skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before I clicked on the link, I assumed this was yet another egregious lie. But this one really doesn't qualify. It falls squarely in the category of reasonable opinions. Let's look at the claim: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent". Clearly the veracity of the statement rests on the word "substantially." It's inconceivable that no one ever takes, for example, an elderly relative's mail in ballot and votes it fraudulently. So for this to be a reasonable opinion, it merely has to be reasonably possible for the claim to be true.

So, let's consider if such fraud could possibly be substantial. Let's use California as an example. Registering to vote is easy, all you need is a web browser[1] and a mailing address where you reside or with a resident willing to give you ballots or ignorant that they are receiving them[2]. Also, the State of California faces an impractically large legal hurdle to reject suspected fraudulent ballots[3] so it can be assumed that most if not all will be accepted. It seems clear based on the observable facts that substantial fraud is certainly possible under the California regime. Please note I am not claiming such fraud actually happens, merely that it is easily practicable for an organization as well organized as, say, a political party. To be honest, I bet literally hundreds if not thousands of readers on this site could build "California vote fraud as as service" as a side gig. Let's disrupt the electoral process for a billion dollar valuation!

From this I conclude that while I personally disagree with the President, this particular statement is a (probably, I sure hope) incorrect opinion, not a factually incorrect statement.

[1] https://covr.sos.ca.gov/

[2] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/more-than-80-bal...

[3] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
>In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots.

How could you possibly know this, and how could twitter possibly know this? Surely that is the intent, but what do you make of stories like this one: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/11/05/goldstein-investi...

"Only registered voters will receive ballots", you cannot state a future event as a fact, since it hasn't actually happened yet. Stories like the one linked show that in the past, California has had problems with this.

Should twitter now fact check their fact checking? Perhaps the idea of future-telling is flawed to begin with and twitteer should not attempt to be a source of truth!
What a poor excuse. Things like this doesn't happen by mistake, it requires considerable effort on the contrary.
The issue here is that the people that already believe in these sources already think the president is lying. On the other hand, people that think the president is telling the truth aren't going to believe those sources. So what does this do? Are there that many people on the fence? Because everyone I know in the middle already thinks this is laughable (Utah votes by mail and every Republican in CA I know votes from home!), those on the left think it is about voter suppression, and those on the right think it is about voter integrity.

While I don't disagree with the program, I'm also not sure what it solves.
Yes, the title is ‘the ideal tech stack for a development blog...’
I consider commenting functionality an essential component of a tech blog so was hoping that was solved in the post. It isn’t, and it hardly ever is but I wish there were more choices in this regard
And has typos too.

>Can I get a refund of my Premium upgrade?
>Yes, you can get a refund if you have been charged a new monthly / anualy payment and you haven’t used the Writing Facilitator since then.

Doesn't sit well for a product that promotes writing.
Love it! Also, I think it'd be more impressive to be consistent with your units when comparing page sizes e.g:

4mb
1mb
4mb
3mb
0.005mb
Again, it is true that they controlled world trade with a small % of their budget but they spent most of the 18/19th century subsidising other people's armies. So the reason they didn't need a gigantic military was because they paid other people to fight for them.

They also got involved tactically, even someone like Palmerston who was an interventionist didn't intervene before the point when it was necessary. And a lot of the direct military intervention was to secure trade in countries where you had a gun, and the enemy had a spear. So they really maximised what they spent in a way that others couldn't.

Compare this to France, who probably spent the most on military, if war breaks out then they don't have a choice...you are getting invaded. Britain didn't need a big standing army (and really didn't have one until WW1).

Also, whilst British expenditures were small relative to budget (I don't know this but assuming you are correct), it was still very difficult for anyone to catch up until the late 19th century because their economy was so much larger.

Germany invested in a fleet because they, correctly, concluded that the only way to beat Britain was their navy. France tried the exact same thing in the mid 18th century, they were actually predominant for a short period, but they imploded financially (this was pre-Napoleonic, although they obviously tried to rebuild with Napoleon).

I think the issue for Germany was their economic strength was kind of shaky (they were still a largely agricultural economy until the 1960s) and there was no scenario in which they wouldn't need to spend heavily on the army as well.

But it wasn't useless or opposed to what their aims should have been. War started, they got blockaded almost instantly (just like France in the Seven Years War), and that crippled them. So I don't think there was any easy answer (there was no way in which they were going to avoid war either).

I am not sure I said military spending by itself is valuable...but I don't think it is.
Thanks for giving it a gander!

Right on the money. I think that's the most approachable revenue model; "free unless you don't do your chores" or some such. Perhaps a paid tier with additional features or gated by household size ... I dream of making housing coops (10+ people to a house) much more scalable.

