skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Washington state has been using that system since forever ago, and the world didn’t end.

I don't think you're fully considering the implications of what the outcome would look like if voter fraud was used effectively. The world wouldn't "end" because nobody would be the wiser. The whole point of cheating is to do so undetectably, so nobody realizes it and everyone agrees that the outcome is fair.

So it's our moral obligation to ensure that undetectable cheating is as difficult as humanly possible to ensure the integrity of elections. Not just say "oh, well nobody has detected anything bad so far, so it must be fine" because things would also appear fine in a severely compromised voting system.
Is the new FB even live yet?
First, all these alleged problems exist for absentee ballots, and yet no one complains about that.

Second, voting fraud is exceptionally rare in the United States. Even if you tried to purchase votes, you can’t purchase enough to shade an election, and stay clandestine. It’s simply too expensive. A much more effective and efficient use of money is to encourage voter suppression — especially legal voter suppression.
Do you risk your health going to the grocery store? How is it any different?

These measures will far outlast the coronavirus.

Why check signatures even? If there's no level of voter fraud to be concerned with, why throw out tens of thousands of ballots because the signature didn't match? Was that all voter fraud, or just an incompetent system?
With the exception that voters should not be paying for postage individually, but collectively; is there any reason not to provide this?
That's a great idea. I have done this with vlogs/podcasting and even blogging (created several fake blogs over the years, even in a journal on paper), but never while coding or otherwise doing stuff on the screen. Good stuff.
Love this idea! I generally just have scratch files in whatever codebase I'm working on, but I like the idea of having a centralized place to keep these. Any chance yours is public? I'd love to see an example of how you organized the repo, what type of stuff your testing, any boilerplate setup/tooling you used to make it more effective (mocking library to stub out things like network calls or complex objects, test runners, etc)
Best moments with my family and friends
The SF bay area is an outlier, and yes, I agree about the restriction of supply problems we face (I live here). But to simply paint all blue states as similar to SF is inaccurate.
I was on Chat Roulette very early.. and maybe my memory is bad (I'm getting old) but I remember it being dongs pretty much from day one.
Why? It's not like it's hard to Google it or even guess the meaning (at least in this particular case).
Build a snippet library.

You know those tiny useful functions to "parse any date into mysql friendly format", "check if string is a email or url", etc.

I have now hundreds of such functions in two huge files for the languages I work in most and it saves me a ton of time not having to reinvent the wheel or searching stackoverflow everytime.
The main problem I always see to that is the fact that reply all doesn't have an confirmation or isn't the default.

I had similar issues back at an large company, some users replying 1k people sharing an unique link to an internal questionnaire because someone before them replied the original email asking for the link.

That and permissions, never let something like this be accessed by end users.
> Remember that Elon agreed to have his tweets reviewed by Tesla's in-house counsel in lieu of formal SEC action after he lied about taking the company private.

He said he could've taken it private at $420. Tesla is trading over $800 today. So he probably wasn't lying.

> Something legal would never allow him to say, especially if he is on the verge of exercising options.

If he were exercising his options, he wouldn't want the share prices to drop.

> My bet is the SEC isn't going to tolerate this behavior anymore, and he won't be at the helm of any of his companies by the end of the year. He will be just plain poor.

People like you have been saying this for years. I remember the haters/journalists/etc claiming tesla was going to go bankrupt, SEC was going to remove musk, the "pedo guy" was going to ruin Musk, etc.

If you want a good laugh read the article and the comments. It's amazing how little journalists know about anything and how wrong online commenters tend to be.

"Is Elon Musk trying to commit ‘suicide by SEC’ by taunting the agency?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259911

There are dozens more if you feel like searching.
I'm sure you can imagine the cynical answers to that.

Non cynically, I guess the idea is it increases voter turnout? I say "guess" because I've just googled "pros of ballot harvesting," "arguments for ballot harvesting," and other varieties of the phrase, and have yet to find a real argument for it. And if the argument is increasing voter turnout, I'm not sure why it's necessary if the cost of voting is no more than dropping a ballot in your mailbox.
> If your vote was coerced you can always request another ballot, which invalidates the first.

And whoever is coercing you could also ask for the info for the My Voter Status website [1] and verify that the ballot that the person coercing used was the one that was counted (maybe based on the date recorded as received by the county). They could definitely make sure you didn't go vote in person.

> If you're getting paid to vote a certain way, then nothing here really changes. California already had vote by mail as an option.

The number of mail in votes increases significantly, so if you believe in potential risk with those, then there is a significant increase in overall risk.

[1] https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/
I think the point of the GP, using your metaphor, is that a company's leaders have to identify and excise cancer early and often, lest it metastasize across the organization.
> What if the Republicans suddenly win California? Please don't claim voter fraud, the irony will be so so deep.

