skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addressing the trust problem is what needs attention now, and in that conversation your litigation of the “fraud” evidence question becomes less useful.

Imagine it like a problem in GAAP or in NIST 800. It’s not about whether _you_ can or cannot see fraud, it’s about whether the community at large (let’s just use Pareto’s 80%) has faith that there are sufficient controls to make fraud unlikely.

Here’s an easy example: your company doesn’t require dual signatures on wire transfers over $250k. One person can make a decision on moving material amounts of cash out the door. You say, we’ve not seen any evidence of large scale wire fraud so we don’t need stronger controls to prevent it. To your auditors and investment community this is a ticking time bomb for several reasons, the least of which may be questionable confidence in your specific ability to detect instances of fraud thus far.

This type of problem is encountered frequently in the regulatory world and I’m not sure why the voting process is so special that we can’t apply similar solution sets. That is, look to sensible, auditable control structures that can be demonstrated to be effective.

The control structure around voting is getting looser, not tighter, and this has been a trend predating the prior four presidential election cycles at least. Looking at the anecdata, many operations are a clown show where if not being abused are clearly ripe for abuse.

I’m not sure how to put it more simply: the debate about the degree and type of fraud that _you_ are aware of is immaterial. The question before the country is how to react when some 40% of the country is losing confidence in the system. Not just in a joking way but shifting to where the fringes are just done with it and parts of the non-fringe are increasingly finding sympathy for them.

My OP was about how the US needs to be prioritizing a fix for the confidence problem. Solutions such as more censorship are a poison pill.

Your comment reflects your self interest in the outcome of the last election, rather than the national interest for the next election. You can tell people to go pound sand, but I don’t think that solution has longevity. This is the first time in my lifetime I can remember the Capitol being stormed, and I’m aware that the confidence issue has been percolating for many years. Ballot harvesting, loose validation checks, willfully bad voter roles, etc., have been making the problem worse not better, again from a confidence level. This year in California the Republicans got in on the ballot harvesting.

Again, what happens in sports when one team thinks the fouls aren’t being called? Does it matter whether you, on the other team, hold a different opinion about the state of refereeing? The whole thing turns into a clown show.

I don’t think an endorsement of continuing down this same path is a good prescription for this country. In terms of the Four Boxes of Liberty, I worry that two of them are increasingly perceived as being locked out for one of our large political factions. Not good.
> they should theoretically be totally sealed to enable the Bioweapon Defense Mode.

Isn't bioweapon defense mode HEPA filter plus overpressure, not a totally sealed cabin?
Folks with the outside perspective often attribute some intent to a situation, but if they went through it, it would be obvious and simple.

I think engineers try to do the best they can. It's just old guys might do it the mainframe way, slightly younger unix, then windows, then linux.

Or folks who've been with the culture do it that way, and new folks from outside the company bring new college grad or last-company-i-worked-for culture along with them.

And folks who try something new suffer from the 'fog of war' and your "the docker solution" that got everything started so well makes you a real expert in nested docker configurations and firewall issues. :)
“nobody wants to die for trump”

4 people did die for Trump during this ‘boomer chimpout’. What makes you think more would not have been willing to get involved if it looked like it was building traction?

Also, they planted bombs in the DNC and RNC, and look - petrol bombs: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-charged-posse...
Yeah, let's put it this way, if it is a Boeing problem it's surprising that it goes 26 years undetected and it's worrying because that's the most popular airframe out there today.

This is much more likely to be related to the specific maintenance of the plane, actions of the pilots, or a terrorist thing - Indonesia is a Muslim country that recently banned some extremist groups.
> it unequivocally identifies Asimov as a Communist and apologist for Stalin.

Scroll to the bottom of the article.

> His critique of the science fiction, that screens which watch you back is a poor prediction (because how on Earth could Google watch people at scale?!) is particularly hilarious, if a bit sad.

> Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have
placed everyone under non-human surveillance.

I guess this answers it
This looks really cool and what you’ve got so far looks pretty useful to people. I think the next step is offering options on the programming language and frameworks. For example, React front end with node back end.
in 17XX, the mountain top in Colorado (a) wasn't even a part of the country (b) even if it was, remained several thousand miles of arduous cross-country travel from the entire population of the newly emerging state. People would almost certainly die en route to hear your pontifications. There's zero comparison with a browser address bar.

Even if you posit the top of Mt. Washington rather than a peak in the as-yet undiscovered (by northern Europeans) Rockies, the difference remains unchanged in more or less every essential way.

And actually, "town square" isn't defined at all, de facto or de jure. In the USA, there's essentially no standing right to speak in a public place. You can't be stopped based on what you say, but you can routinely be stopped from speaking at all.

