skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is nice in theory but what happens when legislators (and customers) come back with the case that the value of them operating at their scale outweighs the harm of fraud.
I'm the author of that app, it was made for a much earlier version of Owncloud and it would take more work to get it up to date with the current state of the platform than it would to start anew. It also was not made to support many of OPDS' more 'advanced' features like sharding and search. I've started to look into making a new version, possibly integrated with my other Own/Nectcloud app 'Reader', look for more info on that front in a few weeks.
> How does the average citizen verify what is actually happening and that their vote is actually being counted?

Volunteer to be a poll worker and to be one of the witnesses during the counting process. You can then watch every step of the process occur openly and see that the votes are being counted accurately.

If you watch the process accurately count all of the vote papers in the box at the end of the day, you can reasonably conclude that everyone's vote in that precinct was counted accurately.
Those old Roland TR-models have a very distinctive set of sounds. They’re not realistic but I still here them when listening to music sometimes.

I didn’t have one but there was a virtual tr808 which mimicked the hardware interface and sounds. The interface was very good( though turning nobs with a mouse was a pain). Sometimes I longed for a more computer like interface.
Hi There. Yes it has both. The default is the WYSIWYG mode. This allows for more customization and article post design
1. If there is more than 1 contest going on at a time you have more than 1 ballot. Again this is a simple solution to a dumb problem, you have poorly designed ballots.
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Then you get back to the problem that I presented - who decides the needs and abilities? At least with a free market we can be honest about trying to do as little as possible in return for as much as possible, and let the market decide what your abilities are worth.
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Fair enough.

So there is Amazon the retailer. That is what Amazon originally did - buy inventory from vendors then sell them. As Amazon gained scale they launched 3P aka 3rd party selling. This is essentially Ebay at scale. Returns for these products are more or less managed by the seller.

FBA then came where 3rd party sellers can take advantage of Amazon's delivery and warehouse logistics. The stock is held by Amazon and can tap into Prime delivery. IIRC returns are also handled by Amazon so you get no questions asked returns.

I will usually filter products by Prime and will then usually look for the "sold by Amazon" text on a product page (as opposed to "Fulfilled By Amazon")

In the same way I think twice about buying random things on eBay, I also think twice about buying 3P (and FBA to a degree) on Amazon.

Filtering out 3P on Amazon is fairly straightforward. Filtering FBA is more manual and takes reading of the page.

If fake inventory is being comingled that becomes impossible.

Amazon the retailer is (from my experience) reasonably priced, delivers goods in a day (sometimes less) and offers me a return policy that is hard to compete with anywhere else.

I would never buy cables or batteries from a 3P seller. I would think twice with a FBA seller.
And it is nearly impossible to report those videos. Twitter is the only company so far that seems to have some kind of working moderation but even they could do much better.
Chick-Fil-A hires middle class high school kids from more affluent areas who aren't burnt out on years of work in a dead end fast food job. I don't have evidence but I bet significantly more of their employees end up leaving fast food for higher paying (probably salary) jobs after a few years. I also bet they have more true part time employees compared to other chains which uses predatory tactics to keep you below the full time threshold and benefits.
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In order to create a traceable record at the beginning of the content lifecycle so that images and videos can be authenticated at source, we created Starling Capture, an app to capture and preserve the Data Integrity.
The discussion of this paper on Scott Aaronson's blog is a great way to get a bit deeper into what was proved and what the implications are: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512
> A system based on math, software, and publicly available data would be accessible to independent audit and verification.

So instead of trusting a few thousands (several thousands, in reality) and a system where you can literally walk in the place where they are counting votes and observe them, you'd rather trust a few tens of people to write the software and audit it? How does that follow?

And this doesn't even take into account the fact that a voting system, as it was mentioned, should be understood by the people voting. Good luck explaining to people what the software and the hardware are doing.
Prove that your blockchain hasn't been compromised by a sophisticated 51% attack.
The problem is that people will express classic hindsight bias no matter which way the result turns out. Let's say you're studying relationships and researching whether having similar interests is better or worse than having dissimilar interests. If you spend a million dollars on a comprehensive longitudinal study and find the former, the public will lambast you for rediscovering the obvious result that "two of a feather flock together". But if you find the latter, you'll be mocked for rediscovering the simple fact that "opposites attract".

