skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing a few things: Votes should never be identifiable and the count should be verifiable.

First of all: using somewhat public things like SSN, "numbers in your street address" and a credit card number is a terrible idea. All of those have been leaked and are present on things you present to identify yourself or pay. Also requiring a credit card or home to vote would almost certainly be unconstitutional.

Getting a "receipt" is also problematic: You should never be able to prove you voted A over B or vice versa since that opens up ways to intimidate people to vote one way and coerce them to prove it.

I'm not saying it's impossible but there are so many problems with electronic voting that I don't even know where to start. At least with physical ballots we can manually recount if we need.

And that's before we even start talking about how current systems are basically swiss cheese for hacks, just look at the voting village for the last couple of defcons.

Related (and amusing) links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

https://xkcd.com/2030/
You are trolling. Your original response did NOT address anything I said, and when I pointed that out, your response did NOT address anything I said.

I hope you find success with your hate-speech videos.
Eat butterflies with me?
I try to re-watch this once a year. Always puts things in perspective for me.
https://archive.is/lvkuW
You were criticizing certain scriptural passages with what seemed to be an obvious lack of understanding of how those passages are understood by modern Jews and Christians.

The comment about polygamy is along the same lines -- where it occurs in scriptural narrative, it is not condoned, merely reported truthfully. Modern Jews and Christians don't understand scripture (in whole or in part) to be condoning the practice at all

> Give me some scientific evidence instead of appealing to authority and nostalgia.

I have appealed to neither authority nor nostalgia, unless you want to call talking about scripture an appeal to authority. The veracity of scripture is a basic assumption in Jewish and Christian belief, and I'll leave it at that. This thread isn't a good place to debate that topic.
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I do, because it solved a rsi issue for me. The mouse is far closer to the centerline of my body when I don’t have the keypad in the way.
"Feather, not feather"

It only does feathers...?!
>You're completely ignoring batteries

I'm not.

>which have already demonstrated their viability in southern Australia.

They didn't. They replaced natural gas in one specific use-case, namely to provide grid stability. Those batteries (no batteries) are capable of bridging renewable variability.
> but having a way to let the compiler distinguish between the two

But then you are using the language to teach the language. I think C is most valuable to teach how a simple computer works as a foundation for exploring what more interesting computers could do and how we could program them (at this point, probably in languages that better match the abstraction you want).
Tumblers seemed to work just fine.

One single counter-example of someone who failed to take necessary precautions when committing a crime doesn't mean the tens of thousands of people you never heard of haven't been very successful.
I'll take that as a no. So how is it "hard currency" if you can't buy the things you want with it?
I had the chance to work with Randy during his time at UVA. It set me on a path that led me to the career I've had in HCI and UX over the last few decades. Watching this talk still brings tears to my eyes.
This site at CMU has a lot of interview footage with Randy accessible via natural language search. It does a good job (I feel) of capturing what it was like to talk to and work with him: http://randy.etc.cmu.edu/
The argument for restricting the use of color/animation/sound in UI elements is that you don’t want to have the icons distract from the content.

The problem with that is that, sometimes, the user is looking for UI elements. I don’t see us build an AI that detects that and makes icons more colorful/distinctive (and don’t even know whether that would be a good idea), so I guess the ideal is somewhere in-between: icons that are neither too bland nor too colorful.
How many drivers is Uber paying hundreds of thousands of dollars plus massages and ping pong tables to?

We're talking about people not even getting health care coverage, and who may actually be losing money on the balance, due to the depreciation of their cars, insurance premiums, maintenance, and other costs which they, rather than their employer, have to bear, thanks to Prop 22.

The point I was making, however, was not about Uber drivers specifically, but about the position that as long as an arrangement is freely agreed to it's ok.

That attitude leads to all sorts of exploitation. Uber's arrangement with their drivers is just the tip of the iceberg. Amazon's exploitation of their warehouse workers is a related example, with much worse done in countries that have no labor or workplace safety laws.
I agree, however when I have discussed this with people the question ends up boiling down to some version of ‘at what point does a fertilized egg become a person’.

I.e. the fundamental issue is a question about what constitutes a person.

Resolving this always seems to have spiritual connotations and some kind of faith is involved.

