skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Paper ballots are not an optimal democratic way of conducting voting. The whole process is time and resource consuming and disenfranchises the less privileged.

That really depends on how it's implemented. Living in Switzerland I get to vote a lot.

About a month before an election or referendum I get the voting slips in an envelope that can be reused to send them back, postage paid.

The slips are placed in a sealed envelope and a signature has to be provided on a slip. The same slip I need to provide at the polling station should I chose to vote in person.

Results are in in a couple of hours after polling closes, except for more complex elections (usually election of parliament, which has a few idiosyncrasies). But even there, results are in the same evening.

The actual procedure may slightly differ by Canton.

It may be resource intensive, but election integrity and speed has a price, which I think is worth it.

And nobody is disenfranchised since you pop your vote into the next letterbox for free.
You think in your country the government serves you. That is a very naive way of thinking. Why would they love you so much, is it because you bother to show up at a polling station once in a couple of years, or is there some other source of attraction?
I don’t really think your reasoning is correct.

I think it’s more that Victorian fashions (and later) favoured those drab colours. Compare to eg medieval dress which was colourful (though limited by dyes) or the way old (catholic) churches were decorated.

You can see the brightly coloured roofs from Red square for example. It was just taken on an overcast day with a 70+ year old camera. I think part of the drabness is limited by the technology, in the same way that Turner’s paintings are less colourful than those by Van Gogh.

Another thing is the soot in the cities making everything generally dirty and perhaps also causing people to prefer darker outer layers.
> And if the cigarette companies advertise to the kids?

It's illegal. Tiktok, Facebook, ... nonsense on the other hand isn't, because these platforms aren't responsible for the content they broadcast, by regulation. So should these regulations change?
Ars Technica, I've been there since 2002 and I pay for premium most of the time.
Wonderful, thank you so much! Such a cool project.
I did not called it "review bomb", the whole thread started with the "review bomb" promise.

Review bomb is when whole group goes out of their way to seek content they disagree and then downvote it. There is zero reason to organize all of that for widely disliked content.

However, especially right wing groups do it against mildly popular content they do not want other people to see.
A brilliant scheme, but the big question probably is why governments trusted such a company? Here the state, which was a customer, started to have suspicions already (or as late as?) in the 1990s. The Swedish FRA never warned.
> 100 million copies combined and three feature films whose box-office receipts approach $1 billion, everybody not living under a proverbial rock has heard of Lara Croft.

Meh, that’s only a small percentage of the world population. There’s a lot of first world Western bias here.
https://skimfeed.com has that simple brutalist interface you need in the morning.
> If Brazil exports less food it isn't Brazil alone that would pay the price

Ukraine is/was the world's bread basket. Supporting Russia jeopardizes the world's access to food. Brazil's actions don't exist in a vacuum.
Ask HN: Ready for a New Database Management Tool?
I am currently working on a open-source project with the working title DataDaddy, which aims to provide a modern and lightweight web-based database GUI. DataDaddy will make it easy to prototype databases, write queries, and more. It offers features such as quick creation and editing of database schemas, SQL query execution, and user-friendly data visualization. I have placed a strong emphasis on a modern UI and lightweight execution. For instance, to start the GUI, you only need to use an npx command.

I am aware that there are already good and well-established solutions like DataGrip, pgAdmin or TablePlus, so I have a few questions regarding this topic:

What database GUI are you currently using, and what were the reasons behind your choice?
Are there any specific features that you feel are lacking in your chosen database GUI?
Do you find your current database GUI's heavy-weight or unattractive UI dissatisfying? If so, would you be open to trying an alternative like DataDaddy?
> There are no review bombs on stuff that is widely liked either.

Typical review bombs go against liked content.
Many teens did not isolate. They had no reason to. Virtual relationships are low value, and I encourage my kids to do things in person.
Shame they don't mention the film used, the tonal range here is super! Of course it looks like they were shot well, never the less... The quality of whatever film was used here is great!!
> Finally. Some action against the biggest tech companies of some sort, especially both Meta and TikTok the usual suspects.

Section 230. These lawsuits have zero merit until regulations change.
On the technical side, garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) does multi master replication by default, so is probably better for this use case. Still with S3 API.
Would love to see some gifs in this showing what it actually looks like in a game. Personally, I feel like the game feel is a lot more important than seeing the math equations
Not mentioned in this article but I've seen numerous interviews and documentaries where the creators go in depth about the PoP influence.
To buy ammo online, you need to upload a photo of your drivers license. It’s much, much cheaper to buy ammo this way.

