skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool bot! I was looking for that kind of bot a few months ago, but I couldn't find one that was still maintained, so I created my own[1]. But if you're going to continue maintaining yours (despite the FB debacle), I may just use yours instead.

[1] https://github.com/jonathanhefner/verba-sequentur
Not at all. Allowing gay marriage doesn't prohibit your free exercise of religion. Don't approve of or believe in gay marriage? Don't marry someone of the same sex.

No religion has the right to demand of others that they respect its belief.

"You cannot, because my religion disapproves" is the religious first amendment version of "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins".
Braess’s Paradox
Slack MFA – shared two factor authentication in Slack
Parent could be talking about the scanning and tabulation. In theory, there shouldn’t be anything problematic with “you vote on paper, and then slide it through a scanner, from whence it goes into a sealed bin”. Then you can still hand-recount.
Why should I be "ok" with natural? Screw natural. Nature does a lot of terrible things. People dying in hurricanes or at the hands of murderers isn't OK because its "natural" - its just not OK. We have the intelligence to influence our environment (and that intelligence is also a result of nature). Trying to categorize natural vs unnatural (whatever that means) is a fools errand and not a productive one in my view, since my ethics aren't based on "it's ok because the volcano was natural"
The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection
I think a practical means to achieving this would be to self-organize and create the hardware+software design and a proof concept for this. That makes it much easier for those concerned to stress-test it, and then point to benefits, since there is now a tangible realization of the idea. That should completely change the dynamics of the political process needed to get adoption. An easy path would be to get it approved for trials in smaller-scale local elections, and then slowly scale its usage over a decade or so.

PS: One could easily envision an electronic system backed with paper printouts. The electronic system provides immediacy and avoids human counting errors, while any large scale manipulation of the electronic system can be verified by counting the paper ballots.
Actually, it's 97% - I think you're confusing it with the similar but unrelated quote by Abraham Lincoln: "85% of quotes on the internet are made up.".
I think they're talking about vote tabulation, not ballot generation.
I'd think there are a few things going on;

- Parts of both the right and the left would rather not repeat the experience they have had over the last few years. While part of me thinks that the Koch businesses did pretty well during the Trump administration, the relative chaos of his presidency likely didn't let them do a lot of -effective- lobbying.

- Speaking of businesses. Koch Industries historically has had Petroleum and Paper as their Cash Cows. With all of the attention on global warming, as well as their track record on lobbying, Yes I would absolutely agree they are trying to play nice.

- That said, I did find it interesting to note that Koch Industries has fully acquired Infor as of this year. For those unfamiliar, it's a player in the ERP scene and based on the people that I've worked with from there and their stories, probably a pretty good product in that space. So -maybe- they are in fact seeing the writing on the wall and trying to move to more sustainable markets. we shall see.
I feel that I have lost a year of my life.

I had a similar feeling some 10 years ago after my first startup failed. I felt that I had wasted one year of my life and was very bitter about the failure and the personal sacrifices that came with it.

In time my thinking came around. I better understood my limits, knew my preferences, and developed some new capabilities. I was also better able to navigate startup #2 which is still going great as a bootstrapped company. My cofounder ended up on a corporate software dev team, and is also doing well.

Bottom line: things will get better. Regard this as a learning experience that helped determine a more rewarding future path (probably not doing your own startup, but that's OK, too)
Building Secure Software in Agile Environments – A Book Review
The Koch's political funding goes far beyond just this one PAC fyi. Their funneling of millions into the Federalist Society and its individual causes serving as just one example that has had an outsized negative influence on the health of American democracy.
The whole 20% comment makes me think you’re being a little disingenuous about the idea that we are not less talented.
Indeed, but its pretty obvious how one can make that mistake. I've been in Redhat land too much lately.
It is natural.

That doesn't make it okay.
Don’t blame wanting to prove Planet of the Apes could be real (but not having the balls to do it) Nature’s fault. That stupidity is just human mad science.
In the past that has been true. But if every confirmation from now on is as partisan as Alito and Thomas are(who as far as I'm aware almost never rule against republican causes) that will soon cease to be the case.
Good for you then. Perhaps original author was using it as their portfolio project and now has to explain that no he didn’t steal it from fb - they did. Don’t assume what works for you is acceptable to everyone.
All software for voting is terrible
My state uses this method already.
Do you have a recommendation for a good GUI mail client?
I started taking statin 2 years ago. My family has a history of cholesterol disease. Within the first year my LDH and HDH level was at the optimal range. Doc cut the disease by half and the second year was within normal range but a bit higher than the first one.
I honestly don’t feel any different. Doc said mostly it could be that the negative news is the worthy ones to publish.
I don’t think changing diet would make a lot of difference in my case. Without statin my LDL and HDL would be off the charge. I know those two numbers alone are not determining how I could die but what else I should believe in?
It's certainly possible but, as you say, you'd need tie/attach the laser to whatever of your neighbor's property that you want to effect. You can't do this from afar because the lightning strike is coming toward the laser emitter.

