skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's already 2,500 comments on that site, as the essay was written 24 November.

We've seen any number of papers and even lawsuits which claim there are anomalies and aberrations in the votes using statistics like this. And even more counter-papers showing that those claims are invalid and judges determining there's no validity.

The ones I've looked at follow the pattern "votes should follow model X, these votes don't follow model X, therefore there's something wrong in the vote count."

So far I haven't seen them consider that the model itself is wrong.

For example, in skimming this I saw the phrase "especially aberrant". Why is it aberrant? Because it differs from the model.

But has the model been verified? No. It appears the first model is that distributions in a batch should be temporally unbiased. But these are also states where the legislature refused to allow mail-in ballots to be counted early and where there was a distinct correlation between choosing to use mail-in ballots and political preference. So we don't expect Fig. 2 to be meaningful.

And we know where those spikes come from, eg, the arrival of counted votes from a major city. But that wasn't mentioned.

Another model is that "a swing or blue state where one or two urban cores offsets an otherwise very Republican population" should have similar voting patterns. But, why? Eg, Biden is from PA so why shouldn't we expect a "native son" bias to affect results?

One obvious way to test a model is to use it to evaluate previous election results. This wasn't done. But even then, the correlation between political party preference and choice of in-person voting vs. mail-in voting changed compared to previous years, making that comparison hard.
Without actually knowing the history, I think it's probably stupidly conceived. We seem to generally imagine that the biggest problem or challenge with AI is ethics because we frame ethics as being largely rooted in something emotional, like empathy or compassion, and not logic.

The movie I, Robot explores what happens when "logic" is taken to its logical outcome by an AI. It posits a robot with feelings as the antidote to this issue.

We tend to overlook the fact that humans themselves come in varying flavors with regards to degree of emotional affect, empathy, compassion, etc and how ethical they are. We haven't gotten this sorted for humanity yet and when tech goes sideways and hurts many people, we like to blame it on the tech itself fundamentally lacking "a heart" or ethics instead of blaming it on the character defects of the architects of the tech.

We still haven't really figured out how to do human intelligence well and that's scary and not something we want to admit, so we project our deficiencies onto the tech and this incident is uncomfortably casting light on the fact that it's not really clear cut like that. It's really not the case that you can readily separate the people from the tech when it comes to things we label "ethics."

/Hot take
Don't they use scientific linux (CentOS clone?)
In regards to the hardware wallets, I'd buy 2 Trezors and store them in separate locations

If you're going bitcoin-only, you should consider Coldcard, which is the hardware wallet the hardcore bitcoiners love [1].

Cobo Vault is fairly new on the scene but is also getting rave reviews [2].

If you're going multisig, you should buy hardware wallets from different vendors to guard against a flaw or security vulnerability from any one vendor. For example, Trezor has some issues recently [3].

[1] https://coldcardwallet.com

[2] https://cobo.com/hardware-wallet

[3] https://blog.kraken.com/post/3662/kraken-identifies-critical...
What's especially ridiculous is that they did - latine and latin@ (pronounced with whichever gender the speaker finds convenient) have a reasonably long history in contexts where people want to be conspicuously gender neutral. "Hispanic" too, although some speakers consider that to have a slightly different meaning.

As far as I can tell, the new coinage of "Latinx" has no purpose except for signaling that you're one of the cool club. The vast majority of Latinos have never heard of it, and most of those who have don't like it.
Not sure what the USSR has to do with anything here. People do this in America all the time, especially in the business world. It's fashionable to look like one reads books, yet people don't want to spend the time to properly do just that.

https://www.booksbythefoot.com/shop/pc/Books-by-Color-c3.htm
It would definitely be interesting to learn more details of your work. The application requires some specific sensors, and some fast math, and the whole system is going to be an advanced blend of hardware and software.
Sunburst attack automated response with SOAR
We will take a quick look at this SolarWinds SunBurst attack which came out on December 13th.
We will review how to defend your network from this attack automating the network security with Check Point firewalls and Siemplify SOAR solution.It’s a known fact that some versions of SolarWinds Orion products are currently being exploited by malicious actors and considered as high risk by Department of Homeland Security.
This tactic could allow an attacker to gain access to corporate assets through network traffic, therefore it is important to review your current Inbound and Outbound network protection and traffic patterns.
It is important to understand that these binaries could represent a significant threat to your production network environments.
We highly recommend you consider any device with this binary as compromised and should already be investigating devices with this alert.
From Cyber Kill chain perspective, we mapped our IPS, Sandboxing and AV and Anti-Bot protections.
1. We have an alert that came from Check Point IPS engine which detected this Solarwinds payload on the inbound traffic. In this case our policy in IPS was set to detect instead of Prevent.
2. Then the payload went to Sandboxing which does AI-based code analysis
3. We also have an enrichment alert our Check Point Threat Intelligence detected via Reputation API from ThreatCloud
4. It then goes to Gateway for enforcement – On the inbound traffic IPS blocks it once the policy is executed to be in Prevent mode
5. It also gets blocked by Gateway on the outbound traffic by AV and Anti-Bot engine
The verdict we received as part of the event, gives us information about its Classification, Risk level, Malware family and more information to do further analysis.This playbook already has Firewall Enforcement built-in, in this case I set it where it gives me an Execute command to set the IPS Sunburst signature to block that malicious traffic.-JG
> you're being manipulated

