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To the mods,

You do a great job at keeping a civil and respectful community here on HN. One of the main ways you do it is by restricting controversial stories like this to prevent flame wars.

While I respect your decision to do, and I don't pretend to know what it must be like to moderate any kind of online forum, I ask that this story stay up for the sole reason that we're living in a time that is truly without precedent. A sitting president calling for the delay of the election begins to solidify many of our worst fears.

If we're not able to talk about it on the forums that are most rational and civil, what hope do we have to achieve any kind of productive discourse on this topic on the internet?

Please let this stay up so that the community can discuss this major moment in American history.
> I found my contact lens prescription were held from me unless I paid for another eye exam

I had this happen to me when I was younger. Lady basically said they only do eye exams and then they offer to sell you the prescription separately... some bullshit.
Oregon does vote-by-mail and it's been very successful.
nvi is new vi, released as part of 4.3BSD-net2. The only place I have encountered original vi is on Solaris. Solaris vi does horrible things like crashing if you maximize your xterm too big...
Someone's been playing too much Subnautica
I am still not happy with the 30% cut though. It is really rather high.
Credit to Preet Shihn (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shihn) for creating the RoughJS library (https://roughjs.com) that enabled us to achieve the "hand-drawn" look for the timelines.
We tried that and got the smoking is not bad for you science of the '70s, sugar is not bad for you science of the '80s, and the fossil fuels aren't causing global warming of today. How many drugs have been "proved" safe for human consumption because it is better for the bottom line?

Science beholden to business just proves whatever is convenent for business owners not the truth.
> How is the largest developer ecosystem in human history not the exact entity to do this?

I'm not saying github can't do that, just disagreeing that github is the ONLY one capable of doing it.

> But then you go on to suggest Facebook, Apple or Google...

They are not worse than Microsoft in that regard. If Microsofts Github is acceptable, then so are them.

> Is Trump president where you are?

His ponyranch is not even on the same continent as me.
Fair point, especially about the browser. Could be argued that mainstream browser's behaviour is what translated to how people offline communicated URLs. If they assumed http for a URL that was without protocol, then perhaps less people would've felt the need to include the protocol on paper.
In context, the "language" GP was referring to was the (presumably English) language in crypto currency white papers which is "needlessly convoluted and verbose". This was being contrasted with the concise language of the original Bitcoin white paper. It's not about programming languages.
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I’m probably in the minority but I don’t believe this should not be on HN.
Could you explain what the sentence-level citation adds?

I've heard several people ask for this, but never understood why. Most citation formats let you include page numbers; you can usually work in other location information ("See Foo et al. (2020)'s Figure 3A") too.
Well when it doesn't work you don't post it x) so it's a bit of confirmation bias, no?
I was at a hackathon and this big shot legal person from NY was telling me about a hot crypto company and them using Haskell was like the first thing he told me. In fact, all he told me was they raised a bunch of money in an ICO and they use Haskell. And then he sat there waiting for me to be impressed
Here's today's daily distraction from this embodied failure of pandemic leadership!
OK, so "Science Fictions" was just released and is full of cartoons and we have an obvious promotional push going on. But I simply must recommend the (possibly) more mundane (no comics) but nonetheless excellent David H. Freedman book:

"Wrong: Why experts keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more"

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons...

which begins with an interview with John Ioannidis and goes on to discuss in detail why so many academic (and expert) publications are wrong and how they got that way.
The scientific field is already doing a ton - Neuro is one of the most active areas of research right now. Behind COVID that is, currently pretty much everything is on hold for COVID. Pre-COVID however oncology and neuroscience were already among the biggest focus areas of research.

One of the basic problems is that we lack a fundamental understanding of how the disease works, so throwing more money at it gets diminishing returns beyond a point. It's like the war on cancer in the 1970s. We threw tons of money at cancer research which basically consisted of trying more newer combination chemotherapies in greater amounts and in new permutations trying to find the combination of chemicals that would eradicate all cancers. That only got us so far. However, at the same time, with a lot less funding and public support, scientists were making headway at understanding cancer not necessarily as a cellular disease, but as a genetic disease. By realizing that cancer is driven by genetic mutations, those scientists paved the way for the vastly more effective treatments and rush of immunoconcology/personalized/targeted therapies we see today. Throwing more money at Alzheimers at this point basically all but guarantees more trials of amyloid beta inhibitors at earlier stages and with bigger trials. We've already burnt tens of billions of dollars on that. The basic research to understand the disease is actually cheaper in the long run than running more of those clinical trials, but it's a stochastic, slow process with unclear goals and timelines.
Why would the low-price apartments see lower demand? There’s going to be a huge number of folks who are now making a low income looking for housing. Many of these people are currently either totally unhoused or living with family/friends because they can’t afford even low-price places. If there’s a huge new demand won’t apply in fact increase?
Also, since it might be unfamiliar to many, here's another article that puts forward a criticism of Bitcoin, many of which are for ethical issues:

https://blog.habets.se/2017/11/Why-bitcoin-is-terrible.html

It's about bitcoin, and not everything applies to other cryptocurrencies, but most of these arguments do apply.
Google Releases a New Library for Explainability
Colorado, too.
But if you're targetting end users who haven't been to GitHub... aren't you just billing them for access to your app? Seems like a different problem to getting paid for OSS by people who do know how to find and use it for free.
Venona data collection stopped in 1945 (although analysis did not), and McCarthy was not in Washington until 1947, so no, Venona was not detecting Soviet spies during the McCarthy era.

Also, these cables sent from Soviet diplomats contained many names one would expect on diplomatic cables, including FDR, who no one serious has ever accused of espionage. This includes people embassy and consular officials met with. Subsequently, everyone mentioned in the cables some have said are spies, with not much evidence of this. FDR was mentioned, is he a spy too?
They should stop calling them unions and just call them "brotherhoods", which is more accurate.

"Just a few bad apples" is never continued to complete the phrase; "spoil the barrel".

I think nearly all the trouble could be fixed if police understood one small thing: good cops that protect bad cops aren't good cops.
What's wrong with watching Netflix and playing games all day?
We do something about absentee voting, which is that it’s been done since World War 2, has been predominant in some states for decades, and has not once been the source of any notable irregularities.

The chances of a system as decentralized as this, with 50 states and thousands of cities, with dozens of federal and tens of thousands of lower-level elections, each involving constantly changing volunteers, many examined microscopically by vast armadas of campaign lawyers, to be the subject of significant, regular fraud without it becoming public just once, is nil.

By undermining the legitimacy of elections in such a conspicuously partisan way, you’re putting the ax on the fundamentals of the country you claim to be a patriot of.
You're thinking incorrectly as well. There is no need to debate patent nonsense. Just correct it and move on. Why did we as a community waste so much time discussing and getting outraged over patent nonsense as opposed to doing the rational thing and calling it patent nonsense from the outset? The answer to that question is troubling.

HN as a community is far too accommodating to a lot of silliness simply because it gets votes. Remember yesterday's "news" that Intel was moving TSMC? And don't even get me started on the political nonsense HN upvotes. We should all be taking a good long look in the mirror. If we're not going to learn from incidents like this, at least a bit of self awareness would be nice.
Because ENTERPRISE.
That's just changing the subject.

We were talking about selling in the iOS ecosystem, and the mechanics of that process.

No one said there weren't other options, and "take your ball and go home" is obviously always an option but that's not what was being discussed.

(Note that it turns out that Apple does not keep their 30% when it refunds an app, so the original point wasn't valid).
I second that, but this is not the story for such exemption. This is a purely partisan issue. This is a time for the supporters of side A to line up against supporters of side B. Whoever has the most political capital wins. I see little room for civil debate. There will be screaming.
Trump floats delaying election despite lack of authority to do so
People want to hate Apple.
Elections still happened during the U.S. Civil War and both World Wars.

Also - can’t have the election because of pandemic, but can have schools reopen?
How to write a web developer resume that impresses employers
current comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983548
Huawei takes top spot in global phone shipments for first time
He has no authority to delay the election. The election(s) are ran by the individual states which then send their results to Congress which are then ratified.

Again, all talk and no walk with Trump.
Not only should this not be on HN, but it's worth noting a delay needs to pass congress where the Dems have a majority in the house of representatives.
What is it that we know about fraud/security of voting by mail? The rates of fraud seem pretty low from the sources I can find.
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Quote from the article:

In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said "universal mail-in voting" would make November's vote the "most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history" and a "great embarrassment to the USA".

