skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The revised version of Ron Rivest's ThreeBallot[0][1][2] has always felt like a decent, albeit complex, solution to me.

It's clear, relatively secure, auditable, verifiable, and somewhat anonymous.

For those unfamiliar:

> The idea is that you xor together 3 ballots when you vote, but one of the three ballots is published.[3]

> The trick to the 3-ballot voting protocol is that not everyone can validate their vote. However, when a group of voters band together, they should be able to validate that a subset of their votes (1/3) were registered with high probability.
> ...
> With a sufficiently large group of voters checking results, the law of large numbers comes into play and they can statistically detect the presence of voting fraud.[4]

You would still need to trust that the poll worker is tabulating correctly and working randomly, though that's an assumption that we're already making as it is.

Scantegrity[5], Prêt à Voter[6], Helios[7], and Punchscan[8] also seem promising, though I'm not as familiar with them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot

[1]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv06c.pdf

[2]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RS07.pdf

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20554744

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598777

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prêt_à_Voter

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchscan
As an Australian, you have more important problems to solve than lecturing other people about democracy.
Selling the Bitcoin for dollars rather than keeping the wealth as Bitcoin is the myth that still hampers most people's thinking.
Whether it's "allowed" or not, you can still die on your own terms if you wish. You just need to organise and do it before you are incapable of doing it yourself.
The biggest advantage of ET is that it's still in active development and the lead developer gets feedback from reading Hacker News ;-).
> It can definitely break down at some point (maybe the user really did want to increase by 10 two times, they just clicked twice really fast?)

Well, that is exactly what OP meant - in the context of a distributed system it is not "at some point" it is just a given.
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Without further information informed answers and suggestions cannot be provided.
sure he still has a lot left
That means commands have to be stored as well (at least for some time) in a non-eventual-consistent way?
psst i'm not paying for the software to make their lives easier. I'm paying for the software for the features.
Would be cool to get around a limitation of Dropbox's native client: filenames with emojis (and other utf8 I assume) won't upload. If their filesystem doesn't like utf8, maybe the client could convert the offending filenames to base64 or punycode, and convert filenames back from the cloud... maybe I can find a place in the code to try this out, thanks for open sourcing. I notice you're using type hints in python and I've been wanting to learn more about that, would love to hear what toolchain is hip these days.
I think for a lot of people being a parent is not the distinguishing factor of their identity. Most people become parents so one can’t blame them for not seeing themselves distinguished by it.
When we understand that we have an eternal essence within – an immutable part of us that neither bourns thus nor dies, death becomes no longer something to be afraid of. And when we realize this eternal aspect of our existence with direct experience, we also gain the luxury to die (leave the body) at our own will.
The issue is that, now, third-party companies can force you install their store to download their app, and can use ad tracking identifiers outside of the IDFA, or worse, use private APIs (like auto-obtaining your phone number) as much as they want. We saw this with Epic before they went on the Play Store - you had to use their launcher to install Fortnite.

All it does is force "choice" onto users further down the stack - users that don't know what they might be giving up when they install a third-party app store when trying to install "Fortnite" or even "Fortnite VBucks Generator Free iOS".
Lets see if it passes the House now.

Overall, as presented by the article, it makes sense limiting who can receive the credit based on income level and car price.

It will create more "working-class" EVs that a middle-class consumer can buy.

If you make more than $100k, you can afford an EV full price, you just need spend your money wisely.

Overall, it seems like a decent that I hope makes it to pass the House.
I’m sure your bank and the IRS is going to love all that CTR paperwork too.
You've hit on an interesting idea: anti-fishing mines. Maybe a bouyant explosive attached to a weight by a cable such that the depth is well below what a ship on the surface could interact with. Getting snagged in the net arms it to detonate when the ambient pressure drops to near atmosphere is it's being pulled on board...
My impression is that they totally gave up the customer market and focused on the business market long ago. So I gave up on them too.
The strange irony to me of this post is that anyone who is older than about 80 could write about how this is likely their last birthday. Death comes for everyone eventually.

I think to myself sometimes, "How long till I'm 80?" From that point on it's just waiting to die. What am I going to do and accomplish in the time between now and then?
The bitcoin market is huge , and also he could easily sell it in chunks OTC to hedge funds and other large buyers at a discount, and the funds in turn can report it as an instant mark to market profit. Or borrow against it. Tons of ways of turning it into cash. It's not like he would have to deposit it on binance and dump it at once.
What are those names?
You want to trust democracy to OCR? Heck, there are lawsuits where humans disagree.

