skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unlike California and other states, Texas officials have not moved to release parole-eligible detainees or those who are near the end of their sentences in an effort to reduce the population and slow the spread of the virus, despite calls from advocates and family members.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order in March to prevent the release of "dangerous criminals" from correctional facilities. "

You can bet then that criminals on the street are concluding that going to jail or prison is a increased risk of death from covid19 - - so, why sucumb to being arrested and die like a rat in a cage ? Likely there will be more crooks who decide to just shoot it out with police and if shot, die like a man, rather than a rat in a cage . . .
This could actually increase the risks to law enforcement.
> I think you hit on something here with the irregular size of the buttons, probably moreso than the icons.

This would also explain why other icon based UI's like the tool palette in gimp don't seem to suffer from the same problem. A grid of buttons is about as "programmer UI" as they come but once you learn where everything is it's quick and easy.
Skubana is also a great platform. Good to see you guys working in partnership.
There are lots of ways to do this, to have third-party "app stores" or different binary formats for apps (e.g. WASM, JVM/CLR bytecode).

All that would need to happen is Apple to allow sideloading apps. Then the only limit would be developer creativity.
Technically, TikTok is better at loading video than any other app I’ve used. Seeing a loading state on a video is so rare it makes me think something is wrong when I see it. And its recommendation engine (for you page) blows everyone else out of the water.
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I wonder what the GPT-3[1] has to say about this. While it can't exhibit reasoning, I wouldn't bet that it is completely off the path getting there. Call me crazy but I think we are about a year from first general reasoning algorithms.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
Surely a minority, but it's steadily increasing even among non-technical folks. I see it all the time nowadays.
This seems like a weak argument to me. We don't really understand how human intelligence works yet so how can we claim that computers will never realize similar intelligence? We don't know for a fact that human intelligence depends on these things.

I'm personally skeptical that we'll see AGI any time soon but I don't think we know enough to say this definitively.
>Not a very long time though.

It was for a long time. He may actually still be unemployed.

>And the lawsuits were ones he chose to file.

No one said otherwise.
I'm afraid how this kind of stuff can be used to create some sort of DNA signature, lets say, for people of a giving country. A government could do it through vaccines for example.

This later could be use to spread biologic weapons that would be engineered to not attack hosts cells with that particular signature.. as everybody else that were not "marked" would die..

We need to advance a lot morally and ethically as a societies, because i'm pretty sure atomic bombs will look like child stuff compared to the harm we could do with the things being discovered.

And giving the current trends, im very pessimistic about our future prospects. We have too much corruption by design, embedded in our cultural systems.
> allowing entry to all visitors outside of prayer times

That's already blocking off a decent % of the day day, meaning the effective visitor capacity is similarly reduced.

Not to mention that having to force everyone out at scheduled times. When I was there we visited several mosques (also amazing places) and our guide scheduled our visits around prayer times and it made the logistics much more complex for those visits.

I also hate invoking the slippery slope arguments, but, if they were going to restrict access entirely (as with some mosques like Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock in Israel where I was last year) they would start by simply restricting things a bit. It's hard to see.

All that said, Turkey is free to do what they want and the Turkish people are going to support Erdogan. I'm just sad that in the future other people may never get to see this incredible site.
>Already a US presidential election was decided on the wrong count, when the proper count came out it was too late.

The majority of media "recounts" after the fact showed that Bush did win Florida in 2000.
> Can’t the state already know who voted for what right now? That seems like a nonissue.

No. That is one of the most fundamental features of our system. In the secrecy of the voting booth, you can make your voice heard with no consequences to you.
I remember back in 1987 going to my local pub/bar and paying $1.40 for a beer. You only needed $20.00 in your pocket to have a really good night out.

These days you pay between $5.00 and $6.00 for the same beverage with some establishments charging way more that.
Reality check time!

- Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on.

- There are no 5g providers that would accept bitcoin as payment. Highly unlikely there ever will be any.

- Bitcoin's network is too congested for it to be used for trivial payments such as subscriptions for SaaS.

- A bitcoin node takes hundreds of GB of storage itself. Bandwidth costs will probably be significant too. This means the SaaS would probably have a hard time getting to break-even.