It seems to me like the embarrassment would be a vote counting system unable to deal with mail-in votes, not that a country that is currently suffering a lot due to a pandemic would use a no-contact way of handling votes. I thought that mailing in votes was how e.g. servicemen typically vote, and they seem to manage, even when their mail passes a lot of countries along the way (and possibly hostile ones, at that!).
My price barrier for smart devices is whether I would scream if I dropped it in the toilet and ruined it. $5 smart outlet? Sure I'll put my lamps on those. $25 streaming dongle? All right, that'll last at least five years before Netflix decides it isn't secure enough.

$500 television? Hell no. $1200 in home automation and surveillance linked to a central hub? I wasn't dropped on my head as a child, so no.
Is there a sample or example with comments somewhere that does not require a login with GitHub? It's alright for usage but for a Show HN I imagine a login could be skipped. I honestly got very curious about it but closed the page before sharing my personal data without knowing more.

EDIT: I managed to find some screenshots here after taking a look at the author's Twitter feed... https://medium.com/revolv2/deploying-a-laravel-7-application...
We really need to stop calling it Universal. There is literally no way it could ever be so. I'm all in favor of a less bureaucratic welfare system. However, the main savings comes from all the people who make up that bureaucracy. So the savings come from firing a whole lot of people.

Even taxing the richest households and extra 5% would only give the poorest households an approximate extra $1000 per year. This isn't life changing and isn't even much of a supplement. This is a very non trivial problem to solve. We need a much larger source of money.
Yea what this guy said ^
Covid-19 and the Race That Nobody Sees
Whoa, FP Complete is doing crypto? It never appeared to me like that. Is there a citation?
I agree that there isn't enough competence, or that "the competent are few" (though competence isn't a yes or no thing, you can be competent in some respects and not in others).

However, I think that competence really only has a chance if the incompetent are humble. There will be conflicts and these conflicts should be embraced and someone who is incompetent and not humble will fight the existence of conflict rather than the actual scientific issue that needs to be solved or understood.
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This is definitely great foundational work, but if you click through to http://ann-benchmarks.com/, you can see that they show dominant performance on the glove-100 benchmark, but decidedly middling performance on the other benchmarks for which they provide results (glove-25 and lastfm-64). I don't see this doing anything to unseat HNSW as my go-to algorithm for its strong performance across a wide variety of benchmarks.
And Google uses some badly tuned and not understandable by humans, and also constantly changing, machine learning algorithm to decide to serve you or not.

When something goes wrong with this, you have a a fairly small chance that you can reach a human to override, but it will be an overworked underpaid contractor
somewhere and your chances will be poor.

If you talk long term (decades), it is quite possible that Google falls out of favor and becomes legacy, like Myspace, with not making that much money anymore. We all know what happened to the Myspace data, they just deleted most of it at some point.

Essentially it's a lottery with your data.

Now a badly maintained hard disk is a data lottery too, but it's not clear to me the chances to retain are that much worse than Google's.
There is also DAML: https://github.com/digital-asset/daml
I suspect that the same characteristics that make Bonaire and Curaçao a haven for shore diving simplify the design of the underwater lab:

> Fresh air, power and internet will be provided by an umbilical cable to the surface.
See also apps like Chef Watson, MyFridgeFood which suggest recipes based on ingredients you already have available at home.
I downvote anything I don't like and I upvote what I do like. Most of the time I'm upvoting someone who already made basically the same comment I was going to make. No point in saying the same thing again in another comment, just upvote. If someone says the opposite of what I was going to say, I downvote.

I never understood people acting like downvoting is some huge crime or being downvoted is some great slight. It's a little arrow on a web site. It makes a number in a database go up or down by 1. I don't care how many points my comments score, and neither should anyone else. Speak your mind, or don't, and move on with life.
Interesting article. It really does highlight how “just put it in a landfill” can be a legitimate strategy.

What about the carbon footprint if the coffee is brewed with renewable energy? Depending on how you brew your coffee, I can see pods scoring worse as they would have the hard to recycle plastic waste, vs none at all.

Also, what about the health impact of micro plastics leached when the capsules get heated up?

What about the extra shipping costs of all these little pods vs a bulk purchase of beans from a local shop? The big bag is more efficient to ship.
A lot of people won't see the rebuttal and will continue thinking this is true.
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The article is not fakenews. It covers a research about anti-climate statements. Those can be fakenews (though depends on the nature of the statement I would say).
That is a good question, and what I'm about to say is not a full answer. But I do give some of credence to this tweet because it is the original claimant publicly admitting they are wrong, which is a costly act that puts skin in the game. Now if it is found that it is true that Apple does keep the %30, the claimant is going to take an even harder hit.

