skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like China won long ago and the West is only now realizing it.
While it’s an interesting conversation, it’s not my argument. My point is that merely asking for some verification of residency (name, address) plus a verification that you have not yet voted (dip your finger in the ink pot) reduces a lot of attacks on our election integrity (including voter suppression and disenfranchisement). I am also in favor of holding all elections on weekend and making them federal holidays.

My general gut instinct on this stuff is that we could have simple, safe elections, but we would need to be patient in receiving results, commit to competitive redistricting, and reduce political party influence over the details as they will always attempt to game them towards their preferred status quo.
A Tour of Twist
> Google rightly defaults to Arabic

It’s not “rightly.” If I go to google.com, I expect google.com not the country-specific version. If, for example, I wanted Mexican google, I’d explicitly type google.com.mx etc. It’s a royal pain that google doesn’t respect the user’s intent and instead infers a language based on geography.
You could try Flippa or Dan.com, or set up your own parked page.
But presumably you've also then been living very different variations of the same script, since there have been infinite combinations of matter that were close enough to give rise to you, but different enough to have very different outcomes.

Also, doesn't physics and the Big Bang rule out this eternal recurrence idea? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
The goal of the program is to put EV's on the road. Limiting it by income does not help that.
The average cost of a new car is $40k, which is where they are setting the cap.
Electric vehicles cost more than their gas counterparts.
This is an attempt to kill the tax credit all together...
Netflix isn’t choosing the policy they’re just required to enforce them per the licensing restrictions of the content they get rights too.

The studios who license the content do so on a geographic basis to various streaming providers.

It’s all geographic because its easier, and makes for a more consistent policy that all involved (content owners and distribution partners) can agree to. It’s not that I don’t understand your frustration but the whole system is set up that you can watch the content you can stream from the providers who serve the region you’re in. If the content you want to view isn’t available from a regional provider that’s not Netflix’s fault.

It’s not at all “easy” to switch to using something like a billing address because of the entrenched nature of the licensing system and a lack of motivation on the parts of the studios who have a system that “works” and likely wouldn’t see the benefit of what you’re proposing.
What about transportation between factory and destination? And if they just bought the freezers, how were all the doses from Jan to July kept cold?
But he's been alive for 100% of his life, which is all that he had to experience.
In my state, you go to the circuit clerk, fill out a paper with your name and address, then receive your card in the mail. The receiving the card in the mail is the verification. No ID was necessary for me to register or vote. Seems like this could be gamed fairly easily.
If transmission between vaccinated people is happening relatively easy, that should totally change the narrative.

- Herd immunity becomes unrealistic.

- My vaccine doesn’t protect you and vice versa. Our own does however protect us very well.

- Vaccine passports are essentially pointless and possibly dangerous if they give a false sense of security. Only asymptomatic, more infectious people will be allowed in.

- The messaging should change towards “take a vaccine to protect yourself and not burden the health service with your own illness.”

I wonder if messaging will change to reflect the new “the science” or if too much political face would be lost at this point?
Event sourcing is a game changer. Everywhere I have worked has ended up reimplementing it in some form, because it is irresistible to incorporate history into your data model.

My most thorough use of event sourcing was in a real-time art auction system, which combined in-person and online bidding. An operator had to input the actions in the room into the system and bid on behalf of online bidders. Event sourcing allowed us to model what actually happened for each auction lot. It also made it possible to model undos and cancellations in really slick ways.

Command-query response segregation (CQRS) is also a powerful concept, and it combines elegantly with event sourcing. I also find it to be a handy way of thinking of raw and derived data, rather than trying to perfect a normalized data model to serve all purposes.
> Our city had a 8 year old who had to get a heart transplant locally due to delta.

Could it be possible he had to get a heart transplant because of potential Myocarditis...?
No one burned down an AutoZone.
The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to post like this about "bots", "astroturfing", etc. unless you have evidence, which you don't. Other users having different views than yours—even if you feel they're completely wrong—is not evidence of anything (other than that the community is divided). Please don't post like this to HN again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Long, detailed experience has shown that these insinuations are based on literally nothing at all—just imagination and projection.

As far as I can tell after studying the data in detail for many years, here is what's really happening: the community is divided, different users have a wide range of views, and it's really hard for people to grok that the range of honest views is as wide as it actually is. Since that's hard (for whatever reason) to accept, users make up stories about other users being disingenuous "bots" and "trolls" and "spies" which are "easy to spot". They're only "easy to spot" because you've created them.

