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Ask HN: Are there good reasons to not open-source voting machine software
Hi all, I wish to keep this apolitical and focus strictly on the technology from our perspective as developers/technologists.

If voting software and machines were government owned and they wished to open source the software for the sake of transparency - would there be any good reason not to do this?

There would no doubt be some benefits to making the code publicly accessible, a lot of which we see from the open source world already.

Are there any risks that would outweigh some of the benefits of open-sourcing or making code visible?

I’m trying to counterbalance the argument for open source code.
Probably no more and no less. US Foreign Policy never changes, no matter who is the POTUS.

The US Presidents do not run the country. They are just as much figureheads as the Queen of England.

The Establishment is who really runs the country. They do not have to answer to any electors, and they never 'go out of office'.
Please, don't dismiss arguments and call them names.

I was referring to a previous article... they omitted the severance package altogether, which was a key detail of the story and all other major outlets did mention it. It is clear that NYT is being scetchy-dishonest/has an axe to grind, or just plain sloppy/incompetent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/technology/politics-tech-...

"Two months earlier, dozens of Coinbase employees had staged a walkout after executives were slow to express solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters and minority employees, several workers said. In his post, Mr. Armstrong said employees who disagreed with his “no politics” stance could leave."

"About 60 Coinbase employees, or 5 percent of the work force, have resigned, the company said. A spokeswoman declined further comment."

They might have not lied on the article, but by omitting details they completely changed the narrative of the story to protect whatever cause they have. This second article, has an air of blackmmail to me.
The comment I replied to appears to have been substantially edited in the time since I've replied to it.

Sure. You can:

* Not specifically require Black employees to relocate to different cities while giving non-Black employees the opportunity to work out out whatever the nearest office is.

* Treat Black employees respectfully in meetings.

* Not allow people who manage Black employees to mock them for being drug dealers and for carrying weapons.

* Not allow recruiting team members to discuss the merits of different races and their likelihood of success as candidates in hiring team meetings.

This all seems pretty basic?

Incidentally: I don't know what the "movement" you're referring to is. I've been in this industry since the 1990s, and these seem like rules that would have been equally germane in 1995.

I'm not trying to zing you with that, but am noticing a persistent subtext on this thread that attempts to equate Black people not wanting to be discriminated against with some larger basket of "far-left politics". Plenty of conservatives have the same objections to racial bias as whatever the "movement" we're talking about here is. Ironically, among Democrats (Black people overwhelmingly identify with the Democratic party for historical reasons), Black people trend significantly more conservative.
VSCode has completely solved the complexity problem at the interface layer.
It is quite literally like you are running it locally (because you are), but the commands are executed against a remote backend.
Extensions are managed per host and just work naturally... it even tells you what extensions you don't have installed on the host (but do have on the local instance).

It works extremely well.
Sure okay, the DSLs are different.

So who’s the target audience? I’m curious to know the typical developer attracted to libraries like this.

That is t saying it’s bad or anything. It’s different enough I have a genuine curiosity
We can only speculate on the numbers, but it can always be a both/and situation. This culture/environment itself can be part of the reason for wanting that life change.

But forget number speculation, we have concrete proof of this in the article:

> another employee who left in October was John Russ, the head of marketing and the company’s highest ranking Black employee, who had been hired three months earlier.

> In a brief phone interview, Mr. Russ would only say that he disagreed with Mr. Armstrong’s new position and left as a result.
Which is about 35,000 per year for an individual if anyone is curious.
Hi Peter, is it possible to self sponsor yourself with your own startup for a visa? For example, an E-3 and assume that the applicant is an Australian citizen.
By the way, if you want a really good paranormal murder mystery I can't recommend Pale enough: https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/about/

“Something terrible happened, of a scale that words cannot easily convey. We need you to look into it. No need to solve it. Simply… look into it.”

It's by the author of Worm.
Curare-tipped darts made of ice.
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The opposite is actually true. It's the right who manufactured the devil and they called it the Left.
While I agree with hiring people that give a shit about their work, that’s probably the only thing I agree with.
I glanced over this entire day thread but didn’t find this questioning so here it goes:

Does no one else find that a “how to think for yourself” article is something of a paradox?

I mean, if you do follow through whatever directions are pointed out, you already failed.
Apple Could Add Force Touch Sensors to Future MacBook Pro Touch Bar
Not sure why this makes me laugh, maybe because I know all to well how you got to be explicit with development teams.

