skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every person legally allowed to vote should be able to vote.

No votes should be cast by people not allowed to vote.

Mail-in ballots are not secret ballots and that's dangerous. There's a reason a workplace cannot be unionized in the US without a true secret ballot.
What’s your specific objection here? Is it somehow not acting as you assumed it would when you bought it, because that’s what surprise means not simply being annoyed with someone’s business model.
Hi yellowapple, thanks for taking the time to reply, really appreciated!

> on poor billionaires

I'm not talking about poor billionaires, they pay (almost) zero taxes through loopholes that their friends in the government allow to exist.
I'm talking about middle class who can't setup a foreign entity to pay zero taxes.
The problem with taxation (and progressive taxation in particular) is that it applies only to people who are too poor to meddle with the government.

I think middle class people are probably creating more value for society than poor people, which is way they're rewarded with more money.

> on land value tax

I would consider a land tax immoral as well, why is the land owned by the government? We're talking about a group of people who got everyone to agree they decide for everyone and they decide everyone needs to pay some money or they'll end up in jail.

> UBI would reduce burden for all but wealthiest

Does that account for wealthy people structuring their wealth in a different matter to avoid that?
When progressive income tax in the 60-70s reached 90% (for high tax rate payers), rich people just started getting loopholes added to the law to exempt specific cases.

> UBI would reduce bureaucracy

That sounds like an improvement
Given how much the government managed to grow in the last 2 centuries, I'm not very optimistic on this being the case for a long time.

> UBI would make people more entrepreneurial

Something I personally found in my entrepreneurial journey, is that living on passive money (MRR in my case, but a passive business nonetheless) doesn't affect positively my willingness to do much.
When I was a broke engineer counting how much proteins I could buy and living in a basement after having spent all my money on a startup that failed, I definitely had a different grit.

I think need is a powerful motivator, but I don't really have a cross population study on the subject.
Comparison of Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce
Mo' money mo' problems.

Percentage of revenue based pricing is very common in enterprise software and not without reason.

How angry is a customer over a $10 payment not going through vs a $10,000 payment not being processed correctly? We're likely talking the difference between the inconvenience of not having Netflix for a few minutes vs you've just cost me $35,000 in lost sales because my subscription failed and you can't find out why on time.

I want the company who made $50 on that transaction helping me, not the company who charged $1.40 flat rate and needs to budget their offering by limiting development and support.
This is a strawman and you know it. There's plenty of such rhetoric on Twitter and Facebook. What's different is the group of people against which it is targeted.
Not only that. Vendors can deploy unknown, unapproved firmware updates:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/georgia-election-ma...
Are banks auditable? (Yes.) Do they have paper backups of everything? (Not that I'm aware of.) What's the difference? Honest question.
Canadian here. We still count ballots the old fashioned way and get our election results out the night of the election (typically). Presumably that scales linearly.. more voters means more ballot boxes and more officials counting and auditing. This seems like a solved problem to me.

Why doesn't/wouldn't this work in the US? My guess is the complexity of your ballots -- we typically vote for one person and every couple of years there might be a referendum question.
Isn’t it reasonable to want the people who make a decision to know what they’re making a decision about? I want all the informed voters to vote but, by and large, uninformed voters make the outcome arbitrary.
I watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM a few days ago and was surprised to see is the #1 youtube link. It does have 11M views, however, and it is a great talk.
I don’t know. I work for a fortune 100 company and the corporate IT department is purposefully choosing tools not under MicroSofts control. AWS, bitbucket, Slack, Intellij, etc. And developers are encouraged to use MacBook Pros instead of anything running Windows.
Very few things could actually make humans extinct at this point. It would take an impact like the one that produced the moon to finish us off. We're so adaptable that some of us will survive and rebuild. If we can ever get back to technological civilization without easily accessible fossil fuels is debatable, but I think we'd find a way - it would just be a lot harder and take longer.

What worries me is not extinction, but societal collapse. We've seen how disruptive covid19 was, and it was a baby event compared to things that have happened in earth's history.

Climate change and nuclear war both seem highly probable causes of societal collapse. Both are preventable if we can just find a way to not be collectively stupid. I don't how we do that, but it's insane we're not trying harder.
You totally can. Agile is more about having a growth mindset than 'doing scrum'.
Doctors in Australia recommend approximately 15 mins of sunshine a day in Australia.

This is pretty easy to achieve, even in winter, for us... and is unlikely to "lead to skin cancer"
Imagine if your day job at a big company (with the attendant salary and benefits) were to write open source?