What exactly are you saying here? You are implying that Republicans could or will commit election fraud to win California, and it would be wrong or ironic to claim that happened?
You could display 3D projections of 4D objects on a 2D screen with anaglyph graphics. (Think red- and blue-filtered glasses.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D
Nobody knows.
> Do you introduce a domain-specific language? You're now responsible for part of the build chain, and for editor integration.

> Now, if there's a major organization backing the framework, maybe the calculus works out. Google can back Angular...

In my experience, even large orgs don't necessarily have the capacity for building out full-featured editor integration and build tools. Google has a great team managing Angular and it still has no tool for performing codeshifts. The editor integration to date still leaves much to be desired.

With the number of years and man-hours dedicated to this point, I'd imagine these thing would've happened by now, or they may not happen at all. Lately, Angular's push has to been to 'make it faster', which helps with developer productivity, but not much movement on the developer experience (better editor integration) part.

Agree with the thesis, but it's still understated how expensive creating your own DSL is.
From his link: "Arizona banned the practice except for family members and caregivers.".

So I guess for those who can't make it to the mailbox?
Find when you get into the zone. I get into the zone at almost exactly 5pm every day.
> voter fraud doesn't scale.

That's the most rational argument I've heard and one that is easy to parse even for someone skeptical of Government doing anything competently.
I'm so glad to see this comment. I recently got to the point where I created a text-viewer. Then I realized: This is the weak-sauce version of just admitting I need to write my own editor. My toolset is kind of weird conceptually so nobody else has created "my" editor yet. Haha :-) Thanks for sharing your experience.
This is awesome. I usually just have a scratch file that uses an http library (eg. requests for python) and log the response. Do you prefer this over something like postman?
You really think things will be better when there's no food to go around?
Steve Yegge's blog[0] on the matter made me convinced to learn to touch type. Went from ~60wpm to ~90wpm over a few years of practicing every once in a while.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...
Some of the attendees figured out how to enter the "the room was cleaned" code into the phone to avoid the searches.
You're the one trying to make OP prove a negative.
At least in my county, although I expect most have something similar, you can check the status of your ballot online. If that's not available, my local officials have always been more than helpful over the phone.
We've always had absentee ballots. I've filed one once when I was overseas. If you want to vote, but not show up to a polling station, you can request a absentee. They do get counted after traditional ballots on election day results, but they do get counted. Why not just promote the existing system? Did California not have absentee ballots before now?
Yeah, 16 hours of driving a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for multiple years does seem reasonable for a car. Feeling like a fool for doubting Uber’s self-driving end game.
“But even the hacker who works alone,” said Master Foo, “collaborates with others, and must constantly communicate clearly to them, lest his work become confused and lost.”

“Of what others do you speak?” the Prodigy demanded.

Master Foo said: “All your future selves.”

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
Yeah, the outcomes vary for sure. For a counter-example you can look to JSX which has excellent support in most major editors, but it's definitely the exception to the norm.
Dropping off your elderly parents' or neighbors' belated vote-by-mail ballot at your local polling site. Previously it was illegal to do something that simple, which with shelter-in-place has a pretty decent cost+benefit even if you disbelieve the evidence on voter fraud.
No, there's no reason not to pay for postage up front. In fact, starting this year, that's what's happening!

https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/02/12/oregon-voters-no-lo...

I'll still likely make the short trip to the nearest dropoff location and drop it off in person. It's not that I don't trust the mail, it's just a paranoia thing.
For a start you don’t have to look at the keyboard so you can spot typos as they happen and take advantage intellisense etc. Although at 90 wpm you’re probably not looking at the keyboard either.

For me the main reason I value touch typing so highly is due to the reduction in cognitive load. I think things and they appear on the screen without any conscious thought. I honestly couldn’t tell you what fingers I’d just used to type the words.
I use double-click highlighting, and the reason is mostly selecting passages of text when editing. Double-click highlighting makes it so I don't have to find the precise character boundaries for the first and last words in the passage. Instead, I can just double click the first word, roughly move my mouse to hover over the last, and copy or delete that entire passage.

Firefox's approach is fairly useless in this regard. Even if it's predictable from a technical perspective, it's not predictable for a reader who naturally processes semantic breaks rather than technical ones. Unlike in English, where a space is both semantic and visual, hiragana-kanji boundaries often don't mean anything. As a result, for me at least, Firefox's breaks feel a lot more random than Chrome's, which, while dodgy, are often fine.

