skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation: voter rolls are public, so everyone knows you’re a voter and what your registered party is.

Since you voted early the state must record that. Don’t they release counts of how many people have voted so far? Plus they would need to record you voted so they could reject any other ballots from you that might come in.

There is probably a record of which elections you’ve voted in (though not how you voted). There is in my state and with some basic info I believe I can look anyone up, not just myself.

So if your party has a list of their registered voters (they do, public information) then they could easily check the status to see if each of those voters has voted yet (public information). Combine that with your phone number from public records or maybe a past donation, and they’d have everything they need.
How does encryption impact #metoo? The person waking the accusation would have a decrypted version of the message and even if they didn't they could accuse without proof.
Dude, get two AOC USB monitors... I have FOUR of them.

https://www.amazon.com/AOC-I1659FWUX-USB-Powered-Portable-19...
Your voting history is publicly available (nothing about who you vote for, just whether or not you vote in a given election year). There have been several studies showing that messages along the lines of “Your voting history is public, make sure to vote this year.” Or “keep up your voting streak!” are extremely effective, I believe the most effective single messages we know of or at least the most well-known ones.

Both parties and countless civic orgs do this now, it’s been a major thing since 08.

The original experiments were randomized, but usually if you’re getting the message now you’re part of a target demo someone wants to turn out.
Yeah, I already made that point in my root comment. It was pretty much my whole thesis, in fact. Doesn't matter, apparently! svnpenn is determined to confuse me for someone dumber. :)
Had anyone tried to find (or derive) an ideal set of instructions for a processor architecture, with any assumptions about arithmetic etc? For example you can try to minimise the number of instructions it takes to encode some set of nontrivial programs. (Of course how this would translate to silicon is another question.)
When many different societies with different political systems all try something around the same time, and all retreat from that approach a few decades later, that’s really significant real-world data. The country I’m from has socialism written into its constitution, but now is strongly neoliberal. Maybe that’s just correlation, but otherwise it has little in common with Sweden, reducing the possibility that some common third factor is in play.
in some states like Texas, your county posts your name publicly in a "voted" list. Its there for all to see without putting who you voted for

Maybe thats how they know
I've got a Quest 2 but used it for about a week barely used it since due to eye strain off it had the worst head ache ever after 1/2 a day on it, found it had some cool ideas certainly not ready for productivity but certainly on the way to it. Quest Pro sounds like it could be a game changer but whats it like on eye strain/ head aches? The continuous IPD adjustment sounds like a real improvement but I don't want to gamble on one at 1500.
That there is any barrier for the force to remain limited beyond the barriers already established in our current governments. In this argument it seems that we've established that force is needed. But there is no compelling argument put forth by anarchism that establishes a reasonable control mechanism for limiting said force. Yea "You can't tell my what to do by force" seems like a good mantra, but it really sucks the moment someone else gathers up enough people voluntarily (or monitarialy) to subdue the limited resistance your type of governance allows. The "We'll all get together and fight the enemy" sounds good until you realize that about half the battle put forth by the enemy will be psyops in getting the anarchist to fight themselves allowing them to be even more easily defeated. Once a significant portion of the anarchist are convinced to give up and not fight the enemy, and if they give up those that will fight they will be spared, the remaining pockets of resistance will much more easily collapse. You're back to 'anarchist nationalism" to prevent just this from happening.
How does target track customers?
the other day I purchased a anker usb-c cable from my local target, had no cell phone with me, paid with cash and now I am seeing ads in brave browser news feed for anker portable power station, is this a coincidence?
Perle is a name I've not heard of in a while. In another lifetime during the mid 90's I was a field engineer and I used to look after Perle remote access controllers for IBM mainframe/mini customers.
> An interesting side effect of this will be identity verification via the existing KYC in payment networks.

What identity verification? Billing a credit card doesn't usually involve sending or checking a name.
I assume we'll know final numbers once the dust settles, but that sounds not nearly as bad as assumed.

However, my personal experience of Twitter suggests that it remains an open air sewer, which tends to indicate that the content moderation team was already severely under-staffed. I suspect that it's even more true for non-English language.

So, even if only 15% of the content moderators have been laid off, this doesn't bode well for the future health of conversations on the platform.

Regardless, thanks for the sources!

update: Reading through the source once again, 15% of the T&S team was laid off but we don't have numbers for the number of content moderators who were laid off. I had assumed that content moderators were part of the T&S team, but that may not be true.
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It varies from state to state, but at least here in NC voting history is available to the world. You can jump on the SBOE website right now and see every election I voted in, for example, since 1992. What I'm not sure about, is how much latency there is in terms of when the public record is updated.

