skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The election was highly unusual in that it was conducted with a much higher fraction of postal voting (obviously a less secure method

If it was less secure enough to be relevant, we would have heard of cases (or thousands) where voters show up only to have their vote already registered. We haven't. It's still one registered voter - one vote.

> and accompanied by rule changes)

This was the case in many more states, including Texas itself and other disgruntled states. What rule changes do you take issue with and why?

> and highly sketchy in the way that vote counting took so long to complete

That's because states election officials have decided when you can start counting votes. In some states when they come in, in others not before election day. Not allowing early counting has generally been a GOP decision, if that's relevant.

> and even paused unexpectedly in the key swing states at a point where it looked like the outcome would be different.

That's because each county in the country counts independently, and have wildly uneven demographics (thanks gerrymandering...)

> These things alone ensure that outcome would be hotly disputed.

Only for people not bothered with facts.
I agree with the "copying and pasting with poorly-behaved sites", but that's it. And that is mainly the fault of those poorly-behaved sites and/or applications.

I use Bitwarden in Firefox and Android and I experience very little trouble with it.
Based on the fact that more people are going remote, this is a bit concerning for me. It would be awesome to have a place online where you can make friends based on different hobbies / profession.
I really like my Xiaomi Mi 3G. Cheap, has both 802.11ac and 1Gbps ports, runs OpenWRT. The only issue I have with it is no AES support on the CPU. My VPN speed is effectively limited by one of its cores running at 100% decoding OpenVPN traffic.
Article discusses technicalities around After First Unlock (AFU) state of the phone etc. . I would expected a mentioning of https://xkcd.com/538/ instead.
> one’s complement addition

That's going to catch some people off guard, especially on a 16 bit system where it's so easy to overflow.
I'd agree with you on that too. The article says 7 more hours a week is a workaholic though and based on my experience with friends and family - they too make no distinction on whether you enjoy it or not. Even if you tell them, they don't have that experience to understand.

Kind of funny though. Nobody tells an athlete they "train too much". Or a researcher that they "research too much".
Yeah all white. No Asians.
> non-laptop mobile CPUs. I assume they have pretty much almost all always been ARM.

All kinds of things over the years. For example, Qualcomm's Snapdragon line.

And Intel was definitely pushing to get into mobile at one point. They made a big deal about processor compatibility from mobile up through the server. I still remember at one IDF, they made a big deal about how you wanted to run Intel for mobile (this was pre-iPhone) so that Flash would run the same everywhere.

I agree that it's hard to make predictions more than a few years out and certainly x86 has a lot of inertia. On the other hand, there's a lot more abstraction than there used to be and we know there's going to be a lot heterogeneity anyway (GPU, DPU, TPU, FPGA, SIMD instructions, etc.) given the slowing down of CMOS process scaling. So I don't think it's too big a stretch to imagine that we'll see a more varied processor landscape. (I expect ARM to gain share although I don't expect it to dominate on servers--though I have colleagues who do expect that to happen.)
> I can no longer invest the time to hack macOS sufficiently to permit me to ensure that no unauthorized traffic is leaving it.

> This means none of my iPads or iPhones have SIMs in them any longer

If you use Apple products for personal use: you sound like a masochist.

If you are forced to use them professionally: I'm sorry for you.
A Woman as “Work-Machine”: Gender and Anticommunism in Postwar Germany
I've been in situations where I was under a lot of stress and had trouble concentrating and being effective at work. Especially learning.

I'm very jealous of those who are not less, but more performant under those conditions.
Energy cost and thermal cooling place restrictions on the computations. C++, with all it flaws, stays in use because it does give control over performance trade-offs.
As someone with a WRT3200ACM, what's the advantage of OpenWRT over the preinstalled FW? (honest question) A quick search indicated better security (which I don't know how to assess), and I was wondering if there was any functional/feature advantages you have seen.
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LTE is popular radio interface these days, but with much simpler kit there was WiFi based 2km range cells back in 2008 in public research - main point of research was related to managing low power usage of what were essentially air dropped weather sensors.
Probably because they can ensure their software works properly. I recently dug out an old Asus RT-N16 and the latest Tomato firmwares are all completely broken. WAN DHCP doesn't work. Took me a couple of hours to figure out. Turns out it was broken a year or two ago and nobody has noticed (it's a pretty old router; I doubt anyone still uses it). The official firmware worked fine.

The point is the manufacturers have a much higher incentive to ensure everything works than open source developers.

The ASUS firmware at least seems to support way more features than Tomato did, at least without resorting to the command line. E.g. my ISP requires the VLAN ID to be set. I doubt open source router GUIs have a nice option for that.
Asus’ 2021 laptop line includes new dual-screen ZenBooks
That's more of a compelling argument for anti-trust than it is for anything else.