Speaking of Python in particular, there are people at Microsoft who get paid for, among other things, working on Python itself.
I come to the same conclusions you do about this, but I always find it hard to discuss these sort of details without getting my observations written off as toxic what-aboutism. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if your comment began to accumulate downvotes very quickly, so here’s my upvote if it means anything.

I have a female friend who would back me into a corner and force me to answer for all the wrongs men have done against women throughout history if I tried to raise the points you made with her. Not sure what to do.
This is a bug. The intent is that if the malware check takes too long the system fails "open" and allows the launch. That obviously didn't work correctly in this case.
Your comment assumes the nature of wrongdoing is equivalent on both sides.
From "The Big Vitamin D Mistake" by Dimitrios T. Papadimitriou (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/)

> This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.

Then, a person that consumed from 8000 IU to 12000 IU per day and had kidney damage due to high calcium levels in his blood.

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/news/20190408...
>If not, i wonder why they don't.

mainly because it's hard to trace back which device key got leaked, especially if all you have to go on are whatever the ripped videos. if you had the tools it'd be much easier, but that's probably kept under tight wraps by the piracy groups.
Yeah like running 2 electron apps and chrome
The Psychology of Depression – How to Ruin Your Life
"Unprecedented" times. An "unprecedented" election. An "unprecedented" election process.

And no problems. Really?

FEMA, also a gov-based entity, has had multiple "practice rounds" and it still can't get it right. Rare does the gov get it right, let alone first time.

I have to stick with the tried and true: Trust but verify. And self-verification isn't good enough.
this needs a (2017) in the title
No, I don’t think you should just dismiss the privacy issue. It seems every time I launch an app, MacOS tells Apple. That’s also a REAL problem — and I guess I won’t be buying a Mac again unless the feature can be turned off.
If current Stripe customers wish to switch to another processor like Vantiv, First Data, Chase Paymentech, etc will Stripe enable data migration from your ISO to another ISO?

I did this when moving from a First Data ISO to Vantiv to ensure we could avoid collecting card data from clients again.
A small subset of it is to manage stakeholders. Otherwise they will say ‘build this blob of an idea’, and will not value incremental additions towards the final version that can give a lot of direction on what’s doable/not necessary/necessary. They will also be majorly disappointed if one day they expect the blob of an idea to magically appear, as it won’t meet any expectations.
Because VSCode is already doing better than JetBrains. It’s adoption as an IDE has been a rocket ship.
https://youtu.be/x4fdUx6d4QM
Hmm, I voted in Texas and there were definitely paper ballots, the vote was on a machine with a printer and a scanner was used to actually place the vote.
I think space is becoming a reasonable frontier.

Until then, something IPFS based.
A 50,000 IU pill is smaller than a pinto bean. I'm not saying to not take vitamin D, but it can be overdosed with serious negative side effects and the best way to not do that is to consult your physician.
If your bank account balance is wrong, you can tell for sure that it's wrong and then explain it to the bank and get it fixed. If your vote was counted wrong, you'd never know. For them to be equivalent, the secret ballot would have to be abolished.
And how do we know that the guy in that youtube video isn't just another quack saying things so people will pay them attention?

If you're going to dismiss all information out of government agencies simply on the basis that they're authorities and you don't like what they have to say, you should probably buy a gun and move into the woods
>Can you provide any examples of how other nations have codified freedom of speech, expression, religion and peaceful assembly and in some different and superior way?

Not the OP but here in Germany the guiding principle of all lawmaking and action of the state is human dignity, as laid out in the first article of the basic law.

Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

and freedom of expression while enjoying numerous protections reaches its limitations when that dignity is under attack (article 5):

(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.

(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons and in the right to personal honour.
People notice when you take money from them directly but seldom take notice when its taken from the community chest.
I think everyone who uses probabilities to make decisions agrees that all our models are flawed in many ways. But how else do you propose to weigh different possibilities?

As for your proposal for how to spend money, I agree those are fruitful and promising directions. I think the fields of public choice theory and mechanism design are working on some of the problems you mention.
super cool! thanks for posting!
My factual numbers aren’t “bad” simply because you choose a different perspective. Notice how I am respectful of your position despite your attempts to bully me into joining some concept of unanimous consent you have contrived here. The reality is, very strong correlation of Vitamin D deficiency to hospitalization and death. But I’m not here telling you to be reasonable and dose Vitamin D to protect yourself and take responsibility for your own health.

Bottom line though, I go to work and I go home. Contact tracing the old fashioned way is 100% sufficient for me. If you want to engage risky behavior that’s on you. I have no obligation to have my every movement tracked because of your exercise of free will.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/12/pennsyl...

