skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly the conspiracy theory that Biden would accept the nomination and somehow transfer it to Hillary or Harris (and less frequently mentioned Bernie / Obama) has made the rounds on the internet already a few times already. As you might expect the predictions have morphed a bit lately, like such conspiracy theories always change with no intellectual honesty that the dozens of other predictions were dead wrong, but the moment something happens that even seems like one of them, blamo someone will claim a sort of prediction victory.
If a state ID is required for voting, it should relatively free. Citizens should not be required to pay to vote.
Probably because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ2mWrejgnc /s
Yes, you would still expect Benford's law to apply with 3 orders of magnitude.

The real suspicious fact is that even within smaller totals, Biden's opponent's numbers comform to Benford while his do not.
The OG standup comedian.
nice gimmick. Take regular fan, attach ionizer and UV lamp and sell for $1K+ as virus killing solution during the time when gullible are running around scared of the virus.
We used to use slack and now we use teams. Just mentioned both because its not specific to any one tool.
Deadlifts are great for people who have taken the time to study and implement proper form as well as work their way up from lower weights over time.

However, I’m not sure how we arrived at a situation where people are recommending deadlifts as the go-to exercise for people who want to maintain fitness. Experienced weightlifters and coaches generally won’t recommend that beginners focus on deadlifts, like you said.

We shouldn’t be making fitness sound so complicated or setting the bar so high. No one needs to be doing deadlifts to get into shape. Frankly, most sedentary people need to focus on small, achievable, and enjoyable fitness goals to start. Simply going for a 15-minute walk every day is a step in the right direction for beginners. Going to the gym is great if that’s your thing, but doing a handful of push-ups and stretches at home is also great for someone looking to get started.

The Internet has been great for disseminating fitness information and generating enthusiasm for exercise, but this trend of recommending advanced exercises and over the top workout programs like CrossFit to beginners has probably done just as much harm as good. We shouldn’t be making fitness sound like some
complicated, difficult goal.
interesting graphics, +1 to the author, do you use a specific library?
How does this compare to something like this super trawler? [1]. I feel like this comment is just circling out what "The Chinese" are doing and neglecting the fact that Europeans are doing similar destructive things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Margiris
I collected Florida ballot returns and early voting by party registration by date.

I allocated independent registrations 50/50 to each party, and ignored 3rd party registrations.

Obviously this isn't the same as actual votes, but it is instructive. The Democratic party had a large lead at the start from postal votes, but that shrunk as more early voting happened.

Date Likely Democratic lead
24 Oct 2020 386,908
26 Oct 2020 354,654
27 Oct 2020 299,021
28 Oct 2020 245,912
29 Oct 2020 204,277
1 Nov 2020 94,325
2 Nov 2020 108,123
3 Nov 2020 114,889

To me this indicates that the narrative of postal votes being vastly more from the Democratic party holds up.

In states (like PA) where postal votes weren't counted until after polls closed we'd absolutely expect to see a large Republican lead which would shrink as postal votes were counted.
Well a trierarch would brag because he actually had to go on the trireme.

Presumably the best crew wants to be on the best boat with the most generous trierarch.
> Putting a backdoor into encryption is less secure than a random Microsoft employee backdooring me. At least I know it's Microsoft who will be doing the backdoor...

My point isn't about how much you trust Microsoft, but that Microsoft has keys, which are more easily stolen and in many regards more valuable than the scheme I gave.

> TSA keys

Not remotely comparable. These were never designed to be secure in the sense we're talking here.

> OPM (all of it)

> NSA's hacking tools

Hence the scheme I gave, which isn't vulnerable in the same way.
Custom role based access in Nest.js, MongoDB
Show HN is so random sometimes. I posted the same idea last year and got zero responses or comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20591010
KDE apps generally speaking are overlooked. For example Dolphin, Okular and Konsole are arguably the best of their class, but with little recognition as such.
The Vive/VivePro support full wireless via the wireless adapter: https://www.vive.com/us/accessory/wireless-adapter/
Nice. You can get GitHub to do the scraping for you using GitHub actions. To better utilize git as a datastore, prettyprint it so each commit is a smaller diff.

