skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What can we build to help increase voter turnout?
This upcoming election may be the more important one in our lifetimes. What can we as a tech community do to solve one of the biggest problems in US democracy, i.e. historically low voter turnout?

Some ideas that very quickly come to mind (I'm sure you can come up with much better):

1. Pair accountability: match up with a random person, each making sure their counterpart votes (e.g. similar to https://www.stickk.com).

2. Dashboard with people pledging to vote, with drip emails to keep registered users engaged, and gamified to increase "points" by how many unique number of people someone has brought on the platform.

3. Send-a-postcard (e.g. with lob.com) to friends that may be at risk for not voting. Not paid by any campaign/SuperPAC. Paid and sent-by someone they know.
Is the Murderbot series worth reading?
Peaceful protest does not work. That is the legacy of the last 50 years since the civil rights movement. Not a lot has changed. Black men are still being lynched. What would the conversation be if it weren't for video? Even with video, the conflicting autopsy from the county makes it sound like Floyd had either a pre-existing condition or drugs in his body.

I'm pretty irritated with the media, allowing various leaders to claim that they support peaceful protests. No they do not. Not Republican leaders, who consistently impugned the peaceful protests of Colin Kaepernick. They demanded these were vile, unpatriotic, and un-American. These are not mere talking heads, but the V-POTUS, and the POTUS, among others. They do not support peaceful protest, they hate it. They hate all criticism and all protests.

America is getting exactly what it deserves. It claims a contract of freedom and equality of all before the law. And this is provably, deterministically not true. And if it is not true, then why listen to any of it? The social contract is dust. If it is not wrong to lynch black men, then it is not wrong to loot, and burn, and pillage, and create widespread chaos. That is the central problem with loss of trust of the social contract, it begs the end to civil society, when we blatantly for all to see do not have a civil society for all. The deck is stacked in favor of some, and against others. Plainly. Clearly.

The contract we really have is Amy Cooper contract. The one where a black man asks her to put her dog on a leash per the law, and then she uses her whiteness as a weapon, and his blackness as a deficit, with the threat to call the police to get her way and her revenge and assert her white superiority. And knows the force of the police will make sure only one of them has a bad day. And then demand she's not a racist, right after having perfectly demonstrated racism. Hers and the system. That is the hallmark of institutional racism.
And that’s on top of the pandemic, mass unemployment, and the long-term downturn in brick and mortar retail.
As an airline pilot, how long do you typically have to respond to an autopilot issue? Is it seconds? Split second?
Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Payload User’s Guide [pdf]
Well, these have become technical terms sufficiently abstracted from their general sense that people have no problems borrowing the terminology from a different language. In fact English is a worse offender when it comes to these things, e.g. hydrogen for waterstuff.
Probably someone feeling pretty strilpy.
I'm pessimistic that any real headway can be made in this area. I suspect that many local PDs purposefully obfuscate or refrain from tracking data that could be used against their efforts to maintain their existing culture; and that even in the cases of reform-minded leaders coming to power, there are interests both below and orthogonal to, and sometimes even above, them that are not on the same page[1].

Worst of all, an incomplete attempt to compile statistics that purports to be a comprehensive overview can be just as destructive as doing nothing at all. One notes how often white supremacists, racist, Neo-Nazis, and internet trolls bring up FBI arrest statistics, which rely on local LEO reporting and certainly, at the very least, reflect the known role implicit bias based on race plays in arrest rates.

[1]https://theintercept.com/2020/05/29/george-floyd-minneapolis...
Semi-related: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-america-fails-at-gath...
A bit late, but here's a very unique photo of the "running fence" taking from my backyard as a kid in Petaluma, Ca. You can see it 'running' along the top of the hill in the background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Fence

the photo: https://i.imgur.com/VVzzZjz.jpg
Golang: Continuous Execution and Simple Plugin/Modular System
(i made it)

How to execute an application continuously and attach multiple modules like website, API, parsers? Using go channels and goroutines, we can achieve a periodic run of the application and stop it during predefined system events (like SIGTERM). To enable modular plugins, we can define our modules contract by using the Go interface and make it possible to attach them to our application.
... well, it is not consensual (which is not to say that a court might find otherwise) because consent requires, among other things, an understanding by the grantor of what the granted permission entails.

Here, it is unlikely that a user who has yet to click 'submit' understands that merely entering data (but not submitting it) is actually submitting that data.

