skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr. Shiva has done statistical analysis on the voting data in Michigan, which compares straight party voting to the Presidential candidates and it indicates that a weighted voting algorithm was used to manipulate totals: https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk

Biden's vote tallies also miss on Benford's law, which is used for fraud detection: https://principia-scientific.com/joe-bidens-votes-violate-be...

Yesterday 2600 uncounted votes were found in Floyd County Georgia after an elections official failed to include a thumb drive in the initial count: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/georgia-recount-unearths-m...

Today a second Georgia county reported another nearly 3,000 votes were not tallied: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/second-georgia-count...

I don't know about you, but I find that our democracy depends on thousands of people moving and shifting thumb drives around on unaudited, closed-source voting machines running Windows 7 to be extremely dubious and insecure.

I don't know why we ever went away from paper ballots. And if we're going to use software to assist, it should be open source, audits should be automatic, and maybe the ballots should be scanned through two different devices manufactured by two different companies just to flag any major discrepancies.
Yeah, I forgot that for many it's Party over Country. My bad!
What a terrible name: fleets. To me, it means multiple sets of several ships. I can't fathom how this would relate to what the product/functionality actually is.

Edit: I guess you can argue that "fleeting" is similar to "evanescent", but... No, I still think about the ships.
14 corrects most of 13’s sins but the extensions are still shit. No add blocker comes close to UBO, no Reddit Enhancement Suite, no BetterTTV. I’m honestly surprised TamperMonkey works but that’s one of a set of full-fat extensions I need.
This is the second time during this recount that a large number of uncounted votes were found on a memory card that wasn't included in the tabulation. It's hard to argue that people should vote because "every vote counts" when this kind of thing goes on. If there hadn't been a recount, none of the people's whose votes were on these cards would have counted. Election systems must do better.
We've had good luck with MailWizz. PHP-based, but has a good plugin system and does some pre-processing prior to sending in a way that improves deliverability.

It's not a speed demon out of the box with default settings, but there's a lot of documentation on how to improve performance. Touble-free API integration with most of the big API-driven services like SES, Mailgun, etc., and works well with self-hosted SMTP too.

It's available on (sigh) Code Canyon.

(Disclaimer: I own a few licenses and use Mailwizz to send about 1-1.5 million emails a month, but I don't get anything for saying I like the product.)
I like long complex sentences.
Tonski specifically has always wowed me with his work, I'm eager to delve deeper into his take on UI.
Of course. Take for example mͫ (m+m) there's no way to represent that as a single codepoint. Combining marks can also be overlaid multiple times, e.g. m͚ͫ (m+m+∞) so the number of glyphs you can create is limitless. There's only a tiny number of the combinations that are possible which have a tinier normalized form. The new UNICODE combining marks work by almost exactly the same principles as the \b ASCII combining mark. That's why I mentioned it earlier.
I wonder if a full DotA match can be played which can last somewhere between 25 - 45 minutes. From Dave2d, M1 Air starts throttling after 8-9 minutes.
Title is "Trump says he fired top cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs".

... okay, but did he? Trump also says he won the election. Can we get facts back into headlines and reporting in general?
That'd only make sense once all the software I use is ported to it, and when they offer 32GB or more of RAM in the configurator. Until then this is bleeding edge early adopter stuff, which I'm happy to have others beta test.
It sounds like the tab throttling is working as intended then. If I've moved from your game and haven't looked at it then why shouldn't all of that extra computation happen until the next time I'm interested?
Benford's law does not work in elections and does not prove or disprove voter fraud. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-benford/fact-ch...
Good thing we don't pick our tech stack just based on how the name sounds... right?
My wife wouldn't entertain the idea. Then the pediatrician pointed out that children screaming in their cribs have a much better survival rate than kids whose parents fall asleep at the wheel because they haven't slept in a week.

That night it took my daughter less than 15 minutes to stop screaming, and then everyone in the house slept for 6 hours straight.