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/git-scraping/
This makes me think of an old video game called The Last Express

When you finish the game and roll the credits it shows a map of europe over most of the last century. The map borders frequently change.

(this is probably why europeans have a good grasp of privacy laws)

EDIT: here are the credits (low res)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eLhDN3qKE0
There is an incredible short version of this fluid simulation effect (light and movement) here: https://www.dwitter.net/d/18112
(just 140 characters of javascript code)
It seems amenable to constraint propagation + search. Assuming no repeating digits to start with, each digit is assigned a position variable on which sequence constraints can be applied, propagated and searched. You might end up with no solution if the tightest length of the sequence is assumed, so the search process must also relax that to the extent necessary to find one .. in which case you'll have holes in the result I suppose.
Postgres Constraints
Obviously, the bigger problem with trusting this Twitter rando is that they don't know how mail-in ballots are county, came up with weird broken premises, and then accused Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania of perpetrating a gigantic fraud.
Location intelligence platform Local Logic raises $8M in Series A funding
I love Jeopardy, and when it’s over, I absolutely avoid “Wheel” and switch channels to “Family Feud”.

I absolutely look down on the people on “Family Feud” - their weird semi-matching themed outfits, outrageously terrible answers to idiotic questions filled with sexual innuendo with the subtlety of a kick in the crotch - but I love to watch. It’s just more fun. I’m not sure what’s wrong with “Wheel of Fortune”. Pat and Vanna seem nice enough, but the show has the charm of a visit to the eye doctor.
It is possible, there aren't official or legal safeguards in place to prevent it. And I don't think you're being paranoid.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-tr...
Swolgenix XL

As they have a fear of being judged by their partner and they might think that their partner will leave them after knowing their problems.Men feel uneasy and tired after spending the whole day at their workplace. This can cause stress in their lives and it can also create an issue of low stamina in their body. Some kind of therapy or injections may seem to be the best cure for the low stamina in the body. But it comes out to be the most expensive way to treat themselves. Everyone cannot afford them and also everyone is not comfortable sharing their problem with doctors.

http://supplementstore4u.com/swolgenix-xl/
Thanks for asking -- most of the ideas are in my head (I have a ton of long, scattered notes in Joplin), but I've started to transfer them to a repo. I'm starting with a repo of RFCs, which are really just me getting all my thoughts out there so they can be critiqued:

https://gitlab.com/buhzaar/design

I noted that I wanted it to be developed in the open and fretted a bit about whether I should finish the initial design first or not, but figured I should just put it out there, so people can look at it and comment if they want.

The PoC to make sure this all works feels like a weekend of work (just because of how simple it is), but the upfront design is probably the hardest part. As you can see the design is so simple that the real work is defining the interfaces and leaving room for flexibility/protocol evolution.
My “Linux-Like” macOS Setup
Single+market+|+European+Commission
From my experience, as a user requesting feedback, I have zero knowledge regarding the origin of that feedback unless it is given within the feedback itself (within a specified channel).
I wasn’t suggesting some database of everyone’s votes to facilitate social criticism. I’m just referring to people who complain about getting criticism from friends/family/peers for certain political beliefs which were shared explicitly.
Nearly 60% of the web is using Let's Encrypt certs now. It's not just the one of two sites are going to break, it's going to be half the web.
I'm going to experiment by being Blind and Alone for 24 Hours
Why is NewRecruit’s reply dead?

NewRecruit 6 minutes ago [dead]

The pattern holds true even in 3 digits order of magnitude. The link I shared shows an analysis for 2nd digit Benfords as well, where Biden's is suspect and his opponent's is not.

imgur.com/a/gxuVAxc

Plus there are numerous other examples across different states with the same patterns, which is troubling.
> No, the premise is that mailin ballots should have a roughly uniform D/R ratio, no matter what timeslice of a state you look at.

