skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My scheme requires every individual verify their random ballot id (which they can verify is theirs but no one else can) was counted correctly.

Only when a decisive majority has done this can the vote be considered valid and binding.

The verifications must be signed by the published verify keys that -are- identifiable so they can't be stuffed.

We can therefore prove every vote is tied to a voter registration private key and that that key holder confirmed their vote, but not who they voted for.

These are the ideal properties for a vote IMO and stronger proofs than you get from a paper election as -anyone- that disputes the results can count them for themselves.
Hi, my name is Satu and I started building Markus to discuss emails from my kids' school with my partner. I get a lot of these emails and staying in sync has become very hard.

For now, Markus only works with iOS and Gmail. Once you link your Gmail account, you can filter messages into your Markus inbox by sender and domain. Emails remain in your Gmail inbox in a Markus subfolder in case you need to refer to them. From there, you can chat inline about a particular email with family and friends.

Those that you invite to read your shared emails don't need to authenticate. They just need to click on your shared link with an iPhone/iPad and they can join the chat. You can invite multiple people (partners, parents, siblings, etc.) to be part of a discussion thread. You can spawn any number of discussion threads even with the same participants.

Would be interested to hear people's feedback. Thanks!
> Smallpox is significantly less infectious, and generally requires close and extended contact with a person who is coughing and infectious or a surface recently contaminated by someone with open sores.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers. Current estimates for smallpox R0 are all over the place (as are the Covid ones, but I digress) and run from 1-20, with contemporary numbers as high as 6:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11742399/

Measuring R0 is not like measuring a physical constant of the universe, or the seek latency of a hard drive or something. The value varies with time and context, and the best we ever get for a virus is a vague idea of relative infectiousness. Comparing virus X to virus Y based on R0 alone is largely a fool's errand, particularly for a virus that hasn't been in a human in decades.

Smallpox has rather infamously spread between stories of a building from a closed laboratory (this is disputed, but plausible), so I wouldn't be so quick to characterize it as requiring "close and extended contact":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_...

> you walk by a group of people in the park and they’re infected

This has never been documented in the entire history of SARS-CoV2. For that matter, there have been almost no documented outdoor infections, in any context. These hysterical claims need to be put down.
You felt the anti-woke side made the stronger case, but you still disagree? Can you add some more detail here?
It could (in combination with Lightning) function as alternative to card payments in places where banking systems aren't functional.

Also international waters.

Also digital goods.

However it won't be soon. It's financial infrastructure - just different from the ordinary. And that takes decades to build. Cards were accepted at only few establishments at first too.
Everything in modern society is scientist-caused if you go deep enough.
Out of all western countries, who would chose a Scandinavian one to qualify as a dystopia? They probably have among the highest standards of living in all of Europe. That sounds like the same prejudices the OP said westerners have.
Maryland Monkeypox infection is second in US of 2021
Do you want your sysadmin to be someone who provably can't build from source?
So assuming I want to build a car search website where I get payed via referrals from let's say a predefined dozen of dealers, I could subscribe to this offering from Nona Search Technologies GmbH where it would crawl their sites and give me their new offerings in a predefined format?
People choosing to no longer listen to you because you have ideas that are currently considered reprehensible to the larger society is not being cancelled. That's called consequences for my actions. You are not entitled to consequence free speech & actions. This has never been a principle of free speech.

Also, there is a massive difference between using government entities to ban books, and a bunch of people on Twitter saying we don't like you and what you said.
Don't take this as a serious analysis, but I can't help but attribute so much anti-covid vaccine mentality to the fact that Covid is NOT a visible disease, and quite frankly, it's lethality is a dice-roll. Perfectly healthy twenty-somethings can be laid-low while retirees can show no symptoms. The disease has to be taken seriously but its variability skews people's perception of it.

Smallpox, on the other hand, is absolutely grotesque in comparison. Highly visible and much more lethal. In terms of human perception I think that fear of catching it would overrule the fear of 'the government' or 'the pharmaceutical companies'. It also probably helps that the Smallpox vaccine has been around for a lot longer.
Beautiful.

Inspired by this great submission, I was instead at http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html - 6502 simulator in HTML5 with visual changes on the virtual circuitry.
Interesting. Still doesn't match the "random reboot" claim.

First of all, rebooting outside of active hours and while the machine is idle is the expected and intended behaviour (esp. in Home edition).

Secondly, pushing back updates only works for several weeks - again working as advertised and by no means random.

Inconvenient? Maybe, though I honestly fail to see a scenario in which continuous operation for weeks is absolutely required on a desktop system, but YMMV.

