skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the voting day, representatives of all parties and anyone else who registered as an observer opens the urn and they all count the votes. They report the counts higher up electronically, and safely store the physical ballots.

What you describe is exactly what happens in byzantine-fault-tolerant networks, and much more. But because it is done by machines, the cost is brought down by orders of magnitude so now many groups can have decision making and votes about many things every day, rather than spending billions once every few years and manually counting. This technology is made available to all, as opposed to, say, trusting the operators of a StackExchange site to not rig the periodic elections for moderators and those who will run the site. And it allows the communities eg DAOs to collectively manage larger amounts of money without worrying some director will abscond with it.

The REAL conflation has been by crypto-haters of decentralized protocols with centralized entities like FTX or Celsius. The only thing they have in common with crypto is that you can send crypto to the address they control. And then, they pinky promise they’ll take care of it. Crypto has been developed exactly to remove the need for such middlemen! While FTX fell, UniSwap and Aave Protocol didnt miss a beat. No one worries a UniSwap smart contract will rugpull then one day. Government regulation isnt needed when the code has been battle tested with billions of dollars. Just like government regulation of HTTP isnt needed even though it was needed for physical mail delivery. That’s the kind of building blocks we need for a future system — for voting too. Cheaper faster better.

It is a bit like arguing email and the world wide web is worse than the gold standard of regular mail. Look at how much innovation it has unleashed once given the chance to build on top. Sure we had chain letters and scams and phishing etc. But we also enabled trillions of dollars in ecommerce and SaaS and much more!
While they seem to be adding an API for it, if you wanted you could just add a "block screenshots" API.

This is already basically in place with DRM since the windows screenshot utility won't screencap most DRMed content on win apps like netflix or even on firefox nowadays.

What MS is adding on top of this is an API to check which tabs/web pages are visible and selectively black out web pages that are added to a given user level blacklist.
Do you have a front door to your house? Why? What can happen?
Yep, that's the strategy now too https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/112535637912550792
> new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology.

It will be interesting to see how precisely the law is written. If the definition is too broad, it may limit use of soft pornography in advertisement and popular culture.

I do not want to see yet another digitally enhanced six pack in movie. On actor that looks like me... Sharing this stuff makes me deeply uncomfortable. (sarcasm, but not really)
Shareholder-driven growth targets mean it's no longer good enough to target the 20th percentile users, who might have reading comprehension at a 5th grade level. You have to hit the 10th percentile, or the 5th. Be glad that you still get text instead of pictures.
Just answer the question if you have the answer.
I thought mechanical pencils used graphite not lead
"Sustain". I guess extracting oxygen from minerals etc?
Smartphone Camera Sensors: OmniVision, Samsung Isocell and Sony Exmor (2022)
That was not a jury of his peers.

I doubt a single one of them was as untrustworthy as ol Dishonest Don, no different than he was in the 1970's.
You are correct and I agree with you. GraphQL can be used effectively like this and I've seen one example where GraphQL is used like this. New endpoint can be defined very quickly and it is essentially like a REST API with the possibility of the client specifying what data it wants back (as you described).

The other extreme end example is to expose by default the entire data model (PostGraphile) and then getting lost in the customisation and authorisation.
How can people use them for long if they get a knock on the door, from authorities who noticed an anomaly?
This works good for me most of the time:

"Refrain from adding unnecessary comments. Provide direct answers without attempting to be polite. Answer concisely and explain detail afterward if needed. If it is a question about coding, write the code first and explain later.
If possible, provide follow up questions about the topic for me to ask. For example if I ask you about websocket, one of the follow up questions can be: "What is a socket?"
Mention best practices and community conventions of the topic."
What’s so great about transit besides the environmental savings. Having to share space with other people, walk to the train station, put up with a train schedule, have no way to travel past some arbitrary time (midnight to 2am in most places), no way to transport large items or groceries, no way to go off the beaten path, having to live in densely populated cities with no room for any activities. I like the idea of having public transport but not at the expense of the incredible roadways we have.
I think you might be missing a little part of, market vs free market.

There are many opinions, of course.

Subsidise what you want and tax what you don’t is pretty popular, based on what people actually do.
I started wearing a bath robe belt as a tail and my brain quickly starts telling me I am wearing it when I am not. I also had a phantom watch ⌚ on for a week after losing it.
Yes - I'm learning singing at the moment and just the other day the teacher fed back - don't try to over-conceptualise what you're doing. Just do it, focus on the outcome, stay relaxed and the body will figure it out.