Ok, but isn't that..... what a show is? They are actors. Acting out scenes. It is all fake. The reason to watch it is to suspend disbelief, immerse yourself in pretending that it's real, imagine you are the one going through the actions and emotions of the characters. But yeah it gets harder the more you watch and know what to expect.
As we debate this, Google has been credibibly accused of the most basic and wide-ranging antitrust violations, and whether they actually pay a price for it, assuming the accusations are true, isn't a slam dunk.

Knowingly committing ethical violations with AI seems likely pretty low on their list of concerns.
As I said a several times before, communist labour unions are very powerful in India. Most of them are backed by the communist parties who have CCP patronage.
Simplified Ribbon is now available in Excel for the web
I learned about it at my first, and only, tournament game.
See the new series, The Long Story, it's hillarious and sad.
I sometimes regret the road not taken with academia (in my case History), but if I am honest with myself given the frequency of mental breakdowns and depression that marked my college years, there’s a good chance that I would have burned out or died. Pursuing financial stability and then a family life has made my mind overall more stable, even if I don’t get the same mental challenges I might otherwise get. And while I might have been able achieve financial security and family life in academia, there is a good chance it would not happen or would come much delayed.

Not saying that this is the best of all universes but just saying that the road not travelled isn’t necessarily one that would haven ended in success, even though it’s tempting to think of things in that way.
This is the most comprehensive list of customer loyalty research I could find! Highly recommend those building loyalty programs to give this a read
Ohhh man! You are awesome! Thank you 10000!
I never used an iOS device, but if Apple pulls this off, my next phone might be an iPhone.
A typical store of value doesn’t have annual 80% price swings.

Volatility is a thing but Bitcoin has outperformed every stock and commodity over the past 5 and 10 years. It can't be deflated or manipulated by central banks and governments.
Yugoslavia is a cautionary tale. Humans (and possibly much older than humans) have an builtin in-group / out-group mechanism which, left unchecked, leads to widespread ethnic hatred. It doesn't take much to prime the bomb besides a steady dose of confirmation of the other group's evil ways, of which we have an ample supply thanks to the proliferation of sensationalistic (social) media. Our lives have become an incessant outrage stream. The clock is ticking...

Hacker culture was born at the zenith of American liberalism, just after its ideals had triumphed over Soviet Union's self-destructing spiral. Those times may never come back, and liberalism itself is on life support :(
Normally I care more about privacy than other people, and for a lot of illnesses I'd find this more than understandable, but for this pandemic, I don't understand your sentiment. Not only has it already infected over 74M people and killed 1.5M of them (and counting...) from all walks of society (hardly making you unique!), but by sharing 1 bit of information about yourself, you can help others avoid that fate. What exactly is so scary about the FDA knowing if you had COVID that terrifies you and trumps (no pun intended) everything else?
> there was no definitional collusion between Trump and Russia

That depends on who you ask. For some reason his supporters feel that way, and his detractors would beg to differ.

Being that we are now in an era of "fake news", its up to the willingness of the individual to entertain the evidence that's been presented.
Reversing the domain generation algo to find who fell victim to SolarWinds hack
> Collecting credits till then.

Just remember to spend them first!

Audible's business decision to revoke credits on membership cancellation is one of those decisions that makes me wonder if they're actually leaving money on the table. Like, wouldn't having unspent credits in your account contribute to membership reactivations down the road? And enable marketing emails like "Don't you want to spend your 3 credits?"
I once spent days reading tv tropes as a kid. I couldn't recognize a single trope until today because of it.
The only thing that causes me to see tropes is to just watch a lot of movies and notice the patterns myself.
While we are at it, she also called out Jeff Dean 6 months ago to have Jeff Dean say "personal attacks are not okay".

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1278571537776271360

The whole interaction is so cringey and screams toxicity.
I am going to quote directly from the following blog post from Mozilla.org

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-recommended-extensi...

"Extensions can add powerful customization features to Firefox. However, we have noticed that the number of add-ons available for Firefox today can be overwhelming for some users. And even though our policy provides clear guidelines for the behavior of add-ons, they sometimes find it difficult to decide which tools and developers they consider most trustworthy. That's why we established the ‘recommended extensions’ program: a collection of curated extensions that meet our highest standards for security, functionality and usability, which we are now bringing to another platform with the new Firefox for Android."

