skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree plausible deniability may guard against political coercion, but only when all votes are anonymous - that is not the case. The ability to vote in private should be a protected right in a democratic society.

Can you explain why the private vote only works when all votes are anonymous? If you know every other vote you can determine which it is, but even if a couple of votes are unknown you can't determine it 100% anymore. So why does it need to be all?

> I’m referring to citizens being allowed to confirm their ballot on record, verifiably, and publicly if they so choose. It’s already completely legal to share filled out ballot photographs in 30 states…(in 5 of them only photos of mail-in ballots allowed)[0].

This won't surprise you, but I think it's a big mistake. This makes it easy to pressure people into taking photos of their ballots to prove they voted "correctly".

> One commentator suggested members of the public would manually validate some of the ballot QR codes and easily detect fraud, but Georgia outlaws it - I think that’s bad law. In spite of this variation on how “secret ballots” are implemented by member states, US is still a democracy, which you seem to agree.

If it's really outlawed, I agree that it's bad. There should be a process for anyone to become an election observer and check for irregularities, as long as the secrecy of the vote is kept.

> There is a balance that has to be struck between election transparency and voting secrecy. Where I live, all recording of any ballot and in any polling location is outlawed. I think the only recording that should be illegal is that of other peoples ballots - as where and when you voted is already of public record, and I think one should be free to share their own ballot however they choose.

I understand your reasoning, and I can't disagree fully. But the danger of voter intimidation and suppression is real and is growing. Honestly, some of the photos from your last election absolutely shocked me - seeing people in military gear at voting booths and dropoff stations is terrifying, especially when they start recording people who they believe might be against them. Those people could follow and kill you because you look like you vote differently from them! The way to full-on authoritarianism is very, very short from your current state of affairs. While things are in such a bad state, any further movement towards weakening the secrecy of the vote could be the final nail in the coffin.
Which is why you're not interested in the hit/not hit accuracy. You're interested in "if model says it's a hit how often is it right?"

Imagine a Monty Hall situation with 100 doors, you can predict with 99% accuracy which doors have goats but you only have 1% accuracy on cars.
The author should have done:

puts [join $argv]

to avoid that little issue. Doing "puts $argv" triggers Tcl's output of "lists" in a special format that allows the list to be parsed from the text again at a later time.
Relevant https://web.archive.org/web/20210112213001/https://dilbert.c...
I don't have personal experience with this online, but IRL when you volunteer the people you are helping face to face (and others who see your actions) tend to be pretty vocal about thanking you and otherwise showing that they respect and appreciate what you are doing. I imagine online the vast majority of personal interaction is people who are aggrieved, angry, or just plain hate mods on an ideological level. I often wonder how many people go out of their way to directly contact the mods and say "thank you for what you are doing" on a regular basis. I tend to stick up for mods when I see people mindlessly bitching (r/science was terrible for this, because it's actually heavily moderated as it should be), but I only DMed a mod to say thanks on maybe one occasion...

All that is to say, it's one thing to feel like the ratio of hate:love you are getting from users is pretty tilted towards the negative... but getting only empty words and no support from the institutional level is actual injury not just insult. That's why I stand with the mods, and after 10 years or so of daily usage I have left reddit for good (or until reasonable accommodations are made).

Although I'll admit, I've been wanting to break my reddit habits for a long time, so this decision does include some self-interest on my part.
For costal regions, sure. Anything further inland? Pumping water uphill is incredibly energy intensive.
I did thrice offer him a kingly crown that he did thrice refuse, is this naracism?

Ceasar was a ruler for the people. He increased the citizens grain allotment (doubled it?), took many captives for Rome and put the ransom towards the general fund and left most of what he owned to the people in his will.

The people that killed him got to write history so they made him into a bad guy.
makes total sense to me. if i were content to be alone, i'd not bother trying to connect. what stops me from being content is that i fear i might not be content forever, and also that i being alone is not how i want to live, even if i were to find a way to be happy with it because i believe the future of our society depends on building community and connections.
My standard changes based on which human's code I'm reviewing though.

Unless I'm feeling particularly lazy or the code isn't important.
I guess having a proper intermediary AppStore does have benefits, huh
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some commodity crops and some niche groups absolutely are wasteful.. excess crops turned to processed, canned food or even sugar-fuels have changed farming in the last hundred+ years. Do not even mention animal practices, since that ranges from the mildly terrible to literally hell'ish, also big water users.
> Also good luck trying to get support for this.

