skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think public voting is untenable due to the massively increased risk of voter intimidation[0]. Any voting process that requires it is going to be a non-starter unless you can change human behavior.

[0] A recent example: https://news.yahoo.com/mystery-blue-dots-painted-near-225645...
Link 1 should have been: https://app.idagio.com/albums/schumann-and-brahms-lieder.
Very very bad idea. We just have Trump shouting "stop the count" and "illegal votes", imagine how this could go wrong with blockchain.
> Why? Because it doesn't just have to work. Voters have to have confidence in the system. And that system isn't just technical, it's social.

I'd go even further and say that if voters believe in the system, it doesn't actually have to work. Belief in the system is the mechanism by which democracy provides stability. The election system actually working as advertised is only necessary to the extent that the system actually working is required to make people believe it works.
GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences
Columbus, Ohio.. Out of nowhere, into the hotel lobby walks .. Jerry Springer

IIRC, Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati for a bit. I seem to recall he also got busted passing a bad check to a hooker. I don't think hookers take checks anymore.
I emailed them.
Indeed. It's the in-album grouping that I was desiring, though. (By the way, I pasted the wrong link: This is the Schumann/Brahms album: https://app.idagio.com/albums/schumann-and-brahms-lieder.)
Just remember: you don't have to prove something actually works, let alone that it's a good idea, to get a patent on it.
You're right, abolition of slavery won't be achieved until settler colonial slave states like the united states are dismantled and replaced with a fair society. However, the abolitionists did accomplished many great notable things, such as killing a bunch of racist southerners.
Well we also don't know what to do about suicide. Just because unsolved problems exist, doesn't mean civilization hasn't improved a lot. You would surely never expect to get to a state with no remaining social problems.
> There are some implementations creating hundreds of lines of opt-outs, some where you have to opt-out vendor by vendor on their own website.

If I'm not mistaken, if there isn't a big 'Refuse All' (non critical) button on the 1rst dashboard 'page', then that implementation is considered to be illegal by the GDPR ?
For me it’s because I didn’t know about the tweet, and I assume it simply isn’t that well known of a tweet. Why would it be, as a joke made in poor taste 6 years ago. However, the comment is written as if everyone implicitly knows about it. This to me is disingenuous. It may seem less vain to phrase it like that, but it feels more scummy. I assume the reason why is because the alternative would be going mask-off and admitting that the intent is to raise awareness of some stupid off-hand remark from 6 years ago, which I suspect wouldn’t land well on HN.

Could be wrong! But that was how I felt reading through this.

Do I defend the remark in question? No. But at least people should cut the shit and admit that saying something horribly inappropriate once in a while isn’t actually that weird. Funny how we all have people we know that have done this, often people like our close family members, then act like it’s the end of the world when someone moderately popular does it.

Let’s be realistic: nobody should care about this tweet. If it stops them from getting a job six years down the road, I would find that immensely more fucked up than the inappropriate joke itself. If Ken Jennings is actually a terrible person, it would probably manifest in more ways.

edit: Not that anyone thinks it would, but my opinion on this is not going to change due to a low score, so if you are stopping by to leave a vote please consider commenting to explain why you disagree. Otherwise, I am left puzzled.
I'd rather not be ridden out on a rail from my tech company by people finding out I voted for "cheeto hitler".
> Sure, but how is Q more trusted than, say, the FBI, even if the FBI is hardly to be trusted at all?

Yep, it is all screwed up - we need to work on establishing new sources of information because many old ones pretty much discredited themselves (maybe they can be cleaned up but I doubt it). Political journalism is hard to find these days - but there are some brave people like GG and MT that are trying to do that outside of media corporations and I think it is a way to go for now.
An Explanation for Some Covid-19 Deaths May Not Be Holding Up
> The amount of money per working musician has gone down significantly but there are more of them in 2020 than has ever before.

Which is a point: Quantity != Quality. This argument makes it seem like anyone can go and earn a living from music and that simply isn’t true. Anyone can make money with music with a little investment in a copyright and BMI id... To make it a career, to live off of, as your sole income source has a lot of musicians having to diversify how, where, they release music.

Artists with indie labels are fighting for air time with other artists with indie labels for $3/1000 plays.

I’m not blaming Spotify outside of the fact that my $9.99/mo subscription (minus 10%) should be allocated based on play time to the artists I listen to. This doesn’t seem to be the case.

Granted, it’s been over 15 years since I released music. I never “made it” in the traditional pre-diy era. Punk Rock is dead based on listenership. I went into tech.
Voting needs a blockchain like a fish needs a bicycle.

There are many challenges in voting systems. Blockchains address none of them and, in fact, without great care they could easily obliterate election security-- enabling coercion and vote buying. A true blockchain would also degrade security in other ways.

