skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I'll argue the partisanship is not due to the size of the nation; if it were, you could draw simple geographical lines separating the different regions, and the further apart two regions are, the more likely they would belong to different parties. But that quickly becomes messy when you realize even the reddest states are 25-30% democrat, and rural areas in blue states are almost invariably republican. How do democrats (or republicans) manage such uniformity across the nation, if it is the massiveness that thwarts cohesion? Wouldn't we see states that are 100% D/R up to a rounding error?

I propose that the massiveness is not spatial. It is ideological. Draw a straight dividing line in ideology space, and you can cleanly cleave US society. Project it onto a map, and it looks like a fuzzy boundary between urban and rural. But I think it's clear that the partisanship is generated by ideology and has reflections in geography, rather than the other way around.

So consider federalism that isn't based on states/territories of land, but rather based on ideological space. If we used a Proportional Representation system, I might have some ideological representatives in congress. As it stands, my representatives represent their party and my physical location, but not the thoughts and ideas of voters like me.
Sounds like it’s an impossible problem.

I remember people saying AIDS was impossible to treat. It took less than 10 years to find a treatment.

I’m in the camp that believes we will eventually find a solution sooner or later. I was hoping for sooner.
> You can't anonymize (remove) voter data and also validate that data.

Sure you can. That's what the cryptographic field of zero-knowledge proofs is about. For example there's well developed protocols where every voter can verify that their vote was counted exactly once, anyone can verify that no non-authorized voters were counted, and perfect secrecy is preserved.
It is quite common in europe, for people to knowingly buy knock off clothing or sunglasses when they go on vacation.
Some of my earliest memories were of watching Jeopardy with my dad when I was a kid. Alex and all the hard working staff on the show helped to inculcate in me, at a very young age, a deep desire and passion to always learn about and explore the world around me.

Though it’s called “trivia” there’s really nothing trivial about it. People who have no interest in these facts often express deep ignorance of the world and people from other cultures and places. I think people would come closer together and learn to reconcile our differences if we all took more of an interest in trivia.

Alex, you brought so much professionalism, dignity, and gravitas to the game show business. Your strength of voice and sincerity, together with the show’s simple format, elevated the game above the usual sensationalism and addictive patterns we see in other formats. Your tireless and selfless commitment to charity has made a difference to so many people around the world. Thank you and Rest In Peace.
> Chrome should be banned as well, since I'm sure there's some sketchy corner of the internet with that crap available.

Do you know the difference between a open browser and a app store meant to distribute apps?

Chrome is not responsible for the website's content. But the app store will be help responsible for an app's content.
You can anonymize ballot data and validate it via ring signatures. (At least it is one proposed way of doing it)

It has the drawback that each person needs to know a bit more about cryptography than a layperson should so it is something that is currently not accesible for general elections.
I'm pretty sure blockchains don't violate the laws of physics, so providing a working prototype shouldn't be much challenge.
You'd need homomorphic encryption to achieve this, not ZK.
The open question is whether this leads to people just saying "fuck it" or people asking for stronger government actions to control it.
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> All that said, I've been working on an orchestrator that simpler to operate than kubernetes

Are you at a stage where you've published code yet? Curious to have a look!
I was replying to his condescending assumption, “ I'm going to assume that you're an engineer”

Sales is important, it’s not the only thing.

BTW, most startups are miny cults where employees are suckered into taking a pay cut to “change the world with disruptive blah blah blah”, and as you can see from the author of this post, the founders are just trying to line their pockets.
> In my interactions, even vegetable vendors are, on average, aware that any app will work.

That's impressive. Every vegetable vendor I meet will ask me to use GPay, because that is what they use.
Yes, there is an Edit button right under the project title.
I don't think "I didn't have a good reason for being conservative, therefore conservatives in general don't have good reasons" is a very strong argument...
Usually you use Jetbrains products for the whole IDE, not just diff. At their price tag, and their regular updates, it's much worth it.
What would be the cost of running it? How much would it take to make it profitable?
The Economics of iBuying
Doesn’t Google offer an extension to safely check if you accidentally enter your Corp password into a 3p website without leaking the password itself? Certainly it’s what they do internally but I can’t seem to find the extension at the moment.
Hi everyone, a weekend project of mine just went live. https://instafunc.net allows you to instantly host an API from a bit of javascript code. Useful for creating placeholder api’s, mocking, testing, prototyping api’s during development. Any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated!
I think I just found my next RPi project. Our sprinter van is great and the thinsulate insulation I added cut down on noise a lot, but the road and wind noise on long 70mph multi-day trips gets a bit much.

