skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine we start putting cryprokitties technology to better use.

1. Voter registration cards are manufactured with in the US with tight supply chain controls.

2. US based security researchers with a history of vulnerability identification are qualified and selected at random to hands-off oversee that manufacturing process is free of supply chain attacks. Firmware builds similarly are done deterministically on different platforms overseen by different security research firms, etc.

3. Electronic cards are picked up in person, at random, after traditional voting registration is complete.

4. Each card generates two subkeys via a KDF. A public "verify" keypair and unlimited private "vote" keypairs.

5. The user publishes a signed statement to a public database with their "verify" keypair including their real name and voter registration number.

5. Every election, a private "vote" keypair is allowed to sign a digital vote ballot to this public database.

6. Voters are required to view the public database at a later date to confirm their random vote keypair signed their intended values. They publish a signed statement that their verification was complete.

7. The vote is only considered valid when the the number of verified statements matches the number of cast votes, or after a cutoff time if the difference is not enough to change the outcome.

8. The vote database is forever public and can be counted and verified by anyone at any time.

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Yes there is some handwaving here but I really feel we have the technical tools to have provably accurate digital voting.

This becomes possible when most citizens have enough education to understand and trust cryptography.

That would require a generation of much better education. We should vote on that.
I had a similar experience, I usually avoid the dask dataframe where possible and instead use bag and dask delayed. But its hard to get scientists to give up the dataframe mindset. Thats one of the reasons I wanted to try modin, I have heard the dataframe in modin is a bit easier to use.
Ok ivermectin is not working. Fair enough good research.
Vaccines seem to work. Let us be generous and say yes.

Shall we sacrifice freedom for reducing risk of infection? No.
Why? Because lack of freedom claims way more lives.
Ya, but PHP is actually still being used in a lot of agencies and in certain types of work. Far more than elixer and rust, probably just below ruby.

Also I wasn't pointing out what you say, you're reading into it a bit. I haven't used PHP in a long ass time. But it seems like not a bad choice for certain markets, at least as much as Python and Ruby imo
Something people always forget when factoring solar is the cost of having the standby natural gas plant capacity that has to be ready to take over that 1 GW when the sun stops shining. Having a plant sit idle isn't much cheaper than having it running.
Just off the top of my head (without doing in-depth research in the to PinePhone specs), potential gotchas:

1) The 1V8 power supply cannot cope with the additional power demand (just cause "it boots" doesn't mean it will be fine in all scenarios).

2) The SKU of the chip used cannot operate (or is not guaranteed to operate) at the higher speed + lower voltage.

3) The phone stops being EMC compliant.

A bit of research, probing and testing can answer those questions and screen for others. The PinePhone seems like it is aimed at a very technical crowd so I'm sure someone will figure it out :)

edit - formatting
I recall something about Feynman's sister not being encouraged. I don't recall if it was his father or his mother.
Throw the whole thing at Reddit or 4Chan... it'll be finished in under a day.
YAML is better than XML for some things (human-readable config files), worse than XML for others (everything else?). But XML is always bad (though always bearable, barely).

Surely you didn't mean to imply that there are no other options?
«it’s now obvious that use of bitcoin (and related blockchains) for payments is almost entirely scams and illegal stuff»

It is neither obvious, nor is there any data that suggests that is the case for Bitcoin. I suspect people who hold this opinion form it passively while reading the occasional flashy news headlines "Drug lord used Bitcoin!" and don't actually do any research. After all, news reporters write about what drives readership, and "Grocery merchant used Bitcoin" just doesn't quite get the same engagement.

There are very few research papers that conclude a large percentage of Bitcoin's transaction is tied to illegal activity, for example [1] claims 46%. However they are fatally flawed: they fail to consider the amplifying effect of mixers/tumblers that, by design, create thousands of automated mixing transactions per original transaction. So 1 illegal transaction will look like 1000 transactions in their analysis... facepalm

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3102645
1.5 million seems woefully inadequate for just the security element of a pre-established plan.

