skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Nicolas Slonimsky may have invented playing Gb Chopin with an orange, but I could only find a defunct audio link for that. This was the best video version I could find of the Black Key Etude in Gb played with an orange (much better than the numerous Lang Lang versions online)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4R65XtfQY&t=42
The EU defends human rights with the exception of allowing the US to spy on EU citizens and businesses and allowing member states to sell weapons to authoritarian regimes that are sometimes used to commit war crimes.

It's a corrupt cabal just like the United States. European citizens like to blind themselves to the atrocities by patting themselves on the back when the EU builds some renewable energy, as if it makes up for the wet work committed by EU members in the Middle East and otherwise. It's almost cult-like.
I saw the same thing. He says Democrats won't vote in California because they know they are going to win, and Democrats don't vote in Texas because they know they are going to lose. I think it would apply equally to both parties.

I was surprised to see this article on HN, since most other statistical election fraud analyses I have seen are being dismissed as conspiracy theories. Facebook even censored one of them. I'm glad to see they are getting some serious consideration.
“Hey” very clearly gamed an Apple TOS violation to increase the visibility of their project as a marketing stunt during its launch. This practice is becoming increasingly common as companies try to position themselves as being relatable to average users. It’s free publicity, integrates into a hotly debated topic poll, and garners a lot of commentary which can be easily driven by shills.
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I'd argue registered voter turnout also isn't a true turnout statistic, as many people will not be registered due to apathy/feeling it doesn't matter/etc.

The statistic you really want is votes / eligible voters, not registered voters. But that's a hard number to figure out in the US.
>The electoral college is a form of protection for the naturally less densely populated agrarian states against the densely populated urban ones.

This is commonly repeated, but it's BS. What "protection" does the electoral college give to Kansas, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, or Montana? Presidential candidates don't pay any attention to any of those "less densely populated agrarian states". In addition, dense states like NJ, NY, CT, and Mass don't get attention from candidates. California doesn't get any attention either, so what gives?

The states that get the attention are the swing states with the highest number of electoral votes, simply because the electoral college incentivizes trying to swing a small number of voters in such states.

Watch some of these videos from CGP Grey for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
1. CineForm is lossy

2. This requires ~2x time and disk space, given that most end-user cameras record H.264/H.265

By the way, they chose to cripple it by making these codecs premium-only features on Linux only: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/SupportNotes/DaVinci_... Their excuse for not having H.264 is an outright lie, because Cisco has already paid the royalties for all binary users of OpenH264 on any OS. Furthermore, even if you buy their premium version, the only option to encode to H.264/H.265 on Linux is NVENC, which is inferior to CPU encoders and requires you to own an Nvidia card.

They're outright hostile toward Linux.
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That's a bit presumptuous to generalize people's motivation to buy an iDevice.
That's great. Do you handle big files and do you use the native crypto api?
This is too high level. You would have to look at individual state levels, particularly swing states.
>Were the OP's suggestions/observations really that outlandish?!

I wouldn't call them outlandish. I think there's merit in the ability to install whatever software you want. But I also think there's merit in making sure there's a robust, unfragmented market of apps that work with the last 6 years of iPhones, and restrictions that Apple has in place ensure that.

I think the Dev Store is a reasonable compromise to ensure that average users don't have to run AVG AntiVirus on their phones. That situation is absurdly anti-user.

>why is there no strict walled garden for Macs?

There is, and it's annoying: GateKeeper, which if I recall correctly requires you to basically outsmart your OS to install software using the GUI.

This is why I'm happy the iPad Pro is getting more desktop-like, hopefully bridging the gap between people who want a laptop to do weird stuff and people who want a device that will work no matter what you do to it.
Blacks and latinos can live in Montana as well... Also the electoral college predates emancipation, so I dont think the black vote was a factor for its creation.
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I don’t think folks think that wget or curl are evil. It just seems pretty obvious that this kind of app would be forbidden by Apple. Which sucks, but I don’t think it’s surprising.
>The lines between company and customers are blurred...

“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users': illegal drugs and software. " — Edward Tufte
I think there's two difference that make it less problematic in Australia:

- The Australian Senate has significantly less influence on politics than the US President

- Senate seats aren't distributed per-state on a "winner takes all basis" - rather in rough proportion to the number of votes each party gets. This means that smaller states with outsized influence are still going to be electing a mix of representatives from each party. (Compare Tasmania to Victoria here [1] - 10X different in number of votes per seat - similar outcome.