In less than a week she was smiling when we put her down for the night.

I hope it works out that well for you.
Prediction markets seem to be doing a really terrible job at predicting an election that already happened...

Right now predictit.org has Biden winning at 89% and Trump winning at 15%[1].

But if you look at it by "electoral margin victory" and add up all the Republican win margins, you get that Republicans have 28% chance of winning and Democrats have 95%.[2]

This is two weeks after the election that is pretty clear a Joe Biden/Democratic victory. These markets may get things right, but they also get things really, really wrong.

[1]Yes, adds up to over 100. You could bet against both for a guaranteed profit, however I believe the markets aren't allowing new traders and there are also fees and counter party risk to consider
[2] https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/6653/What-will-be-t...
I can't count the number of times I have seen a new product or bit of software and though immediately "That sounds like a horrible idea, how useless" And then later eventually trying it and liking it.

Asking customers what they want can be useful sometimes but mostly people don't know what they want other than a slightly improved version of the thing they already like.
Pro-tip: Costco drug pricing without insurance is very affordable and you don't have to be a member.
Yes. We clearly do. Appreciate your input though. It's always interesting to understand different perspectives.

Cheers!
Doing his job in the context of firing opposing officials. I didn't mean that was all he needed to do.
In addition to the other suggestions, you probably want to run Emacs as a daemon so you raise and destroy emacsclients without having to quit. You also may want to run GUI emacs rather than terminal emacs (it has a variety of advantages).
First time I've ever heard of it was right now, and my first thought was that it was named for resilience. Only learned that was the intention reading your comment.
Sure, they are both bad.
I know oddly many people with the last name "Krebs" working in cyber security.
Why would it, though? Any language should do, as long as you can package a runtime for the environment.

Be it lisp, WASM, plain old C... It's just functions to call, that change the DOM, CSS properties, load pages, perform computations, call APIs...

Of course, the thing you lose is the hardware and software abstraction layer provided by chromium's javascript APIs. Those could be exported to a select number of languages, it wouldn't be hard for a single dev to create a usable runtime in their language if they are provided with C bindings to the H/SAL...
Sslh – A SSL/SSH multiplexer, share them on the same port
On the contrary, I like the explicit language toggle because some search terms have better results with a specific language. I get annoyed when I enter a programming related search term and get non-English results.
Do you know if the polls you were adjusting had been weighted for the differing propensity for lying by party identification?
This can help on bad links:

- ublock origin

- you can disable web fonts to cut bloated page sizes in half

Beyond that it gets progressively more difficult:

- squid isn't that useful, even with a fair amount of configuration for various reasons. Weird but true.

- SSL makes the Internet less cacheable.

- replacing multi-image icon menus with one map is helpful

- using a real mouse with your notebook can make it feel less painful.

(Most of these techniques I used either in Bali, or using a netbook in Calif.)
Just saying on the website or somewhere else officially that being able to ssh in is a feature and not something they just left there and may remove later would make the device a lot more attractive.
Presumably because '33 is when most of the gold was forcibly reclaimed.
What part of Zuckerberg repeating Facebook's mission statement until time expires qualifies as "actually inform"?

Zuckerberg isn't dumb. If he's repeating rote memorized passages, it's specifically to run the clock down.
> think Maximus, Achilles or Michael Jordan

Maximus is a bit of a strange choice there. Marcus Aurelius of Meditations fame, is the titular grandfather figure in the film (right at the start). Meditations has a lot in it about child rearing and Marcus was something of a devoted father to his many children (for Roman men in those days). All that said, his son, Commodus, the first emperor to have the title passed down to him from his own father, was a uniquely terrible person. As seen in the film, he was just a 'very bad guy', but in reality he was much worse than is portrayed.

In essence, no matter the effort you put into your kid, they are still themselves
Trump fires cybersecurity director Christopher Krebs
> That’s partly because the intellectual underpinning of the First Amendment was engineered for a simpler era.

