skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The figure reflects cases referred to law enforcement agencies in five elections held in Colorado, Oregon and Washington, where all voters proactively receive ballots in the mail for every election.

Oh I see, well, clearly, if officials aren't reporting on it then it's not happening. Wapo and blue check marks make it official.

This logic isn't sound but people are happy to swallow hole anything anti-trump.

Edit: not to mention Colorado, Washington, and Oregon probably don't harbor anywhere near the same number of illegal immigrants as do states like California and Texas where this would be more of a concern.

In fact this whole debate is framed illegitimately. States like California automatically register voters when they receive IDs, they allow noncitizens of any legal status to obtain IDs, and we're supposed to pretend this isn't an avenue for illegal voting? Who's going to report these votes if they ostensibly conform to the California rules? But don't worry, Wapo and Huffpo will run their "analyses" and everything will come back squeaky clean.

We all need to hold all of our sources accountable and examine them critically, even when they tell us what we want to hear.
It really comes down to what their purpose is and how they're used in reality. Ostensibly, we are told they are used for police transparency and accountability, but is that really the case?

One 2016 study found that 92.6 percent of prosecutors' offices nationally in jurisdictions where police wear body cameras have used that footage as evidence in cases against private citizens, while just 8.3 percent have used it to prosecute police officers. [0]

In any case, they definitely are "surveillance" technology, which is the language EFF uses [1] (the usage of "spy tech" in the headline is editorialized).

0 - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/body-cameras-are-seen-...

1 - As in the "Atlas of Surveillance" https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
If you have any doubt within your head when quitting, you will fail. When I chose to quit, I chose with my whole body and mind. That is, it wasn't about willpower against my own inclinations. If it was, I would have failed.
But I may also have been helped by a few additional factors: The day after I quit, I also got very very sick. That knocked me off my feet for a couple of days, and probably got me through the first few days of the worst cravings (which felt like worms in my brain). Another thing I did was intentionally hang out at a cafe where there were other smokers whom I didn't know. I wanted to make sure I could be around people who smoked without failing.

My dad had never been able to quit smoking. I know how lucky I was to manage it.
I highly recommend setting up a pi-hole on AWS somewhere, with custom DNS ports and using a vpn client that can redirect all DNS requests from the device there. On android NetGuard works well.

I hardly ever see an ad on the phone now. Astroturfing is a whole other question though.
Someone should write a browser extension to disappear (or at least collapse) all tweets from and relating to blue-checked accounts. They're pretty much all either corporate or run by social media managers anyway, not the actual person they're claiming to be.
It's really cool but why does it have to be so expensive. I get that nowdays "whatever you want costs 5 dollars a month" but realistically things which should be way cheaper are now 5 dollars a month. I'm in my 2nd Nordvpn 3 year sub which also increased in price to 3€ per month. I mean if you want 100 things which require 100 subscriptions you end up at at least 500€ a month. And now there are 5 video streaming platforms which cost even more and you realistically want all of them. The whole sub life thing might be getting out of hand
It looks like ‘as’ is generally defined as a truncating cast operator for other numeric types. Since it doesn’t panic for other overflow situations (like u64->u32), they chose consistency with those cases.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10184#issuecomment-...
Julia Evans is a font of good vibes.
Company Is Selling Bizarre and Expensive Spy Equipment to Police
Look, even if all countries except of say US suddenly magically disappear tomorrow, the planet will still keep warming up. Even if you reduce the world population to whatever your acceptable level is, you still need to build zero carbon infrastructure/industry for the people that remain. Net zero per person is net zero per person. Doesn't matter how many people there are. And right now, that building is not happening. Or at least not fast enough.
Install uBlock Origin and enable all filters. Enjoy the web and don't feel guilty about it. Nobody is entitled to views, ad clicks or even our attention.
Yep, why do I want a 7% raise when I'm expected to work 15% more hours.
How to set product vision and strategy
Platforms that create filter bubbles should show "opposite content"..perhaps with a heading that could have titles like "Videos we don't recommend"..."Videos you may disagree with".."break out of your filter bubble" or something to that effect.
Maybe they're just trying to buy themselves in into the 'missing markets.' Us linux people, "by the way^1", might suffer to wait for a while. It's a good move, in some ways, it's good to infiltrate Win and Android, first, actually, and then, they'll drop the logical bomb here too. I guess that's a good move. Actually.