But it's neither "random" nor unexpected in any way. If a properly scheduled reboot of an online machine once a month is unacceptable, then Windows just isn't the right OS for the use case.
Well, it is only in the last couple of years that random people started calling me to ask if I want to sell my house for cash. So the trend has definitely accelerated.

That said a driver for housing has been that over time we have had more people with bigger houses. So it has long been a demographic concern that as the Baby Boom retires, and goes to downgrade, we could wind up with a glut on the market. On top of that telecommute has opened up a significant move away from expensive urban areas like San Francisco. Both together mean that some housing markets have nothing to keep them from a severe fall. And if there is a crash, speculators trying to cover their shirts are likely to need to sell housing elsewhere, and the result could be a cascading problem.
How Google Is Becoming the New AOL (2014)
I'm gonna pimp my own complaint here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29125409

I think library permissions systems would mitigate or effectively eliminate a huge amount of these, and significantly raise the cost or reduce the targets of nearly all attacks.

Libraries are, in practice, treated as black boxes. I think that's largely reasonable - that's almost the whole point of leveraging someone else's work. But our languages/etc do not allow doing that in any sane way. I think that's completely ridiculous.
You may be right about one instance, but I've never seen anything but pro-freedom of speech from the right. Leftism in colleges and academia is so rotten beyond belief.

I am down with History of Racism, naked and in all its gory details. But, let's not confuse that with how fusion of Big Tech with Big Gov to move more and more towards totalitarianism - we've seen this happen in Australia in the name of COVID. Vast majority of this is a push from Left, not the Right.

Edit: Australia passes mass surveillance laws: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28451066 . I can't reply because of limits, been too much on HN, I need to get off :-). It is indirectly linked to quanrantine and other measures Australian government is taking as a result of COVID. I would go a step further and argue that the world has become more authoritarian post-COVID in general.

Edit: Those saying this is a naive and disingenious take - my observations are pretty much consistent with censorship is mostly from the left than right. Sure you can give examples of suppression from the Right (which I would oppose), but that doesn't really change my observation. Generally speaking, it is indisputedly obvious to me. Here is an economist article that goes in much more depth than single counter examples in the responses: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/09/04/the-threat-from...
Apple Is Now a Parts and Tools Company
This is certifably false when it comes to covid and the flu:

according to Johns Hopkins University, about 3.1 million people around the world had died of COVID-19 as of April 26, 2021.

The flu, meanwhile, kills between 290,000 to 650,000 people every year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
We can and should teach about the history of racism in America.

We should not however be telling children to use an “oppression matrix” to group and divide one another by identity, teaching children that if they are white they are automatically racist, or teaching historical fabrications like the 1619 project.
I don't think universal smallpox vaccination for infants is the case in any country now, at least since the 1980's.
No they don't, at least in the US. Older people may still be vaccinated in their youth (I guess when born before 1980s).
You can pick up React in a month. Same goes for any other popular JS framework. If you are applying for jobs where they ask you about specifics framework details, you are applying to the wrong places.
Give the benefit of the doubt. It’s certainly deadlier but still comparable in the scheme of things relative to a 30% death rate virus. I’m vaxxed and have a booster, mask up, and def not a denier but it’s true that the death rate of covid is fairly low for most folks.
HTTP3 and QUIC don’t get rid of bloat on the pages, and that was one of the big benefits of AMP. But also happy to see it dying.
The same it's been for the past 50 years, buy an ETF and be done with it.
The closer you can get to both steel mills and pipelines, the better. Steel mills can use the hydrogen to replace metallurgical/coking coal, and the pipeline can accept ammonia for transport. Hydrogen is very hard on pipeline infra, unless mixed at low concentrations with a carrier gas.
Ask HN: Where should I buy my next book?
My local book store doesn't stock the sci-fi I like and they cant handle special orders. I love borrowing books from the library but I like to mark up paperbacks by my favorite authors. Amazon sucks for obvious reasons according to the innernet. Powells is cool but haven't used them in a while and had problems finding what I needed long ago.

Not sure what to do anymore.
Yes, hosting can get complicated. A production web site should run in a production-quality environment, not on some $5/mo shared setup that doesn’t let you control the PHP/Apache/nginx environment. If that’s your setup you will run into issues eventually, just like you would if you couldn’t change the settings on your work computer.
This is a good history on the effects and changing forms of treatment.

"The case-fatality rate varied from 20% to 60% and left most survivors with disfiguring scars. The case-fatality rate in infants was even higher, approaching 80% in London and 98% in Berlin during the late 1800s."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/
What is an "attempted cancellation"? Apparently, saying you don't like Peter Thiel's ideology in a book counts.

