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Face to face? The issue is they can't get up the stairs to the door.

That said, I don't understand why sending a letter should cost you there ability to claim damages later.
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Ask HN: What potential ideas for developer tooling have not been explored yet?
I recently quit my job and I would love to pursue some sort of lifestyle business, after lurking around in indie hackers a bit, I still haven't found any idea worth pursuing, I would love to work on something related to the developer space, some small tool that can grow organically over time, do you have any suggestions?
>humans have been driving with only 2 sensors (eyes) for a long time with relatively good success.

1.25 million die a year in road accidents. We should try to do better than human.
To make the collision work you need to produce two different files, both with some randomish looking junk in them. So if you can do that in a way where you can substitute one of the files for the other without getting caught then you are almost for sure smart enough to also figure out a way to make the lengths the same.
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You mean Brazile, the one who leaked town hall questions ahead of time to Clinton?

edit: I'm not a Bernie supporter so it doesn't really bother me, I just found it amusing that you're quoting Donna Brazile here. Who was responsible for one of the clear, actual offenses against Bernie in 2016 for which she was forced to resign from CNN only to be rewarded with being head of the DNC. Well if she says everything was fine, I guess I better reconsider my sources...
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/17/donna-brazile...
The issue is that, if one cannot reasonably trust a voting process, the vote is null in effect.

Humans cannot trust what they cannot understand and cannot verify.

A paper-based voting procedure, and counting procedure provide these guarantees: understanding and verification, through real-time, peer-based counting & review.

Any other automatic system cannot bring, at this point, the same guarantees, where you have to trust: 1) the people/system that built the system, 2) the process they used that ensures against any wrong-doing.

It is low-tech. And that's a good thing. No high-tech alternative provides the same value & the same guarantees at the same time.
Open source would be better than proprietary, but the best code ever written is the code never written.
It's about the goals and intentions of governments, not backdoors. Backdoors are a cheat for them, to reach their goals easier. What you should ask yourself is which model of society you actually prefer.
I love LWN's technical writing--its worth the cost of a subscription!
That’s cool. Now, on to my possibly unpopular opinion: This isn’t what computer science is about. In fact, you don’t even need to use a computer to do computer science.

Sure, some stuff you learn in CS can make you a better software engineer. CS cannot make you a software engineer.

CS can definitely not make you adept at using computers and neither should it. That’s something earlier education institutions must tackle.

It’s always good to have optional courses for various topics of interest. _Requiring_ students to learn, say, MS Office (I had to), is just plain ridiculous.
Most of human ingenuity is based on the consumption of cheap finite resources. Every time we had new tecnologies it results in more consuption of resources.

We need to listen what the science is telling us for 40 years now with the report from the club of rome "limits of growth", and slow down our consuption levels.

Apply new techonologies as an excuse to keep growth (green growth) will accelerate the degradation of the environment.

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I have gotten around this by hosting SSHD on web ports before, or going through a SOCKS proxy.
Well, it’s kinda assumed that Apple wants to go ARM based for the Mac with their own internal CPUs. Much of AMD’s comeback magic is enabled by them building on TSMC’s 7nm process, this same process is what Apple’s Ax SOCs are built on, so I bet Apple could come close in the consumer market.
No, unfortunately not. You will get people who will put all 1s or a 6 here and there.
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But how would Haskell version of wc compare with C version of wc running with LC_ALL=C environment variable? UTF-8 locale is much slower than C locale in coreutils, it's a well-known fact, and their Haskell version of wc is already using fixed 8-bit characters.
> This blissfully ignores the key issue under discussion: Our impact on the planet in doing so.

It still baffles me that we choose to ignore externalities in part because we cannot attach any “rational” prices to them, it’s like they don’t even exist to us as long as we cannot put them in an exact Excel sheet with a well-defined value.
Indeed, I would say let the lawyer do all the talking and only say whatever they say is fine to say, nothing more, nothing less. Become a puppet to your lawyer. At least this seems to be the case of what I've learned from that one law professor who says don't talk to cops.
RFCs are just a way for big corporations to collaborate on shared standards. It doesn't mean that other approaches can't become standards as well. It's kind of disturbing that RFCs seem to give projects automatic trustworthiness that they didn't actually earn.
Exactly. I think that machines can be used just fine in a very specific configuration. I.e. you go to a machine, select the choices you want, that machine prints out a ballot with your choices. You review that ballot. If the ballot is correct, you go over to a tabulation machine, feed it in, and call it a day. That machine retains the paper ballots if verification is needed.

