skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a number of reasons computers are much worse to conduct an election than traditional pen-and-paper ballots. One of those reasons is algorithmic complexity, another is the inherently opaque ways the hardware does its work, meaning it is practically not feasible to conduct a trustworthy test—all you can do is make it more or less plausible that the system performed as expected at a given point in time, for a given set of inputs. In principle, this tells you nothing about how the system will behave (or did behave) at any other point in time, or how it would have behaved with a single bit in the input switched.

The entire premise of conducting elections on networked computers is a shaky one. We do not have any of the problems that are allegedly solved by using electronic voting machines: paper-based elections are not too expensive, they're not too slow, they're not too untrustworthy. The only aspect that computers in the voting booth could conceivably solve is speed, at the expense of electoral trust and quite possibly tax dollars paid.

In as far as computers are involved in doing an election, they should only be used as adding machines and to transmit local results up to the responsible officers. Even then, thorough checks on the machines—hardware and software alike—have to be conducted, backups such as telephones and fax machines should be thought of, and, most importantly apart from having an eye on the procurement of the required manpower, a consistent paper trail has to be collected and kept safely sealed for the case of re-counting, of which at least a single one should always be done.

It has become sort of a mantra for some tech-oriented people and society that automation is good, computers don't err, and less people on the job is a good thing. None of these is a given. Quite the contrary, take in lots of paid volunteers to count the ballots, to staff the polling stations, to guard the ballots and you have a 'distributed compute system' that is highly resistant to tampering. Also, it deepens the experience in the population that 'we as a people' are doing 'our elections' and it works because we can all trust each other, to the degree necessary. Do your elections electronically, and you'll turn the communal experience to a bureaucratic act. Also, the keys to the kingdom will be just one forged access token away, stored on some server.

Every single day for many years now firms, hospitals, and infrastructure has become the target of ransomware, malware, and espionage. Whoever tells you that elections should be 'digitalized' is either stupid, a liar, or both.
It seems unreasonable to me to call Ukraine fascist when it has a democratically elected government and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 was a consequence of Ukrainians getting rid of a highly corrupt, dubiously elected leader. In Russia “nazism” is synonymous with “anti-Russia”. From my perspective it’s clear that Russia is the aggressor and it’s actions are morally unjustifiable.

All societies engage in censorship in one form or other.
So if you don't find other work, max severance is like 28.5 weeks? Or is 20 the cap? If it's the former, almost 7 months of runway to find a new job is pretty great.

The pulling of severance on job acceptance is a cheap move by Amazon, but not unexpected given their "frugality" in all aspects of their comp and perks.
macOS has no customizability, claiming that this makes it more "intuitive" and you don't need "effort to learn" it.

If you need to spend "effort to learn" anyway, you might as well just go with something like KDE, where on top of having learnt the environment, you can now also customize it.
I'm talking specifically about publicly tweeting a passive-aggressive rebuttal whose only purpose is to imply "this guy has no idea what he's talking about", not about correcting people in general. Try doing that when your boss says something "stupid" and see how that goes for you.
Tesla is(was?) the mover and shaker, basically forced the big makers to adopt and ramp up EV production and engineering operations. As many others here note, the decades of designing ICE vehicles (inhouse or sourcing/sharing designs/materials), and multiple generations of vehicles of various types is all adding up to inform their final product design in ways no engineering team (however highly paid or talented) can compete with. The grocery-getting person in Ohio is not going to think twice when it's an 60k for a buggy used Tesla when Hyundai puts out something for 30 that works and lasts twice as long.
I'm skeptical too, but at the very least this gets buzz with somewhat limited development and maintenance effort. Summarizing your content and building personal models is expensive, hard to debug and support, and it opens the possibility of attacks from competitors who "don't process your data" or "build models off customer data" (even if properly secured/isolated.)
What if freedom of discourse was more important than spaceships or electric cars or solar panels? I think it is. My guess is Elon does too.
This won't be valid for everyone, but I'm getting more and more convinced that most (a lot of?) people don't "work" work 40 hours anyway. I'm not even mentally capable of doing 40 intense hours of focussed work. Not saying I don't have other tasks besides coding/thinking in that time, but honestly not for the full slot of time.

It just feels to me like some sort of secret we all share and pretend like it's fine, but being honest and just doing the same stuff in say 32 hours and cutting out the cruft in between would be great.