There's no engineering here.

The Bill of Rights are meant as enumerated inherent ("god-given") rights.

They're not engineered for anything other than codifying the natural rights of people.

His argument invokes the idea of a "marketplace of idea" and "truth" which essentially reduces natural rights to matters of utility, when they're more of a moral declaration that free people can speak.
He has been commander in chief for almost four years, can you explain why troop withdrawal didn't move forward until the last two-three months of his term (and after he lost re-election)?

I'm all for the US getting out of foreign countries, but there's a right and a wrong way to do so. If you leave a power vacuum, we've historically witnessed that worse elements can occupy them (ISIS for a recent example).
The CCP is terrible but there’s no question intellectually they outclass the United States’ geriatric leadership. Much more STEM too. We love our lawyers and business folk, don’t we?
Might I suggest we add a touch of subtlety and call it “RoachDB”. Still the that undying stoic of the much disliked critter, but without invoking the full image of a cockroach. Love the work you guys are doing <3
CoronaDB
Is executive power in US this unchecked? If anything, Trump has shown how vulnerable security wise the unitary executive model is.
I used to do something like this with knot-resolver, but now I just use NextDNS. It's really nice to have separate profiles so that my IoT devices get extremely strict blocking, while my personal devices can be slightly more lax to avoid false positives.
Fired by Tweet, of course
Benford's law doesn't apply if values aren't expected to have size-relative even distribution across multiple orders of magnitude, which election data does not.
I should add to my comment, a lot of the markets I was looking at (months ago), were based on this election. So once I bought in, the money would be tied up for months. Even when I won, after taking into account the withdrawal fee, it would have been a loss. (EDIT: Assuming I deposited the money for that specific market, and it wasn't already on the platform facing down a future 5% fee)

If there are $0.95 markets that resolve in the near future, then yeah, I'd roll my money from one to the next. But now I'm wondering if those are more likely to be correctly-priced. (Because other "investors" are thinking the same thing, right?) So now I'm just picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.

I can't remember the exact markets when I saw all these 95 cent shares, but the odds of them failing were far below 1/20. Things like Hillary Clinton wining the Democratic nomination, or California voting for Trump. These are the same markets that, within a month of closing, were at 1Y/99N.

So any market that's going to resolve very soon, and is still at 5/95, probably represents closer to a true 1/20 odds, and now it's just regular old gambling :)
For idle games, much of the point is investing in auto-building, then coming back to the game when your investment has borne fruit. For this to work, it has to be able to run in the background.
> He was technically proficient

> He was not interested in learning new things.

So, sounds to me like he was only proficient with one specific technology.
>How much of that was spin and framing against the Democrats or did anyone seriously believe that they were in favour of mob violence?

Do you really think AOC et al are against it? I've seen so much left-wing justification of punching Nazis etc. that I'd be very surprised if there weren't at least a few Democratic politicians in agreement.

Ilhan Omar calls for complete dismantling of the Minneapolis police department around 1:30 in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj3vdaC4F7c Yes, that's complete dismantling, none of this "redirect a bit of the funds" stuff which got retconned (watch the entire video for more examples). So I wouldn't put anything past her.

The Charles Koch was accused of "whipping up a mob" earlier in this thread, but whatever mob he "whipped up" was a very mild-mannered one which didn't light any fires. It seemed worthwhile to highlight the disparity.

I don't think this is a "tiny" furor. (As you illustrate, even if Democrats don't endorse violence, they are very willing to downplay it!) I recommend this video: https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1297707698788728832
> Among the 19th CC elite, there are only 19 Tsinghua undergraduates and 37 Peking University undergraduates out of 1021 elite. The other top grantors of undergraduate degrees to the Chinese elite include Renmin University, Nanjing University, the Central Party School, and the National Defense University. The majority of the CCP elite graduated from one of the over one hundred lesser known universities in China. Although in recent years, many have pursued graduate degrees, fewer than one hundred have obtained their master degrees from Peking U, Tsinghua, or Renmin, whereas 132 of the elite obtained master degrees from the Central Party School. Even among the elite born after 1962, only a small share obtained bachelors or masters from Peking, Tsinghua, or Renmin.

