skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You feel that the process is well understood because that’s the only process you’re familiar with and likely it was taught to you since school. In reality other schemes such as electronic voting could be just as clear and transparent, while possibly even more natural as visiting websites and using apps is what people do every day as opposed to gathering physically in order to run an ancient form of poor cryptography manually. Also, no you never had an opportunity to see the whole process end-to-end, as you never were allowed to open and inspect voting ballots or boxes, or attending the central counting place in your state/at the federal level to make sure they are counting everything correctly as well. Think of the bits you saw this way: it your adversaries were evil versions of Penn and Teller, would they be able to fool you by presenting you completely boring looking yet larger than life process that feels completely fair yet of which - due to completely human reasons - you can only see a one facet at a time - all while in fact running a completely different play in the background? Sure, this isn’t how we normally think about adversaries in real life but that’s what the adversaries in cryptography are. When the guy in the video said that there have been some concerns about Estonian voting system which basically means anyone could have stolen the election - that’s what he meant really: Penn and Teller could have arranged in their stage show show such a contraption that would have fooled mock election participants into disclosing their vote or it being discounted, therefore basically anyone can steal our election.
2. This isn’t obvious at all nor substantiated by facts/reasoning. Parties still could hire/attract auditors to oversee the process, independent organizations and foreign counties still could be provided with visibility into the process, in fact the process could be made more verifiable by using preserving audit logs and forensic evidence for generations to come, so that single researcher could viably check their hypotheses across the whole election days, months or years later, not just one small fragment at a time in places they themselves got an opportunity to physically be present, like what you described. And the process could be made much more transparent to the public at large as their vote could be counted in soft real time, meaning they could verify it reached central tally right after voting.
Texas governor orders people to wear masks statewide
Culture cancels abhorrent ideas, same as it ever was. Notice how it’s COMPLETELY unacceptable to suggest slavery should be made legal. Or children sent to work in factories. All commonplace 150 years ago and we only benefit from the ideas being practically unutterable.
When you send an email, there's typically 2 email addresses.

But if you share a trip to a person who's on Tripit - they just get a notice and a record in their webapp.
Sure they needed to do this eventually since IE11 is coming to end of life soon. This isn't as shady as it appears
Yeah, plus we already know what they had to say because they wrote numerous blog posts before hand. They wanted to cause as much carnage as possible to take revenge against reality.
California sues Cisco for alleged caste discrimination
You are employing that "regular folks" shtick that is intended to denigrate everyone disagreeing with you as not-a-real-person.

It takes a certain panache (or ignorance) to use in a complaint about "demonisation".
"webscale"
What other supporting evidence besides "still has 70% market share"?. That alone doesn't qualify it as a monopoly.
Typo I presume?:

> Markdown syntax

> Maildown supports mrkdown syntax
DataBricks Launches Cluster Policies
When Performative Wokeness Misses the Point
A friend of mine drives 747-8F freighters for United Parcel Service (UPS).

She trained for the -8F series upgrade at Anchorage. [Via @ethagknight comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23718445) I learned that this is Ted Stevens Airport, a refueling stop for everybody doing air freight from Shenzhen to USA. Apparently they have lots of other operations there, makes sense.

Anyway, 787-F pilots have had a very busy year.
> Telling people which causes they must publicly support or else be assumed an enemy? Does that ring any bells?

Are you talking about Kapernick being cancelled from the NFL by conservative cancel culture and the Vice President's staged NFL walkout to support conservative cancel culture?
Is Data Secrets Lox an anagram of something else, like SSC is?
And those jobs are running on $15 subscription MRR models. I'm not unappreciative, trust me. I just also don't appreciate that they have systematically obstructed competing services. And they've done all this using the same tactics we were tearing Microsoft apart for in the 90s over shipping Windows with Internet Explorer built into the OS.

Do a search through Google for a digital whiteboard, and once you scroll past several ads, one of the first links is for Google's Jamboard. How is this creating "trillions in value, and millions of jobs via direct and indirect employment"? It's funneling more utility into the Google service model, which is "free", because your data is not.

Big Tech is as much responsible for the dwindling payouts on music and movie royalties to artists, as it is responsible for the GDPR. It's as much responsible for us not owning the media we pay for, as it is now also responsible for the half-finished, nickel-and-dime microtransactions and advertisements that litter even paid services.
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Fun fact - I never compared the quality of $1 and $18 burger.
I would agree to a certain point, but I wouldn't take the "all people is crazy" too seriously, given the growing number of confirmed to be true -previously tin-foil hat- theories.

Remember the "the government is intercepting EVERYTHING worldwide" from the 2000s? Awesome, I didn't thought it was feasible to do actually, but there are some quite smart(er) folks out there.