EDIT: And if someone wants to fill out a paper ballot manually, let them. Just have a few spares around, most people won't.
There is 0 evidence for this and the fact that people still think this is evidence that Russian intervention was successful.

Bernie won 43% of the vote to 55%. There was no rigging. He got kid gloves.
I agree with that to a degree. The problem is we are trading off technical problems for corruption. For counting things, it seems like computers would be a good fit.
In your opinion CEO role is thousands of times harder then programmers? or tens of thousands harder than working long hours doing construction?

Sure, it might be a little harder, but to me its absurd to claim the salary difference makes any moral sense.
Decreasing population is a function of increasing prosperity.

Prosperity includes increase in literacy and general education levels of the population. Most notably, women will have less children and shift towards actively taking jobs, opening businesses, research, civics,...

Lower birth rates and an ageing population then become a challenge to tackle.

Those who age stop actively working - adding direct economic value as taxes or as marketable goods & services - and their income is replaced by a pension provided by a public social security system and/or a pension fund they contributed to.

Now, this is where some will throw their hands in the air and yell "Doooooommmm! A dwindling active workforce can't possibly create enough wealth to sustain the pensions of those that don't!". hey then go on predicting how entire economies will collapse and how everyone will end up becoming working poor.

But that narrative hides tons of naive and downright wrong assumptions.

Like, how literally everyone should, can and will retire at 65 and spending their golden years on long holidays. Or, how it's impossible for anyone over 60 to be as productive or flexible as a 20 year old. Well, you can come up with a ton of other stereotypes.

In reality, tons of people over 60 or even 70 are able and willing to work and contribute to society. For instance, guess who makes up for a lot of the volunteering force in charities, public services and (libraries, archives, social work,...)? Young retirees. These are important fields that are publicly underfunded, and so retirees take up an important place here.

But you also find seniors taking up jobs again simply because their state pension is insufficient to make ends meet. That happens too.

The big challenge in this isn't the elderly population, it's adjusting our work culture to include older age cohorts. Because right now, workfloors and work in developed nations is entirely geared towards young people in their 20s, 30s and 40s.

The other big challenge is wealth inequality in general. As long as the system is geared towards extracting wealth to the top at the expense of the workforce - labor rights, minimum wage, healthcare,... - it's only to be expected that older people will drop out earlier rather then later.

So, that's basically what we're looking at. If you can balance an economy between sustainability and prosperity, you also solve the problem of population.

Now, guess what you need to do that? A proper, healthy social democracy that puts humans as their top priority. Not the interests of a few elites.
Declaring victory under these circumstances is certainly abnormal. And moreso in Pete’s case since the group developing the app appear to have been paid by and in favor of his campaign. I don’t even think Sanders should’ve done this in response to Buttigeig.
Is the app just for Iowa, or for all the caucuses?
Fish farms, new more efficient methods of transport and agroforestry.

Consider all of the time saved with today's technological advancements and specialization. Years ago peasants would lay idle on near starvation diets for most of the winter. During the growing season they would work from dawn until dusk, just to enjoy a sustenance lifestyle.

So while work may not be as meaningful as we would like, our leisure time is increasing. Mass automation will likely provide even greater leisure and cheaper goods.

All of this ignores the rampant inflation of the money supply, which is silently taxing our leisure, labor and consumption. There are many who would like to increase this and would do so by indulging the fears you listed at the top of your comment.
(TM3 owner) While in motion what is presented to the driver there is little to no jitter. Where you get it mostly is when stopped and the car seems to adjusting between cameras to determine where an object adjacent truly is. sometimes there is no jitter and other times its a bit odd.

in motion the car drives just fine with the caveat they have not enabled signal recognition. I use TACC and at times full AP on my daily commute which includes road speeds from 35 to 55. I particularly like it on rainy days. I treat it like having a high school kid being chauffeur... I am a back seat driver who just happens to be in the driver's seat.

as for visual representation like in the video or waymo's demo videos, like many other things in life when you see how the sausage is made it is a wonder how we all survive it. The key difference between Tesla and Waymo is Tesla is not geo fenced, same with Cadillac's supercruise which is not available except on interstate.

who has the best solution, I am not willing to place a bet on that yet
why was this an app and not a website? are apps considered more secure or sth?
I just saw Mass present this paper at HBP summit and came to post it here. It sounds fairly interesting since it can perform gradients without reverse mode differentiation.
That is 2017. What happened in the last 4 years has a lagging and lasting impact
I'd say a combination of this idea plus a mandatory hand count of a random sample of, say, 2% of the ballots from each machine to make sure the results are similar.
In Denmark you can take a mortgage and "pay" negative interest rate [1]. That is, you pay less back than what you borrowed. I fully agree that most people would expect the interest rate to be positive, but their expectation is no rule.

