skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, they do some scanning and adjudication on the EMS which means it's a bigger setup - not necessarily the EMS itself, but it needs workstations hooked up to it for the tabulators and adjudicators to use. Based on some research, the way Maricopa County runs things ballots rejected by the precinct tabulators (due to ambiguous markings usually) are sent in to the central office for adjudication, which is what the scanners and workstations connected to the EMS are for. Probably this is done using the sorter bin feature of the ImageCast tabulator but I'm not sure. I have never used the Dominion adjudication system, it depends on the election administrator and state law how they handle rejected ballots and the two states I have familiarity with have made a decision to return them to the voter instead of sending them in (usually asking the voter to complete a new ballot). There are pros and cons either way.

But you can see they use a Netgear switch, so we don't even know if it's managed but I'd guess it's not because Netgear's managed line just isn't that popular. There's probably nothing of interest that could be extracted from that switch.

Yes, as far as I know all of Dominion's management software is Windows-based. There's a potentially huge amount of forensic data available from the Windows machines but whether or not you could demonstrate internet access just depends. It's the kind of thing you could probably only prove in the positive. Windows does not keep network logs per se, just there are lots of other logs that can be used to infer certain network activity. The reality is that network traffic is so high volume and low value that it's unusual for anything to record it in much detail, it'd just eat a lot of storage and I/O to never get looked at.
This appears to the direction we're headed - a similar steady state as the flu (which a few people hypothesized early on in the pandemic).

- Covid won't go away, we'll just keep having waves move through the population

- A vaccine mostly protects the person who receives it; it likely makes them less contagious, but not enough to stop them from infecting others

- The vaccines work very well in making the disease less severe; again, similar to the flu - sick enough to stay home, but rarely so severe you need to be hospitalized

- Eventually you just live with it. We'll probably have new outbreaks of different variants (just like we have more severe flu seasons)
It is more like a regular bank than anything else. A bank that uses a different transport network.

That's why decentralized stable coins like DAI and others exist :)
> Ability to change order of accounts in UI

I was always perplexed when I had to change the ordering of my accounts and still had to do it manually by editing the configuration after all these years. A big improvement for sure!
> > "At the core of this case is Spotify's demand they should be able to advertise alternative deals on their iOS app, a practice that no store in the world allows," it said in a statement.

Which is a ridiculous assertion for Apple to make. Best Buy doesn't control what manufacturers ship in side their boxes. If I buy something from Logitech chances are something in there will mention I can go to logitech.com and buy direct at some point, and if they provide a 10% off coupon or note that some things are cheaper there, Bust Buy isn't going to really know about it much less have anything to say about it.

Best Buy might not be happy it there's a coupon for some other non-manufacturer marketplace, but there's not really an incentive for manufacturer to include something like that anyway.

And just to drive home how completely similar the types of things sold are, there are plenty of hardware (and software, at least in the past) offerings that Best Buy sells that have a subscription element that Best Buy gets no cut of.
To be clear, I'm not discussing a "monkey's paw" sort of scenario, but a legitimate good-faith offer of immortality.

A cure for your ailment is almost certainly implied by an offer of immortality. If we are capable of such a feat we will almost certainly have solved the problem of making humans youthful and healthy indefinitely.

And realistically speaking, death would still be optional, just not forced upon you and your hopes and dreams by random ailments.
Of course every generalization is wrong but a not so little part of the crypto community seems very interested in avoiding taxation, money laundering and buying illegal stuff without detection.
Why shouldn't the house count, though?
I also immediately saw the allusion.
Libre Arts
Dropbox fails to sync some files that have valid names in Windows.

Unicode is hard.
Do you support custom domains?
As always, they draw an arbitrary line in the sand since they know they just want to target specific things.

This hasn't been introduced yet, btw, so it doesn't have a real congress.gov entry - you'll have to settle for this https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/8.11.21%20-%...

> APP STORE.—The term ‘‘App Store’’ means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes Apps from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device

General purpose computing device isn't even defined in this bill! Is the Xbox general purpose? Sure, most people use it to play games, but it has a full web browser with Microsoft Edge! the Switch and PS5 also have web browsers, just not with a URL bar. Do they qualify?
Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech
Seems I misremebered it, thanks. I found two different estimates right now, too, one for ~1.6%, one for ~0.4%.

Sometimes real estate the owners live in themselves is not counted?

With 1.6% the odds of having a millionaire neighbor would still be high.
So many times across reddit and discord servers have I saw cryptocurrency enthusiasts trading ways to dodge taxes, for example.