Remember that at some point many people knowing first-hand untold no-public truths started to share bits here and there in Internet, that years later were confirmed -with solid evidence- by themselves or other people.
IE has been inseparable from Windows for well over a decade prior to the launch of Edge, when they let you uninstall IE. But Microsoft has generally made one web browser mandatory.
I’m not sure that the auS population would tolerate the European model either. The police and Amy were posted in the street and checked every persons ID, place of residence, travel papers on sight.
Reads these secession letters and tell me that slavery was not the primary factor.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

States rights... to own slaves.
Could they be doing this as a way to detect scrapers? I think Linkedin has always been a hot target for smart sales tools to scrape for information.
Exactly. The parent to your reply typifies the intellectual dishonesty we’re seeing in the anti-protest efforts. It’s really pathetic.
I’m not sure if you are joking? As it is an anagram of “Slate Star Codex” and so within the same anagram equivalence class.
Precisely. People are reading a lot into this paragraph:

The posts rankled some workers, who found that her decision to write about the media in the midst of her maternity leave, rather than Black Lives Matter or Pride, reflected poorly on the brand. “Why is this the moment she chose to be present and speak up?” they asked. “It’s becoming very clear that it’s because Steph Korey values her own reputation over the wellbeing of the company and her employees.”

I read that as someone remarking that, among all the huge societal events happening in the world, Steph took time out of her leave to talk about her own reputation in a way that again alienated the legitimate problems employees had with her previous actions. With this quotation being the kicker, “Her own actions (including deleting the only apology she ever made following The Verge article) prove that she has not learned or grown from the December incident”.
You're equating the "being difficult" of revolutionaries with the "being difficult" of rapists.

And, yes, these two groups do share the distinction of being publicly criticised.

But "let's just stop complaining" as a strategy to support the good revolutionaries, and to start doing so by giving sexual predators a break, is almost too incoherent to be intended in all its cynical might.

Plus, obviously, the "difficult revolutionary's" modus operandi is to complain/"cancel"/whatever: how, exactly, do you want them to be "difficult" and changing-things while not annoying you and refraining from exerting any power?
Farms that are delivering during Covid-19
Edge was installed as part of a previous update, 1905.
Honda Fit is awesome.

But $18 burger is not drastically better than McDonald's $7 burger.

Try doing an actual blind test, with a control... because the simple fact of perception will make you think one is better.
Just to give one counter-point:

Take New Zealand. Its geographical isolation, low population density and strict national lockdown and contact tracing, led to it eliminating the virus.

However, now it has a set of policies that increase its isolation, and is stuck with them until an effective vaccine or treatment is found:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-zealand-beat-back-t...

In the absence of a vaccine, herd immunity is the only durable solution to the virus, and New Zealand is foregoing that solution to avoid a spike in deaths in the short term.

And indeed, the original plan, of 'flattening the curve' was tolerant of COVID19 deaths, and aiming for herd immunity.

But somewhere along the way, death from COVID19 became politically intolerable in the US, and now any rise in deaths leads to a call to re-lockdown, even when COVID19 cases are well below ICU capacity.
> Notice how it’s COMPLETELY unacceptable to suggest slavery should be made legal.

Only if you use the word "slavery". Suggesting that "workers should be able to sell an equity stake in their future earnings“ isn't just acceptable, it's fashionable.
One could argue Microsoft has given years for these old systems to be migrated to use something that is more modern and future proof (if that even exists in technology)
"We’re supposed to have a First Amendment right to freedom of the press, but this phenomenon is ruining it."

Writer of linked article claims to be a lawyer, but strangely seems unaware that the First Amendment protects speech and the press from the government.

No examples of government restricting free expression were given.
I think the move towards real identity killed free speech online.

Anonymity was easy for regular folks back in the 2000s.

I'm actually baffled at how some people so willingly express their personal views online these days.
CLI client for Google app script
Agree with this post 100%. There’s too much focus on parameter tweaking, and not enough focus on understanding/ inhancing the data. And feature engineering is considered by many DL practicioners to be“cheating” even though it clearly gets quick results.
Funny how you are promoting Chrome and Android when I've known for a fact that Google Maps has done this since forever because when you open the app immediately if and only if it's an address it suggests whatever is on your clipboard as a destination. This means 1) there's code running somewhere grabbing the clipboard and deciding if it's an address (might ping home) 2) it has to copy the clipboard all the time to do that.
It's an anagram of "Slate Star Codex".
This is apparently coming from an open-sourced component called Hakawai.

Somebody had to scramble to remove the clipboard code ASAP: https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/commit/fa7e8497040f5c36e...