> The internet voting project is, for reasons unclear, categorized under the Open Source Voting project, despite “open-source” not being mentioned in the grant paperwork, Jerdonek, an open-source voting proponent, says. Open-source voting technology uses public computer code to process paper ballots. It is unrelated to online voting. On Tuesday, San Francisco Supervisors began crafting legislation to conduct a long-awaited open-source voting pilot.

This really concerns me.
https://qz.com/1260191/metoo-activists-in-china-are-turning-...
Tons of sites are written exclusively in Python. Django alone has 60k stars and 25k forks on Github. That about the same as Laravel.
This has no obvious advantages over paper ballots, takes nerds to operate, and fails the usual requirement that digital voting be receipt-free.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=receipt-free+voting
How ridiculous to suggest that there is some objective trait called useful that you have a monopoly on determining.

Turns out that various people may find all of these various things either useful or not useful because it is subjective.
I struggle with this idea of "separate colors"... I see Promise returning functions as a super set of immediately returning functions... that is, any function that can return immediately could also return as a Promise (which resolved immediately), so really, the immediately returning function is just an optimization to apply when it's helpful. I'm curious why a language suffers from this explicit separation of code which "returns immediately" versus code which "returns eventually"?
For people of a certain age and job history, the worst code they've ever inherited was written in PHP.

I think JS can be worse. There are things that are possible with dynamic languages that are literally impossible with static ones.

So think of PHP less as a "bad language" and more of a code smell.
Promoting php is truly a head in the sand attitude. Yes there is valuable old software, but come on. Move on if you don’t have to touch it. Stop being oblivious and rejecting advances in programming language design. That probably goes to a lot of other languages too.
Systemd may be coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux
Sigh. I'm trying but it's impossible to decipher anything regarding Microsoft's low-code platform.

Does anyone know if it's possible to run Microsoft's low-code platform on premises? Otherwise I don't really see the point in having an open-source language.

Don't get me wrong. I do see the point in having an easily accessible business programming language. I just don't see the point in that language being open-source if it's tied to a proprietary service which I can't host myself.
any link to the actual video?
>This is also true of, for example, TransferWise.

Not for small to large amounts for less than pennies

>A more expensive and cumbersome way to do what you could already do with other tools is not “success”.

You're vastly underestimating the amount of people trapped in regimes where they cannot spend their funds abroad or risk having them devalued at whim.
Not sure what you mean by "eluded by a promise of performant python". Tensorflow and Pytorch do a great job thank you very much.
People hate XML. Mostly because its association with SOAP. It's also not a great data format. Why would you want a data format that is hard for both computers and humans to read?
They quote opinion pieces as fact.
Because i hate banking system, it's run by people which is flawed. All the verification, transfer should be done by machines.

I don't need anyone from the banking system to "watch" how my money is used.

It's not Bitcoin that succeeded, it's just the banking system run by human that failed.

[Edited]: The point is, a banking system which is completely run by machine is all i need and trust. No human should be in the banking process.
And yet a VAST majority of people would label all of those companies successes and would also label bitcoin a success (comparatively from where it was 11 years ago)
>> Humans contributed to Earth System changes before the Industrial Revolution

> This feels like an attempt to wave a vaguely anthropogenic climate change denialist flag, not through actual denial, but "we've done stuff like this before".

I think you're reading too much into this. My interpretation is just that they are pointing out a deviation from the general consensus.
> Most chat systems have done away with it. Slack has it, but that's about it.

Slack, Discord, Matrix, FB Messenger, Instagram all have it to name a few.

The only ones that don't have it are SMS replacement apps (Whatsapp, Signal) and IRC.