- It may be more profitable to climb up the tree and steal the pi and then take its bitcoin private key (assuming there is a hot wallet). Competing SaaS may also look for rivals and take them down.
What you describe is the ballot-permit system currently in use in many jurisdictions (terminology varies, and the permit may be called an application to vote, voter authorization, or similar). The difference is that the ballot information is not published. There are two reasons for this:

1) Current election systems, with few exceptions, do not retain per-ballot voting information, only tallies. This is in large part a practical matter, ballots go through various channels of handling including exceptional cases (e.g. hand entry of damaged ballots) and many of these paths become much more complicated if you need to electronically record the individual selections on each ballot.

2) The risk of re-identification of voters to ballots is high and extremely difficult or impossible to satisfactorily resolve. There are many, many potential ways to establish which specific ballot was cast by a given voter. This is especially important considering that in many elections the number of voters per ballot style (which may be equivalent to a precinct in your area, the exact combination of questions which appears on the ballot based on voter location and potentially party affiliation) will often not be very large, even in densely populated areas, because of course as the area becomes more densely populated the electoral precincts become smaller.

Finally, your step 2 is quite unnecessary for current purposes, the physical possession of both the ballot and permit are sufficient to prevent overvoting. One permit entitles an individual to cast one ballot. In the case of mail-in voting the ballot is sealed inside of the permit in a tamper-evident fashion (the outer envelope serves as permit). It also presents a more complicated and worse privacy proposition than the existing system, as the ballots can be post facto linked to the permits and someone could have (likely did) observe the voter take the permit. In current practice ballots cannot be linked to permits after they are physically separated when the voter casts their ballot. This protects the voter by reducing the time period during which their ballot can be identified.
The market is not a indicator of true value anymore. Sad.
> A user dumps their music collection into dropbox and automatically get a private site they can use to listen to their collection. Now I have to keep paying for their service and upgrading to add new music. Dropbox could have taken on any number of music services

I recently dumped my music collection that previously was on Google Music on Dropbox; I'd easily pay twice what I'm paying for space to get a music app from them that played my stuff on there.
Cooperative multitasking is, in general, less than optimal in terms of stability. Both kernels run in the same address space, and must voluntarily cede control to the other, so any problem with either writing to the wrong place or failing to yield control to the other can cause a system failure. In addition to that, there is also the latency introduced when Linux has control and receives a hardware interrupt which it must then ferry to Windows for processing. In general, they can't both be running at the same time, which is not the case with all other virtualization methods.

The real strength of this approach I think lies in the total time and manpower required to get it working - the paper on their web site says that from the day he sat down to start the project, it took him roughly one month until he was able to run KDE programs, and the total modifications to the Linux kernel were only a few thousand lines of code. I find this pretty incredible in itself.
I love "decentralization" as much as the next person on HN, but one the problem is not pricing in the externalities, I am not sure centralization is the problem.

A few bleeding hearts can run a parallel economy for good X with an alternate value function, but this doesn't really scale in and of itself.

Now, if someone combines alt grid / alt farms with lobbying for punitive tax in the smallest surrounding jurisdiction that can enforce it, perhaps that might work.
Sure, but it's way too tempting and too short of a step from that, to "Sorry, this device won't work with unauthorized third-party parts... for your safety. Please shell out $$ for repairs from an Authorized Retailer, if you can find one and if they offer them."
> The entire voting system has to be easily understandable by everyone in society, in order for society to trust the system.

Can you tell me how current voting systems work, because it is a black box to me and I can't even verify that my vote counted for the person I picked. From what I can tell, the local election officials can tally the votes however they want.
Commander X16 8 bit computer now has its own website
Best Evidence yet for Existence of Anyons
Apple's old iSight webcams had a white iris that opened and closed by twisting a ring at the front of the camera. It was very nicely built and you could see whether the iris was closed from across the room.

Photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdpettitt/41991398752
I was beta user number 50. I saw no value in something I could do easily with SFTP or SCP etcetera. I'm not an investor I guess
It's called "extraterritorial rendition" or "extraordinary rendition" and it IS kidknapping and the US Gov't does it all the time.

But it is unlikely they get away with it in Russia or China - - where the police state apparatus watches American agents closely.

And all these recent FBI arrests on US soil of Chinese professors and citizens stealing tech secrets ?

You can bet that the CCP agents are arresting just as many - - - if not more - - of innocent American businessmen in China. They know quite well that someday there will be a swap, like a spy swap, where each side offers up trades.

Unfortunately, certain innocent Americans will loose many years of their freedom, maybe even their health.
GP's critique is not a defense of the status quo. Please do not construe it as such.