If you have strong feelings about killing people and those apply to fetuses, it implies you have a strong belief that a fetus is a person.
New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression
If you were someone who was going to vote for Trump and for the last 4 years you were continually portrayed in the media as a deplorable racist nazi would you be super excited to share this with a random stranger?
oh put it back up!
Yes but they still tend towards simpler shapes, and fonts can't have multiple colors
> Those charges were dropped

Dropping charges doesn't mean it's not true, just that the prosecutor did not want to pursue the case, in light of other prosecution available.
Massachusetts has passed the Vehicle Data Access Requirement Initiative
Interesting, so (to a rough approximation) the CPU is smart enough to boil off many 'shallow' inefficiencies. Doesn't cache behaviour still matter though? I'd have thought code-compactness would still be worth carefully optimising for.
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You're not wrong. HN seems heavily biased against anything crypto. With Paypal, Square, MicroStrategy, and even JPMorgan adpoting/investing in Bitcoin, I think it's becoming legitimate.
I used TeXmacs for a while back in 2006-7. It had a beautiful wysiwyg interface and the most elegant way of writing equations. You used the tab key a lot to cycle between symbols. So "3=<tab>4" might turn the = into an equivalence sign; another tab might give you approximately equal; and so on. Or "a -> <tab> " would let you cycle through different arrow styles.

In the end I gave up because LyX seemed better supported. I've not tried it for a long time. Since then I've learned to hate TeX vehemently; that system really needs to die. It would be good to have more alternatives. (TeXmacs itself isn't TeX, but uses some weird lisp-like syntax IIRC.)
There wasn't any mention of cost, so you're making a big assumption here. I imagine the caching layer would significantly reduce the Lambda calls.
Of all the conspiracy theories this is the most hilarious
> Take map/reduce for example. Totally do-able as a hardware implementation

Not sure I follow. The hardware would have to know a lot about how your arrays are organized and how they'd map (or not) to your SIMD instructions. The compiler, at this level, is generating instructions that are no longer very close to the code you wrote.
Someone has withdrawn –$1B from a Bitcoin wallet dormant since 2015
Check out https://ogger.club, which adds features to the collection display, like tagging and other search options. It's based on uploading your exported-from-discogs collection, but it might scratch your itch. I'm not involved, it's just something I know about.
Is that the same as a mixer? If so: sure, they work just fine, except that you've introduced a SPOF who can tell everyone who you are/where it came from/where it went, etc. It's also tough to call something that arose long after BTC itself a "design goal" of BTC.

Maintaining proper opsec for any significant length of time is extremely difficult, nigh impossible. Almost everyone will fail at some point. With pseudonymity, a single failure ever means everything is lost. With anonymity, only that single failure is lost.
I accept that to a certain extent, but it's a slippy slope to 'why should I pay taxes to try to help those people'
The new Gimp icons are fine for experienced users (like myself) who only need a faint pointer to the function if the tool. I use shortcuts for most of them anyway.

But users who are only starting to learn the ropes the classic big and colorful icons are a serious help. They are still available, just not made the default.
The pendulum has swung full opposite from the skewmorphic trend in the early 2000s. Now it's all about abstract shapes for UI buttons, and abstract color blobs for app icons.
There is certainly no evidence to support the idea that your view is the opinion of the majority, even if it is common.
Right, changing the equation fonts may also create ambiguity, some custom, complicated equations (several levels of super and subscript, various bars etc) might use some latex hacks or workarounds.

It would require that the authors also create and polish an HTML version, which is extra work.

Even on the official IEEE sites papers look way worse in the HTML view, even though I guess someone at least tries to tweak the to appear okayish.

Purists would argue to separate the "presentation layer" from the underlying content, but it's never like that in the messy real world. Content and presentation are very much intertwined and abstractions are too leaky.
Up here in the North East near Sunderland we get a lot of Red Kites so I've learned to recognise them fairly well. Very hard to get a good picture though.

I spotted a Kestrel in a tree a couple of weekends back, that sat for a while and then dived to try to catch a small bird. It missed but it was great to watch. I managed to get a few decent photos - https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDt2HogIZj/?igshid=1n13m6e6a6e1...
It also brought tons of attention to youtube-dl itself, which is still widely available and will remain so for basically ever

(apologies for rewording the Striesand Effect but it is very real).
I'd guess just because cw is much easier/faster to type (because c and e are pressed with the same finger) on a QWERTY keyboard.
My experience at Amazon paints a very different picture.

There's layers and layers of management. There were 12 people between me and Bezos.

Unlike Google, peer feedback is a lot less important at Amazon. Promotions and PIPs are solely based on your manager. If you have a great relationship with your manager, you're fine.
Very well explained. I am a programmer who DJs and a music collector, so I am naturally interested in these technologies.

I used to do a lot of data mining on data from various musical sources. Mostly with the goal to make the discovery process faster.
I'd rephrase as "you just can't help SOME people".

