skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, the app wasn't wasn't released until Feb 1. Also, The New York Times reported that the Iowa Democratic Party was secretive about using the app, and that it asked that Shadow’s name be withheld from the public. "According to a person familiar with the app, its creators had repeatedly questioned the need to keep it secret, especially from the Iowa precincts where it would be used."

This doesn't necessarily mean there is a huge conspiracy, but the optics -and the reality- of the party machine functioning properly is terrible, and the choice is between incompetence or malfeasance. Either way, they shot themselves in the foot, and it's not a good look.
Your opinions aren't unpopular, though maybe old school (in a good way):

https://blog.osteele.com/2004/11/ides

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...
Neat! Feature request: Let us graph a specific HN member's submission count per day.
A more general (and more mainstream) idea is that of political capital.
Check out this: https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks
RAII for references (pointers) is a no-op. If the cache returns references to the data in its own array there is no overhead.
I loved it, but came to an impasse when I had to decide between pipeline and TS. For a while I was running both a babel and TSC watch, where my babel build dir fed into the TSC watch. Dealing with two daemons when one/both screwed up, and needing to read errors in transpiled code, was annoying. What decided it was being unable to run prettier, since I could either use the babel parser for pipelines, or the tsc parser for the types. I'd be very happy if we could put pipelines back in and not break our tools and tax the two cores on my MacBook Air to the limit.
I think my favorite part is Help just being a link to the wikiHow page for unhooking a bra
Seems like it's jumping the gun a bit saying these technologies can control how we handle difficult moments. Where's the logical link between getting shown some old photos of you and having your reaction to difficult moments controlled by algorithms?

Also the article claims we've outsourced our memories to Google. In that scenario those memories which would have been long forgotten were already "outsourced" to photos. Google is just a platform to store it on and that is more of an opinion against cloud privacy than against Google.
Correct. They wouldn't have considered Rust if the GC was performing better. They also wouldn't have even adopted Go if Elixir was sufficient. This team seems to have an incredible talent pool who is willing to push further for the sake of, as you say, delivering business value. Improving UX, investing in capabilities for growth, are valid business reasons why they're iterating over so many solutions. It's really impressive to see what they're accomplishing.
https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html

Short: ffi for erlang.
> The problem with this belief of Google as some kind of 'benevolent actor'

You put 'benevolent actor' in quotes as if the comment you are replying to contained that. It didn't.
Definitely more memory hungry. But I see it as a good deal. I feed it all the memory it wants, it gives me stability, xplat, and an embarrassment of riches as far as features and conveniences. It's earned that memory.
You are correct. It was basically a giant "iMac": all-in-one-server-box the size of a small room with racks and roll out keyboards. They were TRYING to write what would become cloud services, but they didn't have the talent: the team was pulled from all over and had no experience in backend/devops let alone the nascent linux kernal that was starting to blossom.
Did they write a driver for Windows? The review wasn’t clear. They just said it only worked on Windows if you’re running Bootcamp. That could easily mean the Mac (computer) does all the “driver” work, not necessarily macOS (the OS). In which case, that would explain why it doesn’t work on any computer other than a Mac.
The detailed press release seems to indicate that the apparent discrepancy was not do to misreporting by precincts but because the app's reporting functionality didn't include all recorded data in reports. But it doesn't explicitly state that there is no other source of discrepancy, so maybe there was something else.
I tried out AppSignal for Elixir and was disappointed that the BEAM metrics don’t include scheduler utilization, which is kind of a proxy for CPU usage. IIRC there was scheduler count but not utilization metrics.
Rabble on the failures of electoral campaign tech work, and the Iowa Caucus app
Okay, then, my aunt's church group elected a treasurer using that website that used some online poll type thing with a password. I'm sure that residents of Leicestershire are quaking in their wellies awaiting the inevitable arrival of the 101st Airborne.
GC pauses aside can Go match the performance of Rust when coded properly? Would sorting an array of structs in Go be in the same ballpark as sorting the same sized array of structures in Rust? I don't know a whole lot about how Go manages the heap under the covers.
> Give it a few years and similar toolsets will be invented for Go, I'm sure.

Go 1.0 is nearly 8 years old at this point, and these toolsets have existed for years.
With rich preview, you have three choices:

Preview is generated on sender side, preview is generated on client side or preview is generated on some server.

On a "secure" system as Whatsapp is advertised as, you'll notice only the second choice is "secure" and possible, since otherwise you'll disclose both your IP and lots of other things, like location (from IP).
That just makes me think you haven't been exposed to enough weird people. Also, uh, you're not very open minded.
In terms of market efficiency, this is labor market having a high cost of arbitrage
What I don’t get about all of these cctv solutions is why you’d want a system that uploads to the cloud at all. Surely it’s better to have all the footage on a local device, and then perhaps have a VPN-like tool remote access. Unifi protect works pretty well for me, and I’m sure other local solutions like ZoneMinder work super well too. I’ve got a fast internet connection, but I don’t trust it to be able to handle multiple streams of live video uploading constantly. Coupled with the privacy concerns, why would you choose ring over another vendor of more old-school CCTV?
Once GPS is destroyed, a great way to navigate would be via the laser reflectors that were left on the Moon.