Giving the government the power to force businesses to do business with parties against their will based on politics is pretty scary to me. I'd rather see companies like Uber broken up so that consumers have a lot more choice than see the government given even more power over our lives.
My dearest Jason, please just stop wasting time on the closed crApple platforms with all the censorship these days. Your talents can be put to better use. If crApple users want to use wireguard, they can switch to linux or windows. In fact, this will benefit all of us.
One man's crippling workaholism is another man's dream life. To one it could be an escape or avoidance of their true self and to another it could be the most rewarding work of all. That is to say, I do not think immersing yourself in your work and working crazy long hours is inherently a bad thing. You can certainly thrive on that energy with the right balance.
I’ve been using Mullvad since the past few years and I’ve no complaints. The fact that the recent Mozilla VPN is based on Mullvad makes me more confident in my decision.
Chinese Covid-19 Tests Were Pushed by Federal Agencies Despite Security Warnings
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789720

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798045
It's absolutely relevant. The need for those investors to even have an exit is what set them on the course to IPO. Today's situation is a direct result of investors herding them in this direction.
https://archive.vn/N3MB7
here
https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/jk-a...

not allowed to use VPNs because national security issues.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/india-launches-fresh-c...

"social media muisuse"

i remember last year this word was so much used, "misuse" which translates to criticizing the ruiling dictator government. it still is,

https://thenextweb.com/in/2020/01/08/kashmirs-police-want-pe...

here. a whatsapp group needs to be "registered" with police.

and lastly more recently,
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/06/kashmir-social-media-pol...

this is a reason why i never signed up for whatsapp, havent joined signal, don't tweet or post on facebook. Why? because PII

the danger is real and i am living it. people better realize it
What about BSD? They tend to be less fragmented than Linux. The only showstopper for me with BSD is the lack of docker, but if you are happy not using docker or using jails instead BSD can be a good experience.
I recommend buying the WRT1200AC used on Ebay. They usually sell for $30-50 USD + shipping.
It works both ways. I'm not addressing the Signal project in particular, but maintainers of free software projects need to be polite and professional (in words and deeds) as well. Users who take the time to investigate bugs and get involved in fixing them don't have "infinite resources to pour down the drain" either. Maintainers presumably derive some value, even if not monetary, from their involvement in these projects. Having more users than they can handle is a problem that comes with the territory of a popular project--and needs a solution just like the more technical ones. (I translate the term "toxic users" as modern-speak for "people who aren't exactly aligned with me".) I often contribute to alpha status free software, so I don't always gain reciprocal benefit--but I do like to help others. How many times have you seen an open issue or pull request on a project that isn't addressed at all after years? Often, in my experience.

Last year, I was working on my free software project, and I heard repeated blasts of a car horn from my driveway. I have advanced arthritis, so it took me a while to get up and go to the door--I wasn't expecting anybody. The car drove off before I could get to the door. The next day the same car was in front of my mailbox. The door of the mail box was drooping down. The car stopped on the side of the road, so I had enough time to hobble out and approach it. It was pouring rain--I had my shirt up over my head to keep the water off. I found out it was my new neighbor. She was doing improvements on her home and needed my signature on an HOA document. She said, "I'm disabled, and I need a favor. Also, I broke your mail box putting the document in it." I said, "I'm disabled too". She laughed, "Oh, I see."

The moral of the story being, Signal, be glad you don't have to deal with people who want something from you IRL. :)
Yes, and for that kind of money Ehrlich Bachman would take 5% to let you crash at his place while you figured out how to crack the password.
A menstrual cycle company named Flo. App-tly named (excuse the pun).
I am happyu to see this crowd calling webflow for what it is, a WYSIWYG editor, I'm a non technical but tech savvy person and I've built simple sites (some with basic "app" like functionalities) in the past using Squarespace, Wix, Wordpress, and my current favorite: Tilda. Only in the past 18 months has everyone starting to call Webflow "no-code" and I felt like I must have been missing something.

Thunkable, Adalo, Bubble, those are no-code tools
Webflow, Carrd (which I like but is also touted as no-code platform when it's basically a landing page builder) and in different categories Notion or Airtable... they're great tools but it feels misleading to call these "no code platforms"
I think "and that's it" would be the weird part. Maybe it's just because I watched Contact, but I would expect the basic demonstration of intelligence/etc to precede a more interesting message. The basic math and science transmission could be used as a Rosetta stone of sorts, to bootstrap that more interesting message. Otherwise what's the point? Maybe the aliens just want somebody else to know they existed I suppose.
>Why would maintaining the integrity of union be an issue in the first place?

