skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper and pencil doesn’t work in the US because of how litigious we are, and because each state operates their own elections. If every state ran elections the same way we could standardize on something like the UK has and have collective faith in it.

When some battleground states routinely come down to less than 1% of voters, incredibly marginal effects matter.

The US still has institutional trauma from Hanging chads.

Just look at all the varied reasons mailed ballots are rejected, especially in tight races.

With paper and pencil, what happens if a mark got erased? If the circle is half filled? If the circle is quarter filled? All of these are questions that will be the subject of lawsuits in a mix of jurisdictions.
Actually, not amortizing makes them seem more profitable. At the end of the life of the asset, the totals are the same. However, under one model you show a giant loss, initially, and then profits for the next few years. If I expense the $1,000,000 in the year of acquisition, and show a 1,000,000 loss, I then show my revenue as pure profit. Instead, if I have to amortize, I show no loss my first year (because the cost is on the books as an asset), but profit in future years only when my revenue exceeds 200,000 (1/5 the acquisition price). This is how all other assets that earn revenue over multiple accounting periods are handled. Why should Ford have to capitalize a welding robot, but not the software developed to control the welding robot?
No, it definitely did fly over you. I apologize that I was unclear in my earlier comment. I meant to say "It was not close enough to you by the time it was over Alaska" since it was a polar launch (Northward)

I'm not telling you that you didn't see the spiral, I'm telling you that there's no physical way that it could have knocked anything off your shelf from the upper atmosphere.
I didn't think we were arguing. I was just taking what you said and riffing on it.
> You either cannot verify your vote was counted, and/or cannot verify it contributed to the total votes received by the candidate for whom you voted.

That would break the privacy of the vote. It would allow for actors to oblige or coerce people into voting in a candidate and then forcing them to prove their vote.
Seems like this wouldn't work as well in situations where you care a lot about latency or resource utilization. If the workers are polling the LB every n ms, then that's an average of n / 2 ms added to _every_ request. Plus additional CPU cycles and network traffic on both ends due to the polling mechanism.
Don't you still have to buy each movie individually? That's how it used to work at least.
Good joke
Despite a tremendous amount of social programming to the contrary, for me it's a huge relief to see that people care about this problem and don't want to go extinct.
so what altitude was it maintaining when it went over alaska?
Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’
The fun is not yet over:

> another U.S. voting technology company, Smartmatic, is pursuing its own defamation lawsuit against Fox seeking $2.7 billion US in damages in a New York state court.

> Fox Corp. shareholders are demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw the Fox News coverage of Trump's election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in what could be a prelude to lawsuits seeking to make directors liable for costs.
True, but you start paying enough, and you'll get bigger and bigger populations who find it an acceptable bargain.

You'll also always have some who see through it.
Unfortunately, the Government of the United States disagrees with you.
There's no auto-accept feature? I still wouldn't use it, or Firefox, because that kind of automated interaction seems unreliable, but I really don't want auto- reject breaking stuff.
Don't let all the hype get to you. There will be al kinds of jobs, agriculture, construction, technology, Healthcare, etc. Get an education but be smart about it. Go to a State school locally and keep the cost down, get a degree for under 50k.
This is hacker news, but I find it appalling that there's surprisingly less noise about the organized effort to subvert democracy overnight. If Trump had succeeded, do you really think there'd be any meaningful elections in the future? My hope is the most hackers are outraged but don't comment here.
And perhaps more importantly, it becomes a de-facto crime to ever forget an encryption key. People forget the passkeys to crypto wallets all the time, losing millions. How can the police effectively prove that someone remembers the passcode? What if someone, after a few months in prison, says they've reconsidered and are willing to comply. They try to decrypt it but fail and subsequently say they the stress of incarceration has made them misremember the passcode?
The absence of a strong constitution protecting fundamental rights is also an issue. With a 50%+1 majority, the house of commons can vote pretty much any law it wants with no counterpower.
Invidious: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=rgxUsdxl0ak

Hidden Service: http://ng27owmagn5amdm7l5s3rsqxwscl5ynppnis5dqcasogkyxcfqn7p...

I urge anyone reading with technical knowledge who has spare bandwidth and hardware to run a Tor relay. As this video shows, all you need is an old laptop. In under an hour you can contribute to a freer internet.
Their main problem, IIRC, was that they broke DMCA 1201 to crack the encryption on the disc, edit the contents of the movie, and then stream the movie back to the customer; unless the customer requested the disc back.

It wasn't the buying and reselling. It was the editing and digital lock picking.
That's not reselling. It's an unauthorized copy that required a circumvention device to create.
It gets worse, we do not reach true majorities in the House and Senate until 2030. Thus until then budgets get passed under budget reconciliation.
Geez, and Trump only made $250M off the Big Lie.