There are disadvantaged/disenfranchised communities that are that way primarily due to circumstances beyond their control (ie local large employer closed/left town) and would/will pick themselves up given the opportunity and perhaps the right leadership.

There are also plenty of disadvantaged/disenfranchised communities that are so pathological and broken every person in town could win the lottery and the community would still be in abject poverty a year later.

If you're going to try your hand at community development you have to determine which mixture of those camps your community is. It's difficult to discern, but too often the question of "what are the social/cultural issues preventing the community from moving forward, and how might those be addressed?" gets dismissed because the people who get into community development have a messiah complex and can't imagine how these poor victims they're saving might have contributed to their own circumstances. When talking about communities of color the question is often dismissed as racist. The result is superficial, overly-idealistic solutions that almost always fail.
I can't even access this site because Firefox is complaining about it using a self-signed cert.

There are no excuses why this site should be serving an expired (10/04/2019, 18:24:11 (Greenwich Mean Time)) self-signed cert.
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...Another LED for the data wire then?
> Doesn't cache behaviour still matter though? I'd have thought code-compactness would still be worth carefully optimising for.

Well that's partly why I'm still surprised, but I think for a lot of dynamic languages there's such a huge volume of code anyway... that these little 'mov's are pretty insignificant.

Removing them would have a down-side - extra compilation time.
LDPPR4x is a very odd choice for graphics.

LPDDR4x soundly loses to HBM2E on energy/bandwidth ratio.

6-8 picojoules per bit to 1.5-2.5
VC money and the returns that the investors expect. Requirements of meeting those returns means introducing more revenue-generating options, which means shifting the focus of the company away from the initial vision and towards making money. Hence the collaborative features nobody asked for and the affiliate links the OP mentioned.
I have moved C code from x86 Unix to MIPS Windows CE and the pain was with Windows CE, not MIPS. The compilers very happily abstracted the gory details away and pretty much did what I expected from i386 to MIPS (R2000, I think). And that Unix code was never intended to be ported to anything else.
Do you have any examples of contemporary issues where an infusion of information has triggered a successful policy reassement and compromise? If not an active success then some areas where it's possible?

I'd love to believe this but years of following local, state and federal politics have disabused me of this notion. Especially watching the Obama administration try that approach over and over unsuccessfully.

I guess Maine comes to mind but it's small size and idiosyncratic politics don't bode well for expanding that model across the country.
I don’t own any Bitcoins and I never have, but if I did, I could at least buy some goods with them. Not most of those, but I have in fact seen real life stores that accept Bitcoin as currency.
> I began starting a fight the moment others would belittle me.

This sucks but.. from personal experience, there's absolutely no question in my mind that this is by far the most effective way to deal with assholes in middle school. I'd love to be wrong, but if there's a better way, I certainly didn't find it when I daily had to deal with that kind of shit.
Could be a SilkRoad vendor just getting out of prison.
> a huge fraction of the crypto economy is outright extortion or fraud

I'm not sure that's true. Do you have a citation?

What is clear is that a huge portion of the crypto economy is based around cryptocurrencies (particularly bitcoin) being financial assets.
Yep, plenty of tools in the infosec world on github and elsewhere are published by anonymous developers.

Plus when you use an anonymous name and get a popular project out of it, you still get recognition. Even if it's not publicly in your name. You'll still feel good about contributing to the world.
I don't think that's actually true.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

> 1: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

> 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control early instances of army fascism and brutality

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism

> a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

> the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.

> a political movement that employs the principles and methods of fascism, especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.

The "usurping power" part sounds a bit scary if interpreted too literally, but realistically, I think /u/ksdale had something in mind more along the lines of ~if the government has a long track record of fucking up initiatives, a better response than sitting there and taking it is getting off your ass and do something about it. That was my interpretation, and to me that sounds like a pretty decent idea, although surely risky in some scenarios depending how one goes about it.
For a "fun" project you usually don't want your main machine to run 24/7 just to do this task. Energy consumption is not that great for a full x86 machine. But a Pi? No problem running that forever.
Wouldn't it actually fall under the umbrella of economic inequality?
Because everyone wearing plastic fabrics is somehow better?
That's fine for "toy" tools, but please don't try to shoehorn real productivity tools (whether they might need an Internet connection or not) in the so limited browser GUI !

EDIT: One recent example in mind : the web-based Big Blue Button video conferencing app : there doesn't seem to be a way to open chat and slide screen in two separate windows !
When your GUI is worse than what we had in Windows freaking 3.11, there's something that went really wrong...
geocities sends their regards :)
And what's to stop the feds setting up 10 competing sites and then fining everybody who sold their votes 10x the amount they were hoping to get?