I don't understand how you can say the Election was the "most secure" when you literally have a Court in Pennsylvania throw out 10,000 ballots!

If the system was so "secure" it shouldn't have even gone to the Courts in the first place and instead the electoral system should have found out the discrepancies on its own! The truth is that US electoral system is full of flaws and it showed through this election!
Lots to unpack here:

> It discourages exactly the kind of behavior it pretends to want to see

Assuming cartoonish levels of bad faith and asserting a contradiction in terms becomes the foundation for a lot of what follows

> Dads are disadvantaged in the same way Moms are, but then they're screwed over at work more (since expectations are set by articles like this one that it's the mom's duty).

As you noted above, the article advocates for the opposite of what you're asserting here.

> They're screwed over a third time in custody battles, when thanks to stereotypes like these, they will invariably get the short stick on custody. Best a Dad primary caretaker can hope for, unless the Mom is a drunk psychotic, is 50/50. Typical is Mom gets custody.

This simply isn't true, 2 of the 3 cases I know the dad got 80/20, primarily because he had a more stable situation, such as a full time job as a nurse, and/or owning a house.

> It's perfectly possible to write an article like this in neutral terms "primary caretaker," and point out the majority are women, and there's a disparate gender impact. It's an article about primary caretakers. By implying by correlation that it's 100% women, it does a ton of harm.

As you noted, you believe this was _implied_ - as a neutral reader, I'm not inclined to just agree with your assertion that it was implied, you actively threw away that opportunity by opening strong with the claim that the article is "pretending" to "want to see" things - you can intro people with a strong take, in fact, I need to do that more in my writing. But, you can't be three paragraphs in reasserting your strong claim, at this point we should have some discussion of evidence.

> As a footnote, that problem is pretty common. We don't have domestic violence laws. We have a "violence against women act." I'm not even sure how that's constitutional, but the result is that law enforcement ignores domestic violence against men.

You are asserting that the marketing name for one piece of legislation 24 years ago means that everyone only uses violence against women against preferring the general neutral. There's plenty of laws against "domestic violence" specifically, that's how it's referred to in law, and domestic violence is used _much_ more frequently - 22x as many, in fact.

> That's not to speak of the whole LGBTQ community, whom the author thinks it's okay to f- over by assuming a family is a husband and a wife.

All of your observations through this point were about how men are unfairly treated compared to women. This gives the reader absolute whiplash, because now you're claiming it's offensive to _talk about gender at all_ in relation to this.
Yeah the only thing I recall is that 8th Grade is commonly taught the US Constitution. In some states passing a constitution test is required for graduation. But again it is done at the state level, and I have never seen anything requiring the Anti-Federalist papers be covered.
In that case it's yet another case of some developers choosing to screw users over by crippling the features that Apple wanted to be available for everyone by default :(

(Fuck Google in particular for actively hindering iOS Picture-in-Picture for years)
I would start by no longer being their friend. Who needs such toxicity in their life?
The difference is that transactions at banks aren’t anonymous.

If you could only see the bank’s final balance with no insight into how much each person deposited and no cash in the vaults, the bank’s reported balance would be pretty meaningless for audit purposes.
On the same topic, it wasn't till searching on my own I found out about the arguments against the bill of rights. Namely, and I find this quite compelling but still don't know where I stand on it, that by formulating a list of rights that were protected, the government would then default to assuming those not listed weren't protected, which is anathema to the foundational idea of unalienable rights in the first place. In general I think one of the things I learned from this and other similar why didn't the education system teach this is that there is a marked lack of analysis of opposing viewpoints in times of history in the current education system.
In old safari, try setting 'max-content' to to any div 'width' attribute and it'll crash. This has been a persistent since many years and yet not fixed.
Security through obscurity is a horrible way to secure anything, but especially voting machines.
You can. It's just very costly. Rays typically represent just a single sample, so the more probabilistic the projected image becomes (read "unfocused"), the more samples are required to capture it smoothly. This is compounded by the number of lens elements, the material's index of refraction and other complexities. A single element lens adds a minimum of two additional ray/surface evaluations for every sample of which their are many per pixel.