That’s exactly the question I’m getting at. At a high level, the question of what events led up to the war is different from why the north and south chose to go to war.

I think it is an interesting question that usually gets glossed over by focusing on the motivations of the south. For the north, I think it was some combination of manifest destiny, national pride, and economic incentives. Perhaps they did not want to compete with a rival for North American territory and have a reduced capacity for international defense/power projection. You can ask why any government go to war to stop separatist movements, or incorporate new territories, and the answers may be different in each case. For example, the reasons Spain does not want an independent Catalonia are different than why China opposes an independent Taiwan.

>Who would want to secede, and why?

The south and slavery, for the sake of simplicity.
Possibly less overkill, I have a Garmin Vivosmart that has the same inactivity feature.
Assuming a functioning market, if every single business bans a group from paying them money, doesn't this imply that that group is simply noxious and the free market has spoken?
> The way I've been presenting it to people is that Telegram can look at more data than WhatsApp can. But WhatsApp will use the data they have more than Telegram will. That's the tradeoff.

I think you should look at the odds of that "can" turning into a "will" over time. After an acquisition, or a change in business fortunes, or a change in leadership...
> A Kardashev 2 civilization could play perfect chess.

Assuming they would want to waste part of a planet's worth of computing resources to play perfect chess. In any case, it's far beyond anything we can compute.
I agree with some of these.

I don't think lobbying should be completely banned. Maybe just restricted to organizations funded by individuals with contribution caps. I think concerned citizens should be allowed to organize a group to represent themselves as a unified voice.

I agree with removing parties in their current form. I'm not sure banning them entirely will be a fix, but I also don't know what would.

I'm not sure how we address disproportionate voting while preserving rural faith in the system. The issues are mostly split in an urban vs rural fashion. The Senate provides assurances to each state that the state's interests will be equally heard.
I've been a customer of theirs for two years and don't have any complaints in regards to reliability. As far as performance goes I can't give any details, I don't tax the virtual servers I am using enough to judge that.

Oh, I use their Nuremberg location.
If the developer doesn't notice the performance issues, maybe they move on to the next thing more quickly and get more done overall?

I'm not sure if that's the case, but it may be we aren't looking for utility in the right places.
Has anyone made a website to aggregate and disseminate them? It could be a business opportunity.
First job should be to acquire Jim Keller’s new startup and get him back
Go Is the New Java
If something like that happens it will have far reaching consequences IMO. I'm not pro blockchain.. but the energy cost is important and it goes away significantly people will just pile 10x harder on it.
The only thing of concern is their treatment of 50+ year old employees. Everything else seems in line with how I understand Chinese companies to behave towards their employees.
Gary Bernhardt's presentation on the "history" of Javascript from 1995 to 2035 is hilarious and seems like something you'd enjoy: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

It takes things way beyond simply "emulating Javascript in Javascript", yet is presented so well that you barely notice the transition from current (2014) reality to a comically absurd future.
The important distinction, for me, is the self-awareness to truly chose to work more and understand what you're giving up in the process.

I spent a long time being sucked into overworking primarily because I wanted to avoid some aspect of my life without realizing it. I compromised relationships, stopped hobbies that made me relaxed and happy--again without realizing it.

It's scary how life can just pass by while you're in a state like that.

But as long as you're aware of what you're doing, why you're doing it, and the "life debt" you're taking on--rock and roll. Pouring yourself into creating something really is an incredible thing.
There's no need to trust them. You assume they log everything that your device sends them, as well as the time, IP address, etc. and infer all they can from it. Then you act accordingly. You can apply similar conservative assumptions to your device and the programs it runs, but for practical purposes you may want to relax them somewhat.
Yes it is illegal to block someone from a coffee shop based on their race.

When we say "Black Church" in America, we don't mean a church for Blacks only, we mean churches that historically arose because other races would not allow Blacks in their congregation (be it illegal to discriminate or not). There is no connotation that a "Black Church" wants to exclude other races.
Generally they do. When you bought your stock, they must have come with a document outlining what are your rights within that company. Best try to find it and see what it says.

In practice, some comply to the rules and some others don't.
This is a red herring. Since 2011 iPhones signed in to iCloud (on by default) back up almost all data on the phone to Apple without end-to-end encryption, making all of the data available to Apple at any time without the user or phone.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

They don't need to backdoor the phone, the backups are encrypted to Apple. They divulged user data to the US at least 30,000 times without a warrant/probable cause in 2019 per their own transparency report.

The handset security is mostly irrelevant now that we have cloud-based software encryption backdoors in the form of non-e2e "unencrypted" backups.
> Smartphones by their nature are insecure and should not be trusted with important data.