[ EDIT: it seems that the cancellation signal plays out of the same speakers used for in-car audio. I wonder what implications that has ]
I'm sure you are aware that Chrome doesn't host the internet and didn't think this through.
Surprised no comments so far. Can somebody give me the lowdown and how does this compare to the originals?

Can we get the same quality of electronics in 2020 as we did back in the 60s, 70s and 80s?
Best 3rd party app store for iOS: AltStore unlocks many possibilities
Awklang.org – Τhe site for things related to the Awk language
James Barnes is a salesperson, not an engineer.
Blockchains will remove one critical part of elections: secret ballots.

Considering all the pure hater aims at all republican supporters, including those who contribute to campaigns, the secret ballot is incredibly important to preventing people from going to jail for their political views. What happened at Mozilla can happen because they are a private non-profit and can do what they want, but do we want this to happen to regular citizens for expressing their political rights in a representative democracy?

The flip side, this election has seen larger election fraud combined with voter fraud, than we've seen since 2000 or JFK (and any mention of it gets you a nice little Orwellian Ministry of Truth label on your post on FB/Twitter/Reddit/etc.) It's so egregious and I wrote full post on it for those who are interested:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-return-of-american-co...

Our elections have always been a farce. In the past two decades, we still don't have open source election software that can be inspected, and we still don't have basic election transparency.
Tesla releases another FSD Beta update on the wekend (videos, release notes)
As far as the computer security experts I've talked to, it's pretty much the consensus. Computers are very fragile, and have been my whole career. How many of us here make good money just keeping up with all the patches and fixes and defenses needed to make sure a modern system stays safe?

Of course, some deep technological revolution might change that eventually. But in that case we still shouldn't rush to shift to a digital-only elections system. Why? Because it doesn't just have to work. Voters have to have confidence in the system. And that system isn't just technical, it's social.

Everybody understands paper. Everybody understand marking paper. Everybody understands manually counting marks on paper and adding up numbers. Further, everybody has intuitions on how to protect and defend that process by making sure the right people are present. People do generally accept machine counting of paper ballots, because they don't see that as much different, and because they know a manual count can be done if there are problems.

However technically clever and perfect some blockchain system is, it just doesn't have the simplicity and robustness in the face of attack or failure that we need. And it especially doesn't provide the social validation of what is essentially a social result.
The sad part is that is most likely how it would go down, in Florida we see the continual regulations on the recreational fisherman, why commercial allotments do not suffer an equal measure in reduction of catch allowance for that particular species.

This is slowly starting to change as recreational sports fishing organizations have become more powerful in their lobbying efforts to share the burden across both commercial and recreational, but it is still fairly uneven handed with recreational bearing the brunt of restrictions, closures and taxation.
> don't feel bad that you were a conservative at some point we all make mistakes

My god, the sense of moral superiority.
Patent application, not patent.
Looking at the way it's moving, it'd probably be the exact opposite. I would very much appreciate a ban on manufacturers having any technical means to control their devices after sale. You bought it, it's yours, period.
I remember reading that people used to do this with letters in early days of mail, when postage used to be too high for common people
Austria was an independent empire which was only dissolved in 1918. It existed before the unification of Germany.
So far, they are only covering P2P cases. Not payments to vendor/shop/businesses, which requires scanning a QR code.
But for the business, bot protection is essential. And GDPR talks about business perspective.
It works just fine in standard mode.
It’s nutrients not sunlight that’s the ocean’s limitation. Much like comparing forests and deserts the ocean is a wildly different place based on local conditions.
Thanks! I like cool names, plus I wanted to make planning/ prioritization fun and not daunting.
Then the govt is not really that effective as people make it to — prefers the interest of foreign mega corps before their own voters.
The RAM heavy duty pickups have a system like this, where it's a lot harder to prevent or cut down noise of a big diesel engine, HD transmission, tcase, and tires. It really works well in practice.
Android has had that as a feature for quite a while.
I think under fairly general assumptions, a purely digital voting system cannot work.

But it may be possible to bypass those issues with a hybrid physical/digital system. Or it may be possible to construct a system that is unsound in theory but works decent in practice. I'm thinking about technologies like DRM and Proctoring.

But deep fakery could become a threat to proctoring in the near future.
This seems like the same problem with traffic. If fewer people drove we'd have better throughput in our roadways, when the roadways get more efficient more people want to drive, and we have clogged roadways again.
Yeah the big tech companies want to destroy the ecosystem of opportunity they benefited from, in order to protect their power. If it means a world with more needless bullshit for everyone, so be it
>Secondly: people are working on vaccines. If you can hold it until one is available, you might not have to get sick at all.

I work in vaccines and I don't believe any vaccine is even close to coming out. The products our company is working take about 10 years from start to final sale.

