skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you comment or just Google? This is the last one of your Google sessions I will reply to. If you actually have a comment, I would be happy to discuss.

> And nearly 56,000 of them re-registered within the same county, according to the AJC/APM Reports analysis. If their registrations hadn’t been canceled, they would have been able to vote without having to re-register.

And 0 of those had voted in several prior elections, which is why the law was followed to remove them from the registered rolls.

> More than half, almost 30,000 Georgia voters, re-registered too late to participate in the close 2018 election for Georgia governor. It’s impossible to know how many of them attempted to vote, but those who tried wouldn’t have had their ballots counted.

It doesn't sound like they are active participants. They didn't vote for some time, then they said they registered too late to vote. It's best not to use them as people who are being denied a vote. It is their choices not to have voted for a long time.

> Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.

These voting machines are almost 100% a laughingstock. The very article said that! They have to do with the rush that happened a few years ago to institute voting machines - not with voter suppression but the exact opposite.

> Hourslong waits, problems with new voting machines and a lack of available ballots plagued voters in majority minority counties in Georgia on Tuesday — conditions the secretary of state called "unacceptable" and vowed to investigate.

From the same article you quoted: "Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, blamed local officials in Fulton County, which includes most of the City of Atlanta, and said there were few issues elsewhere, while by midafternoon counties outside Atlanta had begun extending voting hours to account for time lost tending to the new machines."

If everyone else could do what needed to be done, outside of Atlanta, then Atlanta should be investigated - not invisible suppression from the rest of the state onto Atlanta.
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I don't think so, on my anecdatum.

I've also had mine since early November last year, and also use them many hours a day, mostly at my desk. Never dropped. Either left on desk in case or carried in a trouser pocket with nothing else except my iPhone.

They were absolutely perfect until about ~6 weeks ago, when the right bud started to make an awful tinny noise (which I thought was imperfect cancellation, and a software bug of some kind) when I coughed, which it had never done before.

Yesterday, I started getting the rattling sound when walking, right earbud only. Goes away for a couple of steps if you take it out and reseat it, then comes straight back. Rattles in time with footstep.

Since it's an impulse thing for me (force of cough, force of bouncing when walking), I'm guessing defective connection (defective solder joint?) that is misbehaving when stressed?
> The national lockdown was timed to the nyc wave

There was no “national lockdown”. The California lockdown was timed based on the Bay Area and Los Angeles surges.
An interview is nothing but a glorified prisoners dilemma aka cooperation dilemma.

Signalling that you're taking the path of least resistance aka snitching is hardly ingenious.

And you call yourself a software professional!
Diligence, Patience, and Humility

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/open-sources/1565925823...
Admittedly not tiny little wireless earbuds, and costing twice what airpods do, my Sony XM3 noise cancelling headset had 30 hours of battery life when it was new.

After 1 year of full day usage during the work week, they last 24 hours. Kinda surprised the Airpods battery dies so quick.
Making a bunch of casual statements that are neither necessarily scientific, nor factual, nor founded - but in an elegant manner, does not make them true.

There are 3 or so Billion people living in civilisation, oddly enough, have somewhat similar education systems.

With some degree of variation, there doesn't seem to be any magic, other than the things we know are going to work.

And yes, we know a good chunk of it is just daycare and that's ok too.
> Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.

In this context, I took hubris as paradoxical since the end result is a good quality (and well maintained) software program.
They didn't advertise any isolation or noice cancelation features, did they?

> if you primarily care about form and only peripherally about function

Well yeah the form was the revolutionary bit about the AirPods. I'm sure I could get a longer list of fancy functionality squeezed into an ugly pair of baubles if I didn't care about form, but what I want is something tiny and simple for daily use. I think that's what most people want outside the tech bubble.

Yet again Apple showing that a genuinely well-formed product is better than something that looks better technically on paper from the list of functionality.

Creating a great product isn't about functionality Top Trumps as you think it is.
I agree with everything you said (particularly the no maintenance part), but I think there must be another explanation as to why brick facades are so prevalent on southern Ontario houses. Other areas with similar climates and population levels (say, Minnesota) have much fewer brick homes.

It probably comes down to tradition. In the old parts of any city, all of the 100 year-old houses have brick exteriors, as well as most of the houses built since then.
Inheritance of classes with behaviours has only ever brought me pain and suffering.

Though sometimes I'll have an inheritance tree of interfaces, which is pretty easy to manage.