And before anybody asks, no they don't report who you voted for. Just the fact that you voted, whether the election was a general election or primary, and if it was a primary, which party's primary you voted in.
To get it working client-side you'd need to change the app, while the whole premise here is that you don't have to (and often can't). One point tracking what UA string are here and what they need is better than expecting every app author to handle this properly.
The problem with this comment is that you're making it a binary option. That we keep the cronyism we have or nothing. It is like how people divide things into socialism vs capitalism. There's a lot of nuance and complexity here. Government regulation matters because we want high competition. There's ways to have supply and demand price determinations without them being wildly out of control and without plutocrats.

There's a continuous spectrum of things you can do, not discrete, and definitely not binary. So my suggestion is, and I'm far from being alone, is reign in the plutocrats. No one cares about them while the average person's life is getting better, but boy do we care when that stops happening. Especially when we see their lives continue to get better while the quality of our lives decrease.
Literally the FIRST two sentences in the abstract:

"The best-supported hypothesis for why zebras have stripes is that stripes repel biting flies. While this effect is well-established, the mechanism behind it remains elusive."
See my other response
I looked at the Clone Hero discord server recently and despite it using pinned messages and having a lot of info in Getting Started + FAQ channels, that info still gave many !commands for paragraphs of text and various images that were only available from the bot. I couldn't understand why.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Almost a third of American adults can't achieve computer tasks comparable in difficulty to "delete an email message." Only about a third can manage tasks comparable to: "You want to find a sustainability-related document that was sent to you by John Smith in October last year."
It looks quite impressive; guessing the server is getting more traffic than it's designed for (and it doesn't seem to cache tiles, at least not partially loaded ones, maybe?).

Is it normally significantly slower in Firefox than Edge/Chrome or is that just my b0rked up daily browser?
Cool, but sugar (sucrose) is actually glucose+fructose.

Is there a calorie-free fructose isomer?
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This is not a new Twitter. This is a new phpBB or something. Absent centralization you don't get the "town square" factor. In marketing parlance, you don't get "reach". And you avoid controversial moderation tactics by making it not your problem. Dorsey just cut bait and declared moderation and profitability to be impossible while watching Google pull off both. Even Zuckerberg is looking like a genius next to this guy.
Laws aren't static. Also, when someone thinks they've been violated, it takes a lot of time and humans to settle it.

It's already hard enough to keep up with the laws in software.
Yeah, I think you bitches invented this idea!!
I’m not convinced that this is a temporary issue - the mastodon servers seem to require relatively high upkeep (cost, cpu, and manual time) for relatively few users, which naturally leads to instances reducing/blocking new accounts and even just shutting down, which further exacerbates the load on other instances.
This is perhaps the most wonderful description of crypto ever, thank you :)
browsing their feed it feels like a bunch of legitimately new users (which sure, can look cringe if they post without understanding the norms). what astroturfing are you seeing?
No it certainly is not.

Here's the Canadian jurisdiction against SPAM: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-1.6/index.html

> An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act (S.C. 2010, c. 23)

> Unsolicited electronic messages 6 (1) It is prohibited to send or cause or permit to be sent to an electronic address a commercial electronic message unless

> (a) the person to whom the message is sent has consented to receiving it, whether the consent is express or implied; and

> (b) the message complies with subsection (2).

And here's the European jurisdiction against SPAM: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

> Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications)

> Unsolicited communications 1. The use of automated calling systems without human intervention (automatic calling machines), facsimile machines (fax) or electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing may only be allowed in respect of subscribers who have given their prior consent.
Occasionally, for certain types of personalities, to make it faster to check whether it was a parody account.
I think that's a very good point. I agree that there's not much market for it, but also that humans are completely redundant here. Any huge mech would be easier to operate as a drone than a huge human Tupperware.
Ground elevation was by default turned off for me, but via the burger menu and then "Graphic options" I could turn it on.
This is super interesting because it’s basically the Agenda 21 corridor project meets regionalization.
Neither was I, thought it was a location based thing, like maybe it only works in the USA, so tried SF. Nothing.

Maybe the UX needs work to make it obvious how to get 3D?
You can have decentralisation or you can have sub-second responses to whole-network search queries, but you cannot have both.

