skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I already explained this in my other comments, but you are just ignoring those and repeating anti-union propaganda. Either you are a troll or you are some kind of paid anti-union consultant; if you actually want an answer to your question, read what I wrote again.
You really can’t beat Fastmail. No other provider comes close from when I researched a few years ago.
It would currently appear to be, marginally, the least imaginary bit of the company, though. It kind of exists, whereas the rest seems purely aspirational.
> I liked the idea of distributing binary applications as well, which we needed to do in some instances, and building a binary runtime of the software was a great draw, too.

fwiw this is possible to with clojure using graalvm. Only mentioning this because of the clojure comparison in the earlier paragraph. While I do lament the JVM I haven't found a straightforward way to build statically compiled binaries with sbcl. I would love to be proven wrong though! :D
You counting some tiny subset of the votes is not an audit.

There is not a single person on earth who could audit an entire federal election on their own. There are multitude people because you need multitude people.

I could audit an election in the blockchain tomorrow.
Although I agree with much of the thrust of your comment, and especially that complexity is best understood as a sacrifice of trust, I don't fully understand your qualm with respect to the difficulty of this particular type of audit.

The paper ballot is like counting with an abacus: you need to actually witness the proceeding to be able to verify the accuracy of the result.

A vote on a public ledger is easy to verify, even with an extremely rudimentary understanding of the technology, and the verification can be performed at any time in posterity.
> And it's not because of the sound quality, because I can't tell the difference.

I like the form factor of vinyls a lot but... What kind of turntable do you need for not being able to tell the difference? I take it you need both a pricey vinyl turntable and recent vinyls? To me playing vinyl is linked to my young self playing vinyl and they definitely had a "vinyl sound": hisses and noises and whatnots.

> There's not really a reason for me to buy a CD. I can just buy the digital version and store it on my Plex server if I want just the music.

I do still buy CDs and rip to FLAC.
> People don't have the slightest clue how traditional vote counting and recount procedures work until sometimes goes wrong and it makes the news

And yet we can pull almost anyone off the street from both sides of the political aisle to participate in a non-partisan recount or audit and have it work out, which is what happens. We can't do that with blockchains.
Impossible? That’s a huge leap. Assuming lots of things are implemented as stated, and done so without crucial bugs, maybe. But neither of those things are impossible to mess up.
Switched from Gmail to Fastmail in 2008. No regrets. Haven't considered anything else since (and didn't notice these recent problems I now read about). Email hosting is something I'd want to change very rarely. Track record counts for a lot; good-AND-profitable email hosting is tough, and I generally wouldn't trust any entity [in this space] that's been around for <5 years. Fastmail's been at it for 20+ years now, and I'm reasonably sure I don't have to worry about changing anything for at least another 5-10 years.
QPX (ITA's, and now Google's) system is responsible for calculating and searching airfares, i.e. the complete "solution" for "I want to get from A to B with those constraints". It's what responds when you ask google flight for a route, essentially. This is quite computationally complex due to many dimensions involved in airfare calculations. This system is essentially implemented on top of SBCL with some small bits of C++ (responsible, IIRC, for handling memory-mapped airfare data files).
I wasn’t actually maintaining software across this divide, but I do still occasionally see Tcl 7.x installations in the wild and find it quite recognizable. It seemed to me the biggest changes from 7->8 were byte code interpreter and “dual ported” Tcl_Obj to store values vs naive C strings(which should have only exposed themselves as “improved performance”).

The release notes[0] for Tcl 8 seem to list minor-ish annoyances, but perhaps you did have to support something across the 7-8 divide; I won’t argue against your experience in that case.

> As always, the best way to predict the future is to make it

Truth.

[0] https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.0.html#incompatibilities
Can you share the price?
The second half of that summarized: if you want to do cryptographic voting, OK- but print out paper ballots too, with both the votes in human-readable format and a QR code or something containing a hash of the protocol transcript or something that allows confirmation that the cryptographic vote matches the votes printed on the paper. Then do risk-limiting audits.
I've seen the aftermath of a battery fire, trust me, you don't want to go there. It's a small price to pay on my end and even if the effect is just psychological that's worth it to me :)

I should do a write-up on battery pack failures, I've collected a small mountain of data on this, it might be useful to others.

Many thanks for the rear carrier information, this is something I will have to really deal with somehow, the frame gap on this bike is just too bloody small and I don't want to permanently alter the bike in case I want to sell it. I've done quite a bit of cycling with kids on the back so I'm used to having a lot of weight there (and one on the front too, total bike weight in excess of 130 Kg), but it's something that will have more effect the faster you go.