^1 Arch Linux
That would explain why the current companies are attempting to hide information that could be used to save lives. Is that a moral justification for the government granting the vaccine companies a monopoly on the information, even though free sharing of the information could save even more lives?
The “we” is each individual. We have self-contained bubbles which the media analyzes to create “channels”. Those are the never-ending feeds built specifically for us based on our past usage.
Amazing story. But I doubt it will stay for long in the front page.
People are downvoting because it's comparing apples to oranges. It's perfectly acceptable, and smart even, to pride oneself on open source while treating the least dominant desktop OS as a second class citizen with regard to product offerings. It also comes off as a bit whiny, since it's abundantly clear from the first paragraph that there's no plans to shun Linux.
Show HN: Segment Functions is now Generally Available
Right, lets say we use USB3.0/ Lightning port or bluetooth, which are all digital. Audio input goes into my mac program from a bluetooth/USB mic, then gets processed there, and then sends the digital data stream as an audio output to the iphone via USB/bluetooth. The iphone reads that as a digital audio stream input and its apps can use it accordingly. The audio stream would of course be incoherent, but say someone on the other end of the apps can decrypt it.
From what little I know of unions, I'd say it is better to have unions (with all the problems they bring) than not at all. With unions, workers have a chance at least to get fair treatment. Without them, it is totally one sided. Just look at the way Amazon treats their employees - who has the balls to take on them? Cities and mayors are bending over backwards to get Amazon come to them. The power imbalance is pathetic.

Another problem are the middlemen. In my own case, all the middleman company did was organize an interview. I haven't met them, they don't care about the candidates they place. They do nothing but write contracts and make phone calls. They lie to everyone - their clients, the candidates they place, and fellow middlemen. And for that, they take a huge cut of the candidate's salary/billing rate.

40-50 years ago, it was easier to do protests, spend time on policy/societal issues etc. Today's society is held hostage by high tuition, expensive healthcare and a hostile police force. It is hard to muster the energy to do anything but survive.

I don't know what the solution is. It is not pretty though - we cannot continue like this and still hope to support 7+ billion people (and rising).
This source kind of sucks for good info. To put this number in perspective:

- It's almost exactly the same as new claims last week (1.31 million)

- Total continuing claims not including this week are at 17.4M (dropping weekly, somehow)

It's worth noting that the PPP plan for employers was extended to a 24-week period rather than the initial 8 weeks, which to me has some interesting implications and loopholes. States re-locking down due to surges in cases will probably have a bad impact on employment as well. The supplemental unemployment payments have not yet been renewed and will end at the end of July.
1) In North Carolina's 9th 2018 congressional district election, the campaign manager for the Republican candidate manipulated absentee ballots

2) I'm not arguing whether feigning concern is a political tactic, I'm arguing that vote by mail fraud a. exists, b. is so insignificant that it doesn't affect election outcomes, c. still needs to be combated because elections should be seen as irrefutably valid by all voters

3) You can read the facts about the example here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_North_Carolina%27s_9th_co...

4) Most voter misinformation on Facebook is perpetuated by Trump supporters according to the article.

5) I think all voters should be able to agree that elections, including voting by mail, should be as secure as possible. It seems that as of today, voting by mail is secure enough to warrant its use in general, and more specifically in our current situation where voting at in-person polling locations risks spreading Covid needlessly and would have a chilling effect on voters who fear they would contract Covid and die by visiting an in-person voting location. In fact, I would go so far to claim that the chilling effect from requiring all voting to take place in person during the Covid pandemic would distort the outcome of the election by magnitudes greater than what we would expect from even 10 or 100 times more vote by mail fraud than we have today. Forcing voters to risk their lives to cast their ballot disenfranchises them and is as reprehensible as their ballot being manipulated against their will.
To keep my sanity I tuned out of this conversation. I get easily confused by diverging opinions and I came to become afraid to say anything at all publicly because someone may feel hurt. I don't want to cause that to anyone but I get a general sense of going crazy when I think of what to say: huge cognitive dissonance. And that is not because I have some views that are not in sync with other peoples views, their views are simply confusing to follow.

Wake me up when this is over. I will do a last effort when things stabilize so I get on the same page with everyone or basically the general consensus.
I may be wrong, but Face ID should be performed entirely in the SEP, and only returns a boolean.
Hardly stole it, literally acknowledged in blog post where we announced this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

We're not the first ones to do this. Our LavaRand system was inspired by a similar system first proposed[1] and built by Silicon Graphics and patented[2] in 1996 (the patent has since expired).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault
This sort of thing when genuine don't makes you a good person. A person with character.

The type of person you want and should be around.
I'm stupid in this way, too.
> And authorities still recommending 2.0

What do you mean? I never heard any official recommendations.
A new and improved Twitter API
> Please do not get me wrong, this not only about this post, but somehow very often in haskell - related posts. Or is it only me ?