I for one greatly rely on presence. It very often informs if I should or should not send a message to someone.
The primary similarity between the two is the use of XML. Maybe the general opinion is that XML sucks?
Sure, and that should not take 50 years for a document that took a year to create and analyse well enough to authorise the vaccine based on the findings.
On MiamiCoin
While there are certainly good arguments against bitcoin/blockchain, this article comes off as rambling and incoherent.
>> It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads.

Gmail, docs, sheets, slides, drawings, calendar and geez just 1000 other things disagree with you. Yeah I know the ad network is paying for that stuff: that's the bargain that people who use their ecosystem of software products have made, just as people on Apple's ecosystem accept their tradeoffs. It just seems extremely cynical to suggest Google has done, or is doing, nothing useful. If there was no utility flowing the other way in return for the eyeballs and profile data I don't think they'd have a business.
The Moon's Surface Has Enough Oxygen to Sustain 8B People for 100k Years
XML is only bad if JSON exists
IRC has away-status at least.
What I'm generally amazed by is MatLab. They went from a general Math IDE to being an actual physics simulation environment...that now transpiles the symbolic flow based programming view to an external C-compatible library.

With this solution they are the only alternative, dominating whole industries with it. There are so many engineers with a no-coding background that literally build programs that end up as parts of firmwares on controllers...through MatLab.

Whether that's good or not (from the security point of view) is up for discussion. But I'm kind of amazed by the "compiler pipeline" that they achieved.

Imagine something like this combined with LLVM and an LSP based backend that also integrates a no-code way to implement fuzz and unit tests.
Zuul is great. After using it for about a year in production, I must say Zuul is everything I hoped for and more (coming from a Jenkins deployment previously.) Some of the concepts take a bit of effort to wrap my head around but once I understood them they make a lot of sense. Leveraging of Ansible is great. Making jobs cheap and inheritable is awesome.
I flunked kindergarten. (That year the school tried an experiment, and kept half the class back in something called Early Primary. I think the experiment failed. I was the shy nervous kid hiding in the playhouse though.)

I had an english teacher in college accuse me of cheating. Well accused me in a roundabout way. My paper was on psychosurgery, and violent criminals. He said he needed to ask his girfriend, who had MFCC, how to pronounce amygdala. From then on I dumbed down my papers for him. I would purposely use a bunch of semicolons, and dashes.

I loved to write until I had that guy as a teacher.
take a look at Bitcoins Lightning network sometime, you'd be surprised.
> or even predation

That falls under "anthropogenic", too. Humans tend to eat stuff a lot.
To be very contrarian and sound like a bit of a neo-Luddite, I have been a photographer for more than 30 years and have never taken photographs as good as the ones I take with my Leicas, which are the most feature-poor expensive cameras you’re likely to find.

No auto-focus, no video, limited feature light metering, etc.

I drooled over getting a Leica M for 15 years and finally took the plunge about five years ago. Best choice I have made gear-wise in all this time. After getting the first, I went ahead and got the Monochrom as well (yes, B&W-only sensor).
bitrefill.com
Netflix data released this week. Billions and Billions of hours.

https://top10.netflix.com/
Perhaps that’s a feature, not a bug.
Mapped: Countries by Alcohol Consumption per Capita
Dupe. 196 points 212 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29186644
I'm surprised at how much the comments are defending Bitcoin. Maybe the author is being a bit harsh to defend his past article, but I agree with him overall. I have exactly 1 use for Bitcoin. Putting dollars into it, and hoping I get more dollars out. That's it. I'm never going to use it for anything besides that. Why would I? I'm not buying drugs, or fleeing authoritarian regimes.
Compare what the PHP jobs pay or the career path they put you on compared to elixir or ruby. Not even the same ball park. Not even the same sport.
So all we have to do to remove 6 Pg of carbon from the atmosphere is depopulate the Americas. Hmmm…

Hey ‘Murica! Vaccines have microchips made by trans women and masks are literally fascism. Let’s go Brandon!
I'm still seeing shared hosts offer PHP everywhere at very cheap prices.

