skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you claim elections are free and fair if the parties that win every election are subject to massive corruption including cash bribes in car parks? By the way, this is NOT an isolated incident or even an isolated area.

I imagine if Biden or Trump was stacking state electors or state nominations with shills by using cash-stuffed manila envelopes you would've mentioned that in your original post -- why do you not care about this corruption in your own country?

The proliferation of cash payments in envelopes to rig selections seems to disqualify Australia from the title of "not corrupt" elections. Again, not isolated.

As for the AEC, they have a long history of targeting people in rules that effectively prevent them voting [1]. Wow, so democratic! Not to mention the privacy breaches, or the audit that said they lied to the public repeatedly about cybersecurity. Wow, AEC elections are so secure! [2] [3]

Let's look at a quote: "Insufficient attention was paid to ensuring the AEC could identify whether the system had been compromised," Mr Hehir said.

Whoops. They didn't even have the capability to know whether the election was compromised, then they lied about it.

>But my kids aren't more likely to die from gunshot wounds

Gun homicides have been declining for 40 years in the US. Increased gun sales are correlated with decreased gun homicides. It seems like you're extrapolating data from media sources rather than looking at crime statistics?

>A person won't die just because they can't afford private health insurance

This is pretty much a lie. Medicaid ($672bn yearly budget) provides coverage to those on low or no incomes. Not to mention those "bill shock" images you've no doubt been manipulated by are highly misleading. People don't pay those figures. Never. Hospitals negotiate 90% or higher discounts for those who aren't insured. Go read personal finance subreddits for yourself to confirm.

>Meanwhile, to the best of my knowledge, not a single individual at any level responsible for the "Collateral Murder" incident has been punished

Australia is covering up the war crimes perpetrated by the military. The only reason it was ever public was because of leaks. The US military (as warmongering as it is) felt the Australian military had a bloodthirsty reputation.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-19/nt-voters-racial-disc...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-18/aec-sends-electoral-r...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/aec-misled-public-abo...
Unfair? This is just another step in a long, long, long journey of Apple butchering MacOS and throwing HIG out of the window.
It’s way more complex than that. Your brain is running pattern recognition on the persons height, gender, age, race, clothing, gait, where they are looking, etc to work out the risk level.

If you saw an old lady carrying shopping bags you’d feel no risk of danger vs a large male in a hoodie walking in a weird way and looking at you.
Cat theft is common everywhere that there are sufficient density of cars parked outside overnight to make it profitable.
I just searched for esp32 projects/libraries on github, the first 3 had malloc calls.

Maybe they don't do[1] dynamic memory allocation in code segments that have real time constraints, or after initialization, etc. (Most embedded projects actually don't have hard real-time constraints, or have them in extremely localized places like bit banging loops...) This is sounds like a good idea and is orthogonal to whether the language's dynamic allocation support is via malloc/free or gc.
Historically speaking, in the ~15 years AWS has been around, have they ever increased prices for any service? In my experience, they've only ever decreased prices of their services as advances in tech have been made rather than increasing them. Sure some start out being expensive cough Macie and Fargate cough but they didn't increase prices after being launched as far as I'm aware.

Assuming they never have increased a price in 15 years, that doesn't prevent them from doing so, but it's a confidence inspiring track record.

I have about as much confidence that AWS won't raise prices on existing services/features as I do that Google will eventually kill another good project - https://killedbygoogle.com/
Vijaylaxmi Pandit was the same person who took ahead Nehru's ideas of Hindi - Chini bhai bhai (Indians and Chinese are brothers) when China never reciprocated and instead backstabbed India. Some of Nehru's notable achievements:

1. Not moving fast enough on Kashmir issue after instrument of accession signed by Maharaj Harisingh. If not for Sardar Patel, there would have been multiple festering issues with other areas as well.
2. Creating a political legacy of family and cronies only.
3. Setting up of a license permit raj which held back Indian economic development for decades.
Diablo Immortal now has Blizzard’s lowest ever user score on Metacritic
The first push for making Language Server mandatory part of language tooling. Working with TypeScript and now with Rust using VSCode is basically one of the best developer experiences I've had, especially compared to having to wrangle Kotlin with JetBrains IDEs.

And the plugin ecosystem + declarative configuration makes it really good to personalize.
Great little article thank you, one thing, can you add the unit cost per mont details for storage and bandwidth, it makes a difference in calculating the cost, not the same to asume $0.10 TiB/Month or $0.10 GiB/Month, I think that data would be most useful without having to go AWS for verification.
> Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious.

The Linux ISO crowd has kept Usenet alive. I feel like torrents will be around for a while yet.
Yeah the nines are very trendy and impressive but wouldn't it be more comprehensible to say "one in a million" and "one in ten billion"?
Don’t be silly. It’s a game theoretic certainty that they will indeed pull an Oracle.
Thanks for sharing the page. I was wondering what hop was and if it could potentially be a solution for a current problem I am facing.

