skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany: Every person over the age of 18 is automatically registered to vote. The right to vote cannot be lost.

Every registered voter gets a letter some time before the election and if you want to vote by mail you have to send the letter back for free and they'll send everything over. The ballots have to be received by the end of the day of election. There's a lot of time so you won't miss that date. The letter you get to remind you of voting also contains information about where you have to be to vote in person.

There's very little last minute changes in Germany. The election is not decided in the last couple of weeks before the election, people have made up their minds at that point.

I think the crucial part is that there's absolutely no effort involved. You basically show up at the polling place on the Sunday of the election and you're good to go. If you're too lazy for that you can to everything by mail. If you decide to vote by mail and then forget to send it via the post you can just drop it off at the polling station as well.
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I didn't have a word for this until recently - demisexual.

"a sexual orientation on the asexual spectrum defined as someone who does not experience sexual attraction until they have formed a deep emotional connection with someone."

https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Demisexual
Dad lives a life without limits and runs off to Belize with John McAffee and the rest of the corporate team. Mom runs away a month later when the junkie she moved in starts OD'ing and beating her. Everyone forgets about the kid. At best he's someone who just lives in a house of a couple dozen people dumped on society roaming feral neighborhoods. At worst he is a living moving toxic wasteland leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake until he's killed in prison under a commuted death sentence, leaving one more murderer and murder victim in the world.
Note that in the EU this would be a pretty bad violation of GDPR, so going to your local branch of government responsible for GDPR enforcement (e.g. the Information Commissioner's Office[1] in the UK) would be another good avenue.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/
What factors lead to their addiction? What factors lead to their homelessness? Are these factors mutually exclusive? Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
I want every vote counted, but if I understand this correctly there were only 300,000 votes that weren't counted, nationwide. If that's all, it's very unlikely to change anything. Am I missing anything?
Alcoholism isn't expensive. There are russian vodkas that are cheap and yet triple filtered. I personally help and know a few homeless by the train so they've shown me these things.
Yes, but I say that the quadcopter boom was almost singlehandedly due to appearance of the single firmware which was "copypasteable," and suitable for garage factories.
People outside of the US can't be bound to be sued in a US court or anywhere outside of the jurisdiction they currently reside in and even then a country he is a citizen of could try to use high level channels to get him out of there. Extradition treaties complicate this a bit more, but extradition still has to go through local laws, local law enforcement, local government and far from everyone would get extradited left and right if there is an agreement.

The biggest thing a counter-notice could do (if it's even possible) is reveal one's identity and only if Microsoft/Github tries to verify it, which would be bad, because it could be used for harassment. But the author is obviously Russian, not sure if he lives in Russia, but if he does, they definitely won't be able to get him in Russia, only harass him.
>They are looking out for their best interests, just as they should be.

I'm struggling to understand why this should be the case. I understand this is how it works now, but this seems like a flaw, not a desirable aspect of life.

Edit: To clarify, I meant I don't understand why it's a good thing we expect corporations to look out for their best interests while ignoring the best interests of society/individuals.
The original Pi CPU was intended for media consumption in set-top-boxes; it was a huge video core with a small ARM on the side.
What would really make me excited would be if Pi4 could eliminate the RTL-SDR altogether by doing the DSP via ARM Neon instructions.

Is it even close to being powerful enough?
Just to give you a feel of what is actually possible in a well run election: Germany (80 Million people) has a fully manual (all paper ballots, no voting machines or automatic tallying) and fully witnessed official result on election night. This count is then checked and certified as final a few days later (discrepancies are rare and small). People don't have to wait in line to vote. And voting happens on Sunday, which is a mandatory day off for the vast majority of people.
I imagine they could "chase" civil or criminal charges. Neither would have merit, but either would be a huge hassle.
> Alcoholism isn't expensive.

Tell that to someone who spends most of their money on those cheap russian vodkas.
The victim was not likely specifically targeted. There were no signs of the guy surveiling the victim, or him getting guidance onto the man from anybody so far.
We tried it, it failed miserably.

> Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
Sadly, I think he does know better.
Many things could have happened but they didn't.

The entire experience with Chase while I was assisting them was very positive, and they even mentioned something about putting me on their upcoming researcher leaderboard.

Since chase is a very big organization I would have to assume that another department took over the situation after, and decided to terminate my accounts to avoid any risk.