This is false. Like any other computer, they can be configured with more secure or less/in-secure software.
I used Webflow extensively for a startup a few years ago where I did front-end development and a few non-technical people were trying to write out content pages (e.g. FAQ, features, etc.).

Honestly the whole experience was very underwhelming, but it might have been the team, not the product. Because there weren't components, it was hard to keep a consistent styling. And because the non-technical people didn't have a design sense, I ended up having to "clean" their work, then translate to CSS manually. I guess it was neat to try to explore example ideas, but a lot of those weren't translatable into "responsive" web pages (do people still do that anymore?).
I actually share you're hesitancies but to play devil's advocate could these more fine-grained mediations lead to better policies in scenario's where those in control work for the greater good? Things that come to mind are reasonable speed restrictions on a driver caught going 50mph over the limit rather than an outright revoke of license or auto-detection of dangerous driving behaviors that could be punished with micro-fines. Maybe some would see those as a dystopia but it seems like you could utilize these to improve driving behavior as a society and decrease the need for overly harsh punishment.
Apple is state funded, they pay close to no tax and they get ton of contracts from governments, just like Tesla, it is alive thanks to funding from the US government

Similar stuff with China!
I'm curious about how the Landauer limit relates to Bremermann's Limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit

Admittedely, I haven't done much reading, but I see it is a linked page from Bremermann's Limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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Hi there awesome community!

I always struggled with podcast exploration, there are lots of good podcasts out there, but also lots of garbage podcasts.

Sure, you can always listen to all of them and then create your own curated list of podcasts.

But what if there were more people doing this?

Well, that's what we plan to find out!
Materialism has its flaws yet has more physical evidence than any form of mysticism.
Funding is about $30,000 a year: https://opencollective.com/svelte#category-BUDGET
Thank you! I've sent you an email.
I came across dflex on GH some time ago, looking for dnd Dom manip related tools. Small world
I see this popping up now and then. Is this project still alive and well?
For me bitcoin fixed my misunderstanding of fiat currency. The "bug" in fiat currency (inflation) is actually a feature.

I never understood the destructive nature of deflation but I do now thanks to bitcoin.

In any case, the result is bitcoin is not a currency. It's a commodity, as this article explains.
The main concerns are: lack of federation, the persistent phone number disclosure requirement, and its absence on F-Droid, and its hostility to forks.
Noah Smith and the Market for Cruelty
That's the point. They don't.
This exists to a degree. Bills are required to be posted for the public and then you contact your representatives about it. Regulations of agencies can also be open to public comment periods, like the ATF frequently does (the most recent one about AR pistols shows how effective those comments can be).
Agreed. Just pointing out what information they have access to if they wanted to start logging as much as they could.
Compare the old IOKit docs and current DriverKit, ahem,"docs".
Sure, people should at least use the more modern acronym UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), which is less descriptive and broader in scope than UFO.
I'm sure a lot of developers upgrade their PCs (they were called workstations at a time) because of material problems - keyboards getting mechanically worse, and laptops can't easily get keyboard fixed, screens getting dead pixels, sockets getting loose, hard-to-find batteries getting less charge, and maybe some electronics degradation.

Another reason is upgrades to software, which maintain general bloat, and which is hard to control; new hardware is easier. That's however is very noticeable.

On top of that, just "better" hardware - say, in a decade one can have significantly better screen, more cores and memory, faster storage; makes easier for large software tasks (video transcoding, big rebuilds of whole toolchains and apps, compute-hungry apps like ML...)
Maybe only if you constantly update "FAANG" such that every tech company who actually succeeds in creating a competitive or impactful product just gets their letter added to "FAANG," and all the companies that fail to make a huge impact automatically get considered "only features." We already see that a lot. Some people wedge Microsoft into the acronym and/or leave out other letters. And Netflix's product on the face of it is certainly what we would consider a feature for most big software companies (and indeed many of them have a competing streaming service). If, for instance, Netflix significantly declines in popularity in the next few years, we might just drop it from "FAANG," and someone might still say "When you are against GAFAM every product is just a feature."
> They could also push an update to the OS that recognizes the Signal apk and applies a patch after downloading but before installing.

Ah, right, there's also that.
Not quite. Apple has done a very aggressive marketing campaign to encourage us to perceive them as privacy-forward.

They've also done an admirable job marketing the specifics of what they do. What's left is all the places where they don't respect the privacy of their users because there's limited marketing value. They don't claim E2E on many services because they don't have it, and adding it wouldn't help marketing. My guess is some Tier 1 support person can drop in and take a look at the GPS pings from your phone.

But don't take my word for it. The Atlantic is far more reputable: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apple...