Sad.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I think this is a big part of it.

I remember growing up reading Harrison Bergeron (in school) and always thinking there's no way such a system would ever come about by the will of the people... yet SF proves people are all too happy to implement such a system (tearing down gifted students for the perceived benefit of everyone else). SSDD.
>> If a model truly generalizes, why wouldn't it be possible for it to generate more real signal than was used for training it?

If by "a model [that] truly generalizes" you mean one that generalises outside its training distribution, then neural nets can't train such models. I don't reckon any machine learning approach can do that.

In any case this is ImageNet we're talking about that's been done to death many times over already. Far from learning more general models, after a certain point in time improvements in accuracy have meant that models are getting better at overfitting. Same with MNIST, where that happened a long time ago.

Obligatory reference to defend against this comment being knee-jerked to oblivion:

>> This stands in sharp contrast with what deep nets do, which I would call "local generalization": the mapping from inputs to outputs performed by deep nets quickly stops making sense if new inputs differ even slightly from what they saw at training time.

Francois Chollet, The limitations of deep learning

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html
Yeah, but it's taken them the better part of a decade to do that. If they had been bought by Blockbuster they would have had access to people with the know-how and experience necessary to destroy a successful business quicker and more efficiently.
> Maybe if GHacks didn't comply with the legislation in such a user hostile manner, browser developers wouldn't have to waste time on such features.

You need the same feature for visiting EU government websites:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/ (best example)

https://commission.europa.eu/

https://european-union.europa.eu/
What I was describing (where the last stressed vowel matches but the rest doesn't all match) is called assonance. This isn't even assonance, much less a rhyme. If you have a source describing this kind of not-a-rhyme from any period of English versification, I'd be interested to see it.
That doesn't prove anything.

I could buy many things for myself by putting them on my credit card - that doesn't make my spending habits sustainable.

The whole point of strong towns is that the Government financed the projects but not the maintenance, and that the suburbs can't afford the maintenance bills (at least some of them) under the current tax regime.
here's a link to the repo also:

https://github.com/gnuconcepts/ChatWindowGPT
How do they verify the answer wasn’t overwritten, since it’s in pencil? I can imagine a lot of potential security flaws in that system.
Election commission of India conducts elections really well, given the scale of 800M+ voter. despite of isolated incidents booth capturing in remote or ungovernable areas, overall results reflects the mood of public. It super super hard to manipulated system at scale.

roughly the way it works is - there is standalone electronic voting machine (EVM). it is NOT connected to network at all. for each vote, a receipt gets printed and vote puts that receipt in ballot box. the EVM count is used to aggregate over vote count. it speeds up counting process. Some percentage of randomly selected voting machines vote counts and corresponding printed vote ballot is cross verified.

During the whole process, a representatives from all the parties are present in all election activity
You missed the word "like" in his comment.
The upper classes are drawn to these theories like flies to shit. The biggest lesson from history is that we never learn from it.
Just a periodic reminder that if you're interested in how voting works where you live, every election administration probably badly needs volunteer election judges (EJs). You'll get trained up on all the machines and processes they're using to collect votes, and get paid for the experience. At least where I live, there's a lot of subtlety to the process that make obvious-seeming "attacks" pretty untenable in reality; maybe you'll learn something different about yours.
Seems its quite easy to get arrested for posting stuff online too. I hardly ever agree with the content but scares me to see people getting arrested for what amount to opinions.
Too many of these models are just using stuff like wikipedia. If you want true language comprehension you need something like reddit which contains actual conversation
For the record, the word "dominion" does not appear anywhere on the live foxnews.com site.

https://imgur.com/a/cXcITll

How would the Fox News crowd even become aware of those messages when their information sources don't report them?
The site is very well done and impressed me too. It's built with Next and noticed Astral is backed by Guillermo Rauch himself.
As of right now, msnbc, cnn, drudge report, an nytimes all show the settlement story on their home pages, but foxnews.com ... huge "Biden cabinet secretary violated federal law". And searching for "dominion" on their website brings up a 2 day old article as the most recent. I don't see a public apology forthcoming from them. I hope the settlement includes something that will actually hold them accountable beyond just money.
That would also be terrible to legislate. Browsers for privacy conscious people should offer it as an option, it's a non-issue for everyone else.

If the government wants to get involved they can make public service announcements and try to convince people to care.
To be honest it didn't really achieve a great deal. The Murdoch papers still have a pretty heavy influence over British politics - they stuck with Boris long after he should've been done, it was only when they turned on him it that he was finished, for example.
> In a world where nothing seems sure anymore what would you do?

Assuming you're talking about the job market, nothing was sure at any given point in time. Of course, after the fact everything seems "obvious" but I assure you at the time it wasn't.