I will never know for certain as they have been very close lipped about the whole event.
On the flip side, I can see some potential bad outcomes for young children being exposed to this.
You could also try MLAT with the ATC comms to get a plausibly more deterministic source for the transmissions. I've done a decent amount of work with voice recognition for fire/police and the technology just isn't quite there yet. ATC comms probably have a lot less variation than police/fire calls, so you could probably train some custom models with a bunch of labeled ATC data to get you in the vicinity.

Couple other sources:

- Passive radar - Some pretty interesting results in this area https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/passive-radar/

- Sound detection/recognition/localization - Could correlate with ADSB to label sounds with known airframes to help train an identification model

- Video detection
I'm curious on what opinions are on Dear ImGui's bindings in other languages, namely Rust. imgui-rs seems to be one of the only mature-ish GUI libraries, but I found myself struggling with it. The multiple window "debug view" looks great, but for something like an OpenGL window with a simple menu bar, I found it difficult to create. There is also apparently no file picker widget, which I found to be a big downside.
I think comparing Go to Haskell at all is slightly bizarre, really. When I think Haskell, enterprise maintainability coding isn't exactly what comes to mind.

I really don't like Go, but I won't deny that it basically does what it's supposed to do.
Yes, I plan on building a custom antenna so I can place it outside
If Chase had an official responsible disclosure policy at the time, I'd agree. But he mentioned his actions pre-dating Chase having any such thing. That is a far less solid footing, and one where talking to a lawyer can drastically improve your situational awareness.

Most lawyers will give you an initial consultation for free. Even if you don't hire one, just consulting with one can immensely improve your ability and confidence in navigating things solo.
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At one point, my main bank (Charles Schwab) limited passwords to 6-8 characters (inclusive). You could type more if you wanted, but it would get truncated down to 8 characters.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/why-y....
Because you want to be on record as having notified an attorney and law enforcement of the problem and your intention to experiment with the company's permission.

You want things on record in any way possible.

Just getting an emailed "okie dokie" back from some company executive and then doing something that could later be construed as illegal is a bad idea.
I think authors also taught about that and wrote the paper for newbies. Almost every new researcher is reading from top to bottom.
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This is the case in my marriage, but not in my parents’. They are musicians, artists, perform together and/or take active stakes in each other’s careers. They weren’t sexual as I was growing up (I’m not giving intimate details here) but they had this whole other source of cohesion. A much greater one indeed — I have fond sexual memories but my parents have dozens of live albums at cool venues.

Then, maybe all of this anomie is a disease of affluence. The other thing that united my parents was that, well, they had to fight for survival and for the means if giving us kids a decent childhood experience. Maybe that alone works like continuous shared trauma, us-two-against-the-world.
MA already ignores the feds on weed and guns with no apparent ill affects. They could probably do it for cars too without much issue.
I'm really glad this got posted here. I'd never heard of PiAware, and now I have a new project I can do with my son that'll have tangible results and be a great learning process for both of us.

Thanks for writing this up and sharing it to HN, vegasbrianc!
By default propositions are unchangeable by legislature. 7/8ths is a very high bar but most propositions give the legislature no ability to modify it. Further propositions could modify or remove it by a simple majority.

For better or worse, this is the system working as intended. The point of the proposition system is to let the people pass laws the legislature refuses to. It would be pointless if the legislature could overturn or gut propositions with a simple majority vote.
Yes, I made my comment with those in mind.
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Does this mean all drugs or just all the common street drugs? What about precursors and obscure phenethylamines?
That's exactly the point. Non-euclidien geometry is still geometry, and axiomatic systems without the Axiom of Choice is still math.

The Austrians start with their axioms and do not accept anyone with other axioms. And unlike mathematical axioms, their axioms are actually empirically testable.
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Why is this flagged, exactly? Doesn't seem too-bad in terms of how the conversation around it is being had.

Also, this article is a prime spot for us to have a discussion about potential improvements and tech solutions or oversight regarding the election and voting. Overall, I'd say a good topic to discuss here.
I thought they had articles and videos on how to count the birds. Like with the purple martins. How do you count hundreds of thousands of birds? Or bees?
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I'm open to suggestions to make it better
> As we highlighted earlier, hundreds of new copies of the youtube-dl code appeared online in response, also on GitHub.

> While GitHub’s CEO Nat Friedman was annoyed by RIAA takedown efforts, he stressed that the platform legally had to comply, which it did. More recently, the company even said that users who continue to republish the code risk being banned.