What's definitely out is an off-side pack or to have it split across the carrier bags, that's asking for trouble, both from a mechanical point of view and an electrical one (you'd be running quite a few wires between the two sides). At least a carrier one is going to be centered on the bike.

Cells are arriving tomorrow, for now I've decided on a 10x20 grid (so a few more cells ;) ), 21 x 41 cm plus some room in front to house the BMS. the box will be fairly low, about 90 mm altogether so that should help keep the COG low, the carrier is rather low on this bike so on the whole it might not be that bad. I'll be sure to be extra careful with wet roads and I categorically refuse to cycle when it's icy (I have a bunch of steel in one leg from a previous accident so falling again is really not an option).

At least my adapter works, so I won't need to butcher the bike wiring harness.

If you want to take this out-of-band: jacques@modularcompany.com
Plus you're not locked into one email provider, instead of dying addresses on hotmail, yahoo, aol and gmail.
That’s true, I had to open an LLC because of that. However, tax burden for self reporting is exactly the same as when you’re employed at some company, it’s negative in other ways, like losing a bunch of benefits.
> You mean as opposed to the current system that so many people understand and audit?

The current system is trivial to explain, understand, and more importantly audit. I defy you to find a simpler, more robust system that the average Joe can and does understand.

Meanwhile, it's easy to understand how a complex system involving blockchains can and will be subjected to attacks exploiting it's opacity, or even the fact that it exists only in electronic form.

Let's put it this way: attackers even try to attack the very existence and legitimacy of boxes of paper ballots that are always on display and protected by security forces.
> With paper voting, anyone who can count can participate in a recount or audit.

Auditing is generally impossible with paper voting.

Not in principle, but it is incompatible in principle with anonymous ballots. When an explicit goal of the system is that it's impossible to answer the question "where did this come from?", an audit is dead before it starts.

What would you think of an "audit" of a company that concluded, in full, "they have $15,000,000 of assets"?
Write something extraordinary. Don't worry about the frame, what's your content? Write something so god-damn extraordinary people want to preserve it indefinitely, and will do the hard work for you. You've gotta write something absolutely biblical, fundamentally groundbreaking, revolutionary to the hearts and souls of all humanity.

Good luck!
I mean, it presumably takes relatively little money to bring in competent lawyers to do things properly, and yet that Four Seasons Landscaping thing happened. You're not, generally, talking about someone who appears to value (or perhaps even understand) competence.
When I first found out about Hacker News, but saw the domain (news.ycombinator.com), I had to make sure I wasn't on the wrong website.

After all, it was discovery from a Torvalds Q&A session.
I've got a friend who coasted through the early 2000s plopping out websites for random businesses for around 1k a pop - for a weeks work that's a pretty good take home.

The florist example was probably a poor choice since they tend to have pretty thin margins - but restaurants (while also not having a bunch of money) tend to have advertising budgets that can float a relatively modest cost for plopping out a website.
John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal
I’ve been on Fastmail for about 4 months now. This is the first service interruption I’ve seen & didn’t even notice it. I’ve used a lot of other providers, but from what I’ve experienced over these past months, Fastmail is one of the best. Their IOS app is great as well. Any provider is susceptible to outages due to volumetric attacks.
Sure, but it's still a tiny portion of people who can be chosen to count the votes, and each one can only verify that they themselves have counted accurately.
Were we willing to give up the secret ballot we could vote online trivially with any device with the benefit of a hardware token to prove your identity. We could then publish the results of everyone's vote with the help of a plain Jane web server and database and verify the integrity of the election by polling a random sample of people to ensure their published vote matched their vote while allowing anyone who wants to change their vote prior to certification to do so.

Results at certification would be in exact accord with the people's votes it would also be massively corrupted by undue influence of ones neighbors, family, employers, spiritual leaders, anyone with the money to buy votes, and so forth.

I do not understand how we could maintain a secret ballot and rely on a public registry of votes even if turning public vote into actual results required a secret. I also don't understand how the public could be sure that such results weren't silently corrupted even if it could in theory work.
Yet many rich democracies have been using electronic voting without issue. There’s an entire field of science and engineering for securing digital democracy, don’t take a single YouTuber as your source (ftr, I like Tom Scott’s videos too)
Thank You, Next (Problem)
Seems like selection bias to me. You can also Google "does global warming cause warmer winters" and get:

"How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything": https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/803125282/how-warming-winters...

"5 reasons why your warmer winter is so alarming": https://www.edf.org/blog/2020/02/12/5-reasons-why-your-warme...

