skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you lie to me and I end up signing a ballot that benefits you. Where's the difference?

From time-to-time, this comes up in newspaper court reporting.

US law recognizes that politicians can change their opinions, and that proving their state of mind at some point in time is pointless and unworkable.

So you're confusing morality with political statements, according to our courts.

IOW, you're being an HN pedant.
For systems that are infrequently (or sometimes, never) updated, you might want to sign firmware images for as long as possible to ensure the devices can (a) support signed updates from the OEM; and (b) can work indefinitely even if the OEM disappears.
The problem is that you are generally looking for "Something's different" rather than "Smooth ALL The Points".

So, the problem is that you threw away 90% of your data, and that's where the problem was. Oops. Now you have to switch on "Save all the data" and hope it repeats. So, given that you have to have a "Save all the data" switch anyhow, you might as well turn it on from the start.

In addition, changepoint analysis is an entire field of research in and unto itself.

Look at how many articles there are about analyzing "Did something break in my web service or am I really doing 10% more real traffic?"
When the goal is a gadget you can afford to deploy, system design is where you need to get your accuracy.

Fast, close-to-linear response over a short range can be cheap; the overall linearity you get from your $1000 gadgets is unnecessary. Fixed calibration targets could help compensate for broad nonlinearity and also drift from, e.g., temperature variation. Varying focus as you home on the target with a spiral path forgives a lot of initial inaccuracy. The system could refine its response curves with each kill, to home in faster; calibration targets might not be needed if unfocused illumination is forgiving enough.

It doesn't need a 100% kill rate in the first 10 minutes. Indeed, in a usefully big volume it gets plenty of attempts on each target. So, there is plenty of time for the system to tune itself to its own hardware.
Neurosymbolic AI: deep neural nets combined with symbolic AI
Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis (2019)
Apparently an uzbekistani anonymous user wrote a script to automate cancelling votes after the exploit was discovered.

https://i.4cdn.org/g/1603000632172.jpg

Non ephemeral link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201018061012/https://i.4cdn.or...
That video is great, I've actually worked on a project where we tried to federate customer databases across 3+ mergers. Started before I joined the company and after 3-4 iterations they shipped something (that worked) around 3 years later right before I left.
According to an article I read recently, the reason that equatorial reasons will see the greatest rise in sea level is that ice currently exerts a significant gravitational pull. As ice melts, that gravitational pull is reduced, causing sea levels to fall in the vicinity of the melting ice and to rise far away from the source of the melting.
Those are monthly metrics. Everyone knows that Tesla has to ship their cars by sea and there is a delay on the numbers, followed by a surge when the Glovis ships arrive and unload.

VW, Peugeot, Renault, Nissan and even Hyundai all have European plants.

This has been an ongoing cycle since they started selling in Europe. That is why I asked for annual charts. Maybe even quarterly charts would be more accurate.
Why the past tense? COM is alive and well, being the way the large majority of Windows APIs get introduced since Vista.

While COM is Windows specific, other implementations with similar ideas do exist.

IBM and Unisys mainframe language environment, gRPC, D-Bus, XPCOM, SOM, Android IPC, Fuschia IPC.
> We’re conservative because we’re rich and comfortable.

Some of you are.

You're only surpassed by Romania, Costa Rica, and South Africa in this chart: https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm

Romania, Italy, South Africa in this one:
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-gap.htm#indicator-c...

Doing better in this one, in that now you're behind Bulgaria, Turkey, Chile, Costa Rica and South Africa.
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm#indic...

I'm assuming that disposable household income per capita doesn't quite capture the severely unequal distributions of disposable household income.

> Americans live in houses far larger than the average European: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7ei5f4/com.... We have more TVs, more cars, etc.

That's a cultural difference, not at all indicative of anything - European cities are typically built for denser living - far fewer McMansions, far more well built, sound proofed apartments with ample public transport networks, to the extent that one can work and live in a city without owning a car. Although there are a bunch of bicycles.

In fact, very few of my German colleagues own cars because they have no reason to, as they all live in major cities. If they need a car for a holiday, they rent one.

> Americans are overwhelmingly satisfied with their own healthcare

Which is exactly the point I was making, I mean, the country with one of the lowest passport holding rates doesn't really have much to compare their health system to.
Japanese designed and manufactured tools are always a delight to use. Whenever I go to Japan I always find myself picking up some new beautifully designed and made object. The last time I was in Tokyo it was lighters. I bought probably $300 of various lighters from Tokyo Pipe Co. I don't even smoke!

Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to find products actually made in Japan, and despite what many people want to believe, Japanese obsession with perfection makes a big difference in the quality of manufactured goods. Makita doesn't manufacture in Japan anymore, and quality has suffered. Fujifilm stopped making several of their lines in Japan, and quality suffered. Very sad.
What? COM is the most successful implementation of ECS, I thought it was fashionable nowadays.
I agree. I kind of regret putting the "minimally biased" in my reply. I think that media can be trustworthy despite a small amount of bias, as long as the audience does a little critical thinking. At high levels of bias, they start trying to mislead you.

Edit: because good journalism involves taking steps to avoid bias.
Yeah, but isn't the whole point of ARM to be a reduced instruction set? How reduced are we, really, if we're dedicating transistors to the quirks of a single language?
https://web.archive.org/web/20201018061012/https://i.4cdn.or...
I read that tasting butters, e.g. eaten with bread, or finishing in dishes like risotto, need to be better quality but for pastry and cooking, cheap butter can be okay since the delicate subtle flavors gets cooked off and muted. I wonder how much of that is true though, maybe there's some threshold tradeoff of how much the taste of a final dish would improve.
"229,566 people were directly employed in tourism (8.4 percent of the total number of people employed in New Zealand)"

That's a lot of people who need rejobbed
TuneMyMusic – transfer your music library from any music service to any other
The data models for any non-trivial sensor analysis are intrinsically spatiotemporal -- every measurement or event happens at a place and time. Spatial relationships are central to the proposition of analytically reconstructing the dynamics of the physical world from disparate entities and sensors. The objective is to sample enough pixels and their relationships to sketch an accurate picture of reality as it happens. For example, a car is trying to understand its relationship to every relevant static and dynamic entity in its environment that affects its ability to operate safely. There is no business that does not benefit from having a model of reality that converges on ground truth in real-time, if you can take advantage of it.

Most of the analysis that is done usually falls under one of two categories. First, inferring (you can rarely measure it directly) when something has changed in the real world that is relevant to your business so that you can adapt to it immediately -- the applies to everything from autonomous driving to agricultural supply chains. Second, detecting anomalies -- the unknown unknowns -- so that risks can be managed when the real world appears to not conform to the models upon which you base decisions. A third category is support of industrial automation, which benefits immensely from high-resolution multimodal sensor data models, though this is largely a cost reduction measure. These categories are hand-wavy but in practice, boring industrial companies have concrete metrics they are trying to achieve or risks they are trying to manage in the most efficient way possible.
This is really interesting because here in Sweden pretty much everyone uses salted butter, you can buy unsalted but it’s not common at all.

The most popular sandwich spread (bregott, a mix of butter and rapeseed oil) comes in three main variants: “normally” salted, lightly salted, and extra salted.
>> Lies can be carefully crafted to exploit the way human brains work,

> Well, sure. But the problem is the censors are also human. If crafty lies can deceive the average person, why do we believe that the authorities are any less immune?

> I feel like so many times anti-libertarian arguments follow this formula. "Regular people keep making this mistake. So let's just have the government, helpfully stop them from making the mistake. Except of wait... the government is also made up of people who make mistakes." In other words, who watches the watchmen?

If you can't design and build an iPhone from scratch, yourself, then why can Apple? If you personally can't write code that's nearly bug-free, then how can NASA?

Institutions are made up of people that make the same mistakes as the rest of us, but they can also have institutional practices that compensate and correct those mistakes. It's never perfect, but it's something an individual can't really do.

Society needs institutions whose job is to figure out what the truth is, and information dissemination channels that filter out lies and disinformation. Otherwise it'll be blinded. This work can't be mainly put on the shoulders of each individual, because they just don't have the bandwidth.

> But when millions have access to open information, it's virtually guaranteed that at least some non-neglible subset will figure out the truth.

That may not matter when the millions are robustly deceived by the lies.

The truth will probably win out, in the end, but the end might be one, ten, or a hundred years from now. If we're talking about election-influencing disinformation, that's too little, too late.
The same person who hopes that we have read an NY Post smear article about the next president's son, perhaps.
Maybe better links:

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120429200224/http://www.canadi...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120108034640/http://www.nro.go...
> Wouldn't it be better to start working on an "LLVM for language interoperability"?

