skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are unnecessary. In every case, a simple human made record on physical media beats them in trust and overall cost and risk.

Electronic records are not trustworthy, unless they are personally identifiable. Elections are different from pretty much every other case due to both anonymity and freedom for voters to vote or not.

The most common correction?

Printed, human readable vote records!

Optical scan is nice! Human records counted on these can be audited and or hauled into court for a full count, under the public eye, if need be.

Elections for profit really do not make any sense.

Trustworthy civics are best done by people, using simple, production proven, time tested means.

Policy is too important and the incentives to corrupt the process too high otherwise.

Bonus!

Simple human means scale. We always have enough people to get a reasonable outcome. At any given time, the elderly, and others not having full time work, or even those with work fkex time freedom are available to run the election.

Could even compensate them and get through elections cheaper and with more trust than we can with increasingly complex devices.

Friends don't suggest electronic voting to friends.

I love tech, but for this use case, it is simply not a match.
Yeesh. I should've said that it was tried in the US and didn't catch on. Not having a tipping culture to begin with is great, but the hard part is to switch from tipping to not tipping without legislating it.
But the reciever won't be be > 10,000km away in the configuration I mentioned. 4 to 5 'hops', remember?

edit: arrgh, forget it... one beam, reflected multiple times until 'end of the line', got it...(sigh)
That's fair! Keep up the great work :)
I really don't think you can say definitely that oatmeal is a better breakfast for a growing child than bacon. Oatmeal is tons of empty carbs that will be burned fast, cause an acute insulin response, and ultimately provide less critical protein to a growing child.
This study is a meta-analysis, so it works off of published research and does no original experiments of its own. By its nature, it incorporates systemic bias of earlier published studies. Often times, this kind of analysis leads to opposing biases being diluted or canceling out, but given widespread industry funding of this topic in particular, I'm not super optimistic about impartiality here.
Yes, thank you, these people are actually a bigger issue than panhandlers in my experience (though panhandlers are much more common in my area and they slipped my mind)
I wanted to see what the differences between asdf and nix were, and found a pretty lengthy article[1] that explained it quite well in the first few paragraphs. asdf is better than nothing, and better than multiple version managers for each language in one project, but it is a far cry from the portability and reliability of nix.

If you wanna do something quickly to ease the pain of version management, asdf is there, helpful, and ergonomic. But if you want to make version management an issue of the past and fix it for good, nix is the way to go.

So they both have their use. nix just feels more proper.
Could well be. Many people are saddened by the whole idea of a for-profit healthcare system ... regardless of the politics ... and I'm among them. Health is a Human Right.

As for the predatory equity firms that control many of them, I'd be delighted to see them thrown out of the US ... after their owners serve serious jail-time.

Edit: While we're at it, how about 1 year of jail time for every US citizen who has died of opioids made by US pharmas. They can divide that time up however their employees decide is fair.
>If big companies face no consequences, then our society will fall apart.

It currently is and I don't see any sign of it stopping. The foundation was laid in the 80s, the roof fell in on January 6th, and the Democrats don't have enough of a spine to actually fix the problem because Republicans keep calling them mean names.
What do you do -now- about the ambitious people who live beyond their salaried means and end up being unable to pay the rent?
I had the HoloLens first edition for a good few days in the past. It was cool to be able to work, and put a second monitor on the wall behind my workstation. The games were also cool, generating levels around my apartment. The only downsides that really stick out to me (this was a few years ago) was the low resolution, and the heft.

Apple seems to place this as a mix between a HoloLens and a VR headset. They have the silicon to integrate the processing into the headset (like an oculus). I’m curious where it will go. I currently enjoy my Index, with my main wish for it to be wireless!

Two 8k pixels is a ton of data. I’m not to optimistic everything will be running at that resolution. I wonder if they have some fancy upscale tech (like DLSS)? Or if the idea is to do video passthrough?
Ask HN: iOS App Installed by Malware?
Ok, this was weird. Wife got email about her Apple ID password being reset at 18:07 (when she was in a store, phoning me).

At 21:29 she she got an email about a new subscription in an app she hadn’t heard of. We were watching TV at the time; she definitely didn't order the subscription since she hadn't even heard of the app.

We checked, and was installed today on her phone (she didn’t do it).

We immediately cancelled the subscription, reset her Apple ID password and installed the iOS 14.4 update (she was on 14.3).

This shouldn’t be possible, so how did it happen? Some fraud scheme using iOS bugs to force-install apps and start subscriptions? Is that even something that happens? Has anyone else seen something like this?
You can now use Excel Pivot Tables to directly query live Snowflake data
Not sure why your post is getting downvoted, the evidence for it's accuracy isn't in question that I know of.

