skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

Thousands of issues of voter fraud, and these are only the instances where they got caught. Polling officials are usually the ones that are responsible for mass voter manipulation, just look at what happened in Iowa and Georgia.

Poll watchers are appointed by political parties. It is not something anyone can sign up for and get to do. Monitors also do not directly prevent electoral fraud.
They look amazing.
I’m planning on visiting Turkey and some day i wish i could move there since i love the Turkish cuisine
The Nazis thankfully answered for their crimes. French philosophers have so far escaped punishment, but they have quite a lot to answer for as well.
Years ago there was an article about 2008 era Mac laptops that could enable their cameras without turning on the LED. I believe the camera firmware was read from RAM on boot. So they just intercepted that. Since then they redesigned the hardware to tie the LED to the sensor camera source. AFAIK Apple hasn't published any official documents on this. I, too, would be curious if it could be hijacked by only taking a still image or modulating the power, but I haven't of anyone actually do this.

Their laptop cameras haven't changed in like a decade. The only change was making it physically thinner to match thinner screens. The image quality actually got a little worse.
Google photos!
Winners normally do not get overly worked up about the vanquished.
> The likes of Steve Pinker may argue that living standards continue to trend upwards across the board, but it seems like people are just becoming more and more time-poor (happy to be proven wrong on this point).

Hours per day Americans spent on leisure and sports is not trending down: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/TUU10101AA01013585

On average it's higher now than in the early 2000s (annual survey begins in 2003). Source: https://www.bls.gov/tus/ ("ATUS Tables")
Yes, in that case the post-processing would work.

But it also limits their system to in-place algorithms only.
I would second that. NN model is the catch all approach but it's very expensive to train. The shallow learning algorithms can work well in a variety scenarios.
Really? I found Pinker's points entirely too meta to be understandable.

Does Pinker have "a willingness to “dismiss and downplay racist violence”"? Yes or no?

His response is that the accusation is "utterly ludicrous."

But rather than demonstrate why it's ludicrous, perhaps by pointing to research publications which support him (instead of an NYT article) he instead asserts that his critics are using Orwellian tactics. That's a meta argument, and that sort of switch is a technique people use to distract people from the underlying argument.

His critics explicitly say they don't want to "cancel" him, but he in essence says that's doublespeak. While on the other hand he rejects "dog whistling", saying “It means that it doesn’t matter what anyone says, you can always accuse them of having dog whistles of your own invention.”

So he's reading between the lines, in essence arguing that these are dog whistles of their own - yet his own logic says that's a bad faith interpretation.

And if the argument has any merit it can be applied to accusations like "Orwellian" and "doublespeak" - "It doesn't matter what anyone says, you can always accuse them of being Orwellian."

That's why I hate meta arguments which don't start by actually demonstrating the validity or invalidity of the underlying argument.

Or, consider "A large number of people have been appalled at the firings".

Are those firings appropriate? Is there a list of these suspect firings, with evidence that it was due to Orwellian accusations?

Because those "cancellations" I know about appear due to the reasonable consequences of their criticisms.

Without those details, the actual argument is too amorphous to be actionable. For example, when he points to "junior scholars who say, ‘Well, this is what I think, but I dare not say it.’" -- what are the things they want to say, and why shouldn't they suffer consequences of making, say, unfounded, unjustifiably, and racist statements.

I'm sure Pinker agrees that some things deserve chastisement, since he himself is chastising.

Since he took the argument to a meta-level, we must also ask about how many junior scholars want to speak out against bigotry, sexism, racism, and more but don't dare not say it for having senior people like Pinker speak against them. And given the people who have talked about, for example, sexism in the academic workplace which they have felt powerless to oppose for fear of losing their job and career, we know that's an issue, so Pinker's argument isn't actually a strong one.

Finally, look at the quotes "I wouldn’t go too far in tasteless comparisons to the Chinese cultural revolution or the European witch hunts, but ... I don’t want to say that the criticism of journalists and academics is the same as burning a real witch, [but] some of the underlying dynamics overlap.”

That's the "I'm not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens" meme.

It's an argument style which lets you say something, but not actually say it. Which is disingenuous at best, and "some of the underlying dynamics overlap" with Godwin's law.
> The parent painted a picture of a one-sided, contemplative genocide when it was far from it.

No he didn't. To put it bluntly, you're reading things that aren't there. We're all welcome to our interpretations of comments, but untentatively asserting your interpretation is a component of "not having a good faith conversation".

> Neither was it a conflict uniquely faced by the United States - read up on the history of Mexico and the Apache for instance.