I'm not saying that real abuse and manipulation don't exist; I'm saying that accusations about it need something objective to point to—at least a shred of some evidence to go on—and setting that extremely minimal requirement easily rules out 99.9% of internet comments about this kind of thing. Meanwhile such comments are deeply poisonous to community, which is why we have the rule asking people not to post like this.

Incidentally, by referring to "self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative", you've already (in a tendentious way) contradicted what you spent most of your comment claiming, since what you're describing there is a view that a lot of people happen to hold for whatever reasons of their own. You may think they're wrong, but that's hardly the same thing as them being "bots" that are "easy to spot". In fact, it's the opposite.

I wrote a detailed explanation about this a couple of months ago, if anyone wants to learn more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725. And there are many years' worth of long, detailed explanations accessible by scrolling back through https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
That's a good question!!

Do you think Alexa 'apps' count? If so making that work seems like it have to completely open 'Alexa' up (hooks into voice recognition, programming logic) as basically an extensible AWS type platform.
I agree with that. Most of the time I'm just wanting to capture a window though. So the capture -> crop (carefully) is just tedious.

Being able to snag the active window would be enough :)
> It would be nearly impossible for Netflix to comply with their agreements with content owners.

So perhaps Netflix should actually disrupt the industry by killing those stupid regional agreements that are a vestige from when film was distributed on reels.

Films are still sold that way, but if anyone could crack the country-specific market paradigm, surely Netflix could.
Hmmm, I would use Docker Selenium and have python connect to your container with remote web driver. You can make pretty robust scrapers that way. I didn't know people still used beautiful soup.
Privacy and Apps not locking themselves out if a specific unnecessarily permission isn’t granted. The later would never slide in a walled garden but absolutely would in another store operated by a giant capable of spinning one off I.e Epic Games , Facebook, Google , Samsung. Etc.
Sort of an aside to your point, but Australia is actually a bit of a leader in the rigorous consideration of election practices. Today we mostly think of this in terms of Australia having pioneered large-scale use of STV, but it goes well before that... the predominant voting method used in the United States is often called the Australian Ballot, for example. Australia has a history of unusual voting policies which have proven successful, although certainly some that have proven unsuccessful as well.
I think there would be more faith in the elections if we didn't have images like this:

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/A4F1/production/_115252224_gettyi...

Followed by articles like this:

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

And blocking audits like this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-audit-election-subpoena...

I agree, give everyone paper. Count by hand. Then scan into machine. Every ballot should have a secret code they can then use to see their ballot online.
https://decentraland.org/
" I'll never know what was going on inside his head, but I don't think he spent a moment questioning himself. "

I hear statements like this on TV often, like "Trump clearly believed himself he won the election". That makes me wonder, isn't an impostor someone who's trying to con us all the time. So of course they would do their best to make us think that they believe their lies themselves. But if we think they do then that probably just means they have succeeded in conning us into thinking that.

I would think that in fact you can NOT be an impostor unless you can make it look like you yourself totally believe what you are saying.
One of my favorite domain purchases was them.us

But I got an offer I didn’t want to refuse and sold it…
> and using elinks (or was it links2?)

I believe it was links. It had numerous backends from what I recall, to include fb, X, and maybe even svgalib. I don't recall elinks supporting any of that. But I could be wrong.
It looks like there's no sponsorship for Mosh. Had this been considered?

Not saying money would solve the challenges the maintainer faces but there might be things it eases. With a tool this popular I expect it wouldn't struggle to raise a fair bit.
I held on to rubygetsrailed.com for well over a decade without ever doing anything useful on it.
it said they "submitted data to the FDA", that is very vague as to whether it was actually further studies or some other type of evidence/data
Thanks for this! Looks interesting. I feel like I should have heard of it before... any idea why it's under the radar?
It's dangerous to see acceptance of death as a kind of virtue. The amount of funding dedicated to anti-aging research is very small, it's a tiny subset of funding for Alzheimer's disease by the NIH. I think it's precisely this line of thinking that explains the lack of funding and the extremely slow progress in this field [0].

[0] https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/fiscal-year-2021-budget
I guess this is just one of those things where people have fundamentally different motivations. I don't get up every day and try to figure out how to get away with not paying for anything while benefiting from everyone else who does. Am I a little less rich for it? Sure. But that's fine.
Thanks but I was looking to see if codespaces could somehow be used with a locally running container.
Forget country of origin. It seems that most websites don't even acknowledge the existence of multilingual countries: You are in Switzerland, you must speak German; Belgium, here is some French; Canada, I guess that makes you Anglophone.