Even with that said, regardless of the material impact - on principle I don't think it's fair that a person in Tasmania has 10X more voting power than a person in Victoria.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2019_Australian...
This shows Benfords law was broken in some cases.

https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
What 'modern improvements' can be made over paper ballots?
They don’t care!
> Apple's insistence on refusing users control of their devices is why I switched to Android

Google lets banks remotely disable phones [0]

Google lets apps prevent users from taking screenshots [1]

How's the permissions situations on Android? Is it still all-or-none?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25026050

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025066
The year is 2400AD. Tens of thousands of seasonal miners on Mars are disenfranchised because it takes too long to send a paper ballot back and forth. Pens and paper would no longer be manufactured were it not for paper ballots. Every legal function is carried out entirely electronically, including congressional sessions, except voting on paper. Neuralinks allow perfect biometric verification and haven't had a security breach in 200 years, but still aren't good enough for voting because progress does not in fact have to happen.

If this situation sounds completely A-OK to you then I don't know what to say.
> ID 3 is being mass produced now

I just did a TON of searching, and while every outlet wrote about it in late 2019 and early 2020, and about how production was going to be x units/week by summer 2020, I can't find a single report written in the last ~3 months giving an update on how production of the ID.3 are going.

Can you find a source for how many they're actually building per day right now?
https://github.com/cjph8914/2020_benfords
A 'place' is not a meaningful unit of civic participation.

From one direction, California and New York are populous. California has 4 individual cities that each have a higher population than Wyoming. Is it unfair that California's influence is larger than Wyoming?

From another direction, is California a single place? The Electoral College lumps together San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento into a single unit. Those are miles apart from each other culturally, economically, and demographically (and for that matter, they're hundreds of miles from each other geographically). The Central Valley's relative lack of influence at the national level is because they're tacked on to the same 'place' as Los Angeles and San Francisco, which is an arbitrary division.

The House of Representative does a much better (but not perfect) job of geographic representation, because the geographic units are more proportional, and are continuously re-drawn with community cohesiveness as an influencing factor. Much of the skew of the Electoral College comes from the +2 votes per state, when state lines are fixed for centuries.
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This is such a red herring!

It's just as easy to firewall your platform and prevent trackers. Open installation and privacy are not mutually exclusive.

The browser is a firewalled platform. Look at what Mozilla can do for privacy on their shoestring budget.

Apple likes it the way they have it. You cannot tell me the DOJ can't force them to open their platform and suddenly every Apple user is stuck on 90's era Windows. This is not how it works.
Toyota actually has plans to compete with Tesla. They announced that last year. They already have working prototype car with solid state battery which they had planned to debut at the now postponed Tokyo Olympics. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27887943/toyota-ev-rollou...
One aspect people don’t realize that this will be abused by those in power for inside information.

Imagine having access to the cell phone data of scientists developing the Covid vaccine and getting inside info on their timeline to announcing a working vaccine. They then make calls or pump money into the company and make money.

This is ripe for financial abuse from governments and representatives.
That would be less democratic (small d) than the current system.

Do you have some reason that Wyoming should actually have an equal say with New York or Texas or Florida or California?
> This is about the same cost as aerial construction,

Not even close. 12-count ADSS cable costs $3,000 per km, one tenth of your low-end. And for three times that price you can get 144-count which isn't even remotely an option for subsea cables.

I used to buy from FS.com, but they've stopped shipping large spools due to the COVID shipping disaster situation, and took the pricing down off their website. Here's another company (never dealt with them) charging $1,400 per km:

https://multicomstore.com/ofs-f12smadss350f-fiber-optic-cabl...

Source: I lease aerial dark fiber, included some that was constructed at my request.

> Subsea cable system costs are about 30k$ to 50k$ per kilometer.

Including repeaters/amplifiers and power delivery? Yeah right. Link?

> you can and do have subsea cables with 216 or other high count strand numbers

Show me a 216-count subsea cable long enough to need repeaters/amplifiers.
You can't make that decision for me and millions of others.

You're voting to make our industry inequitable and running software some Orwellian dystopia.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple one day mandated that we hand them the copyright to the code we write. We're one step away from that now: we already have to write against a strict spec, fit all the rules, and are subject to arbitrary dismissal. They take 30% and leave us the crumbs. The appeals process is unfair. If Apple likes what you've got, they can just clone your app. One step away.

We're in prison and you're rationalizing about your parents.
So you implemented Apple Login and none of your users use it?
Yes, you are correct. at least in the USA it's called the "United" States. If each state gets effectively no voice there's no reason for it to stay united with the other states.

So yes, at least theory it's not a bad thing. Bad or good is an opinion and it's a valid opinion to see giving states with less population a larger voice in exchange for staying part fo the system as a reasonable tradeoff
Do you own an Apple device?

Have you ever lived in a communist dictatorship or even visited one?

