skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want a system based on Scantron-style paper ballots that allows cast ballots to be published, allows anyone to verify that the count was correct, and allows voters to verify that their vote was counted correctly without being able to prove they voted for a particular candidate, see this [1]. It's been around for several years, and has been used successfully in a few elections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
If they would sell a laptop without a camera. I have never needed a camera on a laptop.

Anyway EFF camera stickers work GREAT

https://supporters.eff.org/shop/stickers
Dude, you literally are spreading false information and you're literally quoting one thing on one line and contradicting it on the second line.

CAA makes it easier for non Muslims. you say 'no it doesn't'
and then you literaly cite this:

> Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014

Yeah, it specifically mentions Hindu, SIkh Buddhist Jain Parsi Christian. It leaves out MUSLIMS.

Let's go over. the law specifically excludes Muslims.

What does it mean? it fast tracks citizenship of ALL except MUSLIMS. meaning? it excludes Muslims

now comes the NRC, in this exercise, in Assam, they asked everyone to prove their citizenship by showing their grandfather's documents or ancesteral land documents. grandmother or parents document is not valid because what if your grandparents are illegal immigrants.

your documents like voter ID was NOT A VALID DOCUMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP because you have to prove that your GRANDFATHER WAS NOT AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

Assam NRC took thousands of crores of money to undertake. Just imagine what'll happen when everyone in India is asked to prove their grandfather's citizenship.
That helps, but it's orthogonal to adding type annotations.

The computer can only tell you what types your code _has_ (from inference), but not what type it _should_ have based on your intentions. Type inference can only complain when your code contradicts with itself (on a type level), but can't tell you when it contradicts with your intentions.

If you don't write out your intentions, you'd have to hover over everything to see if the inferred types differ from your expectations.

IDE hover types and collapsible type annotations (and alternatively also collapsible implementation) are still useful as a way to declutter your UI when reading code.
> Can I guarantee the same level of safety as Dropbox does?

Isn't Dropbox infamous for deleting your files?
It’s very sad that some users may associate Apple==Security. NO piece of software is secured on this planet. If it’s programmable(even through Assembly), then a programmer can break through it. I will cover my webcam physically, even if I am running linux, thank you very much.
I am, or at least I think they should be used sparingly.

They destroy the planet. And on a personal scale, over-reliance upon them encourages lack of exercise and a needlessly stressful life spent in traffic.

I reckon we could make a big dent in pollution and obesity rates by having most people reduce their car usage.
I think Rust deliberately limits type inference to information available in a single function?
I don't know much of American politics, but from the outside, Trump keeps talking about 'make America great again', so why are CXOs waiting for a Biden win??

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I just don't understand it.
Sorry to say it, but I believe there will always be groups of people who unjustifiably feel they are superior to another group of people.
I'm having a hard time parsing that bit about health insurance
- "it would be better" - what is "it"?
- "it would cause patients" -again, what is"it" referencing?
I am typing this from Firefox, but the reality is that other vendors nowaydays mostly means Safari, everyone else is using Chrome engine and Firefox numbers diminish every year.

The same crowd that now complains about Google, was worshipping Chrome, talking about how its its developer tools are, the multiprocess architecture, handling hundreds of open tabs (still to understand this one),.....

So if the Web is turning into ChromeOS, they only have themselves to thank for.
>better yet

I disagree. Hw switch seems a bit more trustworthy/inspectable
We took that experts at IBM and MIT would be honest about their performance findings. :) But, it appears that actual performance numbers are of great interest to the community. We will create repeatable benchmarks and open source them. Stay tuned!
It's not the craziest idea.
Yep. I've been hearing for YEARS that Tesla is starting a gigafactory here. Unless they build one and cars are manufactured in it, I'll not trust anything.

Google was supposedly going to invest in a telecon company. It also didn't happen in real life, just in newspapers.
That's a type definition. You can't get away without writing out that definition.

If you wanted to, you could use

Either (Int, String) [Int]

in your code and rely on type inference to do all the work.
It's more about utilization, though. If you have one person that uses an antenna once a month, it makes less money than an antenna that is used by thousands of people 24/7.
It does seem a lot like that. And I did find an article which suggests that caste and skin color are associated:[0]

> Our understanding of the genetics of skin pigmentation has been largely skewed towards populations of European ancestry, imparting less attention to South Asian populations, who behold huge pigmentation diversity. Here, we investigate skin pigmentation variation in a cohort of 1,167 individuals in the Middle Gangetic Plain of the Indian subcontinent. Our data confirm the association of rs1426654 with skin pigmentation among South Asians, consistent with previous studies, and also show association for rs2470102 single nucleotide polymorphism. Our haplotype analyses further help us delineate the haplotype distribution across social categories and skin color. Taken together, our findings suggest that the social structure defined by the caste system in India has a profound influence on the skin pigmentation patterns of the subcontinent. In particular, social category and associated single nucleotide polymorphisms explain about 32% and 6.4%, respectively, of the total phenotypic variance. Phylogeography of the associated single nucleotide polymorphisms studied across 52 diverse populations of the Indian subcontinent shows wide presence of the derived alleles, although their frequencies vary across populations. Our results show that both polymorphisms (rs1426654 and rs2470102) play an important role in the skin pigmentation diversity of South Asians.