This is, perversely, one of the things that makes London's Hyde Park Corner so unique: there is an accepted policy (not law) that you can't be stopped from speaking there unless engaged in incitement. This fallacy of "the public square" is just that - a fallacy. Since independence (and certainly before it), there was no freedom to speak in a public space without being blessed by some authority.

It was only the printing press that was really "free speech" , in the sense that you could print anything and make it available and the 1st amendment could not prevent access to it.

And btw, "kicked your teeth in" as a description of that thread exchange seems like a great reason to avoid further interaction with you. ghaff was supporting my POV, and spoonjim's comment was downvoted (and incidentally wrong). Even if they had both disagreed with me and presented a cogent argument supporting their positions, "kicking teeth in" is a particularly violent metaphor that I prefer to see left unused.
IMO - just get the Starting Strength book by Mark Rippetoe and run with that for a year or two (or possibly forever depending on your goals). Quick gym sessions (45 min or less), strength focused exercises and IMO for those basic barbell movements it is the best.

If after you a bit of time you stall in strength and wish to go farther add in more bodybuilding type exercises or switch to another program like Wendlers 5/3/1...etc

But really if I had to recommend anything to most people to stay strong (esp as you age and live the lives we live today), the basic barbell exercises taught in Starting Strength are all you really need for a lifetime.
When editorials only ever include the beliefs of the left, and even moderate republican beliefs are beyond the pale and mean that those responsible for publishing them are fired, it is obvious to all not willfully blind that editorials mean endorsement.
This is such a bullshit take, IMHO.

Private companies have completely controlled media, and in the television age have been extremely biased. Trump would never have had any success without Fox News cheering him on and giving him biased fawning coverage.

If anything, Twitter and Facebook have been too subservient to political power by letting flagrant and harmful TOS violations just float for these folks.

Traditional media is more responsible for the rise of Trump than any social network, IMHO. There's been a consistent lack of journalistic ethics, of subservience to white supremacy and an unwillingness to report on it. How many diners in small towns is The NY Times going to report on without talking about the confederate flags and Camp Auschwitz symbols that unify these extremists?

We are at the Beer Hall Putsch stage right now. We have a long war against fascism ahead of us. I wish that Politico would report in the journalistic failures of traditional media with 1/10th the ferocity they have against social media.
Add a blog, pay a writer because SEO gobbledygook will rot your brain (I believe they use ahrefs to get keywords), add JSON-LD structured data. Cultivate back links, maybe post in forums where people are already discussing this.

There is not much good technical SEO info out there for developers to find. It is frustrating for someone used to being able to find documentation/best practices easily.

This is stuff that I have picked up working with SEO people. Not guaranteed to be 100% accurate but hopefully it helps.
I made an open-source Rails engine to offload marketing campaigns: https://caffeinate.email. I haven't tweeted about it yet so I guess I would call it half-baked since nobody else has really touched it and I don't know all that I missed.

We use it at work. We were using a combination of Outreach.io, Salesforce, Iterable, and our own awful in-house solution when I realized how bad it was needed. Then I needed it for one of my side projects, so I hacked something together and it works. But who knows how well.
I'm working on a free reminder/analytics service for keeping your resolutions this year: https://resolution.fail

The idea is to get a periodic email questionnaire that lets you easily record metrics about a resolution and see progress over time. I'm still in the process of adding charts and an analytics view to the service, so you can visually see your progress in each email.

I built the entire thing during my December holiday. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
But censorship / de-platforming leads to communication being pushed underground...

and that will be their argument for increased surveillance.
That's been my feeling. Last I looked I recall public SOTA in facial recognition being something like an error every 1 in 1000 cases. Assuming that a private corporation's efforts are somehow 100x better that still gives you 3,000 suspects in America for any given photo. (And all those people are likely to look very, very similar.)

Hell, Apple's FaceID makes a mistake every million faces, and that system is both professional and has an order of magnitude more data to work with from the FaceID scanner. Clearview is just using blurry photographs.
I think that you'll find most conservatives want to get rid of regulations controlling monopolies.
> 6th street in Austin is completely gone

I’ve been to Austin and to 6th Street. Tragic.