Twitter has two killer features: the people who use it, and search functionality that allows you to get near-instant results. Mastodon (and I assume Bluesky) cannot compete on either.
Exoskeleton is an umbrella term that covers a wide variety of use-cases. For strain-relief and augmented-strength you've got the fairly simple and thin military rigs that work mechanically with a bunch of springs, sometimes a small backpack-like battery.

For paraplegic wheelchair users, for example, you need an exoskeleton that fully replaces the functions of the legs: structure, balance, movement. That's much more complicated and much bigger. And the tech isn't there for consumer use, we're just starting to get there with Atlas.

Beyond that you've got many wheelchair-binding disabilities that present unique challenges and require functionalities that are somewhere in between the two exos described above. A lot of wheelchair users who retain their ability to move their legs simply use braces to enhance their structural integrity and crutches for balance, but couldn't use a powered exoskeleton due to the injuries it might cause from sudden movements or ranges of motion that aren't adapted to their limitations.
> You have an argument if it was purely for court issued warrants and subpoenas.

Absolutely.
Egalitarianism is such a weak position that there’s no need to strawman it.

And yes literally nobody except children and fools truly believes that people are equal in any material sense. Evidence suggests to me that you are neither a child nor a fool.

Indeed the egalitarian position is so transparently weak that even its erstwhile proponents have abandoned it in favor of “equity,” whatever that means.
It looks like my link has been edited by a mod. I purposefully placed the view in an area of Zürich with nice colorful roofs:

https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=47.3558590&lon=8.5115912&zoom=17

Also one needs to press the 3D Button on the top right, and maybe enable elevation in the graphic options menu hidden behind the burger menu.
Biting flies have all kinds of food sources- I live in an area of the midwest with no animal farms for several miles (lots of trees and water springs though) and the woods are so thick with deer flies that I can't take my dogs with on a walk- their ears will have 6 flies each before we get 50 feet.

Deer, bears, coyote, wolves, raccoons, mice, otters, beaver, rats, muskrats, cougar, bobcats, chipmunks and squirrels, elk and moose, skunks, badgers, porcupines can all be found in nature in the upper midwest, along with various moles, voles, shrew and weasel family members can be found pretty much anywhere outside of a city center.

Since deer fly (and other biting flies) typically need a bit of standing water to breed, they're going to be found pretty much anywhere mammals live. If they decide they don't like striped cows, there's going to be plenty of other options to munch on.
I agree with you that in some cases the editorializing can be helpful for this reason. But once a thread has reached the upper ranks of the front page (or is making its way back down with tons of upvotes and comments), that extra information has sort of achieved its purpose and it's better to return to the mystery.
The blue check doesn't make sense to me.

There's tens of thousands of James Smiths in the US. Is James Smith #2825 the "real" one? Anyone with that name is technically the verified one. That's who they are.

If it's meant for public figures then why do a bunch of non-famous people in tech have blue checkmarks, especially if they have a very uncommon name?
I'd probably vote Python for most succinct.

If you want something less popular, perhaps give Nim a try.
Yeah, they definitely need better UX
people also love getting filthy fucking rich, how's that working out for you?
It's not derailing, you're just too interested in playing political football to understand the worldwide implications of these platforms handling moderation.

The U.S. Constitution grants some of the strongest guarantees of free speech in the world. Most other nations have laws limiting speech that would violate our Constitution. Forcing these platforms to play by our Constitution is a big win for the entire world, because Facebook routinely over-moderates topics of public interest in places like Iran, too.

https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/FB-P93JPX02/
https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/IG-2PJ00L4T/

They are censoring people _everywhere_, but American snowflakes would rather protect their sensitive ears from unpopular opinions than allow everyone to speak freely everywhere in the world.
Past comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778889
https://youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM

Direct link
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I do not see how

>Government regulation matters because we want high competition. There's ways to have supply and demand price determinations without them being wildly out of control and without plutocrats.

is mutually exclusive to

>we pay people the lowest amount we can that is enough to keep them from going to another job.

This system is the same as shopping at a store that sells you the same goods at a lower price than another store. I do not see what this has to do with a “plutocrat”. Buyers have been buying goods and services at the lowest prices they can find for at least thousands of years.
We can probably answer the hardware one by determining the answer to this question. Do you think it should be possible to invent a robot dog, sold for $75k, but your manufacturer sells the same robot dog for $2.5k? The practice is technically illegal but effectively nothing happens. Should this be allowed?