WHAT IF for the sake of argument, a user typed (but did not submit) data which could get them in trouble if shared? (defamatory or trade secret info are just two examples)

And again -- a court might find otherwise -- but this behavior as presented is absolutely not consensual.
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You can certainly make a case for facebook being a weapon, but you could just as easily make a case that it's not. This is a terrible thought experiment that has us assume the former without considering the latter.
Let's not get carried away with the Covid fear hysteria

You know that the olfactory nerve is a cranial nerve, it's actually part of the brain. Anything neurotropic should be cause for extreme caution.
Campaign Zero
It's difficult to anonymize anything involving locations and times
Retained, sure, but publicly-disseminated in a PII database? There are laws about handling sensitive data like that.
This sounds similar to the "right to be forgotten" concept in EU law where citizens can complain to Google to have their records removed from the search engine, but there is no way to delete all data about the incident.

I don't want to trivialize the pain a wrongful arrest ad bullying caused, but I think the solution to the underlying problem is more sunlight, not less. Without being able to see how many wrongful/unfruitful arrests happened at the hands of your arresting officer and DA, power might go unchecked for longer and grow more corrupt.
Yes, I am advocating exactly that (except you extended the bounds quite a bit). How else are you going to prevent looting without dispersing the crowd first? The instruments police uses to do that are already as harmless as possible in most cases.

Additional: the whole thing spins as police officers personally being brutal. But the problem of instruments to disperse crowd is not decided by them personally, so I see no reason to blame them.
Look no further than GitHub Sponsorships for the future of online publishing. Speaking from experience, I derive far more value from signaling to onlookers that I financially support a particular "author" than I do from privately buying ... basically anything ... from that person. In addition, the author gets way more exposure this way, on a far more consistent basis -- just for being awesome. And I prefer this to a relationship doled out one financial transaction at a time and limited by artificial exclusivity.

I want authors I connect with to be paid, but the best way of doing this is paying for their living expenses independent of their publishing schedule. All the while voluntarily promoting their public persona to my peers.

Direct "sales" of information only deserves to have a future insofar as the buyer of the information gets important social signaling value from it, per GitHub sponsorships.

It isn't limited to GitHub sponsorships, either. Use your imagination. Use your grasp of modern technology.

In the publishing model of the future, authorship is financially compensated based on how much social signaling value their readers derive from monetary patronage.

Rather than paywalling my work, or hyping it up using immoral sales psychology techniques which are extractive not contributory, I would much prefer rewarding individual patrons, who opt to voluntarily pay for any of my work, with social credibility. I think that's healthier for everyone, and I fully trust online communities dedicated to information consumption will be better than I am at packaging my information for further public consumption and distributing it far more widely than I could ever achieve as a lone individual.
Yeah, I got an iPad Pro from the Apple store. Took it back right away got bored from inability to use programs or create on it.

Got a Surface Go instead. More portable and it's a computer with a Linux shell.
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It looks like the paper focuses exclusively on visual media, mostly film and TV, rather than things left to your imagination, like in books.

Most emphasis is on the little details like the pipes on the hull and how they contribute to the general idea, for example small windows make the ship appear bigger, bigger thrusters will evoke a fast ship. The opposite as with books where the attributes tend to be given first and it is up to you to imagine the details.

A kind of ship that I found interesting was from "étoiles mourantes", a weird (the "Dune" kind of weird) french novel. In the novel you have animal-cities, huge extraterrestrial beings living in deep space, hosting other life forms inside them, including humans. They allow for hyperspace-like travel.

I liked the idea of living creatures as spaceships, but the book doesn't give much detail about how they look, therefore being out of scope of the paper. Organic looking spaceships are mentioned though, as a sure-fire way of making them look alien.
Expect Github/Microsoft to crumble at the first, inevitable, court order to censor this material. This is derogatory data about members of among the most politically and legally powerful groups in the country. It's great to post this data there, but hopefully as only one node in a well distributed network of many clones.
Ideally there'd be obvious visual feedback that reflects the current state of the Autopilot and what it recognizes. Something that can't be ignored (front and center on the windshield maybe) and that can give the driver sufficient information to make a decision about whether to interfere or not. This doesn't seem to be on the radar for anybody though. It's like everybody assumes they'll figure out a 99.99% working driving AI where driver intervention is never necessary.

It's even more egregious with Tesla, who is already shipping a half-baked self-driving feature in its current state where accidents like in the article are inevitable.