If what you're saying is true, it is backtracking. They made a deliberate decision, as I have demonstrated with the link above, to restricted access to extensions on their mobile browser. And in the quote, they provide what I consider to be a phony bologna excuse plainly evident on its face. I don't trust Mozilla anymore and I do not want to use their products because of if this, and any time the topic comes up I will continue to talk about it.
Why startup founder must do mistakes
It sounds like a bad deal for Europe if for instance Taylor Swift’s works get life + 70 years but Ed Sheeran’s works get 50 years. Nationalism is the main reason current copyright laws are seen as reasonable - no country wants to give their citizens a worse deal than another country. I’m afraid shortening copyright lengths would have to be done by international agreement.
You probably want to have two (or more) interfaces (eni in aws lingo) on the wg server so that you dedicate one for this tunneled traffic.

Also you probably want to setup some sort of NAT instead of just routing packets directly.
Then again, "Good enough is good enough"

http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/8/1...
I've had the same sunny bike from begining of March and after -250 rides I have to encounter an issue.
Wikipedia suggests your source may not be 100% reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_(website).
What age did you get serious with chess? 2200 in lichess is high.
Not saying I don't believe you, but those are some pretty damning allegations, do you have any evidence?
Are there ways to make inkscape work more... symbolically/logically?

I tried making an SVG manually, using real basic integer coordinates.

Then I wondered if inkscape could do better, and imported it.

It took my nice shapes, like a rectangle from 0,0 to 50,100 and mangled all the coordinates into floating point numbers like 0.0123,0.00456 49.9998,100.00123 (not exactly, but you get the idea)
Hilariously enough Trump let the patriot act expire this year, this wasn't covered in the news. You can however bet your last dollar that Biden will re-enact it within his 101 days in office.
Pivoting a Consumer Network into a Consumer Insights Platform with Matt Britton
A pyramid scheme requires somebody at the top making money from the people at the lower levels, which clearly isn't the case.

Here's the use case for Bitcoin:

"Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally."—@Travis_Kling"
That's kinda like saying the other Texas lawsuit to throw out the election results had merit because 17 other states filed a brief supporting it. And wouldn't you know it... nearly all the states named on this suit supported that one too. Who would've guessed?
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Look chums, I know, I get it. Sure. HN is a place for blah blah blah. But did we have to downvote this comment? I can't believe we're 'preserving' the quality of HN by downvoting gems like this.
> 40-lb (18-kg), 6.5-hp engine out of the go-kart in the video above, and replaced it with a 4.5-lb (2-kg) X-Engine making 3 hp.

This is a completely flawed comparison power and weight don't interchange linearly as cooling requirements and seam inefficiencies drive size up and power down as power grows.
I don’t think people mean copy it in it’s current form, at least not forever. It’s just a catchy name to refer to a program where the government pays for healthcare, even though the current iteration of Medicare is hardly that.

The idea is probably to expand the current system to everyone, which is better than nothing, and then work on improving it.
The United States government, among others, has denounced the program and penalized Chinese companies that are believed to be involved. https://archive.vn/g73w1
There was an irc chat log and nothing more offered as evidence. Later the agent involved was convicted of stealing BTC from defendant. You could say the relevant fact is that an irc log on a compromised computer had a questionable chain of evidence. The logical error of assuming something quoted in a sentencing as fact is "appeal to authority" if you want to look it up.
I practiced and practiced as a kid
So he didn't know this was the date that the trail results would be announced months previously?
While you're absolutely right the Snowden is a wonderful man, your accusations for Assange have no basis.

The Swedish investigation had no intention of uncovering the truth about this this woman's possible assault. They endlessly refused any kind of telephonic interview with Assange, even though it is normal practice in Sweden. They were not passionately pursuing justice for a wronged woman - they were idly forcing a man into confinement to help their American allies. This is exactly the finding of the UN special investigator for torture.
You have to leave a reasonable amount of time to ensure that the information can be priced into the market.
How to save costs by running .NET apps on Azure
I taught myself photoshop, GIMP, autocad, solidworks, and Altium, all to reasonable proficiency. Personally couldn’t figure the first thing out with Inkscape.

Another comment nailed it, they made literally alien UI choices.
But was he convicted of it? If not, shouldn’t be sentenced for it.
We do a lot of cross country trips visiting family and my wife and I will alternate driving. If passenger gets tired of looking at the road or wants to get some sleep they usually hop over the center console and go hang out in the power reclining 3rd row. 2 kids ride in the 2 center captain chairs and one in the 3rd. Larger dog (90 lb) usually wanders around between everything. We usually put a cargo box on top so we can keep the cabin cleaner but we'd still fit without it.