So there are regulated industries where age restriction is already being handled.
USB armory – The open source flash-drive-sized computer by WithSecure Foundry
I think you're being too harsh on the parents. I don't know a single parent who allowed their kids to get cigarettes, but I also don't know a single teen who ever said "I'd like to smoke but my parents don't allow it so no, thanks". They just smoked behind their parents' backs.

I feel the comparison to cigarettes is apt: I know of children who had an "official" Facebook account for their parents and a "real" one for their school friends. And while I'm not sure I 100% agree with the lawsuit, I think it's worth asking: given how much money these companies invested in hooking teens up and how much they profited from it, should they also be held accountable for the negative effects of said hooking up?
Marginalrevolution is a good blog, covering current affairs, economics, finance and technology issues. One of the posters, Tyler Cowen, is great at aggregating and summarising information and it’s a combination of links and quite short thought pieces that get posted daily.

https://marginalrevolution.com/

Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
Bruce Schneier put it quite succinctly in his article The Eternal Value of Privacy (from 2006):

Some clever answers: “If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.” “Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition.” “Because you might do something wrong with my information.” My problem with quips like these – as right as they are – is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

— <https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/>
The proof is an SCT, a signed document from the Log which says "I promise I logged this pre-certificate". [[ In some cases it'll be the actual certificate, but for most real world TLS certificates it's a pre-certificate with the same substantive details, if you think about it you will see why the SCT baked inside your certificate cannot mention the actual document it is baked inside ]]

Now, of course at the moment this document is created, there's no way to be sure this claim is true. The logs are a distributed system.

Twenty four hours later, (the Maximum Merge Delay, this is a global policy decision) the log should, if you interrogate it, be able to show you a log entry matching the SCT, which traces to the agreed Merkle Tree head for that log. If it cannot, in principle that log has failed and must be distrusted. This happens (to one of the dozens of public logs, somewhere) a few times per year on average.

In principle, everybody who sees the log could agree that they see the same Merkle Tree head, thus the certificate really is logged. In practice the mechanisms to ensure this works, a Gossip protocol, do not exist and have never been deployed in practical use.

It's probably fine, but without ever completing the system as designed, it does have flaws.
I always say "Let's do the obvious thing first and we can discuss improvements?" and the interviewer always says "Sounds good" and there's never time to discuss improvements.
https://www.withsecure.com/en/solutions/innovative-security-...
The first paragraph:

> Linux lacks a good key remapping solution. In order to achieve satisfactory results a medley of tools need to be employed (e.g xcape, xmodmap) with the end result often being tethered to a specified environment (X11). keyd attempts to solve this problem by providing a flexible system wide daemon which remaps keys using kernel level input primitives (evdev, uinput).

So yes it seems to work on both x and wayland
Of course, I know it's illegal. I'm using the comparison to highlight it.

It's as if we're allowing cigarette companies to be all pervasive through general access and direct advertising to our kids, and then saying: "but the parents shouldn't let them smoke, man, they're not responsible parents".

I think that's unfair at this stage.

Yes, perhaps regulation needs to change.
Ask HN: How should you process a PIF sale of your IP?
What if you sign the purchase in full sale document and the other side doesn't pay? What if they insist on signing and handing over first? Is it enough if the lawyers say the contract is void if they don't pay? Should you use escrow?
As an example Polish borrows the concept of "teenager" from English, but because we count differently, then for us 11 and 12 years olds are also "teenagers".
It is one answer. Good passwords is another.
Compare how Homer looks now to how he looked in season 1.
Building Your Perfect Keyboard
This LWN article makes the matter supremely confusing. The linked mailing list post is way better and clearer and it would be good to get this submission changed to it:

https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20230601183054.12057.45907@m...

Key excerpts:

> … the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been orphaned …

> … will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that most people consume LibreOffice in the long term.

> Any community member is of course free to take over maintenance, both for the RPMS in Fedora and
the Fedora LibreOffice Flatpak, but be aware that this is a sizable block of packages and
dependencies and a significant amount of work to keep up with.
So can many physicians. Furthermore, I'm willing to bet that most doctors in the 50–70 age group that continue to work do so not because they cannot retire, but rather because they do not want to retire because they find their practice fulfilling.
https://www.newsminimalist.com/

This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
Do you really think that 18 million people were sent to gulags for being antagonists of Stalin? Don't you think that it's much more plausible a scenario where the regime needed a lot of cheap work and because of that kept sending people to gulags for lower crimes like petty theft or even customary crimes like not holding a job?

