skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title is clickbait (article has depth, at least references). Every election comes 'with problems'. The question is 1) Are they documented well? 2) How serious are the problems?

The single largest problem with this election is credited to one man who called fraud without any substantial proof. Problem is, the man is currently president, therefore a figure of authority. However, he's currently losing lawsuit after lawsuit with regards to his fraud claims.

> Most recently, a story began circulating online that suggested U.S. intelligence had requisitioned a nefarious supercomputer called HAMMER, upon which it was running a program called SCORECARD in order to manipulate vote tabulation on a grand scale. The HAMMER and SCORECARD story has been shared widely on rightwing media channels, despite the fact that CISA quickly shot the theory down.

Ah, I suppose Matthew Dillon's HAMMER...
I am more wondering why hasn't AMD massively invested into porting common ML frameworks to OpenCL. Nvidia has outrageous margins on their datacenter GPUs. They've even banned the use of lower-margin gamer-oriented GPU in datacenters [0]. Given that tensor arithmetic is essentially an easily abstractable commodity, I just don't understand why they don't offer a drop-in replacement.

Most users won't care what hardware their PyTorch model runs on in the cloud. All that matters for them is dollars per training epoch (or cents per inference). This could be a steal for an alternate hardware vendor.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109023551/https://www.digit...
This is a good tip. If you are writing a project/code heavy book, write the code first. They re-write the code taking intensive notes along the way. There's your outline.
Would it make you feel better to know your PID is being stored in a database language where the only data type is strings, and there is an intrinsic command to interpret any string as code?
> It depicted recommendation algorithms as three evil scheming clones

I thought it was a good non-technical presentation of what the recommendations / notifications work like. These were basically the pillars of engagement, ad revenue and... can't remember the third. We know it's a metaphor - what would you show otherwise - the code for rearranging timeline and best ad selection?

> showing a family with the worst case of social media addiction the writers could imagine

It's Requiem for the dream, the tech edition. Sure it's an extreme, but also it's not an unrealistic extreme. They picked elements we see - replacing in-person interacting with gamified social networks, rise/normalisation of extremist communities, literal addiction to continuing use.

> preteens can't last half an hour before smashing open locked boxes to get a hit

My first lockpick exercise was the keyboard lock on a PC to work around parent's time control, so... sure.
Why do they still produce GPU rather than specialized ASIC for neural networks like Google does with their Tensor Processing Units?
How would a global preference for colors even work? You can’t just change one color in a palette and expect the design as a whole to still make sense. Imagine a standard thing like a table where you want borders, subtle zebra stripes, focus/selection states, error states, and maybe color coded text for different types of values. Getting that to work at all requires careful coordination of the entire color palette.
I love that Apple controls the payment system.

It means I have one place to manage subscriptions, one place with my credit card details, one place to manage family payments and all of it is from a company that can be trusted to do things in a secure and private way.

Do you really want the likes of PayPal or Epic to dominate mobile App Store payments ?
Been waiting to see this. Still holding off on buying one though until I see better battery numbers and a few more actual phones in customer hands. Very excited about this product, despite a lot of the bad press it had earlier on (of which some seemed justified considering the timeframe).

Anybody got their hands on one and can speak for the current state of usability?
I guess it depends on the project, but I can't recall one time I've had to do a CTRL F like you've mentioned.

Of course if you have a very simple page with just some cards, a couple page layouts, that is one thing. Probably can get by with just a myCard class that works everywhere on the site.

But in most projects, as the number of custom components grows, nobody wants to go back and touch (break?) old CSS, so they end up just writing a bunch of fresh stuff for this new feature and throwing it on the pile.

This problem happens often, while the refactor-in-one-place case happens very little.
What about PPP?

That USD$2.80 would result in PPP $4.20
I use TailwindCSS for some personal projects, works great, no major complaints. But as a dev in the government sector, I'm disappointed in the way they just whimsically dump Internet Explorer 11 in their release notes [1], as if it's a minor thing / cool to hate on.

In my bubble, there's no alternative right now. Switching to a more modern browser requires an enormous amount of agility throughout the pipeline that does not exist. To adopt a shiny new browser, agencies would need to push browser updates to all their client machines every ~4-6 weeks [2]. Solution providers need to perform continuous testing on their web apps (browser vendors do not guarantee minor updates are backwards compatible), creating patches, which need to be submitted to the government for regression testing... and oops that took too long and the next EOL is here.

With Microsoft's surprise obsolescence of Internet Explorer 11 across all its cloud offerings 1Q 2021, we're headed straight into a brick wall. Very interested to see what shakes out here.

I suspect initially we'll see the government just deploy and use older unsupported copies of Chrome/Edge browser, under the guise of "well it's better than IE11 right?". Longer term, ...?

