skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auditable is the key.

However I actually advocate for fully manual, several-humans-in-the-loop counting as it's been done forever and is still done in many other first world countries.

That and scrupulous chain-of-trust on the actual ballots is , in my opinion, the only truly safe way.
That link is about Queensland state and council elections, Federal elections are run by the AEC: https://aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/ (although the process is similar).

When looking at this information you need to keep in mind that virtually all ballots in Australian elections are paper ballots that must be manually counted. Postal votes can still be received for a week after the election, but a result can be declared anyway if the margin is greater than the number of outstanding votes.

Counting is initially focussed on the House of Representatives, which uses single-member electorates, is where control of government is decided and has terms that start at the first sitting after the election. The Senate count is left later - it uses multiple-member electorates where the count can't be declared until literally every ballot is data-entered, but it is also of less public interest as it doesn't decide control of government and there is a delay before the Senators take their seats.
How? They've always been keen on the centralization aspect.
I'm just contemplating how much I've spent on tools for various repairs to my house, and that's generally just woodwork. "At least $200 in tools" doesn't sound like the end of DIY.
What is "cost to provide" for a SaaS product? Just the marginal computing costs? You have to recover your development costs somehow, apparently that makes you an asshole.
The way that the author is describing the Overton window as it relates to investing and finding alpha is very similar to a theme that has been talked about for a couple decades now by Jeremy Grantham, which he dubs "career risk".

That is, if you are an exec or money manager, being wrong when the rest of the crowd is wrong isn't that bad career-wise. But being even temporarily wrong when the rest of the crowd is making money is a guaranteed way to get canned.

Good example: in the mid 00s housing bubble, there were plenty of people who knew that mortgage lending standards were insanely low. But if you were head of a mortgage lender and said "This practice of giving a loan to anyone who can fog a mirror is crazy, we're raising our lending standards" then you would have vastly underperformed your peers for literally years before being proven right, and, most importantly, you probably would have been canned by your board long before the world got to see that your foresight was correct.

More recently, I think this is why you saw so much overinvestment during the pandemic and why now you are seeing all these tech layoffs. It always seemed like a huge stretch that pandemic conditions would continue for a long time - my favorite example is Peloton, where if you did the math of "OK, half the country owns a Peloton", it still didn't work out to their valuation or level of investment. But a greater fear for many execs was "missing the boat" if there was a more permanent shift in people's behaviors, and that if you had underinvested that your competitors would take business from you.

IMO career risk is the concept that has been the most helpful to my understanding of the "madness of crowds".
Yes. What kind of bullshit question is that?

The claim is “widespread evidence of fraud”. I’d like to see any of the widespread evidence and not hand wavey back tracking to “could be compromised”.
Going the other direction, it might allow better optimizations of microarchitectures for known workloads by allowing description and simulation of alternative designs at a high level of abstraction.
Switzerland Is Paying Poorer Nations to Cut Emissions on Its Behalf
It's slower than arrays, it's like a normal deque with some additional overhead. Array access is still pointer chasing, and potentially out of cache.
The irony of the quoted Robert Frost poem

> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

is that Frost's line is sarcastic. He wrote this poem about a friend that would endlessly analyze his choices, fretting about not choosing the optimal choice. He'd always be in decision paralysis. Frost was actually saying that either path would have been fine and you should just make a choice instead of wasting all your time overthinking it.
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Alternative text formatter in C, easily extendable, lightweight, well suited for microcontrollers.
I don't really understand why we are always stuck in the past on things like this. 155 million votes, spread out over thousands of polling stations is a minuscule number. Why not have each voting station digitally scan/print every ballot cast, and then once the stations close - upload everything to a centralized and publicly accessible server organized by station and their reported polling result. If anybody wants to do a recount, they can - to whatever degree of confidence, and using whatever method they prefer.

One might still make claims of ballot stuffing or exclusion, but there would be literally zero doubt that the count itself was accurate.
The $1.9B Powerball draw is still delayed
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I disagree with Math had to be learned when you are young.

Intelligent people will end up learning something profound when they are young.If they find something else interesting enough at a later stage in their life, they apply some transformation learning.

Leibniz did not start his training in Math until he was ~30

> Thus Leibniz went to Paris in 1672. Soon after arriving, he met Dutch physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens and realised that his own knowledge of mathematics and physics was patchy. With Huygens as his mentor, he began a program of self-study that soon pushed him to making major contributions to both subjects, including discovering his version of the differential and integral calculus.
Thing is it hasn't moved as much as you think. People have moved from poverty to lower middle class not actually middle class. If consider middle class as between 20k to 40k a month and lower middle class at 10k to 20k a month and below 10k as poor then most poor people have only moved to lower middle class only.
I'll throw my $.02 into this clearly GPT3-generated thread (/s). I waited for the 12th gen/a special occasion, and am now a happy Framework owner. I can live with the battery life. They had me at "upgradable," the aspect ratio, and their quick pivot to support Linux. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality, too! Just waiting for an AMD mainboard now.
Let's just give a green bubble to iPhone users of WhatsApp!
> by the time of starting third level education, something like this
is too late to change someone's moral decision making

That's an interesting reflection. It depends on whether you see ethics
as rational and actively learned, or formative conditioning.

