skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting way of detecting gerrymandering that has been used in court [0] is to do a random walk on the graph of districting plans, where two plans have an edge between them if you can flip a precinct (the basic building block of a districting plan) in one plan to get the other plan.

By randomly walking this graph, starting from the current plan and randomly flipping precincts, you can build a distribution of how compact the plans you saw were (there are some measures of compactness defined in TFA and the document linked below), and identify outliers, which are likely to be gerrymandered.

[0] https://sites.tufts.edu/vrdi/files/2018/06/md-report.pdf
They clarified the IR thing was something they were told, but which they later tested and found not to be the case. /shrug
Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Hm. Looks quite nice but does not work out of the box with fish shell and or Node installed using nvm only. It gives me a hint like this:

> Prettier couldn't be found because npm isn't available. Please make sure you have Node installed. If you've only installed Node through NVM, you'll need to change your shell configuration to work with Nova. See https://library.panic.com/nova/environment-variables/

Unfortunately the documentation is for zsh and bash only. Has anyone an idea how to get this up and running with any other shell?
So back a long time ago, we counted days from the time an exploit was 'known'. Now people seem to use it for the time since a patch has been released? I don't know, but every time I ask I get downvoted.
>This is stuff you only read on certain forums. Most people don't even notice DRM

I can give this a "me too" to an extant. I use to be like, "Rah rah! Down with DRM!" years ago, but at some point I kinda forgot that DRM even exists—it just no longer comes up in my lifestyle at all.

This thread is an example of this. I saw the thread title and was like, "Oh right...DRM and cracking games...right right right..." that is a thing that
Reminds me of "Human Time" 94-96BPM

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/26978...

> JAD: Because if we're unconsciously speeding up slow beats and slowing down fast beats, well, there's got to be ...

MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Some particular point ...

JAD: ... right in the middle ...

MATTHEW GUERRIERI: ... where our judgment of time actually syncs up with actual time.

JAD: Where in other words, we guess the tempo correctly.

MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Yeah, and it's called the indifference point.

JAD: I don't know why it's called that, but according to most research that point falls somewhere around this tempo.

MATTHEW GUERRIERI: 94, 96 beats per minute.

JAD: If you give people four beats of this tempo and then ask them to guess the fifth, they usually get it right.

MATTHEW GUERRIERI: Yep.

JAD: That's human time.
Your last paragraph is particularly insightful and I think it's something we all need to grok and come to terms with. Political landscape needs to shift to get past all the lip service and actually make real progress.
Last time I tried to make a throwaway it got flagged pretty quickly and they had me submit photos of myself. I just picked some from the internet and they permanently locked the account. I wouldn’t risk it considering I’d have assets tied to the account (games), which presumably would be lost if their all-powerful neural net were to take as input my account data and output a value higher than some threshold.
Sandstorm has accidentally solved the problem of rapid change by not having enough developers to continually update the available applications, which include Wordpress. You can also ignore updates.

Thankfully, the architecture of Sandstorm turns many types of vulnerabilities in the installed applications into non-events. This means that the lack of updates is not so alarming.

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-non-event...
not the same, brains are not a computer, you do not upload the beat to them.
> Maybe whoever setup the dominoes behind the first one shares the blame as well...

There was a famous story here a couple years ago here where a mountain biker lit some toilet paper on fire and caused half a hillside to go up in flames.

Negligence, sure. Stupidity, no doubt. But it's also dry here in the summer, and that hasn't changed year after year. So sure, I guess, let it be the weather's fault or global warming, why not.

It's easier, afterall, to place the blame on other people or forces than to change behaviors that would prevent disasters in the first place.
I think the known construction only required access to his public writings posted to silkroad, google, and patience. He posted uncommon unique phrases to both the silkroad as well as public websites using accounts linked to his real identity. If anything I think it shows quite a bit of incompetence that it took so long to figure out his real identity.
Really, it's just a different thing. It is an entirely P2P network, so yes, that's what you get. But, anybody can run a Tor node too, as the article points out. (Practically speaking, I2P better for torrents.)
I would very much like to know for sure which of my co-workers are willing to defend racist points of view
If that is the case, that just shows that the author is on very tall stack of misconceptions. No one plays full contact football recreationally. It’s completely too dangerous. People mostly play flag football. Also most sports have leagues grouped by size or ability. The author dismissed the sport out of hand with wrong information.
If you haven't seen it yet, the retroencabultaor video [1] is a masterclass on how to do it.

[1] https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
I didn't say, "No big deal." I am aware of the danger. Thus, "if you survive."

The issues you're describing are studied after what I'd say is long term exposure. So far it's less than a week. A person with healthy lungs and no related problems will be back to normal if this ceases in a relatively short time. Of course, that doesn't mean we should relax about smoke season becoming a month-long annual event.

