skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will pull up the quote I remember, but a few additional examples showing it is by design beginning early last decade. And well known what the effects are, and it's intentional to win elections.

From 2012:

> House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R), who said even more clearly in a 2012 speech that voter ID would help Romney carry his state.

> "Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done," Turzai said while listing his legislature's accomplishments.

From 2016:

> "We battled to get voter ID on the ballot for the November '16 election," Schimel told conservative host Vicki McKenna on WISN (1130 AM) on Thursday.

>"How many of your listeners really honestly are sure that Senator (Ron) Johnson was going to win re-election or President Trump was going to win Wisconsin if we didn’t have voter ID to keep Wisconsin’s elections clean and honest and have integrity?"

It is well established that voter ID is not preventing any form of widespread in person voter fraud because there is essentially none. Even the president's own commission couldn't find anything of note. But it is extremely effective at suppressing voting of certain groups. For example Texas where valid forms of Id were military Id and concealed carry permits (thinks more likely held by republicans), but invalid forms were state employee photo IDs and university photo IDs (things more likely to be held by those voting democratic).

From prior studies voter roll purges like Crosscheck, eliminate 200 false positives from voter rolls for every 1 true positive. So instead of stopping it, it was rolled out nation wide.[3]

Or just check out wikipedia.[4]

[1] https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/13/atto...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/07/re...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/20/this-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
Blue/Green Deploys and Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
Honestly, why would anyone share a good idea here? I get it that ideas are cheap, but if someone actually thinks they have slam dunk they're not going to share it on HN.
GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about
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> "total sent: 56 878 123 bytes"

:/
'Darth Vader' sea bug pulled from waters near Indonesia
I use it pretty often because I have SSH sessions that get messed up from (dis)connecting my VPN and I'm impatient.
yeah, the whole P2P Matrix project is using different transports. One is CBOR+CoAP+Yggdrasil, another is JSON+QUIC+Yggdrasil. The plan is to pull these back into mainstream matrix when proven, especially as a push replacement.
It may be coincidence, but just earlier today, I had to use a photo for display pic and default crop won't let you keep the whole photo in original aspect ratio, so I installed Lightroom to do resize but filling a blur. I believe this was my first time installing the app from play store, I signed in through Google login, I was surprised to find some 40 to 50 photos of absolute stranger synced to my email! I don't know who that person is, I assumed they may have put in my gmail instead of theirs, but it's stupid that they would start associating backups without verifying the email! Adobe has lost any respect it had. I will never trust them with my data.
Betting against Elon Musk’s Tesla is the widow-maker trade of 2020
Climate change: Dams played key role in limiting sea level rise
Who's paying the registrar? Can DNS records be paid for anonymously?
Rage as in yelling, hitting table with fist, swearing, throwing cell phone accross the room because someone called and he lost match on pc. It is absolutely different then "mood swing" which is used for range of things including mild irritability.

The people I had observed having issues basically played to the point of failing school classes due to chronic sleep deprivation, had atrocious performance in work post gaming session (he talked about playi by game till morning openly) or basically checked out of family life entirely making partner basically single. Let's say that formely gaming friendly wife build up huge aversion toward games.

I knew multiple of these and none of them played farmvile nor anything like that.

I believe people like your friend exist, the farmville top cant be composed of people having healthy relationships and jobs. But they are not around me. Around me the worst were among pc/console players, usually people who self identified as gamers and took it as point of pride.
Less code to write, less code to read, less code to maintain, executes faster[1]. What's not to like?

What about someone who thinks "if" is a big source of software complexity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z43bmaMwagI - talk is "If considered harmful: How to eradicate 95% of all your bugs in one simple step - Jules May".

[1] in interpreted languages, anything you can push down for the runtime to do instead of writing that same code in the interpreted language, tends to execute faster. e.g. my_string.count('c') in Python compared to a `for` loop over the characters written in Python.
Yes absolutely. There are plenty of dropshippers that have relationships with manufacturers and wholesalers that only buy from the authentic manufacturer.
I love how anyone doing their own thing must be engaged in something dodgy. The vast majority of people dropshipping are honest and entrepreneurial and doing no hard to anyone. Good luck to them, not everyone wants a 9-5 with a boss and low wages.
I don't see why it couldn't. There's already a UVC USB Gadget driver in mainline Linux and the rest is just a matter of beating the video stream into submission using Gstreamer or something similar.
But just the BOM alone would cost well over 100€, which can usually get you a used compact camera and one of those dir cheap capture cards everyone is talking about these days and is probably comparable in quality but actually has things like autofocus and a decent zoom range.
This article on mucosal immunity provides helpful context for intranasal vaccines:

> Many microbes, including the coronavirus, enter the body through the mucosa — wet, squishy tissues that line the nose, mouth, lungs and digestive tract — triggering a unique immune response from cells and molecules there. Intramuscular vaccines generally do a poor job of eliciting this mucosal response, and must instead rely on immune cells mobilized from elsewhere in the body flocking to the site of infection.