That's not true for Java or C#.
I think any sort of split-horizon on devices you don't fully control is going to start giving you a lot of problems going forward. For example, any sort of DNS-over-https is going to make split-horizon non existent unless you control the client device. And presumably if you control the client to change the DNS behaviour, you could turn off this new behaviour too.

Fwiw, I think this is generally good. Network operators shouldn't be able to arbitrarily intercept traffic on their networks.
Gerrit only has force push for the PR equivalent.

The nice thing it has is really easy to rebase off other people's in-progress work (for GitHub you need to to fetch the other person's commit by url and hash -- I guess after writing that down it's not a huge advantage).
See also:

- Fast gaming computers that are only used to run benchmarks.

- Fancy photography gear that is only used to take pictures of resolution test charts and cats.

- Expensive guns that are never taken to the shooting range.

- High-end musical equipment that is only used for "noodling" (goofing off).
Ok but, bank account go wheeeeeee
I think DOI is essentially a URI schema. I don't think there is a technical reason preventing them from being distributed like IPFS, in fact the underlying resources are distributed it's just the URL lookup that is centralized.
I'll say that we did have efforts early (pre 1.0 Jabber) to do leaderless communication and build rooms on top of it.

Back around 2000 getting information on building eventually consistent systems was much harder than it is today, and leaderless versions of that doubly so. Those who worked on it felt like they were inventing half the techniques themselves, had difficulty recruiting (teaching) new people, and eventually burnt out.

If those involved had gotten it to work, it would have just been core infrastructure for eventually consistent ordered events, with UX concepts like "rooms" built on top as common business logic. Or in other words, distributed apps.
Absolute truth doesn't exist in my world. I'm stating my own beliefs. They are beliefs that are justified and thus are true to me. I don't know how else to state them.

Apple has publicly lobbied against right to repair legislation. They purposefully go out of their way so repair shops don't have parts to service customers. Okay, maybe that's your typical hard-nosed Corporate America(TM) business style, but they have very clearly chosen a side. I don't know how much you're following the right to repair movement. Are you deeply involved and following the news around it or are you simply wishing to have a general conversation around it?
I had the same feeling as the grandparent's description of switching back to vanilla JS, is what I meant.
Any plans to support HTTP authentication?

This is wonderful! It could save us from having to hire an administrative assistant to do manual scraping.
What if i tell you, code is the "no code" tool itself.

Why ?

You of course could run any code with assembly or machine language, but now we have high level programming languages, it's because we want "low-code", or "low machine-code".

The point is we want to map business problems/solutions into machine, code is just a "no code" tool which allows u to do that.
You may find "Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship" interesting. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2995/
Thank you @firefoxd for your interest in the course. The 2021 edition had energy-based models pushed earlier in the semester, and my lectures reflected this change, introducing a practical example (ellipse prediction). In the next edition (Spring 22) I'll move the introduction to EBMs up to the first lecture. In this way the overall concept should become familiar sooner, letting you appreciate the beauty of this perspective.

If you have any specific question don't hesitate to ask it under any of the videos.
UiPath does both browser and desktop automation. Browserflow looks very similar.
https://www.uipath.com/
Jabber was written by making things up as we wrote the code, and then pitching a prototype to a core group for revisions.

XMPP didn't really pitch any client or server protocol breaking changes.

Since the messages themselves were just addressed XML elements, we were able to do revisions over time, such as the first group chat being replaced by MUC or adding in the ability for XHTML-formatted rich text.
> Should Congress do that? That's a separate issue, which is not the court’s job to address.

It is most definitely the court's job to determine if the time it takes to produce documents is reasonable or not. Courts order all branches government to produce documents on the court's schedule all the time and the government must do whatever is required to produce those documents on the prescribed schedule.
Oh, I was talking about the random broken stuff.

You can have working deep sleep, or audio that resumes after sleep. I've got a kernel patch that improves the state of that (the audio codec literally has no sleep/wake function in the 5.7/5.8 kernel), but I haven't applied it to the 5.8 kernel I run, so audio is... just broken.