Mates, just put the youtube-dl code up on IPFS[1] or SourceHut[2], which is a platform much more sympathetic to and defensive for the open source cause. No need to put it back up on GitHub and risk banishment there. There are lots of options here. The RIAA can't sensor open source software. At least, I'd like to see them try.

I wanted also to say that I don't necessarily agree with jacking videos off of youtube. But who knows? What if you have the permission of the youtuber? What if the youtuber is just posting stuff that's in the public domain anyway? What if you're downloading the whole video so that you can get clips of the video you intend to put in your own video in an attempt to criticize the video, thus invoking fair use? The RIAA does not and should not have the power to take down open source software just because it could be used for nefarious purposes. There are also plenty of innocent uses out there.

1: https://ipfs.io/

2: https://git.sr.ht/
Would you have made the keyboard one column wider or weirdly jam them around the arrow keys and then incur the wrath of the Home/End key fans? Personally I think I prefer what they did to minimise the width and provide them all as alternate functions of the arrow keys. I think this is always going to personal preference though.
They're doing an AMA right now (11:00am New York time, 2020-10-04)

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jnwg7i/haskell_fou...
At least around me, most noise pollution is just from cars. Electric cars are no better than IC cars at speed. I can hear the highway (3 miles away) at all times day or night. Perhaps people can not envision a world with less driving so they ignore this problem.
Capitalizing different parts of the scheme would give you some mileage. The standard allows for it.
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Yeah PET was a bad specific example.

I think the issue is that plastic is useful for reasons other that just the material cost. Shipping glass is both dangerous and VERY energy intensive. Treated paper doesn't hold pressure, and is easily damaged. There are a lot of other reasons why plastic is suitable for packaging that I won't enumerate at length here, but I think it's reasonable to say that there are legitimate uses.

I will wholeheartedly agree that plastic packaging is over used. That said, fishing and marine waste are still the single largest source of ocean plastic.
Microsoft pays for RIAA lawyers, why would it pay for more lawyers to defend themselves from other lawyers they pay for already?
If a number isn't portable, you're more locked in to their system. Sure, other people are locked out, but by their math, they're able to keep people from leaving, which may be more desirable.
To me, that's a strange question. First degree murder means premeditated intent, and almost all police shootings aren't premeditated. Do you mean that police murdering someone was voted to be treated with the same consequences as first degree murder, but not necessarily classified as first degree murder?

In my area we had a ballot question about committing to 100% renewable energy in 20 years.
From what I saw in the latest presentation by Martin, we can expect Scala 3 to be released in late Spring/early Summer 2021.

Part of the release testing is building the community release[0], which is a large part of the relevant Scala F/OSS code out there.

Whether you consider that to be production ready you have to decide for yourself, I myself am pretty happy about it.

Keep in mind that for now Scala 2 style code will still be compiled and you can use existing Scala 2 code in your Scala 3 project. The migration should be pretty smooth.

[0] https://github.com/scala/community-build
That's exactly my point. Mathematical axioms aren't empirically testable, and mathematics accepts many different axioms.

Praxeology doesn't accept other axioms, and the axioms it accepts are empirically testable. Which is the why math is fine but Austrian economics isn't.

Also, mathematics doesn't make claims on the real world.
https://bugguide.net - this one is awesome. has photo submissions for identifications
> The author of the article doesn't say "all websites including those that mimic native apps should work without CSS and JavaScript" - that would be nonsense of course.

No but he does say and I'll quote "If they can't produce something worthwhile without scripting, it's probably not worthwhile at all." which to me means all sites that require javascript no matter of what the purpose is.

Sure, a information site with a few pictures and text doesn't need javascript. But I am not building nor talking about such sites. These kind of sites are built with tools like wordpress today and I think many web devs like me who live on the edge of whats possible on the web try to push the boundaries even more. I write javascript heavy apps because they solve problems that hasn't been solved on the web yet. Apps that previously wasn't possible now are and that is where you can dig gold.

I don't want to have to write a native app because I think the web platform is simply the best way of building apps since there is no other way to be in control and user don't have to download anything else than javascript, which are downloaded and runs automatically. The author obviously doesn't like javascript but as always he doesn't provide a good answer to why.