File an arbitration and their real customer support (legal) will reach out to you and resolve it.
I'm not an EV user, so I need some clarification. Is NACS actually a better connector? Or is it just more abundant at the moment? Technology Connections did a deep dive on CCS and it seems like it's a more flexible connector with a truly open standard. The argument for NACS I've seen is that it's a little sleeker (does this really matter all that much?) and it's already on Tesla's supercharger network.
Generally speaking, a certain level of self-promotion is OK here. In fact, here's an entire feature "Show HN" just for showing off your own stuff. But as a corollary to the guidelines[1] and FAQ[2] do say that HN is not primarily for self-promotion. And if all you post is just self-promotional content, and/or if you're posting self-promotional stuff all the time, it's going to be frowned upon and could result in your account being restricted or something.

From the guidelines doc:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
that's why there's the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"
Sounds like most people in power. Think a bit about a long path one has to go through to come to such power, all the backstage fights, quid pro quo deals, backstabbings. Normal straight balanced happy folks normally don't stand a chance. What you see usually is carefully made up PR personna tailored to given target audience.

That narcissistic part is more variable but helps ie with public speeches, it can be also worse, ie sadistic.
The weird stuff was definitely the CIA, and not say, I dunno... the questionable life choices of someone who hung out with Jim Jones and hippy commune cult leaders.
Does one have to be an EU citizen to request via GDRP?

If so - I made the offer to sell my accounts to any GDRP person for $1 such that I can make those requests for data (ill pay more than $1, its just to make it an actual transaction)

I have 17 years of content contributed to reddit... and I'd like to kill it all.
By being well known, established brands. Sad but true
Such a weird article. I like the premise of some technologies becoming detrimental over time as they are more adopted, and there are a number of obvious examples that could be talked about:

* Surveillance cameras and storage for footage becoming so cheap as to be everywhere

* Facial recognition, license plate recognition, etc. becoming available, especially when paired with the above (even governments couldn't pay humans to watch all the cameras all the time)

* Social Media

* Cell phones and the expectation of being always available

Etc. Etc. Etc.

.....and then the author chooses to focus on Apple UI?
Why? What's so unique about Mastercard?
Little known bug, but enums also choke dump/restore if you use them as a hash partition key.

That said, they can be really nice for all the same reasons static types are nice. Good article!
Well, maybe they don't use Stripe for payment processing?
> Those are brands, not networks

I don't care about "networks". I don't choose Exxon or Shell or whoever because they have the most gas stations, I go to the one that's most convenient for me. I'm not beholden to any particular "brand" or "network" of charger, I just want one close that works. I'm no particular brand fanboy, I'll use whatever works and is convenient.

> Install the PlugShare app or check out their website and see what comments users attempting to charge look like.

I use the PlugShare app a good bit. All the chargers I referenced are 9.5+, with most of them having 10 ratings. I also have my own personal experiences at those chargers. In all of my public charging sessions I've never once failed to charge at a decent rate at a DCFC. And I'm one who has driving around the city testing out chargers because I've been interested in the tech. I have experienced some of those free L2 chargers at grocery store parking lots being offline, but even then most of the time those have worked flawlessly.

And I don't bother with specific apps for charging "networks", all my DCFC has either been plug and charge or phone NFC/EMV payment terminals.

I don't personally put a lot of weight on Twitter polls to give me an accurate picture of reality, and if JD Power tells me something I'm likely to think the opposite is true. Most of JD Power's statements are meaningless noise to me.

I don't doubt Tesla's chargers have more uptime on average. There's a lot of things they do better historically, like having lower lifetime rated cables they change out more often and they're faster to roll out to places with issues to repair. But its not inherently a Tesla thing, the other chargers can do it and it seems in the past year a number of companies have stepped up their maintenance and reliability considerably. I'm going by the data I can see around me and what I see on PlugShare around me, which shows the non-Tesla chargers near me and on the routes I want to take are generally pretty reliable.
U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid Outbreak
It's interesting how differently the experience has turned out for different crowds.

I've seen numerous anecdotes from more technically-inclined types saying that their Mastodon posts not only get greater engagement than their Twitter posts did, but that the average quality of engagement is much higher and closer to an actual conversation.
It basically is just the JVM. In terms of longevity, we don't have to limit ourselves to just what one programmer can bang out in half a year from an absolute standing start. We can also include existing code. Existing VMs that work to minimize their footprint and are thus portable to other things relatively easily meet the bill fairly well in the real world, actually.

x86 assembler is likely to be around for a very long time too. It may not be the simplest, but it doesn't have to be, because it's already been implemented several times, in open source.