I could even imagine the windshield outlining everything that the Autopilot sees. If you don't see an outline around a object, you know the Autopilot isn't aware of it. No idea how technically feasible that is.
It’s a common language tool to use. It has nothing to do with policing. One parent is the good cop, the other parent the bad cop. It has nothing absolutely nothing to do with the image of police with badges and batons. One person plays the good role, one the bad. It’s the personification if the above. You don’t have to dissect everything to its bare bones.
git's diff already has language-specific configurability, for example xfuncname sets a "function declaration" or similar header (e.g. markdown heading, org-mode section) that is shown in a diff.

Similarly, one could imagine a language-specific regexp that gives "anchor points" such as declaration start, where one would prefer that a single diff hunk doesn't mutate things across that anchor, if it doesn't have to.
Undoubtedly.

Point being that the initial push in the present direction came from Europe in the 19th century, no matter how influential the 20th century US publishing sector eventually became.

And to be clear, I don't think the "US, no, Europe" blame game accomplishes or illuminates much. Far more useful is to note that monopoly power seeks to extend itself, regardless of origin.
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A possible lexicographic example of a bunny is the entry "hink" in the first edition of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary [1]. I thought it was a mistake when I first learned about it, but some sources state that it was put there deliberately [2] [3].

[1] http://gally.net/leavings/00/0091.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographic_error

[3] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2001-Decemb...
I was writing a HN comment, not a scientific paper, which is why I wrote "seems safe" instead of making stronger claims.

I'd also like to know how mosaicing is reversible, since it demonstrably reduces the total available amount of information from e.g. 20x20 = 400 RGB values to a single RGB value. This is not sufficient for text where you can start brute-forcing individual options because the search space is small and inputs can be reconstructed precisely, but I'd like to see an explanation why you think this is reversible for photos (even without noise added). I'd also like to know how you want to remove random noise applied to each mosaic block.

The mosaicing is supposed to be the security step here. The blur is optional eye candy not expected to remove further information.

In particular, if you claim that a face mosaiced with a large "pixel" size (e.g. so that the typical face is 5x5 "mosaic blocks" big), you're effectively claiming that you can perform facial recognition based on noisy 5x5 pixel images.
What makes you believe that the looters are mostly white? I mean, the people you are talking against, they have all the video evidence they need of black people and others looting and causing destruction that they need. What do you have?

I'd really like to see some. I've been having some cognitive dissonance lately. Some portions of the media are telling me that the looters are white supremacists, but unless there are substantial amount of black/brown white supremacists in this country, the video evidence says otherwise...
I like the spirit of this. I felt like software tech didn’t have too much of a place during the Pandemic to have an outsized impact, but here we totally do. Let’s get this data, let’s make tools to explore it, correlate it, and broadcast it.
Minneapolis is a democratic/progressive stronghold. The GOP has no influence there.
Civil Asset Forfeiture
Are there any published statistics on how common that is? I wonder what it inflames or irritates that can't come back after the body recovers from the virus.
Or you can scroll down. It's presumably a hero imagespace that serves to explain their product in the fastest way. 300kb for a gif isn't that big for such an inefficient type.
AG may prosecute telecommunication use to “participate in” or “encourage” riots
https://youtu.be/BWAK0J8Uhzk - dogs operating a car with a trainer issuing instructions
This article is very much trying to justify the rioting, though. It quotes a statement from John Lewis asking the rioters to be calm, and then explains why he's wrong and they should not be calm. "The human capacity for patience and endurance, in the face of blatant injustice, is not without limits", the author says. "We don’t have time to finger-wag at protesters about property", Garza says. I don't know how to read these statements except as calls to continue rioting.
I think the easiest way to make it understood that there are limitations is to avoid the word "auto". It seems easier.
It happens to non-game products too. Way back during a college internship, there was a third-party vendor that had by far the best algorithm for a hardware product my employer was producing. The product was pretty close to finished, when a former employer of the founder of the vendor sued them under a questionable non-compete contract and claimed that the algorithm was stolen (the company that filed suit had a significantly inferior algorithm based on the hardware product's criteria).

Most of the development had to be scrapped, and a new, non-compete-free team was hired to build a clean room algorithm. There was a firewall inside the company where people on the old team practically couldn't even say hello to the people on the new team. And the new algorithm was decent, but not as good as the original vendor's algorithm.
The languages themselves are no problem, you already use non-English for important programming constructs without thinking about it like !, ||, &&, etc., and have to explain their function in English upon first encounter.

