100% turnout. We split the atom and landed on the moon, I'm pretty confident we can figure out mobile voting.
Well my car does specify a quality of fuel that I should use, but it's a standard with (I guess) precise chemical makeup that you can verify and an industry that cares about it. I'm not sure there are any standards for filter construction?
>Not even at Stalingrad.

Germans had already had that experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men

"The gas, "caused the grass to turn black and leaves to turn yellow, and the dead birds, frogs and other animals and insects were lying everywhere. Terrain looked like Hell."[1] The Russians either had no gas masks, or had poorly made ones, and most soldiers used their undershirts as masks, with many soaking them in water or urine.[2] Sub-Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky, the highest ranking Russian soldier to survive the initial attack, rallied the other surviving soldiers, and they elected to charge the advancing German lines.[2]

Over twelve battalions of the 11th Landwehr Division, making up more than 7000 men, advanced after the bombardment expecting little resistance. They were met at the first defense line by a counter-charge made up of the surviving soldiers of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment. The Germans became panicked by the appearance of the Russians, who were coughing up blood and bits of their own lungs, as the hydrochloric acid formed by the mix of the chlorine gas and the moisture in their lungs had begun to dissolve their flesh. The Germans retreated, running so fast they ran into their own traps.[2]"

>had such restraint

it isn't restraint. On a real battlefield, especially a modern one with all the tanks, APCs, etc. having NBC protection, chemical weapons have very low resulting efficiency coming at very high price. It is a very unreliable opportunity weapon with a complex logistics. It is much more useful as a threat than as an actual weapon.

Instead of soldiers, i think the work in the original article will in the coming future be used to "fortify" people working in harsh/toxic/dangerous conditions.
I don’t think it’s the end of anything. This is just normal capitalism.
I have a hard time believing that GE has been dealing with a lot of warranty claims because people are using after market filters. Couple that with that a filter that runs more than 2x the off-brand one runs, and it looks a lot like a money grab.
I tried really hard to like ynab, but I just couldn't get the hang of it. I think the hangup is that I'm not really looking for a budgeting tool, I just want to categorize and see where my money is going - less so planning. Its easy to do that with Mint as budgeting in Mint feels more like an addon then a core concept.
From their Privacy Policy[1], they are:

> We use Plaid Inc. ("Plaid") to gather End User data from financial institutions. By using our service, you grant Monarch and Plaid the right, power, and authority to act on your behalf to access and transmit your personal and financial information from the relevant financial institution. You agree to your personal and financial information being transferred, stored, and processed by Plaid in accordance with the Plaid Privacy Policy.

[1] https://www.monarchmoney.com/privacy
When I lived in Seattle my voting process was basically "find the Stranger's recommendations, read through them, and very occasionally look deeper into one issue or office". This is definitely an important function of local news, they spend hours trying to make sense of this stuff and tease out hidden connections so you don't have to.
I use mint and it's so very helpful. I also have noticed some of the issues raised in this article. It's sad, but then again I've also marveled that the free service has lasted this long because I know I'm never going to click on any of the ads. Most people who are intelligent enough to budget with Mint are not going to pick a mortgage from a banner ad.
The point is that the variance in actual value based on chance is larger than the variance in the actual value based on skill/talent/intelligence/effort.

This is not saying that there is no effect of skill/talent/intelligence/effort, but that the effect size is smaller than commonly thought and smaller than the variance due to luck.
This is the kind of thing I'd send Logitech to small claim court if that happened to me. If you can't play nice with a device I purchased and own, then I deserve to get my money back.

It sucks, I kinda like Logitech products and own many, but unless they change their practices, they're on my blacklist.
That's somewhat irrelevant to the question of what people's opinions are of the power the president should have though, isn't it. I'm not defending Trump, I'm saying that D's are currently arguing he shouldn't have power that they would be happy to see exercised if it wasn't an R in office.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, the poor and weak are always hit the hardest. Furthermore, while quite serious, people shouldn't panick.