Expect your door to get knocked in soon thereafter.
Certainly one can imagine that. But do you really think, upon more than a cursory examination, that you'll see Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg actively arguing for an end to capitalism as we know it?

I mean they're anti-union.

I'm also not clear about the equivocation you're making. Being anti-capitalist or "anti-American-police", even if we take those at face value, while certainly extreme in the modern American political sphere, aren't on a global scale, nor is it advocating for political violence (which we've seen not only advocation for, by both the Trump and his supporters), but actual real-world attempts at smaller-scale violent coups[0].

This runs into the philosophical questions of what "extremism" is, and whether or not it's socially constructed, and I think an important takeaway is that there are tons of reasonable, "objective" measures, by which abstract anti-capitalist sentiment is fine, and calls for defunding the police are fine, while false claims of election fraud are not. A platform choosing an independent, objective measure by which to judge extremism and then having one group go off the deep end doesn't make the platform biased against that group, it makes that group more extreme by the objective measures.

Even if a person doesn't understand Critical Race Theory, or is afraid of the "socialism" boogeyman or whatever, people advocating for socialism, modern anarchism, or critical approaches in politics[1] aren't usually doing so violently, and those that do are usually deplatformed as well.

Like in your followup to another user you get into the weeds on CRT, and your conclusion was "You make it about race rather than accountability and the problem will not be fixed." Which okay, that's a fair view. Ultimately I disagree. I think a rising tide lifts all boats, and among white-middle class people police apologia is so strong that you're never going to get popular support. So gathering support among minorities is the best you can do (and I'll add, reasonable levels of support amongst Republicans and white people as well, Black Lives Matter is, if I'm reading the polling correctly, more popular than Joe Biden). But even ignoring all of that, so what? Does that mean that a site should remove that content? Does it at all compare to right wing content that is removed?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...

[1]: which are really just a lighter version of the modern anarchism take and, I should add, should be super popular on HN because they resemble libertarianism a surprising amount
Is this a troll? Comparing a single point on greenpiece's agenda to literally hundreds of millions of dollars Koch dollars to climate change deniers as a whole are simply incomparable.

Just in case this is somehow contestable, let me highlight a few points

* Climate change deniers oppose solutions that don't involve oil/gas/coal - this means nuclear power
* Koch funding > greenpiece funding
* greenpeice didn't start nuclear fear mongering, pro-oil lobbyists did - AKA climate change deniers.
That myth buster is bollocks. It only flies numbers and has no substantiation on the figures presented. It's only a feels good story.

Their numbers don't add up. My apartment consumes around 400kWh a month. Assuming I charge a Tesla with 82kWh battery and I use it all in a month, the additional energy consumption is: 82/400 = 20%. And that is only on the fat chance that I will be driving less than I do today.

So prove me wrong.

It's physics. All the energy that the cars consume has to come from somewhere. And people will drive more especially because the car is now somehow 'green'
The original claim was that thr Supreme Court has become highly partisan. The fact that justices switch sides and join with appointees of the opposite party is evidence against that claim.

Now you're bringing up a different claim, which is that the two major parties don't really represent a variety of ideas. That's a fine claim to make, but it doesn't contradict my point.
Could you please explain what he was missing about how rapid tests work? He got 2x positive and 2x negative results. Makes it seem like they might be a bit useless. What's being missed?
Yes there is. A computer counter is worse than a computer ballot printer. You have to have it as distributed as possible to make it as expensive as possible. A single counting or handful of counting machines makes it one machine to take over to do anything you want.
Third thread on Patler in less than 24 hours. What’s going on?
> Genes aren't goal directed towards something higher.

No, but "this gene cluster" is me - and I am goal-directed.

> We can control something without understanding it? Most of science would disagree.

No, they wouldn't. Epistemology has progressed beyond this. Models have various levels of fidelity. And 'understanding' is a colloquial term that refers to a higher standard of fidelity than that required for control. Few drivers know how their cars work. Most drivers can drive their cars.

But I do enjoy the amusing attempt at cutting out the sentence to create damning gotchas. Here, I mimicked your style and made one from your comment:

> We can control something without understanding it

Why, thank you for agreeing with me! Quite gratifying to receive such support.
At one end, religious folks believe life and soul begins at conception. Some also believe tampering with genes is tampering with god's creation.