There is also the matter of prior probabilities; if you had asked me beforehand "How certain are you that if Apple refunds a charge, the refund is complete and they also refund their cut?" I'd have given you an answer in the 90%+ range, on the grounds that if they did something that nasty we'd have heard by now. Furthermore, if they did change that policy, I'd expect to hear about it precisely as a change in policy, rather than the sudden discovery that it's been like that all the time.

I am emphatically not holding these up as total answers to the question. I'm not sure there is such a thing. But these are reasons to consider this tweet likelier to be true than the original claim.

There is also the constant possibility "What if somebody knows about these signals and fakes them?" In which case the question is, who would have motivation to do such a thing? In this case I can't see how this Tweeter has any particular motivation to fake this matter, as this retraction mostly doesn't benefit them any. (I mean, I do respect them for it, but we still have the original error to consider. I don't have a concrete threshold, but you're still burning a bit of rep. To see it clearly, consider the strategy of "impress jerf by making lots of public mistakes and then publicly apologize for it"... I do respect the public retraction and maybe the first time it's even a net gain, but it's not a scalable strategy.)

Apple would clearly have a motivation to claim they don't keep the refund even if they in fact do, as clearly keeping that 30% would be bad PR, so this signal would weigh against them. Weighing for them, though, would be the sheer mass of people who could contradict them if they claimed not to keep it but in fact did; any app author of any significant size has direct experience with this and that's a large pool of people, which also includes some vocal people in it.
Likewise the FOSS cult. It has been ever thus. Both sides make false claims regularly.
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Cool. The President does not schedule our elections.
oof. Ignoring the uncomfortable and unsympathetic assumptions you are making, I will again reiterate what I have in other comments:

it would kind of defeat the purpose of the UBI if people had to spend it on mitigating the consequences of people taking advantage of them receiving UBI
Ulterior motives aside, Trump alone does not have the power to postpone Election Day.

It has been a fixed day since 1845, set by federal law, which means that any alteration would require legislation passed by Congress. This would be next to impossible given the current composition of the House.
> Don't leave the browser

For someone saying that they don't like browser-based apps, how is this an advantage? They're presumably not in a browser in the first place.
US economy suffers worst quarter since WWII as GDP shrinks 32.9%
If you're willing to do the extra maintenance of keeping them up to date (or else on the hook for their issues) ... maybe that's 'ok'?

I don't mean that it's a service worth paying for, just that maybe it doesn't seem like it's worth the extra (presumably minor) cut of initial donation and people wouldn't really do it (more than once / for long / on a big project with significant donations) anyway.
Explain all those who've been arrested for voter fraud.
No I'm not. I'm choosing two particularly bad activities that would be justified by their choice of reasoning if it was valid, to show that it's not valid. They're the ones that brought up millions of years of evolution as if it doesn't apply to all behaviour.

If it covers rape and murder it's not exactly a good defence for not being bad for society.
mmm... that's the exact opposite of this situation - statements in favor of Apple were downvoted.
Since all the churches are now empty. Why not use them to setup voting stations, and let people precast their vote.

Whats wrong with dropping a paper ballot dropped into a sealed clear Acrylic box.
ANY fraud is too much.
The GP made no such assumption
You're inferring more than I'm implying. I'm not saying "existence is suffering". I'm saying existence requires maintenance and for all of human history, it's been up to one to do that maintenance on their own.

We've never lived in a time where the majority could exist in the non-working class. Having the majority be in the non-working class raises certain issues. Like, who is going to be in the minority.

I'm not worried about what happens at 100% automation. I'm more worried about what happens when there are too few jobs to reasonably distribute among the people. There's an icky issue of essentially slavery we're going to have to confront.
I agree with the president. Let's take our time until we can have a traditional election and may the best man win.
I've struggled with this myself and I've also found that stating truth and using civil words are not mutually exclusive.

Like you wrote, the words used can promote truth to a greater or lesser extent. Almost always a polite but confident phrasing increases the transmission and replication of truth.

It does take more work. It does take increased linguistic and emotional skill (and work). It gets easier with practice.
Even if you accept the proposed statement that mail-in-voting is insecure, despite evidence to the contrary, it is still far more secure than making use of a voting machine that is known to be vulnerable... Like half of those in use across the US.

Which have had questions raised over whether they've made mistakes or been tampered with, and before evidence reached court it was accidentally destroyed. [0]

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