And why the need to point this out, when the comment you responded to never suggested otherwise? There is, in fact, implicit acceptance of other genocides in the comment.

> But before we could talk reasonably about this we needed to swing the conversation back from the idea that the US gov't was operating a land-stealing, genociding steamroller (and for apparently no reason at all, no less).

Who exactly are you talking about here? The comment in question never implied "apparently no reason at all".

You're arguing against a nonexistent entity. And the point of my responding to you is to get you back to the reality of the thread, not an imaginary conversation that others here cannot see.
Thats a different question but 1) they know and 2) they can fix it fast therefore 3) it is on purpose
Which is why vote by mail is so controversial; it eliminates the secret ballot.

This would really hurt Trump, since he seems to have an unusually high percentage of “shy” voters.
Specifically with reference to my dad's background and why people in the US at large, including the native population, let him be in charge.
This [1] is the best source I've seen. 2008 era Mac laptops definitely had that exploit, but since then they've made hardware changes.

> 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
People in the US can feel however they want, but they don't get to discriminate on the basis of protected group status.
If you absolutely must, I would go for a well-recognized ccTLD like .AI or .IO or .CO. Avoid all the new gTLDs like the plague.

If it's a commercial endeavor, I would urge you to get a dotcom and get creative with the name. A long-ugly-hyphenated-domain.com would be taken more seriously than a short LLL.WEBSITE or LLL.BLUE or whatever.
There are things called dumplings that don't have a filling. Both sweet and savoury.

Eg Golden Syrup Dumplings, and what we call a British or Irish Dumpling served atop a stew.

We also called Spätzle 'dumplings', too, and usually served with a Austrian/Hungarian style goulash.

I think the key differentiator from pasta is that they're a thicker item rather than thin-walled tubes/shapes or strands.
But really, is the US the only market out there? Do you think Apple and Foxconn don't want to be closer to the largest markets in Asia?
>"This is similar to the description of how the Dungeon Master fuzzy bits are written.

As can be seen in the screenshot, the 0x88 data bytes soon start reading back incorrect and non-deterministically. But the variance isn't 100% random like weak bits -- the variance is whether the 0x8 bit is late enough to have a chance of being missed. If missed, you can still eyeball that there are patterns and themes to the madness.

You know, Dungeon Master and copy protection aside, my intuitive mind says there is some form of as-of-yet unobserved/not understood -- similarity between the concept of "fuzzy bits" on old school floppy disks, and that of Qubits, from relatively new school Quantum Physics...

Perhaps qubits could be constructed in the same way fuzzy bits are -- use a device which writes multiple pieces of data at a higher resolution -- then measure that data with a device that reads at a lower resolution.

Applied to qubits then, whatever the particle size, whatever the region of space that the qubit occupies -- attempt to "write" one by writing multiple points in that same space with a device that can modify smaller points within that space (if the qubit is a particle, then this would be sub-particles), and then read it with a device that reads the entire space (which should read probabilistically now, because it lacks the resolution of those smaller particles necessary for a true, repeatable reading...)

I could be completely wrong about this, of course.

But intutitively, I sense something there...

>"The above results are actually the application of fuzzy bit principles to FM encoded data. In FM encoding, every data bit is interleaved with a clock bit. This results in the bleeding of clock bits in to the data stream on occasion (see the 0xFF bytes in the first run above -- they are likely clock bits). The Dungeon Master protection uses fuzzy bits in conjunction with MFM. This leads to a calmer situation where the fuzzy bit drifts between two valid data bit encodings and does not mess up the clock!"

I wonder what could be learned in physics if we tried similar techniques with small particles/small regions of space/small regions of space on substrates...

Anyway, physics aside, a truly fascinating article!
They indicated “no thicker than a sheet of paper” and that’s far thicker than a sheet of paper, and incompressible too.
> offense-taking online are just a consequence of how communications being mediated by the Internet dehumanizes people

Can you expand on that? What do you think are the factors that are causing this dehumanisation?

I am giving it a try: it has become easier to band togather, now groups often need an enemy - as a unifying tool and as a means of defining the group (us vs. them). If this is true then any improvements in communication will inevitably lead to greater polarization
nope; opened just fine in an anon chrome window with ublock origin
In what world do you pay a skilled American $12.50/hr? And that is before considering benefits.
> FOSS UNIX clones would never had mattered.

I am not sure about that. NT licenses weren't cheap back in the day, and Linux was $0. (And didn't come with baggage like a more expensive SKU to support more CPUs)
Precious metals have been sought by humanity for ages because of their strong resistance to oxidization and fiat money is backed by governments. There is also a strong oversight on both of them by various organizations. These are the reasons why people are usually willing to pay for them.