I also own a top trim mid-sized luxary SUV and I'd say the limited pacifica (plus all packages) is easily the go-to option for comfort on road trips. Its no contest how much better something like that is compared to what basically equates to a larger sedan with a big trunk. Maybe something like a suburban or a yukon xl could compete but thats about all I'd think might.
It being fake isn't the same as manipulation.
Whether he was convicted or not, he did it. Fuck him. Throw the key away.
I once worked for an extremely wealthy guy for a bit. He built a brand new office building and during setup I was in his very expensive looking back office... and I realized the nice and old looking books weren't even books... they were finely done hollow blocks of book looking replicas with real curved leather spines and everything...

I will never forget how that summed up the man to me. I quit not long after.
A beginner-friendly Vulkan path tracing tutorial in under 300 lines of C++
> I’m not one to engage in Internet diagnosis, but

Ruh roh.
> At the same time, companies have hard data about what works and what doesn't work so they're starting to trim excess.

What works for whom? Every place I go on the internet where technical people discuss things, there's a common thread: competing interests have incentivized companies to put user needs second and it has resulted in a broken web that does not work and does not serve the users. The most cynical of us say that the web is irreparable.

It seems to me, from a user perspective, that they haven't found what works at all. It also seems to me that they don't care about finding what works anymore, they're happy to rest on their megalithic laurels the way Blockbuster and Radio Shack thought they could ad infinitum.

I think you're right about novel features and things breaking for no good reason, and I think the next phase in innovation of communication and networking technologies are already beginning to adopt some new axioms: less is more, and the idea that there will be one place to do everything online is flawed and cannot be achieved.
Hooks are the worst thing to ever happen to React. They're so easy to get started with but every codebase I've seen adopt them has turned into complete untestable spaghetti.

Mixing stateful effectful code inside what would otherwise be a pure declarative render function leads to so much complexity in an attempt to bridge the two paradigms. Junior engineers are also constantly tripped up by the subtleties of `useEffect` and `useState`.

Furthermore I think attempting to "encapsulate" side effects is a bad approach to writing testable programs. Most React components that use hooks end up having several chains of promises inside them but no way to await the final promise meaning tests have to be full of

await wait(0)
await wait(0)
await wait(0)

God forbid someone comes along and tries to be clever and replaces it with

await wait(3)

which now makes the test non-deterministic.

Cycle.js is the only framework that seems to get this right by acknowledging that a component doesn't just output JSX, but actually outputs JSX, HTTP Requests, etc.

Look, I get that Redux was a pain in the ass with all the boilerplate, but how did we throw the baby (unidirectional data flow) out with the bathwater. I no longer advertise that I know frontend development because the entire react community seems to have lost its mind.
I first used a VR helmet 30 years ago in a CS department (think Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing' quality graphics). It was a fun experience and I've used VR helmets since then and its been another fun experience, but we still don't have a must have, killer application that is going to bring VR to the masses.

iPhones were replacing something that people already had with something that did it so much better than before that it seemed like magic. I can't see VR doing that unless the tech becomes so wonderful that it can be added to spectacles/contact lenses or the experience injected right into the brain cheaply and someone creates a killer app that people will want to use repeatedly.

There will always be technical and industrial uses - training, visualization etc that can justify expensive headsets and expensive content creation but those are niche markets.
In 2019 I've read 100 books. Im not married nor have children, but I might have advice to share

If your goal is to just finish a book, you can listen to an audiobook at 3.5x speed.

Some books are easy, some books are hard. If you pick easy books you can go through them much faster

You have to pick your goals and priorities about what you want from the book.

I mostly read non-fiction books that are not heavy in academics. So most of them are not written to be lean if you know what I mean

Being able to tell people I've read 100 books was pretty cool but it was just a vanity metric to boost ego. It's pretty dumb to be honest. Theres better ways to consume a huge amount of information.

This doesnt apply to domains that require deep knowledge/learning ie: programming, engineering, sciences, math, algorithms, hobbies, etc.

Also things you learn from books are not a rule of law, which Ive noticed that is something people tend to forget.
It's not just the market penetration of the smartphone but time spent engaging with it that makes it so successful as a platform. VR's biggest handicap is that it tends to be tethered/unwieldy to be useful for day to day applications.
I think that is the type of overkill options galore we are trying to avoid.
So someone has updated me in this thread somewhere that Mozilla has backtracked on their solid "recommended extensions program" and begun to work towards implementing more. I'm glad to see that, for the sake of those who will continue to use Firefox. I won't, because the trust is gone for me at this point.
Google takes a similar cut on IAPs too, doesn't it? It just allows to integrate other payment methods in apps. It always felt fishy to enter CC number in an app. I still prefer to pay from the web sites where I can see the URL.