If I say I don't like your ideology in a hacker news reply, am I attempting to cancel newacct583?
> I'll ask, why don't you organize with your co-workers and collectively bargain for labor protections, or consider voting in politicians who are for stronger labor laws, and all of a sudden they remember that their corporatist leanings are stronger than any feelings they may have about the "cancel culture" boogeyman.

It is possible to disagree with your proposed solutions as well as cancel culture. The problem with cancel culture is not in the fact that people are free to (dis)associate with others as they choose, so your suggestions to force association do nothing to fix the core issue. You may be allowed to keep your job, under duress, but you've still been "cancelled". The problem is that some people resort to disassociation rather than practicing tolerance; this is a subtle social problem and requires a more nuanced solution.
amp was the modern attempt to replicate the turd that was wireless application protocol and I'm glad it's dying.

I'm also glad the community mood shifted about it, no longer than a year ago negative comments about amp where drowned in downvotes

luckily vote count doesn't make ppl right or wrong.
Yes and Google too shall pass.
i'd actually love to see a voting system developed that's closer to a conjoint, which is a statistical method designed to reveal preferences, rather than relying on stated preferences (which are notoriously unreliable). it's more complicated, but we have plenty of technology nowadays to make it practical.

one method of implementing this (from thinking about it for all of 2 minutes), is developing a list of the top 10-20 issues that voters care about in a given election and providing tradeoff choices for each, then matching them to the candidate closest to their revealed preference. of course, the biggest issue with method is that it moves the problem up one level, from voting to choice design.

[0]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoint_analysis
I have a smallpox immunization scar on my upper arm. It's about the size of a quarter and not very ugly. It is trivial compared to the disfigurement that typically came with contracting actual smallpox.
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That first link is a good analysis of the situation when it comes to dependencies. It's really not straightforward unless you are targeting a specific OS distribution.
Charles Petzold's book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software explains a computer from the ground up.

I don't know if the ideas still apply to modern computers, but it's pretty cool understanding how things like addresses are decoded and instructions are constructed and executed at the gate level in a very basic microprocessor.
What a terrible chart. It has no Y-axis labeling and one of the trendlines they've drawn has the number of bitcoin users exceeding world population in a little over 5 years.
The legal issues getting in the way of “legal emulation”
The Greedy Doctor Problem
We know what smallpox is, how it spreads, how to slow it down/prevent it, and most importantly we will have a vaccine for it in every pharmacy well before it breaks out the way covid did. The two are not at all comparable.
It also is how they power refrigeration in meat processing to keep the freezers cold. Seems like if you put it next to those manufacturing facilities to power the freezer trucks and facility itself you could save a significant amount of energy and reduce greenhouse gasses.
I don’t disagree with the sentiments you have, and I share the goal of protecting the environment. However, our environmental impact is very multidimensional and affected by much more than just the quantity of e-waste.

Our missteps with recycling programs are a good example of this. As municipal recycling programs grew with a singular goal of increasing recycling quantity, many cities (like my own) decided to legally require recycling. This increased the quantity of the recycling, but decreased the quality. Eventually the quality got so low that third world purchasers started dumping it in the ocean. So, in an effort to save a bottle from being sequestered carbon in a landfill, we instead shipped it halfway around the world to become ocean pollutant.

Now, the recycling demand for some types of material has completely dried up and some cities have nowhere to put the recycling other than the landfill. So in effect, they’re burning more diesel to drive two trucks to the landfill instead of one.

The same experts who were urging everyone to recycle in the 90s now agree that we’d be better off if the people who didn’t wash out their peanut butter jars didnt recycle. “More recycling = more better” ruined it for everyone.

All I’m saying is be careful not to be focused on the single dimension of component-level repair in this case as well. Good intentions to improve one variable can backfire if it doesn’t consider its effect on the entire lifecycle.

It isn’t hard to imagine a similarity disastrous situation if tens of thousands of sweatshops started dumping flux and solvents in their rivers, when Apple may have a more environmentally controlled process in spite of a modular approach to repair. Just because something is labelled "recycling" doesn't guarantee that those processes are lower impact than any alternatives.

I agree with the the public's right to repair, in that it compels companies to share the same repair parts, procedures, and tools that the company itself uses. But you're asking for more than that, which I think is unreasonable, and a misguided hill to die on, particularly for environmental reasons. If component level repair of iPhones was more accessible, you won't see this cottage industry flourishing in well-regulated high wage countries with strong information industries. This is high-skill labor intensive work. It will happen in low-wage countries with skilled workers, many of which have horrible environmental protections.
Aren't academics smart enough to overlook the name and focus on the software itself, which is free and of very high quality?
I hope it hasn't stagnated, since it still doesn't have a feature that I (and many other people) consider essential: multi-day battery life. I'm hanging onto my Pebble as long as possible, in the hopes that Apple will have 5+ day battery life by the time I have to upgrade.
That’s true I should have worded differently. What I meant is that I prefer preventing Vs taking care of it after the fact
Terrible plan almost certainly, but nuclear weapons also notably enhance albedo. Particularly if close enough to the ground to suck up dirt & particles & blast them up & out. Creating that extra fall out is of course yet more radioactive contamination to be dealt with.