CJK have different strategies for localizing technical terms. I don't know about Korean, but Japanese tends toward transliterating English terms whereas comparatively Chinese tends toward inventing calques.
Isnt the point that you have to get deep into the diminishing returns to root out extremely rate errors?
Git can call a whole bunch of merge visualization and conflict resolution tools. See `git mergetool --tool-help`.
The whole shameless lot refuse to apologise or even admit they made a mistake. And the program is slated to continue.
For anyone wishing to try this without having to install z3, or just to see a more rudimentary way of doing this, here is a self-contained (hopefully just as readable) solution in JS:

const num = findNum();
const bin = num.toString(2);
const byteStrings = toChunks(bin, 7).map(chunk => chunk.join(''));
const bytes = byteStrings.map(str => parseInt(str, 2));
const str = bytes.map(String.fromCharCode).join('');
console.log(num, bin, byteStrings, bytes, str);

function findNum(i=0, lim=1e1000000000) {
while (i < lim) {
if (i % 611939 === 145767 && i % 598463 === 109572) return i;
i += 1;
}
}

function toChunks(iterable, chunkSize) {
const chunks = [];
for (const el of iterable) {
let buf = chunks[chunks.length - 1];
if (!buf || buf.length >= chunkSize) {
buf = [];
chunks.push(buf);
}
buf.push(el);
}
return chunks;
}

243085550 1110011111010011000011101110 [ '1110011', '1110100', '1100001', '1101110' ] [ 115, 116, 97, 110 ] <xxx>

Sorry about not getting a response from the poster of the job, by the way. It's a very unhealthy attitude and it's sad to see this on HN of all places.
Why is this comment allowed to stay up?
Is there any protocol to have masked data similar to healthcare data?
Alternative Web? The big "selling" point of Mosaic and other early Web browsers was bringing diverse information sources together into one application! Gopher, WWW, WAIS, FTP, and probably others, all available in one program, and a GUI program at that, unless you were stuck using Lynx over SLIP or some other bizarre excrescence of the dial-up age.

The fact Web browsers won rather disproves your whole notion.
Stanley and Stella In: Breaking the Ice
I lost my sense of taste a few years ago, from a combination of extreme stress and the flu. Lasted about a week, and it was utterly terrifying. I first noticed it when I tried to eat, iirc scrambled eggs, and couldn't stop gagging on the texture. Once I figured out what was going on, it took a couple days to figure out what I could eat without retching. I ended up being entirely vegetarian - meat without taste is a horrible experience, and only ate milk and eggs as ingredients.

Overall, 0/10, do not recommend unless you have to go vegan but don't have any willpower. When my sense of taste gradually returned, I practically cried I was so relieved.
I have to say what benefit do you think that having all of these phone pressure measurements will bring to society? Does it help forecasting? Ive heard that we could use them as initial conditions for forecasting. which is cool, but i'm not sure the whole 'crowd source surface pressure obs' is really that important or impactful.
Because human nature. No matter what they call it, the better it works the more the human driver will relax and let the machine take over. No matter how many times you warn them that that's inappropriate or unsafe.
At the time, Uber had critical mass of bad press for many reasons.
Which is incredibly surprising given the damage in the picture, but always possible I suppose.
Every shot is absolutely accounted for while cops are on duty in the US. What do you think happens when cases go to trial? “Sorry judge, we don’t bother keeping track of how many bullets our officers come back with, so we can’t prove whether it was the suspect who shot the gun”? That would be ridiculous.

What you’re referring to is a centralized federal registry you can do a simple query on. Yes, that doesn’t fully exist right now, because reporting numbers to a central federal authority is new, and currently voluntary.

But do you honestly think this means we don’t keep track of times officers use their guns, on a local level? That officers are simply not responsible in any way for using their gun on duty?
If Congress has the power to make something literally part of the Constitution then they literally have the power to shape the boundaries of constitutional law because they literally have the power to rewrite the Constitution.

Ex falso quodlibet. Congressional action is not sufficient to alter the Constitution.
With several asterisks attached, but yes, the move would make dependency resolution faster.
I think fast.ai[^1] would be a good start. I think you'll have analysis in high school and learn a bit on that. Khan Academy[^2] seems to have courses catering to a broad spectrum of skill levels in mathematics.

[^1]: https://www.fast.ai

[^2]: https://www.khanacademy.org
Wow, yeah:

> "Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time)."
Hmm. I didn't know IA had _books_ in it. Thanks, publishers!