If I look back at why code doesn't run, by which I mean, real programs that I really wanted to run from the past, this isn't the core problem. I've never failed to run something because the lowest level wasn't working. If nothing else, emulators do a good job of lifting & isolating the underlying hardware and software environment. My problems have been lack of physical hardware, integration with dead OSes (in that dead zone between "the OS is obsolete" and "emulators exist for it now"), changes in input and/or output formats over time (no DOS program from the 20th century knows what to do with a chunk of JSON, no existing program knows what to do with the semi-standardized neural net format from 2052) and the one the article does mention, missing dependencies, even for binaries.
> You can use LSHs […] to help with nearest neighbor searches.

Yes! A good example of this in graphics is a spatial nearest neighbor search. Space filling curves like the Morton and Hilbert curves are often used as hash functions that can preserve some amount of locality for 2-D / 3-D / N-D points. A locally sensitive hash function can basically be used to provide a sort key for data that doesn’t otherwise have a key, while increasing the odds that any two keys that are similar point to data that are also similar. This is useful on GPUs in order to improve coherence/performance of threads operating on spatial points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
not really. So this one example should outweigh all the other negatives of a walled garden?
You may be talking about 2 different things:

1. Yes, ChromeOS is based on Linux, but it's not really what most people would refer to as "Linux". I think this is what you're talking about.

2. ChromeOS does have, however, some great technology to run an unrestricted version of Linux in a container, called Crostini: https://chromeos.dev/en/linux . I used to use a high end Pixel book (which was a great machine, really sad Google discontinued it - surprise, surprise, I know) as a primary dev laptop, it ran VSCode, postgres, etc. very well.
There's a reason why fines scale with income in some places. If you were charged $5 every time you got caught speeding, I bet you'd be much more likely to speed. The fine has to serve as punishment, not just restitution.
Is Truecaller app an absolute necessity to have these days?
I happen to use the Truecaller web service[1] (not the mobile app) to look up the occasional blank call or unknown Whatsapp message that turns up. I think that's the right way to use Truecaller because the mobile app is just too intrusive of permissions. But today, the web service seems to be down and doesn't allow oauth sign ins through microsoft or google.

I don't know about other countries but over here in India, this app has almost become a de-facto these days. It's used by practically everyone for two purposes:

1) CallerID - Know who this number belongs to.

2) Block Spam - Marketing for credit cards, loans, etc. turn up a lot.

Is Truecaller the only utility in India for this? Is there no alternative service or app where phone numbers can be looked up? During our millennial days (90s era), there used to be something called "BSNL Telephone Directory" published by the telco annually where we used to look up unknown numbers. Is there no such service available today?

[1]: https://www.truecaller.com/
> Discord has [...] zero "3rd party apps"

Most people don't want third party Reddit apps because they inherently like third party apps (some people do want FOSS apps, but that's the minority). People largely want third party apps because the first party app is terrible.
Because they install two 4GB sticks of ram to reach a total of 8GB. It's important to make this distinction because 2x4GB is faster than 1x8GB, but it doesn't allow for a trivial upgrade by just sticking in another stick as you'll probably need to replace both instead.
There is nuance here. Google policy is "do not use code generated by Bard", not "do not use Bard".

There are ways for developers to use chatbots that doesn't involve copy-pasting code into your own codebase. Just like there is a difference between not using stackoverflow (which is foolish) and not copy-pasting from stackoverflow (which is sensible).

I have used ChatGPT a few times as a developer and found it useful, but never directly copied code from it. I had it document my code for me though, so maybe if you count comments as code, I did.
Possibly dual channel RAM so 2 x 4GB is faster than 1 x 8GB in that case and cost-wise is probably the same.
Is NACS superior to CCS in any way apart from install base? I was under the impression NACS was inferior.
Evaluating on synthetic data is... I want to say "forbidden" but that's not the right word. Basically all of their results are scientifically useless.

I can't figure out which journal or conference this article was published to, but if I sat on the reviewer board I would have declined their article on this fact alone.

Good find.
> Reddit has built up so much bad will

I think what bugs me the most about this current backlash is that _API pricing_ was the thing that offended everybody, not the reams of things that reddit has done over the past 10 or so years to deserve a backlash.
The dark side of team building
I believe that organized, mass-scale petty crime will only be fixed when executives are charged under RICO.
Usability Heuristics for UI Design (1994)
I clearly recall some California startup-minded engineers, pre-smart phones, who were shocked to see their European employers go home at 5pm or so. They gossiped about it and called them names for it behind their backs.
Ayahuasca for Climate Anxiety, Midlife Crisis, & Startup Life
I wrote something like this but in Bash https://github.com/pmarreck/tinytestlib but since this accomplishes my own design goals of being able to assert on all 3 things at once (stdout, stderr, return/exit code), and since I have a thing for Awk, and since you can also embed this in a Markdown, I kind of like this better

