skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. I quickly scanned the linked graphcommons presentation (?). Instead of responding to that directly, I'll share the thesis I've been chewing for a while.

I worked on election integrity stuff for about a decade. Opposing the touchscreens, tabulators, and other blackboxes. Advocating for better administration. That kind of stuff.

Like with all learning, my understanding of the problem dramatically changed over time.

The biggest threat to election integrity is change. With great reluctance I came to the view that any future changes had to be slow-rolled, even the phase out of the touchscreens. Think of it as how first responders stabilize the patient before transporting that patient.

The second biggest threat is noise. It's the asymmetry of bullshit principle. It's just so fucking hard to figure out what's going on. We spend all our time chasing wild gooses. So much slips past our attentions.

Only then can I think of the actually machinery of democracy. Stuff like form of elections, procedures, transparency, etc.

This frame and my own campaign work (stumping, GOTV, etc) informs how I regard CA and others.

The biggest threat CA poses is Steve Bannon's "flood the zone" with bullshit strategy. With so much activity below the radar, it's impossible to talk rationally about this stuff. Because there's always more to the story. Which is the trap, the exact purpose of Bannon's strategy.

The skeptics say CA, social media, etc. didn't effect voter behavior, specifically costing HRC the election.

That's entirely besides the point.

Other factors absolutely moved voters. We could stack rank them. Comey's betrayal is probably the biggest. My two personal faves are HRC's reliance on negative partisanship (too many attack ads), and HRC's desperate need to tangle with corporate media (instead of just creating HillaryTV and speaking directly to voters like Trump did with Twitter).

But there are many fights in the margins that most commentators completely ignore or outright dismiss. What we election integrity people called "death by a thousand cuts." It's never just one thing that makes the difference. That's too obvious and will eventually be corrected. Rather it's the cumulative damage of 1,000s of small attacks. Asymmetric war fare.

By keeping the contest "close", it becomes possible for the jitter (noise) to make the difference, depending on timing of the snapshot (when you measure).

And now we get to what CA and others did. Buried in all the noise, they used HRC's stolen voter file to precisely target and overwhelm "undecided" and low motivation voters. Maybe 500,000 voters in total. Tiny percentage of the electorate.

And Trump got lucky. It was just barely enough. Smaller in impact than say Jill Stein's spoiler. But on top of every thing else, it made the difference.

("Undecided" in quotes, because that's another topic onto itself.)
You know, when somebody mentions Swordfish the first thing I think of is the "Interview" scene. There's a joke in there somewhere about high-pressure SV technical interviews.
> originator of video game systems (U.S. Patent No. 3728480) that now nurture a $15 billion a year industry.

Article needs a 2010 tag. Wikipedia[1] states the 2018 estimate is $135 billion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
Visualizing metrics of a cluster or why we calculate integrals on the front-end
I see no one thinks IPv6 will catch on.
Instead of trolling HN you could contribute to Wikidata.
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grep, pretty often.

All of the busybox alises, actually.
I wonder how Twitter is even alive because the amount of mismanagement that happened in the last 10 years is staggering.
https://www.copetti.org/projects/consoles/nintendo-ds/

This guy has articles about most of the major consoles from the last 30 years, I find them fascinating to read even though much of it goes over my head.
technology is not evil, usage and how leaked data can be exploited is what needs to be thought on to determine if something is evil.
Interesting. Could be either test capacity going up, or medical practices improving, or more infection of young people?

Good advice I heard was that hospitalisation with Covid symptoms is a better measure than deaths (happens sooner) or positive tests (not altered by increasing testing).

This report has that for Uk but alas only updated every week and then nearly a week late.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19...
Someone recently posted a link on HN to a book by an Herbert Shelton MD that you might find interesting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110222200902/http://www.soilan...
Your use case may be acceptable, but most tracking is not acceptable.
You could even use this functionality from your own code - CALL &BB60 would read a character from the current cursor position and return its ASCII code.
If I were a browser engine I would download all the assets, all the images, whether the user hovered or focused or interacted in any way or not.
Blackest fish in the sea have 'cool' camouflaging properties in skin
FYI melting iceberg do not cause sea levels to rise, but glacier do. An ice cube melting in your glass water do not rises the level.
I don't find it evil.

Tracking is a problem when it affects your privacy. For example when too much data is collected, or when the data is handed to third parties. If you can collect just what you need, and keep that data to yourself, I really don't mind.

In this case, you measure visits anonymously without affecting the website's performance. You give me what I want without taking anything from me. I am completely fine with that.

In the real world, I'd compare it to tracking how many people enter a venue, or how many beers were sold. There is no way this could be used to tell if and when I visited that venue and bought drinks. You don't need my consent to do this.
Doing it yourself qualifies as "a single expert is still a single point of failure". A single vendor at least has some levels of staffing and redundancy that I nor my company can match.
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Since this paper is making what amounts to a forensic argument, there will inevitably be some "cherry picking" of evidence since much of the available evidence is not relevant and will necessarily be omitted. Just because the authors did not present new data from original experiments does not mean this doesn't count as "research"; synthesizing knowledge from across prior research is an important and effective tool for advancing any field.

If you want to refute the claims of the paper by arguing that they cherry-picked evidence, you need to provide specific evidence that was omitted from the paper and show how it contradicts their claims. Your other comments on this thread provide only the slightest hint of an argument and do not constitute anything resembling a true refutation.

I completely understand if you don't have the time or energy to compose a more thorough argument--after all, this is basically a flame war on an anonymous Internet forum. But if you find another source which presents a properly composed refutation of these claims, I'd appreciate it if you post a link here. I'll also be on the lookout for such arguments and post anything I find.
The biggest loss of privacy (my personal view) is that we've lost the ability to read without being observed and that's important to maintain a healthy and diverse mindset in society. It enables people to read without fear of "persecution". That pretty puts much of the "analytical web" in the "evil" basket for me.

edit: autocorrect wrote "prosecution" instead of "persecution". Fixed it.
Sorry, will do so in the future. Thx.
I would encourage you to look into the camelot python module - https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot. I've worked with this for almost a year and it does work for most conventional tables and pdfs.
Don’t you have to update the project source code at least a few times a year to add new versions of Java to the CI?
I hear people say this a lot, but I've done plenty of fasting and rarely experienced this, and when I did, it was very mild. I don't know if I'm significantly outside the norm. The noticeable difference is that I feel pretty low energy after about ~24 hours of fasting.
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I did a 3 day fast to see what it was all about. The energy levels were not there. I would get tired after a short brisk walk. Physically I was weaker but still had burst strength just no endurance or cardio.

Mentally however I found myself unable to have too many variables in my head and my mind was not more able to focus on something but less distracted with extraneous thoughts. I could if I wanted to shut off the chatter in my brain and meditation became very easy.

It is definitely a different mode for me and I do appreciate it but I'm told that many people in my family have ADD and that I might actually be showing symptoms that would go away when in ketosis.
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RISC OS for Archimedes/RISC PC also inherited this feature, although, as far as I can remember, you could only use it in CLI mode (after pressing F12 key) and not in windowed mode.
My guess would be that the RISC OS version for the Raspberry Pi still has the copy cursor, in that case you could argue that there are even recent systems available with it.
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A name that doesn't exist on google? So what exactly would that be?

It is very obvious if you google "pdf pep" python enhancement proposals or pepsi is not going to show up.

Naming is hard, I have a dream that people would stop complaining about it. There is names/acronyms for literally everything, the chance of you finding something unique is very very small.
On that basis, Apple invented the smartphone, and Zoom probably invented video conferencing.

Being the one to make a version of an existing thing that's good enough to actually use regularly, and developing a supporting infrastructure, is important, but isn't really invention.
The total downtime was less than an hour and a half. Many spend more time each day on HN.
It looks like this guy plans to do a lot of jumping up and down on his desk.
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Not sure how you would do the math there. Edge up would maybe be a smaller target, but hits would pass through more silicon.
Yes, exactly. Perhaps you're not familiar with the term "regulatory moat" but basically I'm saying that these types of laws are nearly unenforceable on big players, so really the only purpose they serve is to limit competition rather than any of their stated purposes.
Fasting isn't about starving yourself, or being malnourished. When you do eat, you should be getting plenty of calories, and eating well, not garbage.
As a brown immigrant, I have known many brown people who assume that all white people are racist. It would be shocking to them if a white person helps them.

Not saying this applies to you and it is good to share these stories in our communities.
Feels like handling OOM; an abstraction breakdown you think you can cleverly work around but is actually not easily handled at all.
I still use Picasa (from Google) every day to organize and export photos.

It hasn’t received updates in years and doesn’t work on the latest versions of MacOS, but I still haven’t found anything else to replace it. While there are other photo organizers and other photo editors, this hit the sweet spot for me in addition to being fast.
I can definitely imagine Firefox’s privacy.resistFingerprinting mode starting to block remote resource loading via :hover et al. It’s possible it already does, but I haven’t tested it and find no mention of it. It does several other things that break the occasional site, this would be much the same.

But on reflection, it’d be more than that: anything that’s hidden (within `display: none`) and gets shown on hover… hmm. Guess it’d need to ignore `display: none` in deciding to at least fetch the resources, or suffer weird “why is this not loading the background image?” complaints.
I wondered the same thing. It's the exact same service that just changes hands every few years under a new brand.

In grade school before the internet, this occurred through physical products. My first grade trend was Yo Yo (Yomega, Brainstorm, Duncan), second grade Pokemon trading cards (Digimon, Magic, Yu Gi Oh), third grade finger skateboards (TechDeck), fourth and fifth segways into middle school when social systems are developing so its clothes brand trend pursuit which is when I checked out because video games were starting to get interesting.

Phones and Xanga/Myspace arrived roundabout when I got my driver's license.

I'm sure there were similar toy brand trends pre-covid when kids were still seeing each other every day and sharing physical toys.

TikTok released some official report the other day in compliance with whatever legal motions were recently filed, and it keeps saying the word "clusters" when referring to users.

I guess it's just yet another company that wants to compete over access to "clusters" of users aged 12-35 (that's the widest age range I would expect to be concerned with the latest communication app offering that enables the exact same utility they already had with Vine/Snap/Tik).
Thanks for your answer, I only have two devices connected so my problem must be caused by an unrelated mistake. I'll find out eventually :).
I emailed Ralph Baer when I was about 13 to ask if he knew where I could get an original pong chip to build my own video game. He sent me an extremely nice response explaining that he didn’t have any of the chip any more, but that I didn’t need it to build my own version of pong.

I really wish I could find that email.
Here in Canada, we're fond of reminding ourselves how Alexander Graham Bell was "Canadian". He was actually a Scottish immigrant, and while he did a lot of his early research and work here, it was when he moved to Boston to become a professor that the bulk of the work was done. From a business point of view, the US was also a larger market. He did come back to Canada in his final years and is buried in Nova Scotia, though.
If I'm reading this correctly, the "harm from chemo" to the person was about the same, but the "harm from chemo" to the cancer was much more significant in the fasting group.
You're proving my point, Google the companies name. I'd like to see an example of a fake company you can Google and get good results on.
It's a regular laptop fan, so it's inaudible unless ffmpeg is converting a movie. Then there's an audible hum, but it's no louder than the fridge's compressor.
I used this (via :hover) to play with mouse movement tracking. The resolution was significantly worse than the JS approach. But it worked, and even allowed to use some ML analysis on mouse movement patterns.
That was about 10 years ago, so I no longer have the code/site.
Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress apparently listens to one Kanye song on repeat, up to 4 hours. I guess it works for him.
It would help people understand the misguided policies that have been in effect, which prevent any meaningful reduction in fuel via cutting or burning -- policies meant to preserve the environment, but instead actually harm it.
Are you getting enough “hands on” practice? Don’t just read about X, but actually build an X so you can see it, touch it, observe it in operation. Makes a world of difference.
Just from personal experience, I've found that fasting is actually easier that something like a fast-mimicking diet. Maybe there's something physiological going on, or maybe it's just psychological, but I find it much harder to eat a little bit than to just not eat. Then when I do get to eat, I can eat enough to feel satisfied.
This seems like another "silicon valley" issue, solving problems for an elite few people in society who have the luxury to bum about for 6 months working in hostels (if you can truly say they are working as effectively as they did before they put a backpack on).
>If investors thing Nvidia overpaid, its share price will decline

You realize that logic no longer matters in this economy. There's an oversupply of printed money and stonks literally only going up.
I'm a big user of Remote Desktop on my Windows 10 computers, but am unaware of any "remote screen" feature. I did a quick internet search but couldn't really see any information about such a feature built into Windows. Could you tell me more about how you achieve this?
Did you try it more than just for that three days (as in, try multiple fasts over time), and or try other variations of it (eg 16/8 intermittent fasting) to see if one of those might suit you better?
I think there is something to this I used to have a radio that would pickup this type of interference and days when it was heavy I would have more than usual amount hardware failures even powersupplies.
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What's the children's book, by a classic SciFi artist in the 70s-ish with well done living in the future illustrations.

One was an underwater habitat and all the fish were kept in vertical cages made of bubbles?

It makes me laugh my childhood wonder turns out to be real, except it's for rubbish.

[edit] The Usborne Book of the Future (1979) had it, but I'm sure it's not the only one -
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... History is if anything far less politically influenced today than at any prior point in, er, history. The whole idea that a historian might be appropriately critical of the country in which they live is rather new, as is the idea that a historian shouldn't be in the business of censoring history for a public audience.
Because it does not respect the users privacy. It's not too bad in a working democracy, but not all democracies last forever. Also, ads are bad.
I'd maybe compare it to a toothbrush instead. Yes, you can sharpen one end of it and then use it to do unfriendly things to people. But that's not exactly its primary use case.
I know, right? It's amazing how much you can learn when you actually RTFP.
Obviously not, smartphones existed before Apple made one and video conferencing existed before zoom.
This is tangential to something I want to achieve: I have a 2016 iMac. Does anyone of you know if I can use that as a second display? Apple removed target display mode, which means the Mac with it's amazing screen is collecting dust.

I have used it to ssh into my Linux machine and have it as my main terminal and documentation viewer machine using synergy, but that is tiresome.
I've been doing some variant of intermittent fasting for about 8 years now. Of course, I'm not always consistent. There have been days, weeks or even months when I'm not disciplined.

At least in my experience, the sense of hunger is extremely tuned to one's internal clock. The body seems to absolutely know at what time of day it expects to eat. If I go a long time and never eat before 6 PM, I won't feel even a tinge of hunger until the evening. If I go on vacation, and eat lunch for a week, then the next day I'm ravenous by 12 PM.

The hardest thing about fasting is the transition. Once you've got a pattern, your body seems to pretty much just adjust and it becomes just as normal and effortless as eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. I say that because a lot of people try out fasting for a few days, suffer enormously and decide that the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Whereas I think if you get over the transition hump, most will find it's not nearly as bad as it seems to be when you first start out.

One technique that I think makes for a smooth transition is a modified version of partial fasting. To start, instead of completely abstaining during the fast window, restrict yourself to vegetables and berries. Don't touch the higher caloric density foods like meats, dairy, and starches inside the fast window. Truth be told, this probably isn't that bad a diet just to stay on forever, because it ups vegetable consumption so much. But if your goal is full fasting, it's a good way to make a full transition. Your body's internal clock starts getting used to much lower calories consumption in the fast window, but you don't have to feel like you're starving.
Not-really-affiliated-but-kind-of Byte (https://byte.co/) totally failed with its launch, such a shame.
I think it's pretty normal. I don't know for sure, but it's possible that it's more or less the same effect as keto-flu.

Make sure that you get plenty of water and electrolytes.

Also, if 24 hours is too much, you can try intermittent fasting, and do 16 to 20 hour fasts.
drinking light vegetable broth?
Well, not exactly. Notepad _is_ just a common control and very little else.
https://cardiosmash.com/20-4-fasting-is-it-better-than-16-8-...
I don't think that a sudden 3 days fast will bring any immediate benefits (perhaps some weight loss), on the contrary. I see fasting more as a long term, life choice. I do feel more energetic and sharp during fasting.

I recently did a full check-up (I'm 48) and all my blood/urine values were spot on - before starting my fasting protocol some values mostly related to arteriosclerosis were slightly over the recommended values. Obviously, this doesn't say much or it's far from being a scientific proof: it's just an observation. There are good chances that for a lot of people fasting would just not help and make life misearable.
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We need to find an actionable suggestion. Maybe projects can have a long name and a nick name? To make everyone happy, and of course, to be useful for everyone.
With deaths lagging by ~21 days, though, that data only shows deaths for cases from around the 19th of August - so the data is showing a lower rate, but it still seems sensible to be cautious about the death rate.

I don't think it's at all reasonable to classify caution as hype... in addition to the increased risk of fatalities there are plenty of reports about damage to heart tissue even in young people who didn't have serious symptoms[0] - and if people start to ignore the risk and reduce measures like distancing and mask wearing there IS much greater scope for increased fatalities and long-term health impacts.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
Sure, but after doing it for a month, you can tell whether or not you enjoy the process. You'll learn a few chords, a few sentences, some basic techniques. You'll get an idea of what the activity is like, regardless of whether you're good at it.
It's tricky, make sure you drink enough water, but not too much (too much water washes out too much salt from your body, dropping your blood pressure too low). A backup plan if this doesn't work is bone broth soup. It's not a lot of calories so keeps you in the fasting state and can pick you up pretty nicely. Salt the soup but not too much. The key seems to be to keep your electrolyte levels in the Goldilocks-zone.
>Just because Apple and nVidia has bad relationship at the moment regarding their GPUs is probably orthogonal to what they'll do with this new branch of nVidia, that is ARM.

Yea, they got fucked by Nvidia business practices multiple times. There's a saying about shame on you, shame on me, etc.
Unless the entire Nvidia business unit also gets replaced in the same transaction, it doesn't matter how much of a faux separation of concerns they want to market.
I've found 20:4 successful only as a means of preventing me from eating too much; prior to IF I'd habitually graze throughout the day. It's basically a diet where you don't have to think that much about what you eat (you should a bit, still, obviously).
I don't think that this is technically true, since icebergs are made from fresh water and they melt in the salt water of the ocean. Fresh water is less dense, so it will take up a larger volume than that of salt water.
Fasting != malnourishment tho.

Anecdotally, I've been doing 16/8, 20/4 intermittent fasting and a couple of 24-48h fasts over the past 10 years and have not yet developed anorexia.