The best way I've found to share behaviour is dependency injection, it's more flexible and consistent than shared methods in a parent class. But you need a DI framework to manage all the instantiation, which can add undesired complexity.
Humility and persistence certainly separate the more competent from the crowd, but it’s the crowd that defines the profession.
Not sure what you mean by "from GA" given that the tool collects what you tell it to collect. The data is only garbage if you don't have or hire the skillset to use it, and when you do you'll have proper leading indicators for your business metrics and quantitative prioritization support.
I have been through this exact process as well. Mine started to make the rattle noise and I used the chat support to get a replacement sent. Your credit card is "charged" in the event you don't send the broken headphone back. The charge is reversed upon Apple receiving the broken headphone. My replacement was free.
You don't actually have to. You just have to convince 12 people that you did it. If this were so trivial to get away with people would you know actually be doing it.
Yes, VB is popular back then and is very easy to learn. I wonder why VB.Net is not as popular as C# nowadays given that they have the same access to .NET Framework.
No big surprise here, imo. Obesity is one of the worst maladies a human can suffer from since it negatively impacts so many bodily systems. It's a damn shame there's been very little discussion regarding personal responsibility in the age of COVID-19. Hundreds of millions of people have eaten themselves into becoming immunocompromised and exposed themselves to a much higher risk of dying from a virus with a relatively benign CFR.
> if Jeff Bezos gave $100B up his wealth, it would be a one-time check to every American for $300. That's it. And just once.

Yet we aren't talking about "every American", we are talking about increasing the labor force, so your math isn't that relevant. Instead, let's say that Amazon required Bezos to put that $100B back into wages for low level employees for ten years: $10B/year works out to as many as 320,512 people employed at a $15/hour full time job minimum wage for those 10 years.

You are correct that I suggested wealth rather than earnings because of course most of the wealthy play shell games with their incomes that launder as much as possible of their income into other things that aren't "earnings" on paper (because one is taxed much higher than most of the "capital gains" taxed sorts of passive incomes). I mentioned golden parachutes, I was not trying to hide that wealth is a bigger component of the debate than just "earnings".

That said, even Bezos' over-the-table non-stock "earnings" are still nearly 3x a $15 minimum wage earner.

All of the above is mathematically true, so easier to consider "facts" just as much as yours. No ideological statements there. I could bring out some actual ideological statements if you wish what those really look like.

> This is just fantasy business math. There is no 'finding margins'. There is 'increasing prices' or 'lowering costs'. So either they pay suppliers less, or increase prices in order to pay greater salaries.

I agree, it is fantasy business math, but it is fantasy business math that is the current language of the MBA and Wall Street folks managing this mess. I did not invent it, and I would use more direct language if it were weren't readily apparent this is the preferred language of those currently propping up the established system.

> And 'owes them' - is again, just made up.

By that logic, all of capitalism is made up. All of human history is made up.

Even setting aside the deeper ethical questions about what an honest society owes to its labor class, I did explicitly define it in that context as capable of meeting the requirements to move those jobs back to the US, which in this case would specifically mean "US minimum wage" as the law of the land people keep claiming makes US noncompetitive with China, and you are just needlessly splitting hairs here.

(To be fair, I'm happy to continue splitting hairs, as I did use "owe" to evoke both the indebtedness meaning as well as the philosophical one as well. But it was well defined in context.)
I remember in college I used to be able to download as far back as my Usenet provider's retention allowed in most cases. Shortly after graduating, I couldn't download anything that my auto-downloader (SickBeard back then) didn't pick up unless it was really niche. That aligns with your 7-8 year estimate.
Same in Canada. Chatted online, got a case #, turned around in less than a week. Good service, not the best product.
A perfect product would be a product which has all the features you would want. How do you adjust their onboard eq from your Android phone? Change their settings in any other way than volume?

Unless you use the word perfect to mean something other than "having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics".
If your mobile uses a dynamic IP the pool will be shared by others. In my country at least, Logs of client details to DHCP assigned IPs is Legally required.

Private torrents do not show up because I know what you download relies on DHT broadcasts.
You have robbed them of their finite time, by sitting there, getting your haircut, and then walking out.

A pirate however, does not deplete any of the provider's resources. They don't use computational or transactional resources.
> But Britton noted that there are no clear instances of double infections so far, which suggests that this virus creates immunity for at least some meaningful length of time, as most viruses do.

A paragraph below in the article.
The quality of the replicas and originals both varied. It is reasonably well acknowledged now that at least by the end of the "lawsuit era" (in 1977 Gibson sued the distributor of Ibanez who was the main brand behind them) the Japanese copies were higher quality than the official product.

There is vale in the name though and particularly when they were still producing a quality product.
> Furthermore, I have also checked my phone where I have never downloaded any torrent and you are showing 3 movies. This is just scaremongering.