It's why such a project is harder than I imagined, and also why I
tried (only somewhat successfully) to avoid prescriptive narratives.
The overlap between psychology (behaviour, which can be changed) and
moral feelings is complex.

I think the best we can do is lay bare some uncomfortable truths; how
people have seen things historically, what the likely outcomes of our
behaviours will be, and how we delude ourselves otherwise.

What I see in tech is that there's a lot of "moral armour" -
comfortable things we tell ourselves, distorted rationalisations,
fallacies, short-term economic justifications - that kind of thing can
be improved, unlearned and replaced by a better framework by appeal to
the rational adult mind.
he didn't conflate C and C++, he included C++ because, as you suggest, C++ can speak C, including C ABI.
That definitely depends on the school. At my undergrad, tenure track CS faculty only got around 70k, going up to 90k over time. Lecturers got 55k. Adjuncts got paid more in exposure and good feelings than money. My grad school is a much bigger research school instead of a teaching school and the pay is surprisingly not much better (better, but not 180k until full professorship if ever from what I've found) from what I've heard.
> So, it's a restatement of a very common pose: I see further than the masses.

It's more of the many stages of grief of finance types.

Like he just wants the bad times to end and for the good times to resume again.

He wouldn't care if markets were irrational and inefficient but also making him money.

People who chose to be defined by how much money they make, and nothing else, are in for a shit time right now.

These think pieces are pretty funny gasps at this. I'm sure someone's going to accuse you of feeling schadenfreude or something - Hacker News is full of people who have been obliterated by the markets.
A few random thoughts based on personal experience:

- A PhD is like a sabbatical in many ways. You are trading off time and money for what amounts to a long break to explore things or work on something that may be difficult otherwise.

- Identifying well defined problems is half the game.

- Finding a good advisor is quite important. Above all, it should be someone you can get along with.

- At least for CS, the tradeoffs are quite reasonable. In a good case, it will open more doors for you. In the worst case, you will be at the same level as a Master's student after having spent a few more years in school.
The damage is done. Currently I don't think there are ways to convince people that vote results are legit, short of eliminating secrecy and have every single person put their preference on a record that can be accessed anytime from anywhere. That however has its pros and cons, and is considered anti democratic.
Having encountered him on the Fediverse before his ban, he's an asshole. Antinatalist of the "man should never have had children" kind, Putin supporter, thinks that old people should not be allowed to vote, thought lockdowns were discriminatory against young people and we should just let old people die of COVID because he doesn't give a crap about them ...
Wouldn't surprise me if he said something even worse and it was bad enough to get him banned.
Could LineageOS flip a switchand turn it into a free for all? That would be fun and interesting. Not that RCS is a remotely good messaging protocol.
That was actually my only reason to use Bing maps, they had an impressive 3/4ths view where you could change the angle.
The Adaptive Lighting integration for Home Assistant has been doing this for years (https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting)
The LGP-30 made ingenious, economic use of the technology available in the mid-1950s.

Even the CPU registers were on the drum memory. The control panel displayed the register contents on a small oscilloscope - it showed the bits as they rolled by the read head!
Also a very big Mint fan. Discovered it thanks to a long post from the Elm founder.

Conceptually very nice. It is like you take React practicality, Ruby on Rails joy and a decent (but not full!) dose of Elm purity and correctness. I am porting a hobby project over to it right now, and then hopefully build more with it, and then eventually maybe contribute.

I also really like Elm, but the problem I have with it is needing all state updates to be centralized, and the kind of coding patterns that leads to. Some people like this, but I prefer the more React-like looseness where objects can have their own private state and so on. Even if that means I give up time travel debugging and so on.

Another uncommonish one is Elixir/Phoenix. I was going to learn this but it felt like 'work' to learn, whereas Mint didn't. And that is mostly to do with how my brain works. I think also Mint optimizes for joy for small projects, whereas Phoenix will come into it's own when you need to scale up, and it is easy to do so, in my opinion.

Since Firebase (or it's competition) can give me live updates, I don't feel I really "need" to learn Phoenix for any use case I will get into.
Do you work on larger vehicles like cars, trucks or motorcycles? Compared to the brakes on my car the disc brakes on my bicycle are trivially easy.
Well, you do agree to license Microsoft any intellectual property you create with their software, for free, in perpetuity. So it’s kind of on YOU if you still use their products.
You know what has changed in bikes since I was fiddling with them as a teenager in the late 90s? YouTube.