Many long-dead satellites also have them. You just need to receive an update on the orbit, which could come via VLF signals.
How is this even helping Buttigieg?

There doesn’t seem to be any indication this was anything but a regular screwup. Throwing around suggestions of a vague conspiracy looks unwarranted.

You’re suggesting that to avoid suspicion companies providing services to political campaigns must be apolitical and to have never previously provided services to a candidate in the race or any previous opponent of a candidate in the race. How could that even be possible?
It's almost like we have an interdependent society where we each specialize and use the money we make to pay other people to do their specialty!
Couldn't the Chrome installations receive a request from Google that says "Do you want to try out a new thing?", and couldn't the Chrome installations say yes with a certain probability? The only difference I can see is that the subset of users that are guinea pigs couldn't be the same in each test (if Google wanted that the subset is always the same).
Most definitely can. SQLite is a very underused resource for small applications but it can handle quite the load.
> There were also the protests, in vain

Not entirely. Before the war started, there mass protests, and ubiquitous claims that its ruling class promoters were pathological liars. People could even discuss those claims around serving soldiers without getting punched.

As Noam Chomsky pointed out at the time, none of that had happened before. The peace movement couldn't stop a war in 2003, but it made a lot of progress towards a future where it can.
IKR? And for all options they may end up with, they chose an APP. WHY? Does laptop not exist anymore? Does phones lack the ability to open webpages anymore?

Hasn't logging in been one of the things we perfected over 30 years?
> I think this is the first year that they are reporting the results of each round.

It was.

> My guess is that the round-to-round numbers didn't match expectations, and my guess-the-second is that more people leave between rounds than we realized.

They diagnosed the problem to the reporting functionality in the app not including all data in all reports, not unexpected results in the actual logged data.
It would most likely be far more cost-effective to use nothing more complex than good-quality air-conditioner.
Maybe but I would guess that none of those factors were even considered.
This is wonderful. A silly reference dressed in 'hacker' style. It doesn't boost productivity, it's just joyful. Well done.
That makes it even worse.
An article on Less Wrong being castigated on HN for being too conformist! Never thought I'd see the day.
Having worked on Accuvotee systems in the past, I concur.
However, live feeds of the hand count are an absolute must. Teh shenanigans(criteria to throw out votes) that occurs behind closed doors needs exposure scrutiny.
MiniZinc is a generic language and IDE for optimization problems. You can hook into a variety of solvers (LP, MILP, Nonlinear, and some kind of like Prolog). The solvers have to be able to read the the flatzinc file type that MiniZinc exports if they don't support native hooks.
The fact of the matter is that all this happens, legal or not. I’ve not had work in years, in the first instances because of illegal discrimination. I’ve been assaulted for being in the “wrong” spaces. People care so intensely much about freedom of association that they’ll break the law and use violence in order to maintain it.

So what should we do, given that enforcing association by law doesn’t work?

My solution is in anarchism; stop preventing me from living my own life (through a capitalist society enforced by the state, police and prisons) and I’ll stop forcing myself on yours.
This is a really dangerous fallacy.. If you genuinely believe this then you don't even have the economic high-ground.

But a small high level lesson is clearly due, just in-case you attract people who aren't sure.

I can only comment democratic government, so: The government is not responsible for your individual job, your employer is, a government is responsible to make sure you have access to a job, or the ability to create one. After 1 of those requirements has been passed, you pay tax to ensure others can do the same.

Another responsibility of the government is to ensure that the pensions are looked after, probably one of the biggest these days thanks to 'boomers', but they are none the less responsible for it. Thats why the retirement age is decided by government.

Another one they need to look after, trade options, within Europe we're quite lucky, we have a free trade and have all round standards of what we can trade.

Another is infrastructure, if I want to trade a lot, I need infrastructure, if I have a lot of savings; for the people, I will invest in that, thus contributing to all the above.

So: Your question is a joke I guess, mainly because you don't back anything up by your claims.

If you think all you said, lay it out, lets discuss, maybe I'm wrong.
Fenix (Firefox Preview) is not currently free software, as it contains proprietary Google libraries like com.google.android.gms and com.google.firebase. F-Droid currently maintain the Google-free fork of Firefox that is available on F-Droid, but they have said they lack the resources to do the same for Fenix as well. Until this is resolved, there is an excellent reason not to switch.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/162#issuecomm...
Everquote – The Chum of Insurance
Who Would Short Tesla?
National Museum of American History: Y2K
Wow, just checked this out -- this looks really cool. I'd to love to connect to hear more of your thoughts.
Have you compared Edge to Brave? It got really good recently.