I don't think what the government calls "drugs" should be illegal, but, selling and buying drugs with cryptocurrency is an oft advocated for activity that I've seen in these communities.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18730843/saurikit-llc-v...
Also slots nicely under the "failure of an OS" category.

Legislation like this forces Apple to actually maintain a good OS lest it be riddled with malware. They seem to be doing fine on macOS they can do the same for iOS.
This is highly domain (and sometimes User-Agent) dependent and in my experience JS is required more and more.

e.g. good luck trying to get much out of youtube.com (or any other video site) without executing JS.
Sigh... You didn't understand the comment you replied to at all, did you? That's what makes the resource ever scarcer. It only makes the system "less useful" exactly as much as the ever harder-to-mine magic numbers make Bitcoin "less useful".

Beats achieving the same goal by having to burn an ever larger fraction of the planet's energy.
Ask HN: Reliability reports for USB flash drives?
Hi HN - I'm sure you're all familiar with the Backblaze HDD reliability reports. I am wondering if there is a similar report or just shared experience with USB thumb drives?

I am working on a project where we need to buy a bunch of them for a specific application that requires the storage to be reliable (write once, read only in emergency and hopefully lasts)

I'd be interested in hearing if there are any formal reports out there (I haven't been able to find any) or just anecdotal experiences. What brands are best, which models, which can handle a drop or two while also offering a faster USB interface and write speeds? etc.
No, "flatten the curve" was the early goal, but I don't remember any mention of that helping non-corona cases.

In fact, most hospital elective surgeries were cancelled (and the nurses laid off), so I'm not sure where you got your ideas from. You might want to post a link.
You are supposed to but a TV license if you watch YouTube or Amazon Prime Video???
> It's also why I think that today's engineering culture of "24 months, max" at corporations is pretty corrosive to Quality.

There's an even simpler reason: learning requires feedback. Feedback on some meaningful decisions takes years to come back in. Without it, no learning.
Photoshopped Cat and Bee
You have zero data to back up what you just said. Zero.
This screams PR stunt.
Something new to add to this since? A follow up? Anything?

If you have to dig up a Wayback copy of a post, this probably isn't news.

Some old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6817095
I don’t have time to compile a list, but if you listen to crypto proponents you frequently hear advocacy for circumventing democratically enacted laws and institutions like fiat currency, taxation, financial regulation, international regulation, etc.
> I have a UK TV license but of course, I can't watch UK TV from Qatar.

Not from UK but isn't there any app from your Set-top box or DTH provider like Sky-TV app?

I recently found in India that the apps of our set-top box providers are completely functional to watch any TV channel you subscribe, I don't watch TV so I didn't know this earlier but the app was the only way I could watch olympics as events were telecasted across multiple channels often simultaneously and so I had the app in several devices at the same time streaming different events.
Yeah architecturally Chromium Headless is an "embedder" so it doesn't automatically get all the front-end goodies full-fledged Chrome supports unless someone puts in the work to plumb through the code.

So stuff like extensions don't work at all.
I was curious about tab.vs.space, and find vs.space is unregistered and a premium domain; pricing is high and seems peculiarly inconsistent. Here are the USD prices various registrars list:

• get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew.

• Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal.

• GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to register (marked down from $6,500) and $6,500 to renew.

• Google Domains says it’s $5,400 per year. (But until I explicitly asked for USD it was telling me NZD6250, which is about USD4400, a rather significant difference.)

A couple of other registrars that I tried didn’t cope with vs.space because they seem to think it’s invalid and a third character is required: hover.com just shows search results with no message to explain why it ignored the exact match vs.space, and 101domain.com tells you it’s too short to be valid.
Well, the idea is people would use LessInflatyCoin as long as the inflation was still high enough to make it unviable as an investment vehicle. But once inflation was high enough to make the coin usable as an investment vehicle, it would become a worse unit of transaction because you'd expose yourself to Bitcoin's attendant bubble risk. For instance, if you were to sell something for FixedCoin 1mil, you might have a hard time predicting how much your FC 1mil were worth tomorrow, or in a week, and your incentive would be to keep the money and gamble that it goes up, whereas IC's value development is highly predictable (ie. just slightly negative) because it's only driven by current use. I'd expect this to make IC more appealing to "boring" corporations.
I used to own hitlerballs.com, inspired by this comic.[0] Couldn't really find a use for it. Looks like the current owner is trying to sell it for a profit, lol.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1621
There's nothing as uniquely shitty as getting placed on a floundering project, being told it can't be allowed to fail, and then getting absolutely no staff or resources to prevent that from happening.
I hate that launch hn’s have become a full wall of text detailing the founder’s origin story and whatnot instead of a simple TLDR of what their company does.
that's a very cool feature!
Lawn Mowing Robots Face the Same Challenges as Robot Vacuums
No, it's pretty reasonable - Apple wants their cut (for developing iOS & the hardware), so advertising "hey we don't sell via the App Store, go to our website to purchase" is effectively driving sales via iOS without paying Apple for making that possible.
Yup. That’s my experience, too. Also, on macOS the client UI is horrible. It’s slow and I’ve yet to find a way to open local files that it displays in the list of recently synced files.
To paraphrase Kim Stanley Robinson: "That's libertarians for you — anarchists who call the police to get their bitcoins back."
> If that's true, then neocolonialism is meaningless as a pejorative. I associate neocolonialism with economic hit men and predatory loans,

