skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%, voting machines should at the very least spit out a paper copy that the voter can verify and can be manually recounted if there are any questions about the electronic total. Once we meet that baseline, I don't think it makes sense to worry too much about the voting machines. Our election process is much more vulnerable to manipulation through some of the other means mentioned in this thread.
I'm not sure if the habit is because of the show or not, but I wanted to note for anyone who might be reading that "Detectorists" is a really charming British show that I highly recommend.
I am also curious about this, what specific needs are better served by CL than Clojure or any Scheme / Racket?

Starting a CL project in 2023 seems risky to me given that most libraries are stagnant. I would love to be proven wrong.
The UK is going "back to the roots" after the Brexit. Such as sauerkraut, potatoes and carrots ;-)
Since this is being developed at a National Lab, do the findings automatically enter the public domain for commercialization, or can the government license the tech and reap the rewards for citizens?
Right. I agree that the US has a lot of blatant deficiencies that they can resolve. Countries all over the world learnt how to do democracy from the US. Many have surpassed them in conducting free and fair elections. US is far behind there. But, like I said, it’s still mostly democratic and that amazes me.
The full investigation that op-ed is referencing is at https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doi/reports/pdf/2013/2013-12-30-B..., starting at page 12.

The undercover agents doing this investigation have a significant advantage; they're immune to consequences if they get caught. Malicious actors have to weigh significant criminal charges against the benefit of a single extra vote per visit to a polling place. Doing it at any scale means enormous numbers of involved persons, any one of which could be a law enforcement informant or whistleblower.

Do individual cases of this nature occur? Yes; we catch them regularly.

Do tens of thousands of cases of this nature occur all at once? Almost certainly not.
Do you have any stories or problems you observed while in App Review? To the rest of us, it is a black box and fiefdoms where your ability to get approved has a large amount of random change based on which reviewer's queue you're placed in.
> Actually, assuming you don’t know consequences of removing the fence, you also have to assume that you don’t know consequences of letting the fence in place, which might just as well turn to a dramatic situation.

That assumption reads as false to me. There should generally be historical data around the costs and consequences of maintaining the fence. E.g. if you're shutting down a server, it's generally easy to figure out how much the hardware costs, how many man-hours you spend on maintaining it, etc. None of that requires knowing why the fence exists.

Those costs and consequences tend to be small, because large costs have to be continually validated as a good use of resources so they have a living memory of sorts.

> What is for sure, if nothing around can explain its purpose, is that it was placed here by people to negligent to induce the right clues about it.

Again, I don't think this is sure. I've seen lots of cases where docs probably did exist at some point, but the writers left and successors lost the knowledge of where the docs are or failed to migrate them to a new system or etc. They're lost to attrition, not to negligence.

> Remove the fence unless someone know why it was put up in the first place, and the rational still hold.

It doesn't, because it's trading known risks for unknown and unbounded risks. That's usually a bad trade, especially when the known costs tend to be small. Nobody wins a promotion for causing a million dollar outage while trying to get rid of a $50/month maintenance cost.
Show HN: GPTflix: a simple framework for the OpenAI and Pinecone stack
Hey HN people, I'm releasing the source code of my little streamlit app called GPTflix that allows you to interact with >450K movie reviews and plots using vector search and the OpenAI LLMs. Enjoy!
They’ve already chosen, it’s why you’re laid off and building an MVP /s
It is lighter and more robust. Screws may come loose.
Which is my point.
I wouldn't really consider this a deep dive. Just a rehash of a lot of the advice you see in other articles.

The post and comment is from the author of the "article."
They grant themselves the right to steal your money (from your linked bank account, no less) in their TOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348913
This comment seems to be from the author of the article.
Tell HN: Figma is deleting community files with links to author's websites
We have several community files in Figma community, mostly freebies and a few plugins, as well as in other design communities like dribbble and Behance.

Today we just found an email (in spam folder) from Figma, telling that they are going to delete files which descriptions contain links to external websites:

This is what we got:

Hi there,

As a reminder, we’re adding the ability to sell resources directly on Figma Community soon. When our new Figma payment platform launches, all files will need to include usable content in order to remain on Community. This means third-party payment links will no longer be allowed in Community files, and the contents of files may not primarily be used to advertise other resources.