> Given the potency and rapid spread of the coronavirus, some say it makes sense to develop vaccines for the airway as well as the more standard jabs. “Knowing how potent mucosal responses can be against a viral pathogen, it would be ideal to be thinking about mucosal vaccines,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/health/coronavirus-nasal-...

And here’s one of the first studies using a mouse model (AFAIK) for SARS-CoV-2 if you want to see how that works: https://rupress.org/jem/article/217/12/e20201241/151999/Mous...
Are developer relations the people who find out what things are blocking developers from using the web and what things might attract them? Just curious, I hear the term developer relations thrown around a lot
How is that a compromise?

The unsafe in `unsafe mod ffi { ... }` is literally the proof that all APIs exposed in the block are sound to call from safe Rust.

It would only need to go hand in hand with a comment explaining why each API in the block is sound to call safely, and it allows users to not list unsound APIs in there, but wrap them manually when needed. Along with code that checks the C++ lib version, etc. to make sure that the proof are kept in sync with each version of the lib.

That's completely different from not requiring any unsafe in the Rust side, and doing this en masse via bindgen.
I have been reading the same prediction my whole life so I'm sure this will be a boom at some point by pure chance. But I tend to think that those solutions already exists, and the typical tool coming to mind is WordPress. You literally don't need to know code, just install some plugins that give what you want and go ahead. Pay someone to maintain it (there are tons of companies already). It doesn't need to be WordPress, there are many other platforms. For low code Django comes to mind.

For the very typical use cases there are well suited SaaS tools e.g. Shopify for shops.

I do think that the very typical cases are well covered. Sure, there's room for improvement but not sure if a real boom is around the corner but as I said I heard this so many times (and also seen so many tries) that well, at some point something may actually happen I guess.
Freeplane or Freemind
My 75 years old mother plays bubble shooters, dots & other games of that sort probably as much or more than I play any games - and I'm a game developer.
Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash
Ah, I see. That's bad.
apt install python3-serial
python -m miniterm COM11 115200
Ideally soon repos will be mirrored to ipfs nodes and that will automatically pull the hash-addressed content from the closest proxy, which may or may not be cloudflare. The protocol is already there. Some initial solutions are already there too: https://github.com/victorb/arch-mirror
I said « include Christians », not exclude others. Why do people always assume that?

Anyway, what I conclude from being downvoted to hell is that Mozilla is an anti-Christian organization, and it’s pretty much admitted and voluntary from the community. As a side note, it converges with Silicon Valley S05E05, where nobody has a problem the guy is gay, but everyone has a problem with the guy being Christian. The startup industry is profondly anti-Christian, with various beliefs and prejudices that I have no force to endure anymore.

And, honestly, that is the last drop the tipped the jar for me.

That’s it, it’s time to not play nice anymore.
Ideas may be cheap but they can be insanely valuable.
Hmm... maybe Total War SHOGUN 2 ?
"Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership"

How ironic.
Also, if it's maintaining a big legacy system, you have to ask: who did the previous dev leave?

The answer might be, because it got so difficult maintain, it was no longer worth it. And if the guy with experience of the system found it no longer worth it, you with little are unlikely to find it worth it. Beware the system abandoned by the long term maintainer, and then maintained after that by a string of short-term new hires. At best, the corp keeps increasing pay for every new hire in the hope they stay.

> had some leeway to also experiment

The idea behind the original "long-term professional" was a little autonomy for this kind of thing. Sadly, most corps refuse to classify developers as anything more important than cost centres, commodity resources, etc. Increasingly, they are contract hires, or easily-replaced temps (Accenture etc) and stuff like Agile abstractions, non-silo-ing, overstrict business time-management / task "sign-off"; and the trend of offering new hires better terms during negotiation, than improved terms to existing hires to keep them happy thereby encouraging no more than 2-3 years at any company to best improve your salary.
The demo doesn't seemt to work on putty
At $200k for treatment I don't see insurance companies covering this.
This is done all the time with sales to the federal government. Establish a disadvantage business and get a 10% cut of very expensive purchases (test equipment, computers, etc) all drop shipped from the manufacturer.

How can you spend millions of dollars overnight (money near the end of the FY)? Pallets of computers, all dropped shipped from HP, but ordered through a small, disadvantaged businesses.