On the topic of self-control, I'm actually surprised that the results turned out the way they did. I would have expected the opposite result; that "exercising" your discipline solves the problem once and for all, while reducing temptation is just asking for a relapse when temptation inevitably presents itself again.
The quoted material is important, because people expect to be able to retrace the conversation within the single message. Technical (and also nontechnical) exchanges often consist of a dozen messages about a particular topic spread over weeks or sometimes months, where at almost each step you want to go back in the conversation to look at details of the previous discussion or to refresh your memory. Outlook users are used to doing so by scrolling through the message. They are generally not used to having to bring up the correct previous message -- Outlook also doesn't have a great UX for that.
Immutable infrastructure using Nix/NixOS.
In the GitHub client - if you point it to a folder and say “add repo from existing folder” it automatically makes an “init commit”. So you don’t get a chance.

I’ll keep an eye on it next time.
> OK, but how is the 32-bit header itself embedded?

The header is embedded according to the same rules as the rest of the message: it's treated as a bitstring, and flippable instructions are flipped appropriately to encode it.

> the possibility of a "collision" or of a false positive seems relatively high to me.

As others have pointed out, compilers (and assemblers) tend to stick to a single selection choice for register-to-register ops. Even in the case where a compiler writer flips between them randomly, their 32 random choices would have to align precisely with the expected header. It's certainly not impossible, but pretty unlikely. It's also completely remediable with a CRC32 or similar field tacked onto the header; I just didn't think the likelihood warranted that for the initial design.
Afaik with Nim you have access to the C and C++ libraries.
I’ve not experienced the neural marketplace element myself. They still have the A-to-Z guarantee and still have the best return and customer support policies in the game. I spend 10s off thousands of dollars a year and return anything I don’t like. Never had an issue with feeling like they had my back.
The ballots are designed to accomodate the governments we have in place. We can't easily change the structure of national, state, and local governments. In California, one-ballot-per-contest would mean a voter would get a stack of up to 75 ballots on a presidential year.
How is illegal content handled?
Yes, but HTTP Switchboard and uMatrix are more useful for privacy than for adblocking.
This has nothing to do with my argument. My point is that the reality is a huge chunk of internet usage does not happen inside a browser. Whether it's a good idea or not is irrelevant. The fact that there exists a Microsoft Word powered by the Internet but not inside a browser. And the fact that every cloud powered app on mobile does not use the browser. These are facts.
I still expect them to make a more coherent case, I still don't know what native means here, still don't know why existing solutions are different from what native means.

It is not stated as a counterfactual either, it is stated as direct criticism, e.g.

> The Web’s orignal architects were off base on hyperlinks; it turns out people just want to skip right to the answer they’re looking for.

Who are the original architects? Should we remove hyperlinks? Who suggested hyperlinks as an alternative to search, or even "native search".

I expect substance, this article has none.
An old test suite (Plum Hall?) used to warn it was generated uniquely per-client, with steganographic watermarking at the C source level.
Still I see that a mere 60GB SQLite database for browser history, accumulated in maybe 10 years, causes trouble with Firefox, and I had to rename it and make Firefox create a new one in order for it to continue storing my recent history.

I bet it's not SQLite's problem.
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It just feels like giving money to a stranger which I have no desire to do. I'd still not be happy about giving money to a charity or friend but I could stomach it. I think donating some small percentage (3% to 10%) of your profit to a neutral cause (hunger, bee conservation) would solve any friction for me.
I think it is disingenuous to expect me to post rigorously cited studies and contrasting my response to the original article, when I was instead responding to some conjecture made in this thread. Mostly with a personal anecdote, with some sources mirroring and expanding on such.

I also think a lot of your points are made in bad faith:

* Taking a joke way too serious, in order to discredit the author. Based on what exactly?

* Implying transition health care is sold for large profit margins when estradiol is one of the cheapest medications around (and blockers don't exactly have high margins either). Zinnia is also not a health care provider. All these drugs are Rx.

* Doing the exact bad faith "as gospel" misreading of the symptom list zinnia warned against. This is not a diagnostic check list, these are just the things that trans people report.

* You also miss the entire point, that these symptoms resolve or get substantially better, and do not recur.

* You are seemingly content with "generic depression" as a diagnosis when depression is a symptomatic diagnosis, usually with different underlying problems. Especially at the severity we're talking about.

* You misread depersonalization as borderline. This is funny because a different diagnosis that is corelated to trans status, CPTSD, is often misdiagnosed as BPD!

Of course you can say she has a heavy bias, but neither I nor she implied otherwise. It is simply documentation of our experiences.
If you see a picture a satellite wrapped up in what looks like gold foil it is probably Kapton film with aluminum coating on the other side.

