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> Are you kidding?

No?

> We just had an election amid a pandemic where electronic voting could have literally saved lives.

The electronic voting machines the OP is talking about are still in-person. It doesn't make any difference to the risk in the pandemic.

> Then we have a president who refuses to concede

That's nothing to do with paper/electronic voting, is it?

> states that are still counting and recounting votes

Well why do they take so long? Why can it be done in hours in other countries but not in the US?

> people don't expect a final tally until December

I think a single person could count all the ballots in that time. What are they possibly doing?
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This is generally ok advice but it leaves out an important detail about making backwards compatible changes. If your backend doesn’t do anything, every change to your database will break your client unless they are updated simultaneously every time (impossible for mobile apps) or your client is aware of every backend change (very complex). Not to mention there is some data you simply don’t want to expose to a client in most situations, like user emails or hashed passwords.
His landing page has a number of grammar issues.

> nomadmail is made for normal people: writers, authors, content creators. People who want to write newsletters to another people.

If he wanted to have another shot, that's an easy problem to solve to get the ball rolling. Run your copy through a service like "Grammarly" or hemingway, and get it fixed.
The huge positive here is that you tried, now you won't spend the rest of your life thinking what if. I'll bet you'll appreciate your normal life so much more after the sacrifices you made. Well done for trying.
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I replaced my built-in oven recently, and it said it could also be (approved for use I assume that means) 'built-under'; I didn't check but I assume you just get screw-in feet, slide it under the counter/hob, then put the kickboard back. Or maybe no feet it just goes in a cabinet with the door off/drawers out.

I suppose my point really was just that it's all standard sizes, it's not like fitted kitchens are custom built by electricians as well as cabinet makers with the guts hanging out of appliances, no enclosure to speak of.

It's shocking what these things cost though, compared to BOM. Ovens from £100-400 are basically all the same just with different fascias.. but if your kitchen is exposed enough that you don't want the oven fascia to look crap.. what can you do put stump up?
While this sounds logical and reasonable, the FOSS community doesn't consider it acceptable since it's not considered totally free.

MongoDB got raked through the coals when they tried making a license with this purpose. They ended up having to backtrack [1]. I don't understand people's desire to give these billion-dollar corporations everything for free.

[1] https://hub.packtpub.com/mongodb-withdraws-controversial-ser...

Edit: Instead of downvoting this, how about actually explaining why apparently this is such a terrible idea.
It's true that big, slow things are, all other things being equal, more efficient than small, fast things. Momentum is mv, but kinetic energy is 1/2 mv^2, so that squared term means it's cheaper to move a lot of mass(m) slowly than a little of it quickly. You can build big, slow ducted fans, but you do hit size limits much earlier than with free props because of the shroud.

HOWEVER, efficiency is maximized when outlet velocity matches airspeed (or you have wasted momentum that will dissipate into heat, when your outlet stream mingles with the rest of the atmosphere). For your slow gliders, a small ducted fan with a high outlet velocity will indeed be quite inefficient. But this guy, traveling at hundreds of mph, needs a propulsion unit with a similarly high outlet velocity. A big, slow thing isn't going to cut it for that. A big, fast thing would, but would also blow their power budget. Within their design constraints, this is pretty close to the optimal solution.[1]

There's also the small matter of free props being horrifically dangerous :)

[1] They've helpfully given us enough information to work out some basic aerodynamics of their fans. At 7.5 Kw each, assuming 90% efficiency each of the motors and ESCs, and eyeballing the duct and hub diameters as 18cm and 8cm each respectively (could be off, here), we should expect an outlet velocity of about 230 mph. The guy reached an airspeed of nearly 190mph, or over 80% of the outlet velocity, so they aren't doing badly at all considering the drag.
+1. What even is the use-case for plausible deniability? The way I heard it, is if your conversational partner is from the FBI and you want to whistleblow something, the plausible deniability can be used to plausibly deny that you said something to the agent. But who's the judge going to believe: the agent that claimed message X was sent to them, or the user who said that the agent must have forged message X? Heck, if the government is that suspicious of someone they can also order the ISP to setup a tap and see that the right number of bytes at the right time were sent. The feature requires extra complexity in security protocols, plus might give people a false sense that they can just deny anything afterwards when that is not the case.

Checking Wikipedia to make sure I understand the point correctly, it claims it's more about denying that encryption was used at all (good luck with that one in an encrypted chat) or that there can be multiple plaintexts (so you can later come up with a completely different chat log, lying in court and claiming the other party has forged everything, which has the same issue as above).