Got back in to riding bikes, got a bit sick of paying for some iffy service but being unable to articulate why I was unhappy and decided to do my own work.

Every single thing that you could possibly imagine needing to be done is on YouTube. Back when I was a kid it was a case of ask my friend’s dad how to adjust the deraileur and getting it horribly wrong.
EU Digital Markets Act Enters into Force on November 1
Yes Neil Stephenson is such a versatile writer. The Baroque Cycle is definitely recommended although not his best work.
> akin to running away from a fight given martial arts training.

Never thought of it that way at all, but, yes, you are right.

I am of the belief that our approach to educating young drivers is nothing short of an accident factory. They actually come out thinking they can drive.

I still remember our last experience with that. They had to do 6 hours with an "instructor" and then complete 50 hours with an adult licensed driver.

The six hour course was, from my perspective, almost a joke. Sure, they get to experience and learn rules of the road in practice and that has value. The problem is that after only six hours with an instructor who, venture a guess, can't really drive, they get dropped on their head to rely on the nearest licensed adult --who also can't drive-- to learn.

One of the first things I have always done when teaching someone to drive is to immediately explore the extremes. That means, at the very least, full throttle acceleration, full-hard braking and rapid lane changes. Dry and wet if conditions allow. Of course, there's a progression to this, but we certainly get there within a couple of hours or less and practice over many days.

I remember a family friend who broke out crying when I told her to press the accelerator all the way and hold it there until I said to release it. To be clear, she was crying before we ran the test...in a minivan. After calming things down, she agree to do it. The reaction was typical "Oh, that wasn't so bad at all". Too many Hollywood movies.

Braking is another one. Most people never brake hard until they have that first accident or near have one. When I show them what full braking means, they are always blown away by how hard a car can brake without disintegrating. When I tell them "brake as hard as you can", they think they are, but they rarely get there. I often have to say something like "really stomp on it this time" after the first attempt. Again, perspective changing in many ways.

And then there's the lane changing. We start slow and progress to "as violently as you can" on dry pavement. This, too, blows people away. Once they have good control I put them in a sports car and repeat the drill. Disbelief describes what they experience.

After that, I try to get them on a racetrack to gain a better understanding of vehicle dynamics and, if a wet skid-pad is available, all the things you can do there.

Over the years several of my small group of (friends and family) students have come back to me to tell me how they were able to avoid having an accident due to one or more of the drills I put them through when they were learning. That's always cool to hear.

Driver training doesn't come close to making safe drivers at all. Not to go too far, this morning, around 3 AM, someone died on the south-bound 5. I was raining. The story so far is that the guy got on the freeway, changed lanes, lost control, slammed into the center divider, bounced off and then crashed into a passing car...killing that driver of that car. Did not need to happen.
Yeah screw that. I typically loathe Apple criticism - it’s usually so confused and biased. But this makes me ask, as a former employee:

Why is Apple loosing its way again?

Is this what happens when Steve is gone for long enough?

Get back to your roots!
Having encrypted data I wouldn't say is disproportionately prioritising protection over losing it in another way. The person simply forget what was a long password, something that most security conscious people would have figured out by storing it in a password vault.

However I do agree that "going alone" with security can make us the victim of our own fragility. I can see this happening in the new blockchain world of decentralisation. If I lose my Bitcoin wallet or lose the password, who can I speak with to validate my identity? Nobody. Currently, I can go to the Bank and validate myself with other forms of ID to access my account, but with Bitcoin it's all on me. Imagine losing your entire life savings because you forgot your password or access to your email account.

This is where centralising certain things works for the overwhelming majority of the population. That's not to say that those systems work perfectly, but they are vetted and have laws and regulations to protect us.
So there's no sense in fighting Apple in India because they lost there anyway, iOS penetration there is negligible, right?
At least Shimano stamps a part number on most all of its parts. I work on a lot of vintage stuff and need to do a lot of guess-work, cutting or measuring to predict/force compatibility of parts.
The original comment I replied to:

> It seemed like all the "full cost" negatives Andrej mentioned were related to Tesla's ability to execute, and not what would actually produce better results.

This is objectively wrong, and it's the only substantive part of the discussion. The rest is fantasizing about things nobody actually knows ("It's media training!") and imputing questionable motives to someone who hasn't done anything to deserve that ("He only cares about Tesla's bottom line!").
> iPhone 7 CPU beat Intel Core i7700K in some benchmarks

Ehhh that's a >5 year old CPU. I wouldn't describe it as "extremely powerful" even on a phone.