> trying to create the "one universal language to rule them all"

I feel this rebuttal of your proposal should be made, but I'm not sure how to articulate it more convincingly than you did.
Actually no, this isn't voting. It's a sample digital ballot that you have to print out and return in person. I'm honestly surprised this amount of disinformation made it to the HN front page.

Here's the form they think is real: http://oregonvotes.org/pages/ballots/11032020/Washington/34_...
I love the honesty, self-irony and transparency of the article. It's sad and annoying to see so many young naive devs writing ”oh they are so bad, it will never happen to me”.

Yes, people are not perfect and computer systems are complex. Admit it and don't be so overconfident.

”Errare humanum est”, prepare your backups.
The robots.txt file of Oregon.gov is somewhat suspicious. There seem to be lots of hidden executable files as well as pages with GET queries.

Because of the amount, I would guess some of the executable files lead to web shells. I am less sure of, but still somewhat confident, that the open GET queries might be pages where someone has discovered a SQL injection flaw.

They are likely trying to prevent these pages from appearing on Google where a regular user might notice. Will try to look shortly on desktop and update further.

[1] - https://www.oregon.gov/robots.txt
Plugra is a European style butter made in the states that is pretty good and widely distributed
Anyone else think this is just a clever ad for DigitalOcean?
The tweet does imply voting, but cancelling is possible, this is just the most visible tweet as of right now

Ive updated the title to reflect this
> Those are monthly metrics.

I suggest you carefully re-read what I linked to.
The stealing is what makes it a crime, not the personal benefit. If you rob someone solely to the benefit of your favorite charity, you still robbed someone.

I would assume explicit actions like mislabeling ballots or actually changing someone's vote on them is a crime. Perhaps even tricking people about polling place locations or the party of candidates. But it's obviously very dangerous ground once you venture multiple degrees of freedom off into policing conspiracy theories or political ads, given the risks of abuse. It should be just as hard as to convict people for murder via such distant effects. Especially since in voting, people have access to alternative views, including yours.
Fun with Combinators
Point taken. The certificate generator program should have reported the error. Everything connected with x.509 barely works.

Somebody should standardize an x.509.good_parts subset that leaves out all the crap nobody needs and doesn't work anyway in deployed systems.
The whole media is skewing left is completely fabricated. If anything most media has traditionally been moderate conservative. It is simply that part of the republican part has moved so far to the right that Reagan would likely be kicked out today.

And this to a large degree has been driven by Fox News. It is also important to point out that they are different to most other news media in that they categorize most of their shows as entertainment not news, the reason that they can not be held accountable for knowingly telling outright lies.
Difficult to put into words. The book is a sort of walkthrough of programming. It walks you through writing a number of programs iteratively, as in it starts with the most naive approaches and gradually improves upon them. That makes it a very involving process (because, like a good story, it starts in a common place and then takes you somewhere). It also introduces you to a lot of exciting things, especially if you're not that experienced. After reading the first chapters I wrote my own pattern matcher for example (I hardly knew what it was before then, let alone felt confident writing one).
It fits the reactionary narrative so I'm not sure why it's surprising.
Why are MFC and QT inferior to the Javascript way? I don’t know much about either.
Can someone verify this? It’s huge if true, but I thought voting was anonymous so how can someone see a vote via an online platform?

Edit: Please remember there’s a lot of disinformation going around about voting in general, be extra skeptical before sharing this further because it’ll just cause more unrest about the election.
This post should be removed, it's spreading highly misleading information about an ongoing election.
Yes, the human beings at the top who wield unchecked tyrannical power.
It's not vulnerable at all.

It's just a socialist narrative to build support for unconstitutional legislation and regulations.
Honestly, it seems far more likely to me that some "SEO Expert" came through at some point and said they should optimize their searchability by making sure search-engines didn't index certain pages.

Seems far more likely than that there's anything actually bad going on here.

Also, jumping from "Huh, lots of robots.txt entries" to "SQL injection flaw" doesn't make sense to me. I don't see how those things are related.
The tweet does far more than imply.

Why are you posting 4Chan garbage to HackerNews? Is this even confirmed?
Where on the my vote portal does it let you cancel? Ballots have already been mailed anyways so it's a bit late for anyone to try to change anyones status.
They are different I think.

What in italian are called "CRITTOGRAFIE" ("cryptograms") are games where you are given a small sentence, or a single word, and you have to get to a solution either by pure concept association or by "meta" manipulations on the sentence itself.