I've been through enough learning cycles to appreciate this but this was a real hurdle for me when I was young because my default was to rely on systems and rules. Ironically as a swimmer my biggest breakthroughs in speed and technique as a teenager were intuition borne out through thousands of hours of repetition but it took me many many more years and a very good piano teacher to conceptualise the art of not conceptualising.
Ironically, Henrik Fisker's first Fisker company (2007-16) was a coachbuilder for luxury marques, doing bespoke manufacturing.
If so, then maybe it should be defended on accessibility grounds? After all, it could be presented as helping people with aphantasia approximate what people with working visualization ability can literally do in their head. "Undressing someone with your eyes" is, apparently, not a metaphor for some (most?) people.
The EU elections allow you to either vote in your country of residence or in your country of birth. You just need to register beforehand and you'll just be able to vote at a local ballot.

Here in Germany they even actively inform you of that choice. I got a letter both from the dutch government and the German government that I can make a decision to either vote in Germany or in Netherlands
No pencils use “lead”. It’s just called lead because the original material used looks similar to lead ore.

See manufacturing section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
The human body is so wild with things like this.

What happened to your toe? Did you loose the capability to move it individually from the others?
I hope there'll come a time where the idea that these events that distribute ultimate power might not be flawlessly executed and maybe even partially fraudulent is seen with merit. It's certainly not the time yet, as always seen when this comes around.
Very mean webpage, you are forbidden from reading the article if you use side-by-side browser windows on 1920x1080.

On another note, the Mac having only 128K of RAM was somewhat balanced out by having much of the operating system code (QuickDraw, etc) live in ROM instead.
Humans are like any other species, we will continue reproducing till we consume all available resources.
I've stopped taking the whole "change it from withing / reform" arguments seriously when it comes to anything larger than a village or small community. The entire system has gotten to this point because the rules, processes and incentives all aligned and co-evolved to get it here. Every single one of those "memes" (borrowing from Dawkins here) will fight very hard for its own survival. And their survival depends on the status-quo staying as is without change.

The only way forward is to not participate and/or burn it all down and start from scratch. And we all know what a polite and neutered society we are currently because things are relatively "okay" for us, so we're not at threat, so we're not willing to do the drastic measures necessary for correction here. That includes me, as I will not be sending my sons to the slaughter.
You’re correct, these elections are pretty important, as we can vote for the parties/people that would bring this thing called the EU a little bit closer to disintegration, i.e. vote for the Nigel Farages of your countries. At this point the ghouls in Brussels are un-reformable.
The judge can only disallow the testimony if the opposing counsel objects.

Trump’s legal team didn’t object.

The judge said he was surprised they didn’t object, and that he would have blocked some of her testimony if they had done so.
Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (2020)
That's more like good mentoring, which doesn't always depend on being in the office, it can work remote as well if the mentors are good at it and want to do it. A year ago I left a shitty toxic office job where there was no such thing as mentoring either way, least of all remote.

Feels like quality mentoring is a lost art these days, especially amongst the SW industry of today of younger generation of workers and companies, where the average life of a piece of code is measured in months, and tenure in the company is around 2-3 years, nobody bothered with training since the code would be obsolete, you'd be gone soon anyway or they'd loose the only guy who still loved teaching others.

Everything now is "just look it up on the (outdated) Wiki or figure it out on your own".
There's no way to tell how many of the kids didn't know they had gender dysphoria until they heard it's cool.

The growth figures for adolescents reporting GD can't be explained without a social contagion kind of thing.
Quite unfortunate for you that all you got out of this article were political talking points.
I usually learn things without the explicit desire to learn, and then feel happy that I did learn. Perhaps I should learn more.
That’s not the vast majority of people with lactose intolerance. In most cases it’s a mild inconvenience.
A little off-topic but there's this amazing documentary on Einstein: Genius. It has three seasons and the first one is all about Einstein. It's a really accurate description of all the important events in his professional as well as personal life
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927
99% of working population doesn't have Albert Einstein's brilliance in order to provide the same kind of value with 3h of "office work" per day.

Plus I think Albert Einstein and other scientists like him were constantly working in their heads anyway, constantly thinking about how to solve that problem, regardless of how much time they spent in an office. So trying to deduct some kind of productivity metric between his office time and results would be pointless (it's pointless for most knowledge jobs, but especially for his.)
Parliament's involvement depends on the policy area and may imply (a) being consulted, (b) giving consent or (c) co-legislating on an equal footing with the Council (ordinary legislative procedure). In case of "chat control" (actually called CSAR or COM/2022/209), we are in case c) - it was Parliament rejecting big parts of the proposal [0].

The OP refers to a document discussed during ST 9093 2024 INIT, it's part of the same package of legislation priorities (2022/0155(COD)) and it's currently awaiting the opinion of Parliament [1].

I know these make for very click-baity titles, but this is the moment when one can follow the feed and publications of their MEPs and contact them when one doesn't agree with some of their positions. Logs of all meetings are available online.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...

