skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your issues with this is merit in and of itself? Please explain a better system for outcomes than putting in the work and earning the outcome. What is the alternative? My point wasn't that merit based systems are inherently flawless, it's that it's the best type of system we use and we should focus on improvements, not blindly calling it racist. There have been cases of cultural bias in merit based systems (word problems that assume some knowledge), but those end up being fairly obvious and now that is taken into account when developing standardized tests.

Even the use of the word racist here is nonsense. It implies malicious intent. For a test maker to not take into account every variation of culture is not racist, it's a negative side affect that can be improved on via iteration, not racist.
> We watched in real time the 2020 election be stolen

No, you didn't. You have been had. HTH.
Constraining Neutron-Star Matter with Microscopic and Macroscopic Collisions
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534520346560323585.html

> YouTube deleted the channel without warning, and (apparently) erased all my content without backup.

> I'm sharing my horror story so that others know what can happen if you trust YouTube and Google to use ordinary common sense and responsibly safeguard your audio-visual material.

It's all too unfortunate that most people start caring about backups from that one time when they needed them but didn't have them.
Does a single text editor exist that supports both a TUI and GUI mode?
I need a font (or some other method) to display the UTF8 Full Block for all characters, including CJK. Does anybody know of anything?

It's for rendering in Browsh, a text-based web browser: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/75
>It would have taken roughly 80k votes to switch the 2016 election from Trump to Clinton. However people had no idea of that beforehand.

What if they paused ballot counting on the night of Election Day, assessed how many votes they needed, and worked overnight to get the votes needed, reporting new totals the next day? Wouldn’t that solve the issue you raise here?
Your machine learning model is 99.999999% accurate.
EVERY uncited statement needs double checking. Even on non-contentious topics.

Cited statements also need double checking. Frequently there's a game of telephone going on and the original research has been distorted.

This is not just a left wing phenomena, it's a phenomena anywhere you get people who aren't completely dispassionate observers (this excludes all advertiser funded media as they are incentivized to make things interesting and engaging).
Depending on the language (I've seen it in Rust and Deno), VSCode has inline buttons that appear over individual tests to run them
So food is tulip. Steel is tulip... everything is tulip? It's not the existence of utility that matters but the degree. Gold is much more useful than tulips.
It's interesting to keep seeing DF evolve over time. It wasn't that long ago that I remember DF was ascii-only, and starting a new game took several pages of explanation and setup. It seems like they've streamlined and improved a lot.

I think there's still a ton of room to go moving foward, UI/UX design is really hard and the problem of keeping a system flexible and configurable while also easy to use is no simple task.
If the folks pushing voter IDs were doing so for egalitarian reasons, they would be doing this.

They're not.

What's that tell you?
Why couldn't it have been North Carolina which had the only case in recent times of a congressional election being rerun because of ballot harvesting by a GOP operative?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCrae_Dowless
Linda Taylor, the Welfare Queen (2013)
It's embarrassing parallel... but you also do N times more work than a non-homomorphic system so that's not saying much!

This doesn't seem like a particularly compelling application - can you give some practical problems that homomorphic encryption solves. I've always heard vote counting as the example.
Bruce Schneier: The Story of the Internet and How It Broke Bad (2020)
> make it easier for everyone to get an ID.

The same people that push for voter ID also make it difficult for everyone to get an ID. Those people also have a stranglehold on their state legislatures, and executive agencies that assign IDs.

They also push for other laughably biased voting rules, like only allowing mail-in ballots from demographics that vote for them (65+). [1]

It's not about fairness for them, it's about winning. It's why I can't give the time of day to their fig leaf about voter fraud.

[1] https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/reqabbm.shtml
no, i don't think so. if anything the possible and accepted challenges have become deeper and more radical, due to the proliferation of anarchist culture and attitudes among widespread disillusion. the mainstream has moved towards anarchists.

this has surfaced a lot of highly visible "radlibs", who talk but don't walk, but posers appear alongside any cultural position.
Farm equipment is more important than everything else combined IMO.

I don't understand how most countries aren't terrified of having their ability to repair farm equipment, which is essential to food production, locked behind parts serialization with the encryption keys controlled by a foreign company.

Keeping repair prices in check should be viewed as a beneficial side effect of right to repair legislation. The real win is diversifying knowledge and maintaining the ability to repair equipment domestically.
Will definitely be taking a look at this release. I've alternated between CM and Ace for browser IDE purposes. I've got a new C#/DSL scripting environment I need to prototype, so I will give this a spin.
That's the conviction. He was supposed to be sentenced June 30th, 2020.
A weird one I've noticed with the clipboard on the Mac, is that the "rich text" clipboard and the "plain text" one seem to be able to get out of sync. This is most noticeable to me when trying to paste text into some dialog boxes in Microsoft Word.
Indeed - it would be very possible to make a version of Excel which can deal with infinite-sized sheets by leaving most of the data on disk and only loading a few screenfulls at once.
I love Sublime, still my fave
We already know the most effective way to reduce, and often eliminate, medical mistakes: rigorously applied checklists. They are still used only here and there, years after this was well demonstrated. It is well past time to treat not rigorously following checklists as negligent malpractice.