Edit: Don't do mobile, but seems like it was a hack to distinguish between text that was pasted and text added by autocorrect
Anybody have experience with Veriato? Would like to know if/when it's running and which processes to kill. Could run a script in the background that checks for and kills the bossware. Assuming the worker has local admin on a typical Windows PC.
Remember GWT?

Another beast that had Google's branding on it, had all sorts of technical awfulness, and was not popular within Google either. Used for a few projects, but nothing consumer facing other than some ads products.
That may be true (although there may be a constructive way of phrasing an idea such that that doesn't happen, I don't know), but I don't think anyone would try to doxx you or have you fired for saying so. Do you agree?
I get that technically it is a new app and it is a browser... but edge has been bundled (outside of europe) since... ever. So has been the dark pattern of pushing for 'a better browser'. BTW, google does the same in their digital 'property' (they push for chrome - aggressively). Got no horse in the game but feels like '90s-hate-m$' nostalgia. How is this news?

In 2020, can you tell me of an OS that doesn't nag you for updates or do so 'during down times'? Ahhh yes... an 'eol' android device from obscure (or not so obscure) android vendor...
If there were ever a time to spend, this is it. If people didn’t have to worry about being made whole for the duration of the lockdown, we could have locked down sooner, and much harder, and stood a chance at cutting this thing off at the knees.

Instead, we’ve dithered, and the long term economic damage is looking far greater.
After LinkedIn took the contents of my Contacts and uploaded it. I swore I would never install it to another mobile device again.
I've considered posting exactly this same "Ask HN", with very similar wording, so thanks for doing it first!

I think you are right that HN is not the right venue. A lot of what has kept it functional for over a decade is the focus on tech. It's not followed to the letter, but an attempt to make HN into SSC would probably destroy it. It's valuable enough as it is, so let's not take the chance.

The bright part is that (so far as I can tell) if one could attract the core community, SSC should be fairly portable. Scott's top posts were sometimes really good, but I don't think they were essential. I'm tempted that the right approach may be just to create a new space, advertise it, and try to attract enough of the core community to jump start it.

I picture it to be like capturing a swarm of bees: put a large cardboard box under the tree limb that they are hanging from, give it a sharp shake, seal up the box, take it to a new location, and install in a new hive. If you managed to capture a viable queen in the transfer, you are done! If not, you need to get the swarm to accept a new queen, with a process that involves exposure to the new queen's pheremones (and sometimes marshmallows --- I'm a little fuzzy on the details).

If one was to take that approach (metaphorically) where would you begin? And technologically, is there some better tool for the job than a Wordpress blog?
I’m failing to see how that’s a sensible comparison.
Do you think that black people should debate the confederate flag in the marketplace of ideas of the Forza Motorsport Decal Upload form? When they see that the car next to them in a race is full of hateful symbols, they should reply by quickly going into their car customization screen and equipping their "BLM" decals?
Conceptual engineering: the revolution in philosophy you've never heard of
> When people feel they have a choice, they're more likely to be satisfied with the outcome.

Is this really the case? or is it more so that people want the illusion of choice? Let's not forget that the other major OS in the world has you locked into using one browser engine regardless of whatever browser you install i.e. you have the illusion of choice but not really. Would people be okay if Microsoft forced all browsers to use Chromium on Windows?
I'd urge you to read The Verge's original article on the employee complaints: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo...

A choice section quoted below:

The day before Valentine’s Day, Korey decided she was going to stop the team from taking any more time off. In a series of Slack messages that began at 3AM, she said, “I know this group is hungry for career development opportunities, and in an effort to support you in developing your skills, I am going to help you learn the career skill of accountability. To hold you accountable...no more [paid time off] or [work from home] requests will be considered from the 6 of you...I hope everyone in this group appreciates the thoughtfulness I’ve put into creating this career development opportunity and that you’re all excited to operate consistently with our core values.” (The emphasis is Korey’s.)

Four days later, when she noticed two managers still had time off on the calendar, she was livid. “If you all choose to utilize your empowerment to leave our customers hanging...you will have convinced me that this group does not embody Away’s core values,” she said. (Again, emphasis Korey’s.)

Korey said her messages were necessary to get the team back on track. “Managing people brings with it the responsibility to invest time and energy into providing thoughtful context around performance expectations and feedback,” she wrote in a statement to The Verge.
> I see curation as an extreme form of moderation

Ok yeah that's how I see it as well... I was curious if you meant that you'd like a heavily curated site while accepting heavy moderation..

Full-disclosure I don't have the magic bullet for the best solution to the problem of moderation, but it's something I'm constantly thinking about as I build sqwok. I'm not really a fan of heavy-handed moderation on the current large sites, and the sort of echo-chambers that form around them, but I also realize that there will always be a subset of bad actors/trolls that try to ruin the experience for everyone else.