See https://freeandfair.us/# for voting technology that still wisely involves much paper.
I did not mean the blog owner’s equipment which the author covered in the post. I meant the ISPs and transit providers in between the server and any user wanting to see the blog. There is not much we can do to control the power sources in that .

While undersea cables and ISP network switches etc perhaps are efficient on a per packet level, they consume substantial power I would imagine .
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Microsoft did extensive user testing in the course of development of the Ribbon UI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23797590
I can't respond to this without being mean, so I'd recommend just googling "us voter disenfranchisement".

https://www.aclu.org/facts-about-voter-suppression

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-vot...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-...

https://prospect.org/politics/the-many-varieties-of-voter-su...

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su...

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/20...
They are still counted through a central authority and your vote can't even be tracked. You basically just have to "trust the system" today even though there has been a lot of strange things happening for decades with votes.
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Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells
The rationalwiki article about the AI-Box Experiment has some interesting speculation regarding possible arguments and strategies for the AI player:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment
Sounds like Universal Paperclips!
Show HN: Recreated menu from the game Persona 5 (No mobile sup.)
Fraud isn't impossible, just difficult to do on a scale that would matter in most elections. In NC, an election had to be redone because someone working for the GOP candidate had fraudulently collected absentee ballots (from registered Democrats I think), preventing those ballots from being counted or possibly tampered with them, and it was a close race.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-caroli...

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-...

So obviously the voter needs to be careful to place the mail-in ballot correctly into the USPS and then the USPS has to be trusted to deliver the ballots correctly.

Beyond that, the mail-in ballots are checked against the registered voter rolls. So the state has to maintain clean voter rolls.

But this is not much different really from in-person voting. In theory, I could go to my local polling location and claim to be one of my neighbors, sign their name, and take their vote. They'd only notice if they showed up to vote later. But I'd likely get caught if they'd already voted. Or maybe the poll worker would recognize me. There are lots of scenarios you could imaging getting away with a handful of fraudulent votes. But it would hard to be able to do anything significant enough to affect the outcome of most elections.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mail-in-ballot-voter-fraud...
1. The way in-person voting works where I live, no. Mail-in ballots naturally require trust that the inner envelope will not be correlated with the outer envelope.

2. It's not, aside from that it is more easily automated. "Helping" certain voters fill out their mail-in ballots is already an easy way to manipulate an election.
And they can flip the vote as soon as you leave the polling booth, or not even record it, and you'll never know. Just "trust the system"
Perspicacity
If that were true farmers would already be doing it.
Why are you so angry about Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify having a tiny outage? They are not life saving services and only cause a mild inconvenience when they fail which practically never happens for most people especially compared to "average software".

> FB themselves have not learned, because this is not the first time this has happened.

They have tens of thousands of engineers likely split into hundreds of different teams/microservices focussing on different parts of their software stack. A ton of them are new to it and nobody knows every part of the stack so shit can happen.

What is the biggest engineering organization size you have worked for and what was your uptime?
> The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.

This may have been true the mid 2000s through 2015, but the Conservative Party in the UK is now dominated by the extreme right "European Research Group" (your DPRK comment is apt with regards to them), who are far more aligned with the right of the Republican party of today.
Rethinking the Dictionary
Related:

> The Information wrote on Thursday that at least one Apple supplier has been asked to ship iPhone SE components to a facility in India starting in July

> Assembling iPhone SEs in India helps Apple to avoid a 20% tax on imported smartphones, and potentially to gain a greater foothold in the growing market. Apple earns just 2.2% of its global revenue in India

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apple-to-move-iphone-se-...
So where is the explanation of how it works, because I could go to a Bitcoin website and learn more about how it works quickly than on that site.
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Every one of your last two points are voluntary. I have more sympathy for the individual who tries to change their society through democratic means (voting) than the person complicit with violations because of a paycheck.

Even so there's a lot of nuance. The senior engineer doesn't have to work at one of these companies to survive, but there are cases further down the totem pole with far fewer options.

It's pretty simple. If you want to make millions and don't give a shit how you do it, then I can't arrest you for it. But fuck you if you want me to sympathize with you about this oh so difficult choice.
Lots of things in math.