At the moment, I do not think major cryptocurrencies have any of those qualities. Though it could change if all major governments have a favorable view towards it.

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/world-survey.php
I have personally turned on the camera without the indicator light coming on on a 2012 Macbook Pro 15" with double-digit percent success rate, meaning someone with more time / expertise could probably do it consistently. I have been unable to do it on newer 15" pros or other models (Air / pro 13").
As a south american catholic, we do the same.
YouTube will opt-in all existing videos (over 8mins) for mid-roll ads
The US doesn't care if you're autocratic; they've propped up and outright installed plenty of dictators.
You're not alone in this thinking. Chinese corporations have been investing heavily in Africa for quite some time now.
They can certainly be counted locally first, requiring a wide conspiracy of all parties to make a big difference.
Nationwide NRC is different from NRC for Assam.

Nationwide NRC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens) is mandated by 2003 Amendment of Citizenship act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_(Amendment)_Act,_2...). Look at the definition of illegal migrants there. It doesn't mention anything about your grandfather's papers.

Assam NRC is an entirely different beast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens_...). This was conducted as part of 2013 Supreme Court order. The entire process and the rules was prescribed and monitored by the Supreme court of India. The definition of illegal migrant is a far more stringent here since it hinges on 1971 Bangladeshi refugee crisis and subsequent bloody protests by the Assamese people.
Anything targeted at Spanish speakers, specifically those living outside the US?
Romaji is quite valuable for search engines, which is why most CMSes use them instead of IDs.
You might find https://JoinPrisma.com to be an interesting option if you’re looking for both curriculum and the support of a qualified teacher.
Randomness? Or entropy?
People should stop defending the caste system. I've seen people explain it on FB like how it was misconstrued or what we see today came from the British.

Call it out for what it is, even if it was in the Vedas, literature or God said it personally. We should change our beliefs as we mature, take what's right or question what's not.

It was never about a person's role, it was a tool of oppression by a group that wanted to rule over others, where each sub-group did this to groups below them and so on. People who had the same color, kept other people of same color below them, because they were from a lower caste. This is worse than racism.

If it wasn't that worse, then the constitution of India wouldn't have articles prohibiting caste based discrimination or declaring untouchability illegal.

Even if the caste system that is today was from the British or Mughals, people did follow it for centuries under their rule. Why didn't they follow their dharma and treate those from other caste with dignity? It doesn't make sense. In reality, British and the Mughals used the existing system for their own advantage, to divide and rule.

Even if we have laws to prevent caste discrimination, unless it goes out the window socially, we would regress back to the dark ages.
This is actually part of the reason that I created an account here. I used to just visit once in a while, but now HN is one of my pinned tabs.

I still use Reddit rather often, don't get me wrong, but my interest has been dwindling.
Yep and iCloud for iOS devices.

And then for that last remaining few, there's Amazon's free photos storage (if you have Prime)
One might feel the same about an African American graduate of MIT, but it'd be illegal to discriminate based on it.
"Liking things" is just one part of a biological reward system not a metaphysical event, it is possible to create it just not with our current tech (so saying "never" is a stretch imo)
You mean sell a premium camera cover for $50?
I have something very similar to these [1] (the original item is no longer listed) on my laptop's webcam and my smartphone's front-facing camera. They've served me very well, and the former has saved me from a potentially-embarrassing conference-call-style disaster.

I really don't get Apple's statement here.

[1] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114090118649
This is just stupid. If you're referring to suicides in Foxconn factories, you first need to consider the size of the workforce. The suicide rate at Foxconn factories was, at the time of the report, and is still currently significantly lower than that of the US.
Why do you think ballots don’t need to be secret? That’s often been feature of democracy since the beginning.
No you're trying to give settlers a pass on amoral behaviour.

It doesn't matter what conflicts indigenous nations may have entered into (and to be clear, you are completely speculating that they did). It does not justify the behaviour of the settlers that came after.

Effectively your argument is a childlike "well he did it therefore I should be able to". Have higher standards.
Spot instances. Easy and saves a ton.
There are a lot of developers who would like to be paid enormous amounts of money. I wonder if the public sector pays well enough to generate the desire to learn, though.

I myself can handle a lot of drudgery for $350k a year.
Dead cat receives voter registration application in the mail
In the US, you have to make do with what you can get... and "farmer's cheese" differs a lot throughout the US. In many places, it's pretty close to quark (when crumbled and with a little hydration added, at least).

The only big difference in preparation in many parts of the US (especially those with Eastern or Central European heritage) is how long it's pressed. It's otherwise the same thing: acid-curdled dairy with most of the moisture removed. A little Wondra or 00 flour helps if it won't take the right consistency.