That's surprising, given the geographic concentration of the birth place of CCP elites outlined later in the article.

What does this tell us about upward mobility and meritocracy within the CCP?
Some of "the polls were wrong" talk started before all the votes were counted, definitely. In certain states (WI most notably) the polls were definitely far off. I don't know if there were more states where polling was inaccurate than normal, though.
Was it in uppercase like "I WON THE ELECTION", because that means it's true.
Firefox doesn't stutter on infinite scroll sites like Twitter. Safari noticeably does, even in Big Sur.

So I am torn between the two.
Bingo. Pollsters can’t say for certain who a declined invitation plans to vote doe.
Google today published Chrome 87 with (supposedly) big memory and CPU usage improvements:
https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stab...

Also they started rolling out the first M1 optimized version of Chrome (but has been pulled since due to stability issues):
https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/
16 second refresh is a complete nonstarter for a note taking device. Its only good enough for a desk calendar screen. I'm not sure how much more can be done since these color e paper displays are basically a hack which doesn't scale well and degrades refresh rates as contrast from the ones I have seen.

There are a few "color eink" displays floating around in demos which are actually just an lcd with a matte layer over the top.
I used to run Safari on my mac and it was the best thing in the world:

- It integrated perfectly with the OS

- It saved battery like heeeeell

- It integrated natively with Airpods and media keys

- It clearly had worse performance than Chrome and a couple of incompatibilities, but it was perfectly acceptable

- I could run most of my extensions, namely uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere and Reddit Enhancement Suite

- The native PiP (before it was on any other browser) was AMAZING

I had been a diehard Chrome user since it came out (with the comic book!) on Windows, Linux and macOS. I got fed up with how slow it was becoming and how it was running my fans all the time.

Unfortunately, two things happened that made me quit Safari:

- I found some weird bug wherein whenever I typed an address in the address bar it would always slow down to a crawl

- Apple deprecated and abandoned old extensions. So I lost most of my very valuable extensions, with emphasis on uBlock Origin and Reddit Enhancement Suite. I could live with a different adblocker (I saw adguard at the time), but I could not live without RES. No way.

So I left Safari and have since moved to Firefox. It seems almost as fast as Chrome, has nice integrations and features, but it's no Safari. It still drains my battery and has issues. Firefox has since progressively added PiP (even if it's not native) and support for media keys, which was a godsend, so that's nice.

I'd like to get back to Safari. It would be amazing. Do you know if there is any way for me to get what I used to have back? uBlock Origin (or something with compatible filter lists and custom rules) and Reddit Enhancement Suite?
Interesting that they choose Kotlin instead of Julia or swift for differential programming.

Is there a resource that talks about various applications of differential programming ? I am only aware of its use in optimization and reinforcement learning
...and then when you look it up that way, if you note that it is U+2F54, and if you have your your input source set to "Unicode Hex Input", you can enter ⽔ by holding down the option key (⌥) and typing 2f54.

As far as I know this only works for characters in the BMP, but for such characters it may be faster than picking them from that cmd-ctrl-space popup.

If you don't have that input source available, you can add it via the "Input Sources" tab of Keyboard preferences. There you can also enable showing the input menu in the menu bar giving you an easy way to switch between "Unicode Hex Input" and your normal input source.
As a musician, I rely on too much third-party software to upgrade immediately, unfortunately. I'm eager to buy one once everything is ported, though
Y si dejo la FIB
que opinan?
Service workers have restrictions on what they can do. They can't interact with thr dom and a few other things to keep them from causing rendering or other changes.
I admit I'm not familiar with h246, I thought the motion vectors and such was applied on the decompressed reference image. At least that's how we implemented the psedudo-MPEG1 encoder/decoder in class.