0) Mishra et al. (2017) Genotype-Phenotype Study of the Middle Gangetic Plain in India Shows Association of rs2470102 with Skin Pigmentation. Journal of Investigative Dermatology: 137, 670-677. doi:10.1016/j.jid.2016.10.043

https://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(16)32648-3/pdf
> it's lustlacking comparing to other high tech stocks

Something described as "lackluster" is lacking luster, not lust.
True, Apple always knows what's best for its customers. 'It wouldn't let them shoot their own foot'[1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23797062
Totally agreed. I pay for Dropbox myself, but I don't know that I've shared a file with it in a decade or so. I just use Paper, which they continue to fail to market, despite it being absolutely amazing.
That clearly isn't the case for Google, as you can package PWAs for the store.

https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi...
The algorithm presented in this paper is a significant improvement over what was done in wuhan. In a low infection population it reduces the cost of testing an individual to around $0.75 and can find infected individuals in a single step, without having to do subsequent assays to narrow down which samples tested positive.
Apologies, I think I'm describing something more like the EITC which is phased out. I remember reading something by Mankiew briefly describing their equivalence.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-quick-note-on-unive...
What really pissed me off about this whole fiasco was when Ted Lieu chimed in to say he wish he learned COBOL instead of Lisp:
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1246651654373437442

Also this poor explainer video that conflates several unrelated design decisions with limitations of COBOL:
https://youtu.be/Ox_Wm6XQnxI
> How much simpler would OCaml or Standard ML be if there were no type inference? I'm perfectly happy to never use type inference (maybe only for local variables).

Just the opposite: type inference forces the type systems to remain simpler. Without type inference you could make them more complicated.
Everything you just said is either wrong or a lie.
I suspect so. Affirmative action laws would be meaningless, otherwise.
AFAIK there's no official Apple document. Would you accept the recollection of an anonymous former Apple engineer writing to a fairly popular blog? /s

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

> All cameras after that one were different: The hardware team tied the LED to a hardware signal from the sensor: If the (I believe) vertical sync was active, the LED would light up. There is NO firmware control to disable/enable the LED. The actual firmware is indeed flashable, but the part is not a generic part and there are mechanisms in place to verify the image being flashed. […]
I wonder if Netflix is spending a lot of money and effort on things that consumers don't really care about.

I don't really care for personalized recommendations. As long as the movies and TV Shows have some type of keyword or grouping, I am happy. Given the relatively fixed size of the catalog, and that most movies and TV shows are already classified (for example as Action or Romance or Comedy etc) this doesn't seem like something where a lot of data would do a lot to help.

For me, most streaming movie companies are pretty equivalent in their experience. The only data I really need them to keep track of about me is what I have watched so I know if I have already watched something before, and where I am in the movie/tv series, so I can pick back up when I log in again. Everyone pretty much does it. As for streaming quality, basically everyone knows how to transcode movies and put them on a CDN. The size and quality of the catalog is the biggest differentiator for me.
https://t.me/joinchat/GrCYjA8rPgD8coAiEhRuBA
> is just surpassed by Taj Mahal

Not really, The Selimiye Mosque [2] surpassed Hagia Sofia, not only the diameter of the dome also its robustness of its structure. Taj Mahal is a product of inspiration taken from Mimar Sinan and they studied Sinan's work.

"Mimar Sinan's architectural concepts were incorporated into the design of the famous Taj Mahal" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar_Sinan
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selimiye_Mosque,_Edirne
Learn how to problem solve, It's about solving, not coding
Do you know who Grover Norquist is? I don't mean to be curt, but there are specific Republican projects here that have been operating for decades.
Where did the money go, whom did it benefit? The military-industrial complex wants to be fed.
Apparently Vietnamese really like Americans, I literally can not fathom why. Heard it from Viets too.

Time is weird.
Making American Great Again is a threat to the 'capitalist' class of America, who grow their wealth by avoiding the expense of employing Americans, using American resources, or materials.