The game always has a "first reading" where you get to an adjacent concept, or rephrasing, and a second reading where the first solution gets reinterpreted.

For the first kind you'd get something like "PLOT AT COURT" (for some reason, the games are usually all upcase). The solution can be reached by thinking of a synonym for "plot" and for something that relates to the court idea. Then you get a first reading which is still in the same context, and you can lift it to the second one[0].

For the "meta" ones, I am afraid I am not good enough to come up with an english example, but one in italian would be
"CARIE" which gets a first read talking about itself and then reinterpreting the resulting sentence[1].

As senkora pointed out in the sibling comment Cryptic Crosswords seem to be close enough.

[0] "queen's gambit"

[1] "CARI carpendo l'E", ("<you obtain> CARI, removing E") which gets reinterpreted as "CARI-car pendo-l-E" ("to wind-up pendulum clocks")
Apart from L-1 (which requires an internal transfer), EB-based visa (lots of documentation), O-1 visa, what other options exist?
It's not often that one comes across a quote from one of the greatest works of art:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-hum...

That whole conversation is quite interesting and perhaps this part can also be thought of as alluding to "prescriptivism versus descriptivism".
I don’t understand. Why would these states allow you to invalidate a ballot online? What’s the legitimate use case for that feature?
If I had to pit 4chan against HN in a scavenger hunt, I would bet on 4chan.

edit: in fact I think this happened. wasnt there an online quiz we lost at a couple years ago?
(i am the driver in the yellow car. I'm doing close to 100mph in that video, and the guy in the porsche is probably north of 130?)
If you head to the website and put your name and DOB, the cancellation of your ballot after requesting a replacement is mentioned at the bottom of the page

I'll add that anyone can request a replacement, and the cancellation is effective immediately
This is straight up FUD.

Yes, you can change a printable ballot form that you then have to PRINT OUT AND RETURN before it is counted. This is no more an "exploit" than a printing a blank ballot, filling it in, and sending it in under someone else's name, or showing up at a polling place and voting as someone else.

It's also fraud and a felony for anyone who does it...
Proton(Steam) = doing gods work
I consider myself a casual gamer, and I play Skyrim all the time. There are also games that do not have an end goal or a set story that you can play forever a few hours a week when you have time(Minecraft,Sims ...) . Just wanted to show that not all casual games are play once or twice and then you delete them forever.
> Pro-Trump free-speech supporters and liberal anti-Trump plus anti-fascist protesters faced off

Who are the real anti-fascists here?

"Liberal" protesters are against freedom of speech. WTF.
Audio’s opportunity and who will capture it
I've heard that unsalted butter makes it easier to measure the salt to put in a recipe, since you don't need to reverse engineer the salt content of the butter. But in practice I don't find this very compelling because (in my experience) the salt is pretty standardized. I generally convert my own recipes back to using purely salted butter so I don't have to stock two kinds of butter.
When requesting a replacement. I have hidden the thread until the story is confirmed by a reputable news org
Can you actually cancel a ballot through the online portal or not?
Not just return it: Return it in a certified, signed ballot envelope that was mailed to a registered voter
When you say eat directly, do you mean as a spread?
We need more papers like this. Very nice. I wonder though if this work would be recognized for academic progress in research institutions? Specifically, is it publishable in some top-tier journal? (If so, which one?)
My grandfather bought a knife in Japan while on a business trip in the 80s. The owner of the shop used to call him once a year (now they communicate via email) and ask if he needed to ship it back for any repairs. The repairs are free.

At this point, he considers this guy a friend. It’s a really interesting relationship. In my experience, the only similar relationship that most Americans might have is with the person who cuts their hair or with a bartender.
Start coding wrap checking that replaces a negative number with the corresponding correct time.

In another 78 years they can make it a little smarter.
Just a heads up, chrome will phone home the contents of the URL bar. So make sure you only do this in firefox/ungoogled chromium/etc
That's not a feature. You can't even cancel your registration without contacting the county directly. But keep spreading misinformation.
Always amazing to know that there's a lifetime of work and knowledge behind the smallest tools. I guess for aerospace it requires it. The commentary along with the descriptions is pretty entertaining.

And at the other end of the spectrum, in our every day lives we probably just go to Home Depot, look for some screw/bolt and say, "eh, that's probably about right, huh?".
Yes. I would not eat a stick of butter in the same way that I wouldn't drink a glass of oil.
That's the reason I never authorize dev machines connect to production. And that's the reason developers hate my security team.