I have high churn ATM though so most of my concern is there.
I mean, who cares? If they aren’t altering data let them read it. We are surely reading theirs too.
People have been voting by mail for decades, in the US and many other democracies. There haven't been any incidents. And, yes, I am convinced wide-scale fraud would be almost impossible to hide: you can't pull off any fraud without, for example, many voters turning up at polling places even though they have been mailed a ballot. Or people noticing the voter rolls show them having voted when they didn't. Or whatever scheme you are using to intercept thousands of individual letters addressed to individual residences being noticed. Or sudden, unexplained changes in participation being noticed. Or many dead people somehow voting because you can't possibly stay up-to-date with all recent deaths in the community.

And, of course, the discussion isn't actually about voting-by-mail, yes-or-now? Because that has been possible for a long time and isn't going to change. The discussion is about making it easier and/or the default to protect people from communicable diseases.

The issue, then, isn't even if voting by mail allows fraud. It's if the likelihood of fraud is significantly higher when, say, 50% instead of 30% choose that option.

This is yet another blatantly obvious attempt to stack the deck in Republican's favour. It's sickening to see people pretend to care about the integrity of democracy by engaging with all these phantom debates about voter fraud, in the complete absence of any actual fraud happening (except that Republican in South Caroline, of course).

Meanwhile, real damage is done to democracy by the unrelenting attempts to selectively make it harder for people to vote. Take a look at these changes in polling locations in Milwaukee for a blatant example (the red, suburban spots are predominantly Republican locations, while the urban core leans democratic) : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYoIrdZXQAILKlB.jpg
> The call queue for that company never dropped below a constant 200-300 on hold and emails took days to even get to.

If those are the stats and you're still not actually solving many customers' problems; if tons of people are being hung out to dry with no recourse, then you're doing a bad job. If you don't have enough people to do the job, then hire more people. If you can't afford to hire more people, then don't do the job, or limit the number of customers you deal with.
> Which is it, guys? How can you simultaneously be outraged that Facebook is imposing any restrictions on speech at all, and horrified that it isn’t actively molding user behavior on a massive scale?

Perhaps because it's not the same people in the two different cases? HN is a pretty diverse bunch at this point; I'm sure there are a lot of people here who want FB to be a disinterested publisher, and others who want FB to curate like mad.
Well, was most of that $500 for storage costs, or for network? Surely you don't expect the monthly bill to include details about particular files or bucket sizes? Have you enabled CloudTrail logging and/or VPC flow logs?

It's not my intention to victim-blame here, yet do bear in mind that there are many, many ways to use the services and to expose resources to the bottomless appetite of the internet. Maybe Digital Ocean or Linode or the like would be a better option for starting out.
Is anyone aware of a VPN out there that supports PiHole-like list filtering, so you could get the best of both worlds?

Right now it feels like I have to choose:

- Use my PiHole to block all sorts of content on filtering lists that are useful in cases like blocking unwanted tracking in mobile apps, but my ISP knows everything I access

- Use a VPN, where my ISP doesn't know what I'm doing, but every web service I use can use whatever tracking it wants (except where uBlock is used and such, but you don't get that luxury with, say, Samsung Smart TVs which are notorious for phoning home)
Are you an infosec expert? You have said that it is impossible to trace origins of hacks multiple times but only offer two shallow points that you would learn about in your first week of a network security class.

There are papers out there that have multiple ways of using language to identify specific authors, determine multiple authors, and even decode unknown language. That's my first shallow example and would be a pretty reliable indicator if you could get your hands on their code. With a budget of millions of dollar I'm sure they have dozens of ways that can be combined. It would make no sense to reveal every single method they use to defend against people on the internet. That also assumes they don't just have a mole who told them about it, which they also wouldn't reveal.
Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense -- sorry if my comment came off as patronizing.
And where do you go to read those paragraphs?
It's really not a hard movie to follow. Story is not what critics disagree on.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311298
Redirect to http to https would be great...

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/
It's a strange decision by Twitter here, but they are in a strange position.

Donny, love him or hate him, does say a fair few things that are ... questionable. Jack has talked about this a bit, and their conclusion thus far has been that anything he says, by virtue of the office, is newsworthy enough. Policies for thee, but not for he. It's been a battle with users, but everyone seems to just grumble along.

That policy has worked up until today.

A lot of work went into this decision. They A/B tested the color of the note, likely the font, the positioning, the exact words, the fact check itself, etc. This thing went through meeting after meeting and was run past some good legal counsel. Twitter isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but it's also not a rusty shovel. They red-teamed this a fair bit, I'd imagine. They must have known that Donny would not view it favorably and would do exactly what he is doing currently.

All the same they went ahead and decided to make the move at the end of May, ~6 months before the 'fit hits the shan'.

Why?

Their stock is, well, fairly ok. Jack seems to be doing alright. Monthly users are flat-ish since 2015, but compared to FB, it's a bit of a wash.
Yes, it's a new problem.

