skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Michigan case was dismissed by the judge

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Thor Hearne, an attorney for the Trump campaign, said he wanted an order directing Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to require "meaningful access" for campaign poll watchers to the counting of state ballots, plus access to videotaped surveillance of ballot drop boxes installed around the state after Oct. 1.

Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens said the ballot counting in Michigan, which shows Democrat Joe Biden receiving about 150,000 more votes than Republican Donald Trump, was completed Thursday morning.

That made the access request moot, but Stephens said Benson already issued a directive for meaningful access for poll watchers at local ballot counting places. That directive arose from a separate recent lawsuit related to ensuring proper access during the coronavirus pandemic, with the associated social distancing requirements, she said.

As for the videotapes, Stephens said there is no legal basis for Benson to provide — or be expected to provide — access to video surveillance of ballot drop boxes installed by local officials.

A recent law passed by the Michigan Legislature requires video surveillance of ballot drop boxes installed after Oct. 1. But assistant Attorney General Heather Meingast said the law does not require Benson or her agency to track which boxes were installed after Oct. 1, let alone provide access to video. The ballot drop boxes are primarily a local function.

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Well that's reassuring.

> As was the PA case

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The president’s campaign argued that his supporters weren’t being allowed to monitor the tallying of mail-in ballots, but U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond instead argued the two sides to come to an agreement.

He suggested each party be allowed 60 observers inside a hall in the downtown Philadelphia convention center where the final ballots are being counted.

In Georgia, a judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump Campaign on Wednesday.

That case from the campaign claimed that a witness said that late-arriving ballots in one county had not been stored properly and may have been mixed in with timely ballots.

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Similarly reassuring.

Yes indeed, this is rock solid proof that nothing improper occurred.
> To copy the argument used by Apple supporters, you can choose another bank.

Not really. I needed to be a customer of the specific bank to receive my salary. Luckily, this changed many year ago after government intervention, though. Now you're allowed to have an account in a bank other than the one chosen by your company. The problem is that every other bank still has the same requirement.

And my father still needs to be a customer of a specific bank to use government-backed credit for small companies that was best for him. There was nothing in the contract about Diebold controlling every single bit coming in or out of his computer.

> Apple has created an exclusionary economic zone and put 50% of Americans in it. This is unprecedented.

It's still not a sacred right of developers to fuck with my computer or threaten my ability to conduct business. My computer is my property, not yours or any other developers. Having asshole developers out of this zone is great for me.

I'm not saying what we have is perfect. I want more freedom, but only for myself and for other users. What I don't want is this freedom to be abused by third-parties, so that I and other users are the mercy of asshole developers, which seem to be the majority in 2020. Freedom is difficult when it comes to closed source software.

> A sandbox will protect you from everything you claim to be worried about.

Still doesn't excuse it, nor completely fixes it.

And I tried everything and couldn't find anything that works with Warsaw by Diebold, other than buying Apple stuff. If you have suggestions I'm all ears.
F4: Facebook’s Warm Blob Storage System [pdf]
*Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/four-seasons-...
Outsourcing IT Needs vs Inhouse Team
As a non technical founder of a company that runs online, would you fancy outsourcing your IT needs to a trusted brand or take on the stress of recruiting ,having and managing the team(department_)in house
or until LEO or State Security compels / sidepushes a trojan app update via play store update. It's as trivial as that. Or just tap the baseband chip via the provider.
The format of floating point numbers generally follows a few constraints. First, you want sufficient range so that overflows are less likely, especially for multiplying two smaller format numbers and accidentally overflowing the range of your largest format. Second, you want range and precision that captures the smallest widely used physical constant (Plank constant) and range for the largest (Avogradros’s number). When you combine those two constraints with common word sizes you get format ratios very similar to each other.
Donald Trump has a long history of racial animus. Yes, he is a racist. The racist five year lie of birtherism he told before he was even a running for office, to delegitimize the first Black president, and the sitting president at the time of these racist and conspiratorial attacks. Trump's racial animus in the case of the Central Park Five, before and after they were exonerated, is well documented. Trump's racial animal in federal housing discrimination cases, is also well documented. And his dog whistles over the past six years, well documented. Yes he's a racist.

I also won't give a pass to the deeply ignorant. They are demanding a right to be treated like foolish children, somehow innocent of the decision they're making to remain ignorant of the fact Donald Trump is a racist. I mean come on, of all the difficult things to do on planet Earth, admitting Trump is a bigot is difficult? Grow up.