Not sure if this is the same in every country but mobile phones in UK jump around the same IP block pretty frequently (i.e all day long) even when standing still - i'm using this as home internet so i notice.

IP addresses are re-used all the time, this is why it's not usually permissible as evidence in court.

The down side of such frequent IP changes is i'm pretty much permablocked by google and captcha'd to death by them due to frequently swapping IPs with in pool of users with malware (now i've completely given up using google.com).
Exactly bro! Now keep on rocking in the free world and understand that hubris alone does not a good programmer make but a good programmer is hubristic. Therefore hubris is a poor heuristic no matter what any tech bro tells you.

Therefore you should at least make an effort to dress up for an interview because you never know if it's your last chance to make any sort of impression.

And let your hubris shine that way instead of choosing the casual path that every other one will certainly choose.

Edit: of course this argument is lost on all the beautiful minds who spare no effort at shabby chic
> I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

No, they don't. They don't know anything I've torrented.

I've been using the same _private_ tracker for about a decade. 10 TB downloaded.
> Adorno was just not immune to his own creation but was all for the left wing cause until then

What was his “creation”? Or his “left wing cause”? I don’t understand what these vague gestures are supposed to indicate. I’ll again highlight that “Cultural Marxism” is rooted in various anti-Semitic and fascist ideologies.

But for the record, Adorno opposed the radical student movement and had vehement disagreements with many other leftists, including his Frankfurt School peers and famously with the actual communist party official and Marxist philosopher Lukács. There’s no uniformity of thought or conspiracy as painted by those like Peterson, who just repeats these canards to people hoping they won’t engage with their origins, the actual history, or the works themselves.
although from how I understood it, web seeding really assumes you can control the folder structure on the servers.

so you can't just curated a data collection from publicly accessible sources and freely map torrent contents to files on http for bootstrapping/reliability.

too bad, really. it seems like a cool thing to just make a torrent from e.g. public datasets that are hosted on flimsy university servers. make the torrent, distribute it, the swarm keeps the files available and reduces load on the university servers, and the server keeps the torrent from dying even if the dataset is niche.
Yes, it already happens and that's why it's a problem. If they discovered that they should "randomly" pull over that vehicle through evidence that was gathered illegally, then it should also be considered a violation of the 4th amendment... which is likely why the EFF has launched this project.
I don't see why your last paragraph should even slightly change how one feels about the "peer reviewing is free labour" issue. As you've described it, they are reviewing because they are indebted to other reviewers, not the publishers who are selling the fruits of their labour and keeping the profits.
> I am fairly certain it wasn't the recruiter who put in the experience requirement.

I've seen multiple job postings for my teams where somewhere in the HR->recruiting pipeline the (correct) job requirements were replaced with "standard" requirements.
Israeli Court Rules NSO Group Can Continue Exporting Spyware
>I'd be interested to see what a clean-room-like proposal would look like for evidence collection. I.e. independent agencies that can't share evidence/information between them.

I'm not sure why you'd want that. The reason why it's outlawed in the first place is because it's illegal search and seizure. Making it look like you obtained it legitimately doesn't right any wrongs, any more than making a murder look like an "accident" makes murder okay.
CERN has discovered a charming particle
Ask HN: Is it fair to resign a job after a Month due to not a good fit
Thanks for any advice. I am a DevOps enginer with lots of experience with many technologies. During the month of April i got a few companies reaching out during the pandemic and i was lucky to get a job with a company looking for an SRE, from the outside the company needed someone with my skills and the team was nice and I thought this would be a good fit for me so I took the job.

A month into the job i see the company really does not have good best practices for development, I have no access to dev environments or QA to test anything. It took 2 weeks for me to just get admin access on a Windows computer. They are a finance company and they don't even understand why I need virtualbox on my machine. There have been 3 outtages on a new service that was rolled out recently and i can see why. There is no communication between ops and devs and there are no best practices. The people are NICE but also they are not really looking to suddenly change their process because they involve security and change control and that's something they are not changing right away.

I interviewed with another company that is full AWS and i would basically take ownership of their existing environment from configuring aws resources, ci cd pipelines and working with monitoring and load testing. stuff that I now how to do and do well. I feel my current job is basically being a linux admin and paid very well for it but really they are not using my skills and even if i want to do my job there are blockers on my way.

I want to be honest and just thank them for the job and resign and let them now i don't feel well getting paid so much money when they are not maximizing my skills . I don't want to offend them or come across as an ungrateful person. is it fair for me to do this resign and move on or should i give them a longer chance ? any advice would be really helpful
About a hotel break-in, while in the White House. Not in a hotel.