> These same people

They’re us. We’re all the same people. Maybe try asking them why they’re upset first before going “WHY do THOSE PEOPLE have to act like this?”
I think it's not so much that, it's that things like this really do happen to all car manufacturers, but anything Tesla always makes news. Not to say they don't have quality issues — they totally do — but they tend to be overblown because of the massive attention they get.
I get paid really really well to do work I already like doing, and I wear whatever I want while I do
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That's literally what is said in the article.
These "delusional" assessments are based on the analysis of financial firms. They make a more convincing argument than "things are good because technology". The financials are pretty clear. The public markets are less effected by the will of random interest groups as they are by poor returns. If a company spends more than it makes, it's a poor investment.
> you are on the wrong side of history here

And, probably, you were "on the wrong side of history" in 1930s Germany.
Yeah Padrino is similar, it’s sinatra under the hood.
"3rd system we've lost this month!"
Parler will be a much bigger echo chamber than Twitter. That’s my point
I don't think there's really anything more to this article than can be found in the various threads here on HN in response to all the bannings.

I'm a bit confused by the framing here, that Silicon Valley is punching back.

There's plenty of text and quotes in the article suggesting that Silicon Valley is switching sides; they're doing it because of who is coming to power and/or because of who is losing power.

That's not asserting power or punching back to my mind. That's jumping in at the end of a knockout fight and kicking the losers, trying to blend in with the winners.
> Neither of your responses even dispute my points.

First you try to insinuate that IQ is not related to intelligence and even if it were intelligence has not practical application in the "real world".

Your first point was disputed by the comments related to how rigorously this subject is studied and documented, due to it being a third-rail area of academia.

I am going to dispute your second point myself.
That rigorous study and documentation associates IQ with intelligence and intelligence with 'g' which, although not precisely defined, is associated with (at least) higher problem-solving ability.

So now your argument reduces to "higher problem-solving ability has no practical application in the 'real world'".

And so I will just dispute that statement out of hand because problem-solving ability is what has allowed humans to become the dominant animal on Earth.
This scheme would seem to be of most benefit to the rich and successful, or bigger companies, while smaller companies or mid-level authors would be screwed over. especially ones who had a hit late in their career and could stand to profit off of their earlier works but didn't waste the money to keep them in copyright, not having had the money to waste.
The Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF)
I remember complaints about Apple's original design looking like a bagel from some midwestern bagel factory, I thought it was fun that they improved it based on feedback.

The 'watering' down of the pistol was more annoying - if only because it ruined one of my favorite emoji combos: neutral face with pistol pointed at itself. Water pistol doesn't have the same effect.
It wasn't common until the last few years according to sources in other comments here. Since 2016 it has become more common in a variety of brands.
Suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop scandal comes to mind.
There is lower confidence because there have been more issues. 2020 has been a hectic year. Ascribing the lower confidence entirely to the media is not a convincing argument.

Regardless, that’s not really my point. A sizable portion of the population thinks the election was fishy. Saying, “Too bad, you’re dumb and wrong” doesn’t accomplish anything when it comes to reducing polarization.

I genuinely don’t see the problem with a robust investigation that puts the country as ease, and I don’t understand why anyone would be against such a thing.

Not to mention that removing “extremist” voices entirely would have prevented, say, the Civil Rights movement from occurring. At the time it was absolutely not mainstream. A blanket rule against non-mainstream media is clearly a bad idea, but everyone is too short-sighted to understand that.
Isco Security CVRF Repository
Thanks for this post, and I second this Awaken with JP recommendation.
The fact that Haskell is a good industrial strength language is a byproduct of its quest for language design excellence.

Avoid success at all cost, implies an unwillingness to sacrifice on design to please corporate needs.

I don't think it's a "meme", there really is a focus on research over being production ready. Monads, Arrows, Dependent Types - Haskell is where a lot language research happens (and the language chosen by a lot of researchers).

Sure, you can ship Haskell in production if you're happy to fill in the gaps. I did some of that for a non-Haskell company and it wasn't as easy to deploy apps written in other languages and community-provided solutions for logging / monitoring were lacking.

That said, I'm always happy to hear about people using Haskell in production and wish you the best
Comfort, and validating your worldview.
For parsing Bind9 named configuration file, I have built using PyParsing for this. It is 99% completed. MIT license.

Three minor issues left. Two cleanup issues remaining.

https://github.com/egberts/bind9_parser/issues
Typically reviews of drives publish rates at different queue depths, or at least specify the queue depths tested.
Hopefully you intervened on that kid before he starts throwing things off highway overpasses.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/teen-threw-rock-off-highway-overpa...
That’s and opinion piece and I don’t believe she is a staff member, the byline is a clue.

The article ends “ Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) is the director of Project NIA, a grass-roots group that works to end youth incarceration, and an anti-criminalization organizer”.

It’s a good read, thanks.
A thousand times yes. Someone might counter that the Unicode consortium accepts requests for new emoji, and that the paid membership needed for deciding which emojis get accepted is not filtered.

BUT! I haven't seen a mention of which languages the submissions have to use. In fact, the process seems to be only described in English. That puts any culture where English knowledge is limited at a disadvantage. How is that even acceptable in an internationalization organization that influences worldwide standards?