I have
That would be a great feature—random video calls are absolutely worse than random phone calls since the former requires you look presentable.
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HN needs to come together to reward 'dang's hard work keeping HN to HN quality.

I have this theory that with almost any great music groups there's usually one, sometimes two, great mind(s) working in the background, usually introverted, that really define the talent of the wider group (Brian Wilson, Quincy Jones, Phil Spector, etc are the rare few who got that recognition).

NYT did a great exploration of how this currently works in pop music:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000005858557/wat...

This analogy is already starting to stretch a bit thin but my main point is there are always some smart people working hard in the background who don't always get enough recognition for what they do. The Aussie girl is in the NYT clip who basically made the song still lives in relative obscurity (you can find her on twitter, probably well paid, but still living without much fanfare), despite this song among others blowing up in the charts.

I am going to attempt to think of something on a personal level but it'd be great if we could organize something larger like a community backed gift/reward. At some level simply upvote internet points aren't enough thanks for the work people put into user forums like these to keep them healthy. I obviously don't have the full solution here just a seed of an idea.

Maybe something nice to do in these depressing pandemic times!

Edit: if anyone has any ideas about organizing such a thing please let me know, maybe a discord channel?
The issue is that the US has not officially selected a President yet.

So Facebook, Twitter etc are being prudent and not allowing misinformation until that is the case. And I've yet to see any fraud analysis that is coming from reputable sources i.e. not Gateway Pundit or 4chan so it makes sense to err on the side of caution.
2020, the new battle ground is now on how to define the term Straw man.

I am sorry this is completely off topic. But it is quite funny I notice the word suddenly gained usage, ( especially in any political debate ) and it is now sort of misused and misapplied all over the place.

( Not suggesting your or your GP are right or wrong in using the term )
Show HN: Muchjeopardy.com
around this time last year one of my good friends was about to be on the show and she asked if i could somehow turn the answers/questions from jeopardydb in to some kind of "online flash cards" she could study with. i came up with muchjeopardy.com. i never really shared this with anyone but her, but i figured now might be a time people would enjoy clicking through random clues and reminiscing. Alex was the best and he's for sure missed.

click the clue to reveal the answer.
Apple doesn’t impact anyone who doesn’t choose to be impacted.

Nobody is forced to interact with them, either as a customer or a supplier.
The 2020 democrat party falls under leftist authoritarian classification, a thin veneer of civil rights and progressive-ism on top of a thick marxist-lenenist regime shadowing the Chinese communist party's single party authoritarianism. It hates free speech, embraces censorship across the web and media, monitors and tracks people through control of big tech like apple and google, and seeks political control of corporations using the guise of social and racial activism. You can say it is not "leftist," but it certainly pretends to be.
> What "protection" does the electoral college give to Kansas, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, or Montana?

Their collective voice along with the rest of the “heartland” is the backbone of the GOP. Trump and Bush both won without the popular vote because the electoral college amplified their collective voice.

The electorate doesn’t make them win, it gives them better odds. The campaign focus on swing states should explain itself...
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The link you give above says "This article has been retracted. See Notice of Retraction." Here is the URL of the paper's retraction:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-0745

titled

"Notice of Retraction: Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS-CoV-2"
Do they want crop failures? Livestock miscarriages? Inclimate weather? Swarms of pests, and unending blights? Because this is exactly how you get all that.

Do not taunt the Druids.
Sure, ok. I can buy that this is not actually completely trivial, and that it's worth bringing code to solve this problem in from some other source.

Still, it's a shame that the specifics of the way the JavaScript ecosystem has evolved mean that it's commonplace to bring in a <10 line dependency to mitigate an extremely core lack of functionality, rather than have a first-party—or be able to sensibly import a third-party—standard library. I can't think of any other language ecosystem where this is normal.
That's why most telecom infrastructure is in the right-of-way along state highways or railroads. One landowner to deal with.
In 1956, the National Bureau of Standards patented a 53-bit adder using vacuum tubes

That's the same number of bits of precision as a double-precision floating point; what was special about 53 that lead to it being considered several decades before the IEEE standard?
500,000 vehicles from Tesla versus 7.5 million for Toyota projected for this financial year.

Anyone reading this should understand what is happening.

One disruptive company is growing in leaps and bounds (50% up Y/Y Q/Q for Tesla) using intrinsically cheaper and better technology, and taking a much wider view of the market by including power generation supply and storage.

The other switched to hybrid powered vehicles fast but stopped there, and thereupon lost value. Toyota sold 10 million cars in CY2019 and forecasts a COVID affected 7.5m for the year ended March 21. Sadly they don't even make electric utes (light trucks) for use in underground mines, let alone EVs for taxis and so on.
This is damn interesting. I've seen a couple reads on the Russian elections but never seen it turned to the US. I think it would have to get a deeper analysis with more fine grained data but seems like it's got some solid indicators one could follow.
Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPhone.

