skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would tone down the contrast/volume on your responses if you want to sound persuasive. I’m guessing this is showing up on Hacker News because of the data analysis methodology nature of the postings.

Benford’s law is a very well-established approach in forensic accounting to determine patterns of fraud. Is it appropriate to use in these cases, and was it used properly?

Selective analysis/p-hacking/cherry picking is a strategy all-too-often used in even scientific publications to exaggerate the strength of claims. Mathematical statistics itself, however, is pretty well-established as an approach to analyze data and identify outliers to gain insights. Is the author biasing the analysis with selective focus in a way that any objective observer would believe was unreasonable? Exactly how, and what would a more balanced analysis show?

Responses that identify methodological concerns with challenges to reported voting numbers in a systematic and thorough way would be of value to the HN community. Angry words that veer off-topic and provide only anecdotal information make you sound overly defensive and do not serve your cause well in this forum. It’s like running away from a dog, it only motivates the dog to run faster.

Just chill and address the points systematically. There aren’t that many points to address. Maybe it will take more than one post or a pdf of your own.

But if you skip a point, assume that the audience will interpret it to means that the post is correct on that point. Acknowledge if it is and move on.

I do love voting data. It collapses the wave function of political rhetoric...
I think not using cloud computing and servers when not strictly necessary is more planet friendly. For example using decentralized p2p technologies like WebRTC is a good way to not use servers I know you still need servers for peer indexing etc but I argue that this is more green, we should start thinking in terms of offline first software where the user owns his data locally so it does not live on a server somewhere because the more data a server has the more compute power it will use to work with the data.

Edit: Typo
The nice thing about early microcomputer BASIC is that it was a "clean" extension of a desk calculator interface. You could input simple computations at the REPL, preceded by a '?' sign (the abbreviated token for the PRINT command) and they would be performed using floating point arithmetic. (Those softfloat routines took up a lot of space in home computer ROM!) The UX was thus perhaps rather inelegant compared to something more principled like FORTH, but it would've been quite appealing to many novice users seeking to make some use of their newly-bought machine - back then, such users would've been expected to learn programming and develop their own programs on the machine itself.

Of course those computers also had worthwhile graphics and sound capabilities, but typically those were machine-specific and programmed by dealing with the memory-mapped hardware directly, even in BASIC. (There were special instructions PEEK(addr) and POKE addr, val for this purpose.) Similarly, other instructions (SYS, USR()) were used for calling custom machine-language routines either from ROM or user-loaded code - which could be plenty useful since BASIC itself, being interpreted, was relatively slow.
> Yes, it can be used as an anti-psychotic. However, in most of the cases I've heard, it's used as a sleep aid.

I've never taken anti-psychotics. I've asked my doctor for anti-depressants a few times (usually during relationship issues) and they are not my thing.

You're not a medical doctor, right? Obviously, or you wouldn't be giving out such frivolous advice. Dude... it's an anti-psychotic drug.
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I just can't trust the results of MI, WI, PA. Hundreds of thousands of mail-in votes that arrive at 4AM after election day were just enough to change the outcome of the election. And how is that out of a batch of 130,000+ mail-in votes all of them were for one candidate.
The most impressive thing it that Let’s Encrypt are the ones who are trying to fix a problem that should be fixed by phone manufactures and telcos.

I can see why, but I would also have like the phones to “break” so the owners would avoid those brands in the future, and pick one who care enough to push out update.

Still, I can blame Let’s Encrypt, they just want to be the good guys, and the do it so beautifully and transparently.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/

Two incredible actors, and one very touching movie.
Perhaps we're using the wrong metaphor - lock your doors. Congress wants to ban door locks to your home, your car, your gun safe?
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> it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality

If by superset you mean it's as anyone as ReCaptcha plus 10 times more, I concur.

Recaptcha is annoying but at least it gives me a relief short a while after solving it. hCaptcha is dumb as rock and challenges me every 10 minutes even when browsing the same fucking website.
Then we just need to add the amount of monthly insurance costs and it's about even again :)
> Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. We are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, email, and voice and data applications.

I am very confused by this statement from Barr.

Protecting consumer data is protecting a business' operations.

If user data is properly encrypted, then a dataleak is necessarily less of a liability. You cannot lose what you do not have access to. Protecting the customer, protects the business.
It's more complicated than that, if you want to read all the way to the end of the article.
It's not real C64 BASIC though. POKE and GET didn't work exactly like that. You'd need to know some details about the Commodore kernel's memory map to port the game to a real C64.
The scenario you describe unfortunately requires more than just right to repair. It requires the SoC vendors to either keep updating their kernels, or to open source their driver blobs. Without these, you can't build a proper new OS image, you're stuck on the latest one provided by the SoC manufacturer.
Awesome, thanks for the background information!
The universe is not an organism in any accepted sense. It doesn't acquire energy from its environment, use that to reduce local entropy, and expel waste products. It is energy, it is expanding, and its entropy is reducing exactly in accord with thermodynamics.