On serious note isn’t there some type of future plan to put nuclear reactors on the moon in this decade?
I use both, but at the time I first wrote this software it was easiest to make it be a Chrome extension. This was long before FF adopted Chrome's extensions API. It's on my list to see if I can get it running in FF but, like most things on that list, it never seems to get too close to the top.
As I’ve moved up the ladder I’ve even found myself referring to other engineers as resources. Trying to break the habit.
can you tell me more about "benzo" ?
It takes extreme discipline to know what you should question vs. what you shouldn’t. There’s a line from some famous SVite that agrees with your sentiment - something about picking the right horses and more about focusing on the right things.

A lot of this ‘how to boil a perfect egg’ competition comes not from the love of the pursuit (personally I have a much better day with a soft yolk), but because of the ‘prestige games’ we play with each other to prove we are not inadequate.

It’s a joy to learn from someone who truly wants to share, not position. To them they’ve discovered this wonderful way to do X that maybe you’ll love too — but to hear advice from folks that wish you worship them in return for their advice, is almost a negative sum game.

These articles walk a fine line, and many times it takes a live discussion for the intent to be measured.
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I’m not a fan of cancel culture, but I’ve seen enough to know that I want to move my Bitcoin trading elsewhere. Their prebuttal seemed odd, and now this article confirms the worst of my suspicions.

I’m not saying they’re racist, but they’re clearly not anti-racist.
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Take it to court then. Collect circumstantial evidence and allow for an objective ruling on discrimination and racism in the workplace. If the circumstantial he-said she-said is of any substance, you can prove your guilt.

Don't do trial by (social) media. Especially when your accusations are incredibly heavy and damaging. Don't play judge when you are not capable of objectively looking at all the presented evidence.

Coinbase presented their side of the story: nothing went to court. No investigation found anything of substance. If the circumstantial evidence was so strong to hold up in court, why didn't it?

For the law, intent is of utmost importance. For (social) media, just "circumstantial evidence" of exhibiting patterns of discrimination is enough to act. It is not enough to act, if you are a decent person.
Loyalty isn't rewarded, at all, unless there's an additional reason for the reward that can be disguised under 'loyalty', where 'reward for loyalty' is pointed to as an internal marketing exercise to motivate the workforce.

As soon as the underlying reason(s) no longer exist, loyalty will be revealed to have evaporated.

I've seen it multiple times at multiple companies. A couple of which were employees of over twenty years with the respective companies. None of which were bad places to work, or in any way brutal with their employment policies or conditions.

That's just how it is.

The best thing to give a shit about is the quality of your own work. That will serve you well for now and the future.
If you’re cynical enough, you could easily argue that every relationship that any person has is based on nothing more than resources. Somebody claims to love their wife? Unlikely. They’re just looking for some love and fulfilment resource. Do you really like your friends? Or do you just like the way friendship makes you feel?
I tend to think that page-based presentation is becoming a thing of the past. I usually write a big sprawling one-page HTML, magnify it, and do a presentation by gradually scrolling them. The advantages are obvious:

- No need to tweak the content to fit the page boundary.

- Highly accessible (adjustable to any screen).

- No JS.

- All figures are in SVGs.

- Can also support printing (just insert CSS page break).

- (edit) The scroll bar always shows where you are in the slides.

I keep recommending this to my colleagues, but they're still sticking with PDFs and PowerPoints.
You make a compelling point. Tell me more.
There's a lot of options for getting that energy on the moon mostly various versions of solar either by traditional solar panels or you could use mirrors to concentrate sunlight to provide heat directly.

The latter works pretty well on the moon because the day is pretty long at almost a month. If you get really creative the slow speed means it might be possible to build a giant tracked refinery that slowly circles the moon so it has continuous daylight.
I use pandoc + markdown to create a Beamer pdf that we use to guide the agenda for team meeting every week. It works well enough. The layouts are a little minimalist and have an academic feel but it works very well for putting together content for internal teams.
On my direct team nope. I can imagine folks being treated differently in Eng vs CX at other companies, and have seen that. I have trouble imagining that at CB, but anything's possible.

CB stands out in my career for the number of good human beings I've gotten to meet and work with. And my read when I see Brian, Emilie, Surojit, and Manish speak at weekly AMAs is they genuinely care about everyone in the company. It's a gut instinct, and so far I have no personal experience or anecdotal from within my circles to the contrary.

My sister used to work in CX (outside of tech) and it was really damaging work for her. It'd be devastating for me to learn our folks are not supported.
Do you have any evidence that reputations are being destroyed by unfounded accusations of racism to a significant degree?