Also, as a separate matter many implementations optimize around the assumption that the projection from three dimensions to two is done in a uniform, undistorted space. For example the kind of projection that can be fully described by a 4x4 matrix. Changing that assumption loses those optimizations, and generally leads to substance abuse and mayhem.
Precisely. This is lies with statistics. Put enough graphs in front of an audience with no knowledge of how statistics worked and already predisposed to your message... spread it around. This guy is no better than Q anon wackadoodles. I know it’s best to refute their arguments but this guy is not worth listening to. He has an agenda and it’s clearly politically motivated. No need to wade into his web of statistical lies.
Docker does matter, because the Docker image should take the place of requirements.txt (your "locked" dependencies) in your deployment process. I suggest you pip-install the package, rather than the package's requirements.txt file.
One method appears to be playing back on a legitimate player, then using HDCP strippers on hdmi/displayport outputs[1]. I've seen some 4k releases that clearly show the streaming site's playback controls, for instance.

[1] search for "hdcp bypass" on ebay
I get an “application error” when trying to access the link?
The article mentions that microplastics are found at the bottom of the Mariana trench, but fails to mention that even plastic bags and candy wrappers have been found [1]. No need to look at Carbon-14 to find far reaching impacts of humans.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157
> working OS without a hassle

I can't help but think you meant, "I've accepted there's no real way to salvage and diagnose my computer when it breaks so reformatting it has become second nature. I always keep an up to date Win10 install USB ready, and I even have a second hard drive that I keep all my files on."

With Macs, you have to put up with MacOS and Apple (one big premium is lack of choice). It's also not that easy to self-administrate without MDM, and software options are relatively limited if you come from either Linux or Windows.
Sony Rings the Closing Bell
A Chinese car being street legal in North America seems like a landmark moment.

Or am I confusing "legal" with "safe"?
First I must win the argument, and then I can have the satisfaction of leaving on a high note.
That and having Elections Canada run everything instead of each province rolling their own protocols.
In order to secure the vote we need open source machines, verifiable ballots (including online verification), complete chain of control, body cams on anyone handling ballots, transparency to public and party observers via cameras, multiple isolated tabulations (verifying they all agree), and also strongly verifiable voter ID. Nothing in this process should be left up to chance. I don’t accept the stance that a lack of evidence of fraud means that fraud isn’t happening or that a better process shouldn’t be designed.
The Backbone: Conclusion
10,000 votes were discarded by a Court in Pennsylvania [1]. At least someone in US is bothered about making sure the elections were held in a legit manner rather than some Hacker News rando's blanket dismissal of allegations of voter irregularities!

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/12/pennsyl...
Does that mean I will need to switch from mypy to pyright?
IP blocking and rate limiting for clients outside the blessed range operated by G
There's a way to talk about this stuff that isn't a series of assertions - I'm sure OP is hurt, and I'm sure you were too. I have been as well. It's odd to see that twisted into justification for claiming men are the one injured by sexism, especially when it's a series of things that are, at their face, false.
Sourcehut may be a good option as well.

Drew seems like the type to fight illegitimate DMCA's.

Edit: I'm curious, why the downvotes? I am legitimately trying to be helpful. I recognize if you have personal differences with ddevault, but he puts his code where his mouth is.

If I'm misunderstanding said downvotes, please enlighten me.

Edit 2: Many thanks to those who have responded. It appears I misunderstood about this specific instance, where the DMCA does have some legitimacy.
There has been progress since 2000. While some states still have electronic-only voting machines, the trend seems to be away from them toward paper mark-and-scan. In addition there is greater awareness of the value of risk-limiting audits. Heck, Georgia is voluntarily hand-recounting their entire presidential ballot. And the debacle in Florida in 2000 has arguably led to better ballot design as well.

I took the CISA statement to be relative to this progress, not a statement of absolute quality.
The bug has now illustrated a huge privacy issue for people in macOS, that was not obvious before. So we are now talking about THAT too.
The Native Americans of the Olympic Peninsula produced a complex civilization without agriculture of any kind.

That was made possible mostly by the unique weather and ecology of the area; it can't be done in most places, but it can be done in enough places to keep humanity from going extinct.
Right on — the thing that worries me most is that Equifax’s breach didn’t cause much of a stir... someone was/is sitting on that trove of 140m records.
Perhaps the concern in forking it would be that the group that creates the fork now has the responsibility of maintaining another project, on top of the project(s) they already maintain.
We could fortify beer and Coca Cola with it. While it’ll be on the label, I bet 9/10 people can’t rhyme off what is fortified.

(Around here, it’s salt, milk, flour and cereals that get fortified).

Dunno where fluoride fits, but that too.
Most cars use separate buses for the critical control systems and the infotainment/GPS/etc. They learned that lesson after the infamous demonstration of hacking a Jeep on the highway several years ago.

It's conceivable that someone could push bad updates to Tesla autopilot software, or briefly stop peoples' radios from working, but quiet OTA systems like that are the exception rather than the rule.
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What's wrong with poetry right now?
Author is Greek. Don't trust him.