American society continues to give racists a pass. This includes Nixon's Southern Strategy as told by Lee Atwater in his 1981 interview. It's called plausible deniability. The idea some people are so ignorant they cannot be aware Trump is a racial bigot, and thus they can support a racial bigot while simultaneously denying they are one themselves. It's not believable. And I won't believe it. It's not my burden to take people's word at face value. Grow up. Stop being an infant, stop demanding that people treat you like you don't know better or can't know better.

I am 100% confident there is a Republican out there you can support instead, who has all the boilerplate Republican policies you like, without the bigotry.
I normally install VirtualBox. It runs just fine and has not ever had a lag problem. I didn't install VirtualBox, opting to use WSL instead (Ubuntu).

Normally such a lag is due to paging. But paging lag has a "blocky" kind of update, long lag then fast update. This problem seems to be more about event handling (more about that in another reply) as it occurs on every character.
I don't like the characterisation as "land representation" because there is a long and sordid history of only land owners being able to vote.

But I do think that farmers (for example) contribute a lot to a country and would lack voting power in a purely population based presidential election system.

I'd note that this argument goes against my politics: Farmers as a block are rarely progressives.

Edit: Elsewhere gameman144 explains my point better than I have been able to:

> The top four states have roughly a third of the national population; if federal policy were enacted purely by population, why shouldn't they allocate all federal funds to themselves and deprive other states entirely? The Senate and the electoral college give enough of an advantage to small states that, even though no one or two small states are liable to flip an election by themselves, they are still able to have a voice in federal policy by coalition-building.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031351
Facebook's process is pretty transparent and clear.

They rely on independent fact checkers e.g. AP to determine what is true or not. And they regularly publish on the volumes and types of content they are removing:

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-coordinated-inaut...

Twitter is definitely less transparent but also less severe since they don't have the concepts of Pages or Groups.
Laser Cutting Machine for Face Mask
This laser system helps relieve the pressure of face masks production. Especially the double-head laser cutting machine greatly improves the production efficiency. In addition, the laser system can achieve zero-distance typesetting and collinear cutting, which can maximize material savings. Laser cutting can also realize customized processing. Face masks of any shape and size are suitable for laser cutting, which has the characteristics of high-precision cutting and high automation.The market demand changes rapidly at this moment due to covid, the laser cutting surely can benifit a lot of business. from:www.mimowork.com
I agree and like to point out the downvotes to your comment raise a "red" flag itself
Just now, I’ve been watching all the 007 movies from the beginning

Turns out I never saw them before, and I’ve been to all these “exotic” locations as the aspirations have been deeply woven into our society!

Everything is so familiar because the tropes have been done so many times since, even video games have spent the last few decades trying to accurately simulate these same circumstances, looking at you, Uncharted!

I got the biggest kick when he brought out a bottle of “Don Perignon, 1953”. I’m pretty sure HIRED sent me one of those from 2009 and my guests were very impressed and pleased when I used it.
Off the top of my head? Google Photos is actually usable, there are many options for game streaming and emulation, PWAs work, Termux (think iSH but significantly faster) works, transparently proxying phone calls through Google Voice or other services works, browser extensions work, on-device system-wide ad-blocking is available, and there are multiple options for driving infotainment (including Android Auto) without a head unit in the car. It is enough of a gap that I have never considered using an iOS device even though they're offered to me for free.

Some major pieces that are missing from both are the ability for user-installed apps to auto-update without using the system app stores and the ability for a user-installed app to process call audio.
Tesla has a terrific business selling stock
Self-hosting. Otherwise you’re forever limited to whatever the service provider’s understaffed moderation team translated from the corporate email and plugged into the filters this afternoon.
Swift Playgrounds on iOS can run arbitrary swift code but not Third Party Apps
In the wake of A-shell & iSH getting removed from the store, it is a wake up call for Apple to remove Swift Playgrounds as well since it does the exact same thing as terminal emulators.
Confidence Network Effect
This comment sounds like “there is no particular technical obstacles for any nation to start and complete an Apollo Program equivalent”
Why feel bad? It allowed me to run R, sandboxed, on my iPad. The world was a better place for a couple of weeks.
As someone who is strongly irritated by (and perhaps allergic to—I've not been tested) tea tree oil, please do not do this.
Already tired of pseudo-science from anonymous Twitter "data scientists".

If these people were reputable or serious, they'd post under their own names.
You found one in the 0.00002%. Notably, this occurred during a primary. It's still awful, but the GOP trusts the Democrats to run their own primaries and vice-versa.

I wonder how this came to light years after.

