skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a safety precaution.

Consider it like a supply chain breach: If you discover that your supply chain has been possibly tampered with by QAnon-associated conspiracy bloggers who deliberately lied to circumvent background
check requirements and who also disabled the security cameras that week, you replace the equipment to be safe while you investigate.

> Griswold also said that one week before the breach, Peters ordered her staff to turn off the video surveillance system that monitors the voting machines and that it was only recently turned back on.

Precautions for supply chain breaches aren’t unique to voting machines. If you discover supply chain tampering for anything security-sensitive, you replace the gear. This goes for everything from people’s laptops to network equipment.

The full article has more details. This wasn’t just a simple leak. There’s some strange corruption involved at that office.
... not a parent?

(The only thing worse than trying to get a child who isn't tired to go to sleep is a child who is too tired to go to sleep.)
Most people/companies aren’t deliberately causing jamming or interference. But there are consultants that will help isolate these accidents so the issue can be resolved. Unfortunately the name of the company that does this is failing me right now.
I was arguing more in the sense that sometimes the placebo effect is all you need. Especially if there is no underlying physical condition but a case of psychological stress. If it's alleviated well by a placebo (or meditation, or other technique), then using something that has a biologically active ingredient might be counterproductive, because of the possibility of adverse side effects. As the side effects are then again medicated, the person is caught in a medication loop.

I'm all for studies and finding the right active molecule for treating the illnesses. But from my anecdotal experience, many cases of the common ailments like back pain[1], stomach problems, blood pressure are either psychogenic or stem from conditions of one's life. If a placebo brings enough amelioration, it should not be considered 'quackery'.

[1] see Dr. Sarno's 'Healing back pain': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXjsexiDKE
California has a huge economy with a lot of network effects that draw and hold people there. Going remote and geographic diversification of industries will help people escape the California rent trap.

SpaceX is leaving. VCs increasingly fund startups anywhere or fully remote.
Software companies are going remote. It’s happening. COVID has accelerated some of these trends a lot, especially remote.
Solana (SOL): The Ethereum (ETH) rival’s claim to fame
Gave me a scare there. World population has only increased by 3 billion since 1990. We good. /s
Just cause upcoming laws are insane doesn't mean that the GDPR is.
Calculus isn’t used too much in the software biz except for neural networks and such.

Linear algebra is important, as is combinatorics. Look at the required classes for a CS (or math) major, subtract the ones required for a physics major and I’d say that is your curriculum.
That sounds like a personality trait (high on conscientiousness, low on openness to experience. I’m the exact opposite.)
Traffic jams form a similar kind of agency loss.
Go EU! It's time EU had its own infra.
In the early days when iCloud was new it corrupted my decade long (at that point in time) bookmarks.

I was devastated. I never recovered them all. But it taught me a lesson.

Apple in the cloud brings nothing good to the user if you trust them.

Since then I have never and will never use iCloud for anything important. I can see iCloud has become a vector for no privacy over the years.
https://archive.ph/twq99
Create a simple calculator component in React
Chris Boardman was saying this a few years ago [0]. He also notes that the safety aspect of cycling is often pushed on to cyclists themselves including useless distractions like helmets. His own mother was killed on a bicycle while wearing a helmet.

I ride my bike on the road a lot. I first got on a bike on the road as a child and learnt a lot of lessons then that I couldn't afford to learn now. After more than 25 years on the road I've seen it get worse and worse and it's not getting any better. I couldn't imagine getting on the road for the first time today. I'm sad to say I cannot in good faith recommend cycling to anyone.

We need to get rid of cars. They are unhealthy and a scourge. Too many adults let their bodies regress into useless blobs the moment they can get in a car. Streets all over the UK are packed with ugly cars parked dangerously, vagrantly disobeying the laws and parking illegally and dangerously around junctions and on footpaths.

Bicycles are beautiful technology. A machine which enables you to travel at least 3x faster, with luggage, using nothing but your own steam. Bicycles are quiet, clean, small, efficient and cheap. And we're paradoxically telling people they should use them, while still allowing untrained idiots to drive 3-ton trucks around them at high speeds on the same roads. It's insane.

Cars need to go.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/31/chris-b...
GP is not talking solely about ADA though, they are asserting that there is a fundamental difference which is embodied solely in the presence or absence of a return value which is missing from e.g. "everything is a method"

Differentiating between pure and impure functions might be useful[0], but while not strictly orthogonal the presence of a return value doesn't tell you anything about that. Even ignoring the error signalling, read(2) has a return value (the data being read) and also has side-effects.

[0] though it's debatable that this distinction is really useful in and of itself
Same, then after my systolic climbed to to 180-200 they got around to diagnosing me with kidney disease. I ended up with permanent vision and kidney damage because other than that, I was an apparently healthy young person.