Anyone pushing blockchains for voting are extremely confused by the technology, -- e.g. calling any cryptographic audit log a "blockchain"-- at best, or exploiting buzzword hype to defraud you, at worst. None of the possibilities suggest that they have a system you should want to adopt.
> Randy was so inspiring and we’ve made no progress since his death from it in 2008. ... Better treatments for a few cancers should have been included in there.

It's a slow, slow slog. But at least give the scientific world some credit. There's been a whole lot of improvements to cancer treatment in general in the past 12 years, and some small ones that are still very meaningful for some people for pancreatic cancer in the past decade (e.g., just in the past several months, Lynparza).
Agreed, the language support situation is a very mixed one in nixpkgs, where support ranges from rudimentary (or even non-existing) to well integrated and supported. Particularly the Erlang/Elixir situation is - as you already brought up a while ago[1] - very rudimentary and really needs to be improved.

Right now, I do manage my Erlang dependencies with Nix only and without using rebar/mix (particularly since I do want full release upgrades with hot code reloading), but manually managing those dependencies certainly doesn't scale well for all projects, especially if they already use rebar/mix.

I also haven't looked into newer projects like nix-elixir[2], but as another commenter here mentioned, there are typically tools available to convert between the language-specific package managers, but they all come with their
own set of issues and tradeoffs (eg. duplicating dependency information or importing from other derivations at evaluation time) so they might not be suitable for your project.

The situation with secrets is a long lasting issue[3] with several attempts of solving, but so far the best practice is to just to either leave secrets out of the Nix store or just make sure the entire Nix store is not accessible.

Since I also use NixOS for a few days, I can imagine why it could be frustrating if things don't work out of the box like on other distros. Having had my own adventures patching things like no tomorrow, I know sometimes the effort to do this could be quite time consuming, especially the GOG games[4] you mention.

So I'd say if you frequently use software that is problematic on NixOS and don't want to go through the hoops of patching or making workarounds like eg. Docker or FHS user environments[5], I'd probably stay off NixOS.

Personally however I think it is worth going through a few hoops, since to me it shifts the frustration of "my system broke during an update" to "just want to get X to work NOW" and among other nice benefits (eg. bisecting
whole systems, rollbacks and/or using specific packages before they broke) I'd rather prefer a working and reproducible system.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/53834

[2]: https://github.com/hauleth/nix-elixir

[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8

[4]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/tree/0aa8064087b895d2...

[5]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-fhs-environment...
> Jerry Springer. He kind of just meandered into the lobby where we sitting and sat down, by himself, with no apparent agenda?

I understand you indicated the actual reason 'film crew' but people in entertainment (or who write) often do similar in order to bank some content or idea for a future show. Talk to people see what's on their mind and then file it away for future reference. Comedians do that not like you get funny ideas sitting in a room not interacting with people.

> He was very nice,

When you think about it if you are a celebrity (and forgetting that you probably like attention) you have to be nice. You don't want people spreading around bad things about you. This is a theme that comes up a great deal.

It's like if someone shows up in the lobby for an interview. They are on their best behavior. Last thing they need is for someone (who they might talk to later) thinking they aren't nice.
The Empire of the Sun, it still is.
When someone dies of pancreatic cancer, I always think of Randy Pausch

I think of Steve Jobs, which proves that neither money, nor power, nor prestige can buy what God has granted to all of us: Life.
RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems
Will this help Amiga emulation, etc?
Technically, sort of, yes, but sociologically: no. Office doesn’t (seem to) use it itself. If you can insert an Excel table into a Word document, why does Word have table functionality on its own? Why does Excel have its own text box for styled text? Can I embed a Word table inside another document without getting the entire Word editor? An Excel table that’s just a table and not a sheet to which one can add charts, etc?

Also (and possibly alongside “we sell Word/Excel separately, too, and want it to be everything but the kitchen sink, to prevent others from providing missing parts”) the answer to that may be “because the UI of OLE-embedded parts isn’t as smooth as it could be”. Outside-in activation (which, reading http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.08/Op... doesn’t seem to be required with OLE, but I haven’t seen otherwise) means you have to click multiple times to start editing (clock to activate an OLE control, then click to start editing it)

OpenDoc promised much more, but of course, the market didn’t want to deliver it at the time, and we also don’t know whether its promises really can be fulfilled (Cyberdog was cute, though)
Back when Yo was initially on the hype curve we created a clone for Switzerland called Hoi (a Swiss German way to say Hi) for a joke - link to some press we got below - one of the guys in the picture wasn’t even really involved we just included him and called him CEO to add to the craziness. Technically we had pretty good native iOS and Android apps, backend running on Parse.com (RIP). We got about 10K downloads until Yo actually tried to come after us via the iOS App Store with a vague claim of copying. We defended it OK, no lawyers required but it seemed kinda uncool. We even got our photos in Schweizer Illustriete, which is a dumb magazine featuring Swiss stars - it was the summer media hole so they were desperate. We also ended up adding features Yo didn’t have like sending a photo with your “Hoi” ... took less than 1 week until random strangers were sending naked parts of their body - freaked me out that anyone would trust a random app with their privacy...