Transcript consistency on the other hand seems to me like an expected feature for any >2010 multi-party encryption protocol. That can be practically used to change the conversation shown to a third participant (taking a "yes" of mine from one place, pasting it elsewhere while withholding the original reply...).
Copyright (as in the MIT license) covers only the actual contents of the work, not a generic name like "label-actions".
Peak usage is not a problem. Why should everyone charge from 6 to 8 pm? People will charge when electricity is cheapest. Also there are already discounted rates for heat pumps where the utilities can control the running times to help balancing the net. Actually, electric cars will stabilize the grid by being charged automatically when the grid has a lot of supply and not when there is a shortage.
Interesting stuff...
Agreed. It's too much.

I think some people are afraid of a candidate falsely declaring victory/fraud on platforms without moderation. Also, some of us have friends/family-members who are getting kind of weird over even the youtube conspiracy rabbit-holes.

It's really the logical conclusion of the "deplatforming" debate, but I don't see how it's is any different than 4chan.
Don't do it! Not if your application is more than a toy.

I get the allure of this kind of approach, but the costs in usability and defense against pathological queries (given nontrivial data volumes) are way too heavy to bear for the superficial convenience. And the justifications related to the sorts of problems avoided don't pass the smell test.
You don't really have to choose between things like Qt and X.org, Wayland, hidpi, etc. Using a library such as Qt means you only have to care about your application, and leave the rest for the toolkit developers, who will code the actual backends for X.org, Wayland, Mir... whatever. Of course nothing is perfect and issues may arise but I don't think it's as bad as you depicted it.
Many cups which appear wax-coated are in fact coated with plastic.
Why do pianists know so little about pianos?
I don't. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I am speaking as someone who is pro-choice, pro-GMO's and pro-stem cell research, etc. This research has crossed a line that none of the above do. It is creating a new kind of sentience, a new kind of soul.

And, what's the point? To confirm a theory about a gene? So fricking what. That really doesn't matter, not in relation to the possible consequences: someone taking this research to create a race of "sub-human" slaves that think and feel as acutely as we do. Pick your genetic engineering dystopia for where this is leading us- Brave New World, Planet of the Apes, Gattaca, even the Uplift series.

It never should have gotten approved by an ethics review board. The 100 days termination was just so they could claim to have considered ethics. If they actually seriously had done so, this project would have never left the drawing board.

Finally: I wish people would stop staying the genie is out of the bottle. The genie is whatever we humans decide to do. You can't just assume that because something is possible that it will be done. We can have moral boundaries as a society. We can say "this is a bridge too far and no one should cross it". And anyone who does will be excommunicated from the scientific world.

There is nothing inevitable about this dark path. Saying that it is inevitable just removes responsibility from whoever does it, which is just BS.

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edit: grammar, clarity
At the same time, selling ordinary things in a better way has also built many fortunes. I know several self-made people running ecommerce businesses in the most mundane spaces. There's plenty of opportunity everywhere.
A year of trying but not succeeding does not mean you completely failed, or “lost a year”. The things you do in the future will determine how much you’ve learned and how “lost” that year really was.
I say he got what he wanted.

He wanted the country to burn to the ground in mindless squabbles, so that the Right Wing can ascend to the dominant viewpoint.

Mission Accomplished.
> Nuclear energy is still dangerous. For example, it is still not safe against possible natural disasters (Fukushima),

I mean, if we are going to be bringing up a single datapoint then allow me to raise a counterpoint.

Nuclear energy is still safe. For example, it is still safe against possible natural disasters (Onagawa) [1]

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/onagawa-the-japanese-nuclear...
I have a G4 I bought for use as a DAW. It still has OS9; I never installed OSX as I knew it would probably slow things down. I never needed to connect the Mac to the internet. If I needed to send/receive files via internet I moved them via crossover cable to a laptop or PC that was connected to the internet.

People today, even more so than in the 2000's, have multiple computers. Would it still be feasible to have a Mac used for {music, cinema, graphics} that is not connected to the internet. Certainly one would have other computers that were connected to the internet and moving files between computers on the local network, preferably via Ethernet, is much faster.

But the point of me telling personal stories is not to suggest anyone could/should do the same things; on the contrary, it is to illustrate that "one size does not fit all". Today's Apple chooses for the user, rather than letting the user choose.
Thanks for checking it out!

So the key thing is on Sqwok each post has a built-in chat room instead of comments, meaning that creating your own chat and sharing it with anyone else is as easy as sharing the url for your post. It currently works on mobile and desktop web.

> can I describe it this way: the author of a topic of discussion is the moderator of the topic?

yes this is accurate! I'm still actively building out some key features including ability to do some basic moderation, but that's the plan!
Those startup are equally (if not harder) to get in. So I am not sure what you are trying to compare against.