Or maybe it's just my add that likes a bit more pressure, I don't know. But what I do know is that, even with a very relaxed employer that allows you to take your time and chill, go workout or play a game for an hour, I can't fully relax or disconnect knowing that I'm expected to do those 40 hours, regardless of how often they say it's fine.
It’s not often you see people distinguish between smart and unwise. I agree with your assessment. For me, smart is about navigating difficult obstacles and overcoming them. Wisdom is overseeing and having insight in what your actions (including what you say) have for an impact.
I also can't think of many bosses who would publicly disparage your work on Twitter to pressure you to work longer hours.
An important reason that house prices went up in the years following 2008 is because the federal reserve printed over a trillion dollars to buy mortgage backed securities to add liquidity to the housing market [1]. Houses have a real value, yes, but that value was propped up well beyond the fundamentals (similar to crypto) and got a "bailout" (which crypto will hopefully not get).

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
Same with dictionary makers, they will insert some credible looking made-up words here and there. Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
My spouse bought me a Chemex coffee brewer years ago. It makes significantly better coffee than a standard drip brewer and I use it pretty much every morning. It’s not as easy as pushing a button or using a K-cup, but there’s something slightly meditative about the process.
At work we've never had one that was that bad. In one cases it was third-party cookie issues that affected Safari before everyone else.

Personally Safari is the reason why some of my image-based sites still use JPG in parallel with WEBP. I think they fixed it just recently, but if you have an older mac (i do) Apple couldn't be bothered to include a WEBP codec with the OS. Firefox, Chrome and every other browser for mac supports WEBP but not Safari.

I think they resolved this in the last month, but I think for better or first Apple wants to roll out new SIMD instructions in their libraries much faster than Microsoft does. So at some point your CPU is too old. Of course the flip side to that in the Windows World is that people are stuck using a 10 year old instruction set. Intel doesn't seem to get it that by not supporting the latest AVX in their latest chips that people just "don't use AVX". If the latest SIMD instructions were widely supported you'd have a reason to buy a new computer, but when they aren't Intel has lackluster sales and wonders why.
Seriously, they're ignoring the thing that they do well.
> Crypto is indeed very complex... I spend 10 hours a day in crypto finance and don't understand all of the nuances

Which is why it will never succeed in its current form.
In developed countries, banks are rarely left to completely fail nowadays, the small ones are usually taken over by the big ones, and the big ones are bailed by governments/regulators.
why would a company agree to pay the same salary for fewer hours of custody?

it reminds me of the macchiavelli quote:

> “How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”

productivity study is interesting but that's not how the real world incentives are aligned.
Kinda surprised Elon didn't just do around spraying everyone with soapy water. Easier to implement and more sadistic.
This is the top reason I chose Perl for my project.

Literally every time I try to use someone else's Python code from GitHub I run into this crap.

I wanted my project to be easy to install and run, so I chose Perl.
Appreciated!
Would love to hear you’re feedback after you ran it also :)
For folks using bazel, there is also [bazel-watcher][1]. Also worth checking out [watchman][2] for this style of workflow in general.

[1]: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-watcher
[2]: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
What 's new in .NET 7?
“AI” generates bulk structure, humans adjust “at the edge”.

Everyone is building Mechanical Turks to nudge users to add artistic nuance AI lacks so far.

Personally I prefer using the libraries directly rather than gift my work to startups I’m also paying subscription fees to.

Startups are basically double dipping; let us train based on your behavior! …for $9.99/mo per user. Oh and we own the outcome!

Hoping to get some useful open models and data sets for game world generation soon!
Speaking more to the twitter situation.

Hard to say what's really happening inside. But assuming nobody is being needlessly abrasive with him, if he's really firing people for questioning his asks or correcting wrong assumptions he's made then that feels risky. That plus a sudden transition to long hours. I'm willing to go to bat if the chips are down, but the idea of working 60, 70 hour or more weeks to entertain asks that haven't been thought through sounds really stressful. I've been in a situation like that where we were driving to add features that were removed the next week/month and it sucks.

If I were currently at Twitter, I don't know that I would take the severance. If I were job hunting, they probably wouldn't be high on the list.
If 0.00001% of the workforce leaks? Or does the % matter?
Preface, I went to a Dutch Montessori school. Curriculum is probably very different. Also school starts from the age of 4/5 and goes till 12/13. (group 1-8)

Monstessori is definitely not for everyone, I really enjoyed my time there (not counting the traumatic experiences caused by classmates).
I definitely feel like the teachers there can give you a more personalized way of learning which just isn't possible on standard schools.
The national curriculum did not challenge me enough and had me really struggling to do any work, eventually my teachers allowed me more time on the computer if I did my work and that worked really well for me.

For transitioning to high school, at first I quite enjoyed it as it was all new but after a while I just lost all motivation. Every meeting with my parents and the school basically came down to "We really think monkeyguy can do better, but he just doesn't seem interested". It sucked, I barely did anything and I barely passed each year. Eventually I graduated and the same thing happened with college/uni.
Work life has been great however.