They say dosage makes the poison, but duration is important, too.
John Carmack does several hour-long sessions at every annual Oculus Connect event (now called Facebook Connect). [1] [2]

He has often spoken about deeply optimizing virtual reality by peeling back all the software layers. From his annoyance at the Android's process scheduling on the GearVR to writing custom microcode for the Qualcomm chip's Digital Signal Processor to try and optimize playing PC games (over Oculus Link streaming) by encoding and transmitting video per scan line (instead of per frame).

He said that up until a few months before the original Quest launched they weren't even sure whether they could get inside-out optical tracking working to sufficient quality, but that they just continued to iterate on the algorithms until it worked well.

It's clear that most of Oculus' innovation are deep in the stack, seemingly pushed forward by the legendary John Carmack. Now that Carmack is merely the "consulting CTO" rather than working on these problems full-time there's real questions about whether Oculus' deep stack innovations will continue.

Oculus Quest is effectively a smartphone in many key ways, but it has several monochrome wide-angle cameras for tracking. Also unlike smartphones it has active cooling fans for improved thermals. It seems there's a million little things than come together to make Oculus Quest standalone VR way better than any phone-holder based virtual reality platform that I've used.

As far as an open-source custom firmware for Oculus Quest goes, I am unaware of any project that has yet cracked the bootloader to run unsigned code and then booted stock Android.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMIDaomx0GA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmY26pOE-Y
Joplin is an open source note taking tool. You can make notebooks, full of notes. It supports markdown, has a decent UI, supports a bunch of nifty markdown plugins, has search, and is just generally decent. Notably it has native (and good) apps for major desktop and mobile OSes. It also handles sync via your choice of clouds, lets you encrypt your data, and is open source. Also has browser plugins for capturing notes from a webpage.

There's a lot to like. True, like a lot of small open source projects, there are some rough edges, and progress is slow, but I believe they welcome new volunteers.

There are, however, a TON of note taking apps floating around at the moment. One is Roam. Roam is very expensive ($15/month; a premium price point in a space that's mostly free or a couple of dollars at most), and has a bit of a...well, almost cult-like atmosphere around it. People that like Roam seem to love it, for some reason. On the other hand, development is fast, and they support TONS of features. Backlinks seems to be a big one. Notably I think Roam is more focused around "blocks" of content than around freeform markdown.

Other options include Notion, Bear, Obsidian, Tiddlywiki, Evernote, Quiver, Dynalist, Workflowy, Standard Notes and many, many, many others. All are excellent options in this space. And now, Athens, which I suppose is trying to be a better, open source Roam?

Honestly, if you care a lot about note taking apps you should dig into it, there's a ton of options and interesting tradeoffs. And if you don't, then....eh, probably doesn't matter much.
You are correct that these policies are all subject to debate and compromise, but I think "demands" is the perfect way to frame these things.

The small picture of these protests is that an unarmed black man died while handcuffed, on his stomach, pleading for his life, with a police officer's knee to the back of his neck.

The bigger picture is that systemic racism has been an ongoing issue for decades (but since the country's founding, actually). Oregon itself has quite the history with systemic racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Oregon

So the frustration isn't necessarily that policies are subject to debate or that compromises have to be made; the frustration lies in elected officials that help maintain a level of systemic racism via inaction and non-enforcement. Hence, the particularly aggressive use of "demands" which is also framed around ongoing protests in Portland and elsewhere.

This, I think, is far more clear in the use of the phrase "defund the police." A lot of people have issue with this phrase because they think it means entirely eliminating the police force. And yes, some percentage of those who say "defund the police" do mean completely eliminating the police force, but the majority actually mean "divert significant funding from the police department to social programs and health workers." However, there are two issues with that; 1, it's not very succint. 2, it does not adequately express the frustration people have with police.
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I don't know about the others, but at least Dhall provides features that are literally impossible to get from a general purpose programming language, like semantic hashing, totality, and such.
It is based on Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk 2020, which is the reason for the name.
I tried to open a 300MB file and it gave me the spinning wheel. If there's one thing I would expect of a new editor (and they even wrote their own text layout engine), then that it's designed for large files and incremental loading from the ground up.
This shit is scary
A 0-day generally means either one person, a single organization, or a small group of people, know about the exploit in question. As soon as an exploit is widely known or published, it's not a 0-day since anyone can find it, even if the exploit is for abandoned software that'll never receive a security fix.
So this happened at Northwestern, my alma mater: https://freebeacon.com/campus/northwestern-law-administrator.... During a Zoom meeting with hundreds of students, the interim dean and dozens of other faculty and administrators each declared they were "a racist" and "a gatekeeper of white supremacy."