Yes to apply that to the real world, we have to use some assumptions like, the universe isnt a giant trick, the sun will rise tomorrow, we dont live in the matrix, etc. However given the context of this discussion those are fairly reasonable assumptions.
My x1 carbon has a built in webcam blocker slider built in, and it disables the hardware too when it’s slid closed.
This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking to learn by posting this! Thanks.
There are a number of ways to do it, other than a sliding latch, in case Apple wants to avoid adding thickness to the screen.

1. Electrically blurred glass.
2. Polarizing filters
3. Power kill switch, in hardware. But I guess Applw will balk at this too.
I use tape because it was already in my kitchen junk drawer and I literally never use the webcam on my laptop. It’s only a threat.

The sliding covers are fine but it’s just more effort to order one.
Good question. Competitive Apex has struggled to maintain a stable roster of pros who can make a living from it, so for now, financial health and its associated evils (I guess in your view, product promotion, commercialization) are important. As a viewer, I believe that pro players should make a living wage, and I'm willing to tolerate ads or sponsored content to make that happen.

But you're right in a sense--scenes like Smash have thrived without money, but the pros in it aren't fairly compensated for their incredible skill and dedication.
> Marx was an anti-semite. Why is he still taken seriously when "right-wing"[0] thinkers can be dismissed for "ties" to anti-semitism?

Perhaps I am uninformed, how could Marx be an anti-semite? He was ethnically Jewish.
It's the same reason why voting via mail is very hard to exploit. Voting functions as a secure handshake (register to vote via mail, government sends confirmation, government sends ballot, you send ballot back, government sends confirmation of vote) and requires you to sign it with some identifying information like a signature.

There might be some individuals trying to cheat the system at the family level, but trying to cheat it at a larger scale requires you to do so at a point of collection. It also becomes very easy to find this sort of tampering by sending voters a way of confirming who they voted for.
Mail-in ballots are linked to a voter permit (outer envelope) which serves the purpose of maintaining the pollbook, that is, ensuring that each voter casts only one vote. This prevents ballot stuffing.

Mail-in ballots are sealed in a tamper evident fashion inside of the permit, to prevent modification. Because opening the envelope would probably damage it, a duplicate enveloped (forged permit) would need to be produced to modify the ballot. In most cases a duplicate ballot would also be needed, which presents its own obstacle, although ballots are not generally intended to be protected against forgery.

The postal service is backed by a particularly strong set of criminal laws which generally make a felony to interfere with the mail. This is of course on top of laws protecting the voting system from tampering.

The outer envelope (permit) is a sworn statement and signing for someone else's ballot would be perjury, a felony, in addition to other laws around voting that likely exist in the state.

None of these measure are perfect, but combined they make vote-by-mail fraud difficult to achieve on a meaningful scale. Remember that, to be effective, voter fraud needs to be successfully committed not once, but many times. The difficulty of each case and general history of harsh prosecution of small-time fraud creates a significant disincentive to try.
Yep, pretty much. It’s a very interesting time - genetic therapies have extremely low marginal cost, but very high capital cost. Unlike software systems, they can mean life or death. Piracy of genetic therapies will be really interesting.

Someday we might not just have antivaxers, but “rogue vaxers” who develop vaccines to diseases that pharma ignore and DIY test themselves.
“Cutlet curry” is actually better, back-romanization(?) like “katsukaree” is just confusing.

Real world example[0]

0: https://images.app.goo.gl/KA47TTXbdQNfoYVs5
Someone told me something similar. Took 2 weeks to provision servers (and we mean VMs no just physical kit) and there was usually something wrong with them that took more time to fix.

This was about 3 years ago. His company moved everything to AWS.
I think of Reddit like New York City, it’s huge and there are many thousands of neighborhoods with plenty of heterogeneity. Almost anything you can think of can be found there if you know where to look.
I switched to Resilio (formerly BitTorrent) Sync [1] years ago and never looked back. It does have the restriction that at least one of your machines must be online to sync with others, but aside from that, it has been a solid replacement.

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Money is in fact a commodity and currency. You can buy and sell money, as well as use it as a token for value transfer. This is a sincere fact, I don't know what's contentious about it. The supply of money is not "limited" but buying power is limited and money represents buying power.
In other words, we've made another flimsy-ass product for the sake of thinness that no one asked for.
This thread from yesterday might be useful https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23776894

https://github.com/similarweb/finala seems promising
Nope. I use a one plus 5t on T-Mobile.
Well, the UK has basically killed adverse possession in the Land Registration Act 2002, so we'll see how that turns out for them.
Bank of Japan offers virtual tour as HQ off limits amid pandemic