We’ve moved our launch date to March 7 so you have more time to update your impacted file(s). With that in mind, here’s what you need to know:

You will need to remove third-party payment links and advertisements from your files and submit them for review to the Figma team by this Friday (February 24). Doing so will ensure that your files stay up on Community when we launch.
After this deadline, your files won’t be available on Community until you make the necessary changes.
If you are interested in selling a new file, plugin, or widget with our payment platform, please apply here.
I vaguely recall this happening to a guy who scammed someone then got charge-backed after withdrawing from Paypal, he somehow got the bank to reverse his transaction to Paypal and kept the funds. I think this is why Paypal stop you from withdrawing/spending your incoming payment for a few weeks in some cases.
I don’t bother with the eggs out of the fridge bit but yea, just get it to the right temp and use enough oil and they come out great
I dunno, I feel pretty comfortable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912932
I work in Big Tech. In the recent layoff, no software engineer was laid off within my org. But several program managers were laid off. I don't necessarily agree with that decision; they do the dirty work of pushing things forward, like doing cross-functional communication, thinking about timelines and milestones, organizing meetings and sometimes attending meetings on behalf of actual engineers. Without them, work is slower, more chaotic, and it is now impossible to ask a program manager to attend a meeting on your behalf. Guess what? Actual engineers' productivity drops.

There is bloat, of course, but there is also a reason why those tech-adjacent positions exist.
>While it is true that the Copyright Office found that her edits were not sufficient to warrant a copyright, it's important to note that this decision was not based on the fact that the work was created using AI. The decision was based on the fact that her edits were not considered to be original enough to warrant a copyright.

I'm well aware, and that's also exactly what I said...

Yeah, it's no surprise that her attorney characterizes it in the exact fashion that should get her a copyright, but I completely disagree with the nature of those characterizations and I don't think the facts support such a reading. Hard to say it's doing "exactly as it is programmed to" when the same exact inputs will result in completely different outputs each time and in a way that's not predictable as opposed to using a tool that adds in randomization (like a noise generator, to give an image grain, for example).
Why do believe a twitter post that you haven't verified, but you disbelieve someone who tested this?

I already did an ebay chat before I commented. Doing that I saw that my comments were always on the right. That's what I wrote in my comment that you replied to. My chat was on the desktop browser version.

Ebay may have a different chat mechanism that works like the twitter post, but the ones I've tried do not work that way.

Given that, the twitter post and the reddit you linked appear to be people poorly spoofing ebay chats.
>That's why it's confusing that you would go from "we have persistent hard problems" to "mathematical models can't exactly correspond to reality".

That's not even what I said. Go back and read it again. Take none of your assumptions into it, just read it as is.
It's a lot more official if it's coming from the elevator speakers. It's also a lot harder to track down who did it.
The Ancient Promise of Water
Never apply through LinkedIn. It is so low-friction that the vast majority of applicants are nowhere near qualified, and hiring managers quickly learn to ignore anything that came in from LinkedIn.
I thought Jim Keller was more a CPU design guy. Like, I could imagine him starting a fabless CPU or GPU design company. I gotta admit, a fab is definitely an interesting and rather-unexpected direction for him go down...
This doesn't seem different from the idea that accusations of Conspiracy Theorist! are used to discredit legitimate concerns. It's hard to dismiss after thinking about it. I think about how little a worker drone will even know about the business strategies employed by management and how they personally could be "conspiring" and doing bad things in practice without even knowing.

It's worth it to be wary whenever someone accuses another of being a conspiracy theorist. Admittedly, some might be the actual disconnected-from-reality conspiracy theorist but one should always use a discerning eye when the claim is thrown around.
Well, now you get into DRM and its kin. Which is really a conflict of values.

If party A (the owner/user) has control of the hardware, there are certain things it enables, like doing what you want with the hardware you paid for.

If party B (the vendor/manufacturer) has control of the hardware, it enables other things like participating in games with stronger anti-cheat mechanisms or quicker authentication when doing a payment.

Some of these things have value to only one party, and some of them might have value to both. You're never going to make everybody happy when values conflict. Plus it gets extra complicated because values vary. Maybe one end user cares less about control and more about convenience, and another end user is the opposite.
I imagine more effective and faster assembly at production.
Here's how to install conda, mamba, and pip with MambaForge in Termux w/ proot from FDroid because there are no official APKs on the play store as is now necessary to bless binaries with context labels:
https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
How buggy was it?