I'm not going to recommend anything however, I do not know your children as well as you do.
Uninstalling and installing again seems to have fixed it.
Absolutely not. I saw him for who he was years ago because of how he ran Tesla.

If he were to buy my employer, and I couldn't line up a new job before it went through, I'd make him fire me for union agitation.
I wish there was a platform where I can earn money by doing code reviews. Many people may want to earn money this way. but I don't know who would want to pay for it
“Today's audiences are attached to brands more than ever.”

Got any actual data to back up that claim, or is that just what it “feels” like to you? Maybe before making broad assertions about what’s ailing consumers, reality check your assumptions first.
I should have made myself clearer - none of that (agents, lawyers, etc) exists in crypto _apart_ from the exchanges, which are meant to facilitate the transfer of crypto assets.

The two problems with this setup are:

* The exchanges are dishonest and unregulated.

* The exchanges are exploding like a chain of firecrackers.

So crypto is going from a state of having most transactions go through dishonest exchanges to being in a state where people own crypto but trading will become almost impossible.

Is the price going to go up? Will it go down? It doesn't matter, since without exchanges you can't actually use it for anything.
"World's best employer" was added to our leadership principles April 2021.

It's 100% bullshit.

So far the actions they've taken to be the worlds best employer has been....changing the password reset cycle to be one year instead of 90 days.

You can't be world's best employer while frugality reigns supreme.
Frankly, if someone judges people for working somewhere, regardless of the circumstances, I would see that as a huge red flag.
A few reasons why I much prefer the Audi Q4 E-tron to a Model Y;

* It has wireless Carplay - so I don't need to rely on Audi (or Tesla) engineers to provide Spotify or podcast integrations

* It has a physical lever to control the windshield wipers like every other car made in the past 50 years. You don't need to dig through menus to use a critical safety feature.

* It has physical buttons for the HVAC controls - so again, I don't need to look at an obnoxious screen for a feature that shouldn't be software-based to begin with.

I have no doubt that Tesla's "pace of development" is faster and that they're going to ship more updates to improve things but sometimes you don't need in-house software to solve all of your problems.
Can you state any good things about working for Elon? Or are the 1000s who do all idiots drinking poisoned water?
They may be "Tesla things", but they're in no way related to Tesla's being an EV. The same gadgetry could very well be attached to an ICE vehicle.
You can visually see the progression of letters in a wonderful "Evolution of the Alphabet" chart from UsefulCharts.[0] Really brings home the relationships that may not be evident without seeing the intermediates.

[0] https://usefulcharts.com/products/evolution-of-the-alphabet
None of those are significant problems in my life I guess, certainly not enough to justify even dedicating any space to a piece of electronic equipment that I will use infrequently enough to be frustrated by whatever way it has decided to not work when I do want to use it.
They added it as one of the two new leadership principles last year I believe.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
It is variant of the northwestern Iberian alphabet, a derivative of the Phoenician alphabet as you mentioned, and Iberian writing has been decoded for a while now (not the language itself). Iberian used to be written in one of three ways, northwestern and southeastern variants of the Phoenician derivative, and Greek alphabet sometimes.

I'm a native Basque speaker and the first word is obvious and makes all sense (still used these days to wish "happy birthday"), parts of the others have some resemblance to modern words, but it's far from obvious. Not surprising in 2000 years of the evolution of a minority, mostly-non-written language, with a ton of external influence.

(The variation of the alphabet brings over letter T from greek, which does not exist in Iberian as seemingly they didn't use the sound, while Basque uses the T sound.)
Worth noting: the author of this articles does not believe React is functional:
https://twitter.com/jrsinclair/status/1398780972506619907
I transferred to a Montessori school at age 10 and was there to age 12; my family moved overseas after that, so I couldn't continue. That said, it was the first time in my life that I started to enjoy learning, and really started to love math. The fact that I could learn at my own pace, and get individualized learning at the same time from my teachers was life changing for me compared to my prior public school. It's left an impression on me to this day.
> Figuring that the leaker printed the letter at Tesla offices (i.e. likely didn't have a printer at home)

sounds like this was likely an internal report (which would have been printed at the office as part of one's work), which later made its way to the media, rather than some letter stealthily written and sent to the media (which would have been unlikely to be printed at the office)
You'd be correct if you hadn't put the word 'only' in your explanation. Money is a motivation, but it's not the only one.
Write Chrome Extensions in Python
Ask HN: What Questions to Ask Users to Learn What They Want?
The engineers may have pulled the spare to hit CAFE targets, but left the spare well as a cost cut to avoid retooling costs.
Study: Covid-19 rapid home tests not highly sensitive for Omicron
Often when people talk about customizing applications, they mean rewriting your existing resume in a way that mirrors the job listing but without actually lying. Whether this is worth it or not depends on the situation, for example I understand this is really useful for U.S. federal jobs, but I don't think it's very useful for places where a recruiter skims resumes for basic fit and then passes them directly to a technical hiring manager. However it sounds like you were talking more about personal growth, which I misunderstood.