Anecdotally, going from an iPhone 8 to a 13 pro max was a night and day difference. Not just because the CPU was noticably faster, but because the 120Hz display makes everything more responsive. Sure you don't need that hardware for a chat app but unless some product guy forces the issue, devs aren't even gonna notice fps dropping below 120 because most of them don't use ancient phones.
> the prevalent climate change denial strategy is to look for flaws in studies

It’s also the strategy of science and anyone who wants reliable reproducible results.
Autocorrelation is a delta function. Basically a random known signal, so you can disambiguate simply from background noise (look into matched filters).
Why would you compare disc brakes to cars? Why not compare them to the rim brakes they are replacing. An order of magnitude more complicated to maintain
Personally, I would argue that David Silver's body of work at DeepMind is making a very strong case in favor of "simple reward + lots of compute". Richard Sutton wrote about this back in 2019 as The Bitter Lesson[1]. An important note is that David Silver did his PhD under Sutton.

Quite frankly, it's been a while since I've read through Silver's papers, but the original Deep Q-Networks paper[2] is probably a good start.

1: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
2: https://daiwk.github.io/assets/dqn.pdf
Medieval Latin isn’t really that much different than latin from the classical period.
I would characterize 我还没去过北京 as past perfect tense but in the negative: if "I have been to Beijing" is past perfect in the affirmative, then "I haven't been to Beijing" is past perfect in the negative. Maybe a more straightforward example I should've gone with is "我去过北京" for "I've been to Beijing".

Regarding 我在走路, yes, 路 acts as a filler for prosody purposes. If the prosody is fine, then you don't need it, e.g. 他走的很快 (swapping 我 for 他 here because it sounds kind of weird to say such a sentence about yourself) takes no noun just like the fragment 他在走, but mustn't use the filler noun 路 (他走路的很快 is incorrect).

"我卖了这些车以后" I think is more like "After I sold these cars", where "sold" is definitely past tense here. "他要吃了吗？" expresses "Is he going to eat?", where 吃 hasn't taken place in the past.
I was curious where you were coming from, since I thought I had read research on this and my own experience is that changing light temperature is incredibly helpful.

The first one I clicked on showed blue-blocking lenses measurably improve sleep. I don't find the need to confirm more research at this point, given that it clearly helps me.
One of the best comments I came across do describe India (doesn't matter if it isn't original): "India is a place that disappoints both an optimist and a pessimist at the same time.
Am I missing something? The article text suggests these are "mandatory fees and surcharges that are not included in the headline price", but all the screenshots from Marriott's site show the all-in total, inclusive of the fees, when you're searching, and then break down the elements of that price when you pay.

What's being hidden here?
> Interlingua is (by design) much closer to this simplicity in a Western-based language.

If you like Interlingua for its design, have you heard about the Interlingue? It's a lot like Interlingua, but will less exceptions. Interlingue is also called Occidental.
It doesn't seem like a tax. You wouldn't call a state government requiring a car to meet some minimum safety requirement a tax, right? At least to the best of my knowledge, no automaker has ever done an "airbag tax".

It's just a political ploy to garner some ill will against regulators and make a few bucks in the process. Seems pretty genius (in a nefarious way) to me.
I remember at the time there was some grousing in places (slashdot, something awful etc) about “Web 2.0” and the low quality of blogging. It’s quaint now considering how low things have gotten with social media.

Also I’m amused Blogger is still around and hasn’t had the “our amazing journey” treatment.
incomplete list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives
100% just because they control their hardware. Not a design thing, mostly.

Linux is like living in the engine room - fantastic if you love engines. Windows is like a mirror house where someone tried to renovate but left all the mirrors in, Mac is a pretty jail cell.

The former two have their quirks, but are livable, the later only if you like prison cells...

I don't think many people will enjoy ads in their prison cells, though.
Even if nothing were being hidden, there's still the issue that the hotels make you pay these sorts of junk fees even when you're supposed to be getting the room for free with points.
> 113 tubes

Does anyone still make/sell tubes like this?
Methods to generate fashion ideas with image AI
But are they selling that data, or using it to improve their products. There is a scale to privacy. With FOSS at one end, and Google/Facebook at the other. Apple is in the middle, and if Tesla keeps the data internal, then Tesla would be around the same place
I've always wondered if machine learning would help here - we already have language agnostic embeddings (LaBSE, LASER) - now all we need is a way to pronounce them. Perhaps you could learn one by training an autoencoder that is constrained somehow just like the human vocal chords are
This article confuses modern with high end. The ultra high end of cycles is just like the ultra high end of auto mobiles. There are bespoke tools and techniques required for maintenance. The average bike sold today is probably easier to maintain that those of the past. Disc brakes don't come out of alignment as bad, aluminum frames don't rust, rims are far stronger, etc...
i.reddit.com is amazing but broken in small ways. you can't sort comments or browse multis. Also, trying to pull comments beyond a page breaks in some places.
The conversation on Twitter is dominated by confident predictions of catastrophe