But, even if you ignore that two individuals (or three) representing all the candidates each count by hand a stack of ten, have to agree, sign off that they agree, etc. I think you underestimate other problems. You're focused on the counting.

Just consider how long it takes to open the outer envelope, check the signature on the inner envelope (again, by multiple people who represent different campaigns), and physically remove and unfold that sheet of paper. Now multiply by several million. Add in some extra time for managing stack of ten ballots.

Or, to put it another way, we don't vote with a phone app. We are willing to pay extra for security.
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I left Dropbox when they stopped supporting Linux client. I didn't want to go to either Google or Microsoft, so I went with Mega.nz and I am very happy with them. I pay around $30/year for 400 GB storage. (most likely a grandfathered plan, not sure of current pricing).
New glass that's harder than diamonds
Mosh original author here -- fun to see us back here yet again. Happy to answer any questions.
Most of that volume reported is faked, especially if you are getting it from coinmarketcap.com
How Can Symlink Cause an Outage?
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We're not reading the same article bud. It clearly states this is the Apple account and that Apple UK had the same issues with their Albanian branch.

> a Bogota-based worker on the Apple account ... said that she signed the contract ...because she feared losing her job.

> the new contract, first issued in March. The contract allows monitoring by AI-powered cameras in workers’ homes, voice analytics and storage of data collected from the worker’s family members, including minors

> the contract, a copy of which NBC News has reviewed

You think NBC are gona headline an article risking defamation when they have a contract that would or would not state if this is a legitimate proposal???

Your comment reads like a complete misdirection.
Is there something like that as well to make the region match the preferred browser settings (in terms of language)?
Does Linus even have children? I don’t know cause I never cared what he did in that area of his life. It has never affected me certainly. I am certainly in awe of his accomplishments with Linux/git though.
As a standalone user that uses dropbox sync. I have had 0 problems upgrading from 3.x all the way to 7.x.
How do non-citizens vote? Have you ever voted in your life? Because it sounds like you haven't. You know, when you go to the polling station and identify yourself on the electoral roll, they check off your name, and you get given exactly 1 ballot to cast?

What would you do if you turned up, your name was already checked off, but you hadn't voted? What do you think happens then?
Fifty or sixty years to cash out at that rate, so you might still be alive.
Addition is fast. Opening ballots, verifying signatures, checking voter is legit, and then marking it all down takes time. Especially when bound by law to not open envelopes until 7pm eday.
> the other side's repeated attempts to overthrow our government.

Are you talking about Russia or the Federalist Society SCOTUS picks or the rioters who were let in by the few security guards remaining after the Capitol security was lowered or the Big Tech services that should be declared as political donations but aren't?
Are you planning on addressing some of the long-standing issues relating to e.g. Unicode rendering?
Elsewhere on the thread people recommend et as an actively-developed alternative with scrolling support: https://eternalterminal.dev/
Arizona Maricopa county for whatever reason, refused to produce the network routers, when Subpoenaed
for the 3rd party Audit by the Arizona senate. They responded with this letter.

https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/70435/Final-Sig...
Paper, electronic, whatever: if you don't trust whoever is responsible for holding elections and counting votes, you won't trust the results regardless of how they were achieved - specially if your candidate has lost.

However, I like two simple arguments for paper ballots: low skilled people theoretically could still verify, so it seems more democratic. And changing / replacing millions of papers doesn't seem to scale as well as a hacker changing codes.
Github wasn't profitable but had plenty of marketshare to guarantee more funding.

Also Microsoft has plenty of infrastructure and did not need Github. How do you think Windows and Office were built for decades?
I can point to examples of clowns on the blue team too. This logical fallacy of “crazy by association” seems to be an increasingly popular trend in online political discussion. I wonder how many people simply choose not to engage.
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Crypto Hackers Are Nice Now
Sure. I mean, a clever enough fix is unavoidable. Like, suppose I swapped out all the machinery with duplicates that had different vote counts but matching ballots. If a back room was cranking them out in parallel, the total votes cast and even timestamps (if there are any) would match.

But we can set the confidence we want and test enough ballots to get there. In this past election, some states decided it was "100% sure to this kind of detectable attack" and they hand counted every ballot.
Why stop there? What about Dave and Bill's shed in '38? Or maybe it was Leland opening the university in 1891? Surely that was the start of Silicon Valley?