It is an expensive polymer compared to BoPET (a.k.a. Mylar) but it doesn't have the complex production complex. Mylar films are stronger but Kapton holds up better in the space environment so it is still the #1 choice for solar sails.
Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and swe knowledge base
I completely agree. For all of my big ticket items (e.g. bluetooth headphones, computer parts, phones, recording equipment) I go through places I trust. I end up doing a lot of shopping at Best Buy of all places again. For computer parts I mostly do Newegg and I do Sweetwater or Guitar Center for music stuff. I do still use Amazon for some stuff, but it tends to be connectors/converters and a couple of companies that have dedicated Amazon stores like Anker. I wouldn't trust something large like a TV to Amazon anymore, or something where counterfeiting is an issue like name brand clothes.

Most of the more boutique places I shop at use Shopify anyways so it's still pretty convenient.
> why then it got hidden in Show HN section

The ShowHN section has an order similar to the front page, so you need some upvotes to get there. Perhaps the mods do some manual deduplication, I never read that, but it may be part of the tricks that are the secret sauce.

> I even tried to make a welcome comment, but I think that I'd need to get into technical details more.

Expect to see technical questions. It is not obligatory to answer all of them, but it is nice to answer if they don't reveal your secret sauce. It is important that you interact in the comments, specially in the ShowHN post.

> Thought probably I'd make a separate article for this, not in show HN section.

Technical articles are always welcome. It's tricky to get them technical enough but not too technical. A few nice graph are generally helpful.

> Regarding "Show HN: Pingr – Know when your site is down before your customers do" - I asked a lot of people and they told me that it's way too promotional for HN :)

I think it is fine, but each one has his/her own opinion here. Someone will complain and ask to change "before" to "as soon as" and another user will ask to change it to "just after" :) But it is better that the title explains what the project does instead of how you did it.
> The Steely Dan people were notoriously obsessive about drum timing, which was a bad thing to be when all you had were human drummers.

The irony to this is today's drumming plugins add variance to sounds and timing to make the recordings sound more "human".
I work for a startup whose product is small (half a dozen servers, if relatively beefy ones) clusters that will be run on-prem by customers, at least sometimes in a low-to-no-touch capacity. Most of our application components are micro-ish services that are run on all hosts in the cluster for either extra capacity or fault tolerance.

We currently run everything on mesos/marathon, but are looking to switch away from it. K8s is kinda the “default” option, and is potentially appealing to some potential acquirers and investors.

But I never really see k8s being talked about in that context of “physical hardware that’s on prem, but not on MY prem.” Is there a reason for that? If we go with k8s is it going to bite us? Does anyone have experience with something like that they could share?
4 bytes of the encoded header isn't 4 instructions, it's 32 consecutive instructions that each translate to a bit depending on their semantic form.

So there is virtually no chance for a compiler to generate a valid sequence randomly.
> Do people really have that short of a memory?

Yes
Most network engineers are very well versed in OSPF. Having come up through the ranks of Cisco's early NetAcad curriculum in the early 2000s, when BGP was very rarely used in internal networks, thr content was 80% focused on IGP and large L2 design and troubleshooting. It seems to me the IGP has fallen out of favor partially due to simplicity over the right tool in the right context. I'm sure, as you state, part of that has to do with the responsible engineers lacking experience and shying away. But in many cases BGP can be slower and less forgiving where a focused IGP can add value and, most importantly control.

I was part of a team running a multi-state network for an ISP around a decade ago. Even then we had a lot of design and architecture reviews of spreading BGP as far and wide as possible. But the IGPs, at regional node levels (HFC type networks) always had functionality for end user provisioning that allowed us to more easily provision and troubleshoot.

While I don't agree or disagree that BGP can't be the right solution what it really comes down to is understanding the use cases compared to the protocols. I find that most engineers today only loosely understand BGP and OSPF. Fully vetted network engineers seem to be fewer and further between. I moved away from that as a role years ago but my experience in large networks and understanding those protocols, although admittedly not as well as when I was studying for the CCIE labs, has been a fundamental skill I still use day in and out. And as we move more to software defined overlays I find it coming up more and more these days.
Time has value, and economies of scale make it more efficient. I worked at a CSA for a while and the amount of time it would take an individual to have the diversity of foods we provide would have taken them far longer. I have nothing against gardening on its own, but the marginal value add of doing something else yourself doesn’t always exceed the value of your time and the opportunity cost of not doing something else.

