skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How many elections have you observed? Do you know where your county's central count (tabulation) is done? What mfg and vendors does your county use? Have you worked an election? Have you attended any canvasing boards and certification meetings?

As a citizen it's on my government to prove that the electoral process is transparent and fair, not the other way around. I know they are, in Canada, because I can see my vote in the box and I can see the people who will count them, which happen to be my neighbors, and I could also volunteer to count the vote and the parties can send their own people so supervise the counting (and plan to do the next election btw). With all of this I can verify and trust the process. The same can't said with mass mail-in voting.

> Because there never was nor can be Truth? Then why even bother?

Strawman, didn't say that

> Preaching to the choir.

Not an argument

> > ...is impossible to verify the whole process by normal citizens.

> Correct. But this Truth in no way minimizes the numerous other legitimate concerns with election administration in the USA.

I didn't say the other concerns were invalid, or even talked about them.

> Everyone deserves confidence in our elections. We all have concerns. And democracy is not a team sport. We all lose when elections are not free and fair.

Truism.

> I'd be far more sympathetic to your concerns if I had any reason to believe they were sincere.

Not an argument. Also you're on the Internet, you can only judge arguments on their face value.
Am I naive? How is "18F" inappropriate?
>Now that we have been shaken awake, most of our attention is on the bloodshed in Ukraine, and rightly so. But just as World War I mattered for reasons beyond the slaughter of millions of human beings, this conflict could mark a lasting change in the way the world economy works — and the way we all live our lives, however far we are from the carnage in Eastern Europe. The “inevitable” integration of the world economy has slowed, and the various serpents in our paradise — from ethnic rivalries to angry autocracies to a generalized fury with the rich — are slithering where they will.

This guy hasn't read anything for the last ten years if he thinks it was Putin or Xi who "exposed" this super rudimentary point.
I think it's relevant because it's interesting and was published today.
It was too fast for surface-to-air missiles, because by the time they got to it's altitude and caught up, they would have lost most of their kinetic energy. Of course, modern SAMs would be able to hit it.

The Soviet Union at the time had the R-40 series of air-to-air missiles, that could got Mach 4.5 at very high altitudes if launched by a fast enough, high altitude aircraft, which is much higher than the Mach 3.4 the SR-71 could hope to achieve. The reason it could go that fast is because it didn't have to expend its kinetic energy to climb much, and because it already started up at Mach 3.
We're discussing more native support for other languages. It would likely be a commitment to a small subset of popular languages (e.g. Rust, Go, C++, Python) while still maintaining our goal of nearly zero configuration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30959607
I sincerely hope that this government office has an associated division (or function) that is not just responsible for developing/procuring/scoping the detailed technology solutions but also responsible for:

-- Removing the incentives / disincentives for agencies to stick with old technology or processes (for legitimate, or even stupid reasons)

-- Coming up with ways to motivate/enable government workers and leaders to want new technology tools and break out of resistance based on existing methods

-- Advocate for budgets to properly fund the development of such tech initiatives rather than a) ignore the growing problem, or b) prefer to fund the old outdated methods

-- Inform the policymakers why all of the above are important, and why (as appropriate) it is more cost-effective and real-outcome-beneficial in the long run

Because I think what you'll find is that it is rarely the tech that is the bottleneck constraint. Put a good tool in front of anyone as an individual and unless they're stupid, they'll generally want to do it. Put it in front of them as a worker who has other constraints and interests in the system created to date, and they display many other behaviors.

When you have a tool / method that is shown to be 10x greater in benefit, of course governments will start to adopt it. It's beyond objectionable when they see something that good. And citizens will put up with some temporary inconvenience to switch because it's nonsensical to stick to such blatantly inferior methods.

But when some new solution is only 1.5x better, then you get a lot of resistance (sometimes legitimate) that people need to be able to rely on their existing solutions or it costs too much to change, etc, etc. And you start losing out on significant, but insufficiently better, efficient solutions that are needed to keep us out of lagging place in the world.
you know you can use google products on ios right
Pricey Coastal Markets Show First Signs of Housing Slowdown
There is a lot of country between the two coasts. Hell most of the southern coast is still quite cheap.
> Pretending that things are simple & hiding implementations is how we get infernal machines.

This is why we must strive for simplicity at all all levels. That simplicity needs to be total, otherwise it is the following quote:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ...."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memristor – The Fourth Electrical Component
My static site generator is 5500 lines of Java, because the only thing I hate more than software I didn't invent myself is technologies that are fashionable ;-)
The challenge will be in defining the user data model with the correct amount of detail and granularity such that capability requests are meaningful. Also, there will always be lazy users.