Actually I am very sure interest rates have no causal relationship with continuous growth. The one (and only?) thing where the the continuous growth requirement comes from is that most people do not want to be unemployed. That is the choice you need to make. Do you want growth or unvoluntary unemployment?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/danish-bank-is-offering-10-y...
Support your thesis by elaborating please.
> In Linux, it's harder, because there's no way (that I know) to control network access by process.

What about https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch ?
Yes, because it’s incredibly surprising that a town hall in Flint would have a question about Flint
I can no longer edit the title. I'd welcome a modification by the mods to make it more clear. The document is linked in the Twitter thread as well.
I think they go hand-in-hand. You have to have some imagination about how something must work (however off-base) to be curious enough to find out how it really works. It often seems to me that people who aren't curious lack it because they can't even imagine something different than what is in front of them.

They don't wonder how a car works because they can't even begin to deduce how it might work, from the observable outside in, because they lack the imagination to make those deductions. Someone who's curious might see a car and think, "How does this work? I can see the wheels spin and propel it forward, but something must be making those wheels turn. How do they all spin at the same time? What turns the push of the pedal into making the wheels turn?" etc.

I see curiosity and imagination as two sides of the same personality trait expressed in different ways.
I assume in a lot of cases, people using professional movers are doing so as part of company paid relocation. At least that used to be the case. I have no idea what the norm is today. And company relocation people are going to be looking for the cheap options.
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Are you a Londoner? This does not sound at all in touch with people in the north.
I think you nailed it.

The only real argument against it is that you have to pay people to pay by hand, but I sincerely doubt that amount of manual labor costs more than an app.
It makes sense that Biden's is the only campaign who is outwardly complaining about this debacle. The other viable candidates (Sanders, but also Buttigieg and Warren to a lesser extent) can't complain without appearing weak / bitter for having their win dampened. But Biden, who almost certainly did rather poorly last night, benefits significantly from this whole ordeal distracting from narrative of his campaign in freefall, and by complaining about the DNC it might keep up the illusion that he is not a party favorite afforded every advantage possible.
It seems to me that's an achievable goal... if everyone throws risk aversion/mitigation out of the window.

No rules about nuclear power on ships, no worrying about contamination on other planets, laissez-faire attitude about risks that come with space launches/travel and fully automated control of rockets/spaceships, massive investment in life support systems and AI, etc.
Of all places there are a few rather successful companies coming out of Saskatoon.
The naivety on the part of the various parties involved here is breathtaking.

It is interesting to observe how little distinction non-technical users are aware of between high quality and comically buggy software because of the ease of producing flashy UIs these days. They have no idea how the sausage gets made. No idea.

I have never seen a stronger case for the need to have third-party certification and testing of software and the people involved in building it.
> The move away from cash has been a bonanza for credit card companies and newer firms such as Square, which handle electronic transactions

This really makes it sound like a happy accident.

No accident. Credit card companies have been pushing for a cashless society very overtly. Transaction fees make the big payment gateways billions of dollars every single day.

No government would want to intervene, because all payments are now traceable, which makes law enforcement / tax office / central intelligence jobs easier.

There are some benefits for sellers, when the system works, transactions become a little quicker and there's no more trips to the bank to deposit / get change.

There are a few benefits for richer consumers, who can use phones to pay. Sometimes the arbitrary limits that companies place on even biometrically secured payments make it more of a minefield to leave the house without a card, though.

I'm gonna be sad when the day finally comes and physical money is abolished. Looks like that's where we're headed. Anybody know of a prepay card specifically geared towards kids pocket money?
Um, quick question: so should one use Emacs as the University of Copenhagen, or VIM as MIT is teaching?

(Just kidding)
> This doesn't seem to be comparing anything like the same thing.

This is a fair point, and I believe this whole series of 'Beating C with foo' posts could have been better named.

But I'm of the opinion that the whole series is about showcasing various language's strengths and weaknesses, while using GNU wc as a benchmark.

From this perspective, I've learnt a bit about several languages I knew nothing about, so I rather like these articles, despite the fact that their titles might be a bit misleading.
They explicitly say in the introduction that this is a toy version, and then in the conclusion that a future post will look at a more complete substitute.
At this point in US politics, if someone can challenge it, they will. Might as well count by machine and by hand by default.
> Walmart pays 5 of its executives a total of ~$70m/year [1]. Walmart employs 2.2m people [2]. Redistributing 100% of these 5 executives' salary to all 2.2m workers would be a raise of... $32/year.