That said I _do_ like the idea of curated content as a feature for showcasing content.

Thanks for checking it out! (I'm in p/QVK5_vIww8lrGw now if you want to chat)
Was by chance this “retreat” in Mexico psychedelic related? Your story fits a fact pattern to me, which is abstaining from caffeine prior (because caffeine apparently can ‘get in the way’ of the ‘chemical experience’) and the fact that you could easily change an ingrained habit once you’re back - which is kind of a hallmark of that type of experience too.
Why should the corrupt politicians do anything? They would just harm themselves.

The majority of them are benefiting handsomely from the stock market.

So it is in their best interest to keep the status quo, and keep the game going.
Report of The Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into The Failure of Atlantic Acceptance Corporation Limited is available at archive.org, thanks to the Internet Archive.

Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/reportofroyatlant01onta

Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/reportofroyatlant02onta

Volume 3: https://archive.org/details/reportofroyatlant03onta

Volume 4: https://archive.org/details/reportofroyatlant04onta
Yes, in some places communications can be intercepted and blocked by government authorities before being delivered. Or, people can be deprived of communication privileges until they prove themselves sympathetic to oppressors. Some others will spy on potential dissenters and remove them from society before they have a chance to speak.
I've been using Modelica for about 15 years now as an engineer. Mainly 3 different interpreter front ends: Dymola, OpenModelica, and SystemModeler.

At first I was mainly interested in it's ability to symbolically manipulate equations for me. With complex physical systems and interconnections it can become a tremendous chore rearranging systems to provide certain inputs and certain outputs. Modelica and the above compilers allowed me to specify the equations, and in fact automatically generate and interconnect larger and larger systems as one model. Specifying what were inputs and what were outputs became a simple few lines of code. For example, forward and inverse kinematics are the same equations in Modelica, you just specify different input/outputs, and the compiler determines what's the best way to do this. This can have significant challenges sometimes, when things don't easily work, but on the whole the process has been more often than not straightforward.

Interconnection of the models to other simulations has also become more and more a delight. Initially we had to depend on specific interfaces being built, either on the modelica interpreter side, or on the external application side (for example, Mathworks or Dymola), but fortunately the growth in such use prompted the modelica community to partner with industry to foster an open specification (like modelica is) for model exchange, called FMI. Integrating my models with external software is now a relatively straightforward task, still with challenges, but not expensive ones.

I'd highly recommend modelica and the various compilers as a means of creating very effective models; easily readable and therefore maintainable, re-usable, and now more and more deployable.

I, myself, have used them in the truck industry, CNC machine controls, flight systems, and in underwater vehicles and power systems. I routinely interact with people who use modelica in a much wider domain than this, and more and more in on-board systems, such as controllers. For example, I believe northern Germany uses modelica for its power controls for a significant portion of their country's energy supply.
> "Worst" here seems mostly to mean "horrible" as opposed to giving particularly bad advice.

I noticed the same thing. The example of Seianus makes a strong case that he did a bad job. But he was obviously doing a bad job of being king, not a bad job of being an advisor.

It's a hard question to investigate, though. History's worst political advisors are unlikely to actually be known to history; their states would have been swallowed by other better states.
I don't believe it is. This is what you wrote, verbatim:

> While the Nazi flag may be a racist symbol, the Swastika, however, is not a racist symbol.

You deliberately distinguished between the Nazi flag and the Swastika, an element incorporated into the Nazi flag, and claimed that between the two, only the flag was racist.

And I'm merely pointing out that in the Western world the only part of the Nazi flag even considered racist is the Swastika.
Social media empowered the mob, and gave them an inflated sense of worth for their own opinions. Because your opinion can instantly be broadcast to millions of people, it must have value. But along with this came the mob mentality, where this new power will be used to silence opposition.

The fault really lies in the companies, politicians, and media outlets who have given credence to what "the mob" on social media has to say.

Example: a comedian/author makes a tweet that is mildly offensive to some small minority, but they didn't mean anything by it, or it was just a joke. Somebody sees the potential to kick up a stink, and retweet it with "can't believe they just said this. apologise now". It gets maybe 10% the "likes" of the original tweet. A media outlet sees this tweet (some intern is browsing "latest tweets") and writes an article saying "Internet in an outrage: is x a racist?". Author immediately issues an apology, resigns from their job, and goes into hiding, their career destroyed forever.

What could have been done differently? The company they worked for could've stood by them. The author/whoever could have just ignored it. The media outlet could have had higher quality standards of publication. And almost nobody would even know what was said in the first place! Our society thrives on conflict, and any small hint of a conflict is blown up beyond all proportion.
Intel ME can be used to monitor employees without the OS ever becoming aware of anything. The only way to detect it would be to sniff the network.