[1] https://blog.tailwindcss.com/tailwindcss-v2#incompatibility-...

[2] Vendors do not support these versions after EOL for any reason. Firefox has an ESR branch, bless them, but some agencies have now increased scrutiny of Mozilla software for recent political/security reasons.
Maybe, but downvoting low effort jokes is common on HN, no special assumptions about apple required.
The extra cognitive load that results from having to use Vue's templating DSL (domain specific language) makes it worse than React IMO. You have to context switch out of javascript and then back again. It is tedious and unnecessarily.

Multiple that by the number of frontend engineers you have across the org.
Interesting article. It doesn't look at corporate/social media censorship, but government and ISP censorship is still dangerous.

I found quite surprising that Japan censored The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal for G20. What would be the reason for that? It's not like they would provoke disturbances.

Also, ISP censorship on Norway. Corporate overreach, or unofficial cooperation between them and government? They really need some Net Neutrality.
Just two days ago, The Solomon Islands government decided to ban Facebook, joining Nauru, China, Hong Kong and Iran.

A good thing, but for all the wrong reasons (shutting down criticism of govt by anon accounts).

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/430811/solo...
> Imagine if the iPhone were heroin

Yeah, but its rather obviously not heroin.

"Imagine if X were Y" isn't really an argument to support "We should act as if X were Y, or at least similar". What needs to be presented is a reason to believe that X is, in fact, like Y.
Let go. Have faith.
For anyone who's interested, I put together a repos to bootstrap a react with typescript and tailwind project.

It's intentionally fairly barebones, but I've found it useful to get a wide variety of projects started quickly: https://github.com/figelwump/react-typescript-tailwind-boots...

I've come to love Tailwind, after a few failed attempts at using it. Recommend trying it!
The Chairperson of CISA has decent credibility, at least to me as a Canadian. I don't care much for US politics, but the work they do is quite high quality and useful. I've been subscribed to their security newsletters/bulletins for years and I would trust them as a source of information.

See also - https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol (which includes sources for their claims)

The important takeaway is, the election itself was reasonably clean. There weren't any major breaches the way we saw in 2016 where both parties had emails stolen. But, in terms of disinformation little changed, there was still massive foreign and domestic issues.
Because they sell your digital soul to advertisers.
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2021
Skin Self Management Platform
Greetings from Cambridge,

We are a group of graduates from University of Cambridge.

We’ve been working on building a self-management platform for skin conditions. Drawing upon our personal experience as eczema sufferers, we’ve developed a platform that can help users (1) connect with other users who have similar condition and experiences, (2) collect and share condition-based product reviews, and (3) log their skin condition.

This platform is FREE and supported by the University. Our Open Beta is now live and to further improve the platform, we need valuable feedback.

We're still at a very early stage and have a long way to go. But with your feedback/comment we can make this better. To check it out:

https://www.skinlync.com/register
People want to hear what your product sounds like
You lead a charmed life, my friend.

Many designers I have known think of consistency in terms of branding (at most). There is almost always some weird edge case that means a new font size, or unique spacing. Get enough of those, and the design system falls apart.

Some are better than others at this, obviously, but the mix has not really been in consistency's favor (though I will admit it has been improving the past few years).
That's correct. However in Vue I have access to $this.parent which is an instance of the parent component. My child component can read data directly from it, even modify state of the parent by reassigning values.
Hi! I work in auto finance.
About my company: we finance in the USA and we focus in "sub prime" (aka bad credit), but we are a "full spectrum" lender.

Dealerships TOTALLY make money on the financing. In your example, it might be $1000 - it sounds like you have pretty good credit, and the margins are thin there. You should remember that if someone is leaning YOU money, they just want a reliable investment for their portfolio - they'll make their money on the next guy.

If you are getting <1% offers, that is probably financing from the manufacturer (that is, Toyota Financing is lending money for a Toyota, at a Toyota dealership). These deals are HOT because Toyota Financing's #1 job is to sell Toyota's - making money is #2 or #3.

Also, did you buy a warranty or gap coverage? Cause that is profit for the dealer, too.

You probably think you got the "best rate" because you SAW ALL THE OFFERS. Nope. Dealerships see the rate from the bank and can bump it up. Did Wells Fargo offer you 2%, well, let's show him 3% and I keep the difference.

