skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrying out voter fraud is pointless unless you can do it without being detected. If you flood one precinct with enough votes to swing an entire election it becomes very obvious that something fishy went on there.

The only way to rig the election with voter fraud and get away with it is exactly the same - by spreading your fraudulent votes thinly so that no one area is too suspicious.
Does that actually follow?

If you run an organisation and recruit people who think on a certain way, train them in a way that makes them more likely to think that way, and promote the ones that think that way, wouldn't the organisation stay pretty similar even as actual humans join and leave?

Lots of organisations (political parties, religions, whole classes of people) have remained largely the same for very long periods this way.

Im not saying the FBI is the same today as it was 50 years ago. I'm just saying institutional memory is a thing (as is institutional racism...).
In a world where we cannot censor an idea, then there is _no_ difference between a good and a bad idea, the very act of making a value judgment if an idea is good or bad is inherently an act of censorship.

Given that, there's clearly an amount of acceptable censorship that is higher than 0.
I don't understand the section about minting tethers. Couldn't Tether Ltd choose to mint in round numbers legitimately? If they aren't continuously creating and destroying individual tethers then the minting process could be in round numbers but only released to the wild in a controlled manner. The Bahama bank evidence is a lot more compelling.
Did the NY court order have a typo in the extension being to January of last year?
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Utterly Beautiful Minimalist Geometric Shapes by Tilman
Wow. Amazing work. What is this written in? Would love to check out the code.
Check the main answer on that link. It starts with:

> As animated television goes, anime is actually made on the cheap.
FWIW, it only has to be ugly and imposing from the air. I'd much prefer something on my roof for this that delivers the packages directly inside. Makes it easier for the drones, prevents porch pirates, etc.

Basically I want the drones to drop my stuff down a chimney like Santa Claus.
I don't have any up-to-date machine here. All my PCs and Macs are rather old. So I can't say, really
The top voted reply states: "So anime are not really that expensive to make, in terms of the usual cost of producing a professional level half-hour animated television show with top talent."

Regardless, outside of videogames autogenerated content turns me off (and sometimes even in videogames, you can tell if something was handcrafted or autogenerated). If the way to make animé "survive" means removing meaningful human authorial input, then maybe it's best if it dies?

Well respected sci-fi authors of all times have seen this scenario as a dystopia. I remember one short story -- was it by PKD -- where an author inputs a novel "high concept" into a computer, a second later says "wait, I have a minor correction" and the computer replies "too late, I've already written the novel and its sequels based on your concept, it's already being distributed".

Surely the answer to "this requires top talent and human artistry, and this stuff costs money" cannot be "replace them all with Machine Learning", can it?
that's because Moderna is the brand, this is their first product and they plan to launch other vaccines under that brand

they'll probably conform to the drugs themselves having brand names eventually like the rest of the industry
Got it. I think thats going to be a hard sell though especially as the population trajectory favors urban areas regardless of the past.
It's such a shame that this guy pretends to be somewhat related to open source values when he is in fact undermining the whole foundational base of the concept.

Moral and ethical use is always only one the one of who is speaking. Look at all this countries that have strong censorship and internet firewall because they don't want their population to be 'corrupted' by immoral subversive ideas...

Regarding the past attempts of this guy, I'm quite sure it just a moron desperate for anything that can bring him fame...
I am reading it right that they were awarded only 100$?
You're missing the point that people are trying to make here.

Yes, it's possible to convert Markdown to a Word file, with a variety of tools. You can use Pandoc to do this if you are the sort of person who is comfortable using tools like Pandoc. I can do that, along with all sorts of other things, because I am that sort of nerd.

However, most fiction writers and editors are not that sort of nerd. Most people don't want to use Markdown in the first place. Of the people who do want to use Markdown, not all of them are that sort of nerd, either. They want an "Export to > DOCX" command in their editor, not "save the Markdown file, open your terminal app, change to your documents directory, and type "pandoc -o my-novel.docx my-novel.md". (And that's assuming they're not doing something like, well, what NovelWriter does, saving individual chapters and perhaps even individual scenes as independent files.)

Look, I love Pandoc. It's great. But it's not a tool for everyone. If someone is trying to embrace the plain text lifestyle with a tool like NovelWriter but pointing out not being able to export to a Word file is a problem for them, asking "are you comfortable with Unix command line tools" and then telling them about Pandoc if they say yes might be a great idea -- but starting out with "obviously you hate the Unix way", maybe not so much.