The fear of nuclear winter is mostly that it enhances the albedo so much that the world cools, crops wither and die.
The advantage is people could vote remotely, thus avoiding excuses about not having time or mobility.

It also makes it practical to vote much more often allowing more direct democracy.
Did you just see the words "Bill Gates" and jump to your own conclusions, then call out the parent poster based on your jumped-to conclusions?

The article is posted on a mainstream site and describes how Bill wants additional funding to research preventative measures against future pandemics. What is the dog whistle? Where is the sinister puppetmaster references? Where does it say Bill Gates is unleashing a pandemic?
Being intelligent.
I'm sure a FOIA request will reveal heavily redacted containment procedures for those vials that look straight out of the Foundation, as well :)
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30ish% fatality rate of small pox.

I think Black Plague was like 60% fatality rate and killed so many people that it's theorized it paved the way for the enlightenment by disrupting entrenched economic stratification.

Covid is essentially the flu compared to a real historical pandemic.

There were not any 'black plague' deniers.
I really love this website. Thanks.
different search engines for every language.

it looks like a lot, but a typical user will only use a handful of them. and having each tailored to a language or region is better than a universal search engine.
> half of its democratically-elected heads of state are in prison

Are they the Illinois of SE Asia? For that matter, if the US laws on insider trading applied to congresspeople, half of our elected representatives would rightfully be behind bars, too.
> high peak solar-to-fuel conversion

does it mean there's a "mean solar-to-fuel conversion" to look for ?
So per [1] it looks like Docker Hub launched in mid-2014. Admittedly my earliest pushes to there are more like the late-2015 timeframe, but definitely by that point I was pushing to namespace under my username. My impression had always been that the structure of Docker Hub was meant to mirror Github in terms of an org/repo scheme.

[1]: https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-docker-hub-and-offici...
> The YouTube video literally is a hand cranked portable calculator.

It can even do square roots?! That's amazing. And it fits the palm of your hand!

Now we're down to specks of sand calculating so fast they melt without cooling. Seriously wtf.
At my high school they found a 40 year old bottle of picric acid. Came with the original lab stock in 1960
Designing transport for humans, not econs
this will be used as an excuse to expand production of hydrogen made from carbon fuel on the basis that eventually the carbon will be made sustainably. Don’t fall for it.
You have to do a little more than touch ether to set it off.
Someone has experience with hyperf?[0]

[0] https://hyperf.wiki/
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Same dude has an app that redirects all AMP links to their non-AMP versions, so you can eliminate it entirely.

https://amplosion.app
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I am not sure this generalization holds up, as the Religious Right, in particular, has a history of boycotts in attempt to “cancel.”
Yeah, but the scar is fairly small and can be in a place that isn't showing. That would be the least of my concerns ...
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Thing is, it's ridiculously to create smallpox just from the sequence. A grad student could do it easily. You order DNA in a few parts (the full sequence is one of few things you can't just order), splice them together, transfect it into a cell line and in about a week you're manufacturing smallpox
Here's my version for Windows. It keeps the window buttons and removes the empty space on top.

https://gist.github.com/eproxus/f95c2d2bd0f9b8f5d2b6f464e27c...
It is the standard way of detecting concealed lenses.

Random google result:

https://www.pimall.com/nais/startfinder.html
Look at Bari Weiss, who started a right wing free speech university and cut her teeth trying to get her professors fired in college for supporting Palestine.
I don't like working. I don't hate it, but if I had the opportunity to stop working forever (say 1/3 of my annual current tech salary, but with no work), I will take it immediately.

Now, it does not mean I would stare at the ceiling all day, but "work", which entails some kind of responsibility I don't want to have, negotiations I don't want to deal with, meeting I would skip even if the alternative would be selling parking lot tickets, is of very little interest for me outside of dollars.

Years ago, I was chatting with a fellow academic and he told me he would still work even after retirement. "I'd like to work a bit", he said, "some new research here and there, a paper written in 3 years instead of 3 months". Lovely perspective, but that is not "work, that's a hobby.
$2 trillion of tanks and $1 trillion of pipelines, just for North America. Meanwhile, electrical grids already exist.
Given that widespread vaccination for smallpox stopped in the 70's, I guess responding to a large outbreak would be a big problem. I'd hope we've got lots of smallpox vaccine stockpiled, though.