skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Registering fake people doesn't affect the vote

Someone can be registered to vote in multiple precincts. This is pretty common, as when someone moves between two states and doesn't notify the old state that they are no longer a resident for voting purposes.

This is not illegal. While voting some place where you are not legally allowed to vote is illegal.

2) "ID" is broader than "state-issued photo id"

When I registered to vote, I had to present proof that I was a resident. There was a list of options, like showing utility bill, which sufficed.

It's a lot of work to set up a fake rental agreement, fake power bill, fake whatever, and show up in-person to register. How much more does a fake id cost?

Remember, the fake id can be reused. I could travel around to 50 precincts and register my pseudonym in each one.

3) The list of registered voters is public

This gives a way to check for false registrations. And people have done these checks, when investigating in-person impersonation voter fraud.

4) You know what is more effective at stopping this sort of fraud? A nation-wide registry of where people live, with the legal obligation to update it when you move.

This seems far more effective at reducing fraud than showing id. With additional benefits, like only needing to update your address once, for all government services.

Yet people focus on requiring people to show id, with its minuscule benefits and clear negatives.

Why is that?
>why would Windows Ultimate indicate piracy?

Microsoft sells an embedded, stripped down version of Windows with extended support life for industrial machines like this. Ultimate is intended for workstations and power users.
We didnt have giant tech companies saving every search, every click you do, selling/giving your personal and private information to advertising and intelligence agencies.

We also didn't have this kind of massive centralization where most of the global internet traffic goes to Google, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon etc.

Sure you can find tiny spots on the Internet with 10 people. It's still not the same at all as to what is used to be.
Plenty of places in the USA have the same. Disneyland is discounts for Southern California residents

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/offers-discounts/southern-c...

In Hawaii many business have discounts for locals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounts_and_allowances#Speci...
That's issue with buggy clients which should not proceed if CRL is not available. Not issue with PKI per se.
Specific goods getting cheaper sure, but I've only ever heard of demand issues e.g. in the great depression, being able to pull down averages of many different prices.
However Kings did have shelter, plenty of food, easy access to sex, lots of fun and games, the respect of everybody, the best protection in the land, the power to behead or torture anything they didn't like etc. So lets be fair when we compare the two.
Alacritty with Sixel (scroll down)
the argument is that usually you do not want that, it is a Haskell typeclasses vs ocaml modules discussion
Caddy does. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/questions-about-renewing...

And this is one reason why I keep advocating for certificate automation to be built into services/apps, rather than patched on the outside with duck tape.

I look forward to the day when cert lifetimes are regularly about as short as OCSP responses. Then we can possibly do away with OCSP entirely.*

(* I am of the opinion that revocation is fundamentally broken for Web PKI and it should be phased out in favor of short cert lifetimes. You may disagree and that's fine, but I'm happy to discuss why if you're interested.)
An analogy that works here is "used all the oxygen in the room".
I wouldnt say chew, but while fastening a slip weight to the line I might compress it slightly with my front teeth so that it grips the line.
A lot of the channels are definitely not useful for me. Probably 1/3 of them are in languages I don't speak, and then there's the junk you mentioned like QVC.

I mostly use it for sports and local news. The quality is actually pretty good. Even though I can stream through the ESPN app, I'll watch a football game on ABC when I can because the picture quality is significantly better.
Right now on websites it's not displayed as green, but blue (or greenish blue).
Even the traffic light is called blue here (青) and they would look at you with surprise if you say the lights are green!
Cool. What exactly is your concern with the Guardian article, apart from not being deferential enough to SpaceX?
Sure, in most cases, you can ask authors for a copy of their paper.

However, that's not a reasonable way to distribute science. Most research requires you to skim through many different articles, so introducing a latency of a few hours/days each time you want to open an article makes the process unreasonable.

See also: Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
> All certificate revocation-checking schemes "fail open" and proceed happily on their way if the MITM blocks their communications with the revocation lists.