> you can even convert it to WordStar....magic eh? Pandoc can do that.

No, in fact it cannot. :)
Because their labor matters too. But the thing is that their labor, which is extremely essential to the operation of the country (and the country would fail without their labor), requires more land than hands (especially as we've drastically introduced automation into their labor). We need food and natural resources, arguably more than we need investment bankers and programmers (not that we don't need these things, but one is essential to being able to breathe). The idea is to create a system that can fairly represent those laborers too.
I'm sure it's hurting CCP right now. Being closed off from the rest of the world does have its consequences.

It probably just doesn't hurt CCP enough to matter in the short term. It'll probably take closer to half a century before we can truly understand if the cumulative effects of the pain will amount to anything significant.
Fantastic write up on the supply chain which is the overlooked challenge to these vaccines. I'll need to reread it (and again). Also good are the "In the pipeline" blog posts by Derek Lowe in Sciencemag about vaccine development: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/
Works fine for me in Firefox Nightly as long as I enable WebGL - with WebGL disabled it gives that same error message.
I'm not going to watch a half hour long talk without a summary but zcash has never had more than 1000 transactions in a day, Monero regularly has 30k+ day. Those dismal numbers from zcash make it very easy to trace transactions.
> If the president is elected by popular vote, then significant amounts of voting fraud in any one state becomes a national issue. So does significant amounts of voter suppression.

If the President is elected by the Electoral College and the parties aligned to near electoral parity, then it often doesn't even take significant fraud or suppression to swing the national election, as long as you target easily-identifiable swing states.
Incidentally, the fact that it is OK to use Apache-2 licensed components inside projects licensed as SSPL is probably a net negative for free software moving forward as there will be more of these companies which do this in the future. It doesn't end with Elastic.
> There will always be a way to find these "name reset" folks

No problem, you just need simultaneously to change your name, your address, your bank account and credit card, your friends, your hobbies, and your biometric properties. Of course, also buy a new computer with different hardware, and install different applications.

Then hope you didn't forget anything, otherwise you need to do the whole thing again.
(1a) Wait for the target subreddit to get big enough so that the quality drops like a rock and gets filled with barely related content from astroturfers and karma farmers.

Jokes aside, it's such a shame to see subreddits explode in popularity and then get filled with low quality content that moderators don't even care to curate.
Even so, eliminating the college makes it easier. We need defense in depth to maintain rule of the people.
> focus on insulting these people instead of hearing how society has failed them

Look, I'm just a guy, with no fancy credentials or research to back this up, but the more I read, the more I try to understand this crowd, the more I talk with other people about this crowd, the more I believe these people are making choices. That is to say, there are plenty of educated and monied people running amok here. To believe that this is a crowd of impoverished, under/un-employed people with limited economic means that society has failed is in fact allowing them to behave recklessly and grow their audience. Nope. A lot of these folks know what they are doing or are allowing themselves to give in to their worst selves. That's not being failed, that's making choices.
Its basically trying to game the system. The idea is that as swings occur in swing states they get locked into a popular vote if I had to guess. Probably what will happen is every time congress is controlled by republicans they will invalidate the pact which triggers a reset.
I thought about it too but when you consider cost of running headless Puppeteer (lets say on AWS) and the cost of a good proxy that is charged per GB its often as expensive (if not more) as some of these SaaS-es. This is the case especially for websites with some heavyweight JS/CSS/img assets.
Nabis (YC W19) hiring software engineers (PST ± 3h) to ship $1B of cannabis
You understand correctly, and therefore must be downvoted, since we are incapable of actually responding to you.
AirPods Max teardown makes Sony and Bose headphones look ‘like toys’
Bike24? I sometimes order stuff over there.

And they have that Focus ebike:

https://www.bike24.com/p2348495.html
The "deformed-ness" isn't because of the ML, anime/manga girls drawn by humans are already deformed enough (just looks at those huge eyes, if they were real you probably couldn't fit a brain in that head) - the difference is that human artists have the sensitivity required to keep their drawings from looking too weird, while the AI drives straight over the edge of the uncanny valley (or rather, creepy canyon)...
> You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

Well, if we've already payed for it...

Jokes aside, every time I start feeling vaguely guilty about pirating something (which I only do from large corps, not indies) something like this pops up.
A better way would be to start excluding MPA and their behaviour in our open source licenses.
I recently summarized Grin's focus on simplicity in this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/comments/kyhgcv/ar...
There are no official agreements since neither US nor any major European countries recognize Taiwan/ROC but US has declared multiple times that they would defend Taiwan (see ‘ Taiwan Relations Act’ & Six Assurances’)
I wouldn't consider codes a save. They often loss state.

