skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed this response earlier, but want to make sure I don’t let it pass by. Stimulants can make you more anxious. If you’re not actually treating a dopamine deficiency, it can be like way too much coffee. If you are treating a dopamine deficiency, in some cases it can cause anxiety regardless but in most cases heightened anxiety is a sign the dosage is too high. Generally it helps relax the brain chaos and it should be settling enough to be able to get to sleep.
> GNU/Linux is getting better by the day.

No question that it is, but it still has far enough to go that it's an acquired taste at best. Switching platforms also means switching apps in many use cases. Combine those two and it becomes easy to see why individuals who aren't compelled by the ideology behind GNU/Linux might not see it as a particularly appealing option.
You’re talking about the implementation but ignoring that Yo is an extension of people’s communication in a dynamic environment. For instance, I bet more Yos were sent during the election.

Most Yo users are not performing code reviews when sending and receiving Yos.
If all the ballots were shuffled in the mail across the timespan in which they were counted, that would make sense.

However, they are not, so the assumptions underlying the analysis do not hold.

For one thing, many states did not begin counting these ballots until Election Day, per state law. For another, the entities performing the unofficial counts were not necessarily the entities receiving the ballots. The author clearly conflates these two points when he says that Milwaukee ballots heading to the county to be counted were received after the deadline. They were received by the precinct at the appropriate time, and then transported to the county for final tabulation - again, presumably, in compliance with state law.

(EDIT: Notably, the video clearly shows the ballots being transferred by law enforcement, so it's patently dishonest to suggest that was the time they were received through the mail.)

If a state performs constant counts and constant updates as they receive individual ballots from across the state, then you should get a more-or-less constant D:R ratio.

If you count mail ballots in batches of updates from different counties and within counties from different precincts, then you will see the D:R ratio generally shift, with precincts and counties with higher populations (ergo higher batch processing times) coming later.
I understand the frustration with badly asked questions, but not sure I’d want to work with someone who views conversations with coworkers as “offering little value”
Is it really an HRV if the air streams mix? [1] The primary function of an HRV is ventilation. Any air stream mixing would nullify that objective.

1. https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/misconceptions-...
it's a stark difference compared to, say, https://www.papaparse.com/ in javascript which pretty much does anything it can to parse a file
My comment was not about a programming language, but about a book of example one-liners. I have the same problem with any book of one-liners, no matter the subject language.
This is a really poor understanding of several things, including, for instance, how the USPS actually handled the ballots. This "randomly shuffled" thing is flat wrong.

There's actually a lot of really good data about how many mail ballots were requested in each state and the return rate. Many of the states even have data about which party did a better job returning the ballots.

https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

Several of the "modelers" out there used such data to basically know by ~1am Wednesday morning that Biden would likely win PA, for instance. It was just a matter of time.
Hence the Senate. The President doesn’t legislate.
Yeah, that's a good point. I should spend a lot of time on that in the README.

Just to help frame me in the right direction, could you let me know what sort of features are super important to you? Or what sort of situations really scare you that it won't be able to work in?
> Life in general? If you have an idea that this country is safe, then great

This is literally the safest period in American history when it comes to crimes, especially violent crimes.
Screaming Channels
Apps are sandboxed already. The security of your OS and other apps is still protected even while sideloading. The only possible benefit is preventing sideloaded apps from using dodgy payment processors but thats hardly more of a risk than apps telling you to pay via their website which they currently do.
> Why should a man in wyoming's opinion on what federal laws I should live under count 70x as much as mine?

Because ideally, that distribution will give you pause when considering vesting power into the federal government.
Start with pen and paper
What're you implying? That non-trivial amounts are never actually fined?

TIM were fined 2780% of the CEO's base salary recently.
> They're buying Apple's vision.

Well then I have a great solution that helps both these users, and others who want to control their own device!

There could be a simple, easy to switch setting that says "all uncurated apps". A jailbreak switch, if you will.

And the consumers who want to turn that on could do it, and the people who prefer "Apple's vision" can choose not to do so.

Everyone wins!