The educated middle/high class in Moscow was probably quite critic of Stalin's policies and nothing would happen to them as long as they were not loud enough with their criticism.
OpenSUSE Aeon and OpenSUSE Kalpa Announced for MicroOS Desktop Spins
"So if he had to invent a different term for artificial intelligence, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics"
Cars used in marketing context (advertising some brand) are definitely not gray :-)

People generally like color in some measure and it obviously serves as sending a more intense signal. But in various contexts other factors may prevail (e.g maximizing the market for eventual sale)

The interesting question is when does color get used more extensively (above average) and why.
"Because the is more about Russia"

So that's why West is ok with rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators in the EU/NATO candidate country. Got it.

"the irony isn't lost on me"

So your line is that Russia has Nazis too so Nazis are fine? Or what?
Yes, I do that, examples for:

- https://joplinapp.org/
- https://bitwarden.com/
I’m currently trying to make sense of a binary file that is used by a proprietary program to import data.

The file is generated on a server out of my control but I’m able to see that some kind of key is being sent alongside the data. (To encrypt it?)

How would one approach something like this? Where could I look for freelancers who are able to help with this?
Not sure what you mean by "get me the 17th byte (from this 16-byte lane)". Do you have a concrete example of a vpshufb that you would like to model?
>that's no big issue so long as the RPM and flatpak work fine. //

RH are no longer putting any effort into that, when they were doing before, so ... if RH are saving anything then LO will have more issues for RH users than it has up to now.
Change is part of life and happens to everything. Embrace it.
Sorta weird to see this thing back in the news after so long. Seems like they've gone through a revision and have been sold to a larger company since the last time I looked.
There's Python/Julia/R, then below there is 50ft of crap and then there is JS/npm ecosystem for data science. Arguably this is also true for a lot of different languages.

Tried to run a Gaussian mixture model in JS. Topped out at 8 dimensions which it could run in minutes. Any more than that would crash. Python (sklearn) ran 200 dimensions in less than a second.
I can see why people steeped in capitalist ideology, using phones built with child slavery, might not want to talk about the lawless backwaters where they do business. Discussing our own personal, sleek, pretty, touchscreen-having artifact of child slavery and how we all have one in our pockets would definitely make the people who own stock in the slave mine (edit: and that would be anyone with a retirement plan, more or less) uncomfortable.

People might start getting woke, who knows.
Weed has long term damage. It’s easy to make alcohol at home. It’s not easy to grow weed at home. But keep trying.
People have got to stop calling Poland a poor country. It’s on track to overtake the UK in terms of quality of life in the middle of the decade.
Browsers have leverage over CAs because CAs have to ask browsers to be included in the first place, and because distrusting a CA only temporarily breaks websites until they can switch to a new certificate.

What kind of leverage do you think a browser could practically exert over a TLD?
I've been reading https://www.metafilter.com/ for more cultural things, though the site changed quite a bit over the twenty years of its existence.
Bitcoin the most secure public ledger in the world proves that every participant in the blockchain can verify and see billion+ valid transactions. Trust in fully decentralized and transparent elections is not a technical issue!
Are you a parent? It certainly doesn't sound like it. While you might be able to keep a preteen away from things, once they are teenagers you can not prevent then from doing something they want to do. The amount of teenage pregnancies in states where they preach abstinence instead of doing sexual education is a pretty strong proof of that.
Following this, does it mean they'll reduce the price for RH subscription? Just because one can buy support elsewhere (yay OSS - BTW who offers enterprise support for LibreOffice on RHEL I'm curious?) doesn't mean one can't be salty to have support for a major part of their subscription go away with no compensation.
The most straightforward way will be to reverse engineer the program that imports the data.

Look for reverse engineer freelancers. Many of them in the video game space.
Most cars existing at that time in USSR, except for those belonging to visiting foreigners, were different models of the locally produced "Pobeda".
I don’t think you can buy support from the Document Foundation, can you?

Even then it would be vastly different than working with Red Hat/IBM. Most procurement offices probably wouldn’t be fine dealing with such a small partner.

The fact is with Oracle and Red Hat having withdrawn, no serious company nowadays supports OpenOffice/LibreOffice. This part of the market which was already mostly dead when serious online solutions arrived is now pretty much officially buried.
I adore hackaday, but it makes me immensely sad that I'm not working more on homebrew robotics / hardware stuff. I've been working in robotics for almost 15 years and could probably put out some nice kits / tutorials if I took the time.
Yes I really do think that the Soviets sent people to gulags for "being antagonists of Stalin".

Even before Stalin, under Lenin (who was not nearly so bad as Stalin) about 100,000 people were executed for being "counter-revolutionaries" during the Red Terror.
Same question :-)
What happened to the comments? Fifteen or so years back you would read things which were occasionally insightful. Now it's mostly shit posting.
> Ah so Russia is a communist country?