Basically just an encoding of "start at level X with Y lives". Maybe not even lives.

There were only 54 NES releases with actual, battery based saves, out of 716 officially released and licensed titles (and heaven knows how many bootlegs).

So, "most" is an overbid.
It's Good Jobs, Stupid
It’s interesting how Reddit‘s failure to effectively monetize and cut their most important users in on the action, the way YouTube and Twitch have done, seems to have led to a grey market. This hurts Reddit (obviously, since they’re cut out of the market) but it also hurts users due to a lack of transparency. This exposes users to all kinds of astroturfing, shilling, and other misinformation.

In a way, it’s quite similar to the issue of Amazon product reviews. Amazon tried to push off a core cost centre from their business onto the backs of volunteers. Now the system is totally corrupted by manufacturers and their paid shills.
Agreed! I've been paying attention to constraint/logic programming (CLP) recently, but I haven't found the right thing yet / haven't invested enough time into it to find the right thing. In my very-layman opinion, CLP-based systems need three things to properly take off: 1. some kind of 'type system'-like thing that enables robust symbolic reasoning over pure relations in any mode, 2. a critical mass of defined layers that is 'deep enough' to reach the hardware, 3. a way to express verified alternatives and preference in the order they are applied.
Yeah for sure. Previously, we relied on the the Serverless Framework CLI output. But now we directly monitor the CloudFormation events to figure out the root cause of the failure, then decide if we should retry the deployment, and how long to wait to retry.
The good 'ol Michael Burry pump and dump
I don't know anything about this story so cannot comment about them packaging proprietary features. But here's my thought about the trademarks claims from Elastic. The only info I have is the blog post they shared.

Elasticsearch is a name of an open source project. Why is calling something "Amazon Elasticsearch Service" a trademark issue? It's not Amazon's fault they called their company after the name of an open source software (the OSS came first btw). Also, IMHO calling it "Amazon Elasticsearch Service" is fair since it represents exactly what it is. Would it better if they instead took the code, made some closed modifications and then released a service around it with a new name? My thought is no.
Which criticisms? I've just started using it after Firefox's blog post
>He is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party

I'd consider this debatable. He isn't even a member of the Democratic Party, he just caucuses with them.
> Given how strong the heroin high is and how quickly and strongly physical addiction is, I would not be so sure about that.

Have taken the drug and seen countless addicts, I can be sure on that.

> Portugal has not, in fact, legalised any previously illegal drug, or even fully decriminalized it. Not even cannabis.

OK, but they did make it a health matter instead of criminal matter. The fact the power is no longer in the criminal justice system means it's decriminalised.
It’s a memory hog on all OSes, but even worse on mac. and on my 2017MBP, cpu usage goes up quite a bit too.

Firefox is also pretty bad on my mbp though.
At least they're getting the vaccine, so ideally any contagion should have an quicker immune response.

It's not pretty, but man, The Economy thanks you.
I also think US (ex)urban planning has a lot to do with it as well. It's influenced by/influences the extra hauling capacity of the over-large median US household vehicle(s), the extra square feet of available/dedicated storage space inside homes, etc.

I have friends that "need" big SUVs if only for their Costco/Sam's Club trips. Whose homes by square foot would be palatial mansions and palaces to royalty of many previous generations, but are cookie-cutter one of hundreds in over-vast neighborhoods full of them, with rooms dedicated to bulk goods storage. It's a fascinating world.
The license does not deny others the right to build on the software. The license is a fork of the AGPL and adds a clause that requires you to open source not only software, but supporting software that is used to run the service. One could argue that this license would result in more publicly available software, not less.

Here is the clause for reference:

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Software or modified version.
why not? Private repositories, probably not, but open source libs/gems definitely.
Same. Along with .vimrc and .tmux.conf
> "All of the things that work, however, are damaged by how lukewarm and _slow_ the overall experience is."