Just don't flip the jailbreak switch if you prefer "apples vision". Easy.
No, this is to illustrate that despite Nix being purely functional it doesn't necessarily mean you lose velocity when doing things interactively. In production I usually use Docker. Nix can generate Docker images though, so I'd like to try it out sometime.
While I know I'm just attracting downvotes, your points, in order:

1)

a: It's really not that hard to think of ways to solve backdoor problems with a mix of technical and social approaches. For example, having shared keys burned onto silicon, making physical access mandatory, and split between both the law enforcement and the company, so that both parties must knowingly engage.

b: Most software already practically backdoored already, and it's really not that big a deal. Microsoft can push whatever updates they want whenever they want. They already have the keys to the kingdom! Google doesn't store everything E2E encrypted. They also already have the keys to the kingdom! Things have mostly worked out regardless.

2) That a measure will be imperfect is not an argument that it will be ineffectual. In fact it's pretty obviously false; making abuse harder on mainstream platforms will make abuse less mainstream.

3) This is like arguing governments shouldn't be allowed to regulate weapons, because it would be hypocritical, given they own weapons themselves, and it might normalize other countries taking away their citizens' weapons, which might prevent them fighting back. That seems like an obviously bad argument.

4) Yes, your platform that makes oversight impossible is not compatible with regulations requiring oversight. That's not an accident, in either direction.

The idea later in the post seems not really honestly engaging with the topic, that it's not about ‘someone who believes birthday cake is undesirable’, but about networks which are systematically and in actuality doing things like trafficking children for sexual abuse, and that there is a moral imperative for governments to deal with this beyond just letting people choose not to engage.
Strategies to working remotely and smashing goals
Japan’s Onryō Spirits Inhabit a Purgatory of Revenge and Cosmic Rage
I think what's meant is that you aren't representative of an end user. That seems a sane interpretation of what saurik was trying to convey when put into the context of his other statements.
There are already efforts to integrate DRM deep into the graphics stack, in the kernel and mesa.
It is in fact not true that Schneier is an especially widely cited scholar on this subject.
that has been superseded by 3dbenchy ;)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=3dbenchy&iar=images&iax=images&ia=...
Interesting enough, the mail-in ballot returns on a per-precinct basis were actually shockingly consistent, even over time, likely proving by this method that there wasn't any voter fraud.

The thing is though, if you look at the returns on a state level over time, what you are actually seeing is the results from all sorts of different types of votes in different places over time, so you won't see any consistent pattern. But if you break down the votes to the specific places then you see exactly what you'd expect to see.
He didn't say that he views conversations with coworkers as “offering little value”
DM for my rate card.
Because people don't want just another android phone. They want their desktop on a phone. They want to use desktop GUI toolkits, desktop package managers and all the rest. Android also contains a mountain of anti features that are hard to remove. Its also missing a lot of critical features without the GApps so maintaining a fork of android is almost as much work as making GTK work on a phone.
Not fast enough. The threat is not being exposed to droplets hours after someone with COVID was in the room, the threat is them expelling COVID particles at your face because to are right next to them.
Excellent - it's never fun dealing with a tragedy of the commons, and conserving a wild and endemic species of cash crop is definitely worthwhile.

The cultural and medicinal history of ginseng around the globe is also fascinating. This is only tangentially related, but here's a slightly exaggerated account of the reverence which people used to view it with:

>The legends are quite marvelous. Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, “the root of lightning,” because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bolt. After a life of three hundred years the green juice turns white and the plant acquires a soul. It is then able to take on human form, but it never becomes truly human because ginseng does not know the meaning of selfishness.

>It is totally good, and will happily sacrifice itself to aid the pure in heart. In human form it can appear as a man or as a beautiful woman, but more often it takes the form of a child, plump and brown, with red cheeks and laughing eyes. Long ago, evil men discovered that a ginseng child can be captured by tying it with a red ribbon, and that is why the plant is now so hard to find, the hunters say. It has been forced to run away from evil men, and it is for that reason that ginseng hunting has become one of the most hazardous occupations upon the face of the earth.

>The ginseng hunter must display the purity of his intentions right from the start, so he carries no weapons. [...H]is quest takes him into the wildest mountains where no men have dared to pass before. Tigers and bears are his companions, and the hunter fears strange creatures that are even more dangerous than tigers—such as the tiny owls that will call him by name and lead him into the Forest of Oblivion from which no man returns, and the bandits that are more brutal than savage bears and who crouch beside the few paths in order to murder an unarmed hunter and steal his roots.

Hopefully things don't get that bad in the misty mountains. The book that's from, Bridge of Birds, is a uniquely charming (but not very subtle) picaresque.
In 18th century theory. In 21st century practice it's incredibly influential.