Actually, it was probably Rock and the Traitorous Eight in '57 as the genesis of Silicon Valley. And you might be familiar with some of these US immigrants, none of whom were H1b's: Jerry (yahoo), Sergei (google), Pierre (ebay), Elon (paypal).
Isn’t this a property of autocracy? It’s true that pretty much every implemented communist society became autocratic but there are systems - like the one in Iran - that similarly care only about the success of the party in power. The problem is not communism as such but of unchecked, concentrated power.
Not even close. Nextdoor is way ahead of Reddit in the unusability wars.

At least Reddit still offers https://old.reddit.com.
Actually there is a physics based reason. It’s entropy. Entropy can only increase over time in an isolated system. The human body is a complex multicellular organism largely isolated from the environment and largely in homeostasis once fully grown. Increasing entropy over time is inevitable. It would require increasingly larger amounts of energy to counteract its effects on our body, which over time would become impossible to supply.

If stars cannot sustain themselves forever, how can we compete? We are far more complex with a far smaller energy budget.
What if this is concurrent with "decrease balance by 10"? If the decrease occurs between the two increases, then the increases won't be detected as duplicates.
My setup is iPad + MBP + Linux server. I use mosh to connect, also with a Wireguard VPN, and have tmux running on the server. It's very convenient to pop open Blink on my iPad and have everything right where I left it (modulo changes made while on the MBP) and the reverse when I pull up the terminal on my MBP.

The main benefit for me is mobility, though, not the restore from sleep itself. When I started using this setup I was traveling quite a bit, including just locally (living in a downtown area, I'd start on something in the apartment, then decide to go to the coffee shop, or the growler place, and continue working). Not having to reestablish the connection (even using SSH certs that's still some friction) was very pleasant.

The second is when dealing with an unreliable network. Though this is less common these days, when I started with it I had a lot of issues in my apartment thanks to a neighbor with a noisy microwave oven.
I think the author is a bit confused. His example of an "actual impostor," the person named Brazil, is rather a psychopath. It's not that psychopaths don't experience impostor syndrome -- they can't experience impostor syndrome.
Wow, you’re the real MVP here. Thank you.

For anyone who doesnt use shortcuts often, what you need to do in Shortcuts is:

1. Make a ‘URL’ action to prefs:root=PASSWORDS
2. Hit the ‘+’ and make a ‘Open URL’ action from safari.

Save, add to Home Screen, and you’re done.
AND statistically targets voters which happen to vote more often a specific party. Not surprisingly, it's not the party that wants to make it harder to vote.
More recent research into auditable voting rules can be found in Rivest's Ternary Plurality Trees[0] and BatchVote[1].

[0]: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs.html#Riv19i

[1]: http://fc17.ifca.ai/voting/papers/voting17_bv.pdf
>Do non-citizens even want to vote

Is there something about holding a green card for 5 years that makes you suddenly start to engage in politics?

>How do they even register to vote?

Presumably they take someone else's identity.
On another thread here, someone was explaining to me that mail-in ballots are separated from their provenance by design. So what exactly are these election workers spending hours doing to “verify signatures” and “check voter is legit?”
They have pictures of all the counted ballots but they are refusing to give them to the public for some reasons.
Same story here too, except that we moved to Syncthing.
Periodic cloud back-ups with Rclone, in addition.
When I vote they ask for my name and address. I tell them, they cross it off the list, and I go vote. Add in an ink pot, and I am fully satisfied.
We literally cannot do anything because then someone would then be the gatekeeper in charge of information. Just as an example for how that is currently working, look to FB or Snopes with their labeling of certain, actual facts, "misinformation" due to it only not being of a particular political leaning.
I don't believe it's identical at all. Eternal terminal is a TCP-like abstraction that adds another layer of tracking and acknowledgement so that the reliable ordered byte stream can be reconnected and resumed. Mosh is more like a video codec mixed with a terminal that knows how to do limited, speculative local echo that gets subsequently corrected once the display round trip is complete. They're fairly different in approaches.

For example eternal terminal has to send all of the bytes in order, so more output requires more bandwidth. Mosh only has to redraw bits of the frame that have changed, at a presumably adaptive rate -- you could scroll a hundred megabytes of text by really quickly, but only need to send a few screen-fulls of updates, which is of course why it doesn't allow for regular terminal scrollback.
Slightly related: the Capitol One Mobile app just… doesn’t work in Ukraine.