Now at least I know a bit more.
What use would it have? The other languages mentioned (Chinese, Spanish, Japanese - I can't speak about Hebrew or Arabic) all come from very hierarchical societies that are still very hierarchical today whereas English has been seemingly on a mission to remove all such things for centuries, so thou was dropped for you by around 500 years ago and there's been a movement against honorifics like Miss or even the precision between the last few gendered words like actress.

Thus I'm not sure why this kind of detail would arise. in-law to a native basically indicates any of "they're not (really) my family", "they're not my problem" or "they poke their nose into my business when they shouldn't", or "I'm not going to share their name with you but I need some way to indicate a relationship". If the precision is needed it can be added later, like everything else in such a generalist (low context) language.
Anki supports Cloze Deletions, so you could have a card e.g. The capital of {{Burkina Paso}} is {{Uagadugu}}. Anki would then automatically present you with two questions:

The capital of Burkina Paso is ____.
The capital of ____ is Uagadugu.
We used to have this joke when I was a kid: a new Russian arrives to a computer store in his S600 Mercedes. He ask for the top specs, with multiple processors, SCSI hard drives, UPS and what not. While the sales rep is packing all the gear, the Russian is still somewhat not satisfied. He looks deep down in to the sales rep's eyes and says: are you absolutely 100% certain I'll be able to play Tetris on this????
It doesn’t suck. Almost everything else sucks.
Probably some piece of info you can search for in two seconds on the internet, nowadays.
Transmission is a much better option imo, mainly because this amazing container exists: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Of course, the idea has been used with other clients, but I have yet to find a more complete solution.
At this stage of uBlock Origin, is there actually any point of using other extensions of you’re just a regular Joe “browsing the web”?
> zero caching

<strike>When each request is from a different person, you get essentially zero cache.</strike> Nope, server-side caching reduces back-end processing.
Marketing is key, Microsoft marketed VSCode to Python programmers and others. It was written into tutorials to use VSCode as an IDE.

Richard Stallman wants me to use eMacs. Microsoft wants me to use VSCode.

I just want to see Visual Studio for Linux.
I've decided I'm going to start interviewing with a set of PR's per each role we hire for. each PR will have obvious mistakes, complicated logic problems, as well as code that could be "refactored" once the whole PR has been read.

this provides a few things; it gives us an ability at how the interviewee problem solves. next we can see how they respond too obvious fixes (would they be someone you'd want to send a PR too?). finally, it tests their knowledge of the language and APIs, hopefully much better than Leet Code can. I would also like to see if the user can spot obvious bugs in the setup code (say, package.json, pyproject.toml, etc)

I am going to make an example PR for:
- frontend (React/NextJS, TypeScript, CSS)
- backend (Django, Python)
- DevOps (potentially some Pulumi code for deploying to a Kubernetes cluster?)
You've described how it works in Canada!

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-p...
Not all press is good press. Look at Facebook, for example.
Given the severe shortages that existed in Germany by the end of the war I would imagine that even the most whimsical acts of small scale sabotage inflicted a surprising amount of pain.
Same here. I love that they also cover maths, which few pop sci publications do.
> what will inevitably happen is a lot of bullying.

It may not be inevitable. Personally I had pretty great experiences with multi-grade clubs, camps, sports teams, classes, academic competitions, after school programs, etc. (not to mention the neighborhood/real world.) The older kids were usually pretty nice, often really helpful, and provided a kind of role modeling.

Sports teams can sometimes be kind of hilariously unbalanced due to the drastic difference in sizes of some kids though. Perhaps some sports should be sliced into height or weight classes rather than age classes, but that's probably only practical for large leagues.
Depends on the concurrency ability of the web server (async) or parallelism (threads)
At work we have a support portal, to help customer support folks out. It relies on queries through a legacy service to a legacy DB. Increased row counts in the DB (ish because this isn't SQL) have caused high query latency resulting in frequent timeouts, and the legacy service that manages the queries keeps constantly timing out.

Our team owns it but management will never sign off on resources to fix it. None of the technical staff or upper management at the company uses the support portal so they don't care. Support folks don't have any way of offering feedback to us or our management in a way that threatens our careers. The result is that it never gets worked on and support continues complaining without anything ever happening. I spent my free time coming up with fixes but ran out of time to tie up loose ends. I'll be tasking an intern with doing that, so the support people can finally use the portal and not want to rip their hair out. This is what happens when you aren't forced to use a system and customer feedback has no effect on you, as is the case for most enterprise software.