Also, yup, getting a "direct rate" is difficult. The bank doesn't really know the car you are buying, and they might see that you were already approved at the dealership and give you a WORSE rate DELIBERATLY simply to maintain a relationship with the dealership.
The author is right under the title of the article: Gilad Navot. Looking at the gray in the beard in Navot's picture on the about page, I'm guessing that Navot has more than one year of engineering experience. (I'd also guess that Navot's preferred pronoun is not "she", else she would ditch the beard)
Off-topic:

I like the look of your blog. Is your theme a heavily customized instance of Jekyll?
Quantum processes are described by Schrodinger's equation, that is a linear differential equation in time. Consequently, it's solutions for every possible boundary conditions are always reversible.
There is a great tool called OONI (the Open Observatory of Network Interference) that you can use to test your own network and see if commonly censored sites are censored for you.

See https://ooni.org/ and https://ooni.org/install/.
Oh yeah, I suppose you're right about that. I guess I just figured it was common sense. I always put drinking was about as healthy as crossing a car-trafficked street—in that it might get you somewhere but it increase your risk of being roadkill. I forget that some people might buy into more convenient interpretations of the information at hand... hence the ranting!
(and thanks)
oh so I'm niche.
I'm a reasonable person. I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I see no evidence that this election was tampered with or that Joe Biden's win was anything but legitimate.

Almost every proclamation from the Republican Party and Donald Trump has no merit and will not hold up in court.

HOWEVER.

I, and many ones like me, have spent the last 4 years worrying that Russian interference would only increase in this election. We have observed the Republican party do NOTHING to protect the integrity of the US elections, and we could only assume they were doing so out of an express knowledge that any interference would be beneficial to them.

Just in OCTOBER, FBI officials said "Russia’s hackers appeared to be preparing to sow chaos amid any uncertainty around election results", and the now fired Christopher C Krebs said "Russian hackers recently obtained access “in a couple limited cases, to election jurisdiction, an election-related network," [1]

The universal expectation was that Russian interference would be to help Donald Trump because he has been much weaker on Russia than any president that ostensibly cares about freedom and democracy would be.

But Donald Trump lost. Does that mean that there was no electoral interference? Surely not. Surely, there was. The most likely explanation is that the sheer number of Biden voters overwhelmed any Russian meddling (if only because it was focused on the wrong states like Ohio and Florida which didn't end up mattering).

But now, the tables have turned. "Electoral interference" is no longer the rallying cry of the Left to explain why Trump won. It's now a rallying cry of the Right to explain why Trump lost.

Which means that now to protect democracy, reasonable-minded people find themselves proclaiming that the Election was the most secure in history and all discussion of fraud is a conspiracy theory.

This is deeply messed up and uncomfortable, and is the fault entirely of the post-truth Trump Cult that works backwards from the outcome they want to have rather than any reality.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/russia-electi...
The best corporations are heartless machines (in this case this applies to the contractors primarily, not sure if FB would mind if the work is getting done).

We should be thankful for the jobs that we have today. Corporations of the future will not need as many warm bodies. (Sarcasm)
You're right, I should take a look at all the great apps using Servo to figure out how to use it myself.
As Journalists Flock to Substack, Is There a Limit to the Newsletter Boom?
I'm curious to see what happens to this guy's career. Huge respect for having a spine.

"Ga. secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude ballots" [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-g...
Neither should you call a liger a "lion" when it acts like a tiger.
No, although if it's cold outside, you might get a sea breeze effect.

But most of the time (say > 80% IIRC) in Northern Europe there is at least some wind, and having a large cross sectional area is just incredibly efficient. You can try the experiment yourself.

The main problem is that it is a manual process requiring discipline, and if you don't do it, your brain suffers due to elevated CO2 levels.
I calculated every pun of the form “X-[word]-X? More like X-[antonym]-X!”
This screams desperation.

Just looking at the "testimonies" on the page we read: "She knew how to work with React and Git right away, which is more than I can say for most students coming out of University."

Takes about 3 hours of reading to any grad from any decent CS program to figure out git. If you understand graphs then you'll grok git pretty fast.

Is the market so over-saturated that they have to offer the 4 month trial period?

I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0].

It's no better than some diploma mills but any state school with half a decent curriculum sounds better than this.

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
This is a personal question so you have to provide more context here. If you quit tech industry, what would you like to do after that ? Are you financially stable/independent to take a risk and leave you "faang" money ?
>I found quite surprising that Japan censored The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal for G20. What would be the reason for that? It's not like they would provoke disturbances.

No, but they would have covered the protests against it.
Can we change the use of the symbol + for addition?
it reminds me of the suffering my people went through at the hands of the Inquisition and the crusades.

thanks!
One of the most unpleasant things about working in the medical space is how tightly coupled and poorly modularized systems are.

Obviously, driven by the reasons and pressures you outlined in your parent comment. (Everything is sold and certified as a system, rather than a component)

It seems like there's an opportunity for OSS to eat shared functionality, that no vendor particularly liked implementing, and then allow for closed source UIs to be built on top.