[1] https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheproc...
Come on Over, I Just Installed a Pond
Does anyone have to pay for text messages?
Thank you for articulating this and fighting the good fight.
Dynamic Island, but for MacBook
Reminds me of my favourite Bushism:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"
But that doesn't fit in a pocket.
Is it possible that ALL infrastructure issues revolve around more people?

If a place is nice, more people move there, and then the infrastructure is overburdened? but momentum just makes things end up bad in the end.

What about finding ways to distribute the population more broadly, by say fighting return-to-office kinds of things? Maybe taxing dense populations somehow?

On the other hand, does fighting all this like colorado is doing - does it make colorado less competitive?
China lands Chang'e 6 sample-return probe on far side of the moon
Prewar Korean written script used Japanese style Kanji for nouns intermeshed between Hangul phonetics. Postwar, under US influence they transitioned into all-Hangul phonetic language, but IMO it looks a big regression in their communication ability due to resulting arrays of pure homonyms.

They rely purely on context to distinguish {"apples", "apologies"}, {"mayor", "market"}, {"stomach", "ship", "pear", "double"}, {"acting", "delays", "smoke"} so on and so forth if what I'm scrolling is right. There's no tonal or character distinction. That surely isn't great.
Presumably that’s the US?

In the UK, an industry body annually publishes estimates of retirement income needs. USD$52k is GBP£41k which is about enough for a “comfortable” retirement for a single and a “moderate level” retirement for a couple. We have good free healthcare of course.

Many people who “FIRE” in their 40s and 50s have targets that allow drawdowns much smaller than this.

When you hit 67, you’ll also receive USD$15k pa state pension, provided you worked for 35 years, even if you continue to work.

If you’re still a “family of 4”, it’ll take a bit more.
Your mistake is thinking that's the essentials hahaha! :)
> She choose to forego being a billion lonely guys AI girlfriend

To suggest that Johansson’s only appeal is to the opposite gender (and ‘lonely’ ones at that!) I think is myopic and reductive of her impact

hahaha! :)
Companies harvesting the data and using it to build extremely correct psychological profiles, which will then be used to successfully manipulate election results.

It has already happened btw.
Yes you massively mitigate both systemic problems with a tech fix.

People in rural areas whose polling station closed thanks to Republicans, and who can’t drive 30 miles to the next one wanted to use the mail-in ballots. And Democrats were very happy to allow it. But then Republicans pointed out all the ways the mailing system and ballot harvesting was very unreliable. And both sides have a point. Taken to the extreme, both disenfranchisement and physical mail suck for voting.

In contrast, people could have an option to vote from their computer and use their phone to scan the QR code and confirm their vote and sign it. They can then verify their vote was included correctly!

I have explained at length how crypto would make it a lot more verifiable and reliable.

Everyone would be able to check:

1) their own vote was counted in their district

2) their own district was counted in the total

3) the number of votes and turnout in each district, matching the number of signed checkins

4) mutually distrusting parties in each district saw each ballot being cast (or a random sample) and were satisfied that the electronic record matches whatever receipt was generated

None of these can be directly verified by nearly anyone participating in a paper election.
Sample syntax:

table_ (tr_ (td_ (p_ "Hello, World!")))

More complex:

table_ [rows_ "2"]
(tr_ (do td_ [class_ "top",colspan_ "2",style_ "color:red"]
(p_ "Hello, attributes!")
td_ "yay!"))

Source: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lucid
oh crap, I guess my OS is too old
I’m curious what this seventh grader went on to do, twenty years later.
> Also, unlike the US, our justices are not elected by politicians

I'm pretty sure in practice they are elected by politicians. How do you think they are they appointed? They aren't elected directly and the alternatives I can come up with to political appointment are outrageous affronts to democracy.
I recently created 3D boss fight prototype using Clojure: https://prototype-game.pages.dev
Gameboy Color extreme overclocking [video]
Yeah Haskell is far from the worst langage to write a tree of elements in.

That is essentially what Elm proposes and it works fine.
It's totally vague. Some decisions are considered okay for parents to make for their children without consent but others aren't.

I feel like as a teen I would consent to being tracked by my parents but that doesn't mean it would be a good idea. It all depends on intent and parent-child relationship in the first place (looking back I didn't have a great one :shrug:)
How do you deal with passwords? You got to have a lot of critical passwords which are hence not written down, it’s really hard to memorise this.
It supports it with the caddy-l4 plugin: https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4. It was also indicated we might move the plugin into standard Caddy once given enough feedback from the user-base and are comfortable with the implementation solidity.
Because Switzerland is so immigration-friendly?
I like WFH. My company allows unrestricted WFH.

But lately I've been going into office and the throughput of technical discussions is just an order of magnitude higher than in video calls or over Slack.