Medicine depends overwhelmingly more on manually applied procedures that would be automated, in a computer, as patients and staff manifestly are not. So, the same mistakes are repeated again and again. A software fix would correspond to changing a checklist.

Still, it would be no bad thing to use checklists for manual processes in software development, but I have never heard of any.
I was using machinery in a more general sense given I don't do development.

For me, it's things like lots of marketing program people, public relations, analyst relations, competitive analysts, designers, editors, etc. They can offload a lot of work (and, in many cases, can do that work better than I could). But it's a lot of people to keep informed and coordinated.
You can look at the history of IQ tests to see that older ones were indeed biased. New tests are designed to counteract those biases.

The point is that it is possible for corrupt administrators to bias test results, and the methods to do such are fairly easy to come across.

I'm not objecting to IQ tests, just pointing out that if a school wanted to create a test that only admitted certain students, that it is very possible to do such.
Even more relevantly, gold was a relatively dense solid substance that didn't corrode or otherwise degrade. It was an excellent choice for currency, once you could get enough of it to avoid problems of currency supply.
Do you have a blog or Twitter? I'd like to keep up with any other cool projects you're working on!
can you link to an article detailing this issue? i'd love to dig deeper on this topic
> they are entirely public

Yes, you're just not clever enough to understand all of the jargon I just invented and refuse to explain, audit every line of code, audit the organization that actually controls the project, spend a month brainstorming all of the possible failure modes and get a PhD in multiple disciplines to discover if any of my claims are deceptive.
When porting to SerenityOS, Andreas used a Doom flavor that required very few platform-specific changes to make it run: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
There was a related blockchain decision framework published a few years ago:

https://miro.medium.com/max/352/0*850OATxY25S23TGR.jpg
Gold is useful, but most of it's value doesn't derive from its industrial uses. Only 11% of gold production goes to non-jewellery industry.

Furthermore, it's non-industrial value doesn't derive from its industrial use: if industry could switch to something else overnight (like fillings did), gold would still be a value store.
still[1] not clear to me what open means. i very much wamt the tech here to be useful & usable; roaming is the frontier for wifi to start getting good at.

still not finding much though. https://github.com/wireless-broadband-alliance is still pretty quiet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30958059
When latency increases, concurrency increases. This means extra pressure on you to create personal systems that help you deal with more concurrent processes, and systems that help you follow up on long-lived processes. Your a process who's been living in a synchronous, snappy world, and now you live in an asynchronous, slow world. Your throughput can be high, but you need different tools.
Of specific note I found this quote very alarming

> There was no single cause of death driving this lethal wedge: The death rate due to all 10 of the most common causes of death has widened between Republican and Democratic areas.
From an earlier press release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-philadelphia-judge-ele...

> Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear

TFA explains the other case was nepotism enabled conspiracy:

> Beren, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in October 2021, was the de facto Judge of Elections and effectively ran the polling places in her division by installing close associates to serve as members of the Board of Elections.
Part of the problem is the tax code.

Dividends (what a value company typically produces) are taxed at a much higher rate than long term capital gains (which a ‘growth’ company produces).

Dividends usually at the same rate as income, from 10-37% at the federal level, and often the same if the state has an income tax.

Long term capital gains are 0-20%, and many states don’t tax them at all even if they tax income.

Everyone has a significant incentive to go ‘growth’ in that environment.
You are right, you can't make people up, but this has happened throughout history by unscrupulous actors using either very old people or dead people and "casting votes" in their name for certain candidates. I remember seeing a few examples of this firsthand on twitter in MI where a candidate was over 100 years old(and was dead) and voted!
The value of gold is detached from its utility, just as the value of tulips during tulip mania were detached from their decorative value. The value of steel, on the other hand, is not detached from its utility value.
lol, I jump between Vim and NetBeans almost on a daily basis! So it seems I'm not the only one who follows a similar pattern after all.
The FBI reports crime stats under the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Did you try running it on top of Zephyr?
A 2x2 Lego Piece with a Microcontroller and Working Display
hahah isn't the solution to this just edge computing? e.g. cloudflare workers, fly.io, or seaplane?

Can't solve the speed of light, but can certainly reduce the distance...