A calculation Louis XVI likely made in 1791.
What does it mean, though? Is it just "sour grapes is a powerful force"?

I don't know about gaps in particular but there are lots of places I thought I'd love working that wouldn't take me.
The interface was the confusing part, not the responsiveness. Caucus precinct chiefs skew older, the app was not part of their training, and they waited until the last minute to download.

This doesn’t really seem like something to pin on the app exclusively - it’s a change management failure on the part of the party, underlined by the fact that even their normal phone lines were overloaded due to new data reporting requirements.

I wasn’t on the ground or anything (I’m a complete outsider who read the news) but this seems like a lot to pin on some app developers when the issues were spread pretty far. It’s damnably hard to train 1800 users spread across a state with varying levels of experience.
>If humans can expand inter-galactically, then it likely it would have happened already by some other species, given the size and age of our galaxy.

That's only true if we assume the chance of life arising is relatively high. It could actually be incredibly massively low, and we wouldn't notice, because we're observing from a position of extreme selection bias. I.e. probability(intelligentLifeInUniverse given weAreObservingIt) = 1.0.
> I can imagine a future Oculus Quest as being a primary way to interact with the Internet, streaming entertainment, immersive 3D games, etc. I think FB has a lot of headroom for how big this business could get.

100%. if they get it right.

Facebook as a company was entirely doomed long-term until they bought Oculus (should that have been allowed?). VR is going to explode in the next ten years, and if Facebook plays its cards right it will become a VR platform company instead of an ad company. And that VR will be far more stable than faddish social networking or ad spam. For most people I know Facebook is dead, and Instagram's demise is just one gimmicky app launch away (TikTok++).

I'm gutted about Facebook's purchase of Oculus personally, because (unlike the article) I think Facebook's behaviour has been absolutely reprehensible, including its refused to remove outright, hugely damaging, political propaganda from its platform for the sake of profit. I really don't want a company with that culture owning the VR space. I pray it won't.
That's what's called chain migration. Just because your "uncle got a greencard" doesn't mean skilled immigrants get a greencard unlike your unskilled uncle. This is the kind of immigration that Trump wants to stop. You should not comment on things that you have no idea about.
Paper & electronic. If electronic fails or is called into question, you manually count the paper.

I had thought this was the standard. I guess I was wrong?
Good point. I was thinking the same thing too.

I will wait for what the next article presents, as the end of this article states:

> Stay tuned for a second part, where we will investigate shaping all this into an actual wc substitute, where different statistics can be turned on or off, all while not computing what the user hasn’t requested.
I feel the same way, but from a different perspective since I have DACA. Fortunately I can hop around different jobs or be unemployed, but every couple of years I get to feel like a criminal, and there's the ever-pervasive paradoxical feeling of not being at home but feeling like I'm home in the US. I've been thinking about moving to Guadalajara so I can at least not worry about my immigration status but I'm super scared that I won't feel like I'm home there after being in the US my entire life, and I can't go back on that decision. I've been thinking a lot about Canada as well as Europe, because I think that'll get easier for me to acclimate to.

This whole thing is just super depressing. I feel like I've worked all my life for a great career in the US and it's for nothing if I have to leave everything behind at some point.
Hostile no, but I can see the market still needing unskilled labour of course, and I genuinely hope for your sake that it doesnt just cause the prices to increase dramatically.

I'm not from nor living in the UK but I sure hope things work out.

My post was a dig at the idea that all the UK needs to allow into the country is highly skilled people. I don't buy that argument.. But lets see.
Not to long ago we switched from gas lights to electric lights. That seems like a more difficult change than beefing up the electric infrastructure. I'm sure we'll manage.
To elaborate on this, the entire country does this on the same day to vote in our general elections and it scales to 70m+ people without any issue. The reference to the North East and Sunderland is that they are usually the first to declare around 2 hours after the polls have closed. Most other constituencies take between 7 and 12 hours to count votes through the night.
Let me be frank: I don't give a shit if candidates got questions for a town hall (not a debate!) an hour before hand.

Personally, I prefer when questions go out beforehand so we get more thoughtful answers. "Gotcha" style questions require candidates to rote-practice certain political speeches and stock answers, and those rapid fire live questions devolve into stump speeches every time.

But getting questions to a town hall is not rigging a primary. It's not even close.
My impression is that Facebook's engineers are unlikely to be able to compete with Google's and Amazon's in that space. If so many of them are writing PHP, how does that translate to building cloud infrastructure services, for example?
I don’t understand why people are concerned about this, why would a gap be interpreted negatively?

Are people just assuming that a gap means prison?