What struck me when I read this article was how uncomfortable I would personally be, as a non-white person, sitting in that meeting. Like, what am I supposed to do with that information? Is that how I want to begin my law school experience? My first year was a decade ago, before this stuff, but I'm having a hard time imagining how I would have developed the close relationships I did starting things off on this foot. Like, how do you go and talk about getting a recommendation from a professor after that?

In the last year or so, I have also had people stop in the middle of a conversation to "defer to my lived experience." This happened yesterday in the middle of discussing bribery culture in Bangladesh. Literally, the conversation ended with the other person saying "you must be right because of your experience."

I know the academic sources of these concepts and appreciate their value in the appropriate contexts. And I really do appreciate the need for diversity training in general, objective discussions about implicit bias, looking at recruiting pipelines to enhance diversity, etc. But does anyone actually want to be subjected to treatment like this in day-to-day settings? People of color want to live normal lives too, and fit in just like everyone else. To me, this comes across as hostile and alienating. (I showed this to my mom, explaining to her the context. She responded: “It is scary totally, to see people are writing it on the paper. Means There is no breaking point anymore. This America is not that same America when we came.”)
The average age of a PG&E tower is 68 years old.
Not "known", but "disclosed" to the public, or at least those responsible for a patch.

Zero days are known, exploited and used all the time by all sorts of black hats, govt institutions etc.
KDE uses less memory than Xfce does.
Helm is good for importing other components (eg Redis).

I find it pretty tedious for authoring my own Yaml specs; any time you need to do some sort of composition you have to write templates, and then mess with indentation operators, because significant white space. Templating yaml is a pretty bad idea in my experience.

As of Helm3 the most egregious part (Tiller) is gone, so it’s more recommendable.

Scaffold lets you write (roughly) native k8s yaml files and layer them together. IDEs know the schema for this yaml at this point, so you get code completion on all your input files. This breaks in Helm. Scaffold is good for simple apps, and falls down a bit if you need to dynamically configure your specs (eg render a parameterized manifest for each review app). The programming model for scaffold is a bit hard to grok, based on my experience of ramping up a team on it. Not rocket science just a bit unintuitive at first.
100% of the time for me. I prefer the trackpad over the mouse.
Yeah, in many ways I wish I got the PS4 instead, especially because of where we are living. The Xbox exclusives weren’t that great compared to PS4 and the people out here seem to strongly agree which is why it is unpopular. I do think it’s a much cheaper system to own. The Xbox store is very generous. Three free games each month (half the time they are pretty good ones) plus gamepass is a really good deal.

I had a Switch last year but sold it. The Nintendo store would be a very distant third in the generosity department.
Splitting a keyboard has ergonomic benefits. I don't see that "full keyboard for each hand" would be an advantage. One of the more popular split keyboards is the Corne Keyboard.
https://github.com/foostan/crkbd

There are split keyboards with more keys than the Corne, such as the Lily58. https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58
Keeps crashing on a large project. Extensions have a lot of bugs.
We must be around the same age. It was the same for me. I must have played all 3 houses so many times. I loved being able to control the units.
This works for direct illumination (eg an LCD screen) but fails for reflected light (eg a light).

This video from Technology Connections helps explain https://youtu.be/uYbdx4I7STg
you can try one of our books? theyre mainly tools for startups, companies and personal home use. amazon takes pretty much all of the money with KDP we get barely $1 a book that gets corporate taxes taken on it so yeah not really a money making thing it's more of a nice to have thing before investors try to kill the ideas off before we've fully worked out what we want for the company. it's focused on the 3D printed home and what we want to go with the home. so even if you cant afford to buy a home you can still buy our furnishings and publishings and support us that way. yes the energy drink is an inside joke but a serious product we wanted to make later on for fun. We are veteran owned btw. those claims are from already established metrics from the field of 3D printed homes. standard material deposition rates and curing times. we dont have a prototype? we need funding to build the prototype. so if you know anyone who would be interested in helping to fund us we would greatly appreciate it. and for a "scammy website" godaddy is terribly expensive i must say so if you have better hosting suggestions or templated websites besides godaddy or square im all ears $300+/year is not cheap when youre just starting so yeah any help there would be great
> Telling people "We need to turn off your power for a couple days every couple months for inspections" is going to create a lot of backlash, no matter how good the reason.

Maybe not every couple of mounts, but they could probably get away with doing them more frequently than a century...
Also, you can do visual inspection even without having to shut down power.
We repartition it because we're adding partitions.

We have one kickstart file that we use regardless of medium type. For SSDs, we overprovision and leave unused space at the end. Some brands of SSDs were failing before we did that. We don't need to overprovision hard drives.