Then the hype blew over, Parse shut down and we lost interest until I actually met the Yo CEO at a mobile event in Berlin, and after initially accosting him we ended up taking a selfie together and made up.

Anyway just a random anecdote of developers with too much time on their hands.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/ap...
>that is proportional to the size of the data

I agree upgrades are still a pain point, but pg_upgrade running time is not proportional to the size of the data.
Hey, could you point me to where the political leader you're referring to has actually called for punishing opposition supporters? The tweets she actually wrote only explicitly ask for archiving things people have posted publicly, not for punishing anyone.

It's obviously possible to read what she wrote as a plan to compile a list of enemies for future consequences, but just to give an alternate perspective, I read what was said as a simple call for accountability of public figures (i.e: politicians within the Republican party who have supported Trump, but now are disavowing him), rather than being intended as some sort of mass-surveillance programme targetted at anyone who disagreed with her.
The main arguments against paper ballots are that they allow for marks that make the intent of the voter unclear and that they take more time and effort to tabulate. The latter point shouldn't be an issue due to the importance of voting to Democracy. Allocate the money required for counting and simply deal with the time it takes to tabulate, which isn't all that long.

The former could be addressed by having ballot MARKING machines instead of voting machines. Some jurisdictions have already moved in this direction. With a ballot marking machine, you can use a device such as a touchscreen that then prints out a ballot with your selections on it. You verify the correctness of your votes on the ballot. If they are not correct, it is a spoiled ballot that you witness being destroyed before using the ballot marking machine again. If the ballot is correct, you turn it in just as you would a completed human marked ballot. Given the standardized printing of the ballots by the ballot marking machine, they should also be machine readable without bar codes or any other non human readable form. If there is a question about the accuracy of the machine count, a human count can be used to verify correctness. The real gain here is the elimination of ambiguity in voter intent and the elimination of ballots that only exist inside of a computer.
So I gave your tin foil hat article the benefit of the doubt and watched a couple of the linked "facts" (or whatever you'd call that). (I'm afraid this broke my YouTube recos)

Most of what I saw were persons recording themselves making grande claims. Your article isn't a description of reality, it is an interpretation of random events in order to suit the reality that was constructed by Facebook & Fox for you.

"if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

A democrat (or god help us a socialist!) would find similarly damning evidence (read not damning at all) to claim that:

- The election wasn't tampered with
- The election was tampered with by the republicans

Finally, you're not even mentioning the amount of gerrymandering and voter suppression that (people claim) happened on the other side; certainly because it doesn't fit with the interpretation of things you were indoctrinated with by your media consumption. You're picking events.
> this is an easy way to buy some status

This is going to sound weird but I've never found any relevance for symbols, nor any understanding of things like 'status'. What you say is like words from another language, or even concepts I don't have. So permit me: what does having status mean in practical terms, if any? Does the judgement of others matter if it's based on, to be blunt, ownership of trinkets?

Not trolling, genuine question.
Both Monzo and Revolut have website access.
This is partially Spotify’s fault for what allocations they do pay, it’s the labels and record companies fault for then skimming marketing and promotions and admin fees from that leaving the artist with 15% at best.
Who the flip would want to buy a phone from their bank?

I already avoid buying my phone hardware from my telco service provider, even if it means I have to pay more (for an unlocked product).
When I have to work on a personal project, I do it in Perl. However, nowadays I try to avoid programming in my spare time as I sit behind the computer all day for work.
There is more to life than sitting hunched behind a keyboard. Took me forty years to understand that...
I can't believe one of the VCs in the video said "Why shouldn't we have manager selection and security selection with algorithms?"

Because algorithms are not destroying our society fast enough... We need to also let them decide how to allocate capital.
"Good democratic leaders make rules that account for that and preserve the vote"

So good democratic leaders make rules to protect the people from themself?
Well, I know that one. I simply disagree. I rather think powerful people make rules to let them stay in power. An obscure vote system can help with that.