Having used Firefox as my main browser since 2006, I remember when I discovered this feature in Chrome, and being shocked at how much of an effect that minor improvement had for me. It's not a deal-breaker, certainly, but it's become my one big annoyance with Firefox.
I think we should all consider this: Do you know someone who is likely to go out there, harvest the ballots, and then dump them? If the answer to that is yes, then you should not want all mail in voting.
It seems people are entirely missing the point of the exercise.
I was expecting a one-sided rant. Instead, I got a reasoned distinction between two different approaches, the trade-offs of each, and a discussion about the cases where one approach (frameworks) can be beneficial but also identifying the added risks of going that route. I agree with the conclusion, and why.

I wish even more people were willing to write down a discussion of alternatives and their trade-offs. Instead of "Google does it this way, so it's obviously the way everyone should do it"... a reasoned discussion of the pros and cons. Good to see.
For anything that responds to the electromagnetic force, you're filled with fields. For something that responds only to the weak force, you're almost entirely empty space.
Also the people who stand to benefit from cheating, then are elected and tasked with preventing it. How is that incentive structure going to work?
Using pomodoro timer. That also means no Reddit, Hackernews, or Lobste.rs in that 25 minutes
Absentee ballots were a disaster in WI. Many people did not get their ballots that they were supposed to by mail. Hard to believe that this could possibly be considered a legitimate election. https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/northshore/news/f...
The thing is, that’s totally alright too! I don’t think we should realistically expect everyone bothered by it to quit.. our current environment doesn’t support this ideology.

The disgusting thing is when Brad posted a PR piece that avoided the issue Tim raised. Brad could be the best person in the world but that action was not good or fair.
Wrestling with an overly-magical and under-supported framework. I won't name names because I don't wish to drag anyone through the mud.
Played around with it a while back when my attempt at doing hardware died pretty quickly. Will check them out again.
Yeah I'm totally OK with this. Medical facilities aren't exactly "autoscale", and by the time you change your mind it's already too late.

It's great to hear they weren't used heavily. It was great that they were set up too.
> First, all these alleged problems exist for absentee ballots, and yet no one complains about that.

Fair enough.

> Second, voting fraud is exceptionally rare in the United States

This doesn't make sense as a justification for relaxing restrictions. Perhaps it is because of the existing restrictions that fraud is so difficult and low, so then relaxing restrictions en-masse would increase the rate of fraud. I'm not saying this is definitely the case, but citing a low current rate of fraud as justification for making fraud easier doesn't make any sense at all.

> Even if you tried to purchase votes, you can’t purchase enough to shade an election, and stay clandestine

In most cases, this is true. But there are elections that are decided by a few dozen votes (maybe local elections, and more rarely larger elections), so a small amount of fraud could change the result.
As of HTML5, web standards specify how to render invalid HTML as well, precisely to avoid this problem:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...

In addition, most of the suggestions in the link (leaving off <html> and <head>, leaving off quotes for attributes, not closing <p>) are valid HTML in the first place.
You only need to open enough envelopes to get the result you want and then throw the rest in the trash.

Some mail in ballots have party identification on them, so you can ignore envelopes from the opposing party.

Identification is based on signature matching (that your signature matches the one when you registered). According to the ACLU thousands of mail-in ballots get thrown out in California just because of a perceived signature mismatch.

https://www.courthousenews.com/california-trashes-thousands-...

You can mail in a ballot and then go vote in person on Election Day, or have another ballot "harvested" from you by a canvaser.

Anyone (spouse, significant other, parent) could take your ballot, fill it out, sign it, and mail it in.

Human beings are terrible, and the idea that somehow that a partisan board of elections would be above this stuff is laughable. Everything in politics is corrupt, the corruption isn't suspended on Election Day.

People should only be allowed to vote in-person with an ID, unless they have a disability that otherwise prevents them from doing so.
Block all 3 in the hosts file and only read them from a mobile device.
How does this compare to SonicPi?
Surely someone must've come up with rules for it by now?
California already has mail-in ballots, FYI. All this order does is send them to all registered voters instead of just those who requested a mail-in ballot.
I found an article written after DEF CON 26 in 2018 about how room security policies clashed with privacy values, if anyone's interested:

https://the-parallax.com/2018/08/12/vegas-hotel-room-securit...
Holy shit... that wiki and alfred workflow is INSANE. I am so jealous. Do you find that you're able to discover what you're looking for pretty instantaneously? Any general tips for organizing (sorry if you cover this in the wiki, haven't dived into it yet, but i'm going to!)? also, huge fan of keyboard remapping. I use karabiner, kinesis advantage, and a couple kinesis foot pedals (had some rsi issues, but all this opened my mind to the possibility of experimenting with key mappings and input movements).
This is HN; missing the point is the point.
Here's a study showing a marked circadian rhythm in serum 25-hydroxyl vitamin D levels. There are actually lots of theoretical papers about this kind of thing, yet somehow so many of these nutritional studies seem oblivious to them or something.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25788054/