Not all religions. The Qu’ran states that the soul enters the body exactly 40 days after conception, for example.
This is a difficult post to respond to

Firstly, your issue doesn't seem to be anything other than social anxiety

If you have to 'lose sleep' after contacting someone on LinkedIn about your product, then you are just not suited to doing a startup

Secondly, there is nothing to feel bad about

Vast majority of people are not suited to starting a company or working in a small startup

Lots of good jobs in middle and large companies for you

Thirdly, the scale of stuff you are talking about is miniscule

I walked away from a Green Card to start my company

If I didn't succeed, I would have lost access to the developed world FOREVER

You are upset that your girlfriend had to stay at home one year and you couldn't take her out for dinner????

Finally, this is a Catch 22 situation. Not sure why you are submitting this or writing about your experience if the ENTIRE reason you quit was you couldn't handle doing sales and marketing and putting yourself out there

I'm reluctant to respond because people who have social anxiety can sometimes take genuine feedback and mis-interpret it

What I'm trying to say is that the extent of the risk you took is not very high

And the reason that stuff didn't work out is your social anxiety

So just make sure you don't take the wrong feedback from what life is telling you
First sentence in video: "What does it take to shape the future?"

Me: turns off sound
> Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated? ... Why don't people demand it?

Because paper is simpler and better. It works just fine in other countries.

> All software has bugs.

So why do you want software? What do you think the advantages are?
‘Black Edison’: The 20th century’s prolific, oft-forgotten inventor
Isn't it pretty well understood that Gmail is an email service though?
In this case it should definitely be the one team.

And yes, these pagination buttons made me to make that tweet, I swear
Now that Trump lost, I want to be seen as the good one. Tho I also want to actually do the same thing I have done before.

I mean, these guys are all sociopaths, so what should one expect?
> I don't give it credit, like it's trying to gain balance, but functioning ecosystems do maintain a balance. Most of our climate problems have come from humans disrupting this.

We didn't come out of a void. We are a natural evolution too, with the only difference being that we reached this stage before other animals. Since we are disrupting our ecosystem, we are living proof that either:

- this ecosystem we are in is not function according to your definition
- or functioning ecosystems do not maintain balance

> The reason why we have so many ecological problems around the world is that humans have been constantly disrupting this. We introduce invasive species that dominate the landscape, cause extinctions and extirpations of native species and change the fundamental balance of the ecosystem.

Ecosystems are constantly being disrupted and have been long before humans evolved. Wind can carry the seeds of one plant into another ecosystem where it suddenly dominates because it has no "natural predators". Birds can fly over an ecosystem, defecate and drop an entirely foreign species into another ecosystem.

Cyanobacteria are even attributed as the reason for one of the first mass extinctions [0]. Is that a sign of a functioning ecosystem?

> Altering life at a fundamental genetic level goes even further than how we alter ecosystems.

Viruses and bacteria actively mess around with the DNA of other organisms in order to render them susceptible or make them carriers. Nature has been messing with itself long before we ever learned how.

We are in no way special in this universe or in our actions. We are just copying what we see in nature.

[0]: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/the-great-oxygenation-e...
Facebook have closed the issue and blocked comments as they are cowards
Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
There are some people for whom statins are a necessity, e.g., a bodybuilder/triathloner friend whose cholesterol is above 300 w/o statins and whose father died at 46 from a heart attack. He has little choice but to workout like crazy and take statins and is OK with that.

But I have only borderline high cholesterol. My experience has been different:

After starting 10 mg pravastatin daily, I drop things, my energy level is down, my legs feel weak (although they are not), gym workouts are miserable and I feel so extraordinarily heavy when I collapse into bed at night.

Maybe for me it is "better to burn out than to rust" (though there's not much "burn" left in the rocket).
"I prefer the native songbirds and shrubs that are local to my area than a landscape full of Japanese knotweed and starlings."

Don't you think, you feel that way, because you grew up with the native songbirds?

"If we barely understand how life works on a macroscopic level, what makes us think we're ready to change it at an even lower level? "

Like the other poster have said: nature does not plan in advance or makes ethical discussions. Nature just is and everything in it trys to adapt. Some prosper, some die out. Now with our technology we disrupted quite a bit, but why must we understand everything we do, when nature aparrently does not either?

With research like this, I am more worried, what things like this, does to us. To maybe get to the point, where new babys are created in a laboratory and the less successful experiments goes to the bin. All for Evolution.

Now I am grossed out by that thought. But from a philosophical point of view, I have to ask myself: "who defines that this is bad?"

Maybe this gets us to the stars, so life can spread, in case earth life gets vanished, by a big asteroid. So maybe it is ethical to do all we can, to get there? To preserve life itself?
(humans are not at all adopted for space, radiation, zero g etc., so CRISPR?)

(well no, I don't think it is ethical to do by all means, but I do think ethics are subjective and the next generations might have different ethics)
Ideas are rarely the problem. It's the execution and commitment.
I would have rather tried and failed than to have never given it ago.
I'm really sorry to hear about your father.