Assuming you know English and want to be a member. To give voice to your culture when it comes to accepting emojis. You need to pay them 75 USD. Okay, that might be hard, but let's assume you managed. You click "join", and... It turns out you need a credit card. Not a local bank account, not even an IBAN account, not an e-peso, not anything that covers the methods of payments the little people use in half the world (there are even places in Europe where credit cards are somewhat expensive for people to have).

This obviously favors cultures where people are:

- rich

- English-speaking

- have easy access to credit cards

My pet theory says that Western sensibilities have led to a persistent lack of an emoji for 𓂸.

So yeah, please let's abandon Unicode emoji and let people decide from the bottom up.
Where can I read this for free? not wanting to cheapskate you, but it's pretty ironic to read a freedom-building post in a non-free medium.
Author here: Sorry for not considering accessibility more. I use solarize everywhere - I’ll look into fixing the low contrast issue. As for whether my approach is correct from an SEO or HTML5 validation perspective - evidently not. But I do value the feedback and will take your comments into consideration when expanding my personal site. It’s still a WIP.
Being a felon or conservative doesn't make you a redneck, and yes I've been there. I'm not surprised to see you only know the term in a pejorative sense.
> This is cool, someone should port this to bash, which also only supports integers.

With a little bitfield support (you could always call out to dc but you can do boolean arithmetic directly in bash) you can simply implement IEEE 754 in bash.
Interesting. Why do they fail with autotools?
I think the standard end to that sentence is "to destroy our democracy."
A toy for speaking with a synthetic personality and generating synthetic audio: https://uberduck.ai/

It's more like 10% baked, but it sort of works. It's much better with GPT-3 but hasn't yet been submitted to OpenAI for approval, so that part is private. My priorities are improving the synthetic voices, adding additional dialog scenarios, and adding multiplayer mode either natively on the site or through bots that can be added to Discord voice channels.
How has Kubernetes being a giant reactive resource API panned out? My first reaction was to like it, but near the end of when I was very invested in the space it started feeling like there were too many moving parts and a hectic mess. Stacks became more difficult to reproduce (controllers, their versions and platform limitations) and people moved too many things into custom resources.

Did the custom resource controllers pan out well?
Hah I came here to say pretty much the same thing! Recently ran into it and coding that workaround on a resource constrained system felt absolutely bonkers.
https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org is an interesting way forward.
The largest source of 'total petroleum' imports to the US is Canada:
"Petroleum imports from Canada increased significantly since the 1990s, and Canada is now the largest single source of U.S. total petroleum and crude oil imports. In 2019, Canada was the source of 49% of U.S. total gross petroleum imports and 56% of gross crude oil imports."

By comparison, Mexico was 7% in 2019, which made it the second large source.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
1) Name is terrible. Sorry.

2) Timezone and localization support has to be spot-on, and right upfront. Might I suggest having the backend only speak UTC and the frontend has a thin layer of JS that turns all UTC into the local browser time in the onload- This design worked for me in a recent app.
Terrace Bagels.
"One person cannot watch more than one person in full concentration, and
can only do so for a comparatively short time before attention begins to
wander. ... Consequently, the system of oppression by two-way television simply will not work."

I find it strange that a widely read author with a known interest in history had apparently never heard of the panopticon. Orwell outright states that the telescreens work on the same principle: "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. ... You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Sorry, matsemann worked in two, so you folks produced the 4 immediate responses. Respect for this community +4.
I believe the appropriate tool to fight this is simple:

verifiable voting

I think literally anyone on this site could invent a more reliable and common-sense approach to voting.

This is all just fallout from a fallible system that has little trust.
>You’d be accused of creating a platform for nazis and pedophiles unless you remove that content. And rightly so.

I don't agree with this at all. You realize 70+ million people are not nazis, right? They're normal people like you or me who's voice just happens to not be amplified by the media/movies.

Platform would ideally provide controls for you to hide things you don't want to see. Hide nazis, hide perverts, hide furries, hide gun nuts, hide whatever you want to hide.

This is the future and what we should be aiming for.
As you ask for simplicity, I think this can be succinctly summed up as a lack of engineering leadership.

I know having completely independent teams is the in thing but there needs to be some high level design and coordination. I'm not even against different teams using different tools but the integration story has to be there from day zero if it's a business requirement.

Ultimately there needs to be an engineer who has both the power and knowledge to coordinate design decisions.
"The common cold" is a loose nebula of hundreds of different, unrelated, virus strains. They're not even all the same TYPE of virus.
He should have stuck to bad guitar solos. Jest sayin'..