When you're unemployed and in the middle of a job search, you need to work with what you have, meaning you should make a resume that emphasizes your existing skills and apply to jobs that will value them. At the mid/senior-level no one will care much about any new skill you only know from a book or a Udemy course, so learning new skills is not a good use of time. At best you can hone your current skills, which might help in the interview but not with the resume, where the biggest drop-off happens.
Is this not the case with existing computers and phones? We build and run OSS on top of them.
> Like Donald Trump, But For Nerds

True, though not in the way the author intended.
If you say the author's issue is invalid, then please explain:

How can you configure macOS to have a keyboard shortcut that also makes sense on ISO keyboards to switch between all windows of all apps in a single UI?
First was my first day with glasses - I didn't anticipate that my depth perception would be so different so the sensor beeped when traffic in front of me stopped due to a changing light.

Second was the car in front of me hitting the brakes when I was looking in the rearview mirror because both of us wanted to overtake the truck in front of us - that other person in the last moment decided not to do it.

Or perhaps they weren't planning on that and just didn't see the truck - I didn't see them indicate.
Wouldn't a stack of Mac minis or studios be more cost effective?

Time to bring back Xgrid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid
Technology is one aspect of progress. Deploying it, convincing people to adopt it, making it a viable business are all just as important, if not more.

Just as an aside, it's not possible to make more than zero cars without developing a hell of a lot of technology; especially if you mass produce them. Even if every aspect of the car is completely old hat, which Teslas aren't.
We bought a model Y for two years of mortgage payments.

It's a dream to drive! But the user experience is abysmal. Menus are deep, the entire dashboard is wasted, including the most valuable real estate in front of the driver, and everything is just too hard.

E.g. Adjusting mirrors takes 3 menu clicks, don't even think of doing it while driving.

Adjusting heating takes two clicks, and when you adjust temp, it clears all your other settings and goes to "auto", which half the time will engage A/C because it's over desired temp by a small amount.

Seat warmer? 2+ clicks on center console. Radio stations? 2+ menus, minimum two if you set up a hotkey bar on the bottom of the tablet.

Map? You're practically looking at the passenger glove box to see it.

As mentioned below, the glove box itself is two menus deep.

I find my wife has a mental thermostat model where she expects the heat to turn off if she dials down the climate control, but that just turns on AC full blast.

I'd pay 5k more to have buttons and dials. I love the car for its drive, but really hate the interior interfaces. This model of "Bolt an ipad to the dash" needs to die.
Except when Amazon allows third party sellers, located on a fake address, to sell counterfeit products and does nothing when you report them.
Just use a for loop in Python over all characters and ignore each char that is not in the ASCII range of letters, numbers and punctuation. Or retype by hand if you don't know Python.
I didn't realize that the Anbernic thing was that close to GBA size, based on the appearance I expected something closer to the size of the Switch (entirely my own bias here).

But still, one of the things I liked about my GBA was how well it fit in the hand, part of that was because the back was somewhat contoured. The new trend of everything being flat rectangles makes devices a lot less comfy for me.
indeed, every time I open this site I am left speechless by the sheer intelligence on display.
> everybody has at least 1 printer at home

why would anyone have more than one at home?
If you actual read what the AI prints when it's asked to create a blog post. It repeats the same thing over and over again.

You can sum up the whole blog post in one sentence.

Notion AI helps you be more productive by understanding your work habits and providing you with suggestions on how to improve them.

It writes like how I did when I was a kid in elementary school writing English papers lol.
This has been very contrary to my experience. We have had a fully EV Kia for almost a year now, and it is the most low-drama new car that we have owned by far. Literally zero issues with it (unless you count the slow leak in a tire from a nail). 10 years ago we had a Subaru that came with so many factory defects, we swore off Subaru forever. We have had many VWs, none of which ever broke down. They took a ton of maintenance compared to our EV, though.

We were able to install a level 2 charger in our garage, and this had made the car completely worry free. Also, the experience of driving an EV is so much better than driving a gas powered car. I can't stress enough how much of an upgrade going full EV has been for us.

I guess you need to be careful which specific model you buy, and we avoided Tesla because I felt that I had enough buggy software to deal with in my life, but I would guess that the most reliable EVs are much more reliable than the most reliable legacy gas engine cars. After having our EV, Ithink that they are simply just better, and a complete take over in the industry is inevitable.