Which of the 11 tor sites will you submit your receipt to now?
I did not even try it but it seems to be a language for the definition of data types. That is, you can formulate any algebraic data type in the language and it will spit out some code to create/deconstruct values of that datatype.

I think this is a very interesting tool but it lacks names.
Thanks for the reminder. I read his book years ago and it really hit home. I should re-read it.
Don't forget about the huge ramp up in overdoses over the last few years due to street heroin being cut with fentanyl. I lost my best friend two years ago from this. If he could have been getting a known pharmaceutical quantity from a medically supplied source this wouldn't have been an issue.
Maybe a cheaper discrete GPU option compared to Nvidia MX GPUs, and paired with cheaper comet lake processors?
But but but, what about the Bitcoin Gold???
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Laptops generally can't afford HBM.

I have a hunch that DG1 is Tiger Lake with the cores cut out so that's where the memory controller comes from.
Saying bitcoin provides less utility than a credit card is missing the point the bitcoin people are making.

You can still hold that bitcoin is bad, but that particular argument is not viable and comes from ignoring what the other side is saying.
He also wrote a book titled 'The Last Lecture', cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture

Highly recommended.
I have to admit these look really quite shitty.
What's self referential about it? The huge number encodes the image that the equation plots it. The plotted image is another representation of the image and the huge number. It only takes two sentences to explain but the author writes on and on about useless stuff rather than what it actually is.
Are there not hooks to turn off power in the kernel to such devices?
Another fantastic talk of his is about time management: https://youtu.be/oTugjssqOT0
File and Folder Structure for Web Development
hahahah I love this
I have as well, but not many. Certainly not enough to call it a "hard currency" (of which the entire point is that it's widely, almost universally, accepted).
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I never say a whop running on AWS and not having a person managing it. Said person always has enough skill to replicate same setup on a dedicated hardware/VPS. I don't say such shops does not exists, it just I never saw them.

To me AWS killer features are RDS and ability to provision 100 servers in a few minutes. Most of the time scaling is not needed and RDS alone cannot justify the cost of AWS.
Ive read multiple reports that the Ubuntu distrivution is significantly slower than the Raspian bundle. I dont know the root cause, but you could check out the stock image for a comparison yourself
...yes, that's how downloading works.
The ballot itself could be a zk-SNARK written to a blockchain signed with a private key owned by the voter.
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Does anyone do machine learning on Ryzen APU series and if so on what software stack?
Madagascar sounds like such a cool place for nature-type stuff. Kind of like New Zealand or Australia.

Places I want to visit but are so far from where I live, you really need to plan it out.
Except every time this has been investigated, there haven't been findings. The only reason to think this is the case is people's hunches.
Anything you get sited for would be on your record similar to the way your traffic tickets are. If they are going to revise gun legislation to limit sales of guns to specific types of violations, there are a lot of other violations I think should be higher up on the list.

Not against the idea of this, but IMO any decisions about fire-arms ownership limits should be a separate issue, not part of how they legislate drug possession.
Text to speech is something that really should be a browser feature, not something for websites to implement! And in fact, Opera had it like a decade ago!
Semantically idiotic in my experience with the founder
Ahem, the US would like a word with you.
This is great, I hope to see this grow!
Given Intel's reputation stable Linux drivers, I'm excited for their discrete desktop GPUs.
My limited experience of European cafes is:

1. No place would dare to serve you tap water - it is basically considered a health hazard, and many guests would be offended by being offered it.

2. Bottled water is an item on the menu and will cost you money.
> Cryptocurrency is designed specifically, by virtue of its decentralized and trustless nature, to facilitate money laundering. It was a design goal. This is what it's for. That and of course, collecting the proceeds of ransomware.

You probably have some good points to make, but saying something like this is just willfully not engaging in communication with the other side of the argument. That is an egregious strawman which obscures whatever valid points you actually have.
I'm not sure I understand your comment.

I sincerely doubt uber/lyft/instacart etc. will ever be profitable and have margins that make them viable businesses.

Lyft/Uber etc. have zero leverage; inorder for them to make their margin and retain profitability, they depend on low labor costs. If those costs go up they aren't in business (e.g.demand elasticity of price will kill them).

So they aren't pushing this as a 'I have leverage' play. It's an existential issue for them. They cannot exist with the labor prices demanded by the AB5.

If they cannot make their margin, they go out of business and then there is no more ride share business. Then the existing jobs go away. And this is the point of my comment. These jobs only exist with low wages. Raise the wages and the jobs go away because the business becomes unprofitable and exits.
I'd like to call out that the title _was_ longer with more description, but the mods (understandably) trimmed it down.