The iPhone is not the only phone on the market.
Theres youtube link on that page. https://youtu.be/6RfJoH1N6IQ you can compare yourself. Note that the game uses vulkan, thus it can render without any translation.
>From Apple's POV, a completely unlocked system that allows the user can do anything is like selling a car you can drive on all passable roads. It's the default. The Apple ecosystem on the other hand is a artificially restricted environment. They removed parts like the steering wheel to craft a very specific vision. Yes you get less freedom, but most people aren't technically literate, and they're not buying it for general purpose computing. They're buying Apple's monopolistic, user subjugating vision. Which includes as many ways as possible for Apple to capitalize on their monopoly.
A firewall partially "fixes" part of the spying/tracking, but doesn't solve any of the other issues I pointed, especially concerning forced installation of software that screws up with my machine.

Also, the fact I use a firewall doesn't excuse developers from being assholes and spying/tracking me behind my back. It's my computer, it's a developer's sacred right to have any kind of code that acts against my interests.

Please read the linked reply. It was a real issue, not an hypothetical. Installing software required by my bank REALLY screwed up my computer in the past, and I didn't really have a choice.
How about renegotiating the number of electors to be equal per state. If we are a republic of states each state should get equal say. By going to popular vote a third of the country loses a voice.
> Remember dark fiber is an unregulated asset, nobody can force network owners to play ball.

The fiber isn't, but the poles are. You can force the pole owners to play ball.
This is perfect for sassy justice https://www.youtube.com/c/SassyJustice
I’ve gone through a few transitions in life that relate to this sort of thing, and have worked with a very well known CEO coach on this. His advice was invaluable.

He recommended a book on life transitions[1]. Whether you find wealth, retire, or do something else, such a major life transition often requires you to really invest in reflecting on what has changed, what hasn’t, what the deeper implications are, etc. The book above helps lay out some of those questions.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Transitions-Making-Sense-Lifes-Changes...
Are you concerned about spam? Is that why you are requiring a login for comments? Most of the visitors are developers with side projects themselves. How about rewarding comments with points that boost the commenter's own project in the listings? Would that work?
Plant tulips in the rain. But don't write poetry.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/09/charles-bukowski-re...
So from your description it sounds like you believe any work to help minorities have a voice is wrong. For example at one point redistricting was pushed by various people to help give minorities enough collective voice to have some influence.

To put it another way. Let's says there are 10 seats representing 1000 people. Those 1000 people are 15% A and 85% B and spread out into 10 districts of 100 people each where no district has more than 20% A. By that, A can never get any representation where as if they let A form a group they can likely get 1 of seat of those 10 representatives and at least have a voice.

That kind of thing has been done in many different ways but your post seems to suggest you think it's wrong.
The Federal Reserve is participating in QE∞, so they'll never allow any real crash.

Especially since they're now buying corporate debt like the house of cards economy in Japan.
Yik Yak was made in a pre-Trump internet era.

The bullying issue would be 100x times worse today.
> Continue reading with ads
Visit SPIEGEL.de as you normally would with the advertising and the usual tracking. (You can revoke your consent at any time.)

> ACCEPT

No option to decline.

That's a GDPR violation, right?
Yes. The idea is to build it to be agnostic to the objects whose trust is being tracked, but for Matrix at least the main building blocks are rooms, users, communities, servers, messages & attachments. However you could use it for other things too if you so wanted (eg client IPs, server IPs, netblocks, ASes, E.164 numbers, URLs etc)
"There are unavoidable, expected, sampling errors which are, by definition, random."

This is false, if you think sampling errors are "by definition random" you don't understand polling.

Which is fine, just accept that you don't and dig into the literature or move on.
Seems to be something about Patent issues or the like.

I would certainly demand more information. Who actually opposed the sensor on phones, who actually sued whom, etc.
This reminds me of how I felt looking at the detailed realistic icons on the iPhone/iPod touch back in 2007/2008 (not to mention the entire device). Years later this article from Mike Rundle helped me deconstruct the magic and become a designer myself:
http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-...
Fake news. Been on Android 11 for awhile. Take screenshots every day.
Is there a reason you can’t just recirculate through a HEPA filter? They capture viruses AFAIK. Seems easier than recovering exhaust heat and refilling from outside.
Depends on the type of commute. Are those 25 highway miles? If so, 16 miles of slow stop-and-go traffic could push the limit. Get stuck behind a car accident for an hour and it definitely would. Hybrid though, so you'd still have gas and wouldn't be stuck.