For example, on the Outlook app for iOS - when attaching a picture to an email from your Photos - you can provide permission for the Outlook app to see just the pictures you select, all pictures, or deny permission completely. Awesome - but how many just share everything?

How many users really look at the permissions requested by the Android apps they install?

But it does make anything that goes wrong completely the user's fault, though.
> I had one organization offer me 25k, fully remote to work there

Per year? That is $12.50 / hr
>It already lists egregiously heavy apps in the battery status item

Based on my own experience it should be called the Electron status item.
This makes me wonder.

I get car-sick when I'm a passenger in a car. Sometimes it takes an hour. Sometimes 10 minutes.

However, if I'm riding in a convertible with the top down... I haven't gotten car-sick yet.

Is the wind "fixing" the problem with my brain?
You forgot to factor in all the benefits and "perks", not the least of which is insider trading.
Considering that people mostly use either webapps in a browser, or Electron-based 'native' apps, does saving 300 MB with a specific app really makes that much of difference?

I do understand that macOS APIs and libraries are easy to use, development experience is (at least in my opinion) better than with Electron + framework of your choice, and you can achieve better integration with the OS, but I don't think that saving 200-300 MB is really important to the end users.
Red tape galore -- related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30959520
Makes sense at one level, but I wonder if partisan voting patterns overwhelm the potential positive contribution of any one Republican.

I genuinely don't know here.
You can also make safe and reliable applications in C++, or fast applications in Python, or readable code in 1990's Perl - it's just very difficult, because those languages lend themselves very poorly to those things, and that's why good developers avoid using those languages when those traits are needed.

Heck, you can make fast code in Python by embedding a DSL and writing a native-code compiler for it. Turing completeness means that everything is possible, which means that "possible" isn't interesting - practical is.

Judging by how few fast webtech applications there are, it seems like making them is not very practical.
I'm a manager. (Sorry.) I do a weekly Friday "Ask me anything" on Zoom that's basically a free-form training session where people reporting to me (or other teams are fine, too) ask about how to do something or how we should be doing something, and we walk through it in video.

One reason I started this is we had a mix of junior people, people who came in from acquisitions, and people who had changed tools and weren't sure of best practices. This stuff was supposed to be documented in wiki pages, and a lot of times it was, but when we'd run through it hands-on, we'd find details that weren't documented or had gone stale.

Another reason is that formal written-in-advance training sessions are overbearing for everyone involved. They take too much time to prepare, too much time to give, nobody pays attention because they don't like being talked to, and if things go off script, the presenter has to scramble to adapt. It was better for someone to say on Monday "I need to know more about how we're supposed to be doing GitHub PR reviews" and then on Friday, I'd have a post-it of notes and we'd fire up a browser, go through a fake PR or look at an old one, and maybe talk about pain points or what isn't working.

Also, we'd record these and store them for posterity, and so people in other time zones could catch them later.
Yeah no thank you. It's fine if they pitch it as a slicker alternative to zoom but not an always on surveillance tool.
One could say both are native Windows UI toolkits.
Kind of similar to when Apple shipped Carbon and Cocoa.
RisingWave Is Open Source
We have just open sourced RisingWave, a cloud-native streaming database that uses SQL as the interface language. RisingWave is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. It consumes streaming data, performs continuous queries, and updates results dynamically. As a database system, RisingWave maintains results inside its own storage and allows users to access data efficiently.

You can check out the source code at GitHub (https://github.com/singularity-data/risingwave)
fq_codel is the default on linux, osx, and ios now. It "just works" at line rates. It's also part of the linux wifi stack for a half dozen chipsets. It's not visible via qdisc as it's at the wifi layer: https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/ but works brilliantly. No configuration needed, all the noise you hear on the internet about cake and fq_codel is the costs of setting up a shaper.

If more ISPs ran at the line rate of the interface, and shipped fq_codel or cake by default (it's the shaper that costs 95% of the cpu, not these algorithms), our intertubes would be a lot better. Sadly most are shipping 7+ year old kernels.
I can't speak for everywhere, but I live is a very high tax rate in the north east and of cousre the larger the high or more land, the higher the taxes. The town I live in some houses, which generally don't exceed 1 acre lots can have taxes in excess of 100,000k a year. This is really as close to a land tax in action I can see. There are few empty lots, no one is sitting on land, and you can be sure no one is building large apartment buildings - the taxes would be extremely excessive. To add to that, the high taxes have not encouraged investment from the town itself to build infrastructure that would support more efficient use of land. Sure there are roads. The schools are well funded, its the north east which tends to have excellent investments into schools. Not only am I close to New York city, so not out on the woods or anything, I am also on well and septic. There is no municipal water or sewer. This has the added point of making building affordable housing next to impossible, which was likely not the reason for well and septic, but is now a reason not to add it for NIMBY. So while a land tax to punish the rich would help make people feel better, with what I see it will enrich some, but not benefit who you think would benefit.
GS-15 salaries top out at $176,300 in the DC metro area. (Most (all?) USDSers get exactly that salary.) That is certainly more than I made as a new grad at a FAANG!
> You could vibratory signal a path in complete darkness, indicate obstacles and threats or directions to supply caches etc.