I wish this wasn't the case.
Ah yes, if we had all just listened to you instead of laughed. How the tables have turned!
Poe's law? Can't tell if you're joking.
It's easy to criticize his conclusion when you leave out all the evidence for said conclusion:

> But the subtext is drearily familiar. Globalization: Check. Cheap-labor arbitrage: Check. Tax engineering: Check. High profits: Check. Flat-packing: Check.

Do you deny that any or all of this is happening, today, under capitalism? Do you deny that there are incentives for any or all of this under capitalism today? Do you deny that these things would lead to the inevitable quality decline he's lamenting? Let's not have any more of your straw man attacks. Attack the real issue instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Criti...
Why can only 10 people change some of your thoughts?

I probably only have about 10 friends, but I’m open to any of many billions of people changing my thoughts in profound ways after even fleeting moments. It’s not just an openness but lived experience.

(I’m not young).
Is that a joke? Any data that is stored about you can be used against you.

We know that Meta tracks everything you do in a pretty invasive manner. We know they use this data to target ads, and while they claim not to share data with advertisers, we do know that people have figured out ways to leak some of that data.

Since they share data with a lot of 3rd party tracking companies, we would have to trust all of them to keep our data safe. It is highly likely that some of these companies employ malicious actors.

Now, maybe you think you have nothing to hide. But the political landscape changes all the time, and things that were legal one day might be criminalised the next day, or some terrorist organisation gets a hand on your data and figures that you are an enemy of their god for some reason, ...

The only way to protect against these things is to not store the data in the first place.
Well updating DNS records is not closely related to any product updates, though this might take a good time to migrate if it's not well planned update.

I remember once my DNS record took more than 3 days to migrate. Now the site is not accessible.
>> AI can harm millions of people who never opted in

has harmed
Apple consistently has the advantage of good UX: tight integration with their ecosystem, including message notifications and calls. Costing around $3,000, the product must feel solid with top quality components. I'm wondering about the external battery and how it affects mobility. I imagine there might be downsides to having to carry it around, but maybe it's not as bad?
Their job was theoretical
People often forget just how much we get from the EU that's taken for granted. Everything from practicalities like no roaming costs and consumer protection, all the way to freedom of movement, peace and overall stability.
It’s funny that those chat censorship laws seems to be mostly at EU level. Very few countries have something similar going on locally.
Heck, they’re better in Russia. Marble, polished brash, chandeliers… and we’re talking the USSR period.

Imagine telling your kid to mow the lawn, and he deliberately does a terrible job so you quit asking him to do it. That’s what legislators have been doing to US public services for fifty years. It’s the same thing with the post office, they are wretched by design.
That's correct, the only two conceivable possibilities are "everything exactly the way it currently is" and "everything exactly the way it was in Soviet Russia".
zmk sounds really useful - I've wanted a custom bluetooth chorder consisting of two hand-held, palm-fitting cylinders with one button per finger, that could double as a mouse using built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes.
Good. Meta should do the same.
vry good take
I don't see how it is a joke.
When I was young, my first real experience with this was seeing a black and white spiral optical illusion in a museum. I stared at it for a bit, and then my brain adjusted and when I looked away, it affected what I looked at.

I think my realization was that my brain didn't just do simple things, it did complex in many dimensions to adapt and fix things.

The same thing goes with your foot, and it goes way deeper than we realize. It's probably not that one muscle, it is ALL the muscles in the area working together to help you walk. I wouldn't be surprised if there are 50 muscles involved.
Huh. Well that's embarrassing. I guess I missed it when I lost interest in the caching section and jumped straight to Evaluation and Monitoring.
The world is not binary.
I imagine that is why he called out "late capitalism" rather than "capitalism".
In Germany at least, unless you opt for a super cheap package(e.g. sponsored free or less than EUR 6/-), calls and texts are unlimited in local(country level) networks, only data volume is limited. Not sure about other EU neighbors.
High quality furniture is still being made and sold, just not for $300 for a couch.

Cheap shit is going to be cheap shit.

Growing up, furniture was something that was expensive, carefully shopped for, and hand delivered fully assembled. I see the availability of cheap (to make and to transport) furniture as filling a gap in the market previously not addressed, but if you’re in a position to buy a piece you’d like to keep 15 years, maybe IKEA and Wayfair aren’t the right furniture vendor for you. High quality furniture wasn’t an inflation-adjusted $300/couch back then either.
The Hollow Core of Kevin Kelly's "Thousand True Fans" Theory
It is impossible for all but maybe 10 humans in the entire world to make sure a machine implements the algorithm it purports to implement. It is impossible for all but the best programmers + mathematicians to verify that the algorithms that they purport to implement achieve the safety/security goals they hope to achieve.
Sometimes I am stiff, and what I thought was my phone buzzing is my hip creaking. lol