The only thing I would be my cards os is studying medicine: If you become a surgeon you'll most likely make lots of money, the downside is that it takes lots of work and time to do so.

Whatever you do, from chef and small business retail owner to startups - make sure you're good at what you do and you won't have to worry about the market.

> Would you bother getting an education?

If you are _really good_ at programming (e.g. you already know how to program relatively complex CRUD applications) my advice is to study something else e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Social Sciences, etc. Diversified profiles are the most sought after.

Going to college is not just about learning CS (or whatever) fundamentals. It is about friendships, having fun, entering adulthood. Try to take advantage of the Erasmus system, travel as much as you can, as cheaply as you can, meet ppl, do crazy shit while staying on track with your classes. It is important to "exit" student's life within the expected time frame, helps a lot.

> When knowledge becomes meaningless is there a reason to learn?

Knowledge is _never_ meaningless. Most of the _experts_ on any given field have lots of knowledge that at first glance might seem irrelevant but they're able to mix and match in order to advance the knowledge on a specific field.

My guess is that you're referring to modern tech stacks. Often times seasoned users complain about how "this" or "that" stack has nothing new to offer apart from X which was already a thing 15 years ago with a different name. That's part because of age - we all become a bit of a whiners when getting old - but primarily because the already knew the old tech stack inside out so they can analyse, break down and understand the decisions (good and bad) of the new stack on the fly. When your time comes you'll have to learn to current tech stack and make your own decisions.

Wish you success in your life.
>> Absolutely not. The Lisa project started in '78. The Mac effectively started in '81 when Jobs horned in on Jef Raskin's Macintosh project.

Please draw a line delineating Lisa development and Mac development. The origin of Mac development is in the development of Lisa which arguably began the day Apple visited Xerox Parc to demo Alto. There is a transitive action here, without Alto, there's no Lisa, and there's no Mac. Thus my statement that Mac development began in the late 70's is generally true even if the Mac team was not organized until 1981. While your arguing the differences between Lisa and Mac is a clear straw man, your, "Absolutely" is absolutely misplaced and strictly false.
important details from the article:

"The Biden administration this month urged U.S. companies to make sure they aren’t illegally hiring children to perform dangerous jobs, after an investigation found more than 100 kids working overnight and handling hazardous equipment — like skull splitters and bone saws — for a company that cleans slaughterhouses across the country.

The Labor Department says it has more than 600 child labor investigations underway, and officials are concerned about the exploitation of children, particularly migrants who may not even have a parent in the United States."
Second settlement this week. There was this other conspiracy theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/fox-news-venezue...

Of course, these sort of things have happened before:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938545344/fox-news-settles-wi...
Exercise releases chemical signals that boost brain health
CORBA vs. the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
"We introduce mmc4, a corpus of 585M images interleaved in 43B English tokens from the popular c4 dataset."

This training corpus mmc4 is the one used by OpenFlamingo (https://laion.ai/blog/open-flamingo/).

Something caught my eye when I read the pdf. They are using GPT-4 to name their word clusters: "Topic names are generated by GPT-4 conditioned on the top 20 words for each topic, prompted by a request for a short 1-2 word summary."

I feel like LLMs will be used increasingly for this purpose; whenever someone has to make a mostly arbitrary decision like the kind that would make 'bike shedding arguments', they can delegate it to the LLM. The point isn't that the LLM is necessarily better or objective, but rather that it's a kind of 'schelling point' for agreeing on things that don't matter.

For example I could imagine a super annoying peer reviewer (or even co-author) ask why you used the name 'celebrations' as a topic name associated to the set of words 'fun, wedding, beautiful, christmas, happy, card, birthday, gift, blog, perfect' like in the pdf, and why not use some other word. Instead of having some meaningless back and forth 'bike shedding' discussion with the reviewer over email, you can just say you used GPT-4 and move on to more important things.
That's it entirely. I live in a VERY rural area, and we have receipts with barcodes that you can track either electronically or in person if you want to. They are not attached to you, they are attached to your vote and have unique ID's on them. In theory anyone can track your vote, but only you know which is yours and whether it's accurate or not.

This is not the difficult problem. The difficult problem is that we have thousands of systems, depending on where you live, and politically, getting anyone to agree on any one system is probably impossible.

But I am with you, cryptography is absolutely not required, and computers should not be fundamental to the process. Hell, electricity should be optional as well, just in case the shit hits the real fan.
Depends on your install base/target.

At Apple scale, paying a few performance engineers 1M/y is much cheaper than shipping bibber and more powerful CPU in each iPhone.