What sensors would this vest use to figure out where you are and where the obstacles and threats around you are?
The PSLF program will forgive government-backed student loans after 120 payments made while working for a government entity.

PSLF website: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation...
Another (esoteric) editor I use for quick and dirty hacks on Windows is Notepad2[0]. It's a bare-bones drop-in replacement for the default notepad.exe on Windows, and has syntax highlighting.

As for Linux, Pluma[1] is great too.

[0] https://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

[1] https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/pluma
I'll also note that I think it's difficult for managers to transition from managing mediocre teams to high-performing ones. The job changes from "telling people what to do and making sure it gets done" to "advocating for my people and empowering them to execute independently." And some managers struggle to recognize that, feel superfluous, and double down on what they know (Jira! Scrums!) in order to feel effective.
What are some government software projects that have a tangible positive impact on average people's lives?
SAMs have to start at 0 speed and 0 altitude. An R-40 launched from a MiG-25 would start at Mach 3+ and 30km altitude.
Slavery isn’t just early pre civil war American south slavery. Slavery is surely bad but so are a lot of institutions controlling the poor, and I’m not sure the moral disgust with it scales to the concept of slavery generally.

Gladiators, drafts, totalitarian states, etc.

A lot of them are really just slavery under a nuanced scheme that we’re all fine role playing.
Yup, to emphasize, this is "we want to hire linus torvalds for a specific project" level exception, not "we'll be handing these out to line programmers because comp is higher in that sector" level exception.

You won't be getting one of those unless you're exceptionally well-known enough that an average practitioner in your field would perk up their ears when someone mentions your name as a potential hire.

And really, for the tier of people that would be getting those exceptions, that's still not a great rate of pay and they'd still be taking huge paycuts to work for the government. Like ok, we can get $300k a year for Linus but... he can walk into fifty companies and drop off a resume, cold, asking for triple that and get offers before he's back to his desk.
Perhaps, but the idea is to take the lead- and thus when all other browsers ,or most of them ,adopt this, that will be a little trickier to classify every browser in this manner.

Overall, this will have an impact in the many regimes- and perhaps is one of the best methods of doing so.
While it is still ...having faith in Cloudflare(one could audit them, but of course the question is how by-nature are they built to resist threats from APTs to the US gov coming knocking for info on Snowden or a similar person, looking for possibilities of compromise) -

I think of the Ukraine Starlink situation-
Overall, the Starlink terminals can be targeted by their signals, - but there's so many ,that Russia would need to do a massive ASAT campaign, or start spam detonating kiloton/megaton warheads in space to really try to disable Ukraine's ability to communicate even when all other networks get cut off, or isolated. And they mgiht be one of the very few capable of that type of escalation, but right now they're getting stymied by groups that are en - masse, accessing something that makes it harder to control, deny info, influence and crush them.

Overall a net positive, but with drawbacks- but their overall situation and ability to choose how they want to operate is increased.

VPNs and TOR are gaining popularity, but this covers those who wouldn't be able to use or figure out those for whatever reason, but who can use a web browser.
I think i've seen the Cloudflare CEO around - i wonder if any cloudflare employees will comment on the risks i mentioned before(centralized source providing availability, US GOV deciding to take interest...)

Firefox actually can solve this- by attempting to pursue deals with more than Cloudflare and NextDNS
By this point, telegraphy’s old manually operated Morse keys had been long since replaced by teletype machines that looked and functioned like typewriters, doing the grunt work of translating letters into Morse Code for the operator and The attendees were given the chance to type out mathematical problems on the teletype, which sent them up the line as Morse Code to the Complex Computer installed at Bell Labs’s facilities in New York City. The latter translated the dots and dashes of Morse Code into numbers, performed the requested calculations, and sent the results back to Dartmouth, where they duly appeared on the teleprinter