Secondly, have you compared that to the damage inflicted by racists not being held accountable in society currently?
that point of view is only because you feel that someone could come after you with a false accusation. but you need to see it as a feeling rather than a rational decision you made

people say the same about sexual harassment accusations, once a video, or admittance comes out silence...

most of the times people want there to be videos and solid evidence to believe - but you yourself know that in 2020 we have members of the police force actively killing an meting out their own law upon black people

why is is so hard to believe that behind closed doors people can act and behave in discriminatory ways towards black people?

shall we start walking with little microphones and cameras to work? is this what black people should deal with going to work?
Only if you define resource so broadly as to constitute anything, at which point the statement becomes “all relationships are based on things” ... which, like, yes of course
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same problem for me too... fake internet points red-taping real conversations.. :)

Anyway, emailing..
I don’t really understand the rebate strategy here. They told Purdue to literally go to CVS and tell them “we are going to pay you a bonus for every overdose you cause?”

How does CVS interplay with the doctors who are doing the actual prescribing? I guess I don’t understand how a rebate change anything at CVS. Aren’t they just filling the prescription?
If Wired's reporting is accurate (https://www.wired.com/story/turmoil-black-lives-matter-polit...), Coinbase did try to ride the line, but a bunch of activists demanded for Armstrong to publicly chant the slogan and eventually went on strike until he did.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/comments/el1da3/part_1_ho...
Oh this is probably going to be more practical than another British invention https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...

I'd say solar panel output would be way more predictable than upon Earth as no chaotic weather systems at play, also larger unfiltered spectrum would mean panels could be tailor made to get higher efficiency than you get per m2 anywhere upon Earth with its atmosphere.
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That's why Timescale just works for most workloads, because you still have Postgres with JSONB and Ltree. Querying hierarchical data is common in IoT.
For myself and most people in my circle of friends it's roughly: actively advancing the level of humanity. That means different things to different people - for some it's working on autonomous vehicles, for others it's space exploration, for others it's fighting climate change or poverty, etc. I think this is also related to age, though. When I was younger, most people I knew thought freedom and money were the best possible things in life.
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That’s why you don’t travel without a deflector dish.
> The limitation of the x86 decoder is that each clock cycle can only process up to 4 instructions, but if it is a familiar instruction, it can be placed in the operation cache, and 8 instructions can be processed per cycle.

http://www.apothetech.com/amd-zen-3-vs-zen-2-amd-zen-3-is-39...
Without taking a meaningful position here, how do you differentiate between the individuals on the street who are generally poor and powerless (and if you take them at their word, disenfranchised), while the police are backed by the institution, carrying military weapons, and legally empowered to use violence to stop them?

This is a question I have struggled with, so I'm curious what your take is, and that of the rest of the community here.

In the platonic ideal, of course, the protesters would be peaceful and affable people. On the other hand, in a platonic ideal, nobody would need to be protesting in the first place.

Similarly, in the platonic ideal, police would be kind and friendly, but of course, then they wouldn't be defending the state from these individuals in the first place.

So, where does that leave us?

tl;dr: Does the situation change if we frame the protestors as "mostly poor, powerless and disenfranchised" and the police as "mostly powerful, backed by the largesse of the state and largely militarized" in this specific time and place?

[edit] In a way, I would argue that the police are entrusted with using violence - in the right time and place - and are rarely held accountable for failing to do so. It's not the police' use of violence people are protesting in general (after all this is the monopoly they have been granted), but rather their lack of accountability for failing to do their jobs in the instances that they do.
No, this is exactly what he said, laid out in argument form:

Premise 1: Tech companies are often accused of racism (any, not coinbase, neither of us mentioned coinbase)

Premise 2: Tech companies often contain a much larger % of Asians, a minority

Premise 3: (implied) having a disproportionate % of any one minority makes you non-racist

Conclusion: Therefore Tech companies are not racist

The conclusion does not follow because premise 3 is wrong. You can be racist about other minorities even while enthusiastically supporting one minority group.
Have you given the official online editor a whirl? The last time I used it, I recall it being relatively feature-complete, although there's definitely a tradeoff compared to writing HTML.

https://slides.com/
I'm not sure I fully understand your point, but it might be worth adjusting your language a little bit to account for a quirk of our language(in that Chinese could refer to the nationality, or the government): I assume your problem with Zoom is its association with the CCP, and not just that it is merely Chinese.
Who's fault could this be?
Yep. On one hand, dev containers could be really awesome. Imagine being able to spin up an old dev container to fix a bug in an old project. Ex: I added a tiny feature to a 5+ year old Java app last year and it took me longer to get the dev/build environment fixed up than it did to add the feature. A 5 year old dev container would have been awesome at the time.

On the other hand, I'm worried it's going to be used to (attempt to) "take away" our ability to compile locally rather than giving us an amazing, immutable, local dev environment.
It looks like the censorship is HN-approved.