It reminds me of a comment on an article about one of the giants (Google perhaps) who did not correctly handle capitalization rules for Dutch last names and capitalized "van", etc. Someone said something along the lines of "it's the height of corporate arrogance when a company treats your entire country and identity as an edge case." How useful or convenient tech services are tends to correlate strongly with how close to SF Bay area your life is. A UK person in Qatar is way too far. Even a Francophone in North America seems to be too far for most services.
Isn't that the worst thing to do? I assume that a bank knows that bitcoin is volatile so the terms of the loan would include their ability to call the loan if the value of the bitcoin collateral drops too much.

So you could have your $100M loan in the bank one day, and have to pay it all back (including what you spent) after a bad bitcoin day.
On second thought, the move to remote environments may have an interesting side effect: if people are no longer familiar with setting up their local development environments, then it will be a bit harder to set up their own side projects to tinker and try out new stuff; in a reality where everyone is working on a remote/preset environment, we will have just another small, but very significant inhibition to deal with our own side projects.

now there is a bit of an irony - github helped open source, now this development will be very helpful to corporate software developers, but might turn out to be harmful to open source as such.
> When a good significant portion of your website is dedicated to “will I get banned?”

It means that you will, and their app will get blacklisted, and they know it. They're trying to extract cash from users before it all gets banned/closed.

These types of apps get created for every new competitive game, and after a while they get shut down and the companies usually just quietly shut down without refunding anything.
https://loda.sh
Please re-read his comment, or even this whole thread.

The person you replied to specifically said that they don't care for immortality. People are simply advocating for death on their own terms, instead of the pathetically short lives we have today.
Oh it can be slow, not all of the entity framework adaptors support bulk operations. I ended up extending it a bit on my object model to include bulk operations which do pretty much what you have there (I stuck to delete and insert though). However, I have used a pile of ORM products since the early C++ / smalltalk days back in the 1990s and it's easily the best ORM I've ever used.
Reminds me of Dunning Kruger Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I think a major point here is that it's not the HK government anymore it's CCP.
> people who sell them media rights likely insist on tight region controls (or, would charge NF a lot more for "global" rights vs "US" rights.)

Netflix could tell them to pound sand. If those distributors want to sell their product, they’ll have to bend. What’s the alternative? Movie theaters? Netflix is such a market mover now, they can play a lot harder than in their early days.
Only one I’ve heard of is Google Inc. switching to Google LLC after Alphabet was founded.
Thank you for posting links.

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted by fascists for posting science.

This is the new world we live in.
Seems strange that there was any concern whatsoever, if dry ice was a solution. They were talking extremely low temps. Further, we are in the midst of a major trucking shortage... I would have to assume that the small niche of ultra-cold trucking is even more stressed.
I looked it up, it was 2012 to 2018 (unless it was cancelled before the date in the ALARACT). Not sure if it was all the military or just the Army, though. Being in the Army, I didn't concern myself with the lesser branches ;)

https://www.benning.army.mil/garrison/dhr/content/PDF/ALARAC...
Sao Paulo was really the first to ban public advertising, back in 2007[1].

It makes think of G.K. Chesterton's quip "What a glorious garden of wonders the lights [of Broadway] would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read."[2]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...

2: https://www.chesterton.org/lecture-37/
Tem years ago a friend and I arranged the FOSCON event, which was the free OSCON for people who couldn't afford that conference. O'Reilly was happy to collaborate with us by the way.

We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.

As the MCs, we pretended to be the founders of a new company that was going to take on Twitter and Kevin Rose's new Pownce. We had slides between each presentation with awful marketing buzzwords and tried to appear as clueless as possible. We would ask people to quiet down and say things like "Listen, we paid a lot of money for this sponsorship..."

Omitting vowels was all the rage. We called our company:

Sqkwzr.com

(Can you believe that domain was free?)

The company took the concept of Twitter to a whole new level, where you could "tweet" out your farts and things like that automatically. We had a slide with each egress point labeled with hex addresses like 0xa55.

The tagline in the slides was: "every orifice has a story to tell."

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) was at OSCON that year and I approached him to see if he would attend and pretend he was an investor. I still have the email where he declined.
Indeed!

Google forced the new Google Drive client on me...

On my M1 Mac it crashes constantly and the Finder pops up Google Drive disconnect dialogues constantly.