Incorrect, firefox implements OCSP Must-Staple and treats a failure there as equivalent to a certificate validation failure. Now if only we could ever get chrome(ium) to implement it...
Yes. I hope we get rid of this cliché of the technical person who is not good at human interactions.

Most developers I know are good at human interactions, some even among the best.

I don't want to be put in that box, and I'm not willing to excuse someone bad at human interactions because they are technical.

Obviously some people are better at human interactions than others, and I'll be happy to adapt, but let's not imply causes.
FWIW, HN now has a "top links of the day" under the "past" link at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
That is what I mean by “presumed not to have their own household”
It is not a strawman if it speculates motivations, because people are rarely honest about their motivations, even to themselves.
Solar/wind don't have to abide by anywhere near the same amount of regulations as nuclear, your second point notwithstanding.
An image of tank man is already embedded in the blockchain.[0]

CSAM links are there too.[1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/rbxupy/tankman_ima...

[1]

> Bitcoin’s blockchain contains at least eight files with sexual content. While five files only show, describe, or link to mildly pornographic content, we consider the remaining three instances objectionable for almost all jurisdictions: Two of them are backups of link lists to child pornography, containing 274 links to websites, 142 of which refer to Tor hidden services. The remaining instance is an image depicting mild nudity of a young woman.
In an online forum this image is claimed to show child pornography, albeit this claim cannot be verified (due to ethical concerns we refrain from providing a citation). Notably, two of the explicit images were only detected by our suspicious transaction detector, i.e., they were not inserted via known services.

https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf [SFW]
But expat doesn't automatically mean wealthy.
There was no poverty between the control of fire and civilization. We got our calories nice and easy.
In this case, the market. This isn't a town square or any other public space. It's private enterprise. If Spotify loses enough revenue from it, they'll probably do a song and dance about ethics and duty to blah blah blah, to justify evicting him. Right now, the math is on the side of Rogan. Maybe it changes. Maybe it doesn't. My money goes elsewhere, when I find content to be too inflammatory.
variable length arrays are accessible at all indexes,

const a = foo[1]

should result in a bring of type `never|undefined` or `undefined` depending on flow analysis
That's not a good faith response.

Show me the digits of pi that contain the image of Nelson Mandela that is as easy to find as the one described in this article.

Show me a way to take any random arbitrary image and find it's corresponding representation in pi that is as easy as encoding that same image into the blockchain.
It’s better than alternatives.
It is not even toxic. Modern development is cooperative to absurd level all too often. You don't have any ability to make independent decisions or autonomy pretty much any time. Literally everything is result of negotiation and compromise and what not.

Taking chance to do a bit of focused work and actually do it in that environment is not toxic. It is not like you have run of for months and refused to communicate. It is just ... getting slight bit of rest.
I flat out don't believe you. However you are welcome to enlighten us with some of the details. How long were you homeless? Where? How did you get homeless and how did you escape? Why did you go to jail? For how long? Where? And how amazing was your life doing all of that compared with being a King? A King that has shelter, easy access to food, sex with the most beautiful woman in the country, the power to torture and kill anybody he didn't like, the power to change the laws of the country at will, an army of people doing everything to please them? Please enlighten us all on how being homeless or in jail is better than that?
I mean that money is the benefit, not the work itself. Our wealth distribution system is not suitable for significant levels of automation at all - that is the root of the problem, not automation itself.
> Now suppose FOX says that police have apprehended a suspect, a Saudi immigrant named Abdullah Abdul. They show footage from a press conference where the police are talking about this. Do you believe them? [..] It doesn't matter at all that FOX is biased.

Can't really disagree with the overall point of the article. But it should be emphasized that in a country of 331 million people (and a world with a few more), biased selection of which anecdotal events to report is as good as lying.