Oh well.
In the other direction, I wonder when we'll see a full ARM macOS running in QEMU on x86 Windows... I believe this is the only public extent of that effort so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064593
ZDNet is infamous for calling Linux "the upstart operating system" for many years in the early 2000s.

They don't seem to have changed much.
You appear to be arguing with the comment you wish that person had written, not they one they actually wrote. The actual comment is specific about the pattern of problematic comments they observed:

* They suggest that Black people are in general SJWs

* They attempt to litigate affirmative action rather than the claims in the article

* They argue that Black employees passed over for promotion were underqualified.

* They dismiss the entire article on the basis of it having appeared in the New York Times.

Take issues with any of these specific complaints if you want, but don't pretend that the comment simply said "there aren't enough anti-Coinbase comments here", because they didn't say that at at all.
I don't give a shit about your company, because it's your company. I don't actually have a say in what's going on. I can't refuse to do what I'm told because I disagree with the direction of the company's mission. I'd get fired.

I might give a shit about the mission, in as much as you can give a shit about the trite verbiage assigned to, in essense, the general thing that's supposed to increase shareholder dividends. But the mission is very frequently lost in the minutia of doing one's job. Does the mission relate to how I'm going to fill out this change management form? No; the change management process isn't based on the mission, it's based on its own thing. I give a shit about the change management process. If I only gave a shit about the mission, I might say, "screw change management!" And then I wouldn't be very good at my job.

And "giving a shit" based on who's interpretation? I can tell you that I give far too much of a shit about how my company works, and if I voiced this frequently, people would be absolutely sick of me. My manager sometimes reminds me - in the nicest terms - to calm the fuck down about the work. You don't want the whole company filled with people like me, because they'd drive each other bonkers. A few of us are nice for variety, and to pop up occasionally and say, "Hey, do we have a central place we can put all this documentation rather than a lot of independent places?" And then calm the fuck down and focus on just writing the damn docs.

You should want people to care, in a healthy way, both about the thing they're working on and the way in which they work on it. But you should never want them to be obsessed.

Obsession, n: Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.

If you want this for your employees, you need to get a grip and re-evaluate life.
Premise 3 was not implied.
I am guessing that it was meant as legal/political/social cover? Hazard pay for the potential litigation they might face?

CVS put some limits on opioid prescriptions:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/21/cvs-opioid-prescription-...
Those of us involved are not interested in such goals.

Also, we've received much more income than that. Ardour is more than 20 years old at this point, and generating revenue for more than 12 years.

Also, your estimation of how much a software engineer earns would be fairly humorous anywhere except a few major tech centers in a few western nations.
This process just needs heat so why not skip the electricity step entirely and just have a big refinery follow the sun around the moon. With a 29.5 day... day and a small circumference the you only need to move ~9.5 mph to stay in constant sunlight on the moon.
Or user, relevant to this context
Darn, I have a laser cutter for sale very cheap - let me know if you ever want / need another one.
I don't see anything in the article that implies the PHL employee was given a choice of office. For all we know they made the request after CB decided against WFH teams.
Originally from Hungary, lived in Budapest between 2002-2008, currently in San Francisco, have been visiting the country since 2008 every year for 2 weeks. It's hard for me to overstate how bad of a choice Hungary is for anything remotely related to tech/business/trading. Hungarian law is convoluted, and generally made by & for large corps; taxation (outside of the small business sector which you don't qualify for) is high, corruption is high, people are low and hopeless. Hungary also went through consequent phases of massive brain drain (2003, 2008, 2011). For the remaining people, Hungary's USP is "you can have sex here", which won't be applicable to you. For anyone else, the lack of compelling things to do, intelligence to work together with, and a proper functional system that isn't adversarial to entrepreneural action makes it an unlivably hostile system. Strongly recommend leaving as soon as feasible.
Maybe we are doing what we are doing to either to:

"relieve personal distress (e.g. discomfort from the situation),

avoid self-punishment (e.g. feelings of guilt),

avoid social-punishment (e.g. looking bad to others),

obtain rewards from self or others (e.g. praise, pride),

gain a mood-enhancing experience (e.g. feel glad someone was helped)."[1]

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/psychego/
Seems like a very low threshold of expectation for individuals entrusted with weapons, professional immunity and relatively safe jobs compared to garbage men and loggers and etc.
The response from Coinbase does not feel to me like one that would be presented by a company that is effectively seeking out and mitigating pockets of racism within the org.

The comments section on HN do not leave me feeling like racism is being given enough consideration within the community.
Then why is he "very confused at how a tech company could be accused of racism"?
Then they made their choice - their employees believed their company was not supporting them as people and forced the issue. Coinbase then chose its side. Is there anything more to say?