If I can write a web based tool that people can link to, use and then don't think about until next time they need it, it will probably get way, way more used than a tool that people need to download and install simply because the installation step is too much work for a lot of people.
It's not. When you turn 65, you have the option to enroll either in "Original Medicare", which is what we usually think of when we talk about "single payer healthcare in America", or you can enroll in Medicare Advantage (aka Medicare "Part C"), where the premiums that would go to the CMS instead go to private insurers like Humana, United, Oscar Health, and Clover. These plans replace Original Medicare, also cover Part D prescription drug benefits, and often include supplemental benefits that Original Medicare doesn't already cover. The supplemental insurance you're talking about is "Medigap", and that's for people that choose "Original Medicare", but wish to fill in the gaps with private insurance. Today, Original Medicare only covers 80% of costs, and does not cover Part D drug costs. It does NOT apply to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, which is what I'm talking about in my original comment.

36% of Medicare beneficiaries are on private Medicare Advantage plans instead of the public "Original Medicare". This number has been growing so rapidly, that we expect by 2025, more seniors to be on a private plan than the public one. There's also great variance by State. In Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Alabama, Hawaii, and Connecticut — over 40% of beneficiaries are on Medicare Advantage[1].

For most beneficiaries, Medicare Advantage costs about 39% less than Original Medicare[2].

Medicare Advantage plans are, on average, of higher quality than the public "Original Medicare"[3].

In Urban areas, Medicare Advantage costs less per capita to administer than Medicare [4] — and that's not including the extra Medicare Part D insurance that you would have to buy if you're on the Original Medicare plan. From this same research, public "Original Medicare" is still cheaper in rural areas, but not by a whole lot.

Disclaimer: I write software for claims processing and payment systems. I love talking about this stuff, so happy to chat more about it.

[1] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-dozen-facts-about...

[2] https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...

[3] https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...

[4] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
While you chose not to share what poor outcomes you are considering; your comment compels me to state the obvious: nearly all choices have trade offs.
One can be a healthy addict (i know very healthy people who cannot stop coffee without withdrawal), one cannot be a healthy obese person.

The problem in this comparison is that addiction has a very broad scale (e.g. coffee to crack) similar to body weight. Obesity already entails the person well over-weight (in terms of drug use that'd be "daily crack use" or smth).

I personally would rather be in a relation with a coffee addict than someone suffering from obesity.
> As it is, this entails limiting the users' freedom to tinker in such a way that they simply cannot screw things up no matter how hard they try.

I've had my parents on Ubuntu Linux for a while now for exactly this reason: no matter what they do, they aren't going to screw things up, even if they tried. It just works.

So far there have been no complaints and no issues.
With the original exemptions on AB5 and AB2257, and now this, who is still covered by AB5?
Bummer. I would pay good money for a single board that let me mount 4-8 of these guys. I'm aware that the Turing Pi 2 will supposedly do this, but it's still in development.
You can make your own Uber. There is nothing stopping people from doing that. Lyft and Uber are all powered by VC money. There is nothing stopping a communalist approach to software and profit distribution.
1a - build trust specifically with IIT aspirants who, even if they don't get into IIT, will hold amazon in high regard and consider amazon for employment down the line.

3. get data / insight / early access to top level test takers and build a recruiting funnel before these students start college.
They also don't want to let it sound bad, but in essence this is exactly what they are proposing from what I gather.

In a moment of greatness, which we have very few, EU officials specifically disallowed "forward policing".

Perhaps I do have a fundamental misunderstanding and the ambition is indeed to restrict general monitoring (sic) and these attempts are meant to sway some more zealous voices. But a lot of these companies here have shown interest in getting more data rather than less.

Without further comment this seems to be an attempt to fortify their positions as "leading internet companies" as they describe themselves and furthermore...

> limited liability when they take proactive action to ensure that illegal content [...]

... can basically allow propaganda. You just need to conjure a threat of incoming "illegal" content.
So essentially... Cheap workers?
The problem with that is that, in the end, you are carrying a multirotor on your plane. It is not so efficient as a fix-wing or plane and it does not perform like a multirotor, because it lacks hovering endurance. That convertible concept does make sense for some specific applications, but they are not the perfect-for-all solution either.
Many of those pro-voters are drivers who voted for what they want. Let's not pretend to know better than the people working in the field.
Ditto. Elections in the US are run so inefficiently, it’s not the tech, but the people running them. I doubt tech would make a difference unless they also drastically change the people running those high tech machines.
Why would you prefer a runtime error over just not making the mistake in the first place?
So how do I actually see which airplanes are in the sky at a given moment? I went here:

https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/user/vegasbrianc

(from TFA) but it's all just stats. I want to see "Ok, that's an NBC helicopter overhead" or "Oh, that's a flight to Denver overhead")