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-c...
Relax.

I limit myself to 1 visit per website per day because I have to get things done. On HN I limit myself to the first 1000 posts so I have a breakpoint.

Clearly I've returned within 8 hours, violating my own rules (but it IS sunday :-) )

That said, I've been trying to understand the nature of the problem by continuing to use WSL (against my better judgement). I have more to complain about.
Not sure where you are getting your figures but this does not seem to match reality.

USGS predicts we have 13.5 million tons of lithium reserves which would support production of 100 million EVs per year for over 17 years. And that's just on the earth. Asteroid mining, recycling, or alternate battery tech could easily extend that timeline. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-there-enough...

Also take a look at recent solar costs vs. fossil fuels. They've already crossed with fossil fuels at 5-17 cents and solar at 3-6 cents per kwh. We should of course not waste energy, but requiring humanity to use less energy is not the answer, it's never happened in human history and we do not need it to happen.
He didn't, and neither did Obama if we're going to give Trump credit for this.
> Single payer health care is not a necessity for a functioning free market economy, any more than the government must run collective farms.

See this is where we disagree. I believe healthcare is necessary for a an functioning capitalist system to exist. I do not describe the existing setup as functional.
A fun website that simulates fluid
How does Biden’s victory impact Indian politics?
Funny I ran my old IBM Model M through the dishwasher once and let it dry and it was fine.

It broken in a move at some point though. :-(
If countries want to preserve their fishing stocks for local fishermen they'll have to set fishing quotas or no fish zones within their EEZs like the article suggests. But fish have no conception of EEZ boundaries and the moment they wander outside they're free game for Chinese DWF fleets. From China's view, if foreign countries want big EEZs, they can shoulder the cost of maintaining the fishing grounds inside.

Looks like the real solution is to genetically modify fish so they always stay within 200 nm of land.
With the price of gas being so low and most Americans driving suvs the appeal of electric isn’t great. I really like smaller cars but I feel like they aren’t very safe When every other idiot drives a car with twice the mass
GA case dismissed too.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-campaign-announcement-las-vegas...
> Getting past the forced FB integration

There is no "getting past the forced FB integration", which is what makes it a paperweight to the author.
Yeah; the existence of a court case does not imply even -evidence- that the event occurred, let alone the fact. Trump has filed 1900 lawsuits over the past 3 decades; that's over 63 a year. It's obvious that's his response to any perceived slight, including "not enough people voted for me".
Yes that is how it should be. Each state has different interests. By having electoral votes based on population we are not avoiding the problem of population centers directing the country.

How is electing a president different than votes for a constitutional amendment? Each state gets one vote there.
> Some "rednecks" in a small town is not indicative of the entire country,

Neither is some asshole liberal you ran into once. Nor is the caricature of "Liberal elites" you read about in the National Review.

>nor would you rather live in another country where that's the national norm.

Who said I'd rather live in another country. You seem to be having the argument you'd like to be having rather than actually participating in a conversation.

>The issue with immigration policy has been stopping illegal entry and ensuring the rest are valuable contributors to society.

I'm sorry but if you aren't considered part of the in group, White Trump supporters won't admit this to you, but as a group they are terrified by the demographic changes in the country. Fear that their culture is being erased is the primary impetus behind their call for decreased immigration. Law and order, and calling for a points base immigration system is simply more palatable than outright calling for only letting in Whites.

>Nobody is stopped because of their national origin, nor has that ever been proposed.

Trump has instituted Travel bans multiple times. During his campaign he called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." He also reportedly said "Haiti? Why do we want people from Haiti here? Why do we want these people from all these shithole countries here? We should have more people from places like Norway.”

His advisors and and multiple national Republican politicians have said they are afraid that White birth rates are lower than immigrant birth rates.

>The USA still continues its green card lottery system which gives out many free slots every year. Very few countries come anywhere close to matching the immigration strength or desire of the USA.

Again this isn't from lack of trying. Trump isn't a dictator, there are limits to what he could accomplish in 4 years.
Ask HN: Is YouTube slower on Firefox than Chrome?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS using top-of-market, workstation-grade hardware, and when I'm watching YouTube on Firefox 82.0.2, the videos keep buffering. I have a 55 Mbps down Internet connection, and this didn't happen before. I had a sneaking suspicion that YouTube would work better on Chrome, opened YouTube using `google-chrome-stable` 86.0.4240.183 and it worked beautifully.