I was going to start using Edge but 1password wasn't working and that was a deal breaker for me.
one of the reasons i pay for youtube premium.

i absolutely hate youtube ads, but at the same time, i want people these content creators that i watch to get some money from my view.

so for the ones i think are "worth", i use patreon. for the others, youtube premium.
Why they can't just do a https website with login is beyond me.

Why an App? We all know there's nothing in it but boilerplate.
If you go to a new job, who is telling them how bad you were at the last one? At most you might get a recommendation if you're good but it's rare to have anything follow you around unless it's major public news.

Golden parachutes are not about performance, it's about change of control like a company takeover or merger. It's very common and happens to many startup founders that get acquired. It's also not much different than severance which is offered to employees at large corporations.
Why is Firefox recommending an extension which copies another extension?
Yes there is also the sun.misc.Unsafe class but of course that's skating on thin ice.
I have both Stadia and GFN.

Stadia is straight up unplayable on my wired internet connection.

GFN works fine. I've gone through Prey 2, The Witcher 3, We Happy Few, The Witness and a couple of other titles on NVidia's service.

It's pretty good to be honest, however, some caveats:
1. Note how all those titles are single player. I don't think competitive multiplayer games will properly catch on platforms like GFN/Stadia, mostly because of the input latency hindering you in a competitive game. I've tried DotA2 and the input delay is noticeable . That being said, I see people talking about Modern Warfare and other shooters on r/geforcenow, so at least _some people_ are playing these games, but, based on my experience, I have a strong prior that most people won't enjoy competitive games.

2. GFN really needs a better games search engine. My use case (which I imagine isn't that uncommon) is that I buy games on Steam specifically to play on GFN. However, there's no good flow to decide which game to play next.

So far, I've been using the full games list they used to display at https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/games/ but now that's been replaced by a search bar! So the only possible flow now is to look a game up on steam, then manually check if it's supported by GFN. Now, most games are not supported by GFN, so I have to create a shortlist of games, then manually check each one and see if GFN supports it, then make a purchasing decision.

GFN needs a first class search engine, where I can search supported games by genre, year of release and maybe rating.

3. The UI/UX is super janky and confusing in terms of how steam starts up inside of GFN and how you have to install the game. It doesn't bother me that much, but it does feel consumer unfriendly. I was hoping they'd improve the UX before launch, but I guess not.

4. Had a weird bug this one time in The Witcher 3. There are 2 expansion packs you can buy for the game ('Blood and Wine' and 'Heart of Stone'). I do not own them. However, a while ago, I logged onto GFN, started up TW3 and saw a message congratulating me on having installed the expansion packs. I shrugged and resumed my most recent load and, fair enough, new abilities had been added in the game. I logged off after 2 hours of gameplay. The next time I logged on, the expansions were gone and my recent saved games were unplayale because they needed the expansion to load. Must have been some weird glitch where the expansions were still installed from a different player. Weird.
It seems like it’d be easy enough to test whether or not something was vulnerable to timing attacks.

But maybe there’s other vulnerabilities to be considered too and hard to have a suite which reliably tests for them all.
The company was co-founded by a Google alumna.
There are already plenty of sites trying other revenue models without tracking.

The Register prompts to allow an alternative form of advertising that's audience appropriate, Ars has a subscription model, and sites like Vox are partnering with Scroll.
No longer on their (hp) store. Still can get unsold inventory on eg amazon
A masquerade doesn't help with connecting with people though even if it makes interactions easier. If "you" aren't out there then you can't really connect. Even putting aside the Uncanny Valley aspects of them realizing on some level that you are holding back or faking.

Although inappropriateness can make it worse by scaring people off. Like say persistently introducing yourself by describing what underwear you are wearing in detail.
I think that's less on the talent of the people and more what they're being directed to work on. Riot management would rather prioritize new shiny stuff like new gamemodes, champions, reworks, etc, and otherwise stuff they can charge players for, instead of cleaning up their messes even if it would be a massive QoL improvement.
It's wasm. It could be written in Hindi numerals and unicorn emojis for all I care. So long as llvm can make sense of it.
" I'm not necessarily trying to suggest anything"

Aren't you though? I mean, your post is essentially "CLINTON" "ALLEGED" "SEVERE" "LEAK" . Lot's of words meant to imply some grand conspiracy. The reality is almost certainly that the developer (who has an unfortunate name) probably just didn't have enough time/budget to put out a decent product. Not everything is an actual conspiracy.
You normally wouldn’t discount linearly. But that doesn’t mean you can’t put a price on it. There’s a limit to how much you’d pay for insurance, for example. Some risk is part of life.
As a long-time ReSharper user, I’ve been meaning to give rider a close look for some time now. Unfortunately the last project I was on was heavy into WPF, and that was about the only box VS didn’t tick.