Before everyone downvotes me- I'm not saying that Trump actually follows this agenda! I'm only sayin thats the style of rhetoric he uses in his campaign.
GitHub Successor Settings
Interviewed at adHoc and while it's good they are fighting for pay parity and equality ... it was a turn off that not any one person could not negotiate their own worth.

Negotiation your salary I guess is something learned and those who work at this company are fairly new in their careers(i think). Personally, I am not, so and again I applaud this company's mission of equality and pay parity. Yet for someone seasoned it led to find other places to work.. places where negotiating ones worth is allowed.
I still haven't seen anyone suggest a solution to so-called "cancel culture" that doesn't involve equally Orwellian restrictions against various important freedoms (e.g. speech, what to buy, whom to employ, etc.)

If you can "cancel" someone by writing about them, refusing to employ them, refusing to buy their products, or refusing to subscribe to them, then isn't cancellation inevitable? It's certainly not new. There has always been fame and infamy.

It seems like the major difference now is that large social networks enable the amassing and coordination of groups at a speed and scale that was never possible before.

If that's the case, then Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are essentially the only people capable of changing the dynamic without infringing on anyone's rights.
I couldn't read the article because of the paywall.

I'm going to assume the person in question graduated from IIT as well as gained entry. If so, I don't see how it matters if he got in through a door with a lower bar, if he graduated, he graduated. Unless graduating from IIT is a rubber stamp for showing up?

Also, just because the bar is lower for admissions doesn't mean that people who cleared the bar couldn't have cleared the bar otherwise. I don't see how IIT entrance exam scores are relevant for employment at Cisco anyway.
Way Beyond Coding
Many sites I've tried to register on have rejected my attempts to sign up using services similar to yours.

Do you have any plans to address this issue somehow?
It's rare that any single, isolated statement or action will rise to the level of illegal discrimination. Usually there's a pattern of behavior, and that pattern would provide context to prove any alleged implications in bringing up the affirmative action programs. You'd have to read the actual complaint. The journalist is only giving highlights that they feel are newsworthy, which may not strongly correlate to legal significance. However, mentioning the discussion of color is probably exceedingly important. The Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination based on color explicitly illegal. Without that hook it might be more difficult to argue that Federal civil rights legislation applies to discrimination based on caste.
I find unions without a tag hard to handle.

To expand on another commenters example, suppose you have a sum type that models successful computation with a return value or a failure with an error message.

If you have tags / constructors, that's all easy. But if you just use naked unions, you can not write code that deals with error messages (or strings in general) in the success case.
> It's probably at its apex of hilarity right now, given the sheer number of folks pissing their pants because of a delusion that there are innumerable secret members of a looooong-dead political party hiding under every bed.

Huh, "wild coincidence" that a user with the name "waffle_ss" spends their time posting about crime statistics and how killing indigenous people is whatever. I'm sure it has nothing to do with your politics.
I'd love to hear about your thoughts on where things in this area are going. We provide an in-house, completely customizable ERP system for wholesale distributors, many of which have started selling directly to consumers via Amazon, Shopify, etc.

Since joining, I've provided direct integrations between these channels and our ERP (it's an old system installed on-premises). We're in the middle of reinventing the company's attempts at e-commerce to a SaaS model. It seems like Stitch Labs was trying to downplay the role of an ERP, but based on our customers it seems like it's still needed.
> This is blatant disinformation by omitting context. The CAA itself is discriminatory, since it does not apply to muslims

> The CAA makes it easier for non-Muslims to claim citizenship

You see, first of all it's not the Muslims that are literally fighting[1] for their[2] lives[3] and culture[4][5] from crazed zealots in countries around India. And unlike some other religions, the Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists don't have any other country that they can call their homeland or can culturally identify with.

Second, it does not stop Muslims from applying. Their applications will be processes as usual. It only accelerates the process for the people in need. As is the duty of any democratic country.

And regarding the NRC, it's rumor mongering in it's purest form. There has been no official notification regarding when(if) it will be applied or how it will be applied. So just please stop with that like a responsible person.

[1] - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amritsar/after-anot...
[2] - https://twitter.com/ExmuslimsOrg/status/1280267912360665090
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_gurdwara_attack
[4] - https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/your-head...
[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamyan
Looks ready to me.

https://platform.uno/

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly

https://fsbolero.io/

https://tinygo.org/webassembly/webassembly/

https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerp.html

https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html

https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html
Careful, there are multiple ways to use type inference.

In practice, many people use type inference when exploring and writing code; but then add explicit annotations for readability and documentation. You could even do the last step automatically.
We've migrated a number of operations off of Stitch after they recently forced upgrades to Stitch X and took away features their customers depend on that we offer.