E.g. EMR store/server being the open product, with {insert your preferred front end on top, for your specific use case}
> The information isn't gone, its right -there- in the black hole

No, it isn't; it hits the singularity inside of the hole and gets destroyed. At least, that's what Hawking's original model, the one he used to predict that black holes evaporate, says.

One way of seeing why Hawking's model had to say this is to combine the following facts about the evaporating black hole and the Hawking radiation in Hawking's model:

(1) The hole itself cannot contain any information other than its mass, charge, and spin (because of the "black holes have no hair" theorem), which is far too little information to describe everything that fell into the hole.

(2) The Hawking radiation cannot contain any information about what fell into the hole because it is thermal, black-body radiation, i.e., the only information it contains is its temperature, which is related to the mass of the hole.

So the information can't be stored either inside the hole or outside the hole, which means it must be destroyed, and the only place it can be destroyed is by hitting the singularity inside the hole.

The black hole information loss problem is that the above is inconsistent with quantum unitarity. So Hawking's original model can't be right; but nobody knows what model should replace it.
As far as I know all respected research on the subject shows that for weight loss caloric deficit is indeed all that counts, do you have sources that say otherwise?

Of course many ways to achieve the caloric deficit will have side effects that may be detrimental in other ways, as the example you gave of liver stress, but that's a separate question from whether you lose fat mass or not. The Hacker Diet is focused on losing weight, not on achieving perfect health.

I'm still skeptical on meal schedule can have such a big impact on the liver to the point of causing insulin resistance. Is there any study comparing say IF with 8 meals a day with the same overall macronutrient intake?
Rather than OpenCL they have invested in HIP which can target AMD or NVIDIA cards.
So much this. To people living in cities, guns are dangerous things that only make local life more dangerous. To people in rural areas, guns are tools just like hammers and chainsaws. Similarly, to urban residents it makes total sense to raise taxes for public transport, but in small towns everyone owns a car anyway so why bother?

I think people greatly overestimate how similar their lifestyles are to those of their countrymen. Having lived many years in both of those environments, they have some significant, fundamental differences.
The GPUs that Apple typically uses are far outclassed by what's available for Windows.
Definitely, you can still add custom classes where it is the best solution, such as a reusable layout.

EDIT: Instead of custom CSS classes, Tailwind recommends extracting components like the other commenter pointed out. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components
With AI probably better, from what the advances of AI on image/video improvement have shown.

But a clever hacker would probably drive the vacuum cleaner to a better location and then make the "low battery" led blink and leave it there ;)
If you terminate at-will employment, then as a service provider I demand that we terminate at-will purchasing.
My limited visibility take is that their board (or someone higher up, my memory is fuzzy) told them to use the cloud, and that was that.
He said:

> Whether this is intentionally "bad" holds no meaning whatsoever.

His emphasis is on empathy for the people who are affected by the usage of certain terminology. If it's a trivial change we can make to accommodate them, why shouldn't we?
If you're not using components (react/vue etc.) then you can use @apply - I think the secret with that is to blend inline tailwind and the applied style so you might say..

.button {
@apply rounded-md bg-gray-600 hover:bg-gray-300 text-white;
}
and then inline you might use class="button px-2 py-4" or similar to create specific styles. Of course these could be abstracted again to .big-button .small-button etc.

Tailwind has changed not only how I write CSS but how I think about writing front-end code completely - it's really great once it clicks.
tailwindcss is like the fresh air that finally comes after trying bootstrap, flatui, kubecss for years. Thank you.
I would not accept EMR unless my records are encrypted and can only be unlocked with a smartcard that remains in my posession. Or something close to that.
I don't know about the current state of voting software, but space shuttle software has a pretty good track record. We know how to produce good software just like we know how to build good elevators and so on. The perceived problem that Randall is observing is that there's a lot of software out there for social media networks or news sites or games and all manner of other software which isn't life or death and for which faults are perfectly acceptable (at least to the extent that we don't bother to regulate those faults more aggressively). So what Randall (and many others) perceives as "we're bad at software" is actually "we're pretty good at software, it's just that most software doesn't need to be space-shuttle/voting-systems grade, and we don't waste money making it to that caliber".

The most valid reason to be opposed to voting software (and it's my personal reason) is that it's almost certainly easier to compromise an electronic voting system--even a very high quality system--than it is to compromise a paper ballot election. With a paper ballot election, it's probably easier to just rig public opinion by compromising social media companies.

I would also suspect that we could make it even harder to rig a paper ballot election if we elected by popular vote such that (for tight elections) the malicious actor would have to compromise a lot more than just a few key counties in a few swing states.
Beautiful, beautiful work