If you dig a little you'll find a similar situation with Mg/Ca/vitamin K/vitamin D. There are lots non-controversial evidence and understanding of the relationships between them, but the nutritional studies on vitamin D supplementation seem all but oblivious to that information.
Came across this video many years ago I think on Reddit while also digging into Hadoop. Continuing to talk a lot about distributed computing lately with coworkers made me remember it. Thanks to the other comments for finding the manual I've been skimming that on and off all evening.
Microsoft has done a good job playing catch up with Office Online and Teams to a point where now it’s pretty much equal with Google. I still prefer Google just because of the interface subtleties, but I can understand the draw to Office for various reasons as well. Competition is good.
At least in California I have only been able to check the status through county offices, which makes sense as elections are also handled at the local level. In my county, I have never seen a code but am asked to input some biographical information to lookup my ballot status.
Old korean lacked spaces. Modern korean uses spaces
Learning to create > reinforcing consuming
The QR codes point to toecodes.com, not to your domain. I feel disappointed.
The pseudocode comments are way too detailed and too much noise to keep in the code. I’m not going to keep a comment in the code like.

//increment i

But also if the comment is something like:

//Call the API to get a list of customers.

I’m going to replace it with

List<Customer> customers= GetCustomers();

Use the IDE to create a valid stub function and delete the comments. The method names become self documenting. At any point I have code that compiles.
use AutoHotkey+SharpKeys to map macros, especially to keys on the home row. vim macros for recording on the fly. in general prefer keyboard shortcuts and command line tools.

regex is game-changing and regex101 is a great tool for it.

take notes and save snippets so you can refer back to them.

most underrated stack for productivity is proper diet + exercise + sleep.
The problem is more complex than "just" hardware. If I may paraphrase a recent paper out of Google Brain: the current systems (hardware and software) we use for for numerical computing are "stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability."[a]

[a] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3317550.3321441?download=...
Nice, I wasn't aware of those using Vulkan, especially Dolphin. Thanks for pointing out.
I don't know, why would any new technology be different? I feel like the similarities between flying cars and self driving cars are superficial.
Agreed, the size and scope of the DSL will impact the amount of man-hours necessary for developer experience related work. Resourcing that effort is a separate concern, but one that should be considered for the DSL's viability.

JSX, being a sugared syntax for the React.createElement API, likely doesn't need a team of 20 for editor integration, whereas Angular templating language has more to it: pipes, directives (shorthand and non-shorthand syntax), property bindings, expressions, etc -- and templates need to be evaluated in context of their corresponding TypeScript Component.
Ask HN: We Need Help
There is s a group of us that have had our identities revealed. We are a group that have been targeted by a far right group. I am being very cautious here for obvious reasons. The Governor of Washington State stood up a web site that said that it would be anonymous but instead everyone's identity was exposed to the net. Now people are getting death threat from far right wing groups. I am reaching out to this group because there are a lot of people who are really afraid and need help. This is not a fake thing, I am able to provide a lot of contacts but people are nervous. What happened is that Governor Inslee of WA state stood up a web site that was supposed to be anonymous but the identities of a lot of at risk people have been revealed and now they are receiving death threats. We need help but so many are really afraid. I think that this forum can help us. A friend of mine who works for a local news organization told me that they are not allowed to report on this because they published the web link and think they may be culpable. There is a group of us who are very afraid. Can someone help us with some advice. Please, we are begging you, I am trusting that this forum is capable of helping us. Thank you.
PS I can provide more details if someone feels they can help us but people are so nervous I am afraid to post specific links. I have details but people are worried.
You are correct. Mārtiņš Možeiko pointed out that I had been too hasty when the article came out (https://twitter.com/mmozeiko/status/1257574246462570497). To conclude SIMD is leveraged when XMM registers are used is wrong. What I should have looked for are packed instructions.
Ah, maybe a better name would have helped:

HTML Code Golf - How to make really small HTML that doesn't break Firefox or Chrome, currently at least
Is there evidence that these "accusations of impropriety" materially impact elections?

From my research, the outrage about votor fraud is completely overblown.
I think it depends on how engrained the double-click highlight is for you. For me, I double-click by default, since I almost always want to select at a word boundary in English. As a result, when I need to select Chinese or Japanese text, I'm always annoyed when my double click (which, in my mind, should always select a word) selects a nonsensical sub-sentence instead, and I have to then re-select it manually.
How is this relevant to vote by mail? Don't you just put your ballot in the mail, no middleman necessary? Assuming the USPS is still operational by then, I mean.
The constitution guarantees a right to vote; laws against returning other people's ballots have been found unconsitutional on those grounds: https://apnews.com/d6b75b7a1c2da695d756cb4e864cd2b8 (full opinion if you're curious: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/01/27/1...)