It's been frustrating this year because there's a bunch of little changes made to Google apps in order to make it break on Firefox, like Google Sheets added an extra carriage return on Firefox that wasn't present in Chrome, and Google Meet forcibly errors out with a "network connection" issue that requires Chrome. Also the `youtube-dl` ban thing, I'm using somebody's fork right now but not sure how long that will last.

Just wondering if other people are experiencing these "buffering" errors.
I had one of those radio shack dialers. They were still selling them in 1998, but were suspicious when you asked for that crystal. The intent was to store phone numbers in it, slap it up to the microphone and let it dial for you. I may or may not have added a second crystal and a switch to pick which crystal to use.

In the memory you could store the tones for a nickel, dime and quarter. Maybe this was a red box? It worked great provided you dropped at least one physical coin to trigger the switch in the phone.

By leaving the original crystal in, it was also a white box, if I'm remembering right. I only ran into one phone that it was useful on. If the phone was setup so you had a dial tone, but the keypad was disabled until you paid, you could dial with the device - just like rat shack intended.

I'm sure I lost more on parts than I gained in calls - that wasn't really the point. Good times!
Thanks.

So like so many all-electric vehicles, the ID.3 is still not in mass production.
Automation and the Future of Work
https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords/issues/9 for more context.
> voters in so-called swing states have much more influence on the outcome of the election than voters in states with established political supremacy

I can't imagine any system where there aren't "safe" areas that politicians essentially ignore.

Sometimes these "safe" states/areas aren't as safe as they were thought to be (2016 Midwest, 2020 Georgia and Arizona, Texas looks to be heading that way).

The Midwest is a perfect example: in 2016 people there felt that the Democratic party was ignoring their needs and switched their traditional trade-union based Democratic voting behaviour to Trump.

Areas get attention by changing their voting habits. I don't see this as a bad thing.

> On top of that, the electoral college enables the "faithless elector" scenario, in which chosen electors who cast the legally-binding vote for president opt to either vote against the wishes of the electorate or to abstain entirely[0].

Yes I agree entirely this needs to be fixed.
I definitely agree.

Question: is dang paid for his work here?
I don't want to dismiss automated provers, as they are often quality, useful tools (SAT solvers in particular), but if you're interested in learning AI, traditional approaches are no longer more than briefly and tangentially relevant.

That's my point, that you don't need to learn woodworking to build a car, even if wooden carts still have occasional uses, and some cars have wood trim or wooden trailers.

> If I am permitted to tout my own horn, my broader subject area can be described as "program learning", i.e. machine learning of arbitrary programs from examples of their inputs and outputs. In this area also, deep learning systems are hopelessly outclassed by symbolic approaches, not least because these approaches learn precise representations of target programs (rather than approximations) from a mere handful of examples (four or five, etc).

I have looked at the program synthesis literature before and it really does not seem very advanced to me. The General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite lists unsolved benchmarks like “Given three
strings n1, n2, and n3, return true if length(n1) <
length(n2) < length(n3), and false otherwise”, and that's with 100 examples. So, probably less practically useful than GPT-3, which wasn't even trained on the task.

> the last winter happened because of strictly political reasons and for no reason that had anything to do with the scientific merits, or practical successes of the relevant approaches

I disagree, but you've not given me much more than a list of vague references that don't all exactly support your argument, so I don't have much clue where you diverge.

If GOFAI worked, we'd see some indication of it working (again, in an AI context), but we don't.

> But if you think about it, in the era where the trend is to use deep learning, the most interesting results can only come from not using deep learning. In a gold rush, if everyone is digging up Widow's Creek, then Widow's Creek is the last place to dig for gold.

This analogy doesn't work. Neural networks are giving unparalleled results by the bucket. That's why people are digging there. A gold mine might have plenty of competing miners, but it's sure going to be a lot more likely to give you chunks of gold than a random patch of grass in your backyard.
Chicago is famous for voter fraud, in the tens or even hundreds of thousands[1]. It's almost as if the USA has political machines that mastered electoral dipsy-doodle over a century ago.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9GDrIH...
I wonder if it would be worth putting a layer of black paint or a clear sealant over the metal plate that was exposed? I'd just worry having freshly exposed metal like that might eventually rust.
Useful or not, it should not be required in order for you to use a very expensive price of equipment that you already paid for.
From what I understand there's a not insignificant (but also potentially low enough to not matter to many) amount of extra latency when using it to display content rendered on an external PC.
Perhaps this might help? https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore/tree/master/AltServe...
I would like to really get into it, but I get hung up with the monotony of weekly check ins and no one really else around except for the same 5 people on the repeaters.