If the universe is an organism, then so is my cup of tea!
404 is literally the correct response for this behavior, per the HTTP spec.

There was no server-side error. The requested resource was unable to be located because it no longer existed. You should return a 404 here, and not just for non-HTML API clients.

Application-side fatal errors are in the 500 block. So yes, you absolutely can distinguish this case.
It's a complete end-to-end solution with an opinionated approach and unstructured documentation.

That is, the learning curve is very steep.

That said, for new projects I'm doing packaging and containerization in nix, because I don't have the time or mental energy to deal with half-assed solutions anymore.
> “warrant-proof” encryption

Like “warrant-proof” rooms and houses that, even with a valid warrant, won't record conversations and send them to the police.

And just like encryption, those “warrant-proof” protections can be circumvented by planting physical or software bugs on target houses or computers.

They're not complaining that law enforcement can't subvert privacy protections - they're complaining that they're not already subverted, ahead of time, for everyone.
Careful with antihistamines. I've abused diphenhydramine in the past. Like crazy amounts each night. And I know at least 2 other addicts who have as well - one even claimed they shot it lol... so it can be addictive (and slightly physically addictive hard to get sleep until after 'withdrawals' end).

it helps 'slow down my thinking' and just kind of nod out to nothingness when taken alone. and combining with other drugs/alcohol amplifies

I feel like it has permanently worsened my memory. For sure brain fog is definitely noticeable for weeks after stopping.

There are also a few scary articles I've read linking to alzheimer's/dementia. It kind of makes sense from my limited wikipedia understanding of brain chemistry that blocking Acetylcholine would have long term effects. amped up version of this action is used to kill people vx seren etc

im sober from everything now. but every once and a blue moon i'll take diphenhydramine if i'm having serious insomnia.

one night feels restful. after that it just exasperates & continues the cycle. It also is hard to take just one, I literally have to buy a travel pack, take one, throw the rest away or i will keep taking them until they are gone. annnnd now i want one to zone out. don't abuse drugs kids!
Don't Mandelbrot fractals take longer the more you zoom in, because more iterations are needed to distinguish detail? (IIRC correctly from when I played with implementing them)
Well if they’re buying “raw performance per $” then they’ll be buying AMD chips anyway.
These names are getting more and more nonsensical. "Rocket Lake"?
You can analyze the data yourself. There are sources and python scripts included

https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
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Parents only: Home Montessori activities & curriculum
I am a Montessori mom who uses Montessori methods with my toddler every day at home. A couple of friends and I (one of us is Montessori-certified) developed an app for mothers interested in Montessori & STEM activities (age 1-12). We put it out there and got very few downloads ;-( we are frustrated because we worked very hard on the app and feel a bit discouraged. We are even wondering if we perhaps should give up working on iOS…

I am looking for people who could help me test the beta version. I’d love to learn about the things which we can improve for you! Anyone can help? The app is free of charge and with freemium features such as home routine planning and tracking! I would be very grateful.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edubaba.ho...
Why not refuse to publish a detected secret at all until the repo owner takes an action to allow it?
Is it possible to design double blind test on the effectiveness of fasting? Or how do we rule out the possibility of placebo effect?
Computing was way more fun and much more exciting back then than it is now. It was so easy to get started. My parents kept reminding me to spend less time playing around the computer and more time studying for school...
Now, 40 years later, I'm still living off those skills acquired back then...
I read the title, listened for a bit to it, and some of their other podcasts.

The very nature of the podcast is to discuss 'Fascism' and I find including Thiel/Weinstein on the 'target list of Nazi-like people' though 'technically not Nazis' is intellectually offensive, and really defeating the purpose.

I don't care about Thiel, Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan etc. or any of these people really but it's troubling when people try to suppress them or try to marginalize them as 'extremists'. There's absolutely nothing these guys are onto that should be remotely problematic in terms of civil discussion.
Seroquel is quetiapine. People are calling it an anti=psychotic because it is an anti-psychotic. That's its main use, and that's what it's licensed for.

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/quetiapine.html

https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Treatments/Mental-...

> Quetiapine is a medication that works in the brain to treat schizophrenia. It is also known as a second generation antipsychotic (SGA) or atypical antipsychotic.

If doctors are prescribing seroquel for sleep problems i) that's pretty scary and ii) it's an off label use.