Which is based on a series of assumptions that simply do not generally hold (the most central being that the entire statewide collection of mail-in ballots is homogenized before being counted.)
Sibling reply since I've gotta get to bed:

> At least three election workers must be present at all times during this processing and officials are prohibited from doing any tabulation of results until polls close at 7 p.m. on Nov. 3. At that point, tabulation is simply pressing a button.
I was worried mentioning his name would take this thread off-topic and become all about Kayne. I'm neither an expert on GOOD Records's past nor seek to defend him in general. These arguments applies generally to the industry as a whole and are hardly limited to just to Kanye himself.

The way I came across his statements on the matter was that it was a sort of recent revelation he had. And that it's a thing thats out in the wide open, people have been talking about it for a long time, but it's still just the way it is. The labels have a ton of power, regardless of the changes in the industry.

It's reminds me of entrenched businesses exploiting out-of-date regulatory systems. Like trying to apply the old taxi car numbers cap / medallion model to Ubers system just doesn't make sense at all.

The internet changed the music industry even more than taxis. Especially with artists becoming social media 'influencers' in the process (and almost as a pre-requirement) and more of the power is going back into their hands.

So I support anything that gives the artists more control of their masters/content, more say in the room about distribution since it's not all backroom radio shows and record store deals like it used to be.

When you have soundcloud rappers getting famous with zero major label help its just basic logic that the old-school contracts, major parts of which are still apparently being used frequently by the big labels, will need updating.

Certain power dynamics have clearly changed.

I'm not a lawyer and don't have all the answers but it is an opportunity for more decentralized control and wealth going back to the creators and promoters more directly.
I consider myself an intermediate-or-advanced user of both sed and awk. Those are small enough languages that I was able to study them for a few hours and then know roughly how to solve any problem with them.

Perl one-liners are different in that they rely on a large set of flags and language shortcuts which are harder to remember when your main language isn't Perl.

So it's not about getting used to the POSIX utilities and text processing, it's more about it being infeasible to "just memorise" all these Perl shortcuts.

The traditional solution when "just memory" won't cut it is some sort of index to speed up the search.

The guide/flowchart thing is just what I'm talking about. Botanists use a tiered index to identify plants: they subdivide the flora first by large differences in characteristics and then down to differences you need a magnifier to see. Each observation cuts the potential space by a significant fraction.

Something similar would be useful for this. E.g. "is your input structured or free text?" "Are records separated by linebreak or something else?" "Are there fields in the records?" "Are you looking to perform an aggregation?" And so on. I don't know. It would be neat for many reasons!
> Why are programmers non-productive? Because their time is wasted in meetings.

> Why are programmers rebellious? Because the management interferes too much.

> Why are the programmers resigning one by one? Because they are burnt out.

> Having worked for poor management, they no longer value their jobs.
Narrator: It wasn't simply pressing a button.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/software-glitch-causes-dela...

Again: we watched the ballots come in from Georgia. They came in county-by-county, in partisan-leaning lumps. There was a running joke on Twitter on Wednesday about people who have never been to Georgia suddenly acting like they knew where Clayton County was. It was a whole shared cultural experience!

I'm still struck by the fact that you'd have had to not be paying attention at all to not understand that the results weren't arriving uniformly from across the state, or that different locations in the state have different partisan leans. From what I saw, the whole country was basically transfixed by those two facts. We got nothing done! For like a week!

It's fine if you're not paying attention, but way less fine to build a narrative about voter fraud based on it.
Diskitude: Windows tool to show disk utilization in only 10kb
Oh man, I hear you, most of this stuff is really random. your app was pretty neat though
I would like a version with brahman, prana, kundalini, and shiva and shakti instead of qi/chi and yin and yang.
It’s your choice whether you operate within the walls Apple has put up.

