skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are too many cases where you might file taxes in one place but be eligible to vote in another. There are edge cases on pretty much all the datasets.

That being said, it doesn't seem like it would be hard to have a national voter database that shows each voter and where they are registered, with the ability to notify districts when someone shows up elsewhere, combined with a national registry of death certificates.
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> The exact opposite is the case in my experience. Unfortunately the actual substance is often in a PDF and all the web pages pointing to it are superficial, copy and pasted and/or clickbaity fluff.

That's entirely cultural crap, and has little to do with either format. Or do you think that this HN comments page would be better distributed in PDF form?
Unfortunately, the link doesn't work - and I was looking forward to seeing how you organize a horizontal freezer vertically because I have the 'black hole' problem...
Diesel generators for hospitals and water pumps for fire suppression systems

Those systems also require regular testing by qualified personnel. NFPA 25 requires monthly testing of fire pumps and annual flow testing. For low rise buildings with inadequate municipal water pressure, a water tower might be cheaper and easier. NFPA 99 - Standard for health care facilities, requires emergency generators to be tested 12 times per year.
I only know SELinux because of how many times I've had to disable it in order to use root on android effectively.
This particular administration has gone out of its way to gaslight everyone and thing it possibly can. It is to the point that everything they do is consider suspicious and/or a lie at face value. That they have the gall to name this "The Clean Network" and encourage the allies they have been bludgeoning for the past 4 years to join it is both laughable and insulting.
Keeping track of people moving around, when you have privacy rights isn't an easy problem.
End of the day, exceptions make everything worse for everyone.

I grew up in a republican town in New York. The lack of voter id didn’t hurt the local politicians. We should be happy that anybody tries to vote.
I'd bet a lot of money that the NSA didn't just turn off their servers and sit their twiddling their thumbs after the Snowden leaks.
> I don't buy the argument that it disenfranchises voters.

It sure did back in Alabama in 2015: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/12/16767426/... (ctrl-f for "But the stories getting attention were almost all from 2015".)

> Even the poorest in my country are able to vote despite having these voter ID restrictions.

Good for them, but I'm not sure what bearing that has on the poorest in an entirely different country.
Before I clicked on the link, I had expected that to be a clip featuring the Central Services engineers from Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Why would fish not be a British food? We are an island nation and fish has always been a big part of our cuisine.

The rib meat in that main is slow cooked, shredded meat from short ribs, not served as "ribs". And with a horseradish gravy, yes that's very british.

It's a shortened menu due to Coronavirus, usually there is a roast lamb and a pork belly dish too.

Plus there are three shortcrust pies, not explicitly called out as they are rotating specials, served with gravy and mashed potato.

All in all it's a very British menu, though yes there are two burgers on there. There are burgers literally everywhere these days!
um..

"Some dumbshits bought this stuff and now we have it"?
"We have what they didn't use correctly"?
"Our hardware was almost famous"?
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> I don't buy the argument that it disenfranchises voters.

There is already significant voter disenfranchisement in the United States. Adding an additional requirement (which likely costs money and time) surely will not reduce disenfranchisement. What do you not buy?
>There are many security measures to guard against fraud, including a signature line on the outside of the envelope that is checked against a digital signature on file. Every single ballot envelope signature is compared to the signature in the voter file to make sure it is a match. Our election workers are trained in forensic handwriting analysis to determine whether a signature matches. Each ballot return envelope contains a unique barcode that cannot be duplicated to make sure that voters can only return one ballot. Voters can even go online to track their ballot to confirm that it was received and counted. It is a system that costs less, is more secure, and has a paper trail.

There is a difference between a system that has been running for years and evolved to work, and one that is put together in an emergency. Some things of note.

1) They check signatures and the election workers have training in forensic handwriting analysis.

2) They use unique barcodes to prevent duplicates

3) They have a way to make sure your ballot was received and counted.

I bet that for a lot of states ramping up mail in voting, they are missing one or more of the above.
My bank bounced my rent checks for MONTHS. I went in, supplied a new signature sample, everything. Ended up having to do direct deposit because my bank decided there was no way I could be me.
I'm not here to argue about what is owed but by whom.The government is a system to implement (and pay for) a shared social vision. Walmart is a system to sell cheap foreign-made goods to Americans. People who gnash their teeth about corporate subsidies are trying to transfer costs from the first system--which was expressly designed to bear them--to the second, which was not. It's a poor idea, and self-serving to boot.
Mobile Safari wasn't the problem, EDGE was. Yes, YouTube was shipped with the 2g iPhone, but it was unusable without WiFi. YouTube over edge is 144p potato vision with frequent buffering. Perhaps your tolerance for this is a lot higher than most consumers, but latency studies show people abhor it.