Same thing for AWS or Azure.
I never accept or reject cookie banners - I just delete them, using uBlock Origin. This works out fine, basically all the time, so far as my experience goes.
The people strive to have these problems! Hockey stick growth, servers melting under signup requests, payment systems struggling under the stream of subscription payments! Scale up, up, up! And for that you might want to run your setup under k8s since day one, just in case, even though a single inexpensive server would run the whole thing with a 5x capacity reserve. But that would feel like a side project, not a startup!
The problem with “elites” breeding to “save the world” are as follows:

1) Who defines elite? Referencing the article, is “working at a think tank” really an indicator of being elite in any sense? I certainly don’t see getting a job at a think tank to be a particular indicator of skill nor do I find the outputs of think tanks to be very enlightening.

2) The problem isn’t that child-rearing is a cool fun thing that people choose not to do because they’re lazy, it’s that we as a society make being a parent suck.. Daytime childcare alone is expensive and complicated enough to turn many people off parenthood.

Well off people having children and then never shutting up about it does not solve any problems.
US FTC leaders will target AI that violates civil rights or is deceptive
These just require a single click to reject, unlike the one on ghacks.net.
I dunno what it's like nowadays, but when I was at MSFT during the win8/early win10 times, the internal mailing lists where 10x as angry and vicious as what you saw in public. Microsoft employees loved Windows and were fucking pissed that it was getting ruined.

I guess they've all been beaten into submission and/or managed out by now..
Yes, that's true. I forgot that because it doesn't top my personal list of important distinctions, but certainly plenty of others would feel differently.
That depends on how effective they are when truly needed. Firefighters in my town do busy-work 70% of the time. When they are needed, I'm happy we didn't send 70% of them home for the day.
I think the issue is that for much software it’s not a clear distinction.

For a few years of my career, I spent about half of my dev time improving a gigantic distributed system. Much of this work was inventing a new algorithm somewhere in the stack, A/B testing it to see what effects it had, and repeat. Lots of algorithm papers and patents came out of it. At the same time, I also had to keep the systems running well enough to do this, and technically no new customer “product” came out of it (although some open source database features did).

Is this R&D? Seems like much is, and much isn’t. What do you want to incentivize?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

> 26 U.S. Code § 174(c)(3):

> (3) Software development

>

> For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.
HN is never happy. Everything should be fast, simple, configurable, extensible, portable, retro-compatible, future-proof, environmentally-friendly, inclusive, offline-first, and above all free.

For some people, nothing is ever good enough. Such is the nature of getting feedback from strangers. The sooner you learn to filter out the naysayers, the better.

This tool is probably fine. But positive feedback is usually expressed as an upvote.
> Pencil-and-paper works.

Paper has its own issues, effectively illustrated by photos from 2000: https://imgur.com/a/lpDhmQP
And the cybertruck (~0 units/year) is a mainstream brand...
Where’s the contract you sign when buying a DVD?

If you want to get a copy before it’s for general sale then you need to sign a contract, if you buy it at Walmart you don’t.
Well, salaries are expenses though. And software development is not necessarily R&D, so if 99% of software development has to be classified as such, that's a problem.
Right of first sale lets the buyer rent out discs. No matter what publisher/studio cartels might tell you, no licensing from the publisher is required. This doesn't preclude the existence of specially packaged "rental" discs but Netflix is not and has never been limited to those.
It's even worse - under RIP act not only can you be "forced" to reveal any passwords:

- the onus is on _you_ to "prove" that you don't know it or have forgotten it
- you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password

Anyone administering systems might want to think about this, governments aren't known for good security.
I’d take the alternate viewpoint: it’s great that our society empowers those who want to come down like a sledgehammer on those who break the law. The incentivization of some of our most aggressively adversarial minds toward the task of justice is motivated the most efficient way that our society knows: the reassignment of mass amounts of capital according to the processes of the law.
We are not talking about a tax credit here, but a deduction.
Yes - but legal and explicitly allowed by the user.

BrightData is the biggest of them, they run the free VPN Hola, and have an SDK app owners can install in their apps that allow selling bandwidth from installs. For someone who is price sensitive, trading some free residential bandwidth for whatever service is pretty compelling.

I'm sure there are scummy ones, but Bright seems to require pretty explicit consent. Not affiliated, just looked into it for some apps I have, but the payouts weren't good and I didn't think it'd be a good fit for our users.
Yep - Netflix 4K compression is pretty bad. They put a fair amount of work into specifying content delivery requirements (although they have some weird requirements like asking for P3 rather than Rec.2020) but then they compress the hell out of everything so it looks bad anyway. Very frustrating to see aggressive banding, block artifacts, etc. It is in many ways a blessing to be completely oblivious to such defects, which most people seem to be.

Yet another way in which streaming content providers seem to be incentivizing piracy. You can certainly pirate a full-quality blu-ray copy of a movie.
Yes, it means you need a reboot at the very least, and initramfs integration.