Have you tried to use Puppeteer or Selenium to automate the timecard entry? That might help reduce the pain.
Whose analysts?
> Alternatively, look at under-performing people and find what they are lacking

This is great suggestion. While the “look at their github” one is a bad suggestion. Github polishing is theatre more suited for theatre majors instead of people actually working with integrity before coming to your company. Its very similar to the issue with the leetcode interviews as its geared towards people with time to optimize that instead of a day to day job.
Wonder how the news of this will affect Twitter traffic while he's looking at it. Probably not much, but it would be amusing if some of the bot operators took the week off to mess with him a bit.
Ask HN: Where do you buy marketing website templates?
As I experiment with various personal projects (or smaller client projects) I regularly need to create marketing pages (landing pages, sign-up pages, bios, product pages etc.).

My instinct is to just custom built with Tailwind but in many cases this is a waste of time and I'd be better off finding a template.

I'm happy to pay for these templates (< $100) and I'm also happy to customize them but I notice that Googling for templates shows an awful lot of buggy-looking WordPress themes with a lot of jQuery and JavaScript going on.

Where do you find good starter templates for marketing website projects?
In CA when you vote, there's a tracking mechanism you can use to see your vote was counted. A few years back I remember the ballots had a receipt you could tear off and use to verify it online later.

What would be cool is if you combined that serial number with a hash generated by filling in the ballot after the fact.

Eg you go to a page, supply your serial number and the things you voted for, and it tells you if it was counted and matches what you're saying.

Of course, this could still be used that way... but in CA ballots usually have enough options that it would be difficult for a malicious actor to have that much intent haha.

Most people would probably forget which smaller issues they voted for though.... so I dunno if it'd be reliable.
https://irev.net/

Coded and hosted on my own, a nice portfolio site of cool stuff I’ve worked on.
Grenades aren't banned in the US. It's called a Destructive Device.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840...
Much of the population of hispanic America are descendants of both natives and conquistadors.
I often think it's a program or set of docs that someone happened upon for the first time themselves, but that can't explain all of them; regardless, I love these kinds of posts, for the opportunity to encounter something that others might have assumed to be obvious and the spontaneous discussions that occur
Alternatively, <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtub...> offers a much more convenient UI for playback speed.
Didn't know Grab was SE Asia's biggest OSM contributor.

>Grab used open source OpenStreetMap (OSM) and to date is the largest contributor to the project in Southeast Asia. The Grab editing team is responsible for 20 percent of the region's edits.
I think this is probably right. They are among the few to even attempt it.

As someone who loves math but who only knows a little, I find the articles manage to convey the broad ideas quite well. What it is, why it matters. I could stand more detail, but I guess many others couldn't.
It’s actually not the “hug of death” that I fondly remember happening more often (although that too was undoubtedly more common) but finding cool, weird, niche topics on the internet that I didn’t know before and were really fascinating.
Looks like it is being sold on Walmart through a reseller:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NEC-MultiSync-m551-55-Diagonal-Cl...
Textadept has both TUI and GUI, is Free Software, and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

The way it works is that its creator made a TUI implementation of the GUI library he used for the graphical version, so you have the same menus etc.
This is wonderful! I've never seen anything like this in practical form.

I hope it doesn't become standard practice for general websites(As I imagine some would like to see), but it's an amazing tool and there will probably be many wonderful uses.
Please don't cross into personal attack. It's not obvious what you were intending by that last paragraph, but it doesn't sound nice, and bringing someone's personal details into an argument is already not ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's reasonable, but if the question is "why doesn't this exist" then the answer is "it does".

(For what it's worth, it's also available on any platform via the web app versions of iWork at icloud.com. I'm not saying this is necessarily practical, but, it's there.)
Not sure how I feel about it. Feels a bit dystopian for Apple to decide if I’m a human or not, as long as I pay the Apple tax?

I just imagine some video cams with robotic fingers attached to a device and automate browsing this way? sounds viable and there must already be some device farms even with human operators?
>I understand this is being used in prod, but network partitions don't occur everyday...

Can't we assume they tested it before deploying to production by introducing all the weird stuff that might happen in a distributed system like partitions, high latency, so they aren't relying only on "it seems to work in production"?
The Alkyne GC
I think there are flaws with this approach too, but I wish this approach was more common so that there was industry wide rapid iteration to a more optimized version of this.

What I’ve seen are time trials, which don’t show you how well a candidate will adapt to a codebase, wont show you how they will do tickets for your sprint. Only reinforces a flawed idea of the employer about how they wont “hit the ground running” despite having that job opening for 8 months.

What you described might not be a time trial, its what ive seen though.
My solution to the riddle: Run the machines all year 24/7 and allow voters to change their vote when they like.

A new formation needs > 55% and the old one needs < 35% for a change in leadership to happen.

It will be wonderful if there is instant retaliation or instant rewards.
The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission).

If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.
> You need to be triply redundant on 3 availability zones, (3x) both with the RDS db cluster and app containers (2x) . And then have separate dev/staging/prod envs (3x). That's 18x.