Its quite likely that the FDA will have to lower their standards to fast-track coronavirus vaccines. I am going to be very skeptical of their safety given that we don't have long-term data, especially with the newer unproven vaccine tech.
I notice the predominant colour of the diagram is orange. Coincidence, surely.
You clearly didn't even click the link. It's a bug report....
GLA45 AMG, 4 year PCP, £400/month. I have actually beaten the depreciation by about £4000 at the end of the contract, sold the car and was left with a massive chunk of money to put towards the next car. Buying the head unit would have effectively wiped all of that money out because its value on sale would have been exactly zero(in fact it would have been negative, as the car would have been now modified which has to be reported to insurers increasing your premium and putting off potential buyers).

It was absolutely not worth doing, in any conceivable scenario, not at the price Mercedes wanted for it.

But once again, like I said in my first post - this wasn't anywhere near the main reason for changing the car, but I would lie if I said I wasn't looking forward to finally having access to Android Auto.
You can have meaningful verifiability without giving up secrecy. See [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
People actually extracted the supply chains from HF before

https://damonmccoy.com/papers/ecrime2019.pdf
It's chilling how nobody born between 1924 and 1942 (or 1946 if Biden doesn't count yet) became the President or even tbe candidate of any major political party during a US election.

Maybe people who grew up during the Great Depression had less opportunities? Or maybe baby boomers born right after the war overcame the silent generation in influence by numbers.
Today I've learned what I've been thinking as please in my genital is actually a tension. Vajroli mudra seems to help to alleviate this tension.
You get Intellij Idea Community Edition for free and its open source. It has everything you need.
I'd like to hope that nothing is impossible but a cure for abdominal cancers is going to be one of the last cancers we figure out. They're basically perfect as far as being difficult to kill.
> The system separates voter identification and votes to ensure vote anonymity, and stores votes on a distributed ledger in a blockchain.

Not all systems tie identify information to the vote itself. This is one such implementation.
Early Liquidity vs. Holding
While this is a great step towards bringing new users into the UPI ecosystem, it would also lead to rampant UPI scams to a lot of unsuspecting users - the most common being asking for an OTP to receive money - facilitated by the very ease WhatsApp provides. It's all too depressing the way majority of WhatsApp users will forward literally any message, though WhatsApp could do a better job of listing the origin of the message than just a `Forwarded` label.
Please don't assume how other people have voted, you have no idea who GC voted for.

And yes, I for one would've preferred a faster withdrawal from the Middle East. Decades of conflict in the Middle East should make it clear to any mildly competent student of history that intervention of the sort the US has been trying (and Obama ramped up) is the opposite of effective in the long term. The only winning party is the Military Industrial Complex.
The Poisonous Legacy of Portsmouth’s Gaseous Diffusion Plant
I agree that society would do well to consider learning forgiveness. Forgiveness though does require that the attack stop - repeating your agreement with some kernel of the post doesn’t help that effort as it reopens the wound.

I really really wish society to learn forgiveness. Life is too short - and the internet can be so incredibly destructive in its current lack of grace.
A smartphone is essential for life today, claiming otherwise means you live in fantasyland.

A smartphone is required for thousands of essential services, up to the point where EU citizens need one to claim their right to reside in UK after brexit.

I needed it to open a bank account.

During covid you have to leave details in every restaraunt using a smartphone for contact tracing.
Property rights did not solve overfishing problems in NZ. We have had crashing fish stocks, and new problems like exploited foreign workers.
> Which war did Bill Clinton start again?

Generally, the US/NATO-led interventions in the Balkans, most notably the US-led NATO-Serbia war, after explicit Congressional disapproval.

Though I suppose those could be excluded since they were interventions in existing conflicts.
SocGen to announce 650 job cuts in France
> Good fellow, are you really going to say the mail in ballot ratio is the same in a pandemic and not in a pandemic?

I didn't say that.
It takes about a year for pancreatic cancer to go from stage one to stage four. With improved biomarker detection in biannual blood tests, I think we’d make a lot of headway to earlier detection, with CRISPR for (more effective) immunotherapy treatment (vs surgery and chemo).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813368/
It can be used that way, but it doesn't have to;

If I understand correctly, putting the votes on a single blockchain would protect the tally the same way it protects against double-spend attacks.
on an installment plan can have it's features locked until payments are resumed

Plot twist: when you finish paying it off you still don’t really own it. You are just permitted to use it be the real owner all along, Google. Until they want paying in cash again, and they cut off your OS updates. “Nice phone you got, shame if it got a virus”.
Having a Pixel 3 phone, I was annoyed that long-screenshots and call recording weren't available by default.
Even when I rooted the stock ROM and disabled automatic updates, I would find that occasionally one morning my root setup would fail SafetyNet (where it was working the night prior).
I addressed this by flashing the PixelDust rom on my phone.
It now has stable root and I control all updates.