Any tips, tricks, or pitfalls to avoid making the switch from VS to Rider?
When anyone tells you that you should spend your money more, you should have a red flag.
>There's nothing to stop workers forming cooperatives under capitalism.

That's true, but it misses the point of the anti-capitalist critique, which is a critique of capitalism, the unconscious structuring of society for particular ends. When anti-capitalists criticize capitalism, they do not criticize individual capitalists, but the system in which there is predominant waged labour, alienation, commodity fetishism, and exploitation. Forming a cooperative is an admirable thing to do, but to suggest it alone is by no means a response to criticism of capitalism, a particular social formation, because the suggestion is an individualized one. It would be impossible to bring everyone on earth under cooperatives in a capitalist society.

Analogy: "Just live in a safe neighborhood" is no solution to murder, or its structural causes. Just one individual being murdered is sufficient to show the problems of the system and the individualized solution.
"Free speech" is an abstract liberal legal concept, it is not tied to any particular law. Even under countries which do implement "free speech" as a constitutional right, their legal systems have declared that some restrictions can be implemented: threats and child porn are two big ones. 1A enshrines a particular conception of freedom of speech, but it is not equal to freedom of speech in abstract (unless you want to claim that freedom of speech was only invented and only truly implemented in the U.S.)
Did you just dox your own throwaway?
the sexual harassment stuff can be pretty invisible if you aren't a target yourself

regarding the identity politics stuff, some people live and breath IP and their perception of untenable conditions would be unremarkable to me (e.g. a 22 yr old saying "that's so ghetto")

work-life balance is a deal-breaker for me, but in my early 20s maybe it wouldn't have been if i spent half the work day playing my favorite video game
I can't wait for the big actors to leave room for a more decentralized network where power is dilluted across many smaller actors with saner business strategies / founding schemes. Please keep blocking ads, we don't need this pervasive power-hungry privacy-unfriendly manipulation. We need it to vanish. Emails can already be provided by small companies, ISPs and non profits, and would actually work even better without the big actors... because we would have to make it work, no choice! No more outlook.com deciding that your mail will end up in your recipients' spam folder because they think you are too small for them to give a shit about you... everybody would be small.

I want chat, video calls and thought sharing with social circles to work the same way. We don't need one Facebook to rule all the social concerns of the whole human species (the part that uses internet anyway) as it sees fit. I would not worry too much for such services. It will work. Same for YouTube. I run a PeerTube instance on a cheap VPS for a small association. Granted, we don't have a lot of traffic, but if we had, the peer to peer feature would help, right? :-)

As for newspapers... I don't have a definitive answer that would be privacy-friendly, sadly. Nor for search engines (including for videos in a more decentralized world....).
You might also want to check out

David Gries, the science of programming:

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387964805
I don't know how strong political beliefs correlate with technical ability, but from my anecdotal evidence, the people I work with are highly competent and not very political.

While highly political people I know don't seem to work in tech.
Isn't the DOM your true state anyway? Why does it have to be kept someplace else? I'm genuinely curious because I don't do any front end work.
The origins of a 7000 year old fairy tale
That doesn't mean as much as you might think.

Working in the depths of google and running a company are two very different things.
That amount of squinting would wreck your eyesight. The x86 line wasn't even close to binary compatible. The assembly language wasn't too hard to convert, but it still required work.
It’s not always better. One good case for cloud-linked would be when someone breaks in and steals the DVR. It also doesn’t need to constantly upload, because most have motion detection to only upload interesting events to the cloud.
Is this yours ?
Why is this worthy of attention?

The reason I ask is because this is 1 millionth time I've seen this type of post.

Ive seen so many infact im discouraged to even bother viewing.

WHY is this git repo better than others ?

Because SOLID ? ...
Well sure, I’ve been using “is” alongside switch statements for a while now but admittedly doesn’t come up too often. Let’s say you have a ControlTemplate that’s so deep in the stack you have to pull symbols for it yet most of the properties are inaccessible in the current scope. The only thing it will spit out which is accessible at runtime is the type. The requirement is to process the data correctly (e.g. transform it into a List<T> or custom object). You could either write GetType() all over the place and attempt to access this mega-object at runtime or just use a switch statement to determine the resulting type with “is”. The situation I was in where this became preferable was an application where the user picks the controls themselves (a form builder with fancy controls) which has the ability to add 3rd party controls from different libraries. It reminded me of throwing darts blindfolded- case target is bullseye: try { throw.dart; } catch(Exception ouch) { LogThrows(“you probably don’t want to catch this”, ouch); } break;
Interesting that 3 of the 5 employees play support and the other 2 play top.
Interesting, I'll have to take a closer look at the papers themselves (although I am a mere mortal with insufficient background to get it fully).