One enhancement request would be adding a ">" to continue lines
Or for added giggles print out the ToS, alter and initial it to suit your whims, and send that certified to their legal as your new terms of service. “By continuing to provide the Hulu service, Hulu agrees to …”

Most likely that will result in your account being canceled when they see the letter. But hey maybe it will result in a cause of action for the lifetime free annual two week long Disney vacation getaway or whatever else it is they will have agreed to.
Why not move to a different payment processor?
No they don't. You are proving you are eating up the bullshit of data miners.
I don't hear it at all, but here's a YouTube video of the same guy, Andrei Neagoie, talking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROJbyI1QP4

He seems to have a lot of pretty well reviewed tutorial videos on YouTube for free.
Tangentially, there have been numerous studies linking trace levels of naturally occurring lithium to lower rates of mental health problems and suicide.

Maybe we'll find out that the reduction in violence we've seen since the 90s is partially due to SSRIs in the water. Might not be helping obesity rates either.
I was suspended from Reddit in its entirety because I said I wouldn't be offended if someone called me gay. I am not sure why think they I need to be offended by it. It does not seem like something to be ashamed of? But no big loss.
A New Study Paints a Different Picture of Homelessness in California
I'm going to assume all these companies did their homework and NACS is a real open standard, not something under Tesla's boot.

In which case, great! This is the outcome I was hoping for. NACS is the better and more popular connector, it should become the standard in NA. CCS1 isn't that bad, but when you have a choice, choose the better one.

Nissan leafs are still using Chademo, which shows how serious they are about EVs.
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The worst feeling in the world is being a bit lonely, and then being by yourself in a place where you are surrounded by groups of people. I got more depressed more often trying to go do social things in uni than I ever did physically being separated from others and actually by myself.
Yeah, it's quite strange. Not only in the fact that it's even more closed and walled off than Reddit (as you correctly note), but it's not even the same "type" - Discord is an IRC-type, not a newsgroup-type.

It's just plain weird in the context of a reddit alternative.
They just need to add more flair, right?
I'm extroverted but generally don't like people. So I could interact all fine and leave a good impression, it's just I prefer not to and mind my own business instead of listening politely to ramble. So there's no general solution to this.
Mostly horses would be without alfalfa and there would be less avocados and almonds. I think these are the main offenders iirc.
An interesting question. Used to be Iowa produced enough corn to feed two United States (if we were content to eat only corn). Probably overkill.

Corn has commercial uses too. In fact it's largely used for that - sugar, starch, protein, roughage are used in all sorts of processes. Touch nearly anything near you right now, corn was involved in it's manufacture.

Hard to say what impact cutting back on corn would have. A big one.
Certainly got off easy, assuming there isn't a separate forthcoming case for the defamatory messages posted about the former employee.

From the DOJ release:

>The court ordered the auto shop operator to pay $39,934, representing back wages owed and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to nine workers.

If I'm understanding that correctly, the person paid in pennies is owed a whopping $1,830.
Sure in the same way you can create an object in FP by sticking functions in a data structure or create functions in a logic programming language by constructing certain relations.

Heck you can even build "objects" in C.

And all of these methods are indeed used in those languages.

But none of those capture the spirit of object-orientation, in the same way that CalculateSomething is not object-oriented, unless it in turn generates a mutable object. That's not to say it's bad code or that it is uncommon, even in say Java. Simply that it's not object-oriented (and these days Java is getting less and less object-oriented anyways, with records and pattern matching explicitly separating data from functions).

Indeed in Java materials and blog posts from > 5 years ago, using pure methods of the form `CalculateSomething` was generally something used begrudgingly, where too many of those methods was specifically called out as an anti-pattern (e.g. the dreaded "utility class").
Pardon my ignorance, but what is the significance of it not being GNU?
I highly doubt this is some conspiracy to prevent people from unsubscribing. It’s a bug.

I wonder if turning off browser CORS with one of those browser extensions some devs use would let it go through.
A brighter tv is less expensive than rearchitecting your livingroom.

I don't have walls that don't face huge windows in my livingroom, so I had to splurge for a Samsung Q90. It does well for the most part. On sunny days I still miss even more brightness.
The famous Bob Jenkins has lots of info on hash function design:

http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/index.html

http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/index.html
Lemmy, like kbin or mastodon, is a frontend to federated social media, ie ActivityPub. Lemmy is made to feel more or less like Reddit, while Mastodon is made to feel more or less like Twitter, and kbin is sort of in the middle and feels oriented to news aggregation, but they all interoperate over ActivityPub.

"Federated" means someone can pop up an instance, and even if the server isn't hosting any content, it can act your "view" into the fediverse.