Not having to decompress the reference frame for every decoded frame seems like a win.
Seems like younger tech companies finally realized IBM was full of mid to high end talent that is severely underpaid. For instance Facebook and Amazon have poached a lot of the Linux kernel talent that used to work on POWER arch and performance. Although the products tend to be interesting, seeing the sheer fame and popularity younger companies and contributors are enjoying must be a downer. It's bittersweet because a well run IBM would still deliver a lot more interesting projects than most startups that are hanging on for dear life until the big event like an IPO or acquisition.
At least with this feature, when your tweet is ghosted, you agreed to it
Maria Montessori
Email fills a different niche than secure messaging protocols though. Email has come to be used much like mail, including for legal purposes. Non-repudiation is actually a useful feature for a lot of those use-cases.

Obviously the conflation of a bunch of different use-cases into this one protocol is a problem, but I don't know that just making email more secure is a solution.
It has expired. A nice example for why shorter lifetimes encourage a healthier approach to renewals with better monitoring and so on.

Krebs has a (now expired) certificate from Sectigo (were Comodo CA) but with a long lifetime. There's a good chance that it was so long ago nobody remembered it needs to be periodically renewed.
How would the fees make it any less profitable for high probability contracts vs low probability contracts? And could you expand on the inflation theory? Appreciate the insight!
What is the purpose of this post apart from self promotion of its author?

It looks like some sort of a "textual CV", where the author tries to push the agenda that he is not only a technical expert (without any real examples, just buzzwords), but also a managerial expert (here even less examples, just sucking own dick).

We can learn that he worked "really hard" on IBM products, so hard that he fell asleep during work (dear recruiters I can work hard at a startup, pleas hire me!!!), yet those products seem to be so irrelevant, that once when he writes about cloud, he does not even have the courtesy to list IBM as a cloud provider.

Also the integrity of this piece: guy writes about others changing their jobs to maximize the salary, but of course at the time when the author switched job, he didnt do it for better money, he did it for the great product and great team :)

IBM is a sinking ship, so for me it looks just like a story of a guy who changed job to earn more money, which for some reason allowed him to put his CV on their own website, so he can be headhunted by someone else (who will pay him even more money?).
We send people to school to learn from people who can make their educational effort more profitable, because they have experience that students do not. That extends to choice of reading material. I am not going to get on board advocating some free-for-all Libertarian educational system.
They seem very sensitive on granularity of the slider (esp brightness), however the response of them effecting anything seems like the environment is bogged down drawing the window and ignoring slider input until it can catch its breath.
except they are parasites. for women, biologically, the foetus considers the mother's body as the host body and siphons off resources. and thats ok. because the parasite is 50% of host DNA.

all babies are born premature because we evolved quickly and the human female's pelvic bones didnt grow as wide and as quickly as the baby's head to come through the birth canal. even after birth, the human baby needs the mother/father for a much longer time for survival.

progestrone, semen, testosterone, pregnancy etc hijacks not just the blood stream, hormones but also the brain because the fetus basically converts the mother's body into a fortress and a machine to keep itself alive. after birth, the immature baby/fetus also hijacks the father's brain and instincts.

it's best to remember that all biological organisms are mere vehicles for DNA and it's survival instinct. this isnt just for humans. my favourites are insects. at the farm..watch the praying mantis and the tarantula wasp and the drone bees play out their lives changes your perspective on life forever.
Praised with faint condemnation.
Chris Krebs fired after trying to correct voter fraud disinformation
Has any reviewer run JS benchmarks on the browser for Apple Silicon vs Intel ?
The EFF is the new ACLU, change my mind
It doesn't necessarily require a working OS - you can of course use either of the two recovery systems (On Disk, or Internet Recovery), a bootable time machine drive(IIRC) or an OS X installation USB Drive to do so.

I do agree however that the low level system tunables are unfortunately very hidden.