This place is an example:

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/business/santa-fes-wi...
Windows 1.0, while having a framebuffer-based layout engine, clearly evolved from a pure TUI, and retains elements (title bars, scroll bars, etc.) whose drawing algorithm emulates a TUI within the framebuffer, by just drawing DOS-like lines or grids of box-drawing characters.

In fact, it’s only window content that is arbitrarily graphical in Windows 1.0; if you only have DOS VMM windows open, you’re essentially seeing a TUI, just with extra steps.
Meteomatics – Weather Browser
Thank you! That’s helpful. I had a hunch this was focused on theory / academia, and if that’s the case, that makes more sense.
Looks like a modern version of twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
>This is hacker news: I'm allowed to be more interested in bayesian statistics than your country's electoral system.

Aren't regional probabilities just conditions on the national distribution? Building the national Presidential election distribution from the conditioned distributions versus just using the sampled national distribution is bayesian statistics.

>The probability of winning is based on the popular support for a candidate

This was the argument you made. And I don't see how this is Bayesian vs frequency when all I am saying is that the same national popular vote distribution can have large variance in regional conditional distributions which leads to large variance in election outcome distribution due to the electoral college.

Sounds pretty bayesian to me.
I meant, ChromeOS migth be a more secure, not necessarily a more private option.

If macOS had a way higher likehood of zero-day attacks, ChromeOS phoning home wouldn't be the biggest concern to most users.

Because in the first case the threat would be the entire world, and in the second case – only the US government.
It had been open sourced i made a project using it:

https://github.com/ivans5/BitMediaCentre
My personal theory is that most of the hype around "Blockchain technology" is simply an aftereffect of the valuation spike Bitcoin went though in 2017/2018. That was the point were Bitcoin reached the public consciousness and people realized you could make money with it.

To do so you have to convince others to sink their money into the sector, hence all the grandiose proposals, opaque jargon and solutions is search of problems...
That quote sickens me, such a tragic waste of oxygen.

Worse still, he believes others might share in such an abhorrent world view except they simply aren't "skilled" (haha, yeah right) enough to be scam artists.

I've filed a complaint with the BBC, because on top of being purely terrible, this is also blatant self promotion and offers nothing of value to the article.
Still trying to exploit the assimetry I see.

When did the last American company manage to challenge being banned or forced to take on a local "slightly more than equal" partner in china?
Existing technology business models will be adapted and re-launched as services which are coupled to cryptocurrency tokens.

Also, we may see the rise of cryptocurrency communities which attempt to manipulate company insiders and governments to gain control of the proceeds of production to drive the value of their cryptocurrencies. Private property rights will be eroded (due to lack of enforcement and increasing systemic corruption) and so cryptocurrency, which offers a cryptographic means of ownership (which does not rely on law), will gain increasing significance.

The proceeds of production will no longer go to shareholders, they will be diverted to cryptocurrency holders. The shareholders who embrace this mindset of moving profits to cryptocurrencies will see their ownership stake of company profits increase at the expense of those who resist this shift. In the end, nobody will want to own stocks since they will no longer yield profits. Corporations will behave like non-profits; the profits will be funneled to cryptocurrencies.

All of this will be completely legal and almost everyone will support it. In 10 years, this will be completely obvious.

We are in a post-scarcity economy. Wealth creation will have little to do with productivity and everything to do with redefinition and redistribution of existing ownership rights. We will see cryptographic ownership rights surpass legal ownership rights. Once this new, highly fluid, decentralized financial infrastructure is firmly in place, the transfer of wealth will end up facilitating a new wave of massive decentralized productivity with a stronger focus on social principles.
Disregard: I found it with a google search rather than scanning the home page:

For others' convenience:

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

(it's also on the download page, but I was looking for it in homepage, FAQ, and licensing page)
Any link to your writing on the emulator and getting duke3d running? I’d at least find it interesting
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system), https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
foo can also store a pointer to a somewhere right?
> C++ programs are safe under certain conditions.

I entirely agree with this. My point is that these conditions are not always (and often aren't) encoded in the C++ syntax itself, and are instead part of the documentation or some softer coding convention.

As such an automatic code converter can't be aware of these details and can't decide if a call is safe or not. C++ doesn't have the concept of safety built in, it's the programmer that's in charge of keeping track of the soundness of it all. It's not enforced by the compiler like Rust does.

I'm really surprised that there's so much debate around this in this thread honestly (including by people who know Rust very well). That's blindingly obvious to me that it's a very bad idea. Clearly that means that I'm missing one side of this issue.
Ha, you beat me by a minute :D I agree!
Old news here, revenue can be crazy for these stores. Ask them about their profit margin. But hey some really do work, just capital intense
1991

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html

Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld?