Firing inspector generals en masse [1], personally attacking specific FBI agents and their families [2], intervening in the criminal proceedings of friends and political allies [3], etc. is a pattern of behavior that undermines the rule of law in this country. It's a comprehensive strategy to weed out anyone who disagrees with you, hurts your feelings, dares second guess you, or, god forbid, didn't vote for you.

This pattern of comprehensive corruption is unique to this administration.

There are _literally_ dozens of links I could provide for each point since these behaviors happen constantly, but I just google'd and picked one each.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-removes-fed...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/donald-trump-nemesis...

[3] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/25/judge-rebukes-trump...
I think the problem is the teacher moved from one type of "fraction problem" to another kind.

The example of drinking 4 bottles of water to only have 2/6 left of the original pack is doing an integral problem and wrapping up the answer as a fraction. Same deal with the pack of 12 pencils.

The students can grasp those problems as e.g. (1+1)/6 rather than (1/6 + 1/6). In other words, there is only one "whole" in the problem.

When you're adding the fractions of desks filled with students, the fraction is counter-intuitive because both desks have to have the same number of students for it to make sense. (1/3 of a 5000-student round table is different from a 3-student table). And to say "the units are wrong" is kind of a limited way of explaining this. The units also need to have the table capacity as part of the unit identity (i.e. the units would have to be 3-student-table). That's a pretty sophisticated way of thinking about units.

I think that after the pencil/water examples, transitioning from the pencil/water pack examples to a more "pure" fraction example would be better. e.g. one group of students eats 2/3 of a pizza, and another group eats 2/3 of a pizza. Now you can throw away one of the original pizza boxes and put the two remaining 1/3 in a single box which is 2/3 full. Now the "whole" for each fraction is no longer arbitrary (like 6 bottles of water or 12 pencils).
What is this thing established as "fact" and who established it?
>Maybe that's the problem. In lots of AI/ML problems you just CAN'T know ahead of time what can be deliver you need to spend the time and resources to do it and then see how well it works...

Sure, this is true in some cases, but in most cases I think anybody with a fundamental understanding of ML could tell you yes/no by understanding or estimating whether your input data contains enough signal to explain your desired output. In many cases where ML "fails" it's relatively obvious that there is not enough signal to cover the output; in many other cases you can be quite assured a priori that ML will give you a decent solution without needing to test it first.

There will of course be issues if your practitioners are unable to distinguish these cases or if they are structurally not empowered to say so (e.g. if they are just ordered to make a model using data X to do Y). That is probably what happens in a lot of cases when business leaders blindly decide to "add ML" to their business.

The fact of the matter is that ML is very good at solving problems where an input signal strongly correlates with the output signal, and it's appropriate over other approaches when the mapping is hard to define, such as in recognizing images of birds. If you can apply some transformation to your business problem into something with this structure, you can apply ML; otherwise you probably shouldn't.
Astronomer proposes new type of interstellar spacecraft
https://repl.it/languages/bash
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478
You can choose SLC (or limited MLC) and overprovisioning to make flash storage quite reliable, and perhaps even preferable to disk in some respects. But that comes with severe compromises in density and you're still vulnerable to bugs in the opaque, proprietary Flash Translation Layer, which has no equivalent in (non-SMR) hard disks.
Paywall. Can anyone summarize
With all due respect, most of us moved to VS Code. I paid for Sublime, I'm not paying for a git merge GUI $100. It's just way too expensive!
> Anecdotally of course, as one of those tech-folks who's got nothing against good and relevant ads.

Be careful what you wish for. This TED talk[0] on persuasion architectures brings up some interesting moral arguments against this idea. If we generally accept that ad conversion is a metric of an ad's success, how do we handle the situation where people that are susceptible to addictive behaviors like gambling and compulsive shopping are exposed to ads that exploit their condition? Data-driven advertising systems are built particularly well to find and exploit these kinds of people. We already see this a lot in the scam call/email world. Once you fall for one, the amount of inbound traffic you receive from scammers increases dramatically.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI&t=872s
precisely that one, that the poor vastly outnumber the rich
Why do you want to be in the middle?
I'm not against people becoming more educated - I have 100% faith in twitter's superiority. I know that the talented and, frankly, superior human beings over at twitter are the best people in the world to educate the ignorant public.
When I did business intellegence programming for a law firm we used statistics and six sigma to figure things out. It is all about crunching numbers on spreadsheets or linear algebra.
"Far right" and "far left" are both garbage terms, as they frame the political gamut to favor some reasonable "center", with that supposed "center" being economically-expedient authoritarianism. Use of the prefix "far-" is essentially just Overton window policing.
I liked Thomas Keller's lectures the best out of all the MasterClass content I've seen. Great balance of practical knowledge, context and insight. Explaining that what he's doing is about refinement for its own sake puts the steps he takes into context in terms of what you can leave out vs incorporate. He's low-key. The lack of ads and zaney edgy music make it FAR more enjoyable than any cooking show you'll see on TV, IMHO.
Amazon in advanced talks to buy Zoox
Yeah that comment didn’t make much sense. No one would seriously dispute that 2 is the first prime.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317286
The Smalltalk books were a big influence on me when they came out, so I was happy when a company I was working for sublet space from Xerox PARC and we had meetings there. :)