>clicking links being agonizing is either fiction or hyperbole.

Web 1.0 over EDGE is agonizing in latency. Without Javascript, every action that isn't a #anchor in the same page becomes a round trip. If your radio has gone to sleep, it takes even longer. And I was being charitable giving you EDGE, in 2007, many people were still on GPRS.

It's absolutely self evident that faster networks enable entirely new applications, just like increased memory beyond the 640k limit enabled new apps.
Perhaps RMS could have handed it better, but it is difficult to know from a second hand anecdote. Anyway, I would be very nervous to sign whatever paperwork IBM want me to sign. If MS sues IBM, then after signing this can MS sue me? If MS sues IBM, will the lawyer team of IBM help me or sue me?
There is strong opposition to any sort of national registry which might be used to "categorize" citizens for any purpose. That distrust is further compounded by general distrust in a strong federal government.

The whole concept of a federal personnummer/identitetskort - in their Swedish incarnations - and any benefits/conveniences offered by that sort of system is ideologically abhorrent to a (large?) portion of the US population.
Once you filter out pieces of junk, bikes that don't fit my specific height and aren't within an hour drive, that list unfortunately gets a lot smaller. I expect that filtering to become more relaxed as time goes on though. :)
What is the Z-team?
You would get same response from me
The on site signature books are set up for right handed use. The helper has to move their hand shielding the printed signature so lefties can just copy what they wrote :)
I can see why a tiny minority of people would be disenfranchised, but unfortunately compromises have to be made to have a fair and rigorous election system. Edgecases exist where people slip through the bureaucratic cracks but those exist here too and I see no one complaining about it. If you for some reason lack identification papers you'd try to fix it by going through the processes that we have to verify your identity. Nobody ever complains and says that the system is actively disenfranchising them as that is patently ridiculous.
> 1/4 are "signature didn't match"

If this was a factor in allowing someone to vote, I'd never be allowed. The only time i use cursive is the once or twice a year I have to sign something (new card, paperwork, etc) so my signature never looks the same as other signatures.
The US Census has already been used to round up Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Post-9/11, the Census has handed over the locations and countries of origin of Arab-Americans to DHS/CBP.
PDF is great, especially for books and papers. Really the only proper choice for a digital technical book. Of course, you should read it on a device large enough, like an iPad Pro 12.9 inch.
Also consistently calls out PRC as a threat without acknowledging the diversity of bad players on the net. This is more about posing and politics than countering real threats.
Genuine question: What’s the benefit? And how would you solve the vote-by-mailproblems the US has now because of this?
The general wording of the proposal is way more US-vs-China centered to be a call to "all freedom-loving nations and companies".
Same here. I use KeePass to store my 2FA key and attach the screenshot of the QR for easy restoration.
> Not being able to get the exact lawyer you want is not the same as your due process being violated.

It absolutely is.
One of the more interesting techniques we used for finding phishing websites was to start indexing the favicons. Since then we've used them for lots of other cool things and I'm always surprised when people don't know what they are. They can also be used to provide a somewhat different perspective of what the Internet looks like:

https://faviconmap.shodan.io/
There are millions of eligible voters in the US for whom a $40 fee would be impossible to overcome. You don't understand how deep and how widespread poverty is in the US.

If you think the Republicans are pushing for a national ID and the Democrats are blocking them, you also don't understand the US political parties.
I think that decreasing disenfranchisement is good even if one political party might benefit from it. The other way of phrasing this looks a lot worse: that another political party benefits from policies which disenfranchise voters.
The votes are inside another envelope. The complete ballot actually has two envelopes: the outer envelope has the signature and an inner one contains the votes.

For reference, here is how it works in Washington state: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/faq_vote_by_mail.aspx
I believe this is available as a service called “Softlayer”
I believe this is a service called “SoftLayer”
I live in Oregon where all voting is done by mail and it has been done that way for decades. We're not alone either, a few other states and local governments do this.

Is the problem with vote by mail itself, or just a bad implementation?
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> It is beyond me how the State can enforce a non-voluntary tax liability on a citizen but has no way of reliably identifying said citizen

Are there tax liabilities that depend on one's citizenship?
So why then are so many BigData job offerings at those US agencies? I am speaking of hundreds and thousands here...
Not sure that would solve it.