Once you see enough incidents which some set of FOX/CNN/WSJ/NYT/etc ignore, and others that they shower with national attention, it becomes perfectly rational to believe an individual story, yet still dismiss it as a lie.
When I am sober, HN is a bit of a distraction and is probably neither beneficial or detrimental to my mentality.

However when I am drunk, someone is wrong on the internet (https://xkcd.com/386/).
> So either everybody is really, really good at fraud, or the numbers are really, really tiny.

False dichotomy. The system is set up such that it's comically easy to commit fraud and incredibly difficult to detect it. Imagine a take-home multiple choice math test that says no calculators are allowed. Would you believe that almost nobody used a calculator on it just because almost nobody got caught doing so? Of course not, because you don't have to be really, really good at cheating to get away with it on a test set up like that.
You're telling me. I'm into vintage / retro PCs and use IA to find drivers, manuals, and so forth. There are some manufacturers who have gone out of business and aren't completely captured by IA. Some of the worst offenders obscured their downloads behind "CGI scripts" (indirect links requiring server-side code) rather than direct downloads. Organized, searchable, and comprehensive museum/archiving of digital artifacts in one place is necessary to avoid bitrot and linkrot. Schematics and bill of materials (BOMs) are necessary to repair, recreate, and/or simulate vintage hardware.

If I can't find hardware jumper information anywhere, some older cards are simple enough that knowing ISA or PCI bus pinouts, searching Octopart for datasheets, combined with a quality DMM can be used to painstakingly trace and determine functionality.

The other component necessary is the human brain-dump knowledge (wiki perhaps) of "what does what" to make sense of it.

The "let's delete everything old because old doesn't matter" mindset is how we lose past works forever. (If anyone can find "Mouse Commander", an independently-published TSR utility for Welltris to add mouse control, you'd be my BFF.)

PS: Interestingly, Matrox and the acquirer of Adaptec (Microchip) still have many drivers available. NVIDIA is also okay, but sometimes needs IA to get the last supported version of a particular driver.
OCSP Must-Staple is just another name for "really short certificate expiration periods"

Must-Staple with a timeout of X seconds is functionally equivalent to a certificate with a validity time of X seconds. In either case you need to go fetch something from the CA every X seconds, or else get booted off the net. The only difference is what you call that thing.

HN is doing its silly "slow down" nonsense, so I will reply to the reply below by editing here.

To @cmeacham98: I'm not moving the goalposts; all practical revocation schemes fail open. OCSP Must-Staple isn't actually a form of revocation; it is just expiry with a fancy name and lots of extra complexity.

The implementation quirks of one particular CA (LE) are not features of these protocols; they are features of that particular CA's policies.

To @mhils: CAs could easily stand up simple servers that let you ask for the most recent certificate (if any) issued to a given domain and public key.

They don't want to do this because it's a burden. The only reason they run OCSP servers is that they're under pressure from insurers, regulators, and auditors to participate in the whole revocation theater game. Saying "we don't do revocation" would cause people to freak out, and setting up an OCSP server takes effort, but less effort than explaining to the insurers/regulators/auditors that revocation doesn't actually work.

As for CT, the log could simply include an extra (issuer-signed) field which amounts to "I will auto-renew this certificate until $DATE" and omit all the additional certificates issued to that same public key and domain name between the log entry and $DATE. Of course the browser would need to understand this field in order to validate the CT log entry.

I'm not sure super-short expiration is really preferable; it makes the Web even more fragile than it already is. Frankly I think Web PKI is sort of a big mess at this point. Most of it only makes sense when viewed through the lens of "(a) governments will always control DNS for the the two-letter TLDs, (b) Google cannot get all governments to supplicate to Google, therefore (c) we must conjure up an extra layer of entities (the CAs) that can be bullied around by manipulation of browser engine code". This is basically the only reason why DANE (or a modernized revision of it) isn't used.
Argv Silliness
Ask HN: How do you hang up a call on Android when the front camera is blocked?
It seems that if a piece of tape or a sticker is covering the front facing camera, the phone is unable to light the screen during a phone call to hang up. Bluetooth headsets make it possible to hang up, but what about without an external interface device? Is this because of the way the phone detects being pressed up against a face so that buttons don't get pressed? If so, can it be disabled?
A good test. The guy is older and wanted to remain alive, despite the wishes of his family. And pigs are so close to humans anyway -- which is why I have the theory of why humans love bacon so much.