My mom passed away in this pandemic too, and I don't know how the death of a parent is supposed to work, but it feels like it's impossible to offer them as much as they deserve. It's an odd sort of robbery of possibility :(
The reason is simple: there is no open source voting software lobbyist in Washington DC with financing for congress people's elections. Anytime a Lobbyist is partially financing a congress person's election, they get to "participate" in that congress person's legislation within the Lobbyist's area of specialization. I wager there are Lobbyists for the commercial voting systems, and that is what prevents an open source alternative from even being considered.
Average time between when a security bug is introduced in the linux kernel and when it detected is 5 years. [0] But because people don't update their shit, 99.9% of exploits in the wild involve bugs that were patched over a year ago. [0]

If apple fixed a security bug in big sur, I'd like to update sooner rather than find out in a CVE next month that I should have actually upgraded ASAP.

That said, waiting at least a few days to see if any problems shake out is probably a good idea.

[0]: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...
Everyone here is talking about paper ballots. Good, but this ignores OP's question. Most voting machines, even if they have paper trails, have some software in them. Just saying "paper ballots" doesn't address the issue.

To answer OP's question, I personally have no idea but think it should be. Much of our scientific work is open sourced (e.g. codes from national labs, NASA, etc). But I think a lot of people don't understand what open source is or means. They think you can't have open sourced software and still privately own it. We still honestly haven't figured out how to deal with this adequately in the law (there's a post on the front page about FB taking their OS project, and these posts happen at least once a month). People don't demand it because frankly people aren't very tech literate.
When developing for iOS sometimes you are forced to update because you can't run the latest simulator for e.g.

A huge pet peeve.
I wish there was a better support framework in the US for people who want to quit their jobs and work on ideas. I really, really hate working for other people but the things I would like to work on instead are time-consuming and the core work is not easily farmed out.

I'm currently saving up to do just that and its like, "I could buy a house with this money" or "I could go on sabbatical with this money", or "I could bet everything on a business that may or may not succeed and potentially lose it all"

And if I do? There is nothing except going back to the tech grind, or homelessness, or another (far less lucrative) career. Unemployment won't help me (which is complete and utter BULLSHIT for the amount of money I've paid into it), and I'd be ineligible for social security due to that previous tech income hanging over my head. There are no, "sorry you failed, here's some money to get back on your feet and try again" grants

It really underscores the reality that most of these founders have rich family or friends to fall back on.
The point about managing when fires happen is a good one. Reducing fire overlaps frees up resources.

Still I don't see public responsibility for people who buy homes in fire-prone areas; that should be a private cost (insurance).
The answer to OP's question is... why have software at all? Why not just paper? Why do you want a 'voting machine' at all? What's wrong with paper?

The solution to a problem that should not be solved with software is not to have different software.
Didn't expect to find one here at Hacker News. 698... so you must have started around the early 00:s or thereabouts?

Unfortunately I share your same statistics: I was very active in the early 2010:s and in that period I lost about 10 friends/acquaintances. Since then even more people I've hung out with are gone.

So yeah: wingsuiting is dangerous. But BASE itself can be done "reasonably" safely I think: personally I was always more fond of slider down (low) stuff, like buildings, and in my mind that's a safer sport than wingsuit BASE.
> it’s much more progressive than the flat tax starter you’re describing

No, "flat tax" is not what I'm describing or advocating.

Did you know that Warren Buffet paid a total tax rate of 17.7%, whilst the average tax rate for ordinary American office workers in his office was 32.9%?
It's very easy to load React only on the page that needs it. Use dynamic ES module import, or link the standalone builds only on the pages that use it.

Alternative like Preact is very small and can be easily (pre)cached on the client side.
Hold onto Your Butts, and Why I Also Love the Mac
I was born in, live, work and do business in the EU.

Perhaps you're talking about one of the 'free' sectors? My IT services business is as easy as you say, even being a VAT payer is not that bad to me (but is to others in different sectors).

Medical devices, or e. g. people transportation (which I have experience with) are the polar opposite.
Skyroam Solis Lite – small global pocket WiFi
Every few years the industry does a push to get statins into the water supply. It's psychopathic, and because we live in a terrible world, they will eventually win. And ultimately when the health consequences are being felt and we find out that they knew about them the entire time, everybody involved will be dead and their children will be our bosses.
Claws mail is pretty good IMO.

There are some more options here:

https://useplaintext.email
Why is it impolite? People talk amongst themselves. Gossip is not bullying. Sincere query.
And some statins cross the blood brain barrier. Cholesterol is important to your brain.

There are a few mechanisms by which statins could cause side effects. This talk discusses some of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QdNX9etCg
What it’s worth I haven’t read that book (or seen that passage before) and I still understood.