Why would you care about the redundancy on staging / dev?

Just making up things to inflate AWS costs now.
Hire a better engineer/architect.
In the UK it’s 13A/230V, though some countries specify 10A. The amperage refers to peak draw, though. For continuous draw you typically get 80% of peak. So for example my 48A/240v charger requires a 60A breaker and 12A/120V continuous draw requires a 15A breaker. Also, since the input voltage must be converted to 480V (or more) there are greater conversion losses for 120V than 240V so the naive wattage calculation is a little misleading: less power reaches the battery in lower-voltage circuits.
> English is not a prescriptive language

Do you mean that there is no single body, like the French have, directing the usage of the language? I would consider "prescriptive / descriptive" to be properties of a dictionary, but not properties of the language itself. I'm not a subject matter expert so I'm not contradicting you, rather I'm asking.
Eh, I wouldn't really call it information addiction. I could easily stop surfing the web at any time. I do so mainly because I'm bored. I'm sitting here alone on a Wednesday night, I don't think it's such a bad thing that I'm just reading some interesting content.
If you're not testing az failovers you're probably just wasting money, like untested backups... But it's true that most people don't know this and aren't testing it because they don't know that az failovers don't automatically just work(tm). And the second downside of course would be asymmetry between the envs and divergence in the IaC etc resulting in more complexity and engineering work.

(Of course you're probably wasting money anyway since you don't actually business-wise need better uptime than the single AZ, and your complexity induced human fumbles will cause much more outages anyway, but this has been a main selling point of the decision to go to AWS, so the requirement needs to be defended)

Yes, you can build automation to have the redundant stuff up only sometimes, if you eat the engineering effort and complexity in your IAC and build automation... in the general vein of justifying engineering spend to offset AWS operating costs where running containers is very expensive!

TLDR: either way you end up paying for the very high markup in compute prices, it'll just be easier to excuse jumping through expensive hoops to "save money" on it.
Out of curiosity, what do you think a fair price for s3 would be?

I haven't had a problem with the storage prices, just egress fees can add up

(I don't work for aws or a cloud provider, just curious)
Those are ads. It’s a perk that YC companies get. Otherwise, HN and YC are fairly independent, from what I understand.
I run https://www.hntrends.com on a $5/month box and never had a problem with spikes. Generated, static resources all the way.
It was a pyrrhic victory.

On the modern server room, what matters are type 1 hypervisors running managed runtimes or container orchestrators, the real kernel matters very little to most typical cloud workloads. Even if they depend on the Linux kernel in some form, it hardly matters to the large majority of cloud customers.

On mobile space, only one platform uses the Linux kernel, and it is so abstracted from userspace that Google could change it at any time and no one would notice, while at the same time OEMs pretend GPL doesn't exist anyway.

On the desktop, the Year of Desktop Linux seems to be bound to running the Linux kernel on top of virtualization.

Meanwhile on IoT, there is an increasing set of options of alternative POSIX OSes with BSD/MIT/Apache licenses.

Then there is the whole question what will happen when the generation that made Linux happen is no longer around to guarantee it keeps standing for its original goals.
Three and a Half Degrees of Separation
Network Egress always gets a bad rap but recently it's the SSD cost on AWS/GCP that has me upset. IMO storage needs to take on some of network egress's heat :)

$0.10 per GB-month for a basic SSD is outrageous compared to Hetzner et. al. a 4TB SSD for a month costs $400 on the big guys and like $50 on the commodity providers. It's not even a managed service!
We lost a battle but not the war.

The love of being free to do what I want with the most incredible device in history drives me. The conviction that this freedom is one of the pillar of a free future society drives me.

Millions of lost battles will never ever change my mind.
How does society end up burdened with the cost, when education isn't free?
Last I checked they relied on DNS-level blocking , like ublock origin, in addition to some fancy replacements for widgets like disqus. I don't think privacy badger blocks loading content from most CDNs but it may block cookies from them.
The things you list other than perhaps dreams don't have an intense visual component like a psychadelic mushroom trip. Faces in tree bark, fractals in clouds, hues shifting, breathing textures are all typical features of a trip. Its a confusing enough experience even for modern users who knowingly take mushrooms being aware exactly what they are and what is coming.
Right, God and his talking dirt.
10 minute walk, time it wrong, wait half an hour for next bus. Travel 10-20 minutes Then go to wait next bus wait for an other 20 minutes, then 10-20 minutes more and finally an other 10 minute walk...

Yeah, I take my car.
Bittorrent is reliable peer-to-peer file transfers by chopping up the entire payload into tiny bits that can be shared directly amongst all users.

Dapps are decentralized systems to run complex logic (aka smart contracts) without a single point of failure and with whatever consensus mechanism is used by the underlying chain.

There is no "benefit" over one or the other because they're completely different things.