Best wishes to Mr. Bennett, and hope that whatever happens, it will be a good leap for humanity.
Let me share few extracts from couple of articles on tackling Fear I've found quite good

1. The Source of Fear [0]

> Often, it is said that face your fear but what does facing your fear really mean? And whatever it may mean, how to go about it? To begin with, personify your fear. Whatever is your fear, personify it and go for intense visualization. Imagine your fear is actually a person and you are facing it. Talk to your fear, send it vibes of love and compassion, befriend it. The same energy that was fueling your fear will become your strength instead. Try it.
Viktor Frankl in propounding Logotherapy once wrote about a certain man who used to sweat a lot in public. Every time, he had to speak on the stage or address a group, he would start sweating profusely, a condition he found rather embarrassing. The anxiety that surrounded in anticipation of his perspiration would make him sweat even more.

> “Announce your anxiety,” Viktor advised him. “If you don’t know the audience well enough, just announce it to yourself.”
A week later the man returned to report that whenever he met anyone who triggered his anticipatory anxiety, he said to himself, “I only sweated out a quart before, but now I’m going to pour at least ten quarts!”

> The result was that after suffering for four years, with this single self-prompt, he was cured of it permanently within that one week.

2. The Antidote To Fear Is Faith [1]

> When your fear is genuine, arising out of a reasonable anticipation or a certain action (or lack of it), preparedness is the only way to help you face the fear. For example, if you fear failing an exam tomorrow because you haven’t prepared for it, it’s a genuine fear. Positive talk or self-affirmation won’t really help you. Only preparedness will.

> And, at the root of readiness is a simple affirmation. Putting your hand on your heart, if you can say I did the best I could then you’ve done your bit. The rest must be left to the Nature, Fate, Karma, God, whatever you want to call that element. We can only do what we can and ultimately, we can only do so much. If you’ve prepared as well as you could, that’s all that matters. We don’t control everything that happens to or around us. There’s little sense in fretting over things beyond your control.

> If you’ve put your seat belts on and you are obeying the traffic laws while driving carefully, worrying about an accident is a pointless fear. You’ve no control over it. Worrying about a plane crash while taking a flight is another example. Excessive thinking is the mother of such fears. Any specific fear you can’t get out of your head is a phobia. Either way, good meditation, counseling or other similar methods can help you overcome them. For all genuine fears, though, readiness is the only way as far as I know.

0: https://os.me/the-source-of-fear/
1. https://os.me/the-antidote-to-fear/
I can't think of a single person I know that hasn't ducked down to the shops to pick something up when they have the flu. By your definition, they are actively attempting to cause harm to others - which is an interesting take.
Does it matter though? I imagine nobody knows the name of the CXO or the board members. They could simply rename thedacare to Meta or something, right?

I don't see how there is any justice here unless the CEO and the board go to prison.
Other relevant work

> Effects of the Tennessee Prekindergarten Program on children’s achievement and behavior through third grade

> This study of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program (VPK) is the first randomized control trial of a state pre-k program.

> Positive achievement effects at the end of pre-k reversed and began favoring the control children by 2nd and 3rd grade.