Why do you remain within them?
Law enforcement clearly thinks it has a need for tools to combat terrorism and child trafficing. EDRi has prepared list of tools that don't need encryption to be broken: https://edri.org/files/encryption/workarounds_edriposition_2...
Expect a lot of announcements later this week. I don't see much reason to pre-announce anything.
I really don't get this constant "he didn't do anything" and "it's too late" talking points.

Nancy Pelosi was walking around Chinatown in SF after it was well known that there was an outbreak going on overseas.

The NYC department of health advised that it was perfectly safe to attend Chinese New Year celebrations shortly after.

When POTUS stopped international travel earlier than the media decided it was a legitimate issue, his political opponents called him a racist. Then you'll argue, "but but the nyc outbreaks trace to Europe!!" And I'll argue back that China has industrial factories in Italy, and ask you how the virus got to Italy/Europe in the first place. And you still won't get it. It's like the left just constant ignores common sense and hides behind reddit-teir "you got a source for that" nerdery.

All of this happened less than a year ago. It is well within living memory.
Why do you own an Apple device?
Pu La is an extraordinary man. He deserves all the adulation, respect and the fandom he has.

However i always find it funny when certain fans from certain parts of Maharashtra try to limit his legacy as representative of their limited group and profess this as proof of how intellectually superior they are. Sounds a weird and unnecessarily flagrant statement to make but talking from experience about the snarky 'typical' Puneri culture and attitude is having observed it first hand.
This is a wall I have hit with App Review quite a few times

You have to stop viewing the apps from a technical perspective. App Review is _intentionally_ non-technical, as frustrating as that is for us developers. They enforce App Store policy from a non-technical standpoint

I produce an app which can download and run code, and was rejected many times through App Review. I was able to point to many other apps which _technically_ also downloaded and ran code — but the difference, to App Review, was entirely in the appearance (my code was text based, it "looked like code" and not like Scratch's visual programming, or nodes, or whatever)

I disagree with the App Review decision in this instance, but I think they are enforcing policy consistently. It just looks random to those of us with enough technical experience to look past the visuals and to the implementation
Adds Value to Home Appraisal
So, What Adds Value To Home Appraisal to make this tricky determination?
I routinely use this tool which doesn't seem widely known. It's very fast, being so small, and funnily enough, it's made by the now CTO of Figma, Evan Wallace.
> 12 characters is only 72 bits of entropy ... That’s nowhere near enough entropy for a proper password.

What do you base that on?

If you assume the password is stored using current best practices (ie, you use a key definition function like PBKDF2 or even better scrypt), it's tons. You can't assume a website will be using anything reasonable - but anything I manually enter this 12 character password into, like a password manager a modern auth service, or ssh it is reasonable.

Proof: assume you use a KDF that makes a check of a single password take at least 1ms on modern reasonable machine, 72 bits means it will take 149,642,763,799 (= 2^72 / 3600.0 / 1000.0 / 24 / 365.35) years to break. Sure you can parallelise it, so lets throw a billion of these "reasonable machines" at it. That reduces it to 149 years. I'll be well and truly six foot under before they crack it, which meets my definition of tons.

But it's better to look at it from the point of view of the worth of the information they get versus expense. Let's say for argument's sake my entire net worth is $100M. Lets also also say a "reasonable machine" worth $10. And finally assume the value of that $100M shrinks over time, so after 20 years it's worth almost nothing. Continue assuming we use a KDF to ensure doing one guess takes 1 second, and you end up with needing 62 bits of entropy - or 11 characters.
yes, masks are not a panacea and are highly politicized. we need to stop focusing on them, and focus on (semi-)private social gatherings of friends and strangers (high heterogeneous mixing coefficients) where most of the community transmission is happening, rather than wearing masks on the street (or even in grocery stores) where transmission risks are practically non-existent but compliance is conspicuous (but ineffective).
> Those little pod things could have a cleaning cycle where they heat up to 65C (~150F) for 15-30 minutes.