It is important to realize how well SARS turned out in the end. Back then the chinese government kind of dragged their feet, and they were lucky that the infection rate wasn't terrible. Due to pro-active measures by multiple governments the virus was still contained really quickly and less than 10k people were infected.
cf Itanium vs amd64
Ask HN: How much is your internet traffic and cloud costs?
I do something similar but added a knock daemon and changed the default ssh port 22 to something else.

So far I haven’t had any issues, fail2ban works, and it seems safe.

I do have my home IP added to the whitelist and others set to drop.

I was told in a networking class this is the second best way to protect ssh other than not running ssh.

Any thoughts on this setup as well? Maybe oversights that I’m not seeing?
As Microsoft is proud to boast, the majority on instances on Azure are Linux based.

The tooling that matters to me (az cli, terraform, vscode, kubectl et all) runs absolutely fine on Azure. I use Linux to create and manage Linux and open source infra on azure every day.

The majority of complaints I hear about azure tend to revolve around their AzureRM templating, which is admittedly terrible, but irrelevant since terraform exists (and cloudformation is not much better imo).

Also a lot of people dont/didn't like their portal. I don't frequently use the portal, and besides have you seen the aws portal? It's woeful.

One benefit of azure is they name their products logically, like "azure virtual machine" instead of "magic beanstalk" or w/e
To me it's a relief. Finally the information warmongers can't argue that it has no benefit to national security.
This is great news. I wanted to sign up to a service recently, but it required me to use Plaid to link my bank account. My bank presumably doesn't support an API, as I was presented with a fake, branded login screen. I don't want to share my bank username and password with anyone.
There are different "alternative vote" organizations, which have different favored reforms.

FairVote is, indeed, the biggest advocate of IRV, and of multi-member districts.

The Center for Election Science (https://www.electionscience.org/) favors a switch to approval voting, and AFAIK doesn't have an opinion on multi-member districts.
Greed mostly.
Hey, if there's anything I love more than open software it's open software that is a game!

I watched the video of the game from the 90s you referenced, I think games are a fantastic way to explore bigger ideas.

Best of luck!
The court ruled in favor of the government: https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2018cv...

There were some improprieties found as it relates to the conduct of Amazon's agents and in the RFP process, but it got the greenlight overall. This might be the problem with Amazon litigating the changes to the RFP process. Oracle already litigated the previous version of the RFP. It looks like the process changed in part to head off the perception that it was rigged in favor of Amazon. Now, Amazon alleges that this re-rigging made it rigged out of its favor.

So, it went:

Oracle: "This is rigged for Amazon! These requirements can only be met by Amazon! Also it's unfair that it can only be won by a single entity!"

Judge: "The Pentagon didn't want to have multiple clouds because it would defeat the reason for the project. We didn't find that the RFP was corrupt to the point of breaking the law, but it was definitely sort of corrupt, particularly in the case of the dude who was on the committee creating the RFP while simultaneously selling a startup to Amazon while simultaneously telling the Pentagon that he wasn't breaking the law and telling Amazon he was not breaking the law, but he was totally breaking the law."

This obviously put the Pentagon between the rock of leaving the RFP as-is and being sued again for corruption and the hard place of changing the RFP and being accused of improper political influence. If Trump had avoided taking a public stance on the issue it would have been much better for the Pentagon's situation, as this now creates a situation in which no matter what the Pentagon decided they could be credibly accused of corruption.
Coke has started doing this with their soda machines too. They found it's more profitable to put an RFID chip on the bottom of every paper cup and a sensor pad on the machines rather than just let people refill the cups.

I came across one in the wild when I made the mistake of visiting Universal Studios Orlando recently :/
Best advice I've ever gotten: don't overthink it (procrastination, ADHD, productivity systems, etc). Trying to fight the mind with more concepts is like trying to fight the wind with a kite.