But -gate has long since genericized into a suffix for scandal/coverup, it's not going back. Maybe someday it'll be replaced by something better – but that'd require some affirmative new coinage that signifies the intended meaning(s) even better.
Can you tell me more? A google search isn't showing anything relevant
Lots of people don’t want isolation or noise cancellation, only need them to work with Apple products, and find the audio quality more than acceptable. It has nothing to do with “form” over function. In fact the original Airpods are quite superior in function to any similar product at the same price point.
India can offer both the cheap labour and the large market.

In the coming decades as the rest of India gets connected to the internet, it will become the biggest market since at its current population growth it'll surpass China's population size.
While very true, this is kinda using vision to replace other senses :) E.g. touch here, and sound (reading vibration via laser / optics).

Both of which we can also do, but to very fuzzy degrees (thing visibly squishes -> almost definitely under pressure. surface appears to be vibrating -> probably making noise). We don't have much for vision -> taste though (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy).
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He ended up serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year.

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Great post. Wondering why you chose go over js/ts as your backend since it seemed like keeping a light footprint is key for you?
Comics and Graphic Novels made $1.21B in 2019
Defragging Your Brain (2012)
I wrote a thread on this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski/status/12639165990625402...

I feel that SQL aimed to be Python and became x86 assembly instead. It's no longer a simple "just works" query language the moment you have to worry about predicate flattening, join decomposition, CTEs that introduce optimization barriers, and "IN()" being faster than equivalent "JOINs".

As a result, I started a project that allows you to write read-only database-agnostic queries called GraphQL compiler: https://graphql-compiler.readthedocs.io/
https://github.com/kensho-technologies/graphql-compiler

The core idea of the project is to get us the convenience of specifying the "what question I want answered," but without the inconvenience of "how is the answer computed / with which specific set of queries / where did the data come from?" -- unless you want to peek under the hood, of course. All the visibility into the nitty-gritty details available on demand, but without the tedium of having to hand-optimize queries and know all the "magic" ways in which queries get faster or slower for each individual kind of database.
Click the link. Not all of those are developer tools. Blender being a prominent example. Apple's contribution to Blender is inconsistent with a goal of "requiring a developer certificate to run unapproved software."

No, I think Apple will always keep the Mac as a platform where end users can run unapproved software with appropriate warnings. The Mac is a serious tool for many different roles, not just development, and not every tool fits into Apple's App Store ecosystem. This is Apple's tacit acknowledgement of that fact.
Intel DG1 Graphics Card Bring-Up on Linux Continues
The standard for something to be perfect isn't just that it only has the features which it is advertised to have. Lots of terrible cars aren't advertised as having very low road noise; that doesn't make them perfect cars.
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Are you really interested in debating the topic, or just perpetual muddying the waters?

The question is if Chinese ownership of Indian industries will be bad, and the answer is an obvious yes.

As for your claim in this case, it wasn't just a freshly deployed Chinese trooper, but the whole platoon, who had built structures and arranged weapons in violation of prior agreement.
I think it's something of a sign that we're all terrible at our jobs that this resonates with us. If you tend to be wrong about things, sometimes it cancels out with your vices. It's not good to do the wrong thing, but if you must, let's hope you're lazy and impatient about it to limit your progress so you can't do much damage.

IDK guys, just found out last night a project I've been working on for months should have gone in a totally different direction, this stuff is hard.
GOP congressional nominees support QAnon conspiracy
> All true. Problem is that single-threaded latency minimization has been tapped out for a long time now. Physics says No. Memory is high-latency because of the speed of light. Larger caches have diminishing returns. Clocks can't go faster without melting the chips. There is no more prediction and pipelining to be dug out of a serial stream of instructions.

Someone should probably tell AMD and Intel they need to stop, then, because Ice Lake was +18% IPC, Tiger Lake will likely be another 5-10%, and Zen3 will be around 15% higher IPC.

What has truly stalled IPC is 10nm. Intel has had higher-IPC architectures for a long time, they simply couldn't manufacture them. And AMD was coming so far from behind that it took them 3 generations of Zen to even catch up to Intel.

The last few years have been a rather unfortunate "CPU dark age" but things are finally breaking loose once again. Ice Lake launched 9 months ago, Intel backported Tiger Lake to 14nm and that will launch probably around Christmas or CES, Milan is launching probably within the next 6-8 weeks, and Tiger Lake is launching this month.
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This paper is from 2015 it appears.

Can anyone comment on how relevant this is with the enhanced statistics types in Postgres 10, 11, 12?
But it is a consequence of their actions. Free speech can exist, but not free speech free of consequences. That person would need to find an employer who aligns with their desired actions.