> people who have actually affected my life have heard of it

I mean that is probably true and will be true for many. This also means that you are in a social network of people who are sort of knowledgable and somewhat well off.

I am sure the undergrad education at Grinnell or Haverford is on average pretty much the same at Harvard or Princeton. More so with computer science, nobody is learning more exclusive algorithms at these more name brand schools.

But clearly, you can't deny the name brand factor that positively influences many other ventures.
i think its stronger than this. as evidenced by the Bayh-Doyle act...culturally the US government is so heavily biased towards the profit motive that they see 'enabling business' to be much more of a goal than 'building an effective society at a tolerable cost'.

look at tax software for another perfect example.

US is pretty busted

(edit: legal publishing, maps, insurance....)
For me it's a set of automations that make some of the minor inconveniences of life just sort of magically resolve themselves:

- Automatically closing the skylight shades after sunset (when they just let ambient city night glow in) and open them just before sunrise.

- Automatically opening the window shades just before sunrise.

- Turning on the overhead lights and increasing brightness in several stages during sunrise (my place can be a bit dark because I'm under the eaves, this helps the effect).

- Automatically turning off several light-producing devices (coffeemaker, Instant Pot, etc) via 'smart outlet' when I go to bed in a certain time window, then turning them back on when any light is turned on in the morning. (This second-order automation means they still have the same 'magical' effect even if I disable the other auto-lighting for a day because I desperately need to sleep in.)

- Automatically playing NPR in several rooms the first time I leave the bedroom on a weekday during a certain time window.

All the automation here happens entirely locally via HomeKit, and the only reason the system even needs an internet connection at all is so the Apple TV acting as a hub can get updated sunrise/sunset times. (For a totally self-contained system you'd probably want to grab a cheap iPad to act as the hub instead, wall-mount it, and put it in 'kiosk mode' locked to the Home app.)

For all of this, my Hue lights/smart plugs/motion sensors and the Apple and Sonos speakers have been completely reliable. The Hunter-Douglas skylight shades have been mostly reliable (maybe one or two failures over the course of a year, though I did have to get an RF repeater for that to work well).

The weak point is the window shades, which use generic rebranded functionality from a reseller because most of the industry of window coverings is awful and behind the times. Hunter-Douglas top-down-bottom-up shades are about the best replacement available at the moment for automation purposes (so you can adjust the exact amount of window covered for privacy purposes and do it multiple times per day in a way that would be a massive pain to handle manually), but awfully pricey.

I'm also considering rigging up a proper bed occupancy sensor (basically turning the whole bed into a giant scale with load sensors and triggering events on human-approximate weight being added/removed) to replace the bedroom motion sensor, but I've got one of those Ikea slat-bottomed bedframes that probably wouldn't work very well for that.
MySpace was massive when Facebook was a year or two old. I had accounts on both and MySpace looked way more attractive compared to FB (it had the feel of Instagram).

So no, FB did not take over overnight. And even a few years into FB, no one (yes, no one) knew that FB will go past MySpace and there will simply be no comparison between the two 10 or 15 years down the road.

When FB took over MySpace a full FOUR years in [0], investors knew FB had momentum, but no one (yes, no one) had any idea why.

Not only that, many investors had no second thoughts about MySpace, and it felt like a competition space, instead of a winner take all. There was still an opinion that MySpace will retake the top spot again 'any minute now.'

So why FB took over MySpace? We don't know. Yes, we don't know in 2020, 16 years later.

(I'm not dismissing hard work, marketing, execution, commitment. But it was there for both FB and MySpace. It's a pre-requisite. You think MySpace folks slacked off and that's why FB got ahead? think again).

Stop monday morning quarter backing.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=when+did+facebook+overtake+m...
Surely you could do more damage with a small explosive device than a large helium balloon and some wire, and maybe lightning will strike? The attack you suggest sounds like something a comic book villain might do. It speaks to the imagination but is impractical and inefficient.
The exclude amazon is the issue - I’m sorry but do you not see the contradiction in the last 3 sentences? When you make broad generalizations like that you’re also broadly calling people like me lesser. You realize that right?
without looking it up, sounds like you are referring the brand name or the manufacture/distributor of wire nuts available at your local hardware store.
I'd add some blur, applied in random spots but large enough not to notice it's shifting.
> Inefficiency is a feature, having every state and every county slightly different makes systemic fraud very difficult.

I agree with this - in addition, it makes it a lot easier for everyone to understand the system, and therefore more likely to trust it.
Why even touch this topic?

There was a mistrust of the Federal government at the time, and it was believed that state militias could act as a check against a Federal standing army which goes rogue.