> VPK participants had more disciplinary infractions and special education placements by 3rd grade than control children.

~~~

The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program

… studying the persistence of a sizeable negative shock to noncognitive outcomes arising with the introduction of universal child care in Quebec. We find that the negative effects on noncognitive outcomes persisted to school ages, and also that cohorts with increased child care access had worse health, lower life satisfaction, and higher crime rates later in life. Our results reinforce previous evidence of the central role of the early childhood environment for long-run success.
> The food in Germany is terrible. The quality of produce and other ingredients is very bad

Don't shop at Lidl then. Restaurants are what you make of it, goes from basic to fancy and the basic ones are, well, basic. (Though the basic ones are probably at a step lower than the ones in the US because of fast-food in the US)

Though I'll give it to you that 80% of restaurants are generic Italian or Asian ones

> Stores in general suck. They have fewer, and worse products.

Again, don't shop at Lidl. "Fewer products" oh you mean, slightly different products pretending they're not 50% HFCS like in the US? Or products that "look better" but aren't? (like excessively red apples that taste like nothing)
Been there done that now knows better than to do the way you described, but still an uncomfortable thing to me to run modern OS on a modern system.
Show HN: Jrosclient Java Client for ROS (Robotic Operation System)
jrosclient is a pure Java client for ROS which does not require local installation of ROS or any other native libraries.

Latest version of jrosclient supports ROS Noetic and now you can add it as a dependency to your Maven/Gradle projects.

Documentation:
http://portal2.atwebpages.com/jrosclient

GitHub repository:
https://github.com/lambdaprime/jrosclient
Human Bacon, the final frontier. How long until you can buy Beyond Human burgers?
Some drugs, based on anecdotes, are great. Others, based on anecdotes will literally kill you.

Maybe there is a reason drug trials are not based on some Rando on the internet
IIRC they are probably doing it without Qualcomm. In a similar way to the way LineageOS devs port devices to newer versions.

I decided to take a risk with them and buy FP4 to support them.
Agree.

As far as I remember web 2.0 was all about user generated content spruced up with Ajax experiences:

Blogs (chronological as opposed to more freeform web sites) were arguably the first.

The comments, follows ("blog rolls"), tagging, ratings and third party sites providing the same like del.ico.us and digg.

RSS also was a web 2.0 thing in my mind at least.

I think most people classify Facebook as web 2.0 as well but in my mind they aren't as much web as a silo built on web technology.
Yeah same as before. But if you throw money at it, might get resolved.
I'd say it depends on the EU markets. I have the feeling that IT professionals from Eastern Europe (I'm from there) are a lot better paid, comparatively speaking, to IT professionals from many other Western countries (with the focus on "comparatively").

I've heard from a lot of my colleagues that they couldn't afford to have the same lifestyle in an Western capital city with equivalent IT salaries. I know I wouldn't be able to rent in downtown Amsterdam, Paris or Milano with my equivalent IT earnings were I to live in those cities the same way I now do in Bucharest.
It's fine if it just happens in the evening,as long as you can finish meaningful work at day. I would arrange entertainment of today evening on morning as reward for day work. It might increase your productivity at day and after work you can enjoy the evening better. Or in some cases you have kind of flow of mind that continues in the evening that makes you skip arranged entertainment to do more.
> Caveat ... truly stuck ... tried a couple of things, googled, tried some more ... wondering what to try next.

That is not even possible within 5 minutes.

I would not want to work there honestly. Just being unable to solve problems demotivates me. It sounds like I will get off everytime I am slightly slower to pick something. This would be too stressful for me.
Then why was the population so low?
> Today economists call this phenomenon “Baumol's cost disease,”

I love that economist call rising wages a disease; I hope they never catch it.
The organ board base their decision on likelihood that the receiver will benefit from the transplant (for a long time), so some habits that are medically relevant are taken into account: smoking, drinking, taking drugs, and when AIDS was a concern, having sex with people who might transmit it. All those also come a moral judgement so many people assumed that the board was making a moral judgement. They are not: having other conditions complicating the process is relevant; being old too. Being a crimimal is morally relevant but doesn’t come into the judgement of the board.

For lack of a better word, they are maximising the duration of the organ.