Real question: Does anyone think that food industry money doesn't influence policy and recommendations? If so can you provide some sort of supporting evidence for this view?
There is some basic math that can make a pedestrian downtown difficult. A walking person needs the resource of space, time in the pathway. So take the number of employees per square foot of office space (~200 sf per employee) to get an estimate of the total number of people in a downtown area. If we assume they each need to commute in/out each day we need a system of movement that can accommodate that number. Even if they are all elite joggers willing to run a couple miles each day, there is only so much street before people have to be relegated to tunnels/bridges. Depending on the office density, there are likely a great many cities where pedestrian commutes are physically impossible for the majority (London, NYC). Either they live downtown or we must move them in/out by faster mechanical means.

This is actually a very studied problem in pedestrian-dominated areas such as stadiums, airports and theme parks. There is a breaking point when the numbers get so big that you simply have to haul people to/from the perimeter entrances. I'm sure that Disney works from some very exact specifications.
> Scientific studies aren't gospel.

I've found this depends on the person.
Someone in the US govt should write a bill that forces Fox News to pay Google/Facebook/Twitter for the cost of spreading misinformation on their platforms. Should equalize things quite a bit.
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I don’t think the above poster can say that bacon is better than grains considering they’re full of saturated fat, sodium, and nitrates. Oatmeal is also not “empty carbs” it has a lot of fiber, protein, and nutrients
Hey look, another dietary study. It also fits my own preconceptions about safety of animal protein and fats.

This is a little better quality than the usual junk we see for these articles. But still, it's mostly just data juggling from a public database. They have done a little to try and avoid cherry picking and established a process with third party investigators which is nice.

Personally I would rate this as "Worth further study." Interesting, but definitely not a firm conclusion.
I'm sorry but when the solution to your research paper is consumer technology sold by the company you work for, you are just advertising not innovating. Nothing about the apple watch itself is particularly useful for this, its just the fact that it goes on your wrist and has an accelerometer plugged into a computer with networking capabilities. (Wow, an accelerometer attached to your wrist can tell if you have tremors! Who knew?!?) The other 90% of the functionality of the watch is totally unnecessary. If apple actually cared they would create a new device for this particular use case.
I use EverSync to synchronize my bookmarks across multiple computers and multiple web browsers. Works pretty well! I like having the same bookmarks in Firefox as I do in Chrome.
You’ve drawn yourself a caricature of a hard scrabble borrower who’s just trying to make ends meet and has the best of intentions with regards to their debts.

In my Prosper experience that was the rare exception. The typical defaulting borrower bought themselves a shiny new toy and literally felt entitled to the money. As if their success in securing the loan was sufficient justification to have earned the money outright.

The drama on the Prosper lending forums, where lenders and borrowers could directly communicate with each other, was epic and educational.
You vastly underestimate the imaginations of conspiracy theorists. And the gullibility of those who follow them.
So what problem does UBI solve, then?
At least be upfront about what this is: preferring the justice system to fall apart.
Of course. So what?

The current alternative to scientific studies (with their varying degrees of bias and flaws) are Facebook-esque anecdotes about rednecks eating bacon that apparently are so compelling that they get upvoted to the top of HN.
That if anybody sues you for the same thing you've already been investigated and fined for, they had better have enough money to relitigate the entire thing is more than a small consolation, it's a public subsidy.
From what I can tell at least 90% of cats see annoying humans as a game.
Can someone who is a lawyer comment on this, please?

edit: further.. how is Signal shielded (if at all) from providing services to anyone in Iran? Wouldn't they be a target in such a case? The blog post is an explicit call for assistance specifically to do so.
Personally, if I am out on business, I have always preferred busier streets when living in the city- more people means less opportunity to get mugged, unless a less busy street or park both looked safe and were more direct routes.

Safety, directness, and pleasant surroundings in that order. Since pleasure strolls / exercise don't really have a direction, I'm not really counting them here.
New Data Shows FTC Received 2.2M Fraud Reports from Consumers in 2020
The one thing that is hard to control for in the studies is if people who crave eggs (and therefore consume more of them) also crave other things that are bad for them. Or if the genetic makeup can cause an increased craving for specific food types (for example genetics influences whether cilantro enhances food or tastes like dish soap).
Presumably, it's 'of the list of places with a data-center meeting the specs we require' which, I imagine, limits the range of options somewhat.
Sure. Republicans have principles, until they get in the majority. That's been true for decades (at least).