Now that is meaningless. There are a whole vast range of ways to be exploitative and wealthy and powerful taking from poor and powerless.

> not private citizens having the option to leave often abusive governments.

I'm talking about the aggregate outcome for the people. The greater good. It's funny the disconnect some people have here between being so fast to denounce "individualism" greed, selfishness etc., in their own countries when they see it is a detriment to them. And yet they go completely the other way when it's a benefit to them and a detriment to people of other countries. That's the height of selfishness and hypocrisy as I see it.

> By your definition, neocolonialism is simply the absence of serfdom.

No it's not.
Anything new to add to this?

Previous discussion (as noted in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150698):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893505
> The issue is that, now, third-party companies can force you install their store to download their app

And they will have a vastly reduced set of people willing to use their software as a result. Other than a few key things, that's probably more trouble than it's worth for a lot of people, and the requisite "Warning: This app store is handled by someone else to make absolutely sure you trust the company running it" will scare a bunch more off, if it's something new.

If, on the other hand, it's Steam, or Epic, or some other super well known steward of content that has a well known name and reputation, then maybe if users are also lured by lower prices, they might consider it.

You know, exactly the same way you might feel a lot more comfortable buying that watch or toy you really want if it's from your local target and not some random guy with a table on the street.
I mean Web app is probably not interesting but they are using Next.js and Fastapi: https://twitter.com/KennethCassel/status/1392845888888913923...

For the remote code execution, they are spawning docker containers it seems like:

https://twitter.com/KennethCassel/status/1335314388824301569...

Guess it works with having a base image and just rebuilding it with the code that should be run. Code is passed via an api call from frontend to backend. This should make sure not the whole environment is rebuilt again because of the docker cache but only the code which has been submitted.

How the docker thing actually works is just my guess btw.
Ask HN: Are there any toolkits, ref arch, designs, for DIY low orbit sats?
How do I get started?
Brittle local development in from what I've seen is either due to another symptom of tech debt - an aging monolith with too many different build systems, dependencies and what have you that you end up with way too many Docker containers or the need to have a very long doc for newcomers with "run this script here, then that script there, unless it's a Monday, then run this script over there". Or a team that's gone all-in on a distributed microservices architecture with lambdas all over the place and a dozen or more repos and it's literally impossible (yes there's LocalStack but...) to get a faithful end-to-end local environment up and running.

The nightmarish local development experience of either case are symptoms of deeper issues than local development itself being a problem.
While not exactly the same, you can obtain the same benefits with mypy.[0] It will perform all of what you say staticaly, without any test, though obviously it will not be smart enough when you use libraries that aren't using annotated types. But if you test for those, then you obtain 100% of the functionality that you described, unless I misunderstood something.

[0] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
citations:

USMilitary 59 M Tons 2017: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...

BTC: 37M M tons - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-wor...

BTC: 130 M tons China - https://cacm.acm.org/news/251829-bitcoin-mining-emissions-in....

Banks: 1040 M tons - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-27/banks-pro...
I’ve used Mosh all these years and never noticed the lack of recent releases. It just works.
Yeah, except that isn't actually the argument.
I joined Dropbox in around 2010 and used it religiously through University to ensure all my work was being backed up as I worked on assignments. I used it for group projects and it was fantastic, at the time it was the most reliable cloud storage and I tried Microsoft Live Mesh, Live drive etc and found they were unreliable in syncing changes to edited files. Dropbox was flawless.

I then shifted into using it to also back up my photos from my mobile and camera, however my photo storage started to grow and this year I switched to Google Drive & Photos for much much less than Dropbox was offering per month. I think 100GB of Google Drive & Photos is $25.99 per year opposed to $184 per year for 1TB with DropBox. I don't need 1TB but 100GB is perfect compared to 10GB with Dropbox (that I had).
You know whats used way more then crypto to buy illegal things and launder money? Cash
i just switched to et
I see a lot of cool discussion about whether death itself is worth solving, that wasn't really present in the previous thread. Likely because awareness about such efforts in culture has really skyrocketed since the previous thread.