I doubt they used Morse for this. By 1937, five level teleprinter codes were in use and the related patent 2,434,681 clearly shows use of a five level code.
Sure! Pre-pandemic, my company used to bring people together a couple of times a year, and I agree there was considerable value in it. But every 8 weeks? Maybe that team are all young, energetic, and family-free, but at my stage of life I would find that pretty gruelling.
I seem to remember having read in a German print magazine (https://www.fliegerrevue.aero/) that Mig-25's stationed in East Germany (or was it Poland?) were supposed (and trained) to intercept incoming Blackbirds over the Baltic Sea, which could have theoretically worked even if the Mig would be slightly slower by using the right "approach path" and coming in behind the Blackbird in weapon range for a short time window.
Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
A lot of this is possible in Xcode, but kudos to the team for packaging everything so nicely in this editor, and there are a few standout features I haven’t seen in other editors/IDEs:

- multifind

- find in all enums (declaration/structure-specific search)

- the “minimap”

Like another poster said, just the few niche functions alone would be a cool acquisition target for Apple. I’d love to see the best/unique parts of this make it into Xcode without having to maintain the rest of the wheels that have been reinvented here.

I guess you kinda have to reinvent all those wheels as a foundation upon which to build new unique features for a text editor though…
For me, I try to avoid politics in general since I’m (along with everyone else) so inundated with it on a daily basis. It’s so wonderful and refreshing to find places where it doesn’t exist and isn’t mentioned. No matter how much bad is going on in the world we all need to be able to mentally escape it. It’s just one of those vital things.

So when you go to download the newest version of one of your fav text editors and you’re faced with messages like “you guys support who I support in the war right?! You should because the other guy is crazy! I stand with this side, I’m literally changing the world!” and I just gotta sigh and roll my eyes. Sir this is an Arby’s.
I suspect it's because "dev" is a fairly broad category that encompasses everything from "Wordpress CSS-twiddler" to "Big Tech Hotshot".
It seems like many people walk away from this kind of article with the hypothesis “liberal cities are dangerous” when a more accurate hypothesis is “urban business districts attract crime”. The solution isn’t simple, but it’s not endemic to urban environments, and I’ve seen all types of city government manage the issue well and poorly.
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Completely different experience here. At least for my purposes everything is exactly how I want it. I really have think a lot to come up with an issue for the GNOME Environment, except that some applications aren't ported to GTK4 yet
In most countries mail-in voting is only allowed with a permission and only for certain reasons.
You are very much on target. Just one correction. "Kinzhal" missile that Russia promotes as their hypersonic wonderwaffe is not in fact that.

"Kinzhal" is a slight modification of standard Russian "Iskander" ballistic missile allowing it to be launched from a plane (specifically an intercepter fighter jet MiG-31).

As with most ballistic missiles, the warhead flies a part of its trajectory at a hypersonic speed, but has to slow down at the final part of its trajectory. It is just as hard (or easy) to intercept as any other ballistic missile.

Mounting it on a plane gives it a longer range, and potentially makes it harder to be destroyed by a pre-emptive strike (although experts disagree on this).

Traditionally the term "hypersonic weapon" is used for very different class of weapons. Basically, a true "hypersonic weapon" is something able to maneuver while flying at hypersonic speeds, and able to maintain this speed all the way to the target. "Kinzhal" is nothing like it.

So it is not some fantastic wonderwaffe making NATO air defenses suddenly useless. It presents some additional challenges, but nothing drastic.

What makes possible nuclear war with Russia really dangerous is just the number of "conventional" ballistic missiles Russia has. In theory Russia may launch thousands of rockets carrying tens of thousands of warheads, and no air defense has any hope to intercept all or even most of them.

This is the same as it always was. The difference with Soviet Union is that Soviet leaders appeared to be afraid of a world suicide, and Russian leadership appears (or wants to appear) to be crazy and ready to destroy the world.
For more: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/testicular-navigation
The numbers are suspiciously low. Electron binary itself weighs about 100 Mb, although of course it need not to be fully loaded.

Are you using correct way to measure memory usage? I think that the correct way is to measure all physical memory mapped into all Electron processes (there are several of them), making discount for shared pages and adding swapped out pages (because they can potentially be loaded back into main memory).

In Linux I usually add PSS and swap usage parsed from /proc, which should give correct numbers (PSS is an additive value). For example, all processes of Skype on my system take approximately 459 Mb in RAM and swap file.

If you are only measuring one process memory instead of all and only private memory pages (excluding shared pages and swapped out) then you get the wrong number. I tried to search online what "Memory" column represents in Windows Task Manager and Mac Activity Monitor (which people often use to estimate memory usage), but couldn't find any information. So I cannot be sure that they show true values and that those values can be added to find total memory usage by several processes.
> I know it's cool to hate javascript but it's not going anywhere.

This does seem to align with it being a modern perl
Wow, 15 puzzle meets Wordle. Nice job.
I can't believe that you expect to be taken seriously while pretending the millions of people encompassed by "tech and Us Govt" are all a single hivemind with only the one motivation.