Imagine suddenly a change to open-vote:

would Trump really have won, if he just would have tried to buy votes? I doubt that.
Ken Jennings has already stated he's not interest––listen to his episode on the podcast "People I Mostly Admire".
Elections are important to society. Those elections being safe and secure is important to society. Computerized voting methods that are fundamentally unsound undermine that. They are occasionally being adopted anyway because of lobbying (read corruption). Voting against these officials, and informing society about the dangers of voting machines makes this type of corruption more difficult.
Has anyone calculated the ratio of simple questions that anyone can answer on a game show vs. the more difficult ones? Obviously there is a formula to keep people engaged by having low hanging fruit that everyone knows 'that's easy'. This would be an interesting topic for a paper or article.
Sure but I could see this being used as a side-channel attack to exfil data from a customer in a red team assessment. Practitioners love little tools like this.

Also I'm not talking about 30 miles away...but if a completely intact cable can be detected with a directional antenna from 100m, an intentionally buggered patch cable installed at a client site for this purpose could pose a bigger concern for pilots in the area. (edit: I might be more tuned in to this (har har) because I live in the flight path of a medical helicopter that flies over at ~500' almost daily.)

Ham folks can seem a bit hair-triggered chicken littles with RF hygiene but it's the product of decades of fighting noise from people that aren't aware of the externalities of their actions.
Looks great but the price for the keyboard with keypad is $455.
Note that 'share my location' (or not) is already being perfectly fine handled by the browser.
Biden supporters flood streets – but media called Trump rally 'super spreader'
> if uninformed people don't like the result and don't understand the process

I agree that we should make the process simple and transparent so that others can verify it, but not because we want the truth-denying anti-science megalomaniac to concede (they won't in the face of hard truth and facts); but because we can have other experts in the field peer-review it.
When I was little (maybe middle school), I remember being frustrated at not knowing any of the answers to the show. Inspired by jeopardy, I joined quiz bowl (think jeopardy but for teams), and it really let me explore many different topics through my own curiosity. I still get most questions wrong when I watch the show but I can really embrace how learning in itself is a gift, even if you don’t win :)
Without a major overhaul of the entire voting system, it seems that computer vision could assist with observation. Let's say both parties can have their own tamper resistant devices that can record their own counts of votes from a portion of ballots with identifying information removed. Either party can challenge the recorded result from a ballot and must make a deposit that is not returned if their challenge is not successful.

The whole idea of having multiple humans standing around watching every ballot seems like it's unfeasible, and presents the opportunity to cast doubt on the process.
I’m not an expert here but isn’t security by institutional bureaucracy a feature here?

First, it’s a system that people without any degrees can understand and execute without the aid of computers. Trust involves far more than cryptographic trust: understanding how the system works and that it is being carried out faithfully is also important: how do people do that when not only is the system opaque but the means of executing it is also a black box?

Second it’s really difficult to attack. The physical aspect and coordination required makes it difficult to pull off and harder to do quietly without anyone noticing.
I've setup many a Linux server over the years. Generally I set it up, and it works great for ages, but when something eventually does break, it's been so long since I touched it that I'm lost.

Another issue is "works on my machine" - with containers I don't need to worry about what packages and versions are available in the package manager. I can run a container anywhere.

And in the case where there is a hardware failure, it takes an age to get everything back up and running. Using containers forces you to have everything setup in a reproducible way.

If you're not familiar with containers, I understand that the learning curve might seem steep, or that it might seem too complicated, but it's honestly not.

Now, I wouldn't personally advocate for running k8s, or even k3s, on a personal server - they really are very complicated, and k8s in particular uses a lot of CPU and RAM to do even nothing. But Docker Compose and Swarm are pretty simple really, and life before them was absolutely worse - I love these tools.
New Zealand has fisheries management with a lot of quota provided to Maori Iwi (tribes) who in turn might sell the quota or run a fishing business outright or in partnership. Additionally Maori have customary fishing rights for funerals and other customary events.

I am not quite sure what you mean by property rights and what it means in reference to other places.

On a side note, New Zealand just changed a number of significant fishing rules for commercial and recreational fisherman. The new restrictions on types of fishing that are allowed are to help protect both the Hectors dolphin (est. 10,000 left) and the Maui dolphin (est. 50 left.

It is good to see these unilateral efforts are possible in NZ due to their being no competing interests who have legal entitlement to the same waters.

Annecdotally, It is still relatively easy to go to the beach in NZ and catch a few fish of 2 - 6kg in size.

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/protection-and-response/sustainable-...
> Exception might be nomadic people, like beduins travelling through the desert: when you come to their tents, you are bound by their rules, even though the tents change place.

And dispossessed peoples like the Rohingya in Myanmar, or the Kurds who live in 3 different countries and are not particularly well liked by any of their 'hosts'; the Uyghurs in China.

But people have to live somewhere, and places have governments, and governments may not like some people.
I qualified it with the word "often." Perhaps I should have said "sometimes." At any rate, I am only speaking from experience based on the people I've met. I have personally been ridiculed for expressing an interest in trivia facts, on more than one occasion.