Oh pssht, humans can't notice a response time of less than 2 seconds. Plus performance doesn't matter at all because you can add it later if you need it, which you don't. Anyway, you can't say it's slow until you've measured it and you can't complain until you have a fix. Besides, it's more important that the code is readable because it will be read much more often than it will be written. And furthermore, if you re-run the same thing a few times to warm the JIT up, discount startup time, ignore input and output time and network lag because they are external to the system and only measure the core function runtime, you'll find it's ackshually really fast (if you buy new hardware which is ifine because +$2000 computer spend is cheaper than developer time). And does a few seconds really matter, what were you going to do with that 10 seconds of response time, read a book or something? Slow? What do you mean "slow", launch time, hover response, switching response, time to finish redrawing a page? There's many things happening and you can't complain unless you narrow down exactly which specific sub-millisecond behaviour is taking too long for you - none of them? thought not.

Stop questioning the dogma, hush.
I don't think the CCP cares about an obscure American social network. They know they have a dependency on American software & software distribution mechanisms, & have known far longer than Parler has been around.
> Moderators should really only have the power to remove illegal stuff or have clear rules linked for each removal or ban.

Imagine HN without moderation other than the removal of illegal stuff. You have no idea how hard mods work to keep subreddits on topic and non-toxic.

> Its almost like people forgot their was a an upvote and downvote button. The mods really have no reason removing posts, outside of clear violating posts that may break laws, since the users can choose what they want to see with the upvote and downvote button.

70M US citizens voted for Donald Trump. You cannot trust anonymous users to keep a subreddit a decent place.
This is why you run your environment on Linux and MacOS in Docker, so you don't have these screwy deployment issues caused by MacOs vs Linux issues.
I see,
I’ll definitely look into ryzen laptop
It is not the land voting, but political municipalities which are tied by common culture and people. I think it makes sense to try and give smaller municipalities equal footing with larger municipalities. E.g. in the global scheme we think it is a bad thing when super powers stomp all over the little guy. Same thinking applies internally. Each state is sort of like a mini country.

In general our country seems to try and prevent a tyranny of the majority, which is one of the historical flaws of pure democracy. E.g. see kulaks in USSR, jews in Nazi germany, other minority groups in the US etc.
I think if you paid better attention you'd noticed I used the self proclaimed qualifier for a reason. I have no interesting in playing the true scotsman game.
Which blog post?
Terence Tao wrote a great obituary for Conway last year:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/

"Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP" also does obituaries of mathematicians quite often, and goes more into detail on their work.

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/john-horton-conway...
Just call it what it is: malware
It’s not ethical to use the term OSS for this. It’s far from right and ethical..
I think the term "more open" is a bit too vague in this discussion. Sometimes people use it to refer to permissiveness (e.g. BSD) and sometimes people use it to refer to stimulating further open source work (e.g. GPL).

(And if we're following the "definitions" then ElasticSearch is no longer "open source" since that has a strict definition, but it's probably not so relevant in this discussion.)

I also don't really object to their license choice at all; what I object to is how they're framing the discussion. This license change is all about business: They want to be able to sell their cloud service without competition. That's perfectly okay, but there's no need to hide this. And certainly no need to "shame" Amazon for building a business on top of something Elastic open sourced.

> Have I misunderstood and their new license somehow reduces the openness of their source code to the world?

I think their new license just shows that it's all about business. If they really wanted an open source license which stimulates anyone to share improvements to ElasticSearch they could have picked GPL. As of now, any big company (Facebook, Google, etc) can create an improved internal fork of ElasticSearch which none of the community will ever be able to take advantage of. And why are they fine with Facebook/Google doing this? Because it won't jeopardize Elastic's cloud offering.

In addition, their new license also makes it harder for other people to build businesses on top of ElasticSearch. Imagine that I invest a ton of time and effort into creating a new management layer which is capable of scaling ElasticSearch drastically better. Something completely novel which looks at current trends of traffic and automatically moves shards around. Non-trivial stuff. Well, sorry, there's no way of building a business on top of this idea.
The ‘Camp Auschwitz’ hoody and the “6MWE” (6 million Jews wasn’t enough) not enough of a signpost for you?
> Watch some porn on xvideos.com and lose all hope in humanity.

There's a difference between sexism and sexualization in entertainment. Say one could enjoy some kinky porn and at the same time not treat all women as objects in day to day life. The same way you could enjoy a violent movie and not go on a killing spree afterwards.

There's clearly a demand for this kind of stuff and I don't see any point in trying to shame it out of view - it won't change the fact that people enjoy it (they'll just enjoy it in secret).

_edit_

Not sure why op deleted the above comment, he did have some valid (altho a bit dramatic) points. Looking back the line that I quoted might have been sarcasm.