Maybe that's Republicans' moral failings. Maybe it's that they don't actually believe in their claimed positions. Maybe it's just the reality of politics - when you're out of power, you say what you want to do, and when you're in power, you have to do what you can, not what you want to. But it's been observable (and disconcerting) for a long time.
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Makes a lot of sense, thanks. I'll need to dig deeper into Bayesian active learning techniques.
This has been really useful for me when teaching online. Just mirror my iPad to a desktop window, then point OBS at said window (then pipe OBS to Zoom through a virtual camera). I tried to modify the source to output to a v2l loopback device instead, but couldn't quite get it to work.
Single Pfizer shot 90 percent effective after 21 days: study
I expected to see this linked here already, but I don't see it, so here it is https://youtu.be/5Ua-WVg1SsA
Mostly OT, but this article made me ponder it:

I know that people have done various forms of radar with wifi signals; I wonder if I could have a few sensors throughout the house and use ML to determine if various doors are open or closed.
Swift Sets Up Joint Venture with China Central Bank Ahead of Digital Yuan Launch
I have also worked in and around healthcare in various capacities (both tech and non-tech) and this is totally wrong. There are /many/ reasons the US healthcare system is broken, and I agree the issues are more systemic at this point, than any one bad actor, but if there /is/ a bad actor, it is definitely the health insurance companies.

There are a lot of good people in the health insurance industry that want to improve health outcomes and make a profit and are swimming upstream as well against those systemic forces (just maybe the market isn't the best way to distribute healthcare...) but as a whole it's not the health insurance companies reining in the costs of frivious doctors and hypochondriac patients, it's the incredible layer of bureaucracy and arbitrary decisions there that soak up a ton of monetary resources, constrain doctors into not even being able to do the preventative care work they want, and lead to all sorts of perverse incentives like showing up in ER 5x a year, instead of getting to show up at your GP and nutritionist every week, etc
Look at pgsync or pgloader

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22676112

There is also interesting work around using filesystem volume snapshots or clones for database cloning, but that requires infrastructural changes… I think there was a startup around that but I can’t find the name :)

https://www.sedlakovi.org/blog/2019/03/fast-postgres-snapsho...
> You can Google to quickly get a bunch of different articles about how ineffective the Red Cross is

Do you have a particular one in mind? I found [0] but as far as I can see, GiveWell.org doesn't advise against donating to them in general.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/red-cross-hait...
Ever heard of “The great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”?

New variant: https://prospect.org/power/wall-street-gambling-from-inside-...
The whole point of UBI is that everyone gets it, unconditionally. There is no not using it or not staying on it. You just get the UBI, and it should be enough to pay for basic living costs, and most people also want to be able to afford luxuries so the incentive to work is not gone.
I found that simple apt-get docker does not work for me on debian. Tried the official docker documenation and that helped:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/
The app that was installed was "Drum Pad Machine - Beat Maker", which seems to be a "real" app, although using the scummy "ten dollar per week subscription" model.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drum-pad-machine-beat-maker/id...
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> which I believe WebRender targets

OpenGL 3.0 and OpenGL ES 3.0: https://pcwalton.github.io/slides/201808-webrender/

They both support texture arrays.

> texture layer dimensions have to be specified up-front

Indeed, but it's possible to create another larger one, and copy layers between arrays within GPU.

It's the same idea as std::vector on CPUs, most heaps can't resize memory either, they instead allocate new blocks and copy.

There're two wins with texture arrays.

1. Removes area limitation. 2D textures are often limited to rather small size, like 2k^2 pixels. Same limitation applies to arrays, but with multiple layers their total area is only limited by VRAM size. That 2D library I've linked above renders arbitrarily complex 2D graphics with only 2 draw calls, regardless on how many sprites or font glyphs are used in the scene. Two because front-to-back opaque followed by back-to-front translucent.

2. These packing algorithms often scale worse than linearly with available area or count of sprites on the atlas. Using multiple layers of the array takes care of that, new sprites are only packed into the last layer, and layer size is never too large.
Yes, Zurich is pretty sleepy, but you need to factor in driving distances to skiing ...

Zurich is very quick and convenient to any of Chamonix (straight west) Davos/St.Moritz (south), Cervina/Zermatt (southwest) or Südtirol (southeast).
Because Google owns the sea and no one else can lay cable...
Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses. I've been donating annually, but it would be nice to have the option for the entirety of my donations go only to running wikipedia and none of it going to wikimedia's discretionary spending.
Can you point me to this 'death' scenario? What did it die of?

Are you worried Microsoft is going to install spyware by overriding something like 'git' in their repo that your pi would download instead? I see I'm getting downvoted, but no one has actually spelled out the potential evil scenario here other than better LinkedIn recruiting.
This College Humor skit captures the evolving advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua-WVg1SsA
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Since I'm getting downvoted to oblivion I feel compelled to respond: I never said to assume that.
And by the way, that whole "never rewerite software from scratch"... that might be what they teach you in your startup accelerator or your CS classes, but in the real world, hardware changes fast, your clients change fast, and you will do well to start from scratch sometimes when fundamental assumptions change and you no longer want to support legacy hardware or legacy features that slow you down and everything can be drastically simplified with your new assumptions in hand.