Instead forcing companies to provide a free human based support channel for billing- and authentication issues related to paid services is a better option.

I believe it would take most companies very short time to invent working solutions to problems.
I store the TOTP seed and backup codes in plain text files in an encrypted filesystem. I copy the filesystem blob to a couple of USB keys every month or so and store the keys in safes.
I'm always up for a bit of google bashing but it's fairly ridiculous to assume they'd try and hide random bits of other audio in the snippets they send, google is staffed by actual humans, and if the us govt. can have whistleblowers, google sure as hell would have by now.

a) how would they know what data to send? if they're able to do speech recognition offline and somehow gauge how important the audio is prior to transmitting it then why the hell aren't they using this technology to absolutely blow alexa out of the market?

b) I've done some tracing on my router and seen minimal difference between data uploaded and the size of the voice clips you can freely playback in your google account history, not saying clever compression etc. couldn't cover this, but again - why?

Im definitely not implying corporations like google aren't more than capable of great evil and deserve to be watched like a hawk, but let's pick our battles?
It's so odd... Like what constitutes a similarity? Do people not change their signature between 12 and 50?
Yeah the problem is you can't really do that with elections. That's what makes them so tricky to do well at a distance (be it electronic voting or mail in though I trust mail in more than anything involving computers) it's hard to go back and fix any issues or audit and maintain anonymity. On top of just the sheer number of votes it's a lot of time and uncertainty to try to go back and forth trying to hash out votes.
Such a database doesn't need to include religion or ethnicity. You can come a long way with just name and address.
Ironically perhaps, but the GP's post is decidedly not in "good-faith" IMO.

The argument that Republicans want to "make it harder for poor people to vote" is a red herring regarding the voter ID debate.

Similarly, Trump's position on mail-in-ballots, as far as I can tell, is that that the expected ease of large scale voter fraud by relatively few bad actors will make it impossible to win. I have no clue if that's true or not, but to frame the stated claim without also acknowledging the underlying potential issue seems misleading.
> There is a difference between a system that has been running for years and evolved to work, and one that is put together in an emergency. Some things of note.

I don't really understand this argument. You list some things that we should do to have a secure vote-by-mail election, but you seem to be phrasing your argument as if it's an argument against vote-by-mail elections.
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I use either Bitwarden notes or Cryptomator.
I was removed from the rolls once despite not having moved or died. Never knew if my provisional ballot was counted or just binned.
Seems like India does this well and they are the world's largest democracy and much poorer than the average American. Poverty is not an excuse for government incompetence (or even malice).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_(India)
We never have the money to do it right the first time, instead we always find the money to do it a second time.
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Amazing how end-to-end encryption would solve all the problems they claim to care about here.
That's what I came here for as well!
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Not criticising what you said. But isn't that very close to saying that composting is releasing CO2? Thing is I don't really get why peat is so extremely unproportionally badly angled compared to other mechanisms similar to that what you have just said. To me, there seems to be a hidden bias somewhere.
How would a hardware vulnerability on router equipment handling traffic compromise data flowing over that router which has already been encrypted properly at the source/destination?
For wealthy people churches are for socializing. For developing countries churches can provide health care, food assistance and such.
IRS would in theory only have the address listed on your most recent tax return. If have moved sometime in 2020, the IRS wouldn't have my new address by the time it came to mailing out ballots for the election in November.

My driver's license lists my address when I lived in San Francisco. I don't live there anymore and just haven't been able to update it yet, so that wouldn't work either.

Utilities are typically registered under one person's name from the household. So in theory if I have roommates and I'm the name on the utility bill, the utility company wouldn't have the names of all my roommates at my address.
Most of military equipment is built to be able to operate outside the safety bounds, because the enemy in a battle is actively trying to push it outside these safety bounds and outright destroy it. Burning down your afterburner chamber and winning a fight is better that preserving it and losing the whole aircraft.

In a datacenter though your bets are usually much lower. Nobody is going to die, or lose many millions, if some of your equipment shuts down to prevent it from being damaged, catching a fire, etc.

There are though high-stake situations where you want exactly that: spend the entire amount of the resources of certain hardware to prevent a loss of life, or of untold millions, when you are powering a surgery chamber, or a large stock trading operation.