You could always live an AnPrim lifestyle and that’s fine (one of Kaczynski’s main points was that specialization in the abstract is incompatible with people), but there are more obvious reasons why more people don’t do that.
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I like Nim. It's almost a year since version 1.00 of the language was released (in September 2019), but I wonder how the language has fared since then. Has usage grown since that key milestone? Gaining 'mindshare' among developers is obviously important but also difficult. Of course, supporting libraries are also important in encouraging adoption, but that is just one piece of the picture.

I see a pattern of sorts for some new(ish) languages: without a prominent, well-known sponsor, the language might struggle to gain attention among developers. I wonder what will be the fate of other languages without generous sponsors as they head to their version 1.00 e.g. Crystal or Zig?

Julia is doing relatively well without a big main sponsor - interest seems to be growing in the language.

Rust and Go are two languages that have benefited hugely from support from Mozilla (Rust) and Google (Go).

But back to Nim. Who's using Nim? What are you using it for and how are you finding it?
It also enables you to achieve app density. Many of the companies I've been working with lately have large batch processes on nightly / weekly / monthly basis. For some reason, each job previously was setup on on-prem hardware dedicated per workload. Using Kubernetes and scheduling jobs to manage capacity has enabled us to reduce the number of on-prem servers substantially as part of the migration plan for the cloud.
Different languages have different rules for change case (as seen here) or what to do when translitterating to 7-bit ascii, in French, you can mostly drop accents if you need to, in German, you need to transform an umlaut to an e following the vowel. Of course, many languages don't have a way to translitterate to 7-bit ascii.

Sorting of strings is language dependent, but I don't know that there's a defined order for mixed language lists, so I guess user's context works if you're sorting for user purposes, but if you're sorting for machine purposes, you better not use the locale aware sort without telling it a hardcoded locale that doesn't change between localization library versions.
> ...you'd rather trust a few tens of people to write the software and audit it?

Of course not. All of the software should be open source, with multiple independent implementations, test suites, etc. And the data should be open to analysis by any number of people while preserving people's right to privacy (this is one of the hard parts).

Most people have no any idea how electronic voting machines work today, so why does it matter if laymen understand the internet voting system?

The point is that anyone that is willing and able could verify for themselves that the system does work as intended. Not that most people will actually put in the effort. Most will rely on trusting experts, but anyone is free to verify.

With paper ballots and a handful of officials involved, there is no way for a voter to verify anything, they are forced to rely on trust alone.
Doesn't seem to be a case of overzealous moderation, but more like a kafkaesque process that never seems to get fixed and only rectified through outcry on social media platforms.

Seriously, it seems that stuff like this never gets fixed.
If anyone wants to know how Nim can be used in practice, you might want to take a peek at the NimSvg library. It’s a DSL for generating SVG files and GIF animations and to me it looks quite compelling.

https://github.com/bluenote10/NimSvg
At my current company, since I'm using gRPC, the build contexts for my containers are annoyingly large and I'm definitely feeling this. It's a massive pain and really annoys me but If I had to choose between 40 minutes of stressful debugging of someone else's config files vs 40 minutes of waiting for a command to finish, I'd take the latter.

Long term I'm planning on moving these builds to bazel and taking advantage of incremental builds for my entire monorepo. I'm in the final stages and just validating some stuff is in place before I do that. In the short term I've mitigated this by adding in heavy unit test coverage. Backend devs can basically run the unit tests for most services and are confident the service is working as expected and also enforces any/all security/auth checks. When developing I don't even start up the containers. I boot them up once at the end just to check my work.
> it's better to have a source from where you can rebuild the index.

Having worked for several years at a company selling search, I can't emphasize this enough. Rebuilding indices should always be straightforward, and your data should be very accessible in some other (preliminary) form. We ran into so many issues, and had so many panics, because the index had become the only place some things existed. It's also way easier to tweak (read: optimize) your schema over time when you're in the habit of rebuilding the index.
Seems like they're just trying to protect his account from impersonators.
Have you not met capitalism before?
If there is one thing I see folks persistently misunderstand, it is the separation between mods and admins, and which powers each group has. It is really unfortunate for mods, who end up getting blamed for all sorts of things that it is impossible for them to know or do.
I have seen systems that allow for a real vote as well as a masked vote - so you get verified votes but have a fake vote to show if you want or need.

But consider: at this very moment, right above you is a comment with a picture of ballot that was filled out improperly and lead to a tied election. If we can’t teach people to fill in a circle properly, how in the world do we expect them to use or understand a system that guarantees verifiability as well as anonymity.
the user agreement doesn't seem to make any mention of it being not allowed: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement#text-conte...

although it does include the wonderfully vague prohibition against "Using the Services in any manner that could negatively affect other users from fully enjoying the Services"
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