Like it or not, enabling many collaborative apps already requires solving this today, lots of work in that direction!
I believe there is such an API... If you copy a file out of a rar archive and paste it into Gmail, you get to see the UI pop up and extraction begin...
> A more accurate equation to look at would be kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2. More energy a car has in hitting something the worse the outcome will be.

worse it will be for who, for people in the car or for the something?
Wouldn't you then have to send out multiple ciphertexts (for articles >100 KB)? Which would leak something about the size of the article...
At my school, everyone was tested... but you needed a recommendation along with a high score to get in. I scored highly on the test year after year but was never given the recommendation necessary. I can't for sure say it was because I am a minority, but it definitely disenfranchised me
Wild. I don't think $10 would get me to the front of the line reliably at good restaurants.
The issue is always the parts where the two language semantics differ too much. And then, you usually have too much legacy code that would be impacted by changes in those areas. That's the hard part.

You lost when that code lies beyond some organizational boundary, e.g., a separate project that has is too big in its own right to refactor in one go, or where the maintainers have sufficient clout to resist such a change. Such a transformation would effectively entail a fork of that project.
For the past fifteen years I found that a main drive of ca 300 GB is needed. 256 GB can cut it if you don’t have many larger files, but 128 GB doesn’t cut it.

I remember back in 2011 when SSDs started becoming popular people would cheap off and get 64 GB drives! And even recommended it for a well balanced system! It’s madness. I bought a 512 GB SSD in 2011 for my laptop, used a 256 GB SSD in a hand-me-down laptop, and 1TB in newer laptops from 2019-2020.

I also use ca 250 GB for rented cloud platforms.

You can’t recommend 128 GB.
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In big parts that's true, but there are some good arguments in favor of a GC for these small devices:

- the GC is a sliding compacting GC. As such there is no fragmentation for heap-allocated memory.

- the memory on these devices is tiny. The GC thus doesn't take long time.

- the ESP32 has really good peripherals, making timing sensitive operations very rare. In most cases there is a hardware module that does the job for you. The timing requirements then usually become significant less important.
Interesting, I actually built off Mycelium's Swish platform that sought to do this very thing. We built an Online eCommerce platform with B2B, and B2C to generate fees for them with BTC enabled payments. But what you described is exactly the way it was pitched [0], it just never got any traction and was not really use for most people as it had limited usecases.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVIeLfuSUJo
> answering the "why my cache is inconsistent" is the problem we solved

That should be the title and focus of your post. Instead, it feels like grandiose claims about solving cache invalidation itself.
In the very first sentence, the parent comment refers to "people in our society". Those are the people I'm talking about.
> The only reason to be against voter ID is to make fraud easier.

You have little imagination. Just because someone claims some new law protects the integrity of the vote doesn't mean that is the actual intent. Frequently it is just a pretext for differentially shaving off a percent or two of the "wrong" types of voters.

For decades conservatives have been alleging widespread voter fraud by democrats. I can't count the number of times I've heard about dead people being on the voter rolls. Yes, when my dad died of stroke, getting his name removed from the voter registry was item #496 on my list of things to do.

After the 2016 election Trump alleged 3M+ illegal votes. He formed a committee to investigate it, headed by Kris Kobach, who has a history of making such claims despite not showing anything. Despite having the full power and resources of the federal government at his disposal, the committee turned up nothing.

Election fraud is a real concern, and none of the recent laws address that. Voter fraud is on the order of 1:100,000 to 1:1,000,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...
Well, it would be 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7, 8 unless you have memorized the commutative property ;-)
Honestly, there is no one left who doesn't know the Tulip story at this point. It's not some niche historical thing. A vast, vast majority of everyone tangentially related to crypto or finance and the HN crowd know what it is.
Hearthstone added something similar for decks (even made it human readable):

### Starting Party
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# Cariel Roame
# - Tome of Light 4
# Xyrella
# - Robes of Purity 2
# Rokara
# - Helm of Inspiration 1
# Murky
# - Time to Krill 3
# Millhouse Manastorm
# - Arcane Powder 1
# Deathwing
# - Heart of Unliving 3
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
QazAI's migration from Hive to Trino (fka Presto)
With specs like WebBundle, sites could self-sign the log content, in a way where other people could securely mirror/cache another sites log resources in a way that's still clear & secure.
I've noticed that if developers can't run their code in some hand-crafted one-off buggy inconsistent mutable local environment, they freak. To the point that they're fine with using some proxy to a remote K8s cluster as long as their application code is executing locally. My guess is they fear a lack of control, and a local environment makes them feel safer, like they aren't stumbling in the dark trying to figure out how to make an app work.