People who realize that do over-provision and pay top dollar for that when they can afford that. I remember that when a major fire occurred in one of the skyscrapers in the financial district of NYC, traders of a particular financial company were evacuated with their laptops into helicopters on the roof, and ferried to a spare office across Hudson river, in NJ. To minimize the impact of that, they connected to the corporate network via their phones as hotspots, and kept trading while airborne.

Of course one cannot hope to pull such an operation off without extensive preparation and likely regular drills.

Not preparing to a black swan event during a high-stakes event, like translation of a Superbowl match, sounds like either not having enough paranoia which is professionally required, or, more likely, as a cost-cutting after a wrong assessment of risks.
Europeans got it too, Irish, Italians, Germans (post WW1 and 2), pretty much the "last ones" to the party get crapped on.
How is 400 average cases per day "low double digit"?
It's been years since I last wrote Ruby so had completely forgotten that it's ranges were inclusive by default.
it's just another sign of the US's government technical incompetence.

Not "the government." "A person in the government."

The federal government has a very good design system. But for some reason, whoever built this page chose not to follow it.

https://designsystem.digital.gov
A friend had someone sign up for Instagram using her Gmail address by mistake. There's no way to unsubscribe and no way to contact Insta without logging in (and it was in another language). In the end she changed the password and took over the account; it was the only reasonable option.
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couldn't you just copy the link for it?
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/file_extensions.png
The President is opposed to ballots mailed indiscriminately to everyone, and supports those requested by the voter.

Based on the comments in this thread it's pretty clear why: People move all the time, and the state does not necessarily have a current address for everyone.
I use either Bitwarden encrypted notes or more recently Cryptomator (with encrypted files on Dropbox)
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The United States taxes its citizens globally regardless of residence, yes. One of the only countries in the world that does that (the other is Liberia AFAIK).
Saw the headline and I assumed it was an international iniative to promote clean, sustainable energy. I should have known.
> For those saying "Chaos Engineering", first off, the poster is well aware of Chaos Engineering. He's an AWS Hero and the founder of Tarsnap.

Yeah, but did he win the Putnam?
It's possible the counters could be looking at ballots but noting and tracking who voted for who would be difficult to do in your head and you can't track it on paper because there are monitors from both sides watching the count happen.
>2) 1/4 are "signature didn't match" (most of those are probably false negatives and should have counted, I'd bet, but given other issues I wouldn't be surprised if people in the same household accidentally signing one another's ballots or something else silly like that is some measurable part of the problem) and,

How does this work afterwards? Are the voters notified? Seems like bad design to silently drop votes just because some guy arbitrarily decided your signature "didn't match".
Especially amazing as I know of no EU country that has the same problems (of course some of those cases happen, but there we talk about single digits in absolute cases).

Take Germany for example, or France as much as I can tell: You move, you register a new primary residency, where you vote. Your residency is also you voter registration (not sure why separating the two makes any sense). You leave the country permanently, you declare it, when your French, you can register at the consulate in the new country of residency. Guess what, you get your ballot by mail to that address.

Carrying passports or ID cards, check. No unidentified residents.

Dead voters, no problem. Registered residencies are constantly updated with birth and death certificates.

Voting by is, as is voting in general, a solved problem. Including paper trails and enough voting places for everyone. Voting happens on Sundays.
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> It's also what Mozilla VPN runs on.

Can anyone explain what the practical difference is between using Mozilla VPN and using Mullvad directly?
Their actions show that signatures aren't actually used in the way you describe. It does say to sign the back of the card, but I've never done so and it's never been checked. Not only do vendors not check, but there's no attempt by credit card companies at getting vendors to check. And they don't check on their end, either. The reason is not just because it's inefficient given the amount of fraud, but also because it's unreliable as a security mechanism.

So clearly, that's not how the signature is actually used. What matters is how it's actually used, which is to help prevent good faith actors from accidentally reporting purchases as fraudulent. That's a valid use, but noteworthy.
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I want this at the programming language level too. If a function call can fail, I want to set a flag and have it (randomly?) fail. I hacked my way around this by adding in some wrapper that would if random, err for a bunch of critical functions. It was great for working through a ton of race conditions in golang with channels, and remote connections, etc. But hacking it in manually was annoying and not something I'd want to commit.
The demographic is about 1/5 US, with sizable traffic from India, Brazil, Germany, Nigeria and Australia. It's mostly 18-45 and mostly male.