I'd be happy to review your needs and make sure you find the right software out there.

I'm Head of Product at SKULabs.
I’m pretty sure this saved my bacon big time when I lost my 2FA phone and backup codes. I found that I was logged in on a home machine and could disable it all and set it up with my new phone.
The other comment says there are dozens in this thread...I haven't seen anything specific mentioned. But, I remember reading something a year or two ago[1] that's not solidly sourced (it'd be great if Apple posted something on their website like they did about microphones [2])

> All cameras after that one were different: The hardware team tied the LED to a hardware signal from the sensor: If the (I believe) vertical sync was active, the LED would light up. There is NO firmware control to disable/enable the LED. The actual firmware is indeed flashable, but the part is not a generic part and there are mechanisms in place to verify the image being flashed. […]

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/...
I understand it is 'understood' that India is typically placed higher than Africa in the hierarchy of countries, owing to the success of their emigres.

However, in reality, barring these colonial era 'Macaulay's children' (ala ICS officers who swore by the Queen} India and Africa actually have very similar development indicators.

Unless, India sorts out its colonized education system, which ultimately is geared more towards shipping labor off to other countries, and focuses on policy reforms to make industrialization sustainable without paying politicians hundreds of millions in bribes, there's actually a good chance that it'll fall behind Africa as well.
Why don’t iPhones have a camera light?
Well, it isn’t perfect, but I’m sure happy to see that they decided to split up the networks to make something that does one thing well, instead of trying to do everything in one.

I’m a bit worried basing color on ability will lead to cards that are less varied though.
I think they're halfway copying Box's strategy and focusing on B2B.

The first two scenarios might have been huge selling points a decade ago, but Spotify replaced music downloads with streaming (not that Dropbox couldn't have made a stream your own music app), and Flickr faded away. I'm not even sure how people save their photos, these days. Just leave them on their phones?
US dollars are the only accepted means to pay taxes. This is the big thing that makes national currencies work. Having a government behind a currency may not be a sufficient guarantee of value but it is, at least so far, a necessary one.

For bitcoin at least, it's an intrinsically deflationary currency. There's no incentive to spend a bitcoin today if it will be worth more tomorrow, so it ends up being primarily a currency of choice for transactions which are unfeasible in any other way, which ends up being primarily illegal transactions.
Oh, this is really interesting, and I agree it would likely work better. At least in terms of generating sensible text and abilities.
As if Biden would magically solve all the issues with Xi's China. Too risk averse to deal with many regimes in SE Asia, these CXOs have put all their eggs in a single basket. Now the owner of that basket is abusing power and making demands.
> If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances.

Yep, this is exactly how the screen on my 16" cracked. I'd rather have a 0.5mm thicker laptop where I can actually cover up the camera.
Teddy Bear Pair Programming (2012)
8-bit guy reviewed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA7REQxohV4&feature=youtu.be
Go people have a very weird understanding of generics, and that messes up many discussions.

They typically mix up parametric polymorphism and ad-hoc polymorphism.

I blame C++'s templates for the confusion. (And Go people's common refusal to look much further, and especially not into academia..)
How would this apply to Europe and Asia, where the land has been conquered dozens of times? I frankly don't see how indigenous people have any more rights to "their" land than say the descendants of any random tribe, kingdom or empire that once controlled Anatolia or England.
Honestly I can't figure it out either.

We found out other apps too (like LinkedIn) constantly check the clipboard, and one HN commenter here said it was due to a text editing library, nothing intentional.

Literally the only fact is that it's a Chinese company.

And it's not like there's even much it seems like they could do, with how sandboxed phone apps are. I'm not saying iOS or Android are perfectly secure, but it't totally different from installing something on your desktop with root permissions.

Either it's just generic hate for China that's bizarrely gone viral, or else it's a story intentionally being pushed by the US government for god-only-knows what political reason, like leverage in trade negotiations or something.

But it's completely weird, and nobody should be taking it at face value.
I'm unhappy with gnome too, but I run a distro because I'd prefer to do doing something other than writing my own OS from scratch.

Unfortunately, because gnome is what most people use and what the distro defaults to other choices are inherently second class.

I happily used xmonad for years, but eventually got forced out of it due to compatibility especially once things started using wayland.

I wonder if us desktop users need a pact of the form that we'll stop using gnome completely of 51% of other users also stop using gnome. :)
Windows RT is long gone, I guess you mean Windows on ARM.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-pro-x/8vdnrp2m6hhc...

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/windows-laptops/galaxy-...