can i stay inside of it and make it 180 at least (ready to sell my soul for 200), please :) 8 months without sauna, god, have mercy...
I went through a major book downsizing ~7 years ago when I moved unexpectedly. I don't know the exact book count, but something like 60+ linear feet, down to a single armload. The Tao of Programming and The Tao of Pooh both made that cut.
Well the WHO did such a great bang up job on letting the world know the severity, I'm sure this team would have also "followed the science" and decided it wasn't a threat either. This is government employees you are thinking that are going to do a competent job.
Fame carries its own burdens.
For what it's worth, I own a Unicomp keyboard I got in 2013 and it still works flawlessly to this day. Not doubting nor disqualifying your experience, but just want to provide a counterbalance.
AI Koans (1983)
I think this is closer to Hanlon's razor than it is to "Apple wants to control every aspect of your life".

Big selling point for Apple products is privacy, security, and consistency of experience. All of these things are made easier by this policy (including applying to iSH). The cost is less flexibility / freedom.

Not quite Hanlon, but just replace "stupidity" in the original formulation with "unwillingness to spend the massive engineering effort required to provide both security and flexibility".

Though in all honesty I think that even with stupendous engineering effort, it will always more safe to just disallow certain actions entirely. After all, although birth control is a great way to not have a baby, not having sex at all is even better.
From my understanding most of the press data sources are just companies that wrote code to scrape the multiple state sources of data and/or interface with archaic fax systems that sent counts from counting centers to central locations. I believe in some cases they had observers who took totals off the counting machines themselves.

I believe the primary reason for them is that they got the data faster than the official websites.
I only tried your app on phone but it looks like you can't tap and add or drag things around. You always need to edit the numbers. Maybe the UX/UI could use some love?
> California and DC always vote Democrat, and Montana always vote Republican. Individual Republicans in CA and Democrats in MT have zero voice - their voices literally don't matter.

This is only true if you hyper focus on the President (and ignore Bush/Reagan/Ford/Nixon in CA, Clinton in MT, etc.) - those voices are heard in the House and Senate, which have key impacts on what a President can actually do.

It’s also omitting the question of why those states vote the way they do. California now votes for Democrats not because the Republican Party forgot to campaign but because they pushed Proposition 187 through and convinced multiple generations of Latino voters that the GOP hated them. It is very easy to imagine, say, a world where George W. Bush put the state back in play after being successful in the effort to get the party shift away from the anti-Latino positions - call it the Trump opposite-world. That’s a big incentive but not enough due to where those states have considerable voice: the primaries. California might not be in question for the general but it definitely delivers a lot of votes for the primary winner, which affects their positions.
I think there are two main routed for code to leak, one way is the case of stealing code. While there are some ways to handle that, non is 100% covered and so, we focus on recruiting to mitigate that.
The other way which in my mind, is the way more common situation, is mistakes. People play with some code on their personal code, post something as a public gist etc.
We mitigate that with with education and a tool that was built in house to monitor and alert on all public activities, for the security team, it's usually easy to review the alerts to understand if there is a data leakage going on:
https://github.com/AvnerCohen/github-public-monitor
IIRC I put down in the region of 20-25%. I didn't have a credit history precisely because I had a good income, and my student loan was first in another country, and also I paid it off as fast as I possibly could so it had been paid off for years when I was applying for a mortgage.
I enjoyed this book. I bought a paperback copy of this book earlier this year after reading about it on an article about books that Steve Jobs had read. The article is written by the same author: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/12-books-steve-jobs-wante...
> deadlifts are a great exercize, and should not be restrained to the weight lifting / body builder types

Great exercise != absolutely necessary or useful towards a specific goal
The article says:

> Not Important and Urgent tasks are nasty attention thieves. They shout out to you in immediacy, but offer little value in return.

Nothing about co-workers.