As mentioned in many other comments, it's nice to own your device and not have it broken by automatic updates pushed from some external entity (intentional or not).

A quick writeup for how to do this is available here:
https://udia.ca/posts/2020/08/root_pixel_3_with_ota/
"You can't anonymize (remove) voter data and also validate that data"

It probably is a very unpopular opinion, but what about thinking again about an open vote?

What is wrong with openly standing by your choices?

The fear, that there are too many bullies around who would bully people to change their vote? Well, if bullies do this, they also do other things, so we need to protect the vulnerable of them anyway. The way I understand it, the secret vote comes from a time where henchmen of the local warlord/prince/ were much more common and secret vote is a defence against organized bullying to votechange. But are we( as in people of western states) still living in such times?
How would/should schools do this?
Guess it's time to link that Tom Scott video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Use paper and pencil. Anything more is for failures.
At first I thought you meant to say _average_ person, but then I realized you were correct either way :)
We can get the best of both worlds: paper ballots that can be counted with inexpensive, already widely in use, optical scan systems. That gives you fast vote counting, with the ability to do a hand recount if needed.

If you are clever about how you make the ballots, you can even get end to end verifiability, and you can publish the ballots so the anyone who wants can verify that the count was done correctly. See [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
It's a universally bad policy. Public votes mean those with money will purchase them, as they have the ability to validate their investment. We have examples of for the general electorate pre-1885 and in Congress post-Watergate.
Aviation radios on aircraft are typically 25w and ground stations the same to somewhat higher... and operations are generally line of sight and using analog AM modulation, which gets along nicely with CW. From a practical perspective (rather than regulatory), it is difficult to imagine miliwatt CW transmissions causing any meaningful problem with aircraft operations. Most radio systems used on aircraft are not really all that sensitive anyway, the most touchy thing would be the glideslope/localizer but it's only used at fairly short ranges and with fairly high power levels. This could perhaps cause a slight deflection of the ILS but that's assuming it's very close to the runway and at high power. This paper discusses security of the ILS system against tampering, which is generally the most "touchy" thing that aircraft use and the main interference concern: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-sathaye.pdf

That's all sort of besides the point anyway as nav aids use the lower end of the aviation band, 125MHz is used for AM voice where the interference would be, at worst, audible but not strong enough to cause problems unless reception was already extremely marginal.

Or to put it differently, two pilots hitting their PTT at the same time is already causing far more disruption to operations in the 125MHz range than this thing ever would.
"no need to ban other arrangements."

No cost benefit analysis neede? By this logic we would still have endentured servitude and child labour, after all they are just "other arrangements"
As I see it, a key element of democracy is making people confident that their opinion was counted. We ask the masses for their input not because we think mobs of people are particularly wise, but rather because the populace being consulted, and truly believing their votes were counted, facilities reliably peaceful transitions of power. The social stability provided by elections perceived as legitimate is good for economic prosperity. A legitimate election that 99% of the population doesn't understand or trust loses this utility despite still being legitimate. An illegitimate election which people mistakenly believe to be legitimate is actually better than a legitimate election which people don't understand or believe.
It worries me that you don't see how fundamentally that undermines the point of democracy.

It's illegal to take a photo of your ballot to prove who you voted for, think about why. Because if you could then the local crime-ring would force every person they can intimidate to go vote for their boss and take a photo to prove it or the thugs will hurt their kids.

Or maybe think about the pressure some people surrounded by family and friends of the opposite party feel. Sure they will wave the right coloured flag and throw dirt at the TV with their friends at the "wrong" guy, but when safe and sound in the voters box they can do what they like. Imagine if all your friends "opted" into revealing their vote and you didn't.
while I get the point of these articles, I think they are little more than self-satisfying regurgitation of past experiences which went poorly. I want to see an article from the perspective of someone who realises they have these problems and what they plan to do to fix them.... identifying is not that helpful when it becomes the end result - all in all seems like clickbait.
An ironic stance, given that it is the left in the US that are pushing ideas like Critical Theory, which is based on post-modernism, which in turn maintains that reality ("knowledge claims") is effectively a point of view ("socially conditioned").

Various factions within the US left have been trying to convince everyone for decades that subjective truth is more important than objective facts; that "lived experience" is what really matters.

Then those same people pull a surprised Pikachu face when Orange Man comes swinging out of right field with the same argument, just in the opposite direction with "fake news" etc.