Wifi works. Except when it doesn't. There's an issue with the firmware involving country codes and some 5Ghz frequencies, and I've not had the patience to track it down. Sometimes after sleep, wifi is just gone until a reboot.

The Kobos are fine, other than some random lag and reboots if you ask them to do too much. Large PDFs will choke an Aura badly.

The Flip IV... works, mostly, if you're not too picky, and don't care about things like seeing who all is in a group text. It's not unusable, but neither is it nice.

Etc.

The PBP has some legitimately sharp edges physically, though, too.
> It's gained widespread adoption, a whole economy, thousands of businesses.

What percent of those business denominate their prices in bitcoin?

What percent of those businesses do anything but immediately convert the bitcoin back into fiat the moment they take possession?
> The ability to quickly manage branches and reorder commits within them in Mercurial is super powerful, something that Git and 'rebase could only dream of.

This is a git CLI wart more than anything. Magit (git interface in Emacs) makes juggling branches/worktrees and rewriting history intuitive to humans. I feel super-powerful in Magit and absolutely feeble using the CLI.
Illegal gambling?
> Just don't pick a language that is known to be on it's last legs.

I’ve heard that exact sentiment over and over since the RoR community aggressively started with their anti-php agenda in about 2006.
> All the verification, transfer should be done by machines.

Those are done by machines, that human intervention is possible is a feature not a bug.
I think plant are more intelligent than we think.

I think just spending time with a plant might make it more healthy, even doing the bonsai thing which always kinda bothered me too.

Yea--there are no citations. Just a wacky thought I have had for awhile.
When Microsoft tried this in the last generation, they got totally steamrolled. Many Xbox gamers switched to Sony (myself included), heads rolled internally, and Microsoft renegged.

What changed this generation? Game Pass? Maybe consumers becoming accustomed to streaming services and being held hostage by monthly fees?

It's quite curious.
The reason I like AmEx is that they are much more customer friendly. But the things they do to be customer friendly also makes them less liked by companies.

I’ve been a CostCo member since at least 2006. I really liked the fact that they gave me an AmEx, but I didn’t really use it for anything other than CostCo.

About a year later, I discovered that you could use any major credit card to debit card to pay for your goods at CostCo, so long as you identified yourself with your CostCo branded card. I stopped using the CostCo branded card soon thereafter.

After they switched to Visa, I stopped going to CostCo pretty much entirely.

It wasn’t until the pandemic started that I went back to CostCo on a couple of occasions to buy some things that were not available elsewhere.

I’ve got enough Visa and MasterCards. I don’t need any more.
Rittenhouse defense requests mistrial: Mail app compresses key video evidence
> Compare what the PHP jobs pay

Where? At Facebook? Or somewhere else?
This is a very un-democratic sick joke.

You currently can't go anywhere without the SF vax pass. No bars, restaurants, gyms, nothing.

YOU MUST SHOW VAX PASS EVERYWHERE!

Yet, you can vote online? Without identification?

We recently had a CA recall election and anyone could vote for a whole entire month. No ID - NOTHING!

I personally received my neighbor's ballots whom I could've easily wrote in Larry Elder (obviously I dutifully returned to their mailbox).

You must have id to buy cigarettes, alcohol, but to vote? Fuck it.

The "officials" in charge of this should be arrested. Immediately.
Purely from the outside (I don't really use either), ruby looks more dead than PHP nowadays.
Hmmm... Most points in this article are shouting "yeah we have those too!!" but it didn't give any convincing arguments why I (or anybody who doesn't already know PHP) would like to learn and use PHP over other decent modern languages and ecosystems, which happen to have those points as well.
I think the paper wants to make a distinction between affecting "earth systems" and human instigated ecosystem transformations such as the Holocene extinction.
Swift evolution pitch to reduce generics' learning curve: existential `any`