Two days into finally relenting and giving the update from Backup & Sync to the new Drive client another try, it's still churning through my files!

It may never finish at this rate it constantly crashes!

Google Drive on M1 macOS is bad. Really bad. :-/
It is Matthew 7:5
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

I feel that each human nation as soon as they becomes a supper power they adopt behavior of a bully having bullies sense of justice e.g. "domination, violence and exploit".

Comparing a good technological achievement with moral and ethical values is not good analogy, but I understand what was your attempt.
Speaking about the open space, i think that bully mindset is not really a behavior we want to carry with us.
Do we really think that if other intelligent life (if it exist of course and is more intelligent) will let us?

Another issue is that space gives a military upper hand, meaning who ever deploys Moon base or Mars base will have ability to produce nukes or commence meteor strike on opponent country without much chance to defend themselves. So, in some sense something noble can be easily tuned to eval means. If China builds a moon base on the far side, we need to pair with moon base and spying satellites so we can track what are they doing, crating new military race, all the while mother planet is burning because of Global Warming as trillions are diverted - due to inability of nations to cooperate with each other.

Thus, I am trying to say, more technological power requires higher level of consciousness (goodness), otherwise we are just raging monkeys that will blow them selves up in one way or another.
> My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them)

I see you've rediscovered Rothbard's law: "People tend to specialise in what they're worst at." (Because anything too easy seems like it's not worth doing)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/27/change-...
Well, if it helps, fixating on this choice allowed me to collapse your entire thread without reading most of your comment with zero guilt :)
I feel like they stopped being relevant when their scavenger hunts ended.
See my other comment, it was 2012 to 2018.
Wherever Jack Valenti is now, I hope it's hot.
Lots. Many cities have running water for only a few hours a day.

And there may often be only one tap per 100 people in densely populated slums.
I think I have 7-8 domain names on Namecheap for projects I want to do but never finished?
Thunderbird 91.0
If you’re being malicious at that point why not just look up “software engineer companyname” on LinkedIn and use firstname.lastname@companyname.com

(Please don’t actually do this)
Sounds like a rationalization. There is no permanent solution to the problem of preventing death, so people try to make it a good thing.

This is especially true when you looked at some of our oldest myth such as the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Having dealt with significant cyber attacks from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Russia, I can’t blame them for blocking. They probably could do it more elegantly however.
It's not the same thing because the whole argument being made is in the context of 1Password and its target audience: normal users. That's your mum and dad and other very likely non-techie people.

Your choice of solution isn't the same thing.
For what it's worth, https://altstore.io/ is a relatively-new sideloading system that "just works" for iOS without jailbreaks - you can download .ipa packages however you want, and as long as you're on the same WiFi as a computer running the server, it will re-sign them with a personal key every 7 days. Outside of emulators, though, there's just not much of an ecosystem of high-quality apps for iOS that aren't built to be Apple-approved. But hey - you can bring back Flappy Bird!
Is the problem that life is too short or that people are scared shitless of dying because their genes say so?
My assumption is that they want to have an outside expert examine the configuration of the routers, which could provide some indication whether or not there was access to the internet, for example. Of course it would be difficult to establish whether or not that configuration had been changed in the meantime, and in my experience a lot of election administrators set up their EMS only on a temporary basis, so I would be unsurprised if supporting equipment like network appliances had been repurposed or returned to a lease provider.

That said, the EMS is usually a small half-rack setup and I'd be surprised for there to be a router at all. Often it's a single machine. The vendors usually tell you to either never connect it to outside networks, or to do so only for setup and disconnect it before you start election preparation. Most, usually all, in-election connectivity to the machines is via sneakernet.

Any kind of detailed network logging becomes a big undertaking at organizational scale, so it's very unlikely that there are any kind of useful persistent traffic logs on the routers. Any such logs would have been kept on a dedicated system like a netflow collector or SIEM, the routers don't have the storage (or storage write endurance). The fact the senate didn't subpoena for such a system suggests it doesn't exist, which is unsurprising. Mass-retention of network traffic logs is a sufficiently expensive and complex thing that not a lot of organizations do it.
I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this.

If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life.

If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it is down, the very nature of attempting to visit a site that is down will inform me that the site is down. Under no circumstances do I need, or want, a HN post, or a post on any other site, telling me of such a thing.

Later in-depth analyses of what caused the outage are welcome, of course, because those contain information that I will not have already obtained on my own.