Take for example, Mac OS 9 -> 10. Complete rewrite. One of the best decisions in computing history. And especially relevant here because the display server was one of the babies they threw out the window or whatever, and the quartz compositor was born.
I have! Poetry is definitely amazing. A while ago I had the misfortune of having to adapt an old Python 2 project with specific system dependencies, a mess of a C compilation pipeline and an annoying set of requirements.txt which made it pretty much impossible to convert (at the time at least), so I would say hell's not over for Python since it's simply been around too long with packaging being in a terrible shape and Poetry can't hope to solve all of it; but I'm sure this is not a problem if you're able to stick to current stuff in a greenfield project or if your brownfield codebase followed some semblance of good practices.

Then again, I would say the same for Node. Modern npm is much better than it used to, yarn 1 is even better (better DX between its CLI design and handling of vendored yarn's), and yarn 2 was magical in the smaller examples where I tried it, eliminating the need for node_modules.

Back on the topic for the SPA problem, I would suggest you take a look at Elm, at least for the learning experience. The Elm compiler ships all the tools you really need to be productive, it's performant, the Elm language gets across the usefulness of its state management model extremely well (unlike React, which is a terrible teacher) and as a bonus it will ruin you forever if you haven't seen functional programming actually being useful before.
A and B are free to be chosen by a producer of the generic Sum type. However, T can be chosen "late", by a consumer of Sum; a value of type Sum A B must work for any T you decide to use down the line.

If it helps, the equivalent Java signature is:

interface Sum<A, B> {
<T> T visit(Function<A, T> onA, Function<B, T> onB);
}

Hopefully this makes it more clear that A and B are fixed when you receive a value of type Sum A B, but you get to pick a T when consuming that value.
Not an answer, but another question. Back when eggs were demonized and grains were promoted, was there more lobbying flowing from grain farmers vs. egg farmers? Also including that chickens are fed grains, and therefore every egg sold represents profit to the grain seller?
I have kind of a weird amalgam of niches, and I'm already 3 years removed from my last firm job -- just been doing contract work in the interim. I think, probably, if the door to private practice is to be closed it has been closed already for me.

My issue, to the extent I can identify it, is really that my niches and interests (within law) fit best at a level that I don't have the professional experience to warrant even an interview for.

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep my eyes peeled for PE and be weary.
AKM had a factory fire:
https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/business/akm-factory-fire-sh...

Hybrid and EV production is more semiconductor-laden than traditional ICE production:
https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/global-automotive-se...

Total vehicle sales have entirely recovered after initially collapsing during the March 2020 lockdowns:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTALNSA

Supply reliance upon TSMC and Samsung (customers include QCOM, NVDA, AMD, AAPL, MSFT) is a bottleneck that means CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, etc take longer to go from "oh there's more demand than expected" to "hey, that additional quantity just shipped":
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/319580-amd-warns-xbox-...

Similarly, that bottleneck means that increased demand from one segment affects supply availability for all the others:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3120449/semico...

Trump body-slammed China's chip industry:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tech-chips-focus/tr...
It's inherently expensive, because you have to undo the entropy loss of letting the CO2 diffuse into the atmosphere. It basically means running an expensive molecule sorting operation, whose cost has a floor set by the laws of thermodynamics, in advance of whatever else you wanted to do with the CO2.
Fractional reserve, flat interest rates. Hmmm... I wonder who might stand to directly benefit from an 18 year interest free loan?
Wouldn't that argument undermine all property protection? What if anything of ours is uniquely ours vs somewhat derivative? Tangible property is even more derivative, i.e. inheriting a house. Absolutely no creativity going on in that case, yet it is protected much more strongly than IP.
I agree that big companies don't face meaningful consequences often enough for their misdeeds.

My comment was referring to your statement that if we did hold them accountable, the economy would fall apart.
OP didn't ask what was true. Just what the stated reason was. The CEO did state reasons. Can't believe I have to say this on HN, "because" is implied.
I agree, but I'm not really sure what that has to do with this:

> If big companies started facing consequences for their actions our economy would fall apart.
One really important thing to understand when you see these sorts of studies is that they are done in aggregate while every human being is different. There are people who can eat eggs and pork and smoke cigars and never suffer consequences, and there are some who are far less tolerant. If you're in a high-risk group because you've already suffered damage, you need to be very risk averse.
What if we took a step back and realized that our bodies are all different and all of these studies likely never have 100% proper control over external variables. Perhaps eating 7 eggs a week is good for you if you also eat A, do B, etc, but otherwise it’s bad... too many variables and still (what feels like) a near infinite amount of knowledge lacking of our own bodies.
Amazon is losing that much money to unscrupulous drivers stealing packages, that it's cheaper for them to pay to install, maintain, and monitor cameras in every vehicle?