We have bigger issues than gun control at a federal level.
This article doesn't use the word "permission" or "validation", which is concerning.

The only mention of security hand waves away the idea of access control to a "thin back end". That's the whole point of this post! The details of this are critical!

> you can define an API that takes an SQL query from the client, runs it, and returns the results. This query can be run under a database user account that has only read access, that too only to the friends table. This can accommodate unforeseen uses, like getting the number of friends rather than the actual list. Or if there’s a search box where the user can filter his friends, you can do a LIKE query. Or you can limit the number of friends returned to how many will be displayed in the UI.

Without mentioning how this has been solved elsewhere, this is an incredibly reckless piece of advice. For one, it's nearly impossible to parse and check an arbitrary SQL query for malicious intent. Besides ensuring that queries that should read only read, you also need to make sure that queries aren't designed to intentionally DoS your DB.

And moreover, it now passes the responsibility of query performance to the FE engineer. Are appropriate indexes in place? Does the query make inappropriate JOINs?

And on top of all of that, schema changes now mean that you need to update your front end code. This means guaranteed hard downtime, because you can't control what JS folks are running in the browser.

There's a lot wrong with the ideas presented here.
Also the Emmet Till accuser admitting she lied, once she was on her death bed.
We don’t know enough to know if that’s a good measure; if it is, ants would be at the top of the list for all animals, and treeshrews for mammals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio
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No...they didn't. That's not how it works at all. smh
A number of things are steps back. Scrollbars used to be easier to click, and would always tell you when you were somewhat far down a document. Now they disappear when you're not using them. Since we have SO MUCH more screen real estate these days, I don't even buy it as a practical measure. I believe this style is meant to reduce visual clutter from an aesthetic point of view, but not actually to improve the usage of the computer.
1. One great thing about open source is that nobody is forcing you to upgrade. You can stick with VLC 3.x forever, and as mentioned in the video, it will be a long-term support release.

2. Jean-Baptiste Kempf was offered tens of millions of euros to put ads in VLC, but turned down the offer (link in French)[1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/736ghk/ama_je_suis_...
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As long as pre-counting is banned in some states and mail-in ballots exist, this sort of timeliness will not be possible in the US.
Hacker News sure has changed into Slashdot 2.0 when this kind of shallow dismissivemess is so common.
They are meant to be appointing an independent judiciary applying precedent and law as written, not delegates whose votes are pledged to parties. Activists belong in Congress where the voters have some say.
I appreciate good snark. However, you get bonus points if you add something substantial to the discussion. For example, my advice is to avoid upgrading to a new OS without a backup that can be easily re-installed when the installation goes south.
Thanks, last time I tested aerc I couldn't find a way to make it download all my mails locally. Is this possible?
We are very much Nature. Possibly something independent of our own minds exist; we can never really know. Anything worth preserving, caring for, or caring about, is a product of the human mind. The meteor careening into the earth does not feel a moral quandary, but we do, and as such I agree that given our limited knowledge we should care. But we should also pay heed to how ignorant we are: we cannot possibly know how our present actions will play out in the future, the best we can do is try to be compassionate and take care of what we can. The rest is out of our control and hence our sphere of responsibility.
>The reason Supreme Court justices are appointed for life is so they are independent

Can't you just make it so it's x years appointment, but you can't be reappointed?
Anybody know, or have a decent guess at, the price?
> Been seeing more anti-free speech people here. Or maybe the censorship is perfectly fine as long it’s our team mindset.

Or maybe, just maybe, you do not have the monopoly opinion on what "free speech" is and is not. In all of the examples given, excepting the Thai Hotel case, free speech is still assured. You can still offer your opinions freely, but no publisher is required to publish them. And, having published them, no other punter is required to accept them, and specifically accept them without quarrel.

Perhaps what you are seeing is actually free speech in all its glory! The 'anti-free speech people' have a right to speak their opinions just as you do. The fact they exist is proof that free speech exists, as it certainly seems that you would rather they did not voice their opinions.

Remember, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences!
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Pre-counting is banned in the UK. Mail-in ballots exist in the UK. How do you think we manage it?
Have you seen a typical American ballot?

There are many races to vote in at the national, state, and local level. Besides President, every ballot would have included house rep and 2/3 of states had a Senate race. Then add state governor, house rep, and senate which often align on the same cycle. Most states also elect attorney general, treasurer, education and several other statewide executive offices. Some states elect state supreme court judges. Then there can be mayor, city council, school board, port commissioner, and other local offices, although many states align these to non presidential election years. Then there are states like California that always have several initiatives.

In practice, you are looking at dozens of races on this year's general election ballot in many states. Counting all those on paper would be time consuming and possibly less accurate than using an optical scan counter.