Not just you.

https://patrickmn.com/software/the-haskell-pyramid/
This is the same question I have. Other family members and friends have all received theirs. He's much younger than me, working entry level jobs, filed all of his taxes, etc. I just looked up some news about it, apparently about 30-35 million(estimated) checks have not been sent out.
I developed one or two server side apps using both Vapor & Kitura in late 2016 | 2017. the ecosystem though helpful isn't as vibrant as in other languages. if you care about shipping product i.e time to delivery vs language performance that matters a lot. machines are cheap, human labour and effort is not. with SwiftUI they're just bringing sanity around. otherwise screw apple for their closed ecosystem.
> and, to a lesser extent, .Net

What's the problem with .NET, as it belongs to .NET Foundation now?
Have you looked into the possibility that you have ADD/ADHD?

I ask because your description sounds spot on for how I have felt throughout life. The 'fog', lack of motivation, and sensitivity to even the slightest stimulus especially ring true. When I first took medication for ADD, I felt like I had been driving through a downpour my whole life and finally discovered the window-wipers - the storm didn't stop, but I could finally look forward and see my goals and desires clearly. Every few weeks I try to do a reset and test how I feel without medication and I definitely still feel that 'fog' that you mention. I would say my fog is more like being in a lightning storm, because I feel the constant 'patter' of thoughts hitting my subconscious (for lack of a better word), but the occasional lightning strike will pull my attention completely away from everything else momentarily.

If you want to learn more, I highly recommend looking through the ADHD subreddit[0] - especially the sidebar material.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/ADHD/
I'm not sure how it "exposes", was it not known that it gets heavily personalized? I've certainly noticed it for years.

Anyone who has used YouTube enough while logged in probably has noticed how music playlists start looping the same songs and how recommendations start repeating.

I've found that the best method to avoid that is actively reverse train the suggestion "neural net" or whatever they use. Asking friends for video recommendations, refreshing page multiple times when recommendations are all too similar, marking suggestions of known topics as boring, clicking on new topics more than old ones and so on.

It's really rather fascinating how easy it is to fall into a bubble and how hard is it to extend it. I do suspect it works great for most users and that's why it is like that.
> This is not a Sapiens-style retelling of the history of mankind.

Although he did write that one as well! A Short History of Nearly Everything
I disagree, and do so on my personal experience with Keto (yes, you read that correctly).

Just to give one case - last month I tried to get back into keto, as the lockdown had worn away my resistance to junk food and bad eating habits began.

In the process, I bounced in and out of ketosis, and my emotional state was all over the map. Crying, ecstatic, and everything in between. It was like being bipolar (I have a family member who is clinically bipolar, so I know firsthand what that does to someone).

But then, two weeks ago, I finally was able to get into my Keto diet fully. And for two weeks, my personality has been back to normal, and much more calm, less emotional, more focused, etc. [0]

Also, while I was going through the transition phase in/out of keto last month, I had several days of really vivid bad dreams and poor sleep. Several days of bad dreams was weird. Being tired on top of it made it worse.

So that's why I disagree. My firsthand experience with changing my food made a huge difference. (The first time I got into keto - about 2 years ago - I did so with a doctor who specializes in eating habits. This time was with that knowledge, but without my doctor as a guide. Thankfully my wife was a month ahead of me in the process, which made it tolerable.)

[0] - note to anyone trying Keto - go in fully, not halfway, and you'll only have a day or two of being grumpy (usually day 3 or 4). Have a guide to support you, as being on the cusp, but not truly in keto really sucks!

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Quick Edit - there ARE people in distress, and I'm not trying to take away from that, rather I'm talking about the everyday person who has some things out of whack sometimes.

By all means, if you are depressed, PLEASE talk to someone - it will probably save your life.
If I get a chance to look
closer I will, but want to lazily suggest it'd be ideal, if possible, to use some identifier that's not a11y-related -- in case this takes off and Twitter's incentivized to remove the labels (at the expense of those who depend on the aria-labels to access the site's content).
Read any online newspaper and it's basically just the highlights from twitter anyways.
article conveniently doesnt mention the fact that huawei's 5g chip isnt sourced from an American design, rather its the Balong 5000 which has been around since january of 2019. the 16 nm chipset can easily be cranked out from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) in mainland china, which is capable of 14nm runs. barring that, GlobalFoundries as they havent expressed any serious interest in Americas trade war witch hunt masquerading as a security concern.
Sort of; we have more than nothing, but not a full thing.

Some things are well specified. Some things are mostly specified. Some things are still very much up in the air.
Why does this feel like the USA cutting Japan off from metal and oil shipments months before WW2?
It's something that on a casual basis no big deal.

But once you ask folks to do it and there's any positive outcome ... it becomes a thing.

I've been a part of similar systems and as soon as it is sort of institutionalized, it is a nightmare.