I think the problem in your logic is that you're treating it like a zero sum game. You're ranking these against one another instead of scoring them compared to a stable moral base. It is highly possible that software is protected adequately and hardware is not. This does not mean you need to bring the protection of software down to bring that of hardware up. This would be either zero sum or negative sum. But these things are not tightly coupled. We can absolutely just increase the protection of hardware while the protection of software is unmoving (or even increases).
That just moves followers, not the account, data, followings, posts, reputations, links to your account, etc.
There's an upvote/downvote mechanism that you can use to provide feedback.

HN does sometimes position itself in opposition to Reddit. Nothing wrong with Reddit, of course, just that Reddit does thing sone way and HN does things another. And snarky low-value comments are one of the things that Reddit does and HN does not.

But: because HN doesn't generally do them, you can sometimes get away with the odd one, if it's timed right. Personally, I upvoted this one.
> As a senior technologist who bills his time as a consultant, I can tell you that I (correctly) get paid the most for days where I write 0 lines of code.

What do you do then?
It wasn't UNREASONABLE but I wouldn't say it was VERY reasonable. At the time a number of traditional US allies did refuse to (openly) participate in the "Coalition of the willing". I think if you got your news from non-American and non-British sources at the time, I think there was far more uncertainty and doubt that Saddam had such weapons. I have heard this line before "Everybody at the time thought it" but I genuinely saw most people around me calling bullshit. There was a big sense of a grasping of straws from US intelligence, such as aluminium tubes being great evidence of nuclear development, and "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud".

In fact it was remarkable just how much more bias the American media was then the global media at the time, and it doesn't seem to me like the American media had any special reason to be more confident that Saddam was nuclear than any of the media in the rest of the world. My theory wasn't that American mainstream media outlets like WaPo and NYT were going out of their way to start a war under false pretences, it was more that they had a lot of incentives to be bias in a pro-war direction.
If you _need_ «metrics» it’s because you _really_ don’t understand the contribution of your reports.

i.e. you are not a competent manager by the usual understanding of «competent».
Is decentralization the silver bullet that solves the problems of social media? I don't think it is a technology problem.
I've certainly been enjoying Codeberg for my personal development.
Reliable servers ain't free, at least that's what I think one of the larger issues is.
The service is about 10,000 times faster than what people can get in remote Australia or Canada, and I'd say a "Better" quality of service (less outages).

Remember, it's for people that have no access to any kind of coax or even 3G.
Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in?

Yes! Doesn’t everyone to some degree? That’s a huge decision that takes me days to decide.

Just make a choice, and you can make a different one later.

If we’re going with a housing analogy, this is pretty terrible advice. But I don’t think the housing analogy really applies. Where someone lives says (in my mind) a lot less about them - but is also a much more important personal decision.

You’ve implied a few times in this thread that complaints about Mastodon are because people are somehow accustomed to being told what to do by corporations. That is quite hyperbolic, and I also don’t really think it’s true.

I don’t see how caring about what a public choice appears to say about me has anything to do with that.
No, the alterative is that the opinion is voiced by someone specific, anonymous or not, with everyone's intuition about people saying things coming into account.

The way it's implemented, the opinion is practically anonymous, with no one accountable for it, but given a false cover of authority.

If the context is an article by someone, I don't mind if the algorithm somehow finds the relevant twit by the relevant journalist who authored that article, and tends to show them together, as equals. That's fine by me.

I disagree with the UI choice of giving visual significance to a specific opinion.
Ideal in what regard? Easy to code for humans or generate for compilers? Code size or decoding simlicity? Parallelism or cache friendliness? Energy efficiency or low cpi? Flexibility? Future-proofness or backward compatibility? In theory you only need one instruction (subleq), everything else is a highly narrow optimization attempt.
It's deeper than that, not sculpted by - entirely defined by.

You're a lump of electrical fat wrapped in a fortress of bone, running an internal approximation of the localised world outside.

And from within this fortress, with its little holes for light, you control a robot made of meat.
Any plans to support SPN installation on an edge router?

I have a VPN configured in my pfSense router so that I don't need to run it in each client. I guess this would make it easy to go over the 5 device limit though...

Regardless, I'll try out for the firewall and network monitoring.
> since in the past week we've seen LoC being used as a metric to determine mass layoffs at a prominent tech company.

Do we actually know that? People were asked to print their code, and a mass layoff happened. But AFAIK, what feature of the code was judged (if any) is kept as a secret.
I know you said "magazine in physical form", but I'm gonna post this anyway: https://humanreadablemag.com/
Fascism and narcissism seem like things that aren't getting talked about enough (because if they were, we'd be seeing less of it, not more).