"Winters are warming faster than summers. These US cities could lose weeks of freezing days by 2050." https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/12/20/18136006/c...
Firefox is good. Chrome is good. At the end it is all about money, people and focus. Chrome has Google that has money from other revenue streams. Firefox money comes mostly from where? Google. What other reasonable revenue stream they have? Donations? Pocket? VPN? None, AFAIK. It is sad, but still my main browser.
If we had only things from ancient history which people wanted to be archived we'd have a very different view on history. True future historians will have a lot more material about our present, but that still shouldn't limit our intent for archival of as much as we can. Only future will know what is relevant
Elon Musk gets the greenlight to connect the Las Vegas Strip with tunnels
First time I'm hearing about Fastmail :D
Are US Government Health institutions engaged in a gain-of-function cover-up?
Redwoodjs is nearly 1.0. It's based on React and solves data fetching, data storage and deployment with an opinionated approach
Sounds like a lot of hand-waving to make things seem simple, when they in fact are not.
Since we’re an ad-free platform, there needs to be some sort of way to make money from it. I thought, in an age where most people are simply fed up with the world of ads, why not go back to square one, and start as a subscription-based model? And, not to mention, I’d say most people won’t have the need to upgrade to a paid plan anytime soon after they start posting content, anyway. 5 GB goes a long way!
At which point you will probably need closer to 100B due to inflation, if the dollar is still relevant. Also you're likely dead.
I'm not sure they'd want to _work at his company_ though. Imagine what a shitshow the management will be.
Unfortunately if you do not fully own your own ICANN registrar, for example, like Facebook [1], then your domain remains open to the weakest link: humans and social engineering [2].

An Njal.la hosted domain was successfully transferred to Namecheap (through no fault of Njal.la). Obviously, this is very rare and extremley targeted.

[1] https://registrarsec.com/
[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8833/dark-fail-fake-court-...
The problem is when these people only get more done because they work more hours for the same money. They basically lower their own salary.

I can totally understand this for someone that is paid hourly and wants to get overtime pay to have enough money to fix their car. But our context here is usually highly paid, salaried tech jobs.

If I work more hours I can also get more done. I don't want to though and that has nothing to do with children or family. I've never in my life worked more for free. I sometimes work more when something needs doing but then I take extra time off somewhere else. So far no issues with promotions or anything else like that.

All my bosses understood that this is a money transaction. They give me flexibility to come in late, leave early, have a dentist appointment in the middle of the day etc and I'm flexible too. Production is burning at 5pm? Of course I don't leave even if I have a date later that night.

EDIT for clarity: if someone takes a 40h job for 100k and works 80h weeks they have now effectively lowered the market rate and their own salary to 50k. Why anyone would do that is beyond me especially since I see the same people complain about "H1Bs undercutting them" .
Someone have commented that (for brevity and to ensure anonymity, the wording have been changed):

Your answer makes no sense, DNS are decentralised!

Someone have forgotten Facebook's outage.
As far as I know every mobile phone reveals your location to the owners of the radio towers and your provider. It is probable they forward this information to more parties. You can use one with a hardware off switch, but obviously you cannot be reached by phone for the off time, not using one at all would not make a huge difference at that point.
> He's also targeting getting Apple back

Very unlikely to happen. Maybe Intel could end up manufacturing Apple's M* chips, but it seems very unlikely at this point that Apple would ever go back to the Intel architecture - Apple would be ceding control if they went back and they're not going to do that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi
I think this type of question is what make people go and work for the kind of Mark Zuckerbuerg.
That introduces a problem where certain browsers ask the user to confirm the cross-domain interaction before proceeding (which I suppose mitigates various silent credentials theft and tracking problems) unless you do whole-page SSO, in which case you end up with cookie, anti-tracking, and container-routing problems.
'Locks keep honest people honest.'
That's an interesting anecdote, from a MS developer, which I hadn't seen. And certainly relates to the headline you posted.
Too bad HN won't allow the direct link, and apologies for assuming you were trying to misrepresent things.
Sure, just passing federal legislation wouldn't fix this for the US. This country has a police culture problem that needs to be addressed, which, like any cultural problem, has no single quick fix. I don't know the way to fix things.
Remember "the French don't have a word for entrepreneur"?

Snopes apparently debunked it, however, I was always inclined to believe it happened and was deliberate irony.

I hope your comment is in the same vein.
Get dat PG piggy bank going
Updated: Time Series of CDC's Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Reporting
So what you're saying is: you're expecting parents to simultaneously work as much as singles do, and 'in their free time' raise the next generation of people that can wipe your ass in 60 years when you expect someone to take care of you?