I remember in Settlers 2 or something (before Ubisoft ruined it) the iron smelter was producing pigs in pirated versions.

However, it wasn't extremely good at detecting them leading to pissed off legit players.
Yeah, there's never been any conspiracy between those three entities. Whatever you say!
Surely eating healthier and exercising costs less than $12k a year right?
Wait what?? What's the catch, 1200wh/kg is insane.

Putting the same weight of this into a Tesla Model Y would easily give over 1200 miles of range
lxml is a wrapper around libxml2.

If you are after libxml2 performance, you can always make use of https://docs.rs/libxml/latest/libxml/
Amazing.

I think it was always a pretty shit website, but now the policies have caught up.

They're like a governmental beauracracy now.
That bulb has a poor CRI though. Probably not very important for reading I guess.
I wonder how it works for those of us without an internal monologue.
> one of the most plain and boring consumer users of PayPal ever

Yeah it seems kindof arbitrary. I've abused my account doing weird stuff for years and it's still fine.
EarthBound took a similar approach with it's anti-piracy measures if you work around the obvious ones. There are far, far more enemies to make the game less enjoyable. They also added random freezes when entering certain areas. If you managed got to the final boss despite everything else, it freezes and deletes your save.
It's not like the results all just come instantly. They come incrementally, and over unacceptably long periods of time. All you'd need to do is to look at which of the handful of competitive states you need to give yourself a little boost.

And the tech side's even easier. For instance those 3 states, making up the 45,050 vote margin from 2020, all had districts using the exact same hardware/software: Dominion.
Sometimes I wonder why I keep a boxes full of a good dozen late IBM era Thinkpads, and I remember thinks like this exist and hopefully will continue into the future with modern tech like OLED, power efficient chips. Maybe if I even just use the chassis, I just love the feel of the T42 - T63, 4:3 aspect ratio is perfect, arguably the best laptop keyboard of all time, trackpoint, tracklight, dat Mg case, beautiful 90s business aesthetics.
Consider reaching out to Jon Brodkin (journalist who has been covering this for Ars Technica). It sounds like Comcast was just going to get away with this until Brodkin shined a spotlight on it.
Just found out about this keyboard. Thanks for the recommendation! I haven't had swipe to text in years since it's not included with AOSP.
I've learned from HN posts over the last 10 years that Paypal and Ebay are two of the worst places to do any kind of business, let alone hold any money there.
I'm in two minds about this sort of things while it's nice that it makes it accessible, mail should be hard as it means that responsibility is taken - a bunch of mail servers run by people without any experience or knowledge is a bad thing for all of us
Slam Dunks Might Be Securities
On a different note: We don't need to bring in quantum mechanics ("quantum vacuum") here. General Relativity is a purely classical (i.e. non-quantum) theory and doesn't care about quantum mechanics. So the vacuum we're talking about here is the "classic vacuum".
The first chapter goes over everything you'd need to know of scheme to get running. And it has its own choices in how they are using scheme. In particular, they curry all of the functions, it looks. My understanding is that this is on purpose for things they do later in the book.

Which shows I have not finished it, yet. :D I am finding it fun, already.
It'd be far more trivial to put a wireless speaker in an elevator than it would be to reverse engineer this.
Eric Seufert: The problem with Spotify's podcast ad strategy
Cross Platform Software Frameworks
Ahem

37. Likewise, it was the preference of SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, to keep contributions to Republicans "dark." In keeping with that preference, CC2, who publicly aligned himself with conservatives, made contributions to Republican candidates that were directed by BANKMAN-FRIED and funded by Alameda.

Why are you only complaining about one side of his secret and illegal political activity and not the other? You quoted from paragraphs 35 and 41 of the indictment (though you reversed their order), so you must have passed over the paragraph above when you read it.
Except in this case it seems to be waiting for the ship to rust and then using the anode to unrust it?
God I hope someone implements a binary tree for these poor people, I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to type like that.
I consider it inappropriate to label a person's response to a social situation they find uncomfortable as being caused by a disability.
Stripe will do the same crap. Don't trust them, either. A few years ago they locked my business account with around $20k in it. On Christmas Eve. An account that had been in service for 5 years and had processed a few million in charges with not a single chargeback. With almost 0 information on what I needed to do to restore the service. And without providing any way to get in touch with anyone aside from support tickets, which took 20+ hours between replies.