Maybe they thought US citizens would never travel there. Thankfully, it works through a VPN.
There's a question of whether newer generations of consoles count as having different app stores, which would change those numbers. Does having a different store platform make it count separately? Does having a new generation of device count separately? Or is it any user of any store platform owned by a single company?

For example, the Xbox One and Xbox Series X use the same store but they're different generations of Xbox. Do you count those users together or not? If those aren't counted together, what about mid-generation refreshes like the Xbox One S or Xbox One X?

If generations are counted separately, what about iPhone generations? Or the fact that Android isn't even based around generations since there are multiple manufacturers?

And there's the question of what counts as a user for the purpose of this bill - would anyone who has ever bought into the ecosystem count? Or would it be something like monthly active users?

The intention here is obviously to go after Apple/Google, but the wording of the user count just seems way too open as to make it unclear if markets outside of the mobile space are affected.

Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft and Xbox. I have feelings about how this would affect Xbox (which would obviously be biased), but even without getting to them it's unclear whether this bill would even be relevant.
It's about having the ability to run a one-time-only unit test against Bitcoin. Yes, there's all sorts of ways to cash out, that's fine. I want to run a specific at-scale load test, a resilience challenge, to be run against Bitcoin.

Can one person succeed at a serious and dedicated effort to withdraw twelve billion dollars USD from Bitcoin at once?

If it succeeds, cool. If it fails, it'll be spectacular. Let's do it. (To me, success is "they get a few billion dollars USD out and bitcoin doesn't crash".)
It’s back up, but it still uses the dark pattern of forcing you to register after you scroll past a few comments, unless you’re using the old interface or an unofficial app.
> It works in identical fashion to mosh.

No, it doesn’t. The best way I understand it is that mosh syncs a “view” of your current session, whereas et just sends everything. In practice, what this means is if I accidentally cat a 5GB file, mosh zips past as if I were working locally (and ^C works!) whereas et completely locks up until the file reaches its end. That said I still prefer and use et daily due to the scrollback and tmux -CC support.
Why No Wikipedia for Scott Hassan?
Agreed, but for most companies, you're not going to be able to run the whole stack locally.
It’s not just Qatar. All of the Gulf monarchies operate in a similar fashion, with the possible exception being Kuwait (closer to a constitutional monarchy than the rest).
I recognize the section, it's definitely something that gets mentioned here and there in "behind the scenes" type pieces on the film.
Ask HN: Whole genome sequencing without ending up in a database
I find myself wanting to know if I have this or that variant of a number of genes. Seems like getting a complete copy of my own genome could be useful. But I'd prefer not to have a third party have a copy of it. I don't want to get swept into some FBI search because my genetic code happens to be related to some criminal's, or because my skin cells were somehow sitting at a crime scene I walked by or whatever. Also because what can be hacked will be hacked.

So... what are my options for sequencing my DNA without ending up in 23andMe's database or whatever?

There are some sequencers for sale in a price range I could contemplate, such as here https://www.labx.com/dna-sequencers

Would a few-thousand-dollars sequencer really do the job?

How hard is the prep work?

Looking for some thoughts on this topic.
Nice, I would love to see better use of large screens, such as demonstrated in this demo. This reminds me of the pressreader.com UI. Some feedback:

You're showing heading of the last section on the right edge ("Note-writing practices are generally ineffective"). This probably isn't the most useful one - the reader is more interested in the "next" section rather than the last one. Or show all of them, like you do on the left edge.

Offer a way to skip to a section by clicking its collapsed card.
That's like pretending that the lead developer on MS Word and John Carmack are equally qualified and capable to speak on 3d graphics algorithm optimizations because they both know computer things. The best Paul can hope to do is to read the results research that these experts ACTUALLY PERFORMED.

He's not on their level and his opinion on the matter has zero importance other than his vote in the Senate.
>What would you do if you turned up, your name was already checked off, but you hadn't voted? What do you think happens then?

Seems like an entirely plausible attack. Why don't you tell me what happens then?
I don't see how it's hypocritical. The government says "X is bad, private entities cannot do X, but sometimes the government needs to do X". How is that not hypocritical when X is "shoot you in the head" but is hypocritical when it's "collect data".

Which isn't to say it's the right move. I'm just saying your argument here is weak.