Russia still represents itself as the successor of the Soviet Union, and hardline communist parties still hold onto the (whitewashed) history of the Soviet Union to validate their existence. Russia's armed forces in Ukraine still fly the Soviet union flag, and Putin's propaganda still holds onto Soviet leaders like Lenin to push their propaganda.

To the eyes of hardline communist parties throughout the world, Russia represents the heir of the Soviet Union thus communism, and that's by Putin's design.
I forgot about slashdot.org because for a while all the frontpage links were found on HN in a nicer format. Lately however, they have had complementary content, which is nice.
Well those are certainly views you're entitled to. Many of my most meaningful friendships have been with people I've never met in person. Teens are/were able both to contract and to spread COVID, which are two excellent reasons they might have isolated during the stay at home/shelter in place advisories.

That said, encouraging your kids to interact in person seems reasonable to me.
I guess users would still be able to install common desktop and productivity applications via flatpak or snap. Is there much value to using rpms for this at this point? I know it's a sensitive topic to some people who just don't like any change unless its on their terms. But I think the reality is that with so many linux distributions around the job of packaging up software for those is a rather tedious and thankless one. Or in the case of IBM/Red Hat also one without a lot of revenue/profit opportunities. So, I can see why IBM would want to reduce the number of packages they have to worry about.
> On the other hand, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, "Big Restaurant" etc have not spent large quantities of money trying to persuade the populace that cooking at home is incredibly difficult

They haven't because it's a ridiculous proposition. The same way cloud providers would be laughed out of the room if they tried to say the same thing and they didn't actually have a better product with trade-offs that are genuinely better for some use cases. The fact that you believe that everyone using cloud products is either too lazy to learn or has been fooled by marketing because they can't think for themselves, unlike you who see the light, is the condescending part. Mind you, on the face of overwhelming data showing most companies have, or are moving large parts of their infrastructure to the cloud, so everyone else are dummies either too lazy or too stupid to see what you can see.
"I saw 40 patient's in clinic today in 8 hours without lunch or any kind of downtime"

You want to give better care to patients, which means more time per visit and at least three breaks per day (morning, lunch and afternoon). You want to have more coworkers so that you can have consistent on-call work. Increasing the quality of your life-work balance will improve the quality of your work.

As a resident, you likely did 24 hour shifts -- or worse. That was just hazing: nobody does their best work while sleep-deprived, and training in it doesn't improve things. You need reform throughout the system.

You need a union. And one of the things that union needs to focus on is getting more people into this line of work.
There is a nice documentary by Swiss Public Broadcaster SRF (in German with English subtitles):

"Cryptoleaks – Wie CIA und BND mit Schweizer Hilfe weltweit spionierten | Doku | SRF Dok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWImO1Qz4Zo
You’re conflating floating point numbers with decimals.
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> The sandbox is the world at this point, closed software is retreating every day to smaller and smaller niches. You use browsers developed in the open, on websites built with opensource software. Even on mobile, the foundational frameworks are open - the most popular mobile OS is opensource. Obviously it's not a perfect state of things, but it's a world apart from the bad old '90s, and we did get here by keeping the Overton window firmly rooted at one end, thanks in large part to the FSF.

The only open source browser with significant usage is Firefox and it is in the single digits. Chromium might be open source but it is not what people use, it's in the other category in statistics. People use Chrome and Edge and Safari and Opera and Vivaldi and none of them are open source. The number of people using AOSP is also vanishingly small. Most Android users use one of the proprietary variants of Android. The year of the Linux desktop never came. The most popular Linux variant after the proprietary Android is the proprietary ChromeOS. And, worst of all, many services that before didn't even involve a computer (ordering food, calling a ride, banking, etc.), now are done through closed source software. It is getting harder and harder to live without proprietary software.

So absolutely not, the sandbox is not the world, the sandbox is getting smaller and smaller in comparison to the world.

The argument was not to no longer hold the Overton window pinned. The argument was to advocate for consumer rights and protections in LAW. Free software advocates are vary much interested in right to repair because right to repair also counters tivo-isation. And the world is much more tivo-ized than it ever was. That the world became so tivo-ized is also a sign of how ineffective the FSF has been at countering a threat they were among the first to draw attention to. You can have all the free software in the world and it is of no use if you can not run it on any hardware.
On one side parents who are likely overworked, on the other a group of corporation filled with some of the top minds of our era focused on building the most addictive product imaginable. The deck is stacked very strongly against parents and it's completely unreasonable to not hold greater accountability towards these massive corporations.