Most developers don't really understand the cloud at all, and that lack of understanding combined with their local env baggage is half the reason DevOps people are necessary. If devs adopted cloud native workflows, a lot of shit would be easier for everyone. It would even lead to better designs. Devs think the cloud works like their desktop, when really it's a radically different model for system design. I mean, there still devs who assume their app will use a filesystem to store data, lol!
the jquery of backend
> marketing program people, public relations, analyst relations, competitive analysts, designers, editors

I guess it depends on the role. I don't think startup developers do any of these (except maybe design) :)
> But what if you cut ahead of me in a queue, or let your dog poop on my lawn

You don't need laws or hierarchy for this, just social conventions and in fact we already have them and they work. Queues hold all the time and you can mostly walk around without stomping on dog shit.

> drive an unmuffled car when I'm trying to sleep, or dump just a tiny amount of lead into my drinking water?

The first is a minor annoyance that exists also under our current hierarchy, the second can be safely consired harm, as it's scientifically proven.
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In other news, the Atom One Dark color theme is alive and well in the VS Code marketplace. I've used it for 5 straight years. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zhuangto...
Same, but hyperinflation. Some people could take credits, bought houses or whole towns and repaid them with pennies.
> Atom extensions could have dependencies on each other

This. This always has been and always will be a critical ecosystem mistake.

The principle of one msi/exe installing everything you need on Windows, one click downloading an entire app from a store on Android or iOS is seamless and almost always error free. Or in your example with VSCode having self contained encapsulated plugins that install with one click.

Meanwhile I'm having issues installing things and resolving dependencies with pip in python, apt in linux, npm, etc. basically all the time. It's a shit system that only pretends to be elegant and it's time we fucking admit it to ourselves. Designed by elitist morons for elitist morons and everyone else is paying the price.
Twitter’s latest feature – merchants tease upcoming product drops
+1 for remote ssh. If you can SFTP to the box you can use this feature.

The only possible wrinkle is the developer box needs the build toolchain. If you're writing python, your remote box obviously already has it to run your app. But if you're writing Rust or golang, it's very possible the remote machine doesn't have the compilers.
The funny bit being react uses regular browser APIs for network requests! Nothing was even gained, just call fetch!
So basically, every election within the statute of limitations. How far back does this really go?
Agree, 100%. I was about to comment that this must be a jest - but aiming for controversy is surely the more accurate interpretation.
What are these programs where most of the code has to be imperative? That seems like a design decision, not an inherent constraint for most programs.
> Gold has a variety of functional uses in electronics. It's used for its physical properties in a lot of spacecraft.

The industrial uses made up 81.7 of the 474 tons in Q1 2022 (or 17.2%). That is not a lot.

https://www.gold.org/goldhub/research/gold-demand-trends/gol...
This is normal. Background checks - of the sort where they actually try to contact old employers and verify employment history - are a total joke, especially ever since everyone in HR started to 'work' from home. I've seen background checks come back a full month after the person had already started their job and had access to all of the internal systems and were collecting paychecks. Most companies won't deny you the job just because the background check is taking a long time. And if they did, that would be a bad PR move for them I think.
I'm not a car expert by any means, but I just did a quick look through the Euro NCAP database, and apparently there are some models with 5-star ratings that are below 1.5 metric tons. I don't disagree that safety features don't incur additional weight, but it stands to reason that not all the weight gains are caused by additional safety features.

It appears to me that it's more about perceived safety, which leads to an arms race: If everyone around you is driving a 3-ton SUV, you'd be less inclined to choose a Smart ForTwo, even if it's sufficient for your mobility needs and more economical, because you fear what happens when one of the SUV monsters crashes into your car.

There are some ways to fix this: banning SUVs (e.g. by capping vehicle weight for individually-owned cars), providing better public transit options, disincentivizing car ownership in urban areas (e.g. by reducing parking spaces), etc. Obviously none of those policy proposals are going to be popular.
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Seems like in this differentiable FSM implementation you only differentiate edge weighs, you can not introduce or change nodes. So it is quite far from differentiation of programs.
I have tried to track this down - it seems like at some point it was not possible. My guess is Vista is when the lock was implemented. I've come up blank repeatedly.

I am sure Raymond Chen knows. Looks like comments are allowed on his blog too!
Certificate Transparency is an application of blockchain that isn't a scam!
It's easy to pronounce. Rhymes with womxn.
China will attack Taiwan regardless of the existence of the US. The US should help Taiwan to survive.
disinformation is the new secrecy.
I'm likely one or two generations younger than your mother and I have a gold filling.

I got it intentionally when I needed a crown on a back molar, to remind myself of where I came from: my grandparent's generation had to sell their gold fillings for safe passage from harm.

That's where but for the grace of an uncaring universe go I.
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