Is anybody familiar with the various Smalltalk releases today and willing to do an overview of what's available?
Hard to convince a company to provide good service when they can make more money by not doing so.
Even the crappy little cowboy CRO I worked for had a fleet of CRA's go out and manually verify documents against the EDC. It's required by law. I think the FDA audit also repeats that process with a random sampling for some studies, though I couldn't swear to that.

I get the point the parent comment was trying to make, but yeah, bad example.
Diving into Go by building a CLI application
Humor is powerful, which is why people want to control what you are allowed to laugh at.
Some of the models look cool, but this website is unchanged since 2014/2015. Not sure they’re active.
> Don't you want to learn about sale for new tech gadgets? Discounts for AWS? Good rent deals?

No. I want less intrusions on my senses, not more. I buy few things, and ads are irrelevant for the central ones: groceries and utilities are dependent on my place of residence.

If given the choice, I’d welcome with open arms the chance to never see an ad again anywhere, including offline. I’ve never seen an ad with a deal as good as that one, and I doubt I ever will.
Codeguppy is almost a fantasy computer for recreational programming. Thoughts?
> Why exactly do you need an AI that reads a PDF ?

Much of the world is full of PDFs that are bad scans. Upside down, sideways, green, or maybe in French because why not.

>making them spit out JSON

This doesn’t just require fixing your business but every other biz you interact with. Modernize your own stuff isn’t enough. A bit like offices still list fax numbers
That is inevitable. Trump will one day not be president. And one day while not president he will bitch tweet in a way that dramatically and clearly violates the terms of service. Twitter will have reached its Rubicon with respect to Trump and the public interest / head of state exception they've carved out, and they'll have to make a permanent decision.
I just imagined it -- the most 2020 headline possible: "Rare Blue Bees Rebound After Coronavirus, Devastated By Murder Hornets"
Widespread Re-Use of SSH Host Keys in Ethereum Mining Rig Operating Systems
Do you have a contrary example?
What drew you to using S3 in the first place while also discounting the risk that it might get a lot of use, and thus a lot of cost? Like, if a 100MB file in a public bucket got a bazillion downloads, did you not want that to happen?
I did, I'd be rich.

The problem is clearly pretty deep. One posibility is that it's inherently inconsistent with a deep, high speed, long range, high bandwidth data regime. We live in a universe where all of us are ventriloquists, or may be ventriloquist dummies.

There's the questions of what identity is, and its distinction from identifiers or assertions of identity.
There is the matter of when you do or do not need to assert orverify a specific long-term identity, and when you do. When identifiers require a close 1:1 mapping, and when they don't. Of what the threat models and failure. modes of strong vs. weak authentication schemes are.

And ultimately of why we find ourselves (individually, collectively, playing specific roles, aligned or opposed with convention, the majority, or other interests) desiring either strongly identified or pseudonymous / anonymouus interactions.

Easy or facile mechanisms have fared poorly. Abuses and dysfunctions emerge unexpectedly.

It's complicated.
Ugh, Achilles tendonitis had me in pain for YEARS. My tendon took on a lot of scar tissue. Debridement surgery didn’t seem to help. Eventually wearing some negative-heel shoes (those goofy MBTs) did it. So destructive to my shape in the meantime.
53.9% of us voted against Trump.
Especially since “EC2” is not just a VM. There are dozen services at least that come under EC2.

Also if you start trying to use DynamoDB like you would Mongo, you’re going to be really upset. The use cases, design considerations and performance considerations of DynamoDB compared to Mongo is night and day.
Won't be valued, or won't exist?
The way automation is going, in 60 years your trash will take itself out.
>>The videos were flagged and reviewed as acceptable several times

IMHO if you came up with a workable solution, Google would buy you out in an instant.

if passed_review_count > 0 == true

buy me
Snitches get cross stitches. Don't report your family - talk to them.
Considering mail-in voting has been put through the ringer in multiple states (both red and blue!) with very little voter fraud statistically, it seems like these days the partisan topics consist of reality vs Trump.

This is something that's been statistically proven to work and yet the amount of people I see leaping to his very ignorant claims of this topic here is disappointing. Can you back up the claims that mail-in ballots will be substantially fraudulent at any level beyond baseless speculation?