Even mild hypertension can be a serious indicator of potentially life threatening, or at least altering, issues. If you measure high at the doctor, measure yourself at home and keep a log.
You may be more competent and motivated than I was. However, I went back to college classes to learn math, supplemented with a healthy dose of Khan Academy.
Interesting. I find it liberating because you can completely tune out the world. Don’t have to pay attention to anything.
> The language seems designed to encourage you to be you and to shape the language to suit your individual style, problem domains, or interests.

This is cool for the solo programmer.

Teams and organizations need some amount of standardization if they want their programmers to be able to maintain each others code. At that point, none of the coolness of Lisp remains, and you're better off using a less dynamic language that imposes more of a standard style.
"(...) Do you see this big red circle on the bottom of the window? Now next to it there is a circle with a little square in it. No, don't click it just yet! You have shared your screen with me. It is used when... You know what, it doesn't matter. Find three dots on the bottom of the window. Yes, three dots, in a line. Now click it and select 'Stop sharing'. Higher. Higher. Yes, now click it! Brilliant. Now, do you remember the red circle? Next to it, on the left side, I believe, there should be another circle with a square and a less than sign, you know like from math. It is striked out? Yes, that would be it. Click it. Yes, that should do it. Splendid! It works. It is supposed to be "a video camera". I am as lost as you are. Honey! Your dad is back. Please, don't click anywhere else. Oh, shit he froze. Maybe I'll call him from Hangouts? Oh, forget it, they shut it down lately. Why? I don't know, they just did. Can't we just call him on the phone? (...)"
- Smart Machines and Service Work, Jason E. Smith

- The Cybernetic Hypothesis, Tiqqun
That doesn't explain why he picked one-based arrays, it only says the reasons C has zero-based arrays don't necessarily apply to Lua.
The Brazilian design for voting machines addresses most of those concerns in a nice way. I couldn’t find a full description in English but Wikipedia has a few bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Brazil
Only for prisons (and jails) you don't get to pick where you'll end up.

And I wouldn't expect prisons/jails to have the same (or comparable) variety in murder rates as there is between say rural Utah and South Side Chicago.

So the argument is kind of moot.
That’s a shitload of wasted money, energy, and carbon emissions that could be replaced by a babysitter, a spare room, and a walk.
But isn’t it very common to account for the white coat syndrome?

I was recently diagnosed with HBP and the process went like this:
- doctor took the measurement, was very high

- asked me to measure at home, call if it was still high (it was, but much lower)

- invited me over, I got a blood pressure monitor for 24h. That showed a borderline 130/85) higher BP. For comparison, he was reading 160/100 at his office..

This is just to illustrate that doctors should know about the white coat syndrome and shouldn’t diagnose you based on readings in their office only.
The main reason for all three high blood pressure , diabetes and obesity seems to be excess glucose intake in our food. Millets seem to work wonders in solving this problem for society at large. High fiber rich vegetables diet plan is helping in controlling blood pressure and diabetes diseases.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327501651_A_whole_f...
There is also the Emmy Nominated HBO Documentary "Hacking Democracy", from 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
You're seriously overlooking the magnesium here. Could be that's what's working.

But I can't comment on the other stuff, it could be effective, I never heard of it.
I have seen these doomsday predictions for years and they tend to not really materialize.
Prick your skin and you get blood and also a sample of other fluids such as intercellular juice. The latter is entirely a different thing and measurements of electrolytes and other things frequently tested mean something totally different.

Also blood testing is not a bottleneck in medicine. Maybe some people can’t stand needles but the phlebotomy clinic in my area gets you in and out like that —- what is there to disrupt about it?
The nice thing about a language like Scheme is that it can potentially support both views seamlessly. Just add it as a rendering option to your IDE, and use it when appropriate - perhaps for coding on a non-standard interface such as a touchscreen, where this kind of input might be preferred. (Of course the flip side is that any Snap program can also have an isomorphic Scheme representation, for easy editing with a keyboard and mouse.)
Given the audits and investigations of past elections, and that up until the summer of 2020 most democratic leadership were saying the election would be fraudulent, why aren’t we allowing republicans to audit to their heart’s content? What could it possibly hurt to make it completely open and accountable, for whatever they feel was sketchy? Surely national harmony is worth a Stacy Abrams style audit?
Again, you're assuming that a full explanation is necessary simply because someone might want to be heard, which isn't true. Moreover, you haven't given much explanation for why you think that's true, which supports my point.

Regarding things like OpenCourseware, etc., that's not about anyone being obligated to support their position to people asking questions, which is what we're discussing. I never said people can't consult video or a book to learn more, but it's not the same thing as demanding answers from any expert and obligating them to explain. You're basically changing the subject now, and you've proved my points pretty well, so I think we're done here.
> If you need to write a high-performance, heavily-threaded network server that parses malicious binary data, Rust is a great tool because of those restrictions.