Alternatively, you can vow to never take any service/product/support/technology from anyone of a younger generation. Then it would be fair.
apple keychain + apple icloud relay?
An Evening with Peter Thiel – 10/21/21 [video]
What's the point of this? Will it make you rich?
A rage post I can get behind. We shouldn't be raising kids to believe that decorative BS is what houses are about.

If more houses had real shutters, we could close the shutters during tornado warnings and hurricane warnings instead of running to the store, buying ugly particle board and nailing it over our windows. Duh.

This is a plague upon the American landscape or our movies would show people closing the shutters because a storm is coming instead of showing them boarding up perfectly good windows on houses currently in use.

I approve this rant. More power to him.
500 years is not children of your grand children. If people still have children at 30, your "children of your grandchildren" would be born only 90 years after you, and even if they live to 90, that's only 180 years.

Doing the same math, the 90 year old that sees your web page 500 years from now would have to be born 410 years from now, and at 30 years per generation, that's 13+ generations. At that point, this descendant is related to you as much as a you are to a random stranger from your city.

Look around and see what lasts 500 years: tombstones, statues, family heirlooms.

Your best bet might be to create a ritual, and have your children practice it as part of a religious ceremony!
And not only expects everyone else to take care of whatever he leaves on the table when he leaves at 4pm for soccer practice, but demeans union laborers who get together to get more money for themselves.

Boomer levels of entitlement with that one.
Realistically how often lay people who distrust the system currently audit the votes?
If someone is too stupid to understand how voting works, they probably shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place.
See sibling comment. Also, there was no CPUID in those ages!
Are you saying that they have not supported climate change denial?
The same (and more) stack space will be used if it was called as a regular function, whether that's preserving registers across the call boundary or simply running out of registers. So this shouldn't save any space, temporarily or otherwise.
Do you really think that metaverse will gain momentum?
I don't think an insignificant portion of Americans want to deport non-white people with cries of "go back to where you came from"

And, groups like BLM will tell you that the white government is still opressing free black citizens.

The only difference between that and your quote is optimism vs pessimism on whether the problems can be resolved. A lot of the current social justice views are that the injustice will always be there, but we can consistently reduce it over time
Years ago we bought a house in a neighborhood of inexpensive, mostly similar and very dull boxes. The trim around almost everyone’s windows was a plain 1x4. Most people painted the house and trim bright contrasting colors, and they were all kind of ugly.

When it was time to paint our house, we picked a soft, light green to blend in with the surrounding grassy hills. The painter was simply gobsmacked that we wanted him to paint the walls and all the window trim the same color. But to us it just made sense not to call attention to some ugly trim.

Sure enough, it turned out great. Within six months, a bunch of other houses in the neighborhood had been painted similarly.

Driving by there recently after having moved away a few years later, a quarter or a third of the houses have given up the “Dame Edna” look in favor of minimal or no differentiation in window trim color. The whole neighborhood looks much calmer.
Same... Except that in addition to a CD player my car also has its own "jukebox": a HDD on which I can upload either mp3 or wav files (but no FLAC sadly). The nav system shares the same HDD. To me its great: it's just enough technology, while still being off the big nasty Internet grid.

No worries about neither battery levels nor data caps nor corporate surveillance.
Why isn’t it possible for both groups to have an equal work life balance?
No disagreement with your argument about being protective about one’s time. But in your case you haven’t negotiated anything. You just go when you have to.
Oh come on now, it was at least somewhat bittersweet and hopeful in the end.

"Wish for them to survive?"

"Do you have any interest in helping the weak?"

"Do you still wish to rescue someone - a total stranger - in spite of this?"
Sure, if you insist on reading past the part where I expect everybody to demand better for themselves and I'm dismayed when they don't.
This doesn't invalidate your argument (which I agree with) since it's unofficial and relies on exploits, but you should be able to downgrade your iPad 2 thanks to its unpatchable bootrom exploit and the fact that Apple apparently has to keep iOS 6.1.3 and 8.4.1 signed for that model specifically https://github.com/LukeZGD/iOS-OTA-Downgrader/wiki/How-to-Us...
Hospitalizations from COVID19 up to 11.9/100K and deaths from COVID19 up to 4.5/100K among those who are fully vaccinated against COVID19 for a combined known severe case rate of 16.4/100K among the fully vaccinated.
That being UB is more of trivia than anything else. It’s UB because it allows freedom for compilers and standard library implementations to change their implementation without it being a “breaking” change, not because the compiler will produce nasal demons if you commit the crime of naming anything _Py_NewReference.
Nvidia GeForce Now RTX 3080: Cloud Gaming with 1440p at 120 FPS
> a complex prediction of the future

A lot of climate change has happened.
How does the Soyuz Launch work? (and Reentry)