It became office politics and groups of mutual admiration clubs, and frankly a lot of folks who maybe needed to up their game in the view of their bosses got in on these sort of mutual admiration clubs. More so than those who didn't, and that really skewed things.

The underlying fact is a complement from a coworker might have jack squat to do with ... actually doing anything good, it could even be because of a bad thing, who knows, you just never know.

As soon as it isn't 'organic' it becomes kinda horrible.
>bitcoin users are that un-savvy today

It's unlikely: the crypto world is savage enough that fools and their money are quickly parted. Most of the transfers to the address could easily be the scammers sending themselves money to make it look more legit.
Here's an alternative exposition (by Goldreich) recommended in this one's introduction:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/prg-primer.html

It ends up getting pretty mathematical too, but it seems like Goldreich takes more time up front to really get into the concepts at a philosophical level before proceeding to the math - so you might enjoy reading the introduction, if nothing else.
Yes, digital storytelling is what I have been mostly doing, with ffmpeg for extreme compression, coupled with some quizzes and small tasks.

I'm familiar with Slack so I'll check out Zulip, it looks great!
I think the more that technology influences our decisions the less human we become in our actions. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing but that we are definitely diluting our humanism with other stuff.
This has been my experience as well. It’s taken a long time to understand how I am different than most other people.

Have you read about sensory processing sensitivity/highly sensitive people?
Noice! Reading through the release notes leaves a feeling of D being a mature language long enough.

If you're looking for magnitutes faster scripting alternative to Python like once me, take a peek!
1. Pattern matching with destructuring a la scala, rust, ocaml, etc.

2. scoped threading a la kotlin and by using certain libraries, rust to a degree.

3. structs / records (i feel bad putting this since every language but java seems to have it).

4. macros of some kind

5. type inference

6. enums a la rust / sealed types in kotlin which are needed for pattern matching afaik
> Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3 Rifle Marksmanship

Not nearly as sobering, but I found the MCDP series on USMC doctrine fairly enlightening. Friction, Centers of Gravity, and a heavy importance on Logistics have been concepts that served me well in IT and project mgmt.
Do you seriously think a lot of people would want to do that? I don't. I think conservatives will yell out loud that YouTube is promoting "gay propaganda/agenda" and vice versa from liberals.

People intentionally bubble themselves, Twitter with it's much weaker suggestion algorithm has netted the same result, it really takes a special type of person to fight that.
sorry, when you said first semester, I assumed you meant first semester of the 4 yr course, as in intro classes. But you probably meant first semester of this year. Either way, it is good to experiment. Thank you for doing that.
The fact that it happened suddenly is why it worked. If it was predetermined, all the tweets will be about how verified users couldn't tweet (at already started getting there after a few hours this time as well).
As an old prediction about robotic hair cutters goes:

— But people have different head shapes, what about that?

— Well, initially they do.
That is by design. I wish our state (Oregon) was of similar design so that all interests are represented. As it is now the populous centers, mostly Portland and Eugene, dictate their values to the rest of the state.
Very interesting, I will check it out!

Is there a Kotlin-first server-side framework that you can recommend? (I use Java/Spring at work and it's OK, but would prefer to try something else for my side projects)

Edit: if someone doesn't want JVM drama on their servers, how far can they get with Kotlin via LLVM?
I use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com to view twitter. I don't follow verified accounts and I filter out retweets so twitter feels pretty nice to me most days. I didn't even notice the great blue checkmark blackout.
Which is still based on cookies; if you drop them, you will start clean again.
True. Also there would have probably been some time pressure to act given twitter employees would have likely noticed logins from strange devices/locations, and raised some flags.
> choose your instance well, or run your own

I can and will do that, most people are not however - after all most people are still on twitter.

> Other people might like such moderation

Or they just do not care, or they decide to stay in a specific instance because if they move they will be unable to communicate with the people from their old instance due to instance-blocks, or they might dislike how you can't really move your account (mastodon has an account migration feature but it is really not that good).
Benjamin Disraeli made it famous; he said it first. Mark Twain made it famous with Americans.
I don't know, it'd probably take 18F like a month to add a page to whitehouse.gov called "Things the President said", add 2FA and whatever else it needs to be installed on his government phone, and a little bot that listens for whenever he writes something on there and tweets it on Twitter. Then you have a source of truth that we know wasn't modified between the government and the reader, and it doesn't break the social following.

But I guess its easier to just complain about Twitter.
It's one of the last places you can make a post without having people trawl though your posting history if they dislike something you said. It's an interesting feature.
InfraMap: Open-source tool generates human-readable graph from Terraform files
Ouch. You know, I've heard many times about the GNU / Linux conversation but not being an expert I didn't really know where one starts and the other ends. So your comment has been extremely useful for me, thank you. And yes, we should pay more homage to GNU...