It is interesting and valuable to see new discussion threads emerge over the course of almost a decade, as culture changes and the lens through which we view our lives and problems evolves.
It's still not leveraged as they describe
> remote server for about 8 years now

> I did not have the money for a new laptop

> I could afford the ~55/month for a dedicated server with 32GB and 4cores

Umm... you spent 55128 = ~$5000 over 8 years. You could have bought 3 top-specced laptops. A good $1500 laptop will last at least 2-3 years. You would also get some resale value out of your laptop when you upgrade.
Congrats for moving to E11s!

Who are the current team behind Thunderbird? Are they former/current Mozillians, sparing their free time?
Mainframe's down again boss!
More recently, he also joined their board of advisors last year[1].

Have a TON of respect for the man, just a little surprised/disappointed these recent moves happened under his watch and would love to hear his unedited take on it all.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-joined-the-1password-board-of-a...
Some NordVPN clients turn your device into a proxy server which the other side of the NordVPN business (OxyLabs) sells to other customers.
No, and AFAICS that was never part of the proposal. Stross is talking about a dozen or two unmanned research probes, like Voyager or Viking, which is the sort of spacefaring we've had since the glory days of the Apollo project ended; he never claimed it would make Star Wars true, IIRC. Just get one extra use case out of the tiny bit of space activity we do have. Or did I miss something; do I have to re-read it?
I understand what you are saying. I have read blog posts that argue DevOps may be someone’s responsibilities, but it is not a title. I’ve read others that say DevOps is a method to managing code delivery, but not a title. I’ve read job descriptions and CVs that list DevOps as a title.

My conclusion is DevOps is a newly made up word. The technology community is still trying to agree on a definition. Like all words, that definition will change over time.

I think it is okay to have your favorite definition, but I would be careful inferring too much about someone’s “seriousness” or competence based on their choice of favorite definition.
> I love this idea - I paid a grand for this thing, I should be able to run whatever I like on it.

The price shouldn't matter. If Apple sold it for $1, losing hundreds of dollars in raw materials per purchase, would you still say that? In both price scenarios, Apple expects pay on the back-end in the form of the 30% cut they take from app purchases and in-app purchases. It's the same with consoles - they're basically sold at a loss or very near-cost (eg. the $500 PS5 might have a per-unit COGS of $450) which, with R&D costs, isn't profitable on its own without backend revenue to recoup that loss, ie. from game sales or PSN/Xbox Live.
Lookout Security describes it as malware[2] and as malicious, as does Palo Alto Networks[3], Ars[4], Reuters[5] and The NY Times[6].

From here[1]:

> Remote control security risks

> XcodeGhost can be remotely controlled via commands sent by an attacker from a Command and control server through HTTP. This data is encrypted using the DES algorithm in ECB mode. Not only is this encryption mode known to be weak, the encryption keys can also be found using reverse engineering. An attacker could perform a man in the middle attack and transmit fake HTTP traffic to the device (to open a dialog box or open specific app for example).

> Read and write from clipboard

> XcodeGhost is also able, each time an infected app is launched, to store the data written in the iOS clipboard. The malware is also able to modify this data. This can be particularly dangerous if the user uses a password management app.

> Hijack opening specific URLs

> XcodeGhost is also able to open specific URLs when the infected app is launched. Since Apple iOS and OS X work with Inter-App Communication URL mechanism (e.g. 'whatsapp://', 'Facebook://', 'iTunes://'), the attacker can open any apps installed on the compromised phone or computer, in the case of an infected macOS application. Such mechanism could be harmful with password management apps or even on phishing websites.

> Stealing user device information

> When the infected app is launched, either by using an iPhone or the simulator inside Xcode, XcodeGhost will automatically collect device information.*

> Then the malware will encrypt those data and send it to a command and control server. The server differs from version to version of XcodeGhost; Palo Alto Networks was able to find three server URLs:

> http://init.crash-analytics.com, http://init.icloud-diagnostics.com, http://init.icloud-analysis.com

> The last domain was also used in the iOS malware KeyRaider.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XcodeGhost#Behavior_on_infecte...

[2] https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/09/20/xcodeghost

[3] http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/malware-x...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/apple...

[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/20/us-apple-china-mal...

[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/apple-confirms-di...
And so what do you conclude? You seem to be saying that instead of unfettered speech you prefer that some authority step in and pick and choose what speech is to be allowed?

And who gets to be in that privileged position of determining what discourse is permitted by everyone else?