If dealing with Untrusted File Formats perhaps you should use a tool purpose-built for Wrangling them Safely, WUFFS.

You won't find a Hello, World example for WUFFS because Hello World prints out text to your console, which is exactly the sort of nefarious stuff bad guys might try to do and so WUFFS doesn't even provide any mechanism you could use to do that even if you wanted to. But it does Wrangle Untrusted File Formats Safely, shrinking your remaining problem space.

For example WUFFS would be appropriate for taking files your users claim are JPEG "photographs" they uploaded for their "profile picture" and turning each one into either a 64x64 pixel RGB array or an error without any risk that they seize control of your profile picture program and do goodness knows what else instead.

Although Rust's memory safety means you can achieve confidence a "photograph" doesn't corrupt memory it doesn't require the rigour WUFFS brings to file parsing, so a Rust program could end up confused about unforeseen state while parsing the file. For example in Rust you can write a function that might mistakenly overflow a 32-bit integer and, in production it will just silently wrap. In WUFFS that function won't compile until you either decide explicitly what should happen (e.g. wrapping, saturation) for each overflow, or you trap all the cases where it could overflow as an error. This is very annoying of course, but we're parsing Untrusted File Formats and if we leave anything to chance that will be exploited.
Yes. I am not "addicted" to my computers in that I feel withdrawal when they're gone, but my ADHD self is constantly tempted to use them. I think the computer screen is somehow a supernormal stimulus [0], especially the super-bright crisp Mac and iPhone "retina" screens that always gave me a slight headache.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
Eh. My teacher just wrote "assume all probabilities are independent" at the top of the test.

Using only independent examples is a good way to have a lot of very repetitive problems where you take marbles out of bags of marbles.
Do you mean catnip?

That's the best way to get them to eat grass safely and get high at the same time.
Can you explain? I'm (semi) familiar with the heap and definitely hated on first fit and next fit in favor of beat fit. I get that its gonna take significantly less time to find a block to allocate but why does listing files benefit so much from it and not run into a memory usage problem. Unless your splitting the block on allocation but then i would think you still have a peoblem cause you'd have a high degree of external fragmentation.

I typed a lot so i can be better corrected, not because I understand what is going on.
Indeed not. That's not what I said.

I don't even want them talking out to the internet by default, which is why I have a separate subnet with a different set of firewall rules that only allows whitelisted outbound connections.
Whole countries with public counting of paper ballots have election results faster than we do.

The phrase "voting system" is an absurdity. It highlights the overly complex, bug-riddled lunacy we have now.

A lockbox, under guard with multiple observers, collecting ballots over the voting period, followed by a public counting of the paper ballots is simple and fast. What we have now isn't.
I think maybe you're missing some subtlety here. In Scratch, the type of a parameter or expression is denoted by it's shape. Strings are square, numbers are round, booleans are angled, and statements are shaped like puzzle pieces. You don't need quotation marks and escape characters for strings.

So new users can be oblivious to types for a little while - just tell them they can't put a square peg into a round hole.

I think it falls apart pretty quickly as they add more features in Snap. For instance, are lists always lists of strings? And list themselves are rounded rectangles? Sprites and procedures are rounded rectangles? I guess they ran out of easily distinguished shapes, but maybe that's ok by the time new programmers start needing these features.
I wish there was an HN guideline against nihilism.
I'm sure that depends on whether you believe religious impulse is a fixed and constant feature of the human psyche that requires some outlet, or whether you believe it is variable based on some set of environmental factors.

To give an example of how this could manifest: it could be that religious impulse scales with material uncertainty and is also passed down in the family environment. Under a construction like this, you would expect religious impulse to begin fading among families where there is a certainty of sufficient food and shelter, with the fade occurring over the course of multiple generations. I'm not saying this specifically is the case, just proposing one mechanism that is broadly consistent with the shape of history.
Shares in random startup X are worth $0 to first order. If somebody is employee N where N ~ 1 it is one thing but an expert who is there to share some expertise and move on wants cash.
Thanks for the critiques.

I think for it to be sensible it requires a different framing to the problem.

> ...they will be surrounded in many cases by cheap booze...

> ...If you have, you'd know that Indonesia and Thailand are very protective of their labor markets...

> ....do you really think SE Asians want homeless Americans (some with mental illness and substance abuse issues) teaching their kids?

Good points. Related questions are answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28346353

> ...few things worse than taking people who can't support themselves in their home country and shipping them off to SE Asia...