A good reminder for me that I still need to move off of their platform.
Honestly a thought that didn't occur to me on first reading.

Definitely, if I had been suspended and my only transaction was buying, say, a calculator. I'd probably be asking "Why are calculators disallowed?"

If I was buying plutonium, I'd leave that detail omitted.
>small purchases when buying something off Craigslist or Facebook marketplace

Seems like this is might be the case of it? I'd imagine one of these people turned out to be scamming people they'd ban accounts that have transacted with them?

> I don't use it for anything sketchy.

Sending money to strangers seems sketchy to me. I certainly wouldn't
do it. shrug

Anyway, PayPal isn't "special" - you risk being banned from literally any financial institution for seemingly no reason. You can read a million stories about people being banned from credit cards and banks online.
That's not true. This is from the copyright office's circular on WFH:

There are two situations in which a work made for hire is produced:
(1) when the work is created by an employee as part of the
employee’s regular duties and (2) when a certain type of work
is created as a result of an express written agreement between
the creator and a party specially ordering or commissioning
the work.

neither requires a "certificate of authorship" though one does require an "express agreement" though it need not necc. be a signed writing, let alone a cert of authorship.
You wouldn't want all participants having the same level of knowledge, so you compartmentalize and change the information. The juicy stuff that indicts you is kept at a higher level, while the lower ranks are given different versions to make it seem legal. Companies do this routinely by controlling information within the company that might have illegal underpinnings for their actions.

However much of the annoying noise from conspiracy theorists involve people who all know they are doing illegal stuff and choose to do it anyway and keep quiet about it and they make it out to be some massive, evil, covert conspiracy party.
I knew not to rely on PayPal to not lock my account but I never really thought about them withdrawing incorrect sums from my bank account.

Will be removing my bank account from it right now.
I'm not sure how folks regard privacy.com (the domain is a little... lofty?) but I use that to present my bank to PayPal as if it was a credit card. I change charge limits on the fly to be just a bit more than I need.
Long Covid Linked to Heart Problems: Here Are the Symptoms
Alex Jones is an entertainer at heart. He sensationalizes news to get peoples' attention, but he's directionally accurate about a lot of things far more often than he's completely wrong. And yes, I acknowledge he has been completely wrong about some important things before, but not as often as he's been substantially right.

The thing he's been mocked about hardest (his claim that "they're turning the friggin' frogs gay") was one of the all time best calls. Not 100% scientifically accurate, but close enough to convey the general meaning.

1) His memed rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVrntKgdN0

2) The science: https://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.v056n04p116a

> Exposure to atrazine demasculinizes tadpoles and can turn them into hermaphrodites with both male and female sexual characteristics, UC Berkeley scientists have found.

You're probably missing important things about the world just because you don't like the messenger. Go drink the river water in Ohio if you trust officialdom about the safety you're told. These guys certainly are willing to fake drinking the water right on camera.
https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1195704/...

I'd just like to say the following in conclusion. Within the context of filter bubbles, Alex Jones presents no threat to the world because you are completely certain about what his biases are. It's the news sources that act professional and claim to be unbiased that present the biggest threat because any claim by anybody to be unbiased is bullshit, leading to misplaced trust where nobody wants to really verify what they're told.
I have found over the last 5 years that it is impossible for me to take online multiplayer gaming serious in any capacity anymore. Cheating has become so rampant and so ubiquitous that I have no confidence in any online gaming match to be cheater free. If people are cheating then what am I even playing for? It's only fun for me when I know there is some semblance of integrity between the players, but nobody else seems to care. I don't even particularly care about being good or winning. You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.

I also have no trust in any sort of gaming related records of feats of ability. I've been deeply involved with gaming communities in the past where people would show off their world records. I would question such scores only to be flamed and then years later it is discovered they were cheating after all.

Really my only point is that I despise cheaters and any game that isn't single player or only between friends may as well not exist for me anymore.