Do we tax more for social security or cut benefits, do we extend medicare to 55 year olds or delay it until 70, can my daca friends get a job, can Icontinue to operate a company(Obamacare), not to mention war. It's far more influential than my city( or state government.(I live in Houston, this would probably be less true in states like New York or California which has have a larger government)

Another proxy for influence is money, and I contribute far more to the federal government than I pay in state and local taxes, which reflects the very large impact it has on our lives.
But at the same time, if Apple opened iOS to the same freedoms macOS has, users could, in fact, make informed decisions about what they want to run just as companies could configure restrictions and mandate defaults. It doesn’t exactly feel either-or to me. Apple hasn’t actually locked down the device if users can jailbreak or side load. All we’re suggesting here is that there should be a setting advanced users can toggle on. Think of how users can turn on WSL in Windows by downloading an app - what would “Developer Mode” look like on an iOS device, and is there not a middle ground between completely unrestricted and completely sandboxed?

Forget iPad replacing macOS, at this point I’m fascinated by the idea that an iPhone Pro might actually run macOS-like in the future for developers. It’s been a decade since the first jailbreaks were commonly available and we could run shells and other background apps—at the expense of battery life. Apple has built everything they need to keep things safe even if they open the sandbox... they could treat it like location permissions and continuously prompt, allow only some apps, spy or sandbox what function calls apps can make by default, etc. Yes, it could be abused, but they could cloud-scan files before running, or even require signing and submission. I know folks will keep pushing for fewer restrictions, and I know the business reasons that keep Apple from doing this. But this use case won’t ever actually go away...
Tax revenues which pay for federal services like the armed forces, led by the president, aren't equally contributed by each state. The day that happens is the day Wyoming's vote can be equal to California. It'd also be the day California succeeds from the union.
I don’t know, it’s not like these compete with a true *nix userland or Xcode really (since Apple can get 100x or more performance than the emulator that iSH is forced to use due to the sandbox restrictions). It seems like they are more concerned that Microsoft can say “No Game Pass? But I can download Tux Racer on iSH!!1!” which doesn’t look awesome to a judge.

I’d love to be wrong. Every time I think about buying an iPad keyboard I get cranky that I can’t run brew and CPython (or shoot, Swift outside of the subset in Playgrounds) and everything else I can on a real Mac.
"Compared with [healthy controls], individuals with ASD were much more likely to reject the opportunity to earn ill-gotten money by supporting a bad cause than [healthy controls]. Computational modeling revealed that this resulted from unduly weighing benefits for themselves and the bad cause, suggesting that ASD patients apply a rule of refusing to serve a bad cause because they over-evaluate the negative consequences of their actions."
From a comment:

> This repo is attempting to apply Benford's Law to vote count distribution, so that's what actually needs to span multiple orders of magnitude. Precinct distribution is a factor in vote count distribution but it doesn't tell the whole story. I don't see the Milwaukee data in this repo, but take a look at the Chicago data: https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/blob/main/data/chi... Biden's vote totals are solidly contained within one order of magnitude, the 100-999 range. Trump's vote totals range from single digits into the hundreds, across three orders of magnitude. Jo Jorgensen is mostly in the 0-20 range, across two orders of magnitude.
> The mail-ins took longer to count, because unlike in Florida, they couldn't be counted early. So what you were watching as time went on was large tranches of mail-in ballots that took forever to count coming in from D-heavy areas (or from areas where Biden outperformed Clinton, and where the mail returns were, like everywhere, more D than the election day returns).

So if I understand correctly, you're saying that there's a gradual (in PA) or not-so-gradual-at-first-but-then-gradual (in MI) shift from in-person ballots to mail-in ballots, which explains these trends? That does seem possible.

Another possibility is that the USPS processed the mail-in ballots from big cities differently from those from towns with smaller mail volume.
Author here—this is the best part of HN.

I perhaps took the idea too far. Any iOS push notification can be up to 4kb, and Yo’s API shows that each Yo includes a created time, sender name, avatar, User ID, message status, and more. That’s for traditional Yo’s; newer ones can include a location or link or RSS feed item for a news update, which goes far beyond the core concept.

So on a technical level absolutely, a Yo is far more than bit. Conceptually though a single ping—a single bit—could contain the same information, like a single dot telegram, with you or your local device recording the time received. If you only Yo’d with one other person, the time and the sender and the message they intended to convey would all be data points you would assemble in your head with the ping to get the full information.

Anyhow. That’s perhaps taking the idea too far :)
I use apple devices because I like receiving security updates after the first year, I also like not having my phone loaded with google spyware. I do not like the inability to sideload apps which makes this tool useful to me.

The app store has almost everything I want but its missing stuff I used to sideload on android like an ad free youtube app and the app to send the payload to boot my nintendo switch with homebrew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Kanye is himself a shitty record label. He signs people promising to produce their record or feature him on his albums and then dumps them.
> I understand that concept somewhat, however, I think that most of the people in western cultures are moving past this.

I agree with your comment, and I believe that these status symbols —fake or not— make people unhappy.

However, I’ll like to point out a few things.

When you say “western cultures”, you mean the US and Europe; Latin America is also part of the western culture but the situation is different. In the US the iPhone is not a status symbol, because even with a low wage you’ll be able to easily get one with a cellphone contract.

But, I don’t think that first world people is “moving past” status symbols, they have others:
Food, what you eat tells a lot about your status — you can see that all the time in the Bay Area.
College, where you got your degree is another symbol of status.
Hobbies, the more expensive —or extravagant— the better.
London's First Police Force Was Established by Henry Fielding and His Brother
Why do you keep saying "secure" and "locked-down" like they go together, when the opposite is true?
Virgin Hyperloop pod transport tests first passenger journeys
What would the use case for this be?

Sort of a super fast long-ish range missile delivery system? Like a high speed missile boat, but faster / with more range?
Having not thought for more than a few seconds about this, it sounds like a clearly invalid premise. People decide to mail their ballot for all sorts of reasons including seeing an ad, being telephoned by a campaign worker, seeing a movie on tv, being well organized or lazy, and on and on. Those catalysts are obviously not likely to be uniformly distributed between parties.
Introduction to Functional Computer
In the US the top 1% pay more in income tax than the bottom 90% combined. Of course they aren't the only ones paying tax, but the top 1% pay for a very significant percentage of the US budget.
Let's cool it with the hyperbole. Facebook is doing nothing but abiding by the terms that the buyer agreed to. You (and everyone else) can "punish" them by simply not buying their junk.
Here's another thing to look at: the Florida time series starts on election day. But vote counting Florida didn't start on election day. The state was allowed (because they are smart about this) to start counting 23 days in advance of e-day. The author of this thread is unaware of that, and has been fooled by Florida's efficiency into believing that vote returns are uniform everywhere. But that wasn't true in PA, where there was no preprocessing time at all. The clock started in PA on e-day, and the busiest, largest, most Democratic counties naturally took longer to count.
It looks like it is pulling values from the Vice President table and combining them with the President table.

Did it always do this?
Cash's "Riders in the Sky" is based on Native American mythology [0]. Cash felt it important to highlight Native American history and struggles [1]. "Riders in the Sky" was only one of many such songs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Ghost)_Riders_in_the_Sky:_A_C...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/american-indian-rig...
If I had a penny for every hacker who did Starting Strength for a year and now preaches deadlifts to anyone who will listen...
Could you elaborate on that phrase 'visit of a walrus?'

I googled around and found that walruses sleep in some pretty weird positions. Is that what you're referring to?

Super curious.
It's amazing how people's subjective experiences can differ so much. Impossible and Beyond are good, but to me they are really, really, really different from meat, to the point that I don't even understand why people eat them: Vegetables are delicious. Why try and fail to make them similar to meat, and simultaneously make it harder to understand what is even contained in the thing you're eating?
1a - Because that worked out so well for HDMI? It'll be what, maybe 90 days before those "law enforcement keys" are public?

1b - If it's already backdoored then there is no need for such an act, the problem is already solved.

2 - It's ineffective for it's stated goal because the stated goal is not the real goal. The goal is to enable a continued abuse of power, one which is already ongoing, and one which produces no actionable results or meaningful outcomes. Five eyes & co is upset that they're losing some of their toys.

3 - Who says governments should be able to regulate weapons? Likewise these days, who is to say they meaningfully can?

4 - Sex trafficking existed prior to encryption. The government failed to stop it then. I strongly suspect that even if the government gets it's way and breaks encryption, sex trafficking will continue exactly at the same rate. Most sex traffickers are not technology ept, nor do they need to be - the track record for capturing them is atrocious. Epstein anyone?

This is a bad faith argument. "Protecting children" and "stopping terrorists" are the siren's song of every government overreach basically since the dawn of time and yet the government remains terrible at solving either problem. I don't think encryption is really the issue preventing those things from getting resolved. I do think encryption is very inconvenient for a very snoop heavy government.