Also, we don't evict people and "ship them off". It's about giving them an oppournity with incentives to make a decision in their life, a new chapter that they can choose to embark on if they see it as a better alternative to being homeless in CA.
> updated date as 1597083627107

August 10, 2020
Is that true? WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Messenger are Erlang. Some pretty extreme scale systems, I'd say.
In a past life I used to commute to a small scenic village out of a city. It was exactly as you describe: scenic and relaxing 25 minute train ride with not another soul on the train and it was always on time.

Now I fly around a lot and it feels like half my life is draining away "waiting to get somewhere".
> Functions should be similar to mathematical functions and come with guarantees like purity, referential transparency, and totality.

Essentially none of that is embodied in Ada's distinction between functions and procedures though, despite that being "fundamentally different […] from a reasoning-about-the-code perspective" according to the comment I replied to.

The only thing Ada tells you is "this definitely has side-effects" because there's no other reason to have a function without a return value, but that's the least useful thing you can be made aware of.

> Another reason they should be different is they've got different names! Might seem trite to say that, but what's the point in having the same concept with different titles?

Because you're very confused and making a distinction between things which are not different?

> Pure functions are very powerful concepts

That's debatable, but even then it's not what function means in Ada.

> especially when it comes to composition, if the consumer of a function can't rely on that, then the consumer must investigate the internals to know what it does.

Knowing what a function does is probably a good idea either way. You can call `map` with the same parameters as `filter` but the result will be rather different.
Here is the Wikipedia Article about this topic:

Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the Moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon
Oh cmon. You know what happens if you say zuckerberg 5 times while looking at a mirror
I'm very interested in this space too. I want to start a project that explores different ways to communicate on the web. The current state of Facebook and Twitter are not the best way in my opinion.
I personally am not bothered by the agency loss. In fact I want the agency loss; it's my thinking and mind-wandering/clearing time.

But driving itself can be very tiring, at least if you are trying to drive safely. That's the main reason I don't ever want a driving commute longer than 30 minutes, but would be okay with a longer transit commute.
Same here. I’ve been a software engineer for 20+ years and I’ve never been on call. I’ve put out fires and fixed urgent bugs, of course.
I could use some help with some heuristics for Machine Learning, like how much data do I need to make a workable model, what framework/approach makes more sense given my ultimate goals.

Here's an example: there's a lot of ML tutorials on doing image identification. Like you have a series of images: picture one might have an apple and a pear in it, picture 2 might have an apple, orange, and a banana in it.

Where I'm struggling is putting this into my domain. I have a 100k images and from that around 1k distinct labels (individual images can have between 1 to 7 of these different labels), with between 13,000 to 100 images as examples in each label.

Is that enough data? Should I just start working on gathering more? Is this a bad fit for a ML solution?
As a facebook and messenger user I'm fine with them censoring stuff. I use it to send holiday pics to friends and family etc. If idiots want to cause people to die by pushing covid misinformation then fine censor away. There are other forums if you want uncensored stuff.
Would better to higher a priest as a chaplain for Buddbists? An Imam as chaplain for Protestants?

Which religion should a chaplain be?
respectfully, that article simply repeats variations of scenarios tom brings up in his video;)

pick any part of the process in that article and ask "how do you know that the black box is trustworthy?" , in the context of assuming that some nation states have a vested interest in messing with the process...
What if you jam the railroad communication on accident? Do you know what frequencies the engineer, conductors and operations center is using?
Have you tried SingleSPA? I’ve used it in the past to get React apps inside an old AngularJS app to replace parts of it over time and it worked pretty well. Docs say it works with Vue as well but I don’t have any direct experience with Vue at all far less for this kind of task so I’m not really sure it will work but it is worth looking at https://single-spa.js.org/
It looks like the safer way to vote is avoiding technology, which I find a bit counterintuitive even though many countries rely on paper and people counting, I've even done it once (forced by law). I don't know how wrong I might be in this, but it looks to me like it systems are vulnerable by nature and hence the only secure voting system seems to be a system that avoids relying entirely on IT systems.

The technical problem is solvable, but the security and transparency (to the public) are harder to get, specially the security aspect since blockchain technology could potentially help dealing with transparency.
Reflexive Control, Perception Management and the Map
I think that a lot of people feel the need for moral certainty in their lives, and that some of them aren't satisfied with personal models thereof and want to extend them to the entire society, perhaps minus some loathed outgroup that plays the role of the Devil.
OP-Tee: Open-Source Trusted Execution Environment for ARM Platforms
My understanding is that surgical masks don't really work when you're jammed in a small space for a long period of time. There was a thread here recently with a lot of studies linked in it. It seems like masks can only extend your expected time-to-infection inside a building by several minutes.
You mean say what they are going to do and then actually do it? We can hope so.
To catch a paedophile, you only need to look at their hands (2017)