It's not in this edition -

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC

Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke.

"This has been brewing since april 1991"

https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...
This looks cool. Indexing node_modules feels like the wrong default. I waited several minutes with cpu at 100 after startup for a fairly small React project.

And maybe the free tree could start at a more useful place? index.js or App.jsx or App.vue? In my case, the 100 functions are all instrumentation and polyfills, which doesn't give me much sense of the potential utility.

In a Django project, I see...nothing.

Good luck! This seems like it could be useful.
Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?”
phone numbers are shared in groups with tens of thousands of people. They spam, herass, hack etc. Forcing you to change your number.
I don't know French but here are some sources that disagree:

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/2019-nco...

WHO: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t...

Harvard Medical School: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/preve...

BC CDC: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

UC Davis: https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-transmission...

There are plenty more; I think it's clear that "pretty much" every epidemiologist agrees masks are important, even if it's not absolutely everyone.
Maybe you just personally can’t stand opinions you don’t agree with without finding it yucky? I mean, I have also have a subset of opinions I find yucky, so that’s reasonable, I’m just confused that you want to comment about how you find it such without actually adding in anything more than explaining what you don’t like.
I was about to be annoyed by this comment until I saw it in the context of a song about how every operating sucks, which, when framed like that, I can't help but agree with. ;) (although I will say that I've been having a better time w/ arch linux + dwm lately than any OS / setup I've ever used-- but then again I also love raspberry pis, have like 3 of them, and am, in fact, using one to run dnsmasq / wireguard, so... xD)
Even in a single mall you don't get everything from one shop.
I think there's some merit in looking at what the effect of "x-punk," movements have on culture. The idea of punk itself was the DIY music aspect that moved into clothing and zines, and built an aesthetic that spawned a network of cafes and bars and really is a subculture. The idea of an anti-establishment movement is one that is really just vying for establishment influence by defecting from it instead of negotiating within it, but it's still very much a part of it.

What I call "punk privilege," is that almost no punks were ever really poor, and it was a way for the poor to elevate themselves into an anti-middle class that was appendent to the middle class. In the 80's and 90's, punk and other subcultures were actually a path out of the underclass and into (the almost exclusively white) bohemian culture, and a way for technocratic up and comers to signify their skills. (e.g. "I'm so good the establishment tolerates my green hair") It's been through generations of co-opting, where now old punk aesthetics are a signal of membership in the new establishment, with pink and green haired people operating the administrative layers of academia and government, and the "real punk," that is, the independent creative networks that diverge from this new establishemnt are attracting outsiders and creating a primordial soup for the next wave of culture and innovation. What is surely true is that it will be a divergent reaction to the current establishment. I don't think this particular Solar punk aesthetic has enough grit to survive, but not being a part of it, it's not for me, it's for the people who do it and participate, which is ultimately what makes it punk.
Indeed! It’s super cool from a computer algebra perspective along with allowing deeper theoretical physics with computational aids.
Looking at the camera list and the fact it doesn't need new firmware, they're probably just using the existing tethering preview functionality.

The same can be achieved with gphoto2 piped to v4l2loopback (using ffmpeg to transcode). Something like:

$ sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1

$ gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video0
Hey George, thanks for the comment and for the good points!

We want to initially focus on the use case with lots of diverse backend datasets and ad-hoc APIs (maybe with a no-code like solution on top of a generic FDW) where performance won't be the bottleneck. If necessary, the backend data sources can perform aggregation and fast query execution. For example, you can also put Splitgraph in front of Presto (through JDBC). The value we want to provide in these cases is:

* granular access control (e.g. masking for PII columns, auditing etc)

* firewalling/query rewriting/rate limiting (for publicly accessible endpoints that proxy to internal databases that vendors want to publish more easily than through cronjobs with data dumps)

* cataloguing (so you get to discover datasets/data silos, get their metadata and query it over multiple interfaces in the same product)

We also like keeping the PG wire format in any case, as there are so many BI tools and clients that use it that it makes sense to not break that abstraction. We started with PG FDWs just because of the simplicity and the availability of FDWs, but we might swap the actual Postgres FDW layer for some faster execution in the future, if it's needed.

Behind the scenes, for Splitgraph images, we use cstore_fdw as an intermediate storage format (it's a columnar store similar to ORC with support for all PG types like PostGIS geodata). There's a potential in using this as a format for a local query/table cache on Splitgraph nodes that we intend to deploy around the world for low-latency read-only query execution.
This is pretty cool. I am constantly looking at current events and thinking to myself "what if aliens were watching this?". I feel like it sorta puts things in perspective for me. Seeing that this might be a possibility is sorta thrilling.
OVPN also takes cash by mail.