As for the pit, it'd be fine either way. It's a bit easier to form with the pit in, and won't hurt the flavor at all, but removing it would be just fine too.
Sounds like a defensive move to me for both Foxconn and Apple. If the India/China spat escalates and India starts outright banning more "made in China" products, then this is plan B so they can keep selling to India.
Yes, I suppose such an attack is either what easymovet was proposing or at least it's the only application.

In a powerful sense what you've got in this case is two secure key exchanges, Alice to Mallory and Mallory to Bob.

Why this distinction? This is what enables us to use digital signatures to solve the identity problem in modern protocols. You encrypt the channel first using this shared secret even though you've no idea who you're talking to, and only then you may bind proof of your identity to this encrypted channel and/or look for proof of the other participant's identity.

If Mallory sits between Alice and Bob, there's no use taking the binding of Bob's identity to the Mallory-Bob channel and showing it to Alice on the Alice-Mallory channel because it's clearly for the wrong encrypted channel and Alice will know she isn't really talking (directly) to Bob.
Reverse Engineering Nike Run Club Android App Using Frida
Licensing is the worst part. In my country you have to sit through about 20 2h lessons and then take an examination. No way to just study on your own
It's good that it has pierogi, but it miss varenyky and also paliushky
Is there a way to make it smsller?
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23799512 for a recent paper which reports that it is.
I don't see a problem with that, ethics in technology are inherently formed through the modern lense. We would lose too much development if we argued what is and isn't ethical under the guist of uniformity and 'appropriate' usage of technology. If this were the case we would not have computers, internet, GPS, or any of their successors as they were the products of ths military — if the 'ethics' of their time said that developing for military use was unjustifiable or inappropriate, then many of our keen inventors and bringers of change would have been swayed potentially out of the system at large. Another strong example would explain how the development of the steam engine can be immoral, ill-advised, and unethical as the very technology had a history of destruction and causalities throughout its use, as well as pioneering aviation, shipbuilding, and many others that underpine the very essense of technology progress.

Responsibility and ethics are not one of the same coin.
How long it takes?
> You can't get away without writing out that definition.

Not in Haskell as far as I know, but (assuming MonomorphismRestriction) there's no technical reason why

data Qwe = Q a
qwe_eps :: Qwe
qwe_eps = Q ""

couldn't infer a ~ String in the type definition for Qwe. It's just annoying and pointless, because you never actually care about having to write a explicit type annotation there. (Which was my point.) But it's still a explicit type annotation that you're required to write. (Which was (kind of) chrisseaton's point.)
Those don't sound like they were made properly...
Ah, good. Is the microphone similarly protected? Sometimes I feel I must be the only person on earth who doesn't use their laptop while naked and couldn't care less if the imager was watching me. The microphone, however, could be an actual security threat. Phone calls, muttered passwords, etc.
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Nifty. How about PWM'ing the LEDs to shift the illumination slowly from one hour marker to the next? With practice I'll bet you could read it to within +/- 5 minutes. That would get rid of the need to blink the LEDs at all.

Bonus level: get rid of the button by adding an accelerometer that is polled a couple of times per second to watch for an activation gesture.
fucking get a load of this guy.

Maybe try to ground yourself in reality and get a moral framework.
> A traditional computer program that can find the derivative of sin(x) also can not explain how it knows.

Oh but it could, and that's the point. Some computer differentiation techniques just follow the same rules you learned when you took calculus. They typically don't show you which rules they followed, but they easily could. Other differentiation techniques are more exotic but there's no reason they couldn't show you the chain of computations and/or deductions they went through to arrive at that derivative. Such programs can easily justify their results and even teach humans calculus if configured properly.

Contrast that with the chair example. It is impossible right now to write a program that can show a human the chain of reasoning it went through to decide some image is a chair, because no such chain exists. There's a giant iterated polynomial with nonlinear threshold functions and a million coefficients, but there's no chain of reasoning.
Thanks for the link.

I see also this, in wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Trends_over_time

It's probable that the hours have just displaced to poorer countries. Presumably the BLS data, nor the wiki graphic, have data that includes developing and underdeveloped nations.

Edit: I found a book on the topic for anyone interested

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@...

Edit: Page 44 in the above link shows an increase in working hours in the US (note that the 4 of the 5 other western countries compared have continued to trend down, but also have strong social welfare and working policy)
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cool well I hope China invades your country and puts you and your family in education camps since you seem to think this is cool and good and there's nothing wrong with this.
Another reason for China to start a war with India