EDIT: here's the FA information showing that seroquel is an antipsychotic and is not licensed to treat sleep problems. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/02...
Listen to the episode :) they don’t label Peter Thiel or the Weinsteins Nazis.
"pure unix" looks more like plan9 than openbsd
Academia has it's own special brand of politics, intertwined with vying and competing for relative scarce positions. That's why it gets personal: sticking labels on people is a favorite past-time. It's a cesspool of accusations and counteraccusations, nothing to do with the matters at hand for millions of people.
> I haven't done any stats since college, and that was over a decade ago, so I don't claim to be an expert.

That's the whole point. This isn't my field of expertise and it certainly isn't yours. No offense, but the 45 minutes you spent between my post and this one is not a "literature review." I am a professional scientist and for my most recent publication it took me three weeks to cover the literature on my one narrow finding. That was already after spending the last five years in a PhD becoming an expert in my field! The three weeks was spent deeply reading almost every significant paper on the topic I was publishing on. That is what literature review means and you don't really understand the nuances of applying Benford's law to election fraud by spending 45 minutes browsing wikipedia and skimming abstracts.

If the political science experts who have spent decades studying the facts surrounding Benford's law disagree that it is a reliable indicator of fraud then what are we doing running sketchy analyses and then making huge leaps to claim it as "mathematical proof that the democrats stole the election." And yes, that is a conspiracy theory with all of the hallmarks of one. It is to the point that state election officials are having to waste their time to go on television and debunk literal lies and disinformation that are being broadcast by certain political figures. Judges are already tossing Trump's lawsuits because even his lawyers have to tell the judges that they have no evidence of fraud. The continued assertion that Democrats are "stealing the election" is the conspiracy theory here and it is literally dangerous. A bomb threat was called into a Philadelphia counting center. Vote counters are being escorted to and from counting locations by the police for their protection from armed mobs that are aggregating in some areas. You'll have to excuse me if I'm already tired of seeing these baseless claims show up over and over again when not even Trump himself can pull out evidence to support them when it comes time to do so in court.

If you want to learn about Benford's law then good on you. I think that it is a really interesting topic and there is some good entertainment to be had in learning about it. However, it's delusional for people like the author of this article to spend an evening learning about it and then act like it is the magic bullet from the Kennedy assassination.
4chan as a whole isn't racist. 4chan is just honest and unfiltered. Honest discussion is pretty much impossible on any other mainstream web platform. Websites like hacker news are heavily moderated to "stay clean" and then we got reddit, a dystopian wholesome echo chamber.

By the way: Pretty much every other 4chan user is looking down on /pol users. They don't trust /pol, because they realized it's indeed inhabited by the bad kind of racists and generally heavily biased people.
After we get rid of warrant-proof window shades, we'll get to the real problem. We all know what it is: Thought Crime.
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Here's the research and code. It's all open source. I find it very convincing but that's just me. Do your own analysis

https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
Hydroxyzine aka Atarax aka Vistaril is an anti-histamine. Off-label used for other things. Habitual anti-histamine use causes Parkinsons...
They're from the "prevent sharing at all costs" mindset.
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Anyone knows how they identify a swab is not from the participant? Do they DNA test every swab?
https://www.monkwhocode.com/2020/11/javascript-snippets-inte...
As someone not as involved, it's hard to follow why it's a mess.

The actual installation with flatpak also seems to use

flatpak install --user flathub-beta org.gimp.GIMP

and the make current is only for managing the active installation. From someone that has never used flatpak it doesn't seem more a mess than apt or the deb way in any way and also manages to have the unstable and stable version installed at the same time (which apt doesn't as far as I remember).

Am I missing some hidden problem besides that it's not available in the manager of choice?
SUS specifies that dd should do the "right thing" with input with non-integer number of blocks input, that is pad it with zeros if conv=sync, just pass through shorter otherwise.
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Don't worry big business we don't mind you guys keeps your secrets secret. It's the plebs that the fourth amendment shouldnt apply to.
Their wet dream is the current state of affairs on the fourth amendment. Even though all of our communications are are captured on some servers in Utah, it's not a search and seizure unless we "look at the communcation". Wink wink
> C, Pascal, FORTRAN, and friends all had a compile step which meant that you had to operate a text editor and command-line... BASIC was so much more immediate and straightforward to learn on.

A "text editor and command line" workflow requires a notion of files which just wasn't a thing in those early machines (except as part of custom disk-mamagement commands). What they had was a sort of line editor as part of the UI itself - if you typed a line number at the prompt, that line would be replaced in memory. Of course this worked really well with early BASIC where control flow is expressed entirely via those line numbers. Some primitive visual editing was also allowed - you could LIST some lines of code, then change a line on the screen and press the enter key - the ROM would then read the complete line of code from the screen and update it in the actual listing. It could get confusing at times, but mostly it worked quite well.
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Have you listend to the second episode? I know it’s a long one and with quite some rambling https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-weinstein-part-2...

At the end the elude to why they did the podcast episodes... check the last YouTube link of Eric .. that video is dangerous and stupid.
> Protecting consumer data is protecting a business' operations.

Not really.

The article was trying to create a distinction between internal business uses and consumer Internet use. An example might be branch-branch bank communications. You could probably argue either way about whether that is more valuable or not than tweets.

You're only viewing it from an end-user Internet privacy viewpoint. Using SSL on HN is not in the same league as banking.

For younger HN readers who weren't around during the PGP war in the 80's/90's, it's expected that governments will keep reviving bills like this until they win, so eternal vigilance is needed. Also, LEO will always push for the laziest method of getting their job done, hence stingers and cell phone tower dumps.
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Basically what title says.
There's this pattern of taking stable functional things and then hobbling it, stripping it of features, and giving it clunky ux patterns in the name of imitating some direction apple inc has taken.

It's a really annoying pattern and it really needs to stop
I'll add one thing here.

"Slither" is definitely a negative term. A human doesn't slither, unless it is up to something nefarious, sneaky, malign, or evil. The devil is seen as serpentine in the Christian religion, and historically known as 'slithering about' to do evil. The apple offered to Eve, as part of the 'fall from grace' of humanity, was offered by Satan in serpent form.

The English language evolved and formed over centuries, in parallel with Christianity as a religion. Hence, many such negative or positively charged words and phrases exist.

For example, 'awesome' is "good awe" and "awful" is "bad awe", but why is "some awe" good, and "being full of awe" bad?

Because there is the concept that one cannot withstand being in full presence of God. Having some "awe" of God withstandable, but all? Will destroy you. To be filled with awe, something immensely wonderful to have some of, is horrible.

Irregardless of the current state of Christianity, English is derived from its historical, cultural roots, and some words can be "associated with malice". And again, I've only ever heard 'slither' used in reference to a human being in a highly negative connotation.

NOTE: I fully agree, especially on an international forum which has non-native speakers, assume good intent. However, the initial reply was not angry, or hateful, at least not from inakarmacoma.

Anyhow.

My 2 cents, worthful or not.

(Edit for all sorts of weird errors, and added a bit of context)
Cool idea I suppose, but for $5/month wouldn’t I just not sign up to those mailing lists in the first place?

Or get another email address?

This doesn’t feel very sustainable.
They also helped basically make it a requirement by allowing google to flag http pages as insecure and convince the public that it's necessary
You're arguing with a side that is using statistical analysis to detect fraud. Meanwhile your arguments are:

- "fixation on wildly cherry picked data and missaplied (sic) statistics is the conspiracy theory"

- "There are already court cases with the best experts in the land looking at the counts"

- "They are starting to be laughed out of court because they have no evidence to support their claims"

I don't find your arguments compelling because you are arguing to authority. You also use a case that was dismissed that has nothing to do with Benford's Law. Please address specifically what data is being cherry picked and why Benford's Law shouldn't apply in this election.
I’m yet to see a CI/CD tool that can’t do all of that. What you’re describing there is the bare minimum I’d expect any CI/CD solution to do. I guess there might be some hobby platforms for indie devs but they’re not really the use case we are discussing when talking about Jenkins and Concourse.
I love how minimalist the site is. On the other hand, you should probably at the very least have a terms & conditions and a privacy policy there.
Clicking unsubscribe myself vs. forwarding an email and potentially exposing private data —> Is that the argument?
What kind of person needs 60 unsubscribes per month? That seems like an insane number of newsletters/marketing lists to be subscribed to.

Even if they did need it, they wouldn't need it for more than 2-3 months.
How does GraphQL allow you to not worry about those things?
I've seen this play at my current work for the last 2 years, but it plays out in such slow motion that a lot of people just don't realize it. Or, they do, but they've got a deployment to do so they get on with that and they'll come back to thinking about it when the deployment is done.

Nothing made me understand how awful and damaging this dynamic truly is than playing factorio. I got to see it play out in real time in the microcosm of my factory. Running on the treadmill of maintaining resources to produce ammo to kill biters and fix things they broke never making any forward progress until a dramatic shift in strategy that freed up a lot of cycles.
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Or just click the unsubscribe button myself? Is forwarding the email really any easier than unsubscribing yourself?
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Emails in the US have an unsubscribe link, and failing that web email clients have "report spam" links. Don't understand the need for this service.