You could remove the repartitioning and it would do the right thing for your use case.
I've been bitten by DRM and I know people that have lost music they paid for because of it. I once ran into a DRMed version of Little Brother, reported it and got a personal response from Cory. I think that is pretty cool. He's definitely one of my heroes and I love to support these kind of initiatives.
Yes, this happened in an isolated mountain town. Let's set that aside for a moment.

PGE demonstrates neglectful behaviours towards all of its infrastructure. It has transmission lines everywhere and has the same general attitude to maintenance and safety. Ask the people of San Mateo how safe they feel with PGEs gas lines. There are serious long term problems inside PGE and it's doubtful they are going to change.

PGE presents a serious risk to Californians everywhere.
The Mother of All AR Demos by Michael Abrash, Facebook Reality Labs/Oculus.
I guess a vibrating unit is an electric motor fundamentally. And an electric motor is also a generator when run in reverse. Maybe the Taptic Engine can also sense vibrations too.
The Overton Window is somewhat similar to this. Especially applicable to the erosion of privacy & software ownership over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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Wrong. European data center due to GDPR. Ever wonder who the cloud provider of that is?

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450280565/Dropbox-gears-...

Others are its own.
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That brings me back. I played around with Hemi-Sync stuff back in 2007 during my freshman year of college. I never got much out of it, and determined it was bullshit.

13 years later, I'm probably somewhat more open to the idea, after spending a decent amount of time meditating and experimenting with a few psychedelics. (Not in a mystical sense, just in a "maybe sound can help induce certain altered states of consciousness".)

Now that I have some meditation experience I kind of want to go back and experiment with binaural beats again.
Yeah as a heavy vimmer I also used Ctrl-[ with Caps-as-Ctrl for the longest time on a regular full-sized keyboard. Esc is great to have on a thumb key though. I used it on one of the outer ones on my ErgoDox and it worked well. A nice vim quality of life improvement was programming keyboard macros for `Esc : w Enter` and for quit.

It's not new in the vim world, but now what I use is `jk` pressed at the same time. Adjacent finger pairs are pretty easy to coordinate fast combos with -- just sort of jab your hand. Since it's in the keyboard firmware (QMK) it works in all contexts and not just vim, but the `jk` combo is also something that I can configure in the vimrc to use on my laptop.
Ah, I’m so sorry. I said it was the exact thing you were describing, but I misunderstood you. I indeed meant conflict resolution, and it is surprising they left it out elsewhere.
> That Michigan, Pennsyvania, and Wisconsin hadn't voted Republican in 30 years didn't not make them swing states in 2016.

If they actually hadn't for 24 years, and had only done it once then, and hadn't done previously for another 20 years, so that in 10 presidential elections preceding they had each gone Republican exactly once—as was the case in California leading in to 1992, but with reversed partisan polarity—it would have made it silly to call them swing states.
I don't think I understand how this is not circular reasoning (can't use UUIDs in place of phone numbers because contact list is comprised of phone numbers instead of UUIDs.) If contacts are not phone numbers, then is there a problem with them living on Signal's servers? Are we back to the complaint about discovery being difficult?

Signal uses phone numbers because it makes discovery easy. Threema, for example, can use phone numbers for discovery but does not require it. Discovery without phone numbers is easy. I see my contacts and scan their Threema QR codes. If I need to contact a friend of a friend, my friend gives me the FoaF's Threema ID.
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This deserves more attention that it gets. The article on Bill Gates father led me to reading about the Omniprocessor and other similar projects. This project has now spun off into a company called 374 Water. https://www.374water.com/
https://fingerprintjs.com/demo shows that Tor can still be fingerprinted and uniquely identified across IP addresses. Your Javascript (navigator) user-agent and timezone are some of the dead giveaways as they leak the true values.
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Yep, that's what I said I think (by 'known' I meant publicly). Once it's widely known, it's a 0 day for 24 hours, then it's not anymore. That's what we used to mean by 0-day anyway. Other people will tell you that it's a 0-day until there is a patch against it. I think different people use this this phrase so divergently that using it isn't a useful way to communicate anymore.
Those who don't notice it are those who aren't aware of what DRM even means. As long as it's not multiplayer, legit repacks and cracked releases are almost always an improvement to a DRM'd release unless the game's official release (on which the cracked release is based on) itself is buggy.
Additionally cloud saves are not supported on some games, including single-player first-party games, and Nintendo's excuse for that is because "cheating."

Animal Crossing and all four (technically two but you know) Pokemon games have no cloud save support at all, arguably all games for which players would absolutely want cloud saves. On top of this is a pretty long list of third-party titles.
This post is literally about a game that never did that so what's your point?
> If California doesn't like PG&